Veterans for peace call for Congressional action to impeach George W. Bush and Richard Cheney

St. Louis – A national veterans’ organization today called for the removal of President Bush and Vice-President Cheney for crimes committed during the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

In a letter sent to each member of the U.S. House and Senate, Veterans For Peace (VFP) stated that “...This administration’s war on Iraq, in addition to being increasingly unpopular among Americans, is an unmistakable violation of our Constitution and federal law which you have sworn to uphold.  In our system, the remedy for such high crimes is clear: this administration must be impeached.” 

  To read the letter to Congress, and the U.S. and international laws the administration has violated, please follow this link: http://www.veteransforpeace.org/impeachment/impeachment.htm.  

Scientific Analysis Suggests Presidential Vote Counts May Have Been Altered

Study Will Be Released Tomorrow March 31st
Group of University Professors Urges Investigation of 2004 Election

Officially, President Bush won November's election by 2.5%, yet exit polls showed Kerry winning by 3%[1] <#_ftn1>. According to a report to be released March 31^st by a group of university statisticians, the odds of a discrepancy this large between the national exit poll and election results happening by accident are close to 1 in a million.

In other words, by random chance alone, it could not have happened. But it did.

Two alternatives remain. Either something was wrong with the exit polling, or something was wrong with the vote count.

Exit polls have a long history of exceptional accuracy in past decades in the US, in the Ukraine, in Latin America, in Germany, and elsewhere. Yet in November 2004, the discrepancy was more than five times this (and similar to that of the invalid Ukraine election.[2] <#_ftn2>)

From the black perspective

On Monday, March 21,2005 at the State House, the House Administration Committee, chaired by Republican Representative Bob Ney, held a hearing on what went wrong in the November 2, 2004 election in Ohio. ONN TV aired Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell’s testimony. His performance was hostile and embarrassing as he clashed repeatedly with Democratic Representatives Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio and Rep. Juanita Millender-Donaldson of California. For those of us interested in the truth, Mr. Blackwell’s behavior was outrageous and arrogant. This has been a pattern in the past, for instance, when he appeared on the Lou Dobbs television show, but his latest actions have placed him in the Name That Fool category. Being Black Activists, we are ashamed and disappointed by Blackwell’s conduct. Has Mr. Blackwell forgotten that he is an elected official? It is his duty and responsibility to answer any questions we have regarding the procedure of the election and the outcome of such.

Trading student sit-ins for student blog-ins!

Progressives and Blacks are missing the use of the foundational tool that made the success of the Civil Rights Movement of The late Dr. Martin Luther King!  The Traditional Media made the success of this movement. However, the fact that The Military and The Present Administration have commandeered the media and made it the Propaganda arm for a yet unofficionally declared war Blogs are the information vehicle.

Yes, the www has become just as powerful as the Traditional Media and it is free and available to any citizen possessing a Personal Computer. Yes, instead of having Sit-ins in the present day Civil Rights and Civil Liberties fight Americas have the “Blog-in” as its publicity tool.

For Blacks this places the burden on them for writing, a skill Blacks practice all too seldom. But Blacks must start now to Blog with great frequency. The FAMU School of Journalism should start these “Blog-ins” that can make the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties movement live!!

Truly crazy: the Cheney energy policy

AUSTIN, Texas -- As a general rule about Bush & Co., the more closely a policy is associated with Dick Cheney, the worse it is. Which brings us to energy policy -- remember his secret task force? In the long history of monumentally bad ideas, the Cheney policy is a standout for reasons of both omission and commission. Dumb, dumber and dumbest.

Ponder this: Next year, the administration will phase out the $2,000 tax credit for buying a hybrid vehicle, which gets over 50 miles per gallon, but will leave in place the $25,000 tax write-off for a Hummer, which gets 10-12 mpg. That's truly crazy, and that's truly what the whole Cheney energy policy is.

According to the Energy Information Administration in the Department of Energy, last year's energy bill (same as this one) would cost taxpayers at least $31 billion, do nothing about the projected over-80 percent increase in America's imports of foreign oil by 2025 and increase gasoline prices. (Since every bureaucrat who tells the truth in this administration -- about the cost of the drug bill or the safety of Vioxx -- seems to get the ax, I'm probably getting those folks in trouble.)

Delay-ing Death

Zealot and Proud of It

Recently, someone using the alias of "Pickle" posted an anonymous opinion on my blog, Thomas Paine's Corner, at http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/.     In response to my essay entitled Cauldron of Bigotry, in which I attacked the Christian conservatives and Evangelicals for their continued campaign of hatred and bigotry against gays, "Pickle" wrote:

  "I don't see how you're going to get anywhere, saying things in the way you've said them. You've accused others of being bigots, but you come across as being more of a bigot than many of your opponents."

  "Pickle", thank you for your commentary.   My blog is about the advancement of civil liberties and intellectual freedom, and I welcome virtually all opinions.     After pondering "Pickles"'s assertion briefly,  I decided to look up the definition of bigot.    Here is what I found at http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/b/b0242400.html:  

"One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ."

The Nuclear Option and A Dictatorship Proposition

Radicals in Congress want absolute power in the Senate to appoint justices that will favor corporate interests over the public good and eliminate American values like determining our future through compromise and negotiation.

To get absolute control and power, these radicals plan to use a parliamentary trick they call the "nuclear option" to overturn 200 years of bipartisan checks and balances that have kept the courts fair for centuries and democracy working by allowing the minority to influence the majority in power. Using the nuclear option is nothing less than instituting a dictatorship while eliminating democracy.

Last term Senate Democrats confirmed almost 95% of President Bush's judicial nominees. Eliminating the filibuster is not about overcoming "obstructionism", it’s about the desire for complete one-party control over all three branches of government. It eliminates all negotiation about any issue, including the budget, war, jobs, healthcare, etc. It gives corporations absolute control of all three branches of government.

Bush Lost Ohio?

The "Bush Doctrine" is working! Even the French and Germans admit that. You losers need to get a life.

By the way, have you noticed, African Americans and Hispanics are leaving the Democratic party in droves.

Little Reporting on Paranoia in High Places

Journalists often refer to the Bush administration’s foreign policy as “unilateral” and “preemptive.” Liberal pundits like to complain that a “go-it-alone” approach has isolated the United States from former allies. But the standard American media lexicon has steered clear of a word that would be an apt description of the Bush world view.

Paranoid.

Early symptoms met with tremendous media applause in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Skepticism from reporters and dissent from pundits were sparse while President Bush quickly declared that governments were either on the side of the USA or “the terrorists.” Since then, the paranoiac scope of the administration’s articulated outlook has broadened while media acceptance has normalized it -- to the point that a remarkable new document from the Pentagon is raising few media eyebrows.

Released on March 18 with a definitive title -- “The National Defense Strategy of the United States of America” -- the document spells out how the Bush administration sees the world. Consider this key statement: “Our strength as a nation state will continue to be challenged by those who

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