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11 October 2008
ACORN is not the nut here
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David Swanson
ACORN has been through some scandals of its own making, but it is currently all over the news because of a pair of absolutely fraudulent and nationally coordinated attacks.

One of these attacks involves accusations of voter...
08 October 2008
Finally, the story of the whistleblower who tried to prevent the Iraq War
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Norman Solomon
Of course Katharine Gun was free to have a conscience, as long as it didn’t interfere with her work at a British intelligence agency. To the authorities, practically speaking, a conscience was apt to be less tangible than a pixel on a...
08 October 2008
Warming to Palin
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David Swanson
It's the second week of October. When I was a kid it would sometimes snow and always be cold by now. I'm typing this on my laptop sitting outdoors in the warm sun with no sweater or jacket on the downtown mall, a pedestrian street in...
08 October 2008
Cindy, Charlotte, and our Constitution
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David Swanson
As you watch the presidential debates, here's a game to play that won't even get you drunk (unless you want to add tequila shots to it): every time you hear John McCain tell a lie write down $10 under the name Charlotte, and every time...
06 October 2008
Vote like Mike
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David Swanson
Michael Moore's new book is called "Mike's Election Guide 2008," and it's a nice combination of the comical and the useful. The comical comes first. Chapter One consists of Mike's answers to random election-related questions, and his...
06 October 2008
Because we fought for them my daughters have cast paper ballots
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Harvey Wasserman
My daughters and I have cast paper ballots in the opening days of the 2008 presidential election. It was their first time voting in a presidential election.

That they have only voted with an African-American atop the...

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