CNN reports that a recently conducted poll has found that support for the war in Iraq is at an all time low: n the latest CNN-Opinion Research Corporation poll released Tuesday, 69 percent of those polled believe things are going badly in Iraq. Seventeen percent think the situation is improving. Thirty percent of Americans polled say they favor the war, the lowest level of support on record. Two-thirds are opposed. But there is more – not only are Americans...
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Free Speech (For The Wealthy & Powerful)
Yesterday’s troika of SCOTUS rulings (as Hart wrote about below), mostly centering on issues of speech and the first amendment, seem to have come down mainly in favor of speech by the wealthy. In other words, if you’re “average”, poor or disenfranchised, your speech doesn’t count (once again, Jeannie Shawl at Jurist has a great roundup). The major ruling, of course, involved campaign finance. Breaking 5-4, the “gang of five” conservative majority in FEC v. Wisconsin Right To Life...
Cut and Run … Now!
I left this comment at “The Moderate Voice” on a post about how us awful lefties were SO convinced that this war was awful that we weren’t looking for “victory” anymore. But it stands on its own, and, frankly, I doubt that it will be much read in its context over there. June 26, 2007 at 3:50 am: In Vietnam, we knew that the war was hopeless in 1968. But we hung on for five more years, and two...
Today Is The Day of Silence
You probably hadn’t heard about it, right? After all, we KNOW what matters, right? Results 1 – 30 of about 766 related articles. Search took 0.00 seconds. Google News Paris Hilton Released From Jail Released from Jail? By contrast, THIS story warranted a mere 30 stories: Tiny Web radio stations squawk over royalty fees Internet radio DJs are replacing their eclectic playlists with a “Day of Silence” today, a protest against new royalty...
Who is Running the Show?
I grew concerned when I found out that Dick Cheney was no longer part of the Executive Branch of this government. There was a void at the top that needed to be filled. Dick was the brains of this Presidency and he was no longer part of this Executive Department. But today, I learned that the President was also not part of the Executive Division of Government. As reported: “An executive order that Bush issued in March 2003 —...
Tomorrow’s News Today
The following little news item from England tomorrow caught my interest: Romney finds funds to set the pace Tim Reid in Washington From The Times (of London) June 26, 2007 Being a Mormon from Democrat-leaning Massachusetts would normally be a handicap for a Republican with presidential ambitions, yet Mitt Romney has broken through as a serious contender for his party’s nomination with another massive fundraising haul. The former Massachusetts Governor, who outstripped his rivals unexpectedly in the first-quarter fundraising...
What A Difference Six Months Makes
I found this, looking for something else. It explains itself fine. 20 December 2006 THE DOG AND PONY SHOW from (boregasm) It isn’t even Christmas. The last wood and cardboard lawn signs haven’t yet been fed into cabin stoves. The last of the wood pellets haven’t been laid up for winter, although there seems to be a major blizzard underway in the Rockies. The last of the nativity scenes have pretty much all gone up, or been taken down,...
John Kerry or Ed O’Reilly — John Kerry Has My Vote
Dave Johnson of Seeing the Forest is cross-posting madly all over the web, ostensibly soliciting bloggers’ opinions of John Kerry. Why? Who is behind this? The phrasing of the question strikes me as disingenuous in the extreme. Kerry’s declared primary opponent Ed O’Reilly’s website shows him to be thin on resume, thin on ideas, and thin on qualifications. What is he offering the people of Massachusetts in exchange for Kerry’s high profile on progressive causes, not to mention his...
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