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"...the decision came out of a completely different place"

Let no one mistake who has been at the helm these last six years. It is one person and one person alone.

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Updated: US opened fire at elementary school, killed 7 children, injured 3...

Added at the end of diary is link showing insurgents taking break from civil war to step up attacks on occupation troops.I would think this would have made headlines but it didn't. The corporate news...

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Best News: Congress Votes to Outsource Presidency

Modern management techniques are finally being applied in the Federal Government, and none too soon. It is the wave of the future! Congress Votes to Outsource Presidency

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Rare photos: Hiroshima & Nagasaki Hibakusha

The Mainichi Daily News has put together extraordinary photographs of the devastation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki that you may not have previously seen. I know I had not.This is not so much a diary as it...

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Contribute to Miners' Families, if you can (updated)

As you likely know, three rescuers were killed last night and many injured trying to reach the miners who have not been heard from in the 12 days after a cave in at the Crandall Canyon Mine in Emery...

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Sign the Petition to Lower Postal Rates for Small Publications

This is important for free speech and the preservation of small publications like In These Times and The Nation as well as small pubs on the right that need no introduction.We're asking only for your...

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Cancer: one of every two U.S. men and four of every 10 women will get it

"The war on cancer, begun in 1971, has largely failed. Today, 36 years later, one of every two men and 4 out of every 10 women in the U.S. will get cancer at some time during their lives. Now...

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Romney disgraces himself, his party, disgusts everyone else

This from Chris Nelson's Nelson Report via Steve Clemons: Mitt Romney Disgraces Himself: A "New Abyss" in High Fear PolitickingFrom Chris Nelson's insider daily political essay, The Nelson Report:. ....

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The Untold Story of Black New Orleans: free screening tonight in NOLA

In the Faubourg Tremé, the sit-ins began in the 1800s, the Harlem Renaissance started before the Civil War, and the roots of jazz music and Creole cuisine were being nurtured every Sunday in Congo...

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New York Governor's arrest record and speech

With a history of being arrested, the incoming Governor of New York State awaits pouncing by mainstream and right wing press.

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Don't Buy Dell Computers

Boycott Dell.Punish Dell for eliminating thousands of jobs here and shipping jobs overseas to pay international workers starvation wages.Support fair wages for all workers. That is the only way to stop...

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Volunteering For Obama: Karlyn's Story

 "It’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."– Barack ObamaToday, Kos wrote:Obama gained in Central PA.This is a story of how volunteers...

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Think you know Barack Obama?

Oh sure, you've read both of his autobiographies and you dig the way he presents himself.You made phone calls and pounded the pavement for him.You've even sent him money.But do you really know the man?

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McCain opposes Russian occupation of Atlanta

McCain speaks forcefully against Russian invasion of Atlanta

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Palin: Cheney :: Polar Bear: Endangered Species

You would think the governor of the state with polar bears would do all that she could to protect them. You would be wrong.

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Nobody Wants to Go to Their Party

At least 10 incumbent senators, plus several Senate candidates, have sent their regrets."It's probably easier to say who is attending," said Rebecca Fisher, spokeswoman for the National Republican...

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Will Democrats get caught holding?

Why is Barney Frank carrying water for Bush & Paulson?Doesn't he get it that bailing out bankers will come to be known as the Bush/Democrats' scheme, and that it is deeply unpopular just before an...

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**Holy Craps** Updated

This cooks his moose and skins it too.September 28, 2008 McCain and Team Have Many Ties to Gambling Industry By JO BECKER and DON VAN NATTA Jr.http://www.nytimes.com/...

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Medical crisis in Galveston: The Katrina Treatment (updated w/ links)

"A friend is trying hard to do something about the problem of medical care in Galveston and the effect the actions taken by University of Texas Medical Branch are going to have on the indigent of...

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Good News is Always Good News

A tale that begins this way... One sunny day in 2009,

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