War-Loving Pundits

The third anniversary of the Iraq invasion is bound to attract a lot of media coverage, but scant recognition will go to the pundits who helped to make it all possible.

Same issues, different decade

We have to divorce ourselves from the George W. Bush method of making decisions without recognizing their consequences. In the past six years, we have seen war, deceit, and torture become a part of our national vernacular, all because our president believes that split-second decisions, that favor big business and the Republican Party, will not cause irrevocable long-term damage. But what we have lost is not only our integrity--America in the World is now an international joke--but also an entire way of life. Climate change is on our doorstep, and the best we can do is recognize that it's coming, since our government will do nothing to curtail pollution or to work actively to solve the problem. Turmoil in Iraq seems destined to continue until the end of the decade. And civil rights that Americans have spent an entire century trying to procure are being stripped to a bare bones minimum before our eyes.

US evangelicals warn Republicans

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said that apart from confirming two conservative judges to the Supreme Court, "core values voters" did not feel that Congress was advancing their interests.

Poll: Americans slightly favor plan to censure

Bush battered by US pessimism, leadership doubts


The Great Immigration Debate: Getting Beyond Denial

Without much public notice, for the first time in 20 years the U.S. Senate this month is finally debating legislation that could radically change the ways our country deals with immigrants and enforces the laws on the border for decades to come. It’s a moment that reform advocates—from big business to big labor, from church groups to civil liberties organizations—have long been been fighting for. The Senate leadership has given the Judiciary Committee until March 27 to present a bill to be voted on by the whole body. Once approved, that measure would be reconciled with the House measure passed last December and move to the president’s desk for his signature.

The War on Drugs has become the War on Immigrants.

Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:

I lift my lamp beside the golden door.


Norman Lear: 'Bring Them to Their Knees'


FYI

Not Just A Last Resort?

Calculating the Risk of War in Iran

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