Most of you already know that the US Army had its recruiters take a day off recently to think about right and wrong. Faced with declining wartime enlistment numbers and charges of inappropriate or abusive recruitment practices, in an unusual move, the U.S. Army suspended its recruiting activities Friday (May 20) for one day. The [...]
Archive for May, 2005
Sign the petition
May 22, 2005
From a moveonpac email: This is it — they’ve pulled the trigger. On Tuesday May 24th, the Senate will vote on a motion to end debate on judicial nominations, and when that motion fails Senator Bill Frist will launch the “nuclear option” — an unprecedented parliamentary maneuver to break the rules of the Senate and [...]
A reminder
May 22, 2005
Steve Soto Look, the comments by John Cornyn today tell you what the nuclear option is all about. Cornyn trashed the efforts of Senate moderates of even his own party to fashion a deal to stave off a vote to eliminate judicial filibusters. But at least he’s honest about what he, Mullah Frist, George W. [...]
No Compromise
May 20, 2005
Steve Gilliard I don’t mind politicians looking to cut a deal, well, because that’s their job. But when I read the missives of Amy Sullivan and Kevin Drum, they say nice, moderate things about insane, immoderate people. They say they’re Democrats, they say they endorse the party, but then they want to talk to people [...]
American Taliban wants it all
May 20, 2005
Catherine Crier has a show on Court TV. She recently spoke with Pat Buchanan about the nuclear option. Crier: “The Republicans, the conservatives, have dominated the courts now for thirty years in this country, and certainly the Supreme Court, so we know we have Conservatives—but that doesn’t seem to be enough.” Buchanan: “No, that is [...]
Seeking spine
May 20, 2005
Stan Goff writes a letter to Democrat politicians. George Galloway did that for which you have proven incapable; he spoke as an opposition. Since there seems to be a great dark space in the middle of your heads where the notion of opposition should be a void filled by parliamentary molasses and the pusillanimous [...]
FL GOP joins rush to silence independent voices
May 20, 2005
Citizens beware: it doesn’t matter if you’re right – if you fail to toe the line, you’re wrong . Lawmakers quietly eliminated a state office that was meant to review Florida education programs because the office was too often critical of state policy, critics of the move say. Gov. Jeb Bush pushed for the elimination [...]
Flock afflicted by ComAS
May 18, 2005
These people have entirely too much time on their hands. Hundreds of sheep flocked to a Brandon church yesterday to protest, uh, something. See, they’re not really sure what, if anything, might develop that could possibly offend them, but they are bound and determined to put a stop to whatever it is or soon may [...]
Beaten child wins right to beg at Leg’s door
May 18, 2005
Marissa Amora might have her medical expenses covered by the state, but the stingy GOP led Legislature will have to give its stamp of approval first. A jury just decided that Florida’s Department of Children and Families was 75 percent responsible for allowing the near-fatal beating that put Marissa in the hospital at the age [...]