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  • Whitehouse Memo

    The President’s counsel [Fred Fielding] wrote following to Representative Conyers and Senator Leahy (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/Memo_070907.pdf)

    I found this very interesting and feel it is worthwhile to share with all of you:

    “In order to fulfill his constitutional functions, the President,… needs the protection of a principle that shields his close advisor’s from open-ended [...]

    Posted: July 09, 2007, 10:29pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • IMPEACH DICK CHENEY

    Number of comments: 1

    IMPEACH DICK CHENEY

    Just over 3-1/2 minutes and worth every second of your time!

    [...]
    Posted: July 09, 2007, 10:58am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • RMA-Revolution in Military Affairs

    Number of comments: 1

    Middle East Times
    Commentary: The death of RMA
    William S. Lind

    July 6, 2007

    WASHINGTON — In the 1989 Marine Corps Gazette article where I and four colleagues first laid out the Four Generations of Modern War, we foresaw two potential futures. One, the way the world has gone, was Fourth Generation [...]

    Posted: July 08, 2007, 2:33am EDT
    by abbasse
  • Iran’s mixed signals

    The Middle East Times
    Commentary: Iran’s mixed signals
    Arnaud de Borchgrave

    July 5, 2007

    WASHINGTON — The Swiss cartoon shows an angry US general briefing a puzzled President George W. Bush with a map of the Middle East. “Here you can see the Lebanonization of Iraq, the Iraqization of Palestine, and the [...]

    Posted: July 08, 2007, 2:24am EDT
    by abbasse
  • US Aborted Raid on Al Qaeda Chiefs

    Number of comments: 1

    The International Herald Tribune
    U.S. aborted raid on Qaeda chiefs in Pakistan in ‘05
    By Mark Mazzetti

    Saturday, July 7, 2007
    WASHINGTON: A secret military operation in early 2005 to capture senior members of Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas was aborted at the last minute after top Bush administration officials [...]

    Posted: July 08, 2007, 1:56am EDT
    by abbasse
  • Giuliani “Fair Tax”, Richardson “how to vote” and Obama, “burglarized”

    Number of comments: 3

    The Guardian
    Sunday July 8, 2007 4:01 AM

    By RON WORD

    Associated Press Writer

    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani ran into a buzz saw of opposition Saturday when he explained his opposition to elimination of the federal income tax and replacing it with a so-called “fair tax” [...]

    Posted: July 08, 2007, 1:28am EDT
    by abbasse
  • What’s Lacking in ‘Sicko’

    Number of comments: 10

    The New York Times
    July 7, 2007

    By DAN MITCHELL

    WHEN it comes to economic decisions, there are always trade-offs. Gain one thing and you lose something else. This is particularly true in health care, a market in which a scarce good is ridiculously expensive, but needed by everybody.

    The central argument of [...]

    Posted: July 07, 2007, 2:57pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • Counting on Failure, Energy Chairman Floats Carbon Tax

    The New York Times
    July 7, 2007
    By EDMUND L. ANDREWS

    WASHINGTON, July 6 — A powerful House Democrat said on Friday that he planned to propose a steep new “carbon tax” that would raise the cost of burning oil, gas and coal, in a move that could shake up the [...]

    Posted: July 07, 2007, 2:54pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • Federal appeals court overturns wiretap ruling

    Number of comments: 2

    The Detroit Free Press

    July 6, 2007

    By NIRAJ WARIKOO

    FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

    A federal appeals court panel today vacated an order by a federal judge in Detroit that ruled that the Bush Administration’s wiretapping program was unconstitutional — a move that concerned local civil rights advocates and Muslim leaders.

    In a 2-1 vote, [...]

    Posted: July 06, 2007, 2:33pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • After Lobbying, Wetlands Rules Are Narrowed

    Number of comments: 1

    The New York Times
    July 6, 2007

    By JOHN M. BRODER

    WASHINGTON, July 5 — After a concerted lobbying effort by property developers, mine owners and farm groups, the Bush administration scaled back proposed guidelines for enforcing a key Supreme Court ruling governing protected wetlands and streams.

    The administration last fall prepared [...]

    Posted: July 06, 2007, 10:00am EDT
    by abbasse
  • Bloomberg, Independent = Moniker =’s Republican

    Number of comments: 1

    New York Times
    July 6, 2007
    Bloomberg Says He Will Support State G.O.P.
    By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ and DANNY HAKIM
    At the same time that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has been traveling the country in recent weeks denouncing partisan politics, he has been quietly sending a very different message to the [...]

    Posted: July 06, 2007, 9:56am EDT
    by abbasse
  • Bush Rationale on Libby Stirs Legal Debate

    The New York Times
    July 4, 2007

    By ADAM LIPTAK

    In commuting I. Lewis Libby Jr.’s 30-month prison sentence on Monday, President Bush drew on the same array of arguments about the federal sentencing system often made by defense lawyers — and routinely and strenuously opposed by his own Justice Department.

    Critics of [...]

    Posted: July 05, 2007, 11:16am EDT
    by abbasse
  • The Lying Game

    July 5, 2007
    Op-Ed Contributor

    By MICHAEL KINSLEY
    Seattle

    WHEN the Republicans in Congress impeached President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, they insisted that it wasn’t about sex, it was about lying. Of course that wasn’t true. Even at the height of their power-mad self-delusions (when Newt Gingrich was conducting [...]

    Posted: July 05, 2007, 10:56am EDT
    by abbasse
  • Justice Denied

    The New York Times
    July 5, 2007

    Editorial

    Justice Denied
    In the 1960s, Chief Justice Earl Warren presided over a Supreme Court that interpreted the Constitution in ways that protected the powerless — racial and religious minorities, consumers, students and criminal defendants. At the end of its first full term, Chief Justice [...]

    Posted: July 05, 2007, 10:35am EDT
    by abbasse
  • Surge Seen in Applications for Citizenship

    The New York Times
    July 5, 2007

    By JULIA PRESTON
    The number of legal immigrants seeking to become United States citizens is surging, officials say, prompted by imminent increases in fees to process naturalization applications, citizenship drives across the country and new feelings of insecurity among immigrants.

    The citizenship campaigns have [...]

    Posted: July 05, 2007, 10:30am EDT
    by abbasse
  • Bush Commutes Libby Prison Sentence

    Number of comments: 10

    By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer

    2 hours ago

    Former White House aide I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, leaves …

    WASHINGTON - President Bush commuted the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby on Monday, sparing him from a 2 1/2-year prison term that Bush said was excessive.

    Bush’s move came hours [...]

    Posted: July 02, 2007, 8:14pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • US Supreme Court rejects public school diversity…

    Number of comments: 3

    US Supreme Court rejects public school diversity plans that take race into account
    MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer

    (AP) - WASHINGTON-A half-century after the Supreme Court outlawed racially segregated schools, sharply divided justices clamped new limits on local school efforts to make sure children of different races share classrooms.

    The top U.S. [...]

    Posted: June 30, 2007, 9:16am EDT
    by abbasse
  • Bush Won’t Supply Subpoenaed Documents

    Number of comments: 1

    By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent
    57 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - President Bush, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers’ demands for documents that could shed light on the firings of federal prosecutors.

    Bush’s attorney told Congress the White House would not turn over [...]

    Posted: June 28, 2007, 10:41am EDT
    by abbasse
  • New Poll Finds That Young Americans Are Leaning Left

    Number of comments: 4

    The New York Times

    June 27, 2007

    By ADAM NAGOURNEY and MEGAN THEE
    Young Americans are more likely than the general public to favor a government-run universal health care insurance system, an open-door policy on immigration and the legalization of gay marriage, according to a New York Times/CBS News/MTV poll. The poll [...]

    Posted: June 27, 2007, 9:10am EDT
    by abbasse
  • Who Might Escape Bausch Without a Scratch?

    Number of comments: 2

    The New York Times

    June 24, 2007

    By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ

    AS befits the boss of America’s best-known contact lens maker, Ronald L. Zarrella, the chief executive of Bausch & Lomb, has always had a keen eye for the fine print.

    Even as the big picture at his company became blurred — by [...]

    Posted: June 24, 2007, 7:14pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • The passing of a superb public orator.

    DemocraticEdge extends our deepest condolences during this time of loss to the family of former U.S. Representative Guy VanderJagt. This U.S. Representative was one of the finest orator’s to serve in the House. Representative Vander Jagt understood the use of the English language, how to use it, and how gain [...]

    Posted: June 24, 2007, 3:54pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • Contractors fret over tax plan

    Number of comments: 2

    Saturday, June 23, 2007
    By Chris Knape
    The Grand Rapids Press

    GRAND RAPIDS — Construction projects around the state could be taxed, taxed and taxed again.

    That’s what contractors are worried about now that they’ve looked at the proposed Michigan Business Tax.

    The way it currently is written, the state would tax contractors [...]

    Posted: June 24, 2007, 1:29pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • City fast-tracked golf course sale

    Number of comments: 2

    Sunday, June 24, 2007
    By Jim Harger
    The Grand Rapids Press

    GRAND RAPIDS — The city’s attempt to cash in on Indian Trails Golf Course began in early May when a former city commissioner introduced a developer to City Manager Kurt Kimball.

    One month later, the City Commission bypassed its standing rules [...]

    Posted: June 24, 2007, 1:24pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • U.S. Group Says Pakistan Is Building New Reactor

    Number of comments: 2

    New York Times

    June 23, 2007
    U.S. Group Says Pakistan Is Building New Reactor
    By JANE PERLEZ

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 22 — Pakistan is building a third plutonium production reactor at a major nuclear weapons center, a sign of plans to increase the nation’s nuclear arsenal significantly, a Washington group specializing in [...]

    Posted: June 23, 2007, 6:51pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • Lowering Flag for War’s Dead…

    Number of comments: 1

    June 23, 2007
    Lowering Flag for War’s Dead Brings a New Rift
    By IAN URBINA

    IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich., June 19 — The Stars and Stripes in front of the Veterans of Foreign Wars lodge here flies at half-staff because Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm issued a statewide order to lower the flag [...]

    Posted: June 23, 2007, 6:41pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • Cheney above the law, too?

    Number of comments: 2

    White House Defends Cheney’s Refusal of Oversight

    By Peter Baker
    Washington Post Staff Writer
    Saturday, June 23, 2007; Page A02

    The White House defended Vice President Cheney yesterday in a dispute over his office’s refusal to comply with an executive order regulating the handling of classified information as Democrats and other critics [...]

    Posted: June 23, 2007, 7:11am EDT
    by sheric
  • What’s up with Thompson?

    Here’s a preview of some of our research on Fred Thompson. Thompson is trying to run as a “Washington outsider” candidate, but it’s basically just another acting job for the lobbyist-turned-actor.

    Here’s what we’ve learned about Fred Thompson’s background and his political views:

    * Thompson spent decades as a [...]

    Posted: June 19, 2007, 12:56pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • It’s Official: Bush is Above the Law

    Number of comments: 1

    ‘Signing Statements’ Study Finds Administration Has Ignored Laws

    By Jonathan Weisman
    Washington Post Staff Writer
    Tuesday, June 19, 2007; Page A04

    President Bush has asserted that he is not necessarily bound by the bills he signs into law, and yesterday a congressional study found multiple examples in which the administration has not [...]

    Posted: June 19, 2007, 8:37am EDT
    by sheric
  • Agreement Reached on New Business Tax

    Number of comments: 2

    Agreement Reached on New Business Tax Keeps Michigan Competitive for Business, Encourages Job Creation

    LANSING – Governor Jennifer M. Granholm, Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, and House Speaker Andy Dillon today said they have reached an historic agreement on a new Michigan Business Tax (MBT) to replace the Single Business Tax [...]

    Posted: June 13, 2007, 10:59pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • Judges say U.S. Can’t hold man as “Combatant”

    Number of comments: 1

    New York Times
    June 12, 2007
    Judges Say U.S. Can’t Hold Man as ‘Combatant’
    By ADAM LIPTAK

    The federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled yesterday that the president may not declare civilians in this country to be “enemy combatants” and have the military hold them indefinitely. The ruling was a [...]

    Posted: June 12, 2007, 11:07pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • Saudi Paper Puts Bush on the Couch

    Bush%2C-prince-Abdullah-399.jpg 

    All kinds of tips for epigraphs to be chiseled on the new George W. Bush Presidential Libary are coming in gratis — and from the most unexpected sources.

    Who, for instance, would have imagined that Saudi Arabia’s main English-language newspaper would be using Western psychoanalysis to try [...]

    Posted: June 11, 2007, 10:58am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Putin issues stark warning to neighbors

    Putin issues stark warning to neighbors
    Russian president issues warning over U.S. missile defense ahead of G-8
    The Associated Press
    Updated: 12:37 p.m. ET June 4, 2007
    MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin warned that Moscow could take “retaliatory steps” if Washington proceeds with plans to build a missile defense system [...]

    Posted: June 05, 2007, 2:14pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • White House disagrees with Military Judges

    MSNBC News Services
    Updated: 7:16 a.m. ET June 5, 2007

    PRAGUE, Czech Republic - The White House on Tuesday said it disagreed with rulings by U.S. military judges to drop all war crimes charges against two Guantanamo prisoners facing trial, and that the Defense Department was considering whether to appeal.

    “We don’t [...]

    Posted: June 05, 2007, 2:09pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • “Scooter” Libby, Jail, 30 months, Obstruction…

    The Associated Press
    Updated: 12:37 p.m. ET June 5, 2007
    WASHINGTON - Former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was sentenced to 2½ years in prison Tuesday for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation.

    Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, stood calmly before a [...]

    Posted: June 05, 2007, 2:02pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • Russia Warns U.S. About Missile System

    Russia Warns U.S. About Missile System
    By MARIA DANILOVA, Associated Press Writer
    2 hours ago

    MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Moscow could take “retaliatory steps” if Washington proceeds with plans to build a missile defense system for Europe, including possibly aiming nuclear weapons at targets on the continent.

    Speaking [...]

    Posted: June 04, 2007, 11:24am EDT
    by abbasse
  • In a new article, posted on History News Network

    In a new article, posted on History News Network, the Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission not only criticizes the Bush Admin war on terror, but argues that the role of lawyers is to blame for the way the things turned out.

    5-30-07

    Legal Policy for a Twilight War
    By Philip Zelikow[...]

    Posted: May 30, 2007, 10:15pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • Russia Says New ICBM Can Beat Any System

    Number of comments: 3

    Russia Says New ICBM Can Beat Any System
    By STEVE GUTTERMAN, Associated Press Writer

    3 hours ago

    MOSCOW - Russia tested new missiles Tuesday that a Kremlin official boasted could penetrate any defense system, and President Vladimir Putin warned that U.S. plans for an anti-missile shield in Europe would turn the region [...]

    Posted: May 29, 2007, 10:14pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • Long Time — Extremely Relevant

    Real Time with Bill Maher 05-25-07 (Part 3 of 6)

    As a Non-Democratic Liberal, I revel in finding people who discuss what I believe on a national level. It is a rare find, but I found this:

    Warning: R Rated.

    I have no love of Ben Affleck. I always equate him with his [...]

    Posted: May 28, 2007, 8:15pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Long Time — Extremely Relevant

    As a Non-Democratic Liberal, I revel in finding people who discuss what I believe on a national level. It is a rare find, but I found this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoDjcm3qOJA&NR=1

    Warning: R Rated.

    I have no love of Ben Affleck. I always equate him with his character in Good Will Hunting, but surprisingly, his eloquence [...]

    Posted: May 27, 2007, 7:25am EDT
    by sheric
  • Granholm Submits Testimony on Record High Gas Prices; Joins Other Governors in Calling for Federal Action

    Number of comments: 1

    With gas prices in Michigan reaching record highs, Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today submitted testimony to Congress on the escalating cost and volatility of gas prices across the nation. Granholm also joined other Democratic governors in asking President Bush to produce legislation that would define gas price gouging [...]

    Posted: May 22, 2007, 11:31pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • How Low Can Gonzales Go?

    By Eugene Robinson

    It just gets worse and worse. We already knew that Alberto Gonzales—who, unbelievably, remains our attorney general—was willing to construe the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions however George W. Bush and Dick Cheney wanted. We knew he was willing to politicize the Justice Department, if that was what [...]

    Posted: May 22, 2007, 1:30am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Carter Blasts Bush on His Global Impact

    Number of comments: 2

    Reprinted from Associated Press

    Former President Jimmy Carter listens to a student’s question …

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Former President Carter says President Bush’s administration is “the worst in history” in international relations, taking aim at the White House’s policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.

    The criticism from [...]

    Posted: May 19, 2007, 8:20pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • Latino Citizenship Campaign Lifts Dem Prospects

    Miriam Jordan’s WSJ article “Univision Gives Citizenship Drive An Unusual Lift” no doubt comes as unwelcome news in GOP circles.

    Jordan reports that Univision Communications, Inc., America’s largest Spanish language broadcasting network, is sponsoring an energized nation-wide campaign to help millions of green card-holders become citizens. In the greater Los [...]

    Posted: May 15, 2007, 5:18pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • A lost history of abortion.

    Partial Law

    by Christine Stansell
    Reprinted from The New Republic

    qThank God for President Bush, and thank God for Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito,” intoned Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention last week, after the Supreme Court announced its decision in [...]

    Posted: May 14, 2007, 10:31pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • You’re gay… You’re FIRED!

    Michigan is one of thirty-three states where it’s still legal to fire someone for being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Or because your employer thinks you are. Yes, according to the Human Rights Campaign, straight people have been fired because employers thought they were LGBT.

    Nor is this an uncommon problem. [...]

    Posted: May 14, 2007, 9:53pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • GOP’s voter-fraud complaints drove dismissals

    New testimony and documents reveal Rove was pressing Gonzales’ office

    By Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein

    Reprinted from The Washington Post

    WASHINGTON - Nearly half the U.S. attorneys slated for removal by the administration last year were targets of Republican complaints that they were lax on voter fraud, including efforts [...]

    Posted: May 14, 2007, 2:23pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • The Impeachment Chronicles: Where is the Black Caucus?

    By Bill Hare

    Dennis Kucinich took that necessary first step that scores of progressives have been urging for some time in submitting articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney, a necessary first step in ending the Cheney-Bush neocon regime and its steadfast destruction of law and liberty at home and [...]

    Posted: May 13, 2007, 3:12pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Bush and Cheney: Hard Liquor and Loose Women

    By Wayne Madsen

    Cheney on DC Madam’s list.

    Yesterday, WMR reported on the DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s list: “WMR has been informed that the CEO of a major corporation is a former CEO but, nonetheless, the aforementioned extremely high-level official of the Bush administration. The individual, who is definitely [...]

    Posted: May 10, 2007, 10:20pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Republicans Warn Bush Iraq Must Show Gains

    By CARL HULSE and JEFF ZELENY

    WASHINGTON, May 9 — Moderate Republicans gave President Bush a blunt warning on his Iraq policy at a private White House meeting this week, telling the president that conditions needed to [...]

    Posted: May 10, 2007, 11:10am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • City commissioner hints at higher political aspirations

    Reprinted from the Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
    GRAND RAPIDS — Second Ward City Commissioner Rick Tormala shook up this year’s city elections today by announcing he will not seek re-election.

    Instead, Tormala said he may challenge incumbent Mayor George Heartwell or move into the 76th State House District, where he [...]

    Posted: May 07, 2007, 10:31pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • It’s time for Michigan to turn back bigotry

    Reprinted from Between the Lines

    Despite the constant drumbeat of bigotry and small minded meanness from Gary Glenn of the Amernican Family Association and his small band of vocal groupies, LGBT organizers, allies and activists across the state have been engaged in trainings to mobilize for equal rights and [...]

    Posted: May 05, 2007, 2:36pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • He’s Impeachable, You Know

    Number of comments: 1

    Al,
    In light of our recent discussion concerning constitutional provisions relating to the possible impeachment of a cabinet officer, this op-ed from today’s NY Times may be of interest.
    Bruce Altschuler
    SUNY Oswego

    New York Times

    May 3, 2007
    OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
    He’s Impeachable, You Know
    By FRANK BOWMAN
    Columbia, Mo.

    IF [...]

    Posted: May 03, 2007, 12:24pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • Airing Gonzales’ Dirty Laundry

    bushgonz
    AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson
    In better days: President Bush and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales man-hug as Bush announces Gonzales’ appointment on Nov. 10, 2004.

    By Bill Boyarsky

    Since Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ inept stonewalling before the Senate Judiciary Committee shed no light on the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, let’s [...]

    Posted: May 03, 2007, 2:44am EDT
    by Jim Rinck
  • I dont understand, I’m up to this ‘Mission Accomplished’ part, and I have like 400 pages left

    Enclosure: [download]

    It’s still right there on the taxpayer-financed Whitehouse.gov website. CHECK IT OUT FOR YOURSELF.

    “Major combat operations in Iraq have ended,” the president said, May 1, 2003. “In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.”
    The “Mission Accomplished” banner hung in the background.
    Listen to [...]

    Posted: May 02, 2007, 1:14am EDT
    by Jim Rinck
  • Mission Impossible

    bushlincoln
    AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite
    Say what?: President Bush declares pre-emptive victory aboard the carrier Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003.

    Four years ago, President Bush delivered his now-infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech aboard the carrier Abraham Lincoln, declaring that military aggression was a successful and appropriate response [...]

    Posted: May 01, 2007, 10:59pm EDT
    by Jim Rinck
  • In Memoriam…

    Democratic Edge is participating in the National movement…

    [...]
    Posted: April 30, 2007, 1:01am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Foreign Katrina aid rejected, unused

    By John Solomon and Spencer S. Hsu - Washinton Post

    As the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina were receding, presidential confidante Karen Hughes sent a cable from her State Department office to U.S. ambassadors worldwide.

    Titled “Echo-Chamber Message” — a public relations term for talking points designed to [...]

    Posted: April 29, 2007, 12:20am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Energy Plan, Investments in Alternative Energy Will Create Jobs, Grow Economy

    In her weekly radio address, Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today touted the opportunities for job creation and economic growth if Michigan adopts a plan to move to renewable energy sources and continues to pursue investments in alternative energy.  At the same time, she said she has been working around the [...]

    Posted: April 28, 2007, 12:40am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Granholm says schools, Medicaid face budget cuts soon

    By TIM MARTIN The Associated Press

    LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Jennifer Granholm tried to put pressure on state Senate Republicans Thursday, saying she will cut school funding and Medicaid reimbursements this summer unless they quickly agree to a tax increase.

    Senate Republicans responded that Granholm is moving [...]

    Posted: April 26, 2007, 10:43pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Mich. gov’t faced with possible shutdown

    By ALEX ALTMAN

    Reprinted from The State News

     
     

    Gov. Jennifer Granholm is preparing the state government for a possible shutdown this year in the event that the state legislature cannot balance the budget. Granholm ordered all state departments to draft contingency plans for their programs in case she needs to temporarily [...]

    Posted: April 25, 2007, 10:13am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Dare to Look Back

    By Sheila Samples

    “…the high office of the President has been used to forment a plot to destroy the American’s freedom, and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight.” John F. Kennedy (November 12, 1963, Columbia U, 10 days before his assassination)

    I cannot recall [...]

    Posted: April 24, 2007, 12:34pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Michigan Draft Gore Leaders and Supporters

    By: Bob Alexander, Co-Chair, Michigan Draft Gore

    If you have not checked out the blog 2008Horserace.com. It is very interesting. You can vote for your favorite candidate once a day sometimes, other days less often. For months Gore was in 4th place, then due to his Congressional publicity Gore moved [...]

    Posted: April 24, 2007, 9:40am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Axis of Cowards: Bush, Congress and the Media

    The Courage to Withdraw

    By: Saul Landau

    George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and his staff of neo con hard liners, and assorted handwringers could not have predicted the horror show that erupted in Iraq. The war makers were ignorant. Most remain that way–and proudly.

    Did Bush shake his head when he saw [...]

    Posted: April 23, 2007, 4:37pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Jesus ‘Love Bombs’ you

    Reprinted from Truthdig

    baptism
    AP Photo / Rick Bowmer
    Shar Miles, 42, Ridgefield, Wash., is baptized at an Easter service held by Living Hope Church at the Rose Garden, in Portland, Ore.

    By Chris Hedges

    There is a false, but effective, fiction that one has to be born again to be [...]

    Posted: April 23, 2007, 9:51am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Bush Protest - East Grand Rapids, MI

    Bush Protest - East Grand Rapids, MI

    I am terribly busy this weekend. I will write the story that accompanies the video later this weekend. - Stay tuned!

    [contact-form]

    [...]
    Posted: April 21, 2007, 11:40am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • A message from MDP Chair, Mark Brewer

    Hello Progressive Democrats-

    We had a tremendous 2006 election up and down the ballot and progressive bloggers played a very important role in our victories. Whether it was fact checking the mainstream media, organizing protests, informing voters with the issues, getting out the vote, helping give everyday Democrats a [...]

    Posted: April 19, 2007, 12:19pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • S.C. new conservative majority

    Number of comments: 1

    As reported by the Associated Press 4-18-2007

    WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court’s new conservative majority gave anti-abortion forces a landmark victory Wednesday in a 5-4 decision that bans a controversial abortion procedure nationwide and sets the stage for further restrictions.

    It was a long-awaited and resounding win that abortion opponents had hoped [...]

    Posted: April 18, 2007, 10:13pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • Can you believe this? I am appalled!

    Number of comments: 3

    As reported by: americanprogressaction.org

    Under the Radar

    MEDIA — RIGHT-WING PUNDITS SUGGEST VIRGINIA TECH VICTIMS LACKED ‘COURAGE’ IN STAYING ALIVE: In his initial comments responding to the tragedy at Virginia Tech, President Bush said that “our nation grieves with those who have lost loved ones at Virginia Tech. We hold the victims [...]

    Posted: April 18, 2007, 9:31pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • Jim Rinck addresses Kent GOP

    Number of comments: 2

    Jim Rinck addresses Kent GOP

    Grand Rapids Mayoral candidate Jim Rinck addresses the Kent County GOP about his candidacy.

    [...]
    Posted: April 17, 2007, 9:58pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Fear and loathing in Bloomfield Hills

    Number of comments: 2

    I have always been one to side with caution; particularly when it comes to the safety of kids. But at what point does being cautious blend with being absurd? Check-out the following tid-bit from the Oakland Press today...

    Cranbrook Schools in lockdown

    Cranbrook Schools went into lockdown today after [...]

    Posted: April 17, 2007, 5:38pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Let him know he is NOT WELCOME HERE!

     

    Here it is: PROTEST THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER IN EAST GRAND RAPIDS

    Friday, April 20, at Collins Park on Lakeside Dr. in East Grand Rapids 12:15 pm.

    Bring signs, banners, drums, noisemakers. We want a loud and visible protest.

    For more information go to Media Mouse or Activategr.org [...]

    Posted: April 17, 2007, 4:45pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Coulter (the bigot whore) is coming to Cleary University

    Number of comments: 4

    Democratic Edge’s favorite bigot whore is coming to Michigan in October to speak to to the Livingston Economic Club at Cleary University… unless we help to stop her. The following is from the Cleary University website:

    Ann Coulter - Monday, October 1, 2007 - Johnson Center [...]

    Posted: April 16, 2007, 6:26pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • By JONATHAN D. GLATER and KAREN W. ...

    By JONATHAN D. GLATER and KAREN W. ARENSON

    In a fierce contest to control the student loan market, the nation’s banks and lenders have for years waged a successful campaign to limit a federal program that was intended to make borrowing less costly by having the government provide loans directly to [...]

    Posted: April 15, 2007, 10:29pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • Wolfie in Sheepish Clothing

    Lets talk Paul Wolfowitz for a moment. As always with such hubristic goniffs, Wolfie keeps getting into more and more trouble the more he tries to explain things.First, take a look at Wolfie’s April 9 e-mail to the World Bank staff. In it, he doesn’t mention his [...]

    Posted: April 15, 2007, 12:37pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Missing E-Mail May Be Related to Prosecutors

    Number of comments: 1

    Reprinted from The New York Times

    By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

    The White House said Thursday that missing e-mail messages sent on Republican Party accounts may include some relating to the firing of eight United States attorneys.

    The disclosure became a fresh political problem for the White House, as Democrats stepped up [...]

    Posted: April 13, 2007, 5:56pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • Spirit of Solidarity monument almost ready

    Almost nine years in the making, a sculpture commemorating labor struggles in the Grand Rapids furniture industry was installed this afternoon in Ah-Nab-Awen Park near the entrance to the Gerald R. Ford presidential museum. The final touches are being put on the memorial for its unveiling and dedication [...]

    Posted: April 12, 2007, 9:41pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • The real roots of the U.S. attorney firings.

    by Jeffrey Rosen
    Reprinted from THE NEW REPUBLIC

    A Unified Theory of Scandal

    U.S. Dept. of Justice/UPI Newspictures/Newscom (Sampson); Bill Greenblatt/UPI Newspictures/Newscom (Gonzales); Roger L. Wollenberg/UPI/Newspictures/Newscom (Miers)

    The ideological roots of the Justice Department scandal aren’t buried in Karl Rove’s office. They reside in a less likely [...]

    Posted: April 12, 2007, 9:17pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Iraqi’s finally unite! (Against America)

    By Robert Scheer

    You have to hand it to Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., for having the chutzpah to cite the fiercely anti-American rally that dominated the anniversary of Iraq’s fourth year of U.S. occupation as evidence that the troop “surge” is working. As opposed to Lieberman, who continues to [...]

    Posted: April 12, 2007, 10:00am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Remembering newspapers

    By Jack Lessenberry

    First, thoughts on Neal Shine: The death last week of the longtime Free Press managing editor and publisher produced an outpouring of grief, affection and respect that was remarkable in itself — and for the deeper meaning of what it represented. Shine was, indeed, everything the [...]

    Posted: April 11, 2007, 10:42pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Former Kent commissioner announces run for GR’s City Commission

    Former Kent County Commissioner Tom Postmus announced today he is a candidate for the 1st Ward City Commission seat being vacated by four-term Commissioner Roy Schmidt.

    Postmus served as a county commissioner for eight years before an unsuccessful campaign for drain commissioner last year.

    The retired food broker said his campaign will [...]

    Posted: April 10, 2007, 10:05pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • If you want to feel better, take a hike

    Garrison Keillor

    A person doesn’t learn much driving around in a car, compared to what you can pick up on foot, and that’s a sad fact about the way most of us live. Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a [...]

    Posted: April 10, 2007, 11:31am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Spring Break… The Red State tour

    I apologize that Democratic Edge has slowed down a bit lately. New posts were difficult to accomplish over the past week and a half while I toured some of our Red States for spring break. Having grown up in Florida, I am not unfamiliar with the ways of Red State [...]

    Posted: April 09, 2007, 9:26am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Enough Already!

    A friend told me about a 20/20 episode in which John Stossel interviewed people who were fed up. They were so exasperated they took their frustration and did something positive. “Enough,” they said in example after example of situations that compelled each to effect change.I googled Stossel to find his [...]

    Posted: April 09, 2007, 8:59am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Goodling resigns abruptly

    Number of comments: 1

    By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer
    3 hours ago

    WASHINGTON - A top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales abruptly quit Friday, almost two weeks after telling Congress she would not testify about her role in the firings of federal prosecutors.

    There was no immediate reason given, but Monica M. Goodling’s [...]

    Posted: April 06, 2007, 8:50pm EDT
    by abbasse
  • We must learn again

    By Paul Cummins

    We must learn them again: “the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself” (Faulkner, 1950). The education we provide children and young people today sadly neglects this individual conflict of “love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.” Instead, we offer [...]

    Posted: April 04, 2007, 10:27pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Hate, Election tampering, and Christian values

    During the Cold War and Ronald Reagan’s presidency the religious right enthusiastically enlisted in his crusade to derail what he called “The Evil Empire” meaning the Soviet Union and its godless tyranny. How interesting it is to see that the religious right has enthusiastically practiced one of the basic [...]

    Posted: April 04, 2007, 9:05am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Chamber of Republicans

    Number of comments: 1

    Editorial

    -Jeff Winston
    It should be no great mystery that the secret right arm of the Republican Party is… the Chamber of Commerce. Most legislation introduced by Republican legislators is actually written by the Chamber, not the actual elected legislators or their staff members. The theory here is: If it is [...]

    Posted: April 03, 2007, 9:50pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Warming ruling squeezes Bush from both sides

    Justices say government must explain refusal to act on car emissions

    The Supreme Court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to explain why it has refused to regulate greenhouse gas pollution from cars, putting the Bush administration under pressure from an unusual coalition of environmental groups and leaders [...]

    Posted: April 02, 2007, 10:54pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Anti-bullying bill sparks fray

    Controversial measure sent to Senate

    De’Lea Cheatham braces for abuse every day.

    The 17-year-old senior at Monroe High School says she frequently has been yelled at and shoved by other students because she’s a lesbian. She doesn’t want to get up some mornings because of the intimidation that looms ahead.

    It [...]

    Posted: April 02, 2007, 10:25pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Ex-Aide Details a Loss of Faith in the President

    Reprinted from NY Times

    By JIM RUTENBERG

    AUSTIN, Tex., March 29 — In 1999, Matthew Dowd became a symbol of George W. Bush’s early success at positioning himself as a Republican with Democratic appeal.

    A top strategist [...]

    Posted: April 01, 2007, 9:01am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Ahhh… the great outdoors!

    Gov. Granholm recently signed an official proclamation designating April 20 as “No Student Left Inside Day” in Michigan in an effort to help reconnect children with the outdoors.

    “One of the great gifts we can give our children is to make sure they connect with the amazing natural resources [...]

    Posted: March 31, 2007, 10:18am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Local reps offer no alternative

    Number of comments: 1

    From the Holland Sentinel

    By DON BERGMAN

    In the March 7 Sentinel, state Reps. Bill Huizenga and Arlan Meekhof attacked Gov. Granholm’s proposed services sales tax and accused her of not “getting to work” to reform our government. They said nothing about what services they will cut or what taxes [...]

    Posted: March 29, 2007, 4:43pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • State cuts could affect employee training

    Proposed state cuts could have a fairly significant impact on Delta Corporate Services, the arm of the college that uses grant money to train local workers, said Pat Graves, Delta’s director of sponsor programs.

    The state had allocated $10 million for these economic development job training grants statewide, and that amount [...]

    Posted: March 29, 2007, 4:39pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • MI Senate Democratic Caucus on the Budget

    Number of comments: 1

    Michigan is in crisis. Due to a combination of a manufacturing industry devastated by unfair trade policies and the exploding cost of health care, the state is facing a $3 billion budget shortfall. Short-sighted fiscal plans by previous legislatures have only deepened the problem, and now Michigan families [...]

    Posted: March 28, 2007, 10:59am EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Early Christmas Present for Mayor

    Number of comments: 1

    - Al Abbasse

    Having attended the City Commission meeting Tuesday evening, I walked away slightly disheartened. When discussion turned to the mayor’s request for HIS new city purchased vehicle there was very little discussion.

    Commissioner Tormala was the lone dissenting vote in the 5-1 approval for the Hybrid vehicle requested [...]

    Posted: March 28, 2007, 10:59am EDT
    by abbasse
  • Electrical savings blowin’ in the wind

    More than 20 area farmers and residents attended a seminar on small wind power at the MSU Extension office Monday in Escanaba. Lynn Hamilton, a MSU professor, provided an overview of the economics and realities of wind power for homes and farms.

    By Kim Hoyum - khoyum@dailypress.net

    ESCANABA — [...]

    Posted: March 27, 2007, 9:31pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Side-splitting IRONY!!! Gonzales Aide to plead 5th

    How ironic that all of the sudden, Gonzales and his cronies realize that the US Constitution provides RIGHTS! Hmmm, Rights you say? Why that sounds like some Mumbo-Jumbo made up thingy like Habeus Corpus. As I read the following Associated Press story… I couldn’t stop laughing. I believe [...]

    Posted: March 26, 2007, 11:38pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Surviving at the Pleasure of the President

    By Sheila Samples

    “You is feeling like you was lost in the bush, boy? You says: It is a puling sample jungle of woods. You most shouts out: Bethicket me for a stump of beech if I have the poultriest notions what the farest he all means.”~~James Joyce, [...]

    Posted: March 26, 2007, 9:20pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Granholm continues to protest school budget cuts

    sourceap.gifBy TIM MARTIN

    LANSING (AP) — Gov. Jennifer Granholm today asked educators from across the state to tell state lawmakers they oppose proposed spending cuts to schools.

    Senate Republicans last week passed a plan that would trim $34 per student from K-12 school budgets. That is less [...]

    Posted: March 26, 2007, 9:14pm EDT
    by democraticedge
  • Republican senator blasts president’s go-it-alone stance on Iraq policy

    Hagel: Bush impeachment an option!

    WASHINGTON - With his go-it-alone approach on Iraq, President Bush is flouting Congress and the public, so angering lawmakers that some consider impeachment an option over his war policy, a senator from Bush’s own party said Sunday.

    Meanwhile, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican leader harshly [...]

    Posted: March 25, 2007, 10:52pm EDT
    by democraticedge
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