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I had the pleasure last night of attending a discussion at Radio City Music Hall between Karl Rove and James Carville. It was certainly entertaining, with plenty of finger-pointing, raised voices and Carvillian theatrics. When the conversation came to closing Guantanamo, we heard Karl Rove...

Talk about BS but then what do you expect from politicians Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern California, was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that Senator Harry Reid's great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for horse stealing and...

Here is an audio file of the case being heard in the 9th Circuit Court http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/view_subpage.php?pk_id=0000003136 Personally I like it when the Government gets bitch slapped.

by Thom Hartmann This is a piece from 2004 but resonates true for today. "That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone." --Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Gates, 1798. There is nothing "normal" about a nation having a middle class, even though it is...

Are Pentagon Nerds Developing Packs of Man-Hunting Killer Robots? | Media and Technology | AlterNet By Scott Thill, AlterNet. Posted November 20, 2008. The Pentagon's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program recently sent out a call for contractors to design a pack of robots whose...

The first polls had just closed when the Republican Right's "Agony of Defeat" moment arrived. It was just after 8 p.m. -- right as Fox's "America's Election HQ" show returned from a commercial break, and Brit Hume welcomed viewers back to his "Fair and Balanced" network. But something wasn't...

By Arun Gupta, Indypendent. Posted October 13, 2008. Everything you ever wanted to know about the biggest economic meltdown since the Great Depression but were afraid to ask. From 1982 to 2000, the U.S. stock market went on the longest bull run ever, as share prices rose to dizzying...

Bail Out or Slush Fund? What do they say about history repeats? With four weeks left before the General Election of 2008, it's important to plan forward, but also to look back. In the last few weeks of the 2004 campaign, while the Democratic party dithered over whether to pitch to Right...

Conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman is a punishable offense of the U.S. military defined by Article 133 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice as: "Action or behavior in an official capacity which, in dishonoring or disgracing the person as an officer, seriously compromises the...

By Bob Herbert, The New York Times. Posted October 12, 2008. The lesson for Americans suffused with anxiety and dread over the crackup of the financial markets is that the way you vote matters, that there are real-world consequences when you go into a voting booth and cast that ballot. For...

By Jill Richardson, AlterNet. Posted October 7, 2008. With the world's leading scientists in agreement on the science behind global warming, how are multinational corporations preparing for climate change? Some, like Exxon Mobile, continue to squeeze the last drops of profit out of any oil...

By Robert Parry October 9, 2008 Consortiumnews.com Now, with the McCain-Palin campaign’s recent decision to go intensely negative on Obama, those risks appear to be growing, putting added pressure on the Secret Service detail assigned to protect Obama. In particular, Sarah Palin’s...

By David Morris, AlterNet. Posted October 9, 2008. The financial bailout bill passed by Congress may have once and for all put an end to T. Boone Pickens' energy plan. Let me explain. Until the financial meltdown obliterated all other news coverage, T. Boone and his energy plan were...

Consortiumnews.com By Robert Parry August 26, 2008 In judging the shape of a future John McCain presidency, there are already plenty of dots that are easy to connect. They reveal an image of a war-like Empire so full of hubris that it could take the world into a cascade of crises, while...

Although the doctors in Dallas gave my mom a grim prognosis, her cardiologist he sending her down do Houston for another opinion. This will be with one of the best Heart Surgeons in the country. If she passes all the tests they will be doing open heart surgery then. What they will be...

http://www.alternet.org/democracy/95974/seven_ways_your_vote_might_not_count_this_november/?page=entire By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. Posted August 22, 2008. While many voting rights activists are focused on stopping potential problems on Election Day, there are several milestones between...

By Nicholas von Hoffman August 14, 2008 The Bear Stearns Conspiracy This is one scandal the National Enquirer has not reported. No babies with mystery fathers, no former vice presidential candidates cowering in a hotel basement to escape the paparazzi. This scandal, relegated to the...

By Paul Armentano, High Times. Posted August 1, 2008. Note: This essay originally appeared in High Times Magazine. [Scene:] suburban neighborhood ... Daytime: Our host, Professor Barnard Puck, and his trusty assistant, Baldric, cautiously scan for some unseen creature. Puck motions Baldric...

Introducing DisneyIraq: The Unhappiest Place on Earth | War on Iraq | AlterNet By Scott Thill, AlterNet. Posted August 1, 2008. "I'm a businessman. I'm not here because I think you're nice people. I think there's money to be made," explained Llewellyn Werner in his pitch for a vast...

Bailing Out the Bad Guys: What Congress and Bush Do Best By William Greider, The Nation. Posted August 1, 2008. Washington can act with breathtaking urgency when the right people want something done. In this case, the people are Wall Street's titans, who are scared witless at the prospect...