Bush's Scream?
According to The Associated Press, George W. Bush made a speech in which his voice was "rising to a shout." Does anyone have audio of the shout? Can this be spread a la the Dean Scream? Theo Irregular...
View ArticleFlowers to San Francisco
There's a movement afoot.You're living in Peoria. How can you show your support for the same-sex couples getting married in San Francisco? How can you let the newlyweds know they've got America's...
View ArticleBush Campaign: "Visualize No Liberals"?????
Irregular Times reports the official Bush campaign features a video with the words "Visualize No Liberals" prominently displayed. It's not enough for the official campaign of George W. Bush that...
View ArticleUp to the Plate: Bob Johnson Congress NY 23
In NY State, where the Democrats had abandoned some districts and refused to nominate a candidate at all, it looked for a time as though the entire "hump" of the state would also be without a...
View ArticleRichard Burr's Racist Lovefest
Lately, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in North Carolina, Richard Burr, seems to have decided that I might like to donate to his campaign. How do I know? He's sent on a handful of his...
View ArticleH.R. 418 Passes -- Farr Amendment Fails
The rule of law has just been trashed by the House of Representatives. Not only has H.R. 418 just been passed (roll call vote), but the Farr amendment which would have struck down Section 102 has been...
View ArticleProgressive Political Database for the House and Senate
In the past few days there's been a fair amount of chatter (and some well-researched diaries) here stemming from dissatisfaction with the lack of public information about up-and-coming bills in the...
View ArticleCapitol Hill Prayer Alert: Breaking the Law?
I'm not a lawyer, and I don't play one on TV. But the fundamentalist religious organization Capitol Hill Prayer Alert prints a sentence at the bottom of each page: The Capitol Hill Prayer Alert is a...
View ArticleU.S. Minimum Wage Reaches Historic Lows
As of this spring, the real (that is, inflation-adjusted) value of the United States minimum wage has reached record lows. The following graph shows the minimum wage, in nominal dollars and 2005...
View ArticleTake Action! (Minimum Wage Legislation)
Yesterday, I posted an article documenting that the inflation-adjusted value of minimum wage in the United States has reached a 55-year low as of this spring. Today, I’m going to ask you to take some...
View ArticleThe Pencil Story: Why the Patriot Act Must Expire
When I was a kid growing up in Hilton, New York, I was a real sucker. There was this kid, Andy Antonucci, who used to hit me on the head, burp in my face and stuff like that. Don't fret; this is not...
View ArticleMZM Connection to Another GOP Rep: Virgil Goode
Kos points us to the following news story regarding an apparent bribe to a very conservative Republican Congressman from California, Randy "Duke" Cunningham from an obscure defense intelligence company...
View ArticleDon't Just Kvetch, DO Something About Torture (H.R. 952)
This is not just a diary entry complaining about the current state of things. This is an opportunity for you to DO something to make America, and the world, better. Read on. For some time now,...
View ArticleAnti-Bush Protest in Fayetteville, NC Today (INFO)
Do you live in or near Fayetteville, NC like I do? Then I'm sure you know George W. Bush is coming to town today to give a prime-time speech about the war in Iraq. That's today. Bush is going to try to...
View ArticleCensorship from Home and Abroad: What I've Learned
A lot's happened in the past week at and to Irregular Times, the liberal blog for which I write. To briefly summarize: Soon after I began publishing my own comics of Mohammed there ( 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 ),...
View ArticleMake Unity08's Moderate Ticket Feingold-Kucinich: Freep 'Em!
We all know that Unity08.com is a pseudopopulist public relations creation fronting for insider elitists who want to manipulate the 2008 election. And now we can expose Unity08 in a way the rest of...
View ArticleUnity08 NonAnswers Financial Transparency Questions
[Crossposted from Irregular Times] I've posted 12 questions on the financial transparency of Unity08, an organization which says it will run a Republican-Democratic ticket for the White House in 2008....
View ArticleUnity08 Defies FEC -- Quick ACTION Today
Unity08 (aka Unity 08) is a registered corporation with the goal of arranging the nomination of one Republican and one Democrat to become the next president and vice president of the United States of...
View ArticleWhat Unity08 Tells the Public, and What Unity08 Tells the Judge
[Crossposted from Irregular Times] Unity08 is a registered corporation that intends to manage the election of a president of the United States in 2008. Its behavior is therefore subject to scrutiny....
View ArticleUnity08 Leaves The Mike On (Cover Your Ears!)
Today, the corporation that wants to elect its own U.S. President, Unity08, promised to hold an online chat to explain why it (a self-professed "grassroots organization" and "people's movement") is...
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