Ike's take on war for Independence Day

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Tuesday July 04, 2006 · 5:33 AM PDT

2006/07/04 · 05:33

Here is a reminder that there is more than one kind of Republican, more than one kind of "patriot." Chickenhawks may rule at the moment and our Democracy totters, but we can take heart on Independence Day that we have in our past great Americans who, with all their failings, can still inspire us with their humanity and decency. Ike's letter to Mamie is below the fold. Read More

Child gives his life for his country: Brooksville Maine

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Sunday July 02, 2006 · 3:11 PM PDT

2006/07/02 · 15:11

Today my family drove down to the Holbrook Island Sanctuary in Brooksville, Maine, on Cape Rosier, a tiny cape that forms the farthermost tip of the Blue Hill peninsula, jutting out into the Gulf of Maine. It is perhaps one of the most beautiful places on the East Coast, a wild, rugged and remote little chunk of jagged lumpy ridges, steep fields, and few roads. We drove to a small trail that leaves the main road and climbs through the forest to a small graveyard, utterly surrounded by trees, desolate yet still cared for. In this cemetery lies the body of Johnson Howard. Read More

Iraq rape/murder: Is this the ferocity the WSJ is calling for?

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Saturday July 01, 2006 · 7:22 PM PDT

2006/07/01 · 19:22

Five American soldiers are charged with plotting the rape and murder of a young Iraqi woman. They allegedly also killed most of her family, including a child, then tried to cover up the crime by burning her body. If this is true, and it seems like a strong case based on the testimony of a fellow soldier, then it is the strongest evidence yet that our country has truly entered the wilderness, a wilderness that is beginning to look a lot like purgatory. There is no doubt that that Iraqi woman and her family found themselves in Hell. How did we get here? Neocon theorists and their journalist mouthpieces paved the way. First torture, now "ferocity." Welcome to Ferocity 101. Read More

Maine Democrats murder First Amendment, establish thought crime

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Friday June 16, 2006 · 11:12 PM PDT

2006/06/16 · 23:12

A Democratic Senator I once supported for Congress is the successful sponsor of a bill establishing the crime of environmental terrorism. This bill is now law. It specifically provides for felony charges based on motivation. Vicious punks, vandals, thieves might get charged with misdemeanor criminal mischief for crimes that will get a committed environmentalist a felony conviction. Way to go, sponsor Democrat John Nutting, Democratic legislature, and Democratic Governor John Baldacci. Read about the death blow to the First Amendment below the fold. Read More

Haditha won't leave me alone

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Friday June 02, 2006 · 10:01 PM PDT

2006/06/02 · 22:01

Many of you will recognize this picture

from Time magazine's March 27 article "One morning in Haditha." When I first saw the article, I tried to touch her face through the screen. I copied the picture and taped it to the windows of my car and my truck with the caption "Ask me about her." No one did. I have thought about this little girl and her story every day since. Read More

How I became a Democrat again

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Thursday May 25, 2006 · 9:19 PM PDT

2006/05/25 · 21:19

Recently a diarist declared she was leaving the Dems and becoming an independent. She gave as reasons all the shameful pandering the Democratic politicians have done and their complicity in all the horrible crimes going forward in our names. Her indictment was powerful, impassioned and essentially unanswerable: many Democratic politicians have sold us out, most recently with the pass some Dems gave Michael Hayden. I respect the diarist's position, but, while I feel exactly the same way she did about those votes, and the votes for the war in Iraq, I managed to come to the exact opposite conclusion about what to do about it. Find out below how I became a Democrat because of these same horrible votes. Read More

Why global warming has our collective ass in a crack

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Sunday May 07, 2006 · 8:55 PM PDT

2006/05/07 · 20:55

What if everybody on the planet suddenly became a foot soldier in Al Gore's army and did every freaking thing we could think of and it still wasn't enough to stop us being flattened by global warming?

I decided to write my first diary about the immense scale of the global warming problem, because this seems to be an aspect that is not talked about much, perhaps because it makes it all seem so hopeless, or because we just don't get it yet. More below. Read More

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