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  • Iran shows no sign of "unclenching fist"

    On the contrary, its human rights abuses seem to be escalating. Just this week the government is planning to put on trial seven Baha'i leaders who they have been holding for a year without access to lawyers. The charge is ''espionage for Israel'' and ''blasphemy'' and could quickly lead to their execution. Small detail; Baha'is don't get involved ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by jdanfort on February 15, 2009
  • Who said, "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer"

    I agree that during the campaign she was remarkably racist and sexist. Both are incredibly manipulative. She is fantasic at what she does though, and brilliant. I think a lot of the abuse they ground through from the a holes of the GOP all those years made them who they are. They had to adopt an ''if you can't beat em, join em.'' I do love them ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by redneckliberalpostbush on November 30, 2008
  • News Flash: Christopher Hitchens Seeks Catholic Confessional

    I was surprised to read Christopher Hitchens today, riding high on his moral horse as to the political, cultural and economic predations of Maximum Leader Robert Mugabe in his current Country of Residence, Zimbabwe. What people like Hitchens never seem to understand, is that morality is never just for other people, or leaders, or religious types. ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on June 10, 2008