Politics

Is John Zogby the most unbiased name in socio-political polling, or is he merely selling his services to promote his clients' agendas?

Within days of his Second Coming, Jesus Christ (aka Prince of Peace, Savior, The Lord) is facing charges in a number of jurisdictions across the country.

by Lewis H. Lapham, editor emeritus of Harpers Magazine, September 2004

The key challenge facing progressives right now is how -- once George W. Bush decamps for Crawford in January of 2009 -- to maintain the increased energy motivating the political left in recent years . They will be able to do so if they come to understand that George W. Bush is not what they need to fight. What they need to fight is conservatism.

From star foot soldier for the religious right to GOP lobbyist with questionable ties to Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed is finally losing his Teflon luster

Charlotte Aldebron, 12, wrote this essay for a competition in her 6th grade English class. She attends Cunningham Middle School in Presque Isle, Maine.

Superman's dad predicted Krypton catastrophe, just like Al Gore's global-warming warning, says the superhero's former writer.

By Elliot S. Maggin, Los Angeles Times, June 4, 2006

No longer content with their efforts at restricting and eliminating abortion, religious conservatives turn their sights to restricting and eliminating contraception.

On April 29, 2006, Comedy Central’s faux talk show host Stephen Colbert gave a scathing satirical "tribute" to President George W. Bush at the White House Correspondent Dinner.

Needless to say, President and Mrs. Bush were not amused. Read on and learn why...

The following is the prepared text of the speech Bill Moyers gave June 3, 2005 at the Take Back America conference in Washington, D.C.

Three years ago, I was a Marine Corps captain on the Iraqi/Kuwaiti border, participating in the invasion of Iraq. Awestruck, I heard our howitzers thunder and watched artillery rockets rise into the night sky and streak toward Iraq -- their light bathing the desert moonscape like giant arc welders.

When the Anti-Choice Choose

By Joyce Arthur, Copyright September 2000

Abortion is a highly personal decision that many women are sure they'll never have to think about until they're suddenly faced with an unexpected pregnancy. But this can happen to anyone, including women who are strongly anti-choice. So what does an anti-choice woman do when she experiences an unwanted pregnancy herself? Often, she will grin and bear it, so to speak, but frequently, she opts for the solution she would deny to other women -- abortion.

When even the privacy commissioner's cellphone records are available online, we've all got security problems.

JONATHON GATEHOUSE
Originally by Macleans

By E.L. Doctorow

September 9, 2004

I fault this president for not knowing what death is. He does not suffer the death of our 21-year-olds who wanted to be what they could be. On the eve of D-Day in 1944 General Eisenhower prayed to God for the lives of the young soldiers he knew were going to die. He knew what death was. Even in a justifiable war, a war not of choice but of necessity, a war of survival, the cost was almost more than Eisenhower could bear.

Feeling the hate with the National Religious Broadcasters

(Includes The 8 Traits of A Disinformationalist)

by H. Michael Sweeney

Built upon Thirteen Techniques for Truth Suppression by David Martin, the following may be useful to the initiate in the world of dealing with veiled and half-truth, lies, and suppression of truth when serious crimes are studied in public forums.

Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks' nightmare scenario -- it's their plan.

Senator, would your probe of video games also take a look at the substantial benefits they can provide?

The more you look the more disbarred and 'disappeared' Gore voters you find. You'd almost think it was deliberate.

The basic philosophy central to most anarchist movements is simply that you don't have to fuck each other over to survive, that cooperation and mutual aid is in everyone's self interest, and that a lifestyle which incorporates these philosophies is both practical and desirable.