I'm just absolutely baffled as to why Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin consider it a good idea to insist that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki be removed. First, his removal won't improve anything. Second, does America really want to show the w… Continue

In The Deputy by the German author Rolf Hochhuth, the question of what the Roman Catholic church should have done about Nazi persecution of the Jews was raised forcefully. The book acknowledged that the Roman Catholic church faced the very real possibility of extinction, but asked what the purpose of the church was. Was it not better for the church to cease to exist in Germany rather than to continue as nothing more than an interest… Continue

Needlenose went to the YearlyKos Convention and has some interesting things to say about impeachment. Basically, he thinks we need about 10-15 more percent of the population on our side in order to make impeachment work. Worth taking into consideration as he's one of those who thinks Dubya is the worst president ever.

Dave Lindorff tells us:

In a curious coincidence, the day that this site published an article on
the string of steps that this government has taken to put in place the legal
niceties to prepare for a potential declaration of martial law, including a
sidebar on the possibility of an assas… Continue

Glenn Greenwald quotes a writer from the Weekly Standard:

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