Category Archives: Social Justice

Americans Are In Trouble: Debt, Declining Life Expectancy, Shorter Too

Posted on June 5, 2008 by Kate Chase

Thinking of Bobby Kennedy’s real passion during his ’68 campaign for the American worker highlights exactly why our candidates – and our next president – needs to pay some serious attention to the plight of Americans, especially those of the … Continue reading →

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Remembering Bobby Kennedy (And The American Worker)

Posted on June 5, 2008 by Kate Chase

It was 40 years ago today that Robert F. Kennedy, having just won the California Democratic Party Primary (a huge deal) and on his way to speak with hotel workers in the hotel’s kitchen, was shot, mortally wounded, and subsequently … Continue reading →

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Not Exactly Hugs Between Hillary And Barack, But That’s OK

Posted on June 5, 2008 by Kate Chase

The media has waited with baited breath – and a volume of verbiage the world has rarely seen outside of coverage of Paris Hilton and Brittney Spears’ crotches – for Hillary to do her concession bit and for the two … Continue reading →

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The Seeping Anti-Gay Hate Boils Over

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Kate Chase

Since the California Supreme Court ruled AGAINST an amendment based on hate and exclusion in determining that the state cannot limit marriage to a male and a female, the hate loonies have been on overdrive. Some want to make this … Continue reading →

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“No Child Left Behind” Alive or Free in Iraq?

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Kate Chase

And this figure does not include the juveniles, some as young as 11 or 12, sent to Guantanamo Bay on specious, oft-never-filed charges: The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being “unlawful enemy combatants” in detention centers … Continue reading →

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Want To Lose Your Social Security Savings? Vote McCain

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Kate Chase

Yes, sir. John McCain was a big proponent of Bush’s plan to kill Social Security and steal your savings, which he tried to sell as a bonus at the same time his packed courts keep ruling against retirees who suddenly … Continue reading →

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Supreme Court Approves Of New Poll Tax

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Kate Chase

That’s exactly how the Times Argus of Vermont, hardly a liberal rag (believe me!), characterizes the U.S. Supreme Court’s rubberstamp of states who’ve decided to force voters to pay fees other than directly at the ballot to cast a vote. … Continue reading →

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The Torture Revelations: Why We MUST Act NOW

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Kate Chase

That representatives of us, the citizens of the United States of America were DIRECTED by senior members of the Bush Administration (Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc. and with Bush’s full blessing) in secret meetings we now KNOW were held and chaired by … Continue reading →

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The Next Bush Rape of Privacy? Overhead Sensors To Monitor Us

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Kate Chase

People who can’t catch a rather distinctive man of 6’4 and extraordinary means named Osama bin Laden KEEP ACTING like it’s Mom and Pop America that needs to be locked up. Ay carumba! Reported at Common Dreams and filed under … Continue reading →

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McCain Double Talks Torture

Posted on February 20, 2008 by bhfrik

John McCain is urging the President to veto a bill which would outlaw the practice of waterboarding by the CIA.  McCain protests that he is being entirely consistent with his past opposition to waterboarding because he has always thought that … Continue reading →

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Speaking Of Torture, We Can “Do” It, But We Cannot Watch a Film Depicting It

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Kate Chase

As a sad and sick followup to my previous post re: torture, the Discovery Channel, which previously purchased the rights to broadcast an independent documentary – “Taxi to the Dark Side” that details the torture and death by American troops … Continue reading →

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Bush & Torture: Do It, Brag About Results, But Damn You If You Question It

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Kate Chase

Eight years ago, almost all Americans would have been sickened by the very concept of “good and great America” employing the same kind of torture techniques made infamous during the Spanish Inquisition and for which we prosecuted countless Germans, Japanese, … Continue reading →

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InfraGard: Bushies Deputize Business Leaders To Spy On Us

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Kate Chase

[See The Progressive's Matt Rothschild, author of an article on InfraGard, an FBI "liason with business", discuss this malicious little program on Democracy Now yesterday (February 11th). You can also see the group's site - as in hiding in plain … Continue reading →

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Mike Mukasey and the Justice Department: GonzoGate’s Gonzales Clone?

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Kate Chase

Helen Thomas seems to think that the latest Bush fruit does not fall too far from the Tree of Ignorance from which all Bush-Cheney seedlings grow. God help us with all these attorneys general in Bushdom. At this rate, by … Continue reading →

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Fleetwood on Olbermann as Company Man

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Ricky Shambles

Davis Fleetwood is a brilliant, brilliant man. Most recently known for his Kucinich campaign work, this post is pointed and aimed at Keith Olbermann and his parent company -NBC – who went to the Nevada Supreme Court to keep Dennis … Continue reading →

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Of All The Lies The Republicans Told In Thursday’s Debate, Huckabee’s Stood Out

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Kate Chase

Mike Huckabee, the same man who last week insisted that it was his solemn duty to change the U.S. Constitution to reflect HIS interpretation of the word of God – namely, to outlaw homosexuality and a woman’s right to choose … Continue reading →

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Those Pesky Canadians Keep Calling Torture Torture

Posted on January 24, 2008 by bhfrik

The Government of Canada has disclosed that the Canadian military in Afghanistan have stopped handing prisoners over to the government of Afghanistan after monitors found evidence that those prisoners were being abused and tortured.   Notably, this decision was made by … Continue reading →

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King And His Dream: What Would He Say About Today?

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Kate Chase

Since the Rev. Martin Luther King’s actual birthday last week (born January 15th, 1929), I find myself wondering what the man who became this nation’s most famed civil rights activist and left us with passionate legacies such as his “I … Continue reading →

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Exiled To Siberia Guam

Posted on January 19, 2008 by bhfrik

The decision to arrest Steven Howards after he attacked confronted Vice President Cheney at a ski resort in 2006 has blown up in the face of the secret service. In the good old days of the cold war, people in the … Continue reading →

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FOX Attacks: “Non-Existent” Veterans

Posted on January 18, 2008 by Ricky Shambles

Do something.

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