White House muzzles yet another government scientist

The story was published by the Washington Post: Testimony that the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention planned to give yesterday to a Senate committee about the impact of climate change on health was significantly edited by the White House, according to two sources familiar with the…

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Fake Democracy; Fake freedom to choose.

I wish I could have taken credit for writing an article I just read:  The presidential primary scam: Why the game is rigged, and why true democracy is only a secondary factor in the nation's rush to nominate the next president.   The author is Michael Scherer. Here a taste of…

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“We the People”? How quaint.

Glenn Greenwald's column at Salon.com shows how business is really done in the bowels of Washington D.C.   Yes, it's always been ugly.  But has it ever been this ugly? Speaking of the disease of the Washington Establishment, yet another report, this one from the Washington Post, indicates that "Democrats on…

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