McKinley or Roosevelt? This Election is as Much About the Past as the Future

From the Gilded Age to the Great Depression to today, the economic agenda of conservatives has been easily summarized in two words: “cheap labor.” Nowhere was that more clearly on display than in the recent decision by Judge William S. Howard that “relieved” coal companies from having to pay already-earned retirement benefits to coal miners [...]

Written on October 24, 2004 | Posted in Democracy/Politics | Comments Off| Read More »

Bush & Scalia: “You want privacy rights? Pass a law!”

In an eerie juxtaposition during the second presidential debate, both George W. Bush and Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia – each in their own sort of code – were saying at the same time that if Bush is elected in 2004, women who get abortions will probably face criminal prosecutions, and our rights of [...]

Written on October 12, 2004 | Posted in Democracy/Politics | Comments Off| Read More »

Columbus Day Celebration? Think Again…

If you fly over the country of Haiti on the island of Hispaniola, the island on which Columbus landed, it looks like somebody took a blowtorch and burned away anything green. Even the ocean around the port capital of Port au Prince is choked for miles with the brown of human sewage and eroded topsoil. [...]

Written on October 10, 2004 | Posted in Democracy/Politics | Comments Off| Read More »

Triumph of the Will

Movie by Leni Reifenstahl
Review by Thom Hartmann, originally published at buzzflash.com on October 5, 2004

Written on October 4, 2004 | Posted in Books | Comments Off| Read More »

Who Was Right About the “Global Test”- Jefferson or Hitler?

…In the days since the debate, that clip and its related Bush spin has been replayed so much and so often by the media that it’s likely more Americans have heard it than heard the original debate itself. And of those who heard the debate, by this time most have probably forgotten Senator Kerry’s actual [...]

Written on October 4, 2004 | Posted in Democracy/Politics | Comments Off| Read More »