If you’ve actually been paying attention these last coupla years, you already know most of this stuff, but it’s nice to finally see it in a mainstream newspaper: So the Iraq hawks set out to corrupt the process of intelligence assessment. On one side, nobody was held accountable for the failure to predict or prevent [...]
Archive for July, 2003
Redner v Caton, this Friday!
July 15, 2003
From the Trib: Advocate, Foe Of Adult Clubs Will Face Off: From The Tampa Tribune T he Tiger Bay Club of Tampa will host two of the area’s most controversial people for lunch on Friday. Adult-business owner Joe Redner and antiporn activist David Caton will face each other and take questions from members of the [...]
I’m not surprised…
July 15, 2003
But the Tampa Tribune is surprised that various groups lied about the need for malpractice caps: employees with the state Department of Health and the Agency for Health Care Administration testified that the number of medical doctors practicing in Florida has increased during the past five years. They also said no emergency rooms or trauma [...]
Civil Liberties Watch
July 14, 2003
Today’s must read take on our declingin rights, by Elaine Cassel: For the French, the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 symbolizes liberty,democracy and the struggle against all forms of oppression. Day by day, Americans are becoming more enslaved to the Bush regime’s trampling of constitutional liberties. Ironically, the White House and Congressional [...]
ACLU report debunks Ashcroft PATRIOT lies
July 11, 2003
According to John Ashcroft, we are safer now than we were a coupla years ago, and we should continue to welcome governmental intrusion into our private lives. A report from the ACLU details some of the lies about the USA PATRIOT act that have been bounced around by the Justice Department lately. Elaine Cassel explains [...]
FL parental consent law struck down
July 11, 2003
The SP Times reports on a significant ruling by the State Supreme Court in which Florida’s parental notification law for abortions was struck down: The ruling will help girls in fractured families, said Gloria Feldt, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “It’s optimal when young women involve their parents in reproductive health decisions, [...]
Cycling “accident” story just doesn’t add up
July 9, 2003
Reading this story and others about the recent incident in St. Pete involving a large car and over 20 bicyclists, I get the feeling that maybe, just for a moment, this driver meant to plow into the cyclists, and that when he came to his senses and realized someone might really get hurt, it was [...]
Troxler on Jeb
July 9, 2003
Howard Troxler is writing about Jeb, but he could just as easily be speaking of any number of Republican leaders (especially W) who feel that any compromise is a loss. Does anyone else remember when compromise on all sides, a meeting in the middle, was considered essential for a democracy to function? You may not [...]
How to steal an election
July 9, 2003
Two well researched articles (Article 1 Article 2) published in New Zealand paint a frightening picture of what we might be facing in 2004: Imagine then if it were possible to somehow subvert the voting process itself in such a way that you could steal elections without anybody knowing. Imagine for example if you could: [...]
Open season on cyclists
July 7, 2003
It’s becoming more and more dangerous to simply bike around the Tampa area lately. Long known as one of the most dangerous places for pedestrians, the Bay Area has been very hard on bicyclists lately too. Yesterday , a car slammed into 20 cyclists in St. Pete.: Witnesses said the eastbound Continental veered toward the [...]