The Sloganeer

Great piece from Glenn Greenwald about the decline…gravel roads and closing libraries……

Al got some chin music from the Powers that Be when he was investigated for sexual assault after getting a tug and rub at some massage joint in Oregon (Tipper didn’t go for the NWA stuff)….they’re just letting him know Who is in charge and don’t be bringing up any Social Security Lockbox Stuff, now [...]

From the Book The Price of Loyalty: George W Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill:
‘In his own account, Mr O’Neill discovers the hard line on tax cuts is coming from Mr Cheney. Not knowing he was in his last weeks as Treasury secretary, he went to see the [...]

Fuck Blanche Lincoln. The fix was in for her in Arkansas as the Corporatists couldn’t let one of their own go down to defeat. As much as I hoped Halter would win, I can’t say I’m surprised he didn’t.
I was surprised, however, to hear that Alvin Greene, a black unemployed veteran from South Carolina, won [...]

I can’t believe this fucking story. There’s money for banks and Wall Street crooks and money for the mercenary armies of Blackwater, but this courageous dude is shit out of luck. Wounded by a sniper in the shithole that is Iraq, this Vet is being treated like a dog:
“Last June, the Army sent Pfleider a [...]

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”….so wrote Charles Dickens in his epic A Tale of Two Cities.
The BP oil disaster in the Gulf may well prove to be Obama’s Katrina. For just as Hurricane Katrina exposed the Bushco crime syndicate as the callous Family it is, the BP Spill [...]