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Happy birthday, Michelle Obama! Congratulations and best wishes are in order for the future First Lady of our land. (more…)

Last October in an interview (shown below) with Democracy Now! journalist, author and former intelligence analyst for the United States Navy during the Viet Nam war, James Bramford, discussed his latest book on his favorite topic the National Security Agency (NSA). (more…)

Finally, just five days before moving into the White House, Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and their two daughters, Malia and Sasha will be moving into the traditional executive guest house known as Blair House. This news comes from Rachel Swarns of the New York Times Politics Blog. (more…)

Lately we’ve been hearing that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s claim he had influenced US President George W. Bush to direct Secretary of  State Condoleezza Rice to abstain on the measure she initiated (more…)

Congratulations to cub reporter Damon Weaver! The young Florida elementary school cub reporter has received press credentials from the official Inaugural Committee for the historic inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama on January 20, 2009 in Washington, D.C.  (more…)

Lately we have seen and heard much about the final days of the Bush administration. We have been told by the spinmeisters that the current president, George Walker Bush, is a good deal smarter than we know.  We are told he reads several books a year. In fact he confirmed he will be writing a book. Imagine the number of jokes that can be made from that announcement alone. He gives nicknames to staffers and cabinet members. We are told he’s caring and compassionate. He’s just a regular elitist rich guy. (more…)

Much controversy continues to surround president-elect Barack Obama’s choice of Rev. Rick Warren to give the invocation at his upcoming inaugural ceremony on January 20, 2009.

Warren is very popular among the Christian right. He is the California mega-church, anti-gay marriage pastor, who during the campaign last fall held a meeting at the Saddleback church which featured the Republican candidate and President-elect Obama. (more…)

In this time of economic hardship for a goodly number of Americans the United States House of Representatives is  receiving today a pay increase.

There is one congressional representative who has consistently opposed the automatic pay raise. That person is Jim Matheson , a Democrat from Utah, who for the past eight years of being in office has not only proposed legislation outlawing automatic pay increases for Congress, but he’s given his pay raise to charity. (more…)

We agree with the writer, “Chilean Jew” at the Daily Kos who said on Sunday, December 28, 2008, “Today I end my support of Israel.” There are many Americans, as individuals and as organizations, who support Israel. A few of the groups and individuals who provide funding to Israel are not Jewish or Zionist organizations. We are not Zionists. We can not continue to support a country unwilling to grant self-determination to a neighboring people. We’re done tolerating the slaughter, the murders and barbaric occupation of an impoverished people, the utter disregard for human life. (more…)

Happy New Year 2009 to the whole planet! We believe more than in spring the New Year is a time for renewal and restoration. (more…)