Washington Liberals

After serving his time federal prison, John Ehrlichman granted an interview to author Dan Baum, who reports that Ehrlichman explained the origin of the war on drugs this way: The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I’m saying?…

I have found and posted the actual voter list software used widely throughout the USA (TN, WI, PA, CO, KS…) for Accenture voter registration and voter histories. I located the files on a magnetic backup tape of the hard drive of a county elections IT employee, part of a 120-gig set of discovery files. The…

Obama vs. Romney: The Framing Matchup, Round One Where Romney talks morality (conservative style), Obama mainly talks policy. Where Romney reframes Obama, Obama does not reframe Romney. In fact, he reinforces Romney’s frames in the first part of his speech by repeating Romney’s language word for word – without spelling out his own values explicitly.…

Three of the top third-party candidates who are challenging the entrenched duopoly – Jill Stein (Green Party), Rocky Anderson (Justice Party) and Judge Jim Gray (Libertarian Party) — gather together to find common ground and purpose, on The Progressive Commentary Hour with Gary Null. Plus, PRN’s own Harvey Wassermanjoins in to talk about the environmental issues he wants to see…

“A house doesn’t have to fall on my head to tell me a battle royal is brewing within the Catholic Church over the conservative hierarchy’s heavy-handed efforts to clamp down on dissenting Catholic voices. Not when a prominent American nun comes “this close” to calling the present Church leadership a bunch of brown-frocked fascists. Or…

Apparently by Jay Branscomb.

The mysterious disappearance of voting histories for 488 registered voters in Shelby County, Tennessee, discovered by Black Box Voting, attracted much attention and has been referred to the US Dept. of Justice for investigation by US Rep. Steve Cohen. Two important new developments: 1) An internal analysis conducted by the Tennessee Democratic Party and the…

It’s hard to know what to do in the current political environmental. Scanned a piece today on Climate and Capitalism website. This piece was a reaction to a favorable review of Derrick Jensen’s book Deep Green Resistance that ran on Canadian Dimension. Jensen seems to catch a lot of reactionary ink to his proposals to…

According to Peace Action’s Congressional Voting Record for last year’s session of Congress, only  Senators Maria Cantwell (78%), Patty Murray (78%),  Representatives  Jim McDermott (74%), and Jay Inslee (57%) had respectable scores on issues related to war and military spending.   Rep. Dave Reichert had the worst record, scoring just 9%.   In the following chart, the…