Happy National Impeach Day!

Today is national impeach day.
Via the astoundingly awesome Mirth:
On Saturday, April 28th, tens of thousands of Americans will be making their voices heard by putting the word IMPEACH! in front of the public eye.
As her most excellent co-hort D-Day noted yesterday:
Tomorrow is the day to get out your signs and if you can, attend a [...]

Rape and Discourse

I went to high school in Framingham, Massachusetts. It was senior year, and I had managed to get myself into the closest class to philosophy offered, political theory. My teacher was a woman of rare substance, who managed to challenge and eke out strands of logic and thought many of us hadn’t previously [...]

Fundamentalists and Hate Crimes

The fundamentalists are roiling about H.R. 1592. So much so that they are resorting to pretty awful arguments, suggesting that this bill takes away their right to preach. From a World Net Daily post by Bob Unruh (via Pam):
“H.R. 1592 is a discriminatory measure that criminalizes thoughts, feelings, and beliefs [and] has the [...]

You Know Me and My Temper…

Toby Keith is a sick fuck.  From Jessica at Feministing:
This video, “A Little Too Late,” features Toby Keith singing to this tied-to-a-chair-in-the-basement-girlfriend. He threatens her with a shovel, then it looks like he’s going to drown her, or maybe bury her alive. It’s fucking sick and scary.
It was nominated for Best Video at the Country [...]

Who Do The Intelligence Agencies Work For?

I had thought, up to this point, for the American people.
Oops.
Charles Davis, a freelance reporter with Public Radio International, briefly interviewed Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) last Wednesday. Rockefeller, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, made this startling statement about how the U.S. government really functions:
mp3ROCKEFELLER: Don’t you understand the way Intelligence works? Do [...]

I am breaking up with Chuck Norris!

Dear Chuck,
Our love affair is over man.  OVER.  I didn’t want to believe it at first.  Then it just slapped me in the face.  From your post on WND via Amanda (emphasis hers):
I believe those who wield the baton of the secular progressive agenda bear significant responsibility for the escalation of school shootings.
Blaming the [...]

Got Habeas?

Remember Habeas Corpus?  That foundational right of ours?
The folks at the ACLU are trying to get it back (Via McJoan at DailyKos):
The ad campaign, and the cartoon figure are part of an important intiative launced by the ACLU last week supporting its lobbying on restoring the right of habeas corpus gutted by the Military [...]

Call To Investigate the Murder of a Union Organizer

From Lindsay:

On April 9, the bound and beaten body of labor organizer Santiago Rafael Cruz was discovered at a Mexico office of the Toledo-based Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC).
Rafael Cruz had been helping to organize farm workers who working legally in the United States on H-2A visas.
On April 20, FLOC leader Baldemar Velasquez charged that [...]

Take Back the Blog Swarm

With a cutoff of April 28th, 7pm, Crablaws Maryland Weekly is hosting the Take Back the Blog blogswarm (hat tip Jessica at Feministing):
As announced, this page will host the April 28, 2007 Take Back the Blog! Blogswarm in support of the rights of women to participate fully in all aspects of our society, including specifically [...]

War, Lies, and Videotapes

Via Lindsay (Majikthise), golden boy Petraeus wants to rev up the old propaganda machine:
Don’t look now, but that universally beloved and clever General Petraeus wants to let the military lie to Americans the way they lie to foreigners.
Currently, the military maintains a firewall between “public affairs” and “information operations.” The former is PR [...]

Abortion Question: Do Women Have Any Value?

In a very long comment thread on one of my posts, zasz2003 had this to say about the worth of a woman’s life:
How many children could be saved, even if a mother is lost.  It is a very stoic conlcusion but just because the Mother can yell and scream and plead doesnt mean she is [...]

War, Religion, and Misunderstanding

There are a few misconceptions about war, religion, and the Iraq war in particular that need clearing up.
Iced Lightening has a follow up post in response to a comment of mine in an earlier thread.
In Response, meant to be polite but of a differing opinion
The growing dialogue between myself and a number of participants here [...]

VT Shootings: Racism to Conclusions

David at Orcinus has an inspiring post up about another hero to emerge from the VT Shootings:
The case of Waleed Shaalan offers them a little bit of a reality check. There weren’t many heroes that day, but he was one of them. And oh yes: He’s Muslim.
David then delves deeper:
His case is also a potent [...]

Help Small Publishers

From Amanda at Pandagon, in its entirety:
Missed my posting window this morning—had to take my sister to the airport. Still, I’d like to beseech everyone to sign this petition against a rate hike on postage only for smaller magazines. It’s blatant racketeering-by-government to run smaller publications out of business and out of competition with [...]

Obama and Violence

Soon after mourning the slain students at Virginia Tech, Barack Obama made a really interesting point that is being sorely misunderstood. It is a startlingly profound point, all the more so to hear it coming from a politician.
I came upon his speech via Chris Reed’s “imbecilic” take on the matter, in which he quotes [...]