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2008 Archives

 

Sep 4 McCain: For (?) Against (?) Natural Disaster Legislation: Don't Read His Lips - They're Covered: The GOP Convention: what You Just Saw; No Room for Volunteers - Palin Tarnished Community Organizers

Sep 3 Palin the Panderer; The "P" in POW Doesn't Stand for President; On Off-Shore Drilling

Sep 2 Sexual Education - Back in the News; Learning About Candidate Palin and GOP Election Rules; The Lavender Tube: Fall Preview

Sep 1 Another GOP Surprise - 9 Months in the Making; Making History in Denver

 

Aug 31 McCain Thinks the Second Most Qualified Person to be President is Who?; Right After Barack Obama's Inspiring Speech; Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane "What's-Her-Name?"

Aug 28 Racism and a Cup of MSNBC's Joe; A Good Night to be a Democrat

Aug 27 The Democratic National Convention: Through the Looking Glass of Fox News Channel; DNC Convention Thoughts: And More Convention Thoughts

Aug 26 Monday Night - One Mile High at the Democratic National Convention

Aug 25 The Fed Finally Realizes There is  Problem; Re-Starting the Cold War

Aug 24 Barack Obama's Choice for VP is Joe Biden!

Aug 21 ... and the Winner of the 2008 Zell Miller Award is... Joe Lieberman!

Aug 20 225 Missing Emails - The New "18 Minutes"

Aug 19 The Permanent Campaign Lives On

Aug 18 The Politician Formerly Known as The Maverick; Anger Face at the Olympics; The Lavender Tube: Flashpoint

Aug 17 "Race-ing" for the White House - McBush-Style

Aug 14 In the Running: Chuck Hagel

Aug 13 McKeating TV; A New Coalition of the "Haves and Have Mores"

Aug 12 Tax the Weak and Weary Only

Aug 11 Bush and Putin: Soul Men; Making Cheney Look Like Gandhi?; Dark Side of the Olympics

Aug 10 The McBush Economy

Aug 7 Less Jobs = Bad Job = McBush's Job

Aug 6 Hitch-A-Ride, Bin-Laden

Aug 5 Fuel is Funny (and Really, Really Profitable); Drilling for Petrol Lobbies

Aug 4 The GOP, The Party of Diminished Responsibility Says: "Stay Home - Don't Vote; Economic Downturn Hits Women Hardest

Aug 3 USA Gas: A Real Fuel Idea; Wal-Mart's Warning: Employees, Don't Vote for Obama

 

Jul 31 Extended Warranty Available (for a Nominal Fee)

Jul 30 "Time's Table" is on the "Horizon"; Republicanism's Obstructionism

Jul 29 The McBushies: Big Oil's Employees

Jul 28 What I Noticed While Reading H.R. 1955 (The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007); the Lavender Tube: Generation Kill

Jul 27 You Might just Be a Racist; Why the GOP is Responsible for Keeping oil Prices High; Politicizing Government; My Problem: The Surge and Viet Nam

Jul 24 Iraq and Afghanistan: Should I Stay or Should I Go? CBS Covers Up for McCain

Jul 23 Good News and Accolades - The McBushies Say that the economy is Just Peachy!

Jul 22 Can't Drive 55? Get Used to it or Get Used to Paying Up; Time to Talk to Tehran

Jul 21 The CPI and the Way "They" Planned It; have You Noticed?; Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Reads Letters from Real People on the Floor of The Senate; Portrait of a Panic

Jul 20 The Case for VP Hillary; Oops! The White House Sends Out the News that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Likes Obama's Plan to End the War

Jul 16 "Plandering" Vs. a Good (Finally) Idea: A Public Works Plan; The Fed Speaks; All in Our Minds (Redux)

Jul 15 The Bushies and McBushies Say the Bad Economy is "All in Our Minds"

Jul 14 My Next Choice: Senator Barack Obama

Jul 13 I Miss Bobby Murcer

Jul 10 Jesse Jackson's Multiple Chances; A New KKK (Kongressional Kontempt Karl (Rove); McBush's Double-Talk Express

Jul 9 The G-8 is not so Gr-8; Dissent, Dissent, Dissent

Jul 8 Out of Iraq - Real Soon; The Lavender Tube: Independence Day Redux

Jul 7 The McBush Economy - A Balancing Act (More of an "Act" than "Balance"); Make Independence Day Mean Something

Jul 6 Real health Care Reform - Yes, It's Still Important

Jul 3 Another Black Friday - This Time, One Day Early

Jul 2 McCain, McCheney, McBush and Energy

Jul 1 A Novel Solution to Iraq and Illegal Immigration

 

Jun 30 Iraq Today - Blame the Commanders?

Jun 29 The Credit Card Crunch

Jun 26 "K"arl (Rove's) "K"ountry "K"lub; North Korea's BOOM - Plus a Photo-Op; Bush's Health Care Plan - Legacy and a Continuing Nightmare; Telling the Truth - Kucinich-Style; The Lavender Tube - Feeling the Love

Jun 25 Gas and Dollars; Time to Protect Americans

Jun 24 Choose "Pandering" - A License Plate Wedge

Jun 19 Missing Opportunities in Iraq; A Solution to High Oil Prices?

Jun 17 McCain's Dems

Jun 16 Fox New's Not-So-Covert (or Clever) Racism; Shouldn't Bush Stay at Home?

Jun 15 New From Iraq - It Isn't Going As Well As The Bushies Might Think; Third Party Spoilers and November's Election

Jun 12 SCRUTINY Vs. scrutiny: The Main Stream Media's Double-Standard on How it treats the Dems Vs. the GOP

Jun 11 Making It Worse: Just Another McBush Plan

Jun 10 Allowing "Them" to "Fix" Oil; The Lavender Tube: TV Makes and Unmakes a Candidate

Jun 9 The Economy: McBush Doesn't Get It; A Dream Achieved, A Dream Denied

Jun 8 More Jobs Lost: Just Another Friday Afternoon's Bad News; An Open Letter From an Obama Supporter to All Clinton Supporters; McBush's Oil Economy on a Slippery Slope; McCain's Ads

Jun 5 Another GOP Windfall: Former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson Makes a Killing on Health Care With Taxpayer Money

Jun 4 McBush's McChange; If Only Thjose Who Really Needed Our Help Had Oil

Jun 3 Condi Rice, Iran and the No-Talk Mantra; "Hi - I'm Dick Cheney and I'm an Alcoholic"

Jun 2 Them Kids Needs Learnin'

Jun 1 More on McClellan's Book;

 

May 29 The Top Ten Reasons the Bushies Say Scott McClellan Wrote His Book

May 28 The Dems: Screwing Up a Good Thing

May 27 The "R", the "D", the "I", and the GOP-Endorsed Hillary-Should-Run-As-An-Independent Fan Club; The Lavender Tube: Living La Vida Loca

May 26 Lautenberg Vs. Andrews; Memorial Day: A Draft Would Bring War Home

May 22 The Sleaze of the Paid Lobby; Gas and Politics

May 21 Diplomacy and Silence

May 20 Born in 1960: A Child of Viet Nam

May 19 FIX IT! The Congress-to-Lobby-Lobby-to-Congress Revolving Door; Have the Democrats Lost Already?

May 18 Bush's Energy "Alternatives"

May 14 "Thank You - Now Watch This Drive" -GWB

May 13 Bush's Economy Still Stinks; he Lavender Tube: Not Until the Fat Lady Sings

May 12 Tennessee Governor Bredesen for VP?; Killed in the Line of Duty: Philadelphia police Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski

May 11 Gas Options: Bush is Still "Looking Into" Them

May 8 Cindy McCain's "Separate" Money

May 7 More Bush Priorities; If You Produce It, They Will Come (and Purchase It): A Fuel-Efficient Car

May 6 Jobs Lost, Again

May 5 A Bad Scheme - A Bad Idea: The Federal Gas-Tax Holiday; Obama Vs. Clinton

May 4 "R" Words (Like "Regulation"); Republicans Crossing Over to Obama

May 1 Bush's Spin on His Awful Economy; Answering the Hillary Vs. McCain Question

 

Apr 29 Bush Likes Trees: From "Ask the White House"; Pennsylvania Speaks and Says "Hillary Clinton"

Apr 28 McCain Explains McCain and the Hundred years War; The lavender Tube: Funny Games

Apr 27 McCain on Katrina; The George W. Bush Lie-Brary

Apr 24 Ignoring Women: Just Enough GOP Legislators Say "No" to Women on Equal Pay

Apr 23 Jimmy Carter Vs. Condi Rice on Peace: No Contest; The Lavender Tube: Springtime for Bush in America

Apr 22 "Dear Friends: A Plea abo9ut Global Climate Change; Khaki or Orange: Inmates in the Military; Still Criminal After all These Years: how the Bushies Promoted the War - With Your Tax Dollars; Philadelphia Mayor Nutter Takes a Stand Against Crime

Apr 21 Racism and Votes

Apr 17 More Gas, More Money

Apr 16 Put Health Care in the Hands of the States

Apr 15 George Bush's Perfect Storm Allows More of His "Base of Haves and Have Mores" Have Even More

Apr 14 McCain's Fix for The Economy: Ask Bush

Apr 10 Staying the Course, Again

Apr 9 Bush's War: Why Are We Still Paying for It?

Apr 8 CAFTA: Lies and Mis-Speaks From "Ask the White House"; Is McCain Really Nuts?

Apr 7 Staying the Course, McCain Style; The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Apr 6 Bush's Bad Job Numbers, Again

Apr 3 Still Ignoring The Big Easy

Apr 2 No Matter What the Bushies Say, The Bush Economy Stinks!

Apr 1 The Bushies Close the Barn Door a Tad Too Late

 

Mar 31 Another Al (Alphonse Jackson) Leaves the Bush Administration; The Lavender Tube: Oh, the Horror, the Horror

Mar 30 Play Ball - Bush Won't Throw Out First Pitch to Just Anybody; A Bad Anniversary - Three Mile Island is Not Remembered as it Should Be

Mar 27 John McCain - The Would-Be Bush(44)

Mar 26 What You Can Ask David Paterson and What You Can't Ask George W. Bush - The Same Things; Fixing Problems With the Problem Market

Mar 25 Getting to Universal Health Care: One Step at a Time; What We Can't Discuss in America

Mar 24 The Worst of All Milestones: 4,000 Killed

Mar 20 Cheney Comes Out of "The Bunker"

Mar 19 Funny, Huh? Bush's Corporate Welfare Office; The Lavender Tube: Oh What a Lovely War; A Story for St Patrick's Day (An Old Legend of Kildare)

Mar 17 Growth: The Story of Bush's Failed Economy; Why Are We Still in Iraq?

Mar 16 The Fallen Fallon

Mar 13 Hard News - Anderson Cooper Hosts a Pimp! American Idle - Bush Sings

Mar 12 Future-Bush: The Agenda; The Future of Energy

Mar 11 The Good and Bad News - The Bad Bush Economy; Elliot Spitzer - What a Putz; BushCare / McCainCare - Health Care for (broke) Patriots; Iraq: Helping to Kill Our Economy; Can the Democrats Win?

Mar 9 Looking Back - Bush's Cloudy Crystal Ball: Excerpts from a 2001 Speech; The Sign of Things to Come? A Democrat Wins Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert's Seat in Illinois

Mar 6 The Other, Other Bush Mess: The Housing Crisis; That Darn Delegate Thing

Mar 5 McCain: The Next Bush

Mar 4 McCain's Choice; McCain's Health Care Plan; The Lavender Tube: Ellen Vs. Oprah

Mar 3 Economic Advice for George Bush

Mar 2 Huckabee's Gamble

 

Feb 28 As the Tax Breaks End, Cry for Big Oil

Feb 27 John McCain's Boogie-Man - Meet Bill Cunningham

Feb 26 The Medical "Fix" is In - 20 Percent of the GDP Coming Up

Feb 25 McCain Handicaps McCain and Says, "I Lose"; Stolen Delegates and Super Delegates

Feb 24 A Presidential Library at SMU; Senator Barack Obama and Health Care & What it Means; Senator Hillary Clinton Says "I'm Ready..."; The White House Comments on The New York Times and Senator John McCain

Feb 21 McCain's Improprieties Aren't About Sex

Feb 20 The Fed and OUR Problems

Feb 19 Go On - Ask the White House (I Dare You); The Lavender Tube: Hallelujah Chorus

Feb 18 The Iraq War - What President Bush Calls a "Return on Success"; Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell Says What Many  Think

Feb 17 The Next Big Hurt - The McCain Economy

Feb 14 The Islamification of Barack Obama

Feb 13 McCain's Call for Sympathy and Votes

Feb 12 You Get What You Pay For - The Bursting Housing Bubble; A Tax Relief Spot in NJ; The Race Goes On

Feb 11 More Economic Bad News and Presidential Lies About Jobs

Feb 10 Health Care Mandates

Feb 7 What Romney's Departure Means; Bush Backwards

Feb 6 It's all Flowers and Daffodils at the White House; It Depends on What "Win" Means - The Story of Super Tuesday's Numbers

Feb 5 Pre-Super Tuesday

Feb 4 The New York Football Giants Win Super Bowl XLII

Feb 3 Mitt Romney and an Argument at Staples; Nuclear Energy is Not "Clean"; The Lavender Tube: The Situation Room

 

Jan 31 Food for Thought and More Food for Thought: Credit Cards, Bank and Intimidation; "What If" Election Scenarios; Preparation and "Spin"; A Call to Arms - Get to Work

Jan 30 Real Wages, Real Losses; A Disgraceful Speech; Bush's "Armies of Compassion"

Jan 29 On the State of the Union Address (2 Articles)

Jan 28 Bush to Announce "One More Surge" (and it Doesn't Have to be in Iraq)

Jan 27 Take the GOP Candidates at Their Word (Especially When It Comes to Us Staying in Iraq)

Jan 24 Mitt Romney: A Governor Without a State (Or Too Many States)

Jan 23 Bush Lies? (No Kidding!)

Jan 22 The End of Rudy; Martin Luther King, III Endorses John Edwards; The Lavender Tube: Lost

Jan 21 Economic Spin and a "Rebate"; The Elephant in the Room (Sexism in the 2008 Elections)

Jan 20 Another "YO-YO" (You're-On-Your-Own) Health Care Plan, Courtesy of Senator John McCain; Obama & Reagan

Jan 17 Gov. Huck

Jan 16 Chris Matthews: Queen-Maker

Jan 15 The Bush Presidency: Sometimes Change is Bad; Bush Vs. Iran; Bush; The Politics of Change

Jan 14 When Life Gives You Lemons, Make GOP Governors

Jan 13 Winning the "Super" (Delegate) Vote; Happy New (Election) Year!

Jan 9 Bush's Bad Employment Numbers

Jan 8 Why Obama is Not Choice Number 1: Health Care; Rappin' Romney;

Jan 7 Side-Splitting - Al Michaels, John Madden and making Fun of Torture; On to The Granite State - More Predictions; Iowa Doesn't Speak for America

Jan 6 Improving a Bad Idea: The "Flat Tax"; The Lavender Tube: The Wrong Stuff

Jan 3 On Iowa - After the Caucuses; The Beginning of the End of Bush

Jan 2 Through My Crystal Ball - Predicting Iowa

 

2007 Newsletter Archives:

 

Dec 30 Housing Crisis? What Housing Crisis?; Ending the Death Penalty

Dec 27 Benazir Bhutto is Assassinate and  Another "Mission" is "Accomplished"

Dec 26 A Presidential Press Conference (But Don't Ask Bush about the CIA); "Don't Taze Me, Bro" is not Funny, CNN; The Lavender Tube: All The Best

Dec 20 Glued to It - Video Games

Dec 19 When is Enough "Enough"? - Financing Bush's War; Race and Gender and Presidential Politics

Dec 18 The Economy: Not So Sexy; On Iraq

Dec 16 Surging Nowhere

Dec 12 Dictator George, a Press conference and the meaning of "Torture"; THE LAVENDER TUBE: SURVIVOR-TV WRITERS’ STRIKE

Dec 11 Let's Go Shopping - Europeans Come Here for Bargains

Dec 10 Buying America; God and Politics

Dec 9 After Seven Years; On Iran and The N.I.E.

Dec 5 Mitt and The Migrants

Dec 4 Condoning Greed; Republicans Gone Wild

Dec 3 I.O.U. - The National Debt; More Bilking Us; Dubya on Rudy, Mitt, and Huckabee

 

Nov 29 Bush Says, "Debate? What Debate?"

Nov 28 Remember Kids, Don't Drink and Govern - Bush, Ohlmert and Abbas; Sex, Lies and Treason; The Lavender Tube: Giving Thanks?

Nov 27 Going, Going, Gone (and Not Soon Enough) - GOP Lawmakers Who Aren't Coming Back; Remembering Giving

Nov 26 How to Spin It: The Whit House Says, "Over Half of American Families Are Not Poor"

Nov 22 Bush and Another Turkey

Nov 20 Scott McClellan (Finally!) Has a "Comment"

Nov 19 A Social Security Idea; Do We Really Hate Hillary?

Nov 15 From the Mind of a Madman - A Rant About What is Wrong

Nov 14 Bush & Jobs: Lying is "Job One"

Nov 13 HDTV for Everyone (Health Care for Some); Ron Paul Isn't Good for America; The lavender Tube: Reality Bites

Nov 11 Free Vs. Fair Trade; "Bushworld": The Video Game

Nov 8 Lead Toys & Bad Leaders

Nov 7 The "Abstinence Only" Myth

Nov 6 Confusing the Jobs Picture - A Bush Fave

Nov 5 Oil & Me; The Terror Profiteers

Nov 4 Checking it Out: What Happens When You Stumble Upon C-SPAN and an Iraqi War Story

Nov 1 The Fed and Their America Vs. The Rest of US and Our Economy (It's an unfair fight)

 

Oct 31 China's Rules

Oct 30 Immunity, the Bush Way; The Lavender Tube: Where's the Smoke?
Oct 29 Bush and the Fires; The New Economic Normal
Oct 28 News Reports and Press Conferences: The White House Way
Oct 25 When Disaster Hits Home
Oct 24 The Administration of Diminished Trust
Oct 23 The Blackwater Way
Oct 22 Health Care: Blue Vs. Red (Right Rudy?)
Oct 21 More on the Economy and Our Shrinking US Dollar
Oct 18 SCHIP: Killing Sick Children; Republicans Against Kids, Iraq Vets and The Planet
Oct 17 Turkey: Across a Different Border; Congress: A "Fun" Job for Republicans
Oct 16 Reach Out and Spy on Someone; Forgetting Air America
Oct 15 Crude's Effect on Winter, '07-'08; The Lavender Tube: October Surprise
Oct 14 Notes from the GOP Debate on the Economy; Flush Rush in Philly
Oct 11 Mrs. Cheney; More on The Frosts

Oct 10 Bush's Economy
Oct 9 White House Leaks Video
Oct 8 Blackwater's Mall; When Civility Turns to Violence
Oct 7 They Even Admit It! The Bushies know that health care for all would actually reduce costs; Spinning the Health Care Argument; How Dare They - Conservative Talkers Live High, Talk Low; Willie Randolph To Go To Washington: A Work of Satire
Oct 4 Burma: The New Front, Not Fronted; Does Bush Get It? Heck No!
Oct 3 More on S-CHIP
Oct 2 Asking the White House: Acting Administrator Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Kerry Weems Admits that Health Care for all Would Save Money; Ahmadinejad Comes to America
Oct 1 Iraq Getting Better?; Judge Thomas; The lavender Tube: The Whole World is Watching
 

Sep 28 President Newt?; The GOP - Shooting Themselves in the Foot
Sep 27 Bill O'Reilly and Al Sharpton's Selective Outrage; The United States of America - The Earth's Newest Third-World Nation; New Kind of Bush-Speak - Fonetics
Sep 26 Pissed Off in Persia
Sep 25 Bill O'Reilly Says: "I Can't Get Over It!"; Ahmadinejad and Bush
Sep 24 Iran's Voice Speaks at Columbia; O.J. Simpson and the Jena Six
Sep 23 Three Separate States and Pull Out
Sep 20 Mid-East Bust (Just ask the women of Iraq and Afghanistan)
Sep 19 O.J.: Cable TV's Gift That Keeps on Giving
Sep 18 Rising Crude(ly) Oil; The lavender Tube: Fall preview: The Good, the Bad and the Gorgeous
Sep 17 asking the white House: EPA Chief Stephen L. Johnson
Sep 16 Why John Stossel Still Lies; King George?
Sep 13 Bush-Speak: Playing Us for Suckers
Sep 12 A Real Call to 9-1-1 (You won't believe this one)
Sep 11 That Sucking Sound is the Bush Economy; The Lavender Tube: Death in Boise
Sep 10 Senator Lindsey Graham's Magic Carpet Ride ($4 for $5.00!)
Sep 6 Fox News' GOP Debate
Sep 5 The GAO Says Iraq is "Partially Met"; Katrina: Two years Later
Sep 4 Bush Says "Maybe" to Troop Withdrawal; Dogs More Important tham Women in Professional Sports

Aug 27 Alberto Gonzales Resigns
Aug 23 A Follow-Up to Bush's Viet Nam Remarks; Joe Scarborough: Another MSNBC Schmuck; Declassified, for Spin
Aug 22 Bush Speaks at a VFW
Aug 21 Chris Matthews Plays "Softball"
Aug 20 Killing Iraq (by Iraqis); Mexican Oil & Hurrican Dean; From Wall Street to Main Street
Aug 19 Citizen Rove Speaks; The Lavender Tube: Slaughter on "K" and Wall Street
Aug 16 Another Eight Bucks to Get into NYC
Aug 15 Hastert, the Waterboy, Retires; Petraeus: Maybe They'll Come Home
Aug 14 Finding Wal-Mart's Happy Face
Aug 13 MC-Rove!; Iraq - A "Quagmire", says the American Enterprise Institute (Finally!); How Big are Your Carbon Footprints?

Aug 12 The Romney 5; How Dare Rudy!

Aug 9 A Health Care Plan No One Would Love; China's Most Unfavored

Aug 8 Paying to Play in Iowa, GOP Style

Aug 7 Health Care and the GOP Iowa Debate; The lavender Tube: Dog Days of August

Aug 6 Where are the 190,000 Missing Guns? Don't Get Sick in the US

Aug 5 The 35W Bridge Collapse and President Photo-Op; Watching the CPI Numbers; Rudy Giuliani's Health Care Plan is Rubbish

Aug 2 Rudy Hates Health Care

Aug 1 The GOP's Spinning the Job Numbers

 

July 31 Justice Roberts, a Seizure and the "Up or Down" Vote

July 30 They Want a Pro-Lifer for President (Didn't They get One Already); Philadelphia: A City in Crisis?

July 29 The Bushies and Muddy Waters; Show Your Want for Impeachment

July 26 Top Cop - Top Criminal; Meet the New Iraq - Same as the Old iraq

July 25 The AG, The NSA Spy Program and Lies

July 24 The Big Three US Automakers and Health Care; The Lavender Tube: The News You Aren't Seeing

July 23 Asking (and Spinning) at the White House, The War We Aren't Seeing

July 22 Romney's Aides Don't Need No Stinkin' Badges

July 19 Let Them Eat Cake (and Die)

July 18 A Pot-Holed Filled Roadmap

July 17 Puling an All-Nighter; Secretary Chao Hates American Workers

July 16 Stupid Statements and Rose-Colored Glasses - The GOP Speaks; (PAST) TIME TO END THE WAR

July 15 Circling the "Executive Privilege" Wagons; Calling for Impeachment From the RIGHT Side

July 12 The "Act" - Section 1314 of the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 (Public Law 110-28) (the “Act”) - President Bush GRades His Effectiveness in Iraq, and He Got a "C"

July 11 Preparing Us for Bad News (or "Be Afraid - Be Very Afraid); The "Today Show" Wakes Up - Kids Can't Get Jobs

July 10 Justice, Chinese Style; Comparing Scooter Libby and Paris HiltonMore Bush Family "Sacrifices" - "The Twins"; THE LAVENDER TUBE: UNFAIR, UNBALANCED

July 9 A Real Associated Press Headline - Iraqi: U.S. pullout could mean civil war; ...and If That Weren't Bad Enough; Governor Ed Rendell Stands Up; Fox News Hits a New Low: “National healthcare: Breeding ground for terror?”; REMEMBERING INDEPENDENCE DAY

July 8 Taking a Stand, Sort Of - Senator Pete "Vizzini" Domenici Wants the Troops Home, Kind Of; Fouad the Fraud - NeoCon Ajami Wants a Pardon for Libby; On Health Care; Ignorance is Bliss (and Required in the Bush White House); On Michael Moore's "Sicko"

July 5 "Coultering" (from "To Coulter")

July 3 Sharing a Bit of Tony Snow on the Libby Matter; Beware the Boogeyman (or Be Afraid - Be Very Afraid); Straight-Talk Express Derailed

July 2 A Libby Liberation

July 1 Bush on Health Care; President Nancy; The New York Times and the Abuse of Executive Privilege; GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY DESTROYED BY FLOOD

 

June 28 A Bad Bill's Death (for Now) - Death of the Immigration Bill; Calling the Puppet-Master Out On the Carpet - Time to Testify, Dick; Taking Stock of the Political Process; IMMIGRATION: AN AMERICAN TRADITION

June 26 The Real Dick in Charge; A Health Care Story - One Sick Child; Hurrah for Partisan Politics!; GEORGE ALMIGHTY!

June 24 Cheney; A FISA Court Judge Speaks; WHY WON’T GEORGE BUSH SAVE MY LIFE?

June 21 The Spy Game is back

June 20 King Rudy - Kings and Queens, GOP Style; Still Ignoring Health Care

June 19 President Bloomberg?; Shutting That Barn Door - Fixing Gaza After the Fall; Troops' One-Month Breaks Blocked

June 18 Iraq: Now and Later; THE MIDDLE EAST: WHERE ARE WE NOW?

June 17 The health Care Tax

June 14 Immigration and the Bushies - I Just Can't Seem to Let it Go; The Great White North, Immigration

June 12 More n Immigration; How Much Do We Like Hillary Clinton?

June 11 Immigration? Whoops!; ...And How Will He Spin It?; Are We Safer Now?; IRAQI LAWMAKERS PASS RESOLUTION THAT MAY FORCE END TO OCCUPATION; THE LAVENDER TUBE: HELL’S KITCHEN

June 10 Obama & Powell - A Strange Dream or a Nightmare?; Taking the (General) Pace Out of Washington; On Lieberman

June 7 Immigration and "The Bill"; Some More Notes From the Debates

June 6 Notes From 2 Debates; Bush Loves Bush

June 5 Madame Bernanke's Crystal Ball

June 4 Soul Searching - Bush & Putin; INFECTION, BIO-TERRORISM AND FAILURE OF THE SYSTEM

June 3 Fuzzy Math and the Magic Jobs Creation Calculator

 

May 31 GW Ties Up the NJ Turnpike Like 911 Did; Kidnapped by Friends - Who Are the Good Guys Anyway?; Why the GOP hate Women

May 30 Blah, Blah, Blah - The Bushies Offer Only Rhetoric; Why Don't We Care About Our Troops?

May 29 The New Presidential Candidates' Alter Egos; See No Evil; hear No Boom-Boom; The Lavender Tube: Memento Mori

May 28 It All Comes Down to Texas, Again; Media Madman 0-2-1; To End Bush's War; A Letter to Speaker Pelosi

May 24 Seen on the Street - NASCAR Dad's Want Bush Out; Bush, Politics and al-Qaeda; What Bush's War Bill Means; Cramer in the Morning Reports: Good News, Bad News

May 23 Excuses, Excuses - How the Gas Industry Explains Away Their Profits and Our Losses

May 22 Giuliani on Letterman; The Dems: Did They Cave In?

May 21 What Kind of Immigration Policy Splits Families Up?; Speaking Ill of the Dead - Jerry Falwell

May 20 More From FEMA and The Administration of Diminished Responsibility; Carter Speaks

May 17 New American Royalty: he War Czar; Time to Come Home; Meeting in the Desert; Going, Going... Gonzo

May 16 This Space for Rent - Above the Fold at The New York Times; They're Telling Us to "Get Out"; The 2nd GOP Debate; The Lavender Tube - Helter Skelter

May 15 Number 2's Become Extinct... and the Reason Why

May 14 How Rudy Cleanup Up New York; Surging Forward; The War on Terror Comes to Philly

May 13 And Three Go Missing; Retired Generals Don't Like Bush's War;

May 10 Bush Vs. Iran - Winning Hearts and Minds; Candor in the White House(?); General Ray Odierno Wants to Give "Plan-A" One More Try; Reverend Al Sharpton Should Forfeit His Radio Show; Israel Has Its own George W. Bush

May 9 Kickbacks and Payouts; Bush: The New Godfather of Soul

May 8 Hamas' Mickey Rat; The Bushies Still haven't Learned From Katrina - Just Ask Kansas

May 7 Bush-Like; High School Diplomacy - Rice and Iran's Mottaki; Settling It - The President Needs to Compromise with Congress; Philadelphia's New mayor Must Stop the Violence; NRA Opposes Gun Bill to Prevent Terrorists from Buying Guns; Note to the Three GOP Candidates for President Who Don't Believe in Evolution: Evolve Already!

May 6 Answers, Flip-Flops and Softballs - The First GOP Debate

May 3 The U.A.E.

May 2 Veto-Man

May 1 Reading Between the (Bushie) Lines

 

Apr 30 Tenet Speaks; Creating a democratic Middle East; The Lavender Tube: Truth to Power and Then Some

Apr 29 What's Getting Done? Good Question; The Case for Impeachment

Apr 26 Condi Doesn't Want to Testify

Apr 25 McCain as Bush III; Rudy's Road to the GOP Nomination Paved With Sleaze; The Real GOP; More on the Second Amendment

Apr 24 How to Make a Generational War - A Recipe; Bush's Micromanaging;

Apr 23 The NRA Cares(?); More on Amendment Number 2; Even More on Amendment Number 2; Our National Disgrace

Apr 22 Still Lying After All These Years; Kissinger says "Iraq Can't be won"; Gag-(Order) on This - Military Ordered Not to Speak

Apr 19 What Tommy Thompson Said; How to REALLY get out of Iraq; More on Virginia Tech

Apr 18 Waiting for the Polls - The Candidates Don't Chime in on Gun Control in the wake of the Virginia Tech Massacre

Apr 17 More Pollution is Better?

Apr 16 19 Rounds - The Virginia Tech Massacre; Making Iraq Even More Dangerous - Thsnks Muqtada al-Sadr & George W. Bush

Apr 15 Additional Second Chances for Alberto Gonzales; Why Was Imus Fired?; A Little Racism Story; Madman's Last Word on Imus

Apr 12 Bush's Iraq - How he still views it; Wolfowitz is Still Bad; The Firing of Don Imus

Apr 11 Flying Paper - Just what do the missing emails and President Nixon's missing 18 minutes of tape have in common anyway?; A Quick Note on the Duke Rape Case; Democrats and Republicans

Apr 10 Cheap Labor, Immigration and Outsourcing; Rutgers Coach C. Vivian Stringer's Comments Regarding Imus; Rutgers Captain Essence Carson Responds to Imus; Rutgers Player Heather Zurich Responds to Imus; My Take on Imus

Apr 9 Health Care Stuff from "Ask the White House"; John McCain's Propaganda CatapultA Book from Inside Iraq; Iraq: Tell Me Why, Again?; The “New” Republicans

Apr 8 Governor Elmer J. Romney (REPUBLICAN-MA); Calling Muqtada's Dare

Apr 5 Pelosi Takes a Trip; MIA - The story of a Fired US Attorney and Army Reservist

Apr 4 It's Called DIPLOMACY, Mr. Bush; An open letter to Secretary of Commerce of the United States of America, Carlos Guiterrez

Apr 3 Media Madman - An AP headline - Bush, Democrats escalate Iraq war debate; THE LAVENDER TUBE: GRINDHOUSE

Apr 2 On McCain's Straight-Talk Express, a Rose Covered Windshield; The Smartest Idiot - Niall Ferguson; FAILURES OF DIPLOMACY

Apr 1 Bush Supplies the Targets

 

Mar 29 The AG Lied? No Way!

Mar 28 Iran: Just What are They Thinking?; Power – ‘Sittin in the mornin’ sun’ and ‘Blowin in the Wind’

March 27 Speak No Evil - A Gonzales Aide Takes "The Fifth"; Caring for Our Soldiers?

Mar 26 John McCain's Straight Talk Express - Derailed or Back on Track; Al Gonzales' Hot (and Getting Hotter) Seat; More on General Pace; SCANDALGATE

Mar 25 The Phoniness of Iraq Emergency War Funding; Health Care for All? - A Census Blunder and a Little Spin; Snow Doesn't Approve of Congressional Oversight; On Impeachment; On the Mass Health Care Plan

Mar 22 The Tony Snow Show

Mar 21 What's the Deal? - Bush, The Prosecutor Firings and "Executive Privilege"

Mar 20 Media Madman - A Real Associated Press Headline - "Gonzales' hold on job grows uncertain"; THE LAVENDER TUBE: STRAIGHT TALK EXPRESS

Mar 19 Hop On The Bandwagon, Republicans; Bush Speaks on the Fourth Anniversary of "Shock and Awe"; DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL, DON’T SERVE

Mar 18 Oversight of a CIA Outing (Finally); BOMBSHELL: White House Security Chief Reveals -- No Probe of Plame Leak There; Braving the Philly Ice and Cold

Mar 15 First Republican Calls for Gonzales' Head

Mar 14 The Administration of Diminished Responsibility

Mar 13 Tancredo's America; Pace's Morality; Senator Martinez' Team-GOP

Mar 12 Under GOP Pressure - Firing Federal Prosecutors; Spy-Guys; BAD WEEK FOR THE BUSH TEAM

Mar 11 More on the Libby Conviction; More Lies - AG Gonzales and FBI Director Meuller

Mar 8 No Shows for Fox' Debate; Mandated Insurance Is Not The Answer; Playing School In Katrina's Wake; The Mouths of Babes (Soldiers)

Mar 7 More on Canned Scooter; Slow Joe's (Lieberman) No-Go Solution; Colorado has Its Very Own Solutions, Too - (Where is Tom Tancredo When You Need Him?); More on Mr.(?) Coulter

Mar 6 Guilty Libby and a Disappointed Veep; Same Ol' Stuff - The Walter Reed Generals

Mar 5 A "Time to Leave" Quote; Coulter's Homophobia; Canaries in the Coal Mine - Global Warming; THE LAVENDER TUBE: PATHS OF GLORY

Mar 4 Gates, Bush and No Confidence; It Takes a <Your Thoughts Here>; American Idle is right! - Or how they keep Americans' minds idle

Mar 1 Bush, New Orleans & Katrina; Flip Flopping Today; Hillary Clinton

 

Feb 28 Be Concerned - Be Very Concerned - The Powder Keg in the Middle East

Feb 27 Sen. Stevens and "The Tubes"; Bush's Mid-East Block Party

Feb 26 A Photo-Op, of Sorts - Cheney and Musharaff; New Senate Vote; CAN THE DEMOCRATS BEAT THEMSELVES?; On the Bush (League's) Health Care Proposal

Feb 25 Jeb and the Neo-Cons; American Empire; THANATOS IS RUNNING THE SHOW

Feb 22 New Ways to Die

Feb 21 The Brits Leaving Iraq - Another Success; Walter Reed Hospital; The Power of the Press, Exercised; Hi, Elizabeth (Edwards)

Feb 20 Old News, New News - Bremer's 262 Tons of OUR Money; THE LAVENDER TUBE: STORMY WEATHER

Feb 19 George W. Bush's Very Dangerous Place - Making Our Enemies Stronger

Feb 18 The Elevator Party Won't Debate; Health Care Reform: All in One Big Step

Feb 15 We Can't Survive Another "Bush-Plan"; Marc Maron - Back on the Air; Good News on the Health Care Front?

Feb 14 Bush Says "Trust Me... Again"; Bush Mms Up on Plame; Good-Bye Bolton; Watergate, Reagan, and Politics Today; BLACK IN WHITE AMERICA; More on John Edwards Plan to End the Iraqi War

Feb 13 Not Enough and Too Much - Mis-Managing Wars, The Bush Style

Feb 12 Scooter's Trial; Scooter Libby, Leaker or Hero? It's Really The People v The Media; 'Non-binding resolutions' are an excuse for serious action;

Feb 11 Study: U.S. One of the World's Worst Countries for Family/Medical Leave; Edwards Gets It Right; Will That Be Cash or Charge? - Your Child's Medical Bills

Feb 8 Pony Up for Health Care; Scootin' Scooter

Feb 7 On Iraq; 363 Tons of Fun

Feb 6 A Debate?: Senate Republicans don't want a debate on Iraq; HAIL MARY PASS

Feb 2 Bush's Hidden Racism; MOLLY IVINS: A TRIBUTE; Forgotten Commitment in the Big Easy; Texas Gov Rick Perry Orders Anti-Cancer Vaccine; THE LAVENDER TUBE: NOTES ON A SCANDAL

Feb 1 Casey Under Fire; Media Madman - VERY POSSIBLY THE DUMBEST HEADLINE OF THE YEAR--SO FAR: "Bush, Dems Have Different Economic Views"

 

Jan 31 The Rhetoric of the Truth - A Real Yahoo.com link to an AP Article: "Bush takes aim at executive salaries in speech"; The Cheney Notes; On Virginia's Further Intrusion into Our Bedrooms - On Divorce

Jan 30 A Maureen Dowd Quote; Liar! Liar! Traitor! Traitor!; The Anti-War Rally (January 27, 2007); More on Fleeting Freedoms; After All... It's Only (Our) Money

Jan 29 Still in Iraq; Speaking With The Enemy?; Worth Watching - John McCain vs. John McCain

Jan 28 Five Dead Soldiers - Four Dead Hostages; It's a Good Thing - The Closing of Jim Talent's Senate Office; The Greater Divide - The Surge

Jan 25 A Senatorial Admonishment; The "Plan" - Al-Maliki Style; State of Duh Union ; Where is the Iraqi Parliament?; THE LAVENDER TUBE: HOMOPHOBIA: LIVE AND IN COLOR

Jan 24 State of the Union Madman

Jan 23 Bush Pushes Bush; Al "Abu" Gonzales Interprets the US Constitution; Place Your Bets: The Bushies are on a Roll; Where the Hell is Zell?; Senate Soiling Clean House Minimum Wage Bill; Un-Health Un-Care

Jan 22 Bush Priorities; What Would Bush Say If He Truly Was an Honest Broker?; Today's Pre-State of the Union Quote; The Decider interviewed by The Washington Post; Bush's Death March in Iraq

Jan 21 Health Care - You're Next: Bush's "Plan" to Tax Health Care; Rice is Sticking With Plan "A"; A Real Associate Press Headline: "GOP Faces Tough Vote on Bush's War Plan"; The "Surge"; Impeach Al "Abu" Gonzalez; The Case For Impeachment

Jan 16 The 2008 GOP Field; Fix Iraq; Keep the Stock Market

Jan 15 Bush is The (Something)-in-Chief; The "Bush-Push for More-War"; The Iron Triangle: Elected Officials, Lobbyists and Bureaucrats; IRAQ: THE ESCALATION

Jan 14 On Iraq: Death is No Strategy; Making The Bush Dictatorship; Declare Victory and Leave

Jan 11 Pat Buchanan's Supports the :surge", Even If It Doesn't Work; Bush's Speech & Bush-Speak - An Analysis

Jan 10 A Short Note on The President's Speech; Look at the Map - Check Out East Africa; Bush's "Surge"

Jan 9 "Gradual" & "Surge"; Another NeoCon To Be Our Next Ambassador

Jan 8 Teaching Religion in School; A Multi-Denominational Nation; THE LAVENDER TUBE: NOTES ON A SCANDAL

Jan 7 Oversight Comes to DC; Getting Past Bush; Mission Unaccomplished; What Did They Say? What Did They Do? - The Democrats on Speaker Pelosi

Jan 4 Britain's Migrants Vs. America's Illegal Immigrants; Why Those of Us Who Oppose the Iraq War are the Real Patriots; Bin-Laden's Capture "A Success That Hasn't Occurred Yet"

Jan 3 What Health Care Crisis?; Underpaid Judges: John Roberts' Constitutional Crisis

Jan 2 The 3,000 Dead Mark - The Bushies Want to Know "What's in a Number?"; Does "The Decider" Hear Voices? More on Killing Saddam

 

2006 Newsletter Archives:

Dec 31 The Death of Saddam; More on the End of the Vietnam War

Dec 28 Ford Blasts The Bushies; On Bush's Next Move; More on Gerald Ford

Dec 27 The Late Gerald R. Ford - In a Word: Integrity; "The Decider" Deciding on More War?

Dec 26 The 28th & 29th Amendments - Health Care for all & No Paid Lobbyists; THE LAVENDER TUBE: BEST & WORST OF 2006

Dec 24 A Holiday Story - Christmas Gifts for Wall Street and None for You; To the (Dis)Honorable Virgil Goode

Dec 21 A Not-So-"Goode" Quote in the Lead; On the Ground in Iraq; The "W" Legacy, Continued - Bureaucracy Solves Everything; Bush Goes "Holiday" Shopping Liberal Hate-Mongers, Too; Forwards and Comments from Robert Scardapane

Dec 20 The Bushies: Half-Empty, Half-Full & Full of Spin; The "W" Legacy - Not Winning, Not Losing; Finally Getting It - A Health Care/ Jobs Creation Idea; Right Wingers Wrong Again

Dec 19 On Robert Gates; And Even More on The "W" Legacy - The Failed Occupation; Tis the Season--to Stop Quibbling Over Nothing

Dec 18 Rummy's Ten Days Short; More on The "W" Legacy; On NJ Property Taxes

Dec 17 The "W" Legacy; Madman Recommends...

Dec 14 McCain's Answer: Throwing Bodies at the Iraqi Problem; Ahmadinejad's Jew-Hating Crusade; More on Impeaching Bush

Dec 13 The Case for Impeachment; Reagan's Laws, Kennedy’s Laws, and Clinton’s Laws

Dec 12 The Solution!: The All-Volunteered Army, Stem Cells and the Far RightAnd Speaking of Darfur; Quoting Caen (Sort Of)

Dec 11 The Rhetoric is Killing Us; Does Bush Get It?; BUSH’S WAR ON WOMEN CONTINUES

Dec 10 Economic Numbers: Wher's the Economy Heading?; The ISG Blues

Dec 7 Less Rhetoric, Please - More on the Iraq Study Group; One Dad's Soldier-Son

Dec 6 Bad and Getting Worse - The Iraq Study Group; On Confirming Gates; Media Madman: The New York Times and the Iraq Survey Group; A Bit of Humor: Al Gore's Plan and Bush is a "Reader"

Dec 5 The Radio Station Where America Lives - What Progressive Radio Should Look Like; Coulter, Limbaugh, Rumsfeld and Bush: The Real Winners of Election 2006

Dec 4 Failure: What's in a Word?; "Crawfordito"; Forgetting the Past - Opining on Past Atrocities

Dec 3 How's Your Boy? bush & Webb; A Note from a Friend from Camp Wellstone; Bush's Monument

 

Nov 30 The Carrot The Final GOP Offering to the Far Right

Nov 29 President Waldo

Nov 28 Blame it On al-Qaeda (Again)

Nov 27 The "Get-Out-of-Baghdad" Bandwagon is Filling Up; Rumsfeld okayed abuses says former U.S. general; NEW WOMEN, NEW POLITICS

Nov 26 Meet Me in The "Lobby"; Bush, The Elder

Nov 22 The "GREAT" Bush Recovery?; Physician, Train Thyself

Nov 21 Where's "Busho"?; How Dumb, Dumb is, and the Hubris of "Mission Accomplished"!; More on Undervotes(?)

Nov 20 The Need for Paper; Republican Obstructionism;

Nov 19 Troops on the Ground; Define the Bush Spin; What's Up with China?; Support Striking Janitors in Houston

Nov 16 Following the (Dirty) Money (Or Racist Senate Minority Leader); The Health Care Mess; Penalties for Voter Fraud; HUNGRY AT THANKSGIVING

Nov 15 Bush is On the Road to Vietnam (Finally); the Small Business The Heath Care Trap

Nov 14 Day One of the First Hundred Starts in DC; More Snow

Nov 13 The Three Party System - The South is The Same;Catch-52 - Old Enough to Die; Right Wing Mind-Boggler - Rightie Spin; THE LAVENDER TUBE: DAYBREAK; Quoting Bush - Allowing US to Vote

Nov 12 Saving American Lives - The Trophy System; McCain-(Jeb) Bush '08? - Watch Out America; Ten Strategic Political Goals; Dean Vindicated; Carville Must Go; Agendas; More Gay Bashing; CHANGE OF VENUE - Examining the '06 Vote

Nov 9 In Florida, It's 2000 All Over Again; Cautious Optimism - Going Forward; Is Democracy Finally Coming to the USA? - Or is THIS Just a Tease?

Nov 8 The Day After the Election: Let the GOP Whining Begin; 537 Vs. 6,708: Why George Allen JUNIOR Ought to Give It Up; 24 Hours: The Story of the 2006 Election and the "Rummy Surprise"; GOP Loses Scandal-Tainted Seats; A Brand New Day; "Stocks Fall in Post-Election Trading; DeLay's 15 Minutes are Almost Up; Good News (For a Change)

Nov 7 My Early Morning Voting Story

Nov 6 Bush's Sacrifice? - American Children; The Barn Door and the Horses - Letting the Ba'athists Back In (Too Late); A Poem: Anthem for Doomed Youth; TIME TO THINK BEYOND THE PINK

Nov 5 Lying Starts at the Top; Rev. Haggard: Do As They SAY...; Kean JUNIOR: Even MORE Hypocrisy; A Smart Poster Boy - A Rich Guy AND a Democrat!; More from the Sleaze Front

Nov 2 The Art of Election Theft; Kean JUNIOR'S Insults Italian-Americans Again; Stender Wins ALL Endorsements

Nov 1 John McCain: A War Hero and a Political Coward; Kean's "Swift Soprano's"; "The Votemaster"; Still No Apology Policy

 

Oct 31 Rummy's Lapdogs; Tricky Ricky's Only Able to Sling Mud; Endorsing the "Right" Guy - Why the Cincinnati Enquirer is a Joke; The Tip of The "Foley-Berg"; COUNTDOWN TO CHANGE

Oct 30 Little Tommy's Ad - No Mention that He's GOP; Pulling a "Boehner"; A Big "BOOM!" - Blowing Up in Pakistan; "Green" is a Dangerous Color; THE LAVENDER TUBE: AXIS OF WEASELS; VOTER PURGE is Widespread!

Oct 29 Fox News Admits a Rooting Interest; Innocence and Anarchy in Iraq; Cheney and Waterboarding; Michael Schiavo and The Freedom to "Sit"; Throw Hastert Out; Sheep Wearing Wolves'' Clothing; Trust Them? - The DoD

Oct 26 Standing Up - Bush Wants "Them" to "Stand Up"; The Fence

Oct 25 "To the Best of My Ability" - The Bish Signing Statements; Exit Polls Allowed... Again; Idaho; The Mark Foley Collection; Please Watch Keith Olberman; Dean Answers Bush's "Stay the Course" Sham; Michael J. Fox; A Gandhi Quote; Quest for Human Unity

Oct 24 Pat Tillman's Death, Revisited (and Kevin Tillman's Letter); Defining Kansas - Endorsing the Worse Candidate; To Stay the Course, or Not to Stay the Course - That is the Question; A Flag by Any Other Name... - Partitioning Iraq?; A Bush Quote - Say Good-bye to SSI

Oct 23 The "Plan" for Iraq; Katrina: What is a BILLION?; And an Answer

Oct 22 They Love a Parade - Insurgents March in Iraq; How Can "Stay the Course" Still be "The Plan"?; Another One of "Bush's Plans" - A Jail Term as a Retirement Plan; KENNY (LAY) AND THE DEAD DONKEY; Ferguson Bad for New Jersey Taxpayers

Oct 19 Delays at the Polls; Caught Attempting to Steal! - An Orange County Race; The Market Loses and So do Our Troops; Bozo the Congressman - Rep. Peter King Confuses Baghdad with Manhattan; Senator Hobbit - Rick Santorum; Already In A Recession?

Oct 18 Ohio's Choice, America's Future - Saving America's Right to Vote; Stress Anyone?; Chris Matthews - From Hardball to Softball to No "Balls

Oct 17 Tug's Boy - The Democrat; Jeb Bush Endorsed Foley; Jeb's Army Vs. Our Right to Peacefully Assemble and Petition the Government; Mike Ferguson: Enemy of America’s Working Families; Proving a Negative - Rep. McHenry Wants Dems to Prove They DIDN'T Do Something; PERILS OF FAILED BUSH DIPLOMACY

Oct 16 Bush's Reasons For Iraq - The "Comma"; Kissinger - The Guy With the German Accent (No, Not Rove); Bowing Out - ean Chickens Out on a Debate; What Bush Said - People Can Tolerate Violence; Rove Knew Aout Foley - Rove's Fingerprints; Mike Ferguson's Votes Show Anti-Senior Bias

Oct 15 Ney Guilt; The Difference Between Scandals; The GOP, Abramoff and Grover Norquist - Still Attempting to "Drown" Democracy; Raise the Minimum Wage; The Sleazy GOP and the Sleazy Tom Kean (Junior) - Perfect Together

Oct 12 More on Foley-Gate: Better Watch Your Back; Niel Bush: Teaching to the Test, then Selling the Test; WAKE UP SHEEPLE

Oct 11 And the Plane Still Crashed - A Yankee Crashes in New York; Big Farms Steal Big; Fergie is a Coward; The GOP is Out. Of. Touch

Oct 10 North Korea's Nuclear Fallout - "Keep 'em Afraid; Keep 'em Red"; Q & A - The October Surprise; More on the BOOM; Foley-Gate - The Bus Make Another Stop; Time for Some House-Cleaning;

Oct 9 The Foley Scandal - Heads Need to Roll; Get Ready for 2008; Talking Issues; Tyranny...; And More Tyranny; KUDOS TO KEITH OLBERMAN; Keith Olberman strikes again!; WILL REPUBLICANS BE CHASTENED BY FOLEYGATE?

Oct 8 The GOP Campaign - Introducing The Amedeo's; And More GOP Hypocrites; Mike Ferguson is Unbelievably Cruel and Obtuse; You Want to Vote for Who?; VICTORY IGNORES BRAINS

Oct 5 More Lies from the Sleaze Party - More on the Whole Foley Thing; Menendez Attacked

Oct 4 Dennis Miller - The Whore for Bush's War; National Insecurity; Junior Kean is Pure Filth; The "Real Issue"; Potty-Mouthed Harris; "The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round"

Oct 3 Rep. Mike Ferguson Approves His Messages; Making Me Sick - More on the Foley Affair; And Rep. Tom Reynolds' (R-NY) Reaction; And Foley's GOP Replacement; And Hastert's Blinders; Speaking Out and Outraged; Rep Louise Slaughter's (D-NY) Outrage; Advising George

Oct 2 Just a Bunch O' Freekin' Liars - Denying "State of Denial"; MEET THE CANDIDATES; Bush Fired Powell

Oct 1 Live Boy - Dead Girl - The Story of Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL); NIE and LIES; Lie and Spy; Baby Kean Breaks Promise to Military Families; Olberman Points at Fox

 

Sep 28 Clinton on Fox; "Junior" Allen for... President?

Sep 26 Help Wanted - Your New Iraq Job Awaits; An AOL Poll on Who's More Convincing; A Potpourri; Speaking of the Devil

Sep 25 More Troops Needed (Apply at Halliburton); Chavez' Devil; Torture's Immorality

Sep 24 Is Osama Dead? I Certainly Hope So; The Commerce Department and the Case of the Missing Laptops; Oh No - Not Another "Junior"; US Troop Deaths Pass 9/11; Kean "Junior's" Dirty Tricks

Sep 21 Who Will Save The World?; More Junior Kean Sleaze; Spinning Spin - Another Snow Job; Bush Passes the Buck - and "Stuff" Flows Downhill

Sep 20 140,000 Children of America, and Counting; Dr. Bush's Snake Oil; Road Thoughts; ID Me an Angry Voter

Sep 19 Bush - "On His Watch"; Bush Made Secret Deal With Bin Laden; Saddam is to al-Zarqawi as Bush is to Bin-Laden; Where Our Money Ought to Go; THE LAVENDER TUBE: THE ILLUSIONISTS

Sep 18 The Pope, the President and the Ayatollah; Slanting Our Schools; THE SLIPPERY SLOPE OF TORTURE; When Will Ferguson Stop Hiding?; Wiretapping

Sep 17 How Much Can You Afford? - Health care and Medicare; Ask the White House; Pope Benedict Arnold; Karl Rove & Tom Kean Jr. - Perfect Together; Media Madman - Horizon gave $13,300 on day of a big vote - Junior (Kean) Is Filthy; Homework

Sep 14 The GOP Says; "You have to respect the voters,"; The Presidential Magnet; Media Madman - The Forgotten Story: Halliburton's Oil

Sep 13 Neighbors - Iraw and Iran; Two Sisters & Two Lights - Shadows of the Towers; And Another 9/11 Story - On the Road

Sep 12 Bush Politicizes 9/11 - "There He Goes Again"; Instincts and 9/11; Oberman Said...; Cheney Said...; If You Can't Beat 'Em, Smear 'Em

Sep 11 Recapping My Day: 9/11/2001; AFTER 9/11

Sep 10 Madman's US Population Employment Ratio; Evidence of Betrayal - Iraq; The Torture Never Stops; "Path To 911" - Kean is Obscene; GOP Mud-SlingingStill don't believe Social Security is on the ballot this November?

Sep 7 What the Bush Administration REALLY Thinks of Our Troops; An Amazingly Stupid Bush Quote - Connecting the war on terror to Iraq,"; Defining Bush's War on Terror; Senator George Allen (Junior) (R-VA) says Something Stupid

Sep 6 Osama's "Peaceful Life"; In Bush's Mind; GOP Tactics; Latest Olberman Bush Smack Down

Sep 5 Self-Obstruction - No Immigration Debate from GOP; Pentagon Propaganda Now Official; WHERE IS THE BLACK LEADERSHIP ON AIDS?; THE LAVENDER TUBE: FALL SEASON PREMIERE

Sep 4 Crying DeLay; Santorum: The Horse's Mouth; The Terrorists Must Be Laughing; Catapulting the Propaganda; "Iraq reports al-Qaeda's No. 2 captured"; Senator Stevens: How the Internet Works

 

Aug 31 BOOM Goes the Plan in iraq; The Bush Rewards; The Two Faces of "Imminent Danger"; Those Darn "Internets" Again - Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK); American Reality- from the AFL-CIO - The Median Hourly Wage; Snarly-Pussuss Cheney is at it Again; She Should Have Punched Him - Senator Mary Landreau (D-LA) & President Bush; Our Pocket Book

Aug 29 Another Bush Crook - Kenneth Y. Tomlinson; Don't Let Them Get Away With It - Spinning Katrina; Just What IS wrong With Kansas? - Medical Debt

Aug 28 Measuring the Difference - Changing Recent History; More on Spinning Katrina; A Thought For Labor Day

Aug 27 Outsourcing's Beneficiaries; Mel's Steps; More on Bush's Lunch with Rocky; President Photo-Op in the Big Easy; Letter to the Editor on Choice; International Troops and the Buffer Zone

Aug 24 Bush's Lunch With Rocky; Bush's Kind of Progress - Segregation is Back in the South; Through Rose-Colored Glasses - Bush's Approval; Pro Life? - Mel Gibson; Another Slap in the Face to Our Soldiers

Aug 23 The Back Door Draft; The Guys at the Bottom Rung - Border Security; - A Brit Describes the Bush Presidency

Aug 22 Decoding Bush; Spike Lee Strikes Back For Katrina's and Bush's Victims; Bush, Iraq and 9/11; More Conflicts Of Interest By The Bushitas; Stender Vs. Fergie; A Man For All Seasons; THE LAVENDER TUBE: SNAKES ON A PLANE; A Douglas MacArthur Quote

Aug 21 Buffering - Israel and Lebanon; For The Religious Righties; A Kiss of Newt; Lieberman: The GOP's Choice; From AFL-CIO: They Want You to Dumppster-Dive; CAN WE STOP GLOBAL WARMING AND ANOTHER KATRINA?

Aug 20 What's So Illegal about Breaking a Law Anyway?; Another Snow Job; What's Good For Bush Isn't Good For The Rest Of Us; Quoting Jack Cafferty

Aug 17 Cut and Die - The Bush War "Strategy"; Keeping Us Scared; On Joementum; Good Judges Follow THE LAW

Aug 16 Shame on Those Who Teach Hate; NJ- Kean, Jr. Dumber Than A Bag of Hammers

Aug 15 Death and Profits - Iraq; Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers; Mourning Gyorgy Ligeti; Americans Rank LAST in Belief in Evolution

Aug 14 Schmuck! - Joe Lieberman & Connecticut Politics; Cartoons Aren't Funny; Another Bush Power Grab; Imminent Terror; Sy Hersh on Lebanon; About the 2004 Election; TIME TO RAISE MINIMUM WAGE

Aug 13 "Puffing" - How to Fix Airport Security; Idiot-Boy and His Idiot-MinionsWas the 2004 Election Stolen? - Of Course it Was

Aug 10 BP - Beyond Putrid; Spinning Terror; Media Madman - Army Manual to Skip Geneva Detainee Rule

Aug 9 Screw-Ups; Blocking Iraq Permanent Bases

Aug 8 DeLay's Choice; I Disagree - A Joe Lieberman Moment; Washington Advice - Just Who are They Listening To?; WORLD WAR III?; "Rummy" Stuff

Aug 7 Taking Advantage - Energy Companies Own Bush; Another Bum Bites the Dust - Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH); The Rules of War; Unemployment Lines Don't Lie (but Bush does!); More Dirty Election Tricks; You Say Menendez, I Say Martinez; THE LAVENDER TUBE: MELTDOWN;

Aug 3 The Swift-Boating of Jack Murtha; Who's next at Treasury?; Lieberman Must Go

Aug 1 Purchasing Science; What A Difference A War Makes; Religion Changes the Subject; Enough Of These Rapturists

 

July 31 Not Another Roadmap!; Media Madman - Frist Fails to Disclose Foundation Role; Another Bad GOP Bill; What the Iraq War is Costing Us - By Rep. JOHN P. MURTHA

July 30 Danger - No Cease-Fire; What I Fear - Mel Gibson

July 26 Waking Up? - The "Little" Civil War in Iraq; "No Doubt" - The Middle east; Biting Off More Than They Could Chew - Hezbollah is "Surprised" at Israel's Response; Taliban-Lite?; Priorities - The Flag Vs. The People

July 25 Fixing It - A Simple Solution Where None Exsists; Bush's NAACP Speech; THE LAVENDER TUBE: NOT DEJA VU, AGAIN?; More on Bush's Stem Cell Veto; More of Bush's Amerika

July 24 AP Headlines Contradict One Another; "Another Bar, Wine-Tender" - Let Them Eat Cake; Bush's First Veto - No Stem Cell Research; "Old Fudds" Fighting to Keep What They've Earned; Bush Vs. Conyers; Bush's Amerika; Their Own "Reward" - Psuedo Christians; The War at Home

July 23 Spinning Dick - How Cheney Spins Stuff; Neville Rice - Condi Chamberlain - The Worst Secretary of State - EVER; The Business of Global Warming - or How to Make a Buck off of Disaster; Another Thought on Embryonic Stem Cell Research; Neonuts; "100" - THE MAGIC OR NOT SO MAGIC NUMBER

July 19 "FOG"gy Economics; Progressive San Francisco; Bush and Katrina: The Storms That Just Keeps on Taking

July 18 Cockroaches - When the Taliban Returns; Losing His Veto Virginity; Bush's Off-Camera "Smartitudeness"; The Four Most Overpaid White House Staffers; Al-Qaeda in Indiana?; Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL) Vs. Former Rep. and Conservative TV Host Joe Scarborough - They Do Eat Their Own

July 17 Cointelpro II; Thinking About Oil; Economic Indicators; Bush-Speak; Bush and Putin; What to Pledge For; Grinchy Gingrich

July 16 About the Violence; The Benefits of Dick - Bullets, Bombs and Blood; And Bush's Thoughts(?); Bush's Banging Up; Voting With Their Feet; It's Still the Economy Stupid; Or Is It The Philosophy Stupid?; A Real Agenda; Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) Votes Poorly; A "Friendly" Quote - FOG (Friends of George); Jack Murtha Speaks

July 13 Circumstances to Support Bush; Framing Conservatism...; ...And Conservatives; Media Madman - Killing Terrorists; Terror, Terror, Terror; Wilson Responds to Novak

July 12 A "Luffa-Boy and Laura "I Wanna Be Ann coulter" Moment; Traitor-Speak; A Simple Voting Idea; They're At It Again - Bush's Line-Item Veto; Iraq's Cycle of Violence; Learning From History?

July 11 India Bombed; Bush's Billions' One Rethuglican on Taxation - "Junior" Allen; A Gaseous State; NBC Calls it a "Low-Grade Civil War"; Free Masons; THE LAVENDER TUBE: THE ROCKETS RED GLARE

July 10 Rep. Hoekstra (R-MI) Doesn't Want to Know Everything; Welkome to World War Bush; A Plea for PeaceWhy We Need Unions; More Thoughts On Hillary Clinton

July 9 These Guys are Idiots! - The Bushies Tell al-Qaeda All; Why Gay Couples Should Adopt; Why Sen. George Allen, Jr. Ought to Go; Pushing Bernie - The Push-Polling of a Great Candidate; Bush's Racist Army; Assaulting Religious Freedom in Hardesty, Oklahoma; The Illegal NSA Wiretap Program

July 6 "YO-YO"; Corzine's Guts - Getting a Budget Done; The GOP Cares About Polls Only, Not You; It's Not Really Slavery, But...; BUSH: Osama Who? Never Heard of Him; GW Vs. The Declaration of Independence; THE AUTOMATED PAYMENT - TRANSACTION TAX; Fascism's Roots; Something Funny - Some Stuff From T-Shirt hell

July 5 Ken "Kenny-Boy" Lay - A Eulogy (of Sorts); Robo Mexico

July 4 Independence Day madman - The Declaration of Independence

July 3 A Word on Shutting Down NJ's Government; Corporate Friendly FDA; What The Bushies Did Before 9/11; Rumsfeld's Asking and Telling

July 2 More on GW's PDB; Defending Hillary; From James Webb for Senate Campaign; Who a Girl Can Vote For - An Average Jane, Such as Myself?; Rep. Carolyn Maloney - Republicans "Cut and Run" from the Issues

 

June 29 Welcome to Somalia - Bin-Laden's Summer Place; Getting Heated About Global Warming; Quoting Rush - Needing Viagra on "An All Guy Trip"

June 28 What Could You Do With $6 Billion a Month?; '00 & '04 - Is It Too Late for '06? - Dems Better Get Ready for '08 Now; On Welfare Reform

June 27 Univision Vende - The Purchase of a Spanish Language Giant; Kean, Junior Can't help But Lie; Calling the Mew York Times - Ignoring Health Care

June 26 WHAT CONSTITUTES TERROR?; "Talking" Poverty; Health Care The Jim Hightower Way; MEDIA ASKED NOT TO CALL MIAMI TERROR SUSPECTS 'MUSLIMS'

June 25 Media Madman and Health Care - Still, The New York Times Pays No Attention to the Real health care Crisis; Killing Americans Isn't "OK"; A Medicare Part "D" Horror Story; The Cost of Health Care; I Got Your Privacy, Right Here; Terror, Terror, Terror; An Executive Summary of GW's Assault on The Constitution; A "Darth" Cheney Quote

June 22 Defining Our Nation's "Leaders"; Minimum Wage Meets Small Mindedness

June 21 The Margin of Error - Spinning Polls; Minimum Wage Increase is Dead Again; Bush-Speak - Is Austrailian a Different Language?; American Tabloids, George, Laura and Ann (Coulter); "Green Zone Bush"

June 20 Welkome to Amerika, Herr Citizen!; On Health Care - Needing a National Health Care System; BANG! BANG! (Knock, Knock, After the Fact); HOW MUCH LONGER?; Rocky Words from Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson; Stossel Vs. Sirota

June 19 The Four Justices of The Apocalypse & Medicare Part "D"; How to Divide and Conquer Using The Minimum Wage; Media Madman "Luffa-Boy" Speaks; More Media Madman - Hannity is Shaken

June 18 The Politics of Politics - No More Working for the American People; Presidential Stuff - GW's $120,000 Photo-Op to Iraq; Surge? What Surge?; The True Character of the GOP?; Murtha Vs. Rove - My Money's on the Vet; They Want to Forgive the Killing of Our American Troops; Are Religious Leaders Starting to Get It?; Freedom of Religion... Until Further Notice; Knock-Knock Big Brother is There; More About the Evil Empire (Medical-Industrial Complex)

June 15 "Mountain Thrust" or "Mount AND Thrust?"; Oops, Again - GW Insults a Blind Reporter; Outrage! US Troop Deaths Hit 2,500 and Tony Snow Says "What's in a Number?"; Ooh... Donut (Hole); "Goopers Should Put Up ot Shut Up

June 14 No Hope for "Zero Violence"; America's Growing Health Care Crisis - What the Mian Stream Media is Intentionally Missing; Reverse Robin Hood; Satan Barbie

June 13 The Aborted Fetus of a Real Health Care Dialogue - No Debate on Health Care; More Medicare Rip-Offs; Crowing Republicans; Media Madman - Jack Cafferty; A "Why Would They Need Amnesty" Thought - More Jack Cafferty

June 12 America: Dumbed Down; A Joke - Bush Belonging; Rep. Dreier - Some Questions for the California Republican; Taking a Beating and The Fed; Abramoff's Boy - David Safavian; Killing Zarqawi; SAME-SEX MARRIAGE THREATENS NO ONE

June 11 Education Ideas; More of those GOP Hypocrites; FRist and Insider Trading; RFK, Jr. Accuses the GOOPERS of Cheating In 2004; THE LAVENDER TUBE: 72 VERSIONS

June 8 Al-Zarqawi Killed; Senator Sam Brownback - A Gay Bashing Cheer Leader With a Message; A "Druggie Limbaugh" Quote; Help Take back Congress; A Lot of Responses

June 6 I Dare You - Passing Hate Legislation; The "Conservative" View of Gay Marriage; A Random Thought - Follow the Money

June 5 Home Schooling; High Health Care Costs; Another Appeal to Bigotry; Business Wire Stuff; DO WE NEED A NATIONAL LANGUAGE?

June 4 Weapons of Mass Distraction; Dad Had it Better; We Had it Better; The "Nothing-But-Spin Zone"; The Slowing Labor Market; A Small Town Revolt; The Corporatists' Real Plan; Democratic Canvassing: Confused - Defining Republicans; "GW" Twice as Bas as "Tricky-Dickie"

June 1 Punishing Blue - No Homeland Security Funds for New York or DC; About Jobs - The Reasons for the Tight Job Market; Tough Going for US Citizens Working in Mexico; Pledges Mean Nothing

 

May 31 A View from The Howard Beale Memorial Society; It Ain't Just for Fun - Sen. Sam Brownbach (R-KS) and the GOP do nothing for Health Care; Last Throes - An Anniversary; Sentencing Day; Sad Quote of the Day - The Haditha Massacre

May 30 A Bad Decision in the Lead - The "Four Justices of the Apocalypse", Plus One; A "Not-So-Uncommon" Problem with the US Health Care System; David Sirota is a Smart Guy; Bush, Blair and a Lack of Integrity