Month June 2006

Majority of Americans want out of Iraq

A majority of Americans say Congress should pass a resolution that outlines a plan for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday. Half of those surveyed would like all U.S. forces out…

Kos: Yesterday’s Hero, Today’s Goat

From the august Columbia Journalism Review The current issue of Newsweek features a provocative takedown of Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, also known as Kos, the titan of the blogging left who has come under heavy fire lately from his fellow bloggers…

Another intrusive database

Tony Blair keeps trying to out-do Bush in governmental monitoring of citizens. He may have succeeded this time. From BlairWatch. The Government now wants to track all 12 million children in England and Wales in a new database due to…

This made me laugh

From the wondrous, Every Morning I Wake Up on the Wrong Side of Capitalism, in a post about the more lunatic of the right wing conspiracy theories. I found somewhere on the Internet a document which gave exhaustive detail about…

Banned from DailyKos?

Join the club and get your badge of honor! So many people have been banned from the Blog of Democrat Androids it’s become something of a badge of honor. Heck, you’re practically not a real independent until you’ve been thrown…