Author: Tom Kertes

The following passage by Fred Hiatt the Washington Post got a strong response from Daily Kos’s frontpage blogger Armando: . . . Congress . . . pours most of its Iraq-related energy into allegations of manipulated...

Time Magazine reports on CIA coverup of torture in Iraq: CIA interrogators apparently tried to cover up the death of an Iraqi ‘ghost detainee’ who died while being interrogated at Abu Ghraib prison, Time magazine...

WP is not the only chemical weapon used by US forces in Iraq.  A new kind of napalm has been confirmed used, which the US claims is “better for the environment.”  And there have been allegations of posion...

Judy has posted her goodbye letter on her blog: I will continue speaking in support of a Federal shield law. In my future writing, I intend to call attention to the internal and external threats to our country’s freedoms...

Yesterday voters in Seattle voted down plans to build an elevated transit line through the city.  The same plan had won four prior elections, only to fail on its fifth and final (?) vote. On the day before the city-wide...