Sunday was Father’s Day and a dad dropped by my front porch for a chat. He’s got a couple kids and like a good dad, he coaches some of their sports teams and shows up at games for the other sports. (It seems there are few single-sport athletes among the 8 and 10-year-old set in […]
This morning’s Washington Post has a report that updates the ongoing revelations of how the federal government and its allied corporations are invading your privacy. An internal audit by the Federal Bureau of Investigation found over 1,000 instances in which the feds illegally obtained information about citizens’ phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions since 2002. […]
Lewis “Scooter” Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison this week; a military judge’s ruling has cast new doubts about the detentions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Someone like me, who writes about these things “lives” in the world of news. I stay in touch throughout the day and dwell on what such things might […]
Dr. James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the nation’s leading expert on global warming, says we have less than 10 years to significantly decrease the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases we pump into the atmosphere. He made that statement last summer, the first anniversary is coming up, […]
ABC News reported Tuesday that George Bush signed a “non-lethal presidential finding” authorizing covert action to subvert the Iranian government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Right-wing pundits and presidential candidate Mitt Romney fired away at ABC, accusing the news staff of betraying America. Left-wing pundits fired back, saying it’s clear that the Bush administration wants the story […]
Does anyone remember 2000? Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush promised voters that, if elected, he would “restore honor to the Oval Office.” Months later, when he… well, he wasn’t exactly elected, but when he took control of the Oval Office from Bill Clinton and his aides, the quip going around the political and media […]
Mexicans Are…
Immigration legislation, supported by both the Congress-controlling Democrats and George W. Bush, is heading for a showdown on the Senate floor today. Even with the White House and the majority of Congress in favor, the odds don’t look good. Senate Republicans control more than 40 votes and can thus filibuster the bill to death and […]