Fifty-three nonviolent activists in Maryland have been classed as terrorists. For opposing things like the Iraq war and the death penalty, presumably.

The idea of a government database of citizens is very, very scary to me, and this is why.

In other news, the sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, goes onto my Good People list for his actions today. I ( Read more... )

You stay classy, Republicans.

Conservative columnist David Brooks jumps off the tire swing in a major way ( Read more... )

Every time McCain says "My friends," it signals that he's about to tell a lie.

Am I the only one who finds it interesting that the Weather Underground are being portrayed as America-hating terrorists when they never actually killed anyone and actually went to the trouble of telling people what they were going to attack in advance? For people who are charged of hating America, they sure did a lot to ensure they didn't hurt ( Read more... )

In the latest "Batshit Insane McCain Supporters" news, this is just Kafkaesque. And a good indicator of why I think corporations have way, way too much power and way, way too little accountability.

I'll watch the debate later. I really don't think I can deal with much more political crap right now.

Bush's administration has set yet a new record in negative polling. (Edit: Actually, I lied, he's set three records - his net approval-disapproval and his overall disapproval are the lowest in history as well).

Meanwhile, Naomi Klein addresses the University of Chicago. You know, the place where Milton Friedman and his whackjob ideas that ( Read more... )

It appears that McCain/Palin events are beginning more and more to resemble Klan rallies.

For the first time this election, I'm genuinely scared about the future of this country.

dday at Hullabaloo has some telling information about McCain's background with regard to abortion clinics that should merit consideration. Though I'm not sure I agree ( Read more... )

The Dow plunged 790 points today, a new record. Granted, it recovered to being only 360 points down by closing time, but it pretty substantially undercuts the notion that the bailout (which passed, by the way; I was too shattered to note it this weekend) has helped ( Read more... )

so the bailout passed the Senate. Sigh. You can still write your representative and tell them to shoot it down.

Glenn Greenwald has an excellent takedown of Steven Pearlson (and by proxy, everyone else who thinks the bailout needs to be passed immediately) which points out again just how little support there actually is for the idea. Robert Reich ( Read more... )