Month March 2006

Huge Immigrant Rights march this Sat.

The Immigrant Rights march in L.A. this Saturday now looks to be enormous. Organizers are predicting 300,000-500,000 people. Seasoned activists tell me this is a realistic estimate. The sleeping giant of Immigration Rights has awakened. The primary demand is No…

The coming blog shakeout. Pt. 3

It occurs to me, we’ve heard all this before. Currently there’s much hype and brouhaha about how netroots and blogging will change the face of D.C. and politics forever and ever. Feingold is running Blogads asking the netroots to choose…

Defeatism is not a good tactic

From Lefti on the News. Liberal blogs and the demonstrations, part II I wrote the other day about the (lack of) reaction of various liberal blogs to this weekend’s antiwar demonstrations. So imagine my surprise, in the midst of a…

No on HR 4437

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal – Martin Luther King Jr. How bad is the anti-immigrant HR 4437? Real bad. H.R. 4437 would expand on policies that have seriously eroded civil liberties. It would further militarize…

All war all the time

Bush says U.S. Troops will be in Iraq past his presidency. Did any Democrats in Congress say “Hell, No” to this? Well, of course they didn’t. Even with polls showing the public opposes the war, Democrats refuse to do anything.