Podcast: Immigration reform, the Minutemen, Real ID, and organizing
Bob Morris @ May 18th 2005 12:30 - Category: Podcasts ;
Archive for May 18th, 2005
Six months?
Bob Morris @ May 18th 2005 09:20 - Category: Unfiled ;
An Army reservist who appears in several of the most infamous abuse photos taken by guards at Abu Ghraib prison was sentenced Tuesday to six months in prison.
This is not justice, this in an insult.
Villaraigosa landslide
Bob Morris @ May 18th 2005 08:01 - Category: Unfiled ;
In a 59-41 landslide, Antonio Villaraigosa upset the incumbent, becoming first Hispanic mayor of Los Angeles since 1872.
From LA Times columnist Steve Lopez
Whatever’s in Mayor-elect Villaraigosa’s eyes this morning, it ain’t relief. He’s probably looking in the mirror right now and asking himself:
“What was I thinking?”
Campaign promises aside, the mayor has limited power in a traffic-choked city of sprawling needs, beginning with a desperate shortage of living-wage jobs, scandalously high dropout rates and a critical housing shortage, to hit just a few of the highlights.
Top of the morning to you, Mr. Mayor.
The LA Times had a weblog on election night with interesting mini-think piece commentary.
No one predicted it would be a blowout like this. No one.
Same old, same old
Bob Morris @ May 18th 2005 07:56 - Category: Unfiled ;
Orange County diocese “documents show how officials covered for, transferred and even promoted pedophiles.”
Galloway’s acerbic tongue unsettles his inquisitors
Bob Morris @ May 18th 2005 07:55 - Category: Unfiled ;
As he emerged triumphant from his showdown with the Senate committee on Tuesday, George Galloway told reporters: “I’m a politician that pleads guilty to using events like these for political purposes.”
By most reckoning the British MP, an outspoken leftwinger who has campaigned in the UK against Iraq’s occupation, stole the show.
The hearing, chaired by Republican Norm Coleman, had been presented as an opportunity for the committee to interrogate Mr Galloway over his alleged involvement in Iraq’s oil-for-food programme and his alleged support for Saddam Hussein. The investigators had even offered to send airline tickets to ensure his attendance.
But in the event it was Mr Galloway who was on the offensive and it was Mr Coleman’s credibility that was called into question.
Maybe the Senate confused Galloway with a member of the pliant gutless US media like Newsweek and assumed he could be bullied. Galloway, a vocal outspoken critic of the Iraq War, was targetted by the US right wing, who got their heads handed to them on a platter. Would it be the US had politicians with this this kind of cojones.
That’s one way of putting it
Bob Morris @ May 18th 2005 07:46 - Category: Unfiled ;
Posada extradition issue poses major credibility challenge for US
