A progressive political blog that highlights the infringement of religion upon today’s government.

George W. is now asking for more money to fund the Iraq war. I was just listening to him on Countdown making it seem as thought Congress doesn’t really support our troops as they fight him on every spending and supplemental spending bill. He comes off as so self righteously indignant that anyone could ever [...]

This evening I took my 5 and 6 year old to our state capital building to participate in a candlelight vigil urging Congress to override the president’s veto of SCHIP. My kids were excited to go and I wondered how much they really grasped of what was going on. I asked our 6 year [...]

A House committee voted last week to send to the floor a resolution that would label the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by Turkey in 1915 genocide. Incensed, Turkey threatened that if this measure is passed by the full House they would reconsider their support of the Iraq war.
The US ships supplies through Turkey from [...]

Yesterday morning I was watching the usual round of Sunday news shows. One of the big stories, besides Chris Matthews new book, was the presidential veto of SCHIP. On Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer had on Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), and Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL). I was really interested in seeing how anyone could defend [...]

On Thursday The New York Times reported on the Justice Department’s secret endorsement of torture. Unsurprisingly this revelation sparked a new round of allegations and outrage from Democrats and Republicans alike and has spread through the Blogosphere faster than a 12 volt charge to the scrotum.
According to the New York Times article the Justice [...]