Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

Not only is the Sunlight Foundation a great site for some heavy reading into who’s bringing home YOUR bacon in the form of federal earmarks, but it’s also got some of the most incredible tools (with more to come) for the citizen journalist who wishes to expose the underbelly of pork in political places.
Currently the […]

The House just approved the warrantless wiretapping law (H.R. 5825) King Bush needed to start the ball rolling toward his pardon for his illegal and unconstitututional wiretapping activities. This is a major crap on the Laws of our Land, and political grandstanding by the currently Republican controlled house, who are calling it a test before […]

What’s wrong with this picture? First of all, this is the most unreported story ever. The fact that the FCC destroyed documents which would dispute the liberalization of rules governing Big Media Mergers is not being reported by most of those Big Media Companies. Okay, no real surprise there, they stand to make a bunch […]

General Batiste And I See Eye To Eye On Iraq.
It’s one of the few “reasonable” posts/articles I’ve read lately about the further “life and times” of this particular unpopular war. I’m not now nor have I ever been in favor of our current involvement in Iraq (well, I WOULD have been had we done […]

I’m a Coldwater Creek clothing junkie. And I adore their catalogs, though I really only shop online - just getting their catalogs (mostly the late summer through winter ones - I only like fall and winter clothes and seasons) is enough to let me sit happily doing something besides designing websites for an hour […]

Not only was the budget slashed to the point where the EPA libraries couldn’t remain open in 2007, the agency actually started shutting them down before the budget went into effect, despite the “Demand to Bargainâ€? on the issue by EPA scientists represented by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest federal employee […]

Drum roll please . . . . . and, according to the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the 20 MOST corrupt members of Congress (and 5 honorable mentions) are:
* Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT)
* Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN)
* Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)
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Gil Cranberg rightly “Asks This” on the Nieman Foundation Watchdog site.
I’ve been regularly frothing at the mouth within my own small circle - only to have “them” say things such as “oh, you’re just a bleeding heart liberal” and so on (excuse me - that would be bj, not I!) BTW, keep in mind I […]

When US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor pronounced in Detroit, “It was never the intent of the framers to give the president such unfettered control, particularly where his actions blatantly disregard the parameters clearly enumerated in the Bill of Rights.” in the decision condemning the AT&T wiretaps she made it crystal clear that this was […]

If you search on any of the search engines for the terms “FCC documents Boxer” you’ll get an eyeful on the scandal rocking the FCC re documents that were suppressed that showed that Big Media Mergers were bad for consumers, bad for local news, and not in anyone’s interest but the media owners and those […]