The Irony Of It All
A group of fundamentalist religious fanatics, representing millions of people of faith, have seized their country effectively holding its followers hostage. They are holed up in a sacred shrine, a...
View ArticleCRITICAL MASS PHOTO ALERT ...
I was struck by the photographs of the Critical Mass protest in NYC yesterday. These pictures made me smile and shed a tear as I looked at the faces of Americans who just want their voices to be...
View ArticleProtesting for American Lives
It's been such an incredibly emotional and inspiring day watching the hundreds of thousands of people protesting this regime. I've been going from site to site trying to understand how it all came to...
View ArticleBUSH -- WHO KNEW?
Tonight we will be told who George Walker Bush, Jr. really is ... through the mouths of babes we will be led down a garden path highlighting the extraordinary courage of the man who leads us all....
View ArticlePRISON ABUSE CONTINUES
If this administration doesn't understand the rights of detainees, suspected terrorists or prisoners of war then they must surely appreciate how this continued prison abuse affects our military troops...
View ArticleCLINTON'S and KERRY'S HEARTS ARE IN IT ...
Rest assured Bill Clinton will be a part of Kerry's campaign. He's already made it clear he will campaign with his whole heart to insure a victory for John Kerry. In Boston Clinton spoke eloquently...
View ArticleBUSH AVOIDS VIETNAM WHILE KERRY SERVES
The AP reports that documentation should have been done to explain Bush's gaps in his National Guard Service for our country during the Vietnam War. Not only are the records 'lost' it is reported they...
View ArticleRumsfeld's 7 Minute Gap
"When Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was told on the morning of September 11 that a second plane had hit the World Trade Center, he paused, than continued his morning briefing, according to the...
View ArticleIt's Our Party and We'll Cry If We Have To ... how the Democratic Party is...
There have been many discussions here on Kos in the past several weeks about a woman's right to choose and the role this issue should have within the Democratic Party. There have been many differing...
View ArticleDeath Be Not Proud ... Not Now, Not When It's Our Country
I've spent considerable time the past few days wondering about the fight we face and how it is different from battles and wars of the past. It still has that uncompromising agony to it, it still has...
View ArticleThe Death Penalty, Who Wins? Do you know someone who could be executed?
I watched `Dead Man Walking' last night. Whenever I see a movie or read an article about someone being executed my mind goes back to a time when something happened, something that no one ever imagines...
View ArticleBecause the Rightwing Can't Get Enough of Women
The FDA made an announcement today that emergency contraception will not be made available without a prescription. In it's relentless obsession with all things to do with women's reproductive health...
View ArticleHippies, Sex, Rock & Roll, Vietnam And The 60s, Ah Yes I Remember It Well
Crossposted at MyLeftWing and BoomanTribune I've spent considerable time the past few days wondering about the fight we face and how it is different from battles and wars of the past. It still has...
View ArticleA Tip of the Hat to What Once Was
It's been a long week for most of us. The Alito confirmation hearings were exhausting and telling. It says a lot that the spat between Specter and Kennedy, that the crying jag of Martha Alito, were...
View ArticleIn Kate Michelman's Words, Little More Than Perfunctory Debate
I've been sitting with my feelings, I've been stewing about Alito sitting on the Supreme Court, I've been trying mightily to come to a less than fiery condemnation of the Senate and how women were so...
View ArticleThe Scars That Keep On Giving and Taking, The Abortion Wars
I'm tired because I couldn't sleep last night. I kept waking up and staring at my scars which were barely visible in the light of the lamp on the nightstand next to my bed. I kept the light on...
View ArticleAbortion Wars, I Am Haunted By The Scars, They Remain The Same, The Terror...
There is out there ridiculous and dangerous information on abortion that threatens who women are in this country. It is said that women who have abortions sometimes suffer depression for the rest of...
View ArticlePoverty in America, The Invisible Women, Men and Children
Here are some cold, hard facts about poverty in this country. Did Katrina really change things, are we at a time in our history when we will change the way Americans look at the poor, will we do...
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A Mother's Day of Hope and Bittersweet Dreams
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. There are so many faces whose stories aren't being told by words alone to give them the chance of a better life. For all those who live within the confines...
View ArticleAn Unquiet Mind
I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by...
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