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Senator Mitch McConnell (R KY) has offered an amendment to the immigration bill pending in the Senate that would require every voter in the 2008 election to provide government-issued, current and valid photo identification before being allowed to vote at a polling place. This amendment would disenfranchise large numbers of legal voters and create administrative problems at the polls in the next federal election. Please contact your Senators immediately and urge them to oppose the McConnell Amendment to require photo ID for the 2008 election.
Senator Mitch McConnell (R KY) has offered an amendment to the immigration bill pending in the Senate that would require every voter in the 2008 election to provide government-issued, current and valid photo identification before being allowed to vote at a polling place. This amendment would disenfranchise large numbers of legal voters and create administrative problems at the polls in the next federal election. Please contact your Senators immediately and urge them to oppose the McConnell Amendment to require photo ID for the 2008 election.
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.
President, International Association of Educators for World Peace
NGO, Dedicated to United Nations Goals of Peace Education,
Environmental Protection, Human Rights & Disarmament
Professor Emeritus, Alabama A&M University
One of the main differences between humans and animals lies here. Humans are imbued with both intelligence and instinct, while animals are adorned merely with refined instincts. In fact, if we were to study the life of humans over the centuries and the millennia we notice that humans kept on progressing steadfastly from time to time. This was due to their unique intelligence, which enables them to progress indefinitely.
Enriched Human Intelligence
Until a few centuries ago, humans travelled either on foot, on horseback or on carts driven by horses, donkeys or other types of animals. Today, we may travel not only by trains and busses but also by private cars and airplanes. On the other hand, a study of the lives of various animals shows that animals do not tend to progress. For example, the monkeys of today behave same identical way as the monkeys of hundreds and even thousands of years ago.
NGO, Dedicated to United Nations Goals of Peace Education,
Environmental Protection, Human Rights & Disarmament
Professor Emeritus, Alabama A&M University
One of the main differences between humans and animals lies here. Humans are imbued with both intelligence and instinct, while animals are adorned merely with refined instincts. In fact, if we were to study the life of humans over the centuries and the millennia we notice that humans kept on progressing steadfastly from time to time. This was due to their unique intelligence, which enables them to progress indefinitely.
Enriched Human Intelligence
Until a few centuries ago, humans travelled either on foot, on horseback or on carts driven by horses, donkeys or other types of animals. Today, we may travel not only by trains and busses but also by private cars and airplanes. On the other hand, a study of the lives of various animals shows that animals do not tend to progress. For example, the monkeys of today behave same identical way as the monkeys of hundreds and even thousands of years ago.
beneath the olive branch,
on the entrance of his
lone star ranch...
she stands.
Her face coverd by tears,
Tears for lost blood which now
covers his hands,
and pants.
All the while the olive branch
chants what the rancher cannot do.
All together now,
"Bring our boys home!"
...sorry.
on the entrance of his
lone star ranch...
she stands.
Her face coverd by tears,
Tears for lost blood which now
covers his hands,
and pants.
All the while the olive branch
chants what the rancher cannot do.
All together now,
"Bring our boys home!"
...sorry.
Tim Griffin, formerly right hand man to Karl Rove, resigned Thursday as US Attorney for Arkansas hours after BBC Television ‘Newsnight’ reported that Congressman John Conyers requested the network’s evidence on Griffin’s involvement in ‘caging voters.’ Greg Palast, reporting for BBC Newsnight, obtained a series of confidential emails from the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign. In these emails, Griffin, then the GOP Deputy Communications Director, transmitted so-called ‘caging lists’ of voters to state party leaders.
Experts have concluded the caging lists were designed for a mass challenge of voters’ right to cast ballots. The caging lists were heavily weighted with minority voters including homeless individuals, students and soldiers sent overseas.
Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee investigating the firing of US Attorneys, met Thursday evening in New York with Palast. After reviewing key documents, Conyers stated that, despite Griffin’s resignation, “We’re not through with him by any means.”
Experts have concluded the caging lists were designed for a mass challenge of voters’ right to cast ballots. The caging lists were heavily weighted with minority voters including homeless individuals, students and soldiers sent overseas.
Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee investigating the firing of US Attorneys, met Thursday evening in New York with Palast. After reviewing key documents, Conyers stated that, despite Griffin’s resignation, “We’re not through with him by any means.”
Put together Murdoch's Fox News, a mid-May debate between Republican presidential candidates and the state of South Carolina, and you have a hotbed of stupidity. But to the fury of the Republican organizers, there was an intrusion of rational thought in the person of Ron Paul, a U.S. congressman from Texas, classed as a rank outsider in the nomination race.
Texas used to send true individualists to Washington, D.C. One of the brightest moments of my early years, visiting the nation's capital, was watching Rep. Wright Patman, head of the House Banking Committee, tell the red-faced chairman of the Federal Reserve he deserved to be locked up in the penitentiary.
Texas used to send true individualists to Washington, D.C. One of the brightest moments of my early years, visiting the nation's capital, was watching Rep. Wright Patman, head of the House Banking Committee, tell the red-faced chairman of the Federal Reserve he deserved to be locked up in the penitentiary.
Dedicated to Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut Democrat turned independent, who received a Bronx cheer from some of our troops during his recent visit to Iraq.
"The Ballad of 'Baghdad Joe'"
(To the tune of "Mrs. Robinson," with apologies to Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel)
And here's to you, Joseph Lieberman
Dubya loves you more than you will know.
God bless you, please, Mr. Lieberman
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
Every Memorial Day
Hey, hey, hey
We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files
We'd like to help you learn to help our troops
Only in Connecticut you find sympathetic eyes
Stay inside the Green Zone until you feel at home
And here's to you, Joseph Lieberman
Cheney loves you more than you will know.
God bless you, please, Mr. Lieberman
Liberals have a place for Dems who stray
It's not the Al Gore way
Hey, hey, hey
Hide in the hiding place where no one ever goes
Put it in your pocket with your conscience
Keeping NSA secrets not just a Lieberman affair
Most of all you've got to hide it from the press
What would you do, Joseph Lieberman
(To the tune of "Mrs. Robinson," with apologies to Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel)
And here's to you, Joseph Lieberman
Dubya loves you more than you will know.
God bless you, please, Mr. Lieberman
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
Every Memorial Day
Hey, hey, hey
We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files
We'd like to help you learn to help our troops
Only in Connecticut you find sympathetic eyes
Stay inside the Green Zone until you feel at home
And here's to you, Joseph Lieberman
Cheney loves you more than you will know.
God bless you, please, Mr. Lieberman
Liberals have a place for Dems who stray
It's not the Al Gore way
Hey, hey, hey
Hide in the hiding place where no one ever goes
Put it in your pocket with your conscience
Keeping NSA secrets not just a Lieberman affair
Most of all you've got to hide it from the press
What would you do, Joseph Lieberman
Home Front: The Government’s War on Soldiers
By Rick Anderson
(Clarity Press)
ISBN: 0-932863-41-8
Rick Anderson, a reporter for Seattle Weekly, opens his book, Home Front: The Government’s War on Soldiers, by referring to then US Secretary of Defense [sic] Donald Rumsfeld’s jaw-dropping rant about Vietnam draftees “adding no value, no advantage” to the US forces. This rant belongs with the government sentiment expressed toward soldiers previously by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who considered them to be “dumb, stupid animals,” mere pawns to achieve oligarchic aims abroad.
Why would anyone expect a regime that shows no care or compassion for the lives of others to show compassion for its soldiers? President George W. Bush does not even deign to pay last respects for fallen US soldiers. Bush’s administration even charged combat troops in Afghanistan for their meals while hospitalized. But Bush had made clear who his constituency was: the haves.
By Rick Anderson
(Clarity Press)
ISBN: 0-932863-41-8
Rick Anderson, a reporter for Seattle Weekly, opens his book, Home Front: The Government’s War on Soldiers, by referring to then US Secretary of Defense [sic] Donald Rumsfeld’s jaw-dropping rant about Vietnam draftees “adding no value, no advantage” to the US forces. This rant belongs with the government sentiment expressed toward soldiers previously by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who considered them to be “dumb, stupid animals,” mere pawns to achieve oligarchic aims abroad.
Why would anyone expect a regime that shows no care or compassion for the lives of others to show compassion for its soldiers? President George W. Bush does not even deign to pay last respects for fallen US soldiers. Bush’s administration even charged combat troops in Afghanistan for their meals while hospitalized. But Bush had made clear who his constituency was: the haves.
For most Americans, who now wish we had never invaded Iraq, the notion of expanding that extraordinarily lethal mistake into neighboring Iran and Syria must seem insane. Yet those same brilliant neoconservative strategists who brought us the war in Iraq and constantly urge its escalation exist in their own special reality. They speak of military hostilities against Iran and Syria with anticipation rather than apprehension.
As we should have learned over the past four years, their dreams often turn out to be our nightmares.
For four brief hours on Memorial Day, however, the neoconservative drive toward a wider conflagration in the Middle East stalled, when ambassadors from the United States and Iran met in Baghdad.
As we should have learned over the past four years, their dreams often turn out to be our nightmares.
For four brief hours on Memorial Day, however, the neoconservative drive toward a wider conflagration in the Middle East stalled, when ambassadors from the United States and Iran met in Baghdad.
The federal reservation near Piketon, Ohio, has been proposed as a storage site for high-level nuclear waste, imported from other counties, other states, and other countries. These plans were developed in secret without public disclosure and with fraudulent claims of community support. The Southern Ohio Neighbors Group (SONG) is fighting against these efforts. ProgressOhio and the Southern Ohio Neighbors Group will deliver your signature to the Office of Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. Let’s tell the government we don’t want nuclear waste in our backyard! The filing deadline is June 4 so please ACT NOW and save Southern Ohio!
Please click here petitionto see the proposed dump site and to sign a petition opposing the importation of nuclear and radioactive waste in Ohio.
Please click here petitionto see the proposed dump site and to sign a petition opposing the importation of nuclear and radioactive waste in Ohio.
To the editor:
If democracy rests on the art of compromise, the recent public quarrel over immigration may be telling us that we have more than an immigration problem. It may be telling us that we have a democracy problem; that we can't govern ourselves.
I once heard John Danforth, the Republican former senator from Missouri and an ordained Christian minister, point out that there is an inherent tension between democracy's requirement for compromise and religion's requirement for uncompromising adherence to one or another set of principles. If we aren’t careful about how we go about practicing religion, we may be going about being anti-democratic. If I assert, "I'm right, and you're wrong--end of discussion", wouldn't Danforth say I was obstructing democracy?
On Memorial Day, we pause to remember those who have given “their last full measure” to keep this democracy alive. We owe it to them to cultivate real public discourse to replace public quarrels like we’ve seen over immigration. And we better start cultivating soon--even if it hurts or inconveniences--before we let personal principle ruin what they died to preserve for us.
If democracy rests on the art of compromise, the recent public quarrel over immigration may be telling us that we have more than an immigration problem. It may be telling us that we have a democracy problem; that we can't govern ourselves.
I once heard John Danforth, the Republican former senator from Missouri and an ordained Christian minister, point out that there is an inherent tension between democracy's requirement for compromise and religion's requirement for uncompromising adherence to one or another set of principles. If we aren’t careful about how we go about practicing religion, we may be going about being anti-democratic. If I assert, "I'm right, and you're wrong--end of discussion", wouldn't Danforth say I was obstructing democracy?
On Memorial Day, we pause to remember those who have given “their last full measure” to keep this democracy alive. We owe it to them to cultivate real public discourse to replace public quarrels like we’ve seen over immigration. And we better start cultivating soon--even if it hurts or inconveniences--before we let personal principle ruin what they died to preserve for us.