Deborah's US Liberal Politics Blog August 2005 Archive

The blogosphere runneth over with tidings of news about Hurricane Katrina, and I don't mean weather reports, evacuation schedules and Red Cross appeals. First and foremost, a pro-Israel extremeist named ... Read More

The Iraq War seems to on everyone's mind lately. (Well, that and Hurricane Katrina. Here at About.com, we're all hoping that power returns soon to the millions stranded by ... Read More

Army General Wesley Clark is guest blogging this week at top liberal community blog TPMCafe. He penned a Washington Post editorial on August 26 about the Iraq War, and yesterday, ... Read More

Army General Wesley Clark, Supreme Allied Commander for Europe from 1997 to 2000, is on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday to discuss his strategy for ending the Iraq War, as ... Read More

The Iraq War is widely acknowledged as a mess, and the majority of Americans now regard the US attack on Iraq as a deadly mistake. The tide of public ... Read More

I received word today from Bob Fertik of Democrats.com that Cindy Sheehan will be returning tonight to Camp Casey, the encampment outside of President Bush's Texas ranch, of families who ... Read More

When the Senate reconvenes in September, a first order of business will be debate and roll call vote on a bill to provide federal funding for human embryonic stem cell ... Read More

From blog Think Progress...."Via Atrios, an American Research Group poll released today shows that George Bush has dropped to staggering new lows: George W. Bush’s overall job approval ratings have dropped ... Read More

I second blogger Michael Burton when he asks, "What’s going on here? During the past week, civil rights leader Coretta Scott King suffered a stroke; gold star ... Read More

Programming Note: Tomorrow morning, Sunday, NBC's Meet the Press will have an exclusive interivew with Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), who will discuss his decision to be the first ... Read More

Reuters reports that Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) saw a doctor after feeling light-headed Tuesday and learned he'd suffered a mild stroke, aides said Friday. "Senator Reid feels fine. There ... Read More

I can't recall disagreeing with even one op-ed written by Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist since 1999 and longtime professor of Economics & International Affairs at Princeton University...and today ... Read More

I just returned from vacation in the Pacific Northwest. While I know that Cindy Sheehan and supporters in Camp Casey (outside the President's Texas ranch, protesting the Iraq War) are ... Read More

Most US citizens have never been refused or purposely deterred from exercising their rights to vote. We all acknowledge that it's obviously wrong and even unAmerican....but wholly unimaginable as a ... Read More

A bona fide political movement was born this week, and it's led by an enraged middle-aged mother with a sore throat and low-grade fever who's camping out amidst a Texas ... Read More

I've been invited and will particpate in a blogger conference call tomorrow afternoon with Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier slain in Iraq who is camping outside President Bush's ... Read More

In its lead editorial today, the New York Times tells of Cindy Sheehan, the middle-aged mother of a soldier slain in Iraq, who is camping outside the President's Crawford Ranch, ... Read More

Peter Jennings, longtime anchor of ABC world News Tonight, passed away of lung cancer yesterday. He had announced his diagnosis on ABC World News Tonight on April 5, ... Read More

Several blogs, including conservatives Ramblins' Journal and Michelle Malkin write today of "unconfirmed reports from sources inside ABC News, that World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings is close ... Read More

A few minutes ago, I received a phone call from Michael Lindsay, a youthful volunteer for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He's spending his summer weekend time, trying to raise ... Read More

"The argument is that workers aren’t educated enough to compete (in the global marketplace) so it must be the fault of their teachers. It couldn't be factors like parental ... Read More

From the LA Times today, via Yahoo News (and at the Seattle Times) : "Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. worked behind the scenes for gay rights activists, and ... Read More

"Commander Eileen Collins said astronauts on shuttle Discovery had seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth and warned on Thursday that greater care was needed to protect natural resources," reports Reuters ... Read More

Reports blogger Liberaltopia, "President Bush's job approval ratings have hit the lowest point of his tenure and the number of Americans with an unfavorable opinion of him has reached 50% ... Read More

Time for my regular Tuesday jog around the blogosphere to see what's worrying the neighbors..... From Avedon Carol of the Sideshow, "If you're working in trouble spots abroad, the last thing ... Read More

Blogger BuzzFlash posted a candid interview today with Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid. The four-term senator from Nevada is a soft-spoken and effective leader who carries the very big stick ... Read More