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Friday, November 21, 2008 12:00 AM

Is it OK to be liberal again, instead of progressive?

Come out of the closet, liberals. Stop using the fashionable euphemism "progressive" and relaunch the old, tarnished L-word.

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  • Friday, November 21, 2008 08:03 AM

    Congratulations, rbhannah, for thinking 'rightly' and honestly about issues...

    GW Bush, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, ... - the whole bunch of those vicious War Criminals (that's my opinion) should be put on trial and - if found guilty - should be confined to Guantanamo for the rest of their miserable lives under the same conditions as they approved and ordered for a whole lot of people they got tortured at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.

    -- GSC

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