Peace-A-Rena

I didn’t make it to the SCHIP rally at the Capital today (I had to take my mother to the doctor). But Mainstream Baptist was there, and in fact Dr. Bruce Prescott, the director, was a speaker. I’m very heartened to see religious leaders and groups around the country, many of them conservative and/or “pro-life” […]

I have a hard time motivating myself to call and write Oklahoma legislators on issues, because they are so reliably hard-line awful, and I’m already depressed, so who needs the hassle…
Nonetheless, I called my Congressperson, Frank Lucas, on S-CHIP — twice.
So here’s what happened.
The first time, last week, I called the Yukon office and just […]

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Giuliani’s failure to provide FDNY with adequate radios must be investigated
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We, The Undersigned, demand an investigation into the Giuliani administration’s failure between 1994 and 2001 to equip firefighters with the radio equipment they needed to perform their duties on 9/11 with the highest likelihood of their own survival. We ask for an […]

Andrew Rice, who is challenging Inhofe for his Oklahoma Senate seat in 2008, was a guest on Firedoglake today starting at 1pm.
Blue America Welcomes Andrew Rice (D-OK)
By: Howie Klein
[Please welcome Andrew Rice from Oklahoma — the state that gave us Woodie Guthrie, Will Rogers and Bill Moyers. As always with guest chats, please be […]

We’re Number 1!
In 2006, the United States agreed to sell $10.3 billion in weapons to the developing world, or 35.8 percent of these deals worldwide, according to the study. Russia was second with $8.1 billion, or 28.1 percent, and Britain was third with $3.1 billion, or 10.8 percent.
Pakistan concluded $5.1 billion in agreements to […]

There’s nothing like a bad metaphor to really sow misunderstanding and mayhem. When the thing being described is as serious and complicated as the threat from stateless terrorists, the consequences of a bad metaphor have corrupted our public discourse and foreign relations, decimated our Constitution and military infrastructure, and made us all less safe from […]

Ha ha. Let’s put this baby before the American people, shall we?
SRES 325 IS
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. RES. 325
To express the sense of the Senate that General David H. Petraeus , Commanding General, Multi-National Force–Iraq, soldiers serving honorably in the failed Republican War in Iraq deserve the full support of the Senate and strongly […]

This morning, Booman noted the otherwise un-noted irony (thanks to that famous liberal media!) of having war profiteer/Nazi collaborator General Motors sponsor Kens Burns’ documentary on PBS, The War.
Whenever PBS airs a big program/mini-series there is an announcement at the end. “Corporate sponsorship of Name of Mini-Series was brought to you by Name of Corporation.” […]

Tristero at Digby’s place looks today at “the problem of modern rhetoric” within the Right/Left political debate, prompted by the supposedly right-wing answer to MoveOn.org. MoveOn’s Eli Parisher makes the same mistake the left (including me) usually does in phrasing things to make other lefties nod their heads, and everyone else’s eyes glaze over.

The wingers’ […]

If the name sounds familiar, it’s because he make a little bit of a ripple last year when he released some emails written by Mark Foley. Now he’s filed an FEC complaint against Fred Thompson, who has pretty clearly violated campaign laws with his never-ending “exploratory” campaign committee.
And man, are the rightwing nutcases incensed! And […]