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

I can’t believe how many news stories I had flagged to follow up on from yesterday. I’ll try to keep it down to the best ones though. The rest I’ll push through Twitter. Which reminds me to remind you that Summer and I are on Twitter now. You ca find our [...]

By now everyone should be sick to death of hearing how we are winning in Iraq. After 5 years, 3 trillion dollars,and around a million casualties we are no closer to achieving anything resembling lasting peace in Iraq and the Republicans know it. We should have never taken our aim off of [...]

Samina Malik A.K.A the Lyrical Terrorist, who was convicted of thought crimes has escaped a long prison sentence (( 12/7/2007 The New York Times Britain: ‘Lyrical Terrorist’ Spared Prison )) . Instead of the 10 years she could have been sentenced she was given a suspended 9 month sentence. Obviously this show of [...]

A man with a bomb strapped to his chest has taken two volunteers hostage at the Clinton campaign headquarters in New Hampshire about an hour ago. He released a woman and her child but is holding two volunteers and demanding to speak with Hillary. Of course SWAT and bomb squads are on site [...]

In a free country the government’s most important duty is to protect the civil liberties of its people. Secondary to that is the duty to protect its people. Countries where those two duties get mixed up quickly fall to fascism and dictatorship as civil liberties are destroyed in the name of “security”. [...]