Health Care Reform in a Nutshell

The Republicans are engaging in fascist tactics to repress town hall Democracy while spitting out the most vicious and fearful lies they can think up.
The misnamed center straight up wants to kill health care reform.
The Democrats are working to ensure whatever reform exists will have as little meaning as possible, keeping the control with a [...]

Against Institutionalized Child Abuse

We live in a sick, twisted world. Sometimes it is too much. This is one of those times (via Jesus’ General).
These places need to be shut the fuck down.

Question for Randall Terry

Randall Terry,
Since you are effectively endorsing murder, if someone kills you will you have reaped what you’ve sown?
Or just maybe, will a fucking crime have been committed?
I disagree with you strongly, but I will never, ever advocate violence against you. That’s a key difference of character between us. And I feel for the [...]

The Problem With Calling Abortion Murder

Let’s say I said administrators at a school were routinely picking out high school students teachers didn’t like, and killing them.  Let’s say in addition, they had the full complicity of our legal system.  Would you be in the streets protesting?  Would you be writing articles or blog posts?  Or would you be in that [...]

Police in San Francisco Commit Murder

This is horrifying (Holly at Feministe, emphasis mine):
On New Year’s morning, the San Francisco BART police–yes, transit cops–dragged a bunch of young men off a train, including Oscar Grant. An officer then proceeded to execute Grant of them with a gunshot through the back, while he was restrained and lying face-down on the ground.
I think [...]

Why We Don’t Trust Our Political System

Unqualified dynasty relics can snag an office by doing political favors.
Corrupt politicians who maybe possibly might be impeached someday for trying to sell a senate seat, can easily find someone sad and greedy enough to nominate.  And the Senate can’t do a thing about it.
Even the most exciting and inspirational politician to come along in [...]

O’Reilly’s Internet Cop Wants to Kill Liberals

Bill O’Reilly’s “Internet Cop” has posted death threats against liberals.
Sara at Orcinus has more:

The really funny part of this is that his “cop” is Amanda Carpenter of Townhall.com, a site that recently called Michelle Obama a “race pimp” and said that congressmen who “damage the morale and undermine the military” should be executed as saboteurs. [...]

Making Killing Liberals Normal

Hate of liberals has been festering throughout the Bush years.  You’d think two terms of conservative rule would calm and reassure wingnuts, but the crazy contigent of the radical Republican army has been working on its foaming skills assiduously.
My “most active” posts are about a Obama: The White Supremacist Backlash, and on Eliminationism: Kill All [...]

Lebanon is Fucked

This makes my stomach churn.  Via XX Factor, Mona Charen at the Politico writes:
Smadar wrote later, “I will never forget the joy and the hatred in their voices as they swaggered about hunting for us, firing their guns and throwing grenades.” As police began to arrive, Kuntar and the others dragged Danny and 4-year-old Einat [...]

Call to Investigate Army Murder Cover Up

On July 19, 2005, a US soldier was murdered.  The murder was literally covered up as a suicide, and glaring inconsistencies in the official autopsy with actual wounds ignored.  (Feministing):
Retired Army Col. Ann Wright explains what we all want investigated:
From the day their daughter’s body was returned to them, the parents had grave suspicions about [...]

Bloggers and Iran’s Fear

Iran is afraid of bloggers, and is instituting the death penalty to harshly curb their rights.
Via BoingBoing:
New legislation has been proposed in Iran that could make blogging a crime punishable by death. Cyrus Farivar has a story on today’s edition of the PRI radio show The World: Iran considers harsh penalty for some bloggers (3:30).
Over [...]

Matthew Diaz is a Hero

Matthew Diaz is a hero, and our Government is treating him like a criminal.  Via Tom Tomorrow (emphasis mine):

(Via Atrios):
Matthew Diaz served his country as a staff judge advocate at Guantánamo. He watched a shameless assault on America’s Constitution and commitment to the rule of law carried out by the Bush Administration. He watched the [...]