We lost one. A really good one. The intellectual and journalistic center of the blue dot in the center of the reddest of red states. Molly Ivins just died of breast cancer. A tremendous void has been created. “Molly Ivins, Populist Texas Columnist, Dies at 62 By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE Published: January 31, 2007 Molly…
Officer Refused to Deploy to Iraq Fresh Air from WHYY, January 25, 2007 – Army Lieutenant Ehren Watada is the first American officer to refuse to deploy to Iraq on the grounds that he thinks the war is illegal. He is joined by one of his lawyers, Eric Seitz, a civilian. Watada is now being…
(Impeach for no other reason than justice) by IFP’s own Mikael Rudolph “Do we have a baby coming?” That is reportedly how newbie House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) answered her first phone call of the early morning on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006. The voice on the line was not bringing news of the bundle of…
Editor & Publisher-January 24, 2007 (from an Online Chat with WashingtonPost.com) “In the current administration we have seen from the President down-especially Vice President Cheney, Attorney General Gonzales, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld – a willingness to ignore the great constitutional history of the United States – to suspend, really, the many of the constitutional guarantees…
