and Dennis Kucinich is right about why people don't vote. But I'm going to vote for the Democratic candidate (after voting my conscience in the primaries) and then I'm going to hold his/her feet to the fire about war and diplomacy, fair trade and corporate accountability, single payer health care (see Sicko), habeus corpus, civil rights - especially in the area of police powers, and rebuilding America's infrastructure. Among other things.
I've been a bitch toward my rather wonderful congresswoman if she doesn't get it right - rarely, and toward Nancy Pelosi for failing us so often that it feels like years she's been there rather than only since the midterms.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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