Posted at Thom Hartmann on Jul. 21, 2005
TreasonGate - What Did Bush Know, And When Did He Know It?
...Which leaves George W. Bush, as the only other person on that plane with the means, opportunity, and motive.
Posted at Buzzflash on Jul. 13, 2005
Greenspan's Fraud: How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy by Ravi Batra
What do you do when you want to screw only the working people of your nation with the largest tax increase in history and hand those trillions of dollars to your wealthy campaign contributors, yet not have anybody realize you've done it? If you're Ronald Reagan, you call in Alan Greenspan.
Posted at Thom Hartmann on Jul. 4, 2005
Supreme Court - Media Ignore Possible "Fascist" Play
The Bush administration is spectacularly good at sleight-of-hand tricks, directing public attention in one direction while they're working diligently in another. The latest trial balloon of "probable" Supreme Court nominees is no exception. While everybody is worried about abortion rights and corporate power, a far more insidious agenda may be at play.
Posted at Thom Hartmann on Jun. 19, 2005
They Died So Republicans Could Take the Senate
The real scandal of the Downing Street Memos, with the greatest potential to leave the Bush presidency in permanent disgrace, is their implication that lies may have been put forward to help Bush, Republicans, and Blair politically. If Bush lied to gain and keep political power, precedent suggests he and his collaborators in the administration may even be vulnerable to impeachment.
Posted at Thom Hartmann on Jun. 9, 2005
Dean Just Told Them The Truth and They Thought It Was Hell
This morning I called the Democratic National Committee to tell them that I support Howard Dean's modern-day version of Harry Truman's dictum that, "I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."
Posted at Buzzflash on May. 22, 2005
What Went Wrong In Ohio: The Conyers Report On The 2004 Presidential Election" by Anita Miller (Editor), Gore Vidal (Introduction) Review by Thom Hartmann
Two weeks before the presidential election of 2004, The Washington Post ran an article titled"Some Fear Ohio Will Be Florida." "Florida" has become shorthand for the illegal purging of tens of thousands of largely Democratic African American voters by Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, and that state's Republican machine just before the election of 2000.
Posted at Buzzflash on May. 3, 2005
"Rights of Man" by Thomas Paine
Some people think that FDR invented the progressive income tax when he raised income tax rates on the super-rich to 90 percent. Some believe that LBJ invented anti-poverty programs when he more than cut in half severe poverty in the US by introducing Medicare, housing assistance, and food-stamp programs in the 1960s.
Posted at Thom Hartmann on May. 2, 2005
Carter Tried To Stop Bush's Energy Disasters - 28 Years Ago
In his recent news conference, George Bush Jr. suggested that our nation's "problem" with high gasoline prices was caused by the lack of a national energy policy, and tried to blame it all on Bill Clinton. First, Junior said, "This is a problem that's been a long time in coming. We haven't had an energy policy in this country." As is so often the case, Bush was lying.
Posted at Thom Hartmann on Apr. 30, 2005
Save Andy - And Save America, Too!
Just as we occasionally see community fundraising efforts surface with donation collection cans in convenience stores for local folks experiencing medical emergencies, today the progressive community is working to save one of its own.
Posted at Thom Hartmann on Apr. 24, 2005
The Frauds of the Clergy
Why would a multi-multi-millionaire Senator, who consistently votes to harm the hungry and the poor who so concerned Jesus, join forces with religious fundamentalists to stack this nation's highest courts? Could it be because he and his wealthy Republican friends see huge financial benefits for themselves and their corporate patrons in a compliant court?