About time someone spoke up about the growing crazy circus. Best thought: Imagine a few years ago someone comparing healthcare reform to 9-11 or walking around with images of Hitler? Hopefully we can get back to a discussion of issues of importance in this country where we are not personally disagreeable and references to these issues are not used by anyone. Read Full Story
by Charley James
We’ll take as a given that Glenn Beck is crazy, in the same league as Michele Bachman and people who show up at police stations wearing aluminium foil hats demanding the cops make Martians stop beaming radio signals into their head.
Who besides Beck would invite PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk on television to join him in criticising Nobel Prize winning former Vice President Al Gore for only cutting back on the amount of meat he eats, not eliminating it from his diet entirely, and then... Read Full Story
By Denis Campbell
Watching ’08 Obama campaign strategist David Plouffe on The Daily Show, he said “the president is a chess master in a town full of checkers players.” When host Jon Stewart pressed him further asking if he knows how to move reform in a more active way? Plouffe responded quietly, “he knows when to turn the light sabre on.”
Saturday night the light sabre was on as his healthcare reform bill passed the 1st major hurdle and got further than any healthcare reform bill of its kind ... Read Full Story
by The Rev. Dr. Britt Minshall
Sitting in my chair at the Baltimore City Courthouse Jury Room I can see out the open door to the central hall leading to the battery of Court Rooms. From this vantage point I am able to watch everyone as they come and go.
There are a large number of confused looking young people mingling in the hall as if lost. They are dressed as teens dress, their purpose is to be supportive to their friends who will soon be led down this hall in cuffs and shackles. As the... Read Full Story
by Charley James
Six months ago, in a long-forgotten article, I quoted a Cleveland physician complaining that health care reform will cut his income so sharply he will be forced to curb his lush standard of living.
… a physician acquaintance in Ohio who is a highly regarded specialist with a seven figure income … complains to me that any of the current health reform proposals will cut his income in half, at least, as if his life would disintegrate if he had to live on only five or six hundred... Read Full Story
The Daily Kos US veteran Markos Moulitsas calls out GOP apologist former Representative Republican Tom Tancredo (and Presidential ‘wannabe’) for his depression deferment in Vietnam and slam of the VA, government healthcare that saved the lives of several tea party protesters, cue irony machine. Must See TV. Read Full Story
Repub Mainstream Ceases to Exist. This film makes the UK BNP look almost sane. Watch if you can this incredible display of lawless wing-nuttery. Michele Bachmann. Man Tan Minority Leader Boehner and Minority Whip Eric Cantor join in the insanity of Foxx, Gohmert, Wilson, Diaz-Balart and crew. Speechless. Read Full Story
By Denis Campbell
International Business Wales (IBW), subject of a Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) expenses inquiry initiated this past summer by the Welsh Lib Dems, last month released an annual report showing Wales ranked near the bottom of the table of UK business development regions. IBW will conduct three trade missions to the United Arab Emirates nation of Dubai. The first of these trips falls on the heels of current weeklong each trade missions to China and India.
On the surface, one c... Read Full Story
Rev. Irene Monroe
Rev. Bernice King has been bestowed the honor to be the eighth president and first women to head the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
Co-founded by her father, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Rev. Bernice King may be a legacy pick for SCLC, but unfortunately she will not be carrying on his legacy.
As a matter-of-fact, given the homophobic vitriol Rev. Bernice King has spewed out over the years the LGBTQ community is bracing to see what next she’ll say a... Read Full Story
