Fighting Abroad and Fighting At Home
Administration and Congress turn their back on veterans.
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Alito Faces Questions from the Senate
This guy fits right in with the current crop of Republicans. During his 1990 nomination as an appeals court judge, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito promised to recuse himself, to avoid potential conflicts of interest, in cases “involving Vanguard, in which he owned mutual fund shares; Smith Barney, his brokerage firm; First Federal Savings & Loan of Rochester, N.Y., which held his home mortgage; and his sister’s law firm.”
Read moreMethodist Take One Step Forward-Two Steps Back
I previously wrote about the Methodist Church finally taking a stand strongly opposing torture conducted by the U.S. Government, and writing both Bush and Cheney (both claim to be Methodist), and calling on them to end this behavior. But, then the Judicial Council had to issue a series of rulings slamming the door in the face of gay people.
Read moreIt Takes A Village Idiot
Did Pat Robertson really say on Sunday that the tornado in Indiana and Kentucky was God’s way of expressing His anger at the actor Warren Beatty and his wife, Annette Bening, for trying to disrput a speech by Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Read moreSweet Victory: United Methodist Church Calls For Withdrawal
Last week, the United Methodist Church Board of Church and Society–the social action committee of the church that both President Bush and Vice President Cheney belong to–resoundingly passed a resolution calling for withdrawal with only two ‘no’ votes and one abstention.
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