Month: July 2006

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On June 22 the U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution to consider a bill to permanently eliminate the Estate Tax (skillfully spun by the Republican neo-cons as “death tax”).If Congress approves this bill...

I don’t think I can put it any better than mcjoan just did. You should definitely go read her take on the Hamdan decision, and the likely fallout from it in Congress, and in the midterms. I want to take a slightly...

My right-wing brother accused me of “tottering on the edge of fascism” recently when I listed “disseminating covert propaganda disguised as news broadcasts” among the many illegal things BushCo should be...

Why doesn’t it surprise me to learn that Donald Rumsfeld summers in an estate called Mount Misery and that it is the same estate where Frederick Douglass was beaten, before escaping? The houses have names. Mr....