The Pentagon announced this week that it will release 38 detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after deciding they’re not enemy combatants.
Joe Kelley (Joe Kelley’s the Sake of Argument) blends some clever humor and sharp criticism in discussing how these people have been denied their liberty, seemingly on little or no valid evidence they [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2005’
Detainees’ handling not something to be proud of
May Schiavo’s passing be afforded quiet respect
Terri Schiavo, 41, died at 9:05 a.m. today in her Pinellas Park, Fla., hospice room. Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, and her sister were reportedly allowed to visit shortly before she passed away but then had to leave at the direction of her husband, Michael, who was with her at the end.
Terri Schiavo [...]
With protection like this, watch your back
It’s amazing, what’s being hailed as an extension of protection for older workers. According to an AP story, advocates for older Americans are waxing enthusiastic about a Wednesday Supreme Court ruling concerning age discrimination in the workplace.
This story informs us:
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court expanded job protections for roughly half the nation’s work [...]
Freedom? Democracy? Another case of do as I say
Glorious Leader boards his jet, paid for by the workers, and departs, bound for a speaking event in a distant city.
Once at his destination, this Exalted One is hurried to a great hall, paid for by the workers, where he spouts the official party line. His audience has been carefully selected for likeliness to [...]
Our tax dollars highjacked to help interests, hurt us
Cocco has uncovered the latest example of a favorite tactic of the big-money interests that employ Republicans in government as their inside agents and errand boys. It involves ripping off taxpayers’ money and public employees’ time and effort to do the big-money interests’ dirty work.
Dr. Frist specializes in deferential diagnosis
Quote: “Indeed, Frist’s politicized “diagnosis” in the Schiavo incident follows closely a flap in which the physician-senator plainly distorted biomedical information, this time with the apparent objective of humoring conservative devotees of abstinence education.”
Schiavo’s sad reality accepted on the right, too
When religious-right-fringe media types are handing out “culture of death” labels, they had better steer clear of John Cole at Balloon Juice.
It’s hard to tell which Cole would react worse to: being called a liberal or being tagged with the highly elastic, meanly demagogic “culture of death” appellation. Either way, watch out.
Cole’s take [...]
Bush policies hand seniors, doctors a raw deal
Senior citizens, especially less-affluent ones, are slated to join veterans, farmers, students and children, especially low-income ones, in helping pay for President George W. Bush’s three gigantic tax cuts mostly benefiting his rich campaign contributors. Doctors face a squeeze as well.
On Friday, the actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said if [...]
‘Mein Kampf,’ of all things, a bestseller in Turkey
Bad news out of Turkey is that for the past two months Adolf Hitler’s maniacal screed, “Mein Kampf,” has been among the country’s top-10 bestselling books. The story says two paperback editions in Turkish are being sold.
The good news is that Turkish officials are reportedly assuring those who inquire that the country has a long, [...]
Shields: ‘As a non-recovering American liberal, I believe . . .’
Quote: As a non-recovering American liberal, I believe that every human person has the right to live free from fear and from discrimination, and has the right to a share of earthly goods, including food, shelter and, yes, health care. . .
