Quantcast
Channel: AikidoPilgrim
Browsing all 44 articles
Browse latest View live

Citizens Against Election Fraud

Assuming the provisional votes don't seem able to overcome the purported vote difference in Ohio, then there will be real pressure on Kerry to concede. if he starts talking about exit poll vs....

View Article


The case to make against Fundies

Ignorant Tight-ass Club West Wing, in the second season, has an episode where Pres. Bartlet pulled a thermonuclear rhetorical smackdown on an obvious stand-in for Dr. Laura. Full scene appears below...

View Article


Evangelical Smackdown

The religious conversatives who helped deliver the election to Bush are sanctimonious, self-righteous, and guilty of a very unchristian lust for power. I think we need to call them on it. Publically....

View Article

Impeachment 6 month To-Do List

If Bush loses as much face and political capital as I think is inevitable due to the Iraq quagmire, his numbers will continue to fall, and since the growing realization among Democratic legislators...

View Article

Wa-Po - DeLay dying by 1,000 cuts - Can we help?

Currently online at the Washington Post is this welcome news: republicans are scared DeLay's ethics problems are getting worse and will take him down. Money quote:  "If death comes from a thousand...

View Article


Another NeoCon Slimeball in the News - Richard Perle in Trouble

And the Ethics-Challenged Hits just keep on coming. . . Richard Perle, NeoCon stalwart and war profiteer, seems to have, as a director of Hollinger International, looked the other way while Conrad...

View Article

Kos joins New Politics Institute

The Wednesday edition of The Hill ("the newspaper for and about the U.S. Congress") announces the formation of the New Politics Institute. Significant figures in the new enterprise include Simon...

View Article

Colin Powell - Bush should support McCain Amendment

I attended a talk this evening by Colin Powell, and while he certainly didn't, even diplomatically, suggest that American foreign policy has been hijacked by a neo-con cabal (as his former aide did...

View Article


Gore-Hating Republican Blogger LOVES Inconvenient Truth

Ain't It Cool News is a prominent pop-culture site mostly about movies, TV, Anime, and video games. Huge influence and significant traffic. One of their reviewers, who goes by Massawyrm, calls himself...

View Article


Powerful new documentary on Ohio vote

Emmy Award-winning documentarian Dorothy Fadiman premiered her lastest film Sunday night in Palo Alto to a packed house. Stealing America: Vote by Vote combines interviews with voting volunteers,...

View Article

2008 - Choose Al Gore's Running Mate.

There are a lot of good reasons to push Al Gore into the '08 race. This diary is meant to check the pulse of the DKOS community about who we would like to see as Al Gore's running mate. Lots of choices...

View Article

Peace in the Middle East - One kid at a time

Every so often, a chance comes around to weave several threads of your life into one united, greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts whole, and a great idea is born.In this case - there are 4 major threads –...

View Article

Waging Peace - Women and Children First

Lets face it - most powerful men in politics suck at backing down, at thinking before acting, at listening calmly, and at putting Peace ahead of Posturing.Whether this is an occupational hazard of the...

View Article


Poll - Obama VP

WIth Richardson's endorsement today, it is time to start talking about running mates for the overwhelming likelihood that Obama becomes the Democratic nominee. Some of the more obvious choices after...

View Article

McCain - C Average - 75% running solo

Quick reality check on the other side: Indiana and North Carolina voters are giving Huckabee and Ron Paul up to 30% of the primary vote - even though neither is actually running. The so-called "base"...

View Article


Dissed by Free Republic - I feel so proud.

I don't know if it counts towards (or subtracts from . . .) my alloted 15 minutes of fame, but I have been personally mischaracterized and insulted on Free Republic and Debbie Schlussel today - and I'm...

View Article

Obama losing on MSNBC - Freep this poll (updated)

Mom forwarded me an email from a conservative friend encouraging recipients (even though, as the letter puts it "few Americans watch MSNBC anymore" to tell MSNBC and America what they really think of...

View Article


Obama's Soft Power - a primer on Aikido

Barack's speech in Cairo was magnificent in many ways, but yesterday's election upset in Lebanon, and next week's possible ousting of Ahmadinejad are perfect examples of how a direct, honest,...

View Article

Cheney is Offended. Oh my!

The LA Times reports that Dick Cheney emerged from his undisclosed secure location to criticize the Justice Department's decision to investigate whether CIA interrogation tactics broke the law, a...

View Article

Wrest control of textbooks away from Texas

Today's NYTimes Magazine asks How Christian were the Founders?". The article starts by profiling the young-earth creationist Don McLeroy, whose mission in life seems to be to eliminate the division...

View Article
Browsing all 44 articles
Browse latest View live


<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>