Day May 17, 2005

From our comrades-in-the-struggle blog,  Lefti on the News Talk about results! Hundreds of thousands of Cubans march, and hours later Luis Posada Carriles is taken into custody (no, I don’t really think there was cause and effect, but the efforts…

Democracy is not something that you believe in, or something that you hang your hat on. It’s something that you do, you participate. Without participation, democracy crumbles and fails. If you participate, you win, and the future is yours. —…

Posada Carriles, an ultra-right Cuban exile who has been on the CIA payroll, is wanted in Venezuela for bombing a Cuban airliner and killing 73 people. The Bushies want to grant him asylum, making a hypocritical mockery of their “war on terror.”…

Hey! Instead of funding more police, how about we put the money into mass transit and more efficient freeways, because road rage would then drop, resulting in less crime because people won’t be going berserk after spending 2 hours on the 405 to…

Immigration May Split GOP. “Immigration policy threatens to shatter the Republican governing coalition,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Because its implications for the nation’s economy, security and its social fabric pit Republican constituencies against one another, the issue could imperil…