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  • Let's get on with it

    Both are electable. Both are relatively centrist Democrats who flirted with more progressive Democratic policies in their younger days. There is little difference between them in terms of what they would do as President, and either would be a great improvement over the current Republican sucking bog we have sunk into. They differ in identity ...
    Posted to Politics by Racje on April 28, 2008

  • Seriously? This is a strategy?

    How foolish; how unbelievably naive. This simply shows those of us who support Hillary Clinton that the absolute hatred directed toward her is real, simply because she will not drop out of a nose-to-nose race and allow the crowning of a completely unvetted, untested candidate. Yes, you are calling for war alright: but be very careful what you ...
    Posted to Trailhead by mabelle55 on April 24, 2008

  • Re: Why does torture by conservatives shock him?

    thewolf05827: ''...conservatives have never cared much for civil liberties.'' ''The only limitations on government that conservatives want is less regulation on business and lower taxes, both of which disproportionately help the rich, if the average person is helped at all.'' Do you even understand you are posting generalizations? Oh. ...
    Posted to Politics by gzuckier on March 24, 2008

  • Doomed

    After today, she is doomed. By failing to even vote on the dood-Feingold Telecomm Surveillance amendment, the ONLY Democrat to fail to vote, she can no longer criticize Obama's ''present'' votes in Illinois. At least he showed up. Is this the leadership she expects to have in the Oval Office, capitulating to losses in civil liberties. Good-bye ...
    Posted to Politics by drwatson221b on February 12, 2008

  • Re: Musharraf,Pakistan,Bush

    Musharraf, Pakistan, Bush ; Lack of education, poverty, social, political and economic deprivations and descriminations are spreading discontentments and militancy. This is common sense,... We as human beings all are equal. What makes us different is how we treat one another. Those beings that enjoy pain and suffering, are not ''right'' - and ...
    Posted to War Stories by topaziam on November 12, 2007

  • How can we protect against non-gov taps?

    Amazingly, most posters are apparently unaware how vulnerable they are, regardless of laws regulating NSA. First of all, virtually every nation in the world EXCEPT us can tap overseas calls originating in the US without ANY judicial oversight. There is no enforced international law assuring the privacy of communications. Second, all your calls ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by SlaterBait on August 30, 2007

  • Yippeee! we can solve our oil problem !! and maybe even erase the federal deficit !!

    It is very reassuring that quite a few of even the liberal / libertarian commentators are ready to embrace the assumption that tapping into foreign-foreign communications is ok, and that the problem is only when foreign-domestic / foreign-citizen communications are tapped. Now that the Protect America Act has been passed and signed into law, I ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by muduka on August 29, 2007

  • We're staying

    The point of all the spin, factoid, messages coming from the Pentagon and the Bushies is this: ''We're not withdrawing from Iraq. Even if a Democratic president is elected November after next, the U.S. is not ending it's occupation of Iraq. The occupation of Iraq is a punishment on that country for even being perceived by a delusional, misinformed ...
    Posted to War Stories by Telemachus on July 20, 2007

  • Data mining is a dangerous form of surveillance

    Unfortunately, I sense some dangerous ambivalence in Kaplan's ''Spy surge,'' an ambivalence that appears to normalize data mining and some data mining practices that are severely flawed. Kaplan qualifies his general acceptance of data mining by saying that lawful procedures should be followed, but then proceeds to demonstrate how data mining has ...
    Posted to War Stories by beatsleepless on July 20, 2007

  • Supreme Court Reverts to Form

    Except for the brief modern period, starting with the some of FDR's appointees, the Supreme court has been the most anti-progressive branch of Government. It has usually sided with the powerful over the powerless, with the corporation over individual, with tyrrany over liberty. The paradigmatic decisions are Dred Scott, the anti-New-Deal (''Nine ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by stan2 on June 26, 2007