They’re just doing their job. Right? Right.
The Internal Revenue Service has notified the United Church of Christ’s national offices in Cleveland, Ohio, that the IRS has opened an investigation into U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s address at the UCC’s 2007 General Synod as the church engaging in “political activities.” (more…)
Categories: Ethics & Values · Rights
Tagged: Barack Obama, Boss Hogg, George Bush, IRS, Karl Rove, UCC, United Church of Christ
You are — if you’re in prison. Only in America. Literally. (more…)
Categories: Criminal Justice
Tagged: incarceration, Pew, prison
Germany. But first –
The United States had a very, very bad day 2,360 days ago. So bad, that our leaders told us “everything has changed.” And everyone agreed. Even though we have not had a day nearly as bad in the past 2,360 days — our leaders want us so badly to know how much we should remain so very afraid. (more…)
Categories: Rights
Tagged: FISA, Germany, McConnel, Mukasey, privacy
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: Aubertine, Barclay, Eli Manning, NY State Senate, Onion
to ignore this:
Categories: Ethics & Values · Peace
Tagged: Don Kerrick, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Kirsten Gillibrand, Michael Arcuri, National Security Network, Rand Beers. Richard A. Clarke, Suzanne Spaulding
Remember the scene toward the end of the novel (and movie) Ironweed, where a group of local, baseball-bat wielding “reformers” take it upon themselves to drive all the bums out of Albany? Given the stark, albeit twisted, humanity of protagonist Francis Phelan to that point, the bat swingers come off as astoundingly ignorant as they are brutal. (more…)
Categories: Economic Justice · Sojourners
Tagged: housing crisis, inflation, Ironweed, MassHousing, Sojourners
Categories: Criminal Justice · Rights
Tagged: 60 Minutes, Alabama, Bolton, Don Siegelman, Joe Nacchio, Meiers, US Attorneys
In 1968, John Lennon had a hit with these lyrics:
You say you want a revolution
Well you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it’s evolution
Well you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don’t you know you can count me out
Don’t you know it’s gonna be alright
Alright Alright
Categories: Criminal Justice · Economic Justice · Ethics & Values · Peace · Rights
Tagged: Bush, conservatives, greed, John Lennon, oppression, revolution, Sara Robinson, war
It starts as a side story. (more…)
Categories: Ethics & Values
Tagged: Barack Obama, Bernard Spitzer, Eliot Spitzer, Michelle Obama, Roger Stone
UPDATED BELOW
There are otherwise rational people who have said, only half in jest, that the penultimate play of the Giants’ final drive in Superbowl XLII — Eli Manning spinning away from a seemingly certain sack, lofting the ball to a well-covered David Tyree, who catches it on his helmet, and instead of the ball bouncing away as physics says it should, it moves firmly into Tyree’s hands as he crashes to the turf — had to be divine (or infernal) intervention. (more…)
Categories: Ethics & Values
Tagged: Alcade & Fay, Barack Obama, intervention, John McCain, New York Times, Newsweek, Paxson, snark, Superbowl XLII
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