Thanks goodness for President Bush

IAMAHUSKER

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17632

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." --Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 1791. ME 8:276

rcdis

Interesting site. Thanks for pointing it out.

I wonder if it is possible to prove the following?

<<The police used $8.5 million of the $87 billion Congress appropriated for the Iraq War to patrol the streets of Miami. Police Chief John Timoney thanked his officers for their "remarkable restraint." And he won praise in some law enforcement quarters for what is being called the Miami Model.>>

rcdis

HAIRY

At least we may get the AWB overturned????[;)]





Don't assume malice for what stupidity can explain.

wipala

When you use a source you should check it's back ground.
The Progessive seems to have a rather Left Wing bias. I looked around its site and saw several anti-gun reports and editorials.
A shory history of the Progessive
On January 9, 1909, Wisconsin Senator Robert La Follette founded La Follette's Weekly to be "a magazine of progress, social, intellectual, institutional."

In 1929, La Follette's Weekly changed its name to The Progressive, and the views of the magazine have remained remarkably consistent over the years.

For nine decades, The Progressive has been a courageous voice for democracy, peace, social justice, civil rights, civil liberties, and environmental awareness.

For nine decades, The Progressive has denounced corporate power and decried U.S. support for brutal regimes abroad.

The Progressive was in the forefront of the battle for women's suffrage and for the abolition of child labor.

The Progressive led the fight to stay out of World War I.

The Progressive railed against the Palmer Raids in the early 1920s.

The Progressive championed the unemployed during the Depression.

The Progressive has opposed nuclear weapons from August 1945 to the present.

The Progressive, more than any other publication, helped to expose McCarthyism in the 50s.

Early on, The Progressive warned against U.S. involvement in Indochina.

The Progressive was a leading voice in the civil rights era, publishing the words of Martin Luther King Jr. five times in the 1960s.

In the 70s, The Progressive devoted attention to the environmental movement, kicking it off with a special Earth Day issue in 1970 entitled "The Crisis of Survival."

Then, in 1979, The Progressive won national attention for its article "The H-Bomb Secret: How we got it and why we're telling it," which the U.S. government suppressed for six months. But The Progressive prevailed on this landmark First Amendment case.

In the 1980s, The Progressive published pathbreaking stories about U.S. support for death squads in Central America.

In the 1990s, The Progressive stood up for the rights of immigrants, women on welfare, gays and lesbians, prisoners, and other scapegoats.

The Progressive has also campaigned tirelessly to end the economic sanctions on Iraq, prevent U.S. involvement in the Colombian civil war, adopt a sane policy toward drugs, and institute public funding of political campaigns.

Throughout the years, The Progressive has published leading social critics such as Jane Addams, Helen Keller, Jack London, Clarence Darrow, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Carl Sandburg, George Orwell, A.J. Muste, James Baldwin, I.F. Stone, June Jordan, Noam Chomsky, and Edward W. Said.

And The Progressive has opened its pages to liberal politicians such as Adlai Stevenson, J.W. Fulbright, George McGovern, Russ Feingold, Tammy Baldwin, Paul Wellstone, Dennis Kucinich, and Bernie Sanders.

These days our contributors include David Barsamian, Kate Clinton, Susan Douglas, Will Durst, Barbara Ehrenreich, Molly Ivins, Fred McKissack, John Nichols, Adolph L. Reed, Jr., and Howard Zinn.

The Progressive is also known for its investigative reporting. Managing Editor Anne-Marie Cusac has won several national awards for her expos?s of brutality behind bars, including the prestigious George Polk Award.

Since 1993, The Progressive, Inc., has been directing the Progressive Media Project, which distributes commentaries to newspapers around the country in an effort to diversify and democratize the debate.

In all of its activities, The Progressive, as it has since 1909, strives to put forward ideas that will help bring about a more just society and a more peaceful, humane world.


The above history is pulled directly from their own site


Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: And he that hath no sword,let him sell his garment, and buy one