Check out this fascinating video hosted by Thom Hartman featuring the first hand account of the Boston Tea party from an original Tea Partier. It’s worth a look.
The real story of the Boston tea party from an original Boston Tea party member, George Robert Twelves Hewes.
Today was Sunday and everyone who had come to say goodbye to Mike was leaving. …
I relive those last few days of Mike’s life every year, day-by-day.
I grew up the daughter of a hard-nosed newspaper reporter who valued the truth above all. He could cover an issue he felt passionately about and leave his own feelings at the door. He had integrity.
I remember when Walter Cronkite was the nation’s most trusted man. He reported the news and nothing more, until he saw what a travesty the Vietnam War had become and felt compelled to speak out. I was disappointed, even though I agreed with him.
Opinion is why newspapers have editorial pages, and that is where opinion used to be confined.
I’m a lifelong “Star Trek” fan. Well, since the original series came on in 1966, anyway. I was almost 14, and I was captivated.
In the series’ second incarnation, “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” a race called the Ferengi was introduced. They’re money-grubbing, power-hungry beings, guided by the “Rules of Acquisition,” which glorify greed and cheating.
Rule of Acquisition 1: “Once you have their money, never give it back.”
Apparently Scott Walker believes he doesn’t have to listen to the courts any more than he has to listen to his constituents.
Walker, Wisconsin’s ultra-corporate-friendly governor, has decided to publish the anti-labor law he illegally pushed through the state senate. The law strips most public sector unions of their collective bargaining rights.
State by state and even nationally, Republicans are moving toward requiring a photo ID to vote. It will help reduce voter fraud, they say.
They talk about dead people voting in Washington County, NC; they talk about noncitizens casting hundreds of votes.
Apparently, we have enough money for another war.
We don’t have enough to give access to quality health care to everyone.
We can’t afford to make sure schools aren’t shortchanged.
We can’t improve our public infrastructure or expand or modernize public transportation.
Upgrading the electrical grid is beyond our means.
We have to take away collective bargaining rights for people who work for a living because it’s just too expensive.
We’re talking about draconian cuts to human services because we’re in such a financial crunch.
Workers have been losing ground for 30 years because the government just can’t keep spending on regulation. And besides, it’s just too intrusive for big corporations to be regulated.
Finally, a week after the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi began, people are starting to question the information coming from officials at Tokyo Electric, which operates the plant. Might they be hedging just a little on the extent of the disaster?
Well, duh-huh, as my kids used to say.
All along, we’ve been told nuclear power was safe, often by so-called experts who couldn’t even pronounce the word correctly.
“Sure, we’re prepared for earthquakes,” they said. “Nuke-u-lar power is safe, clean and efficient.”
In the United States, they’re still saying so. All is well, let’s expand nuclear power in the US
Attacks on the working class are stepping up in ferocity.
In Wisconsin, the union-busting bill passed in the middle of the night with no debate and no quorum, using parliamentary trickery.
In Michigan, things are even worse. Newly elected Gov. Rick Snyder has decided he can declare martial law and send his people in to govern towns and school districts with no elected power whatsoever. He can even dissolve cities and towns.
