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I have said before that when the right-wingers are complaining about someone else’s behavior, or accusing someone else of having evil plans, there’s a good chance they are describing themselves.

President Clinton gave Fox News (so-called) something it is not accustomed to – the truth – and a direct rejection of their pattern of manipulation of their hearers and of

The ad we linked to a few days ago is scaring the US Senators who have voted for whatever Bush wants but voted AGAINST protecting our troops. They should

I’m just wondering. Who would JESUS torture? I mean the real Jesus of the Gospels, not the Jesus of “Left Behind” or any other fiction, nor the Jesus

These are people who claim to be pro-life, who profess to hear a “fetal scream,” yet they turn a deaf ear to the very real screams of human beings who

Red Willow County Democrats will have a presence in the Heritage Days Parade and two days of booth presence in Norris Park for the first time in many years. Yes, since

When the chief executive can standat the presidential podiumand make an unabashed appeal for torture,then the American dream is dead. - Mike Whitney

I am a church person, a person of faith. But I don’t think the US needs a government that rules as if it were the voice of God.

  Gandhi believed that to drive the gun out of politics he had to invite God in.   Hmm. Often God is the justification for using guns. Here Gandhi is saying we cannot

The Washington Monthly recently ran an article quoting “seven prominent conservatives” on why, of all things, they hope their Republican Party takes serious losses this November. … even if a Speaker

My wife heard on the radio the other day that resistance to Bush is clearly “Satanic.” “Christian” radio is promoting some strange ideas, but this is one in particular

“Ma’am, we are the troops” was a response made to a woman during the Vietnam War who urged protesting Vietnam Vets to “support the troops.” Here’s a link to a current

Christians believe that man is made in the image of God, that every person is of intrinsic worth before God, and that every individual has a right to the fullest

Here are excerpts from a letter JeanValJean posted in a comment. See the full letter here. I am the mother of a gay son and I’ve taken enough from you

5th Anniversay of 9/11, Sep 11, 2006 Iraq is a major quagmire with no plan or end in sight. Civil war is well under way, and the vision of democracy

  What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? from

Why produce a mass-market liar’s version of the events leading up to and following 9/11? Well, who is the truth hurting and likely to hurt? Who will

When you obey the Republican masters in D.C., then have to go back home and campaign as, of all things, a Republican who obeyed the Republican masters in

On the sharing of America’s fabulous economic gains, on the sharing of the horrific price for Bush’s war in Iraq, on the sharing of the universal need for good health coverage - we clearly are no

I recently quoted Kate Witek here. She is currently NE State Auditor, but ran in the Republican primary in May for Lt. Gov and lost. She changed parties

That is the clear import of an article in the Washington Post. “The reports are stunning,” said Matthew L. Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. “What’s critical is the

(I’d never heard of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), or Ernesto Cortez who is on their national board, until our two weeks in Omaha recently (for Chelsea’s surgery).

A recent letter in the McCook Daily Gazette said nice things about certain Iraqis that the author knows personally, and then concludes we need to stay the course. Here is my