Here's what precipitated Maher's rant: Four years ago Tucker Carlson asked Britney Spears on CNN, "A lot of entertainers have come out against the war in Iraq. Have you?" And Britney, who was chewing gum throughout the entire interview, answered, "Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in…
Project Censored has just released its list of top censored stories for 2008. Civil rights violations of U.S. citizens and economic abuses invited by the U.S. government are prominent thoughout this list. Sobering and depressing.
According to this article at Alternet ("The War on Pot: America's $42 Billion Annual Boondoggle") we should "regulate marijuana just as we do beer, wine, and liquor." Why? Consider the human toll: The new FBI stats show an all-time record 829,627 marijuana arrests in 2006, 43,000 more than in 2005. That's like…
Here are some terrific video clips of President Eisenhower and, more recently, of former Alaskan Senator Mike Gravel. As Gravel plainly states, no president since Eisenhower has dared to talk about the elephant in the room, the military industrial complex. Our leaders rarely speak of it because it has so…
Make sure that you scroll down and look at the photos of all the other phony soldiers too. The reason for Rush's deferment puts it into even better context.