In light of the recent disaster at a Shi’ite mosque in Baghdad, Iraq’s ruling parties are asking us to “cede control of security”. In other words, “can you guys please remove your 130,000 troops? You’ve made a total mess.”
Meanwhile, Condoleezza Rice is asking Iraqis to “assume greater control of their country’s security.”
They want it. […]

Our guest this morning was Francie Hunt, State Director for Stand for Children.
If you’re interested in attending Pre-K day at the hill this Wendesday morning at 8am or the 2006 Tennessee Early Childhood Summit, you can find out more information by going to www.prekfortn.com.
For additional volunteer opportunities with Stand, call Francie at 615.972.0765 or send […]

Another memo. This one, from “a private two-hour meeting in the Oval Office on Jan. 31, 2003 ” between President Bush and Prime Minister Blair, shows that the president and the prime minister acknowledged that no unconventional weapons had been found inside Iraq.”
(Clear your head. Have some coffee. Read that date again.)
No worries, the memo […]

In what David Golove, a New York University law professor who specializes in executive power issues called a ”’mind-bogglingly expansive conception’ of executive power and its low regard for legislative power”, President Bush attached a signing statement to the recently renewed Patriot Act. According to the Boston Globe, “Bush said that he did not consider […]

The NY Times reported last week that the President may bring in another staffer to the White House to help the beleaguered Andrew Card and the increasingly ineffective Karl Rove. Rove, however, continues to deny that anything might be wrong and attributes “Mr. Bush’s problems more to external events, in particular Hurricane Katrina and Iraq, […]

A post by Brittney Gilbert over at Nashville is Talking celebrating South Dakota’s Oglala Sioux tribe President Cecilia Fire Thunder’s promise to open a Planned Parenthood clinic on her sovereign land prompted the usual hateful rhetoric including the tossing around of the dreaded “anarchist” as an epithet and the labeling of all Planned Parenthood clinics […]

Hat tip to longtime-listener, Marga, who sent me the latest by Greg Palast, who calls us all “fools” and reminds us of the real reason Bush et al. pushed for the war in Iraq:
Operation
Iraqi
Liberation
Palast writes:
“It’s about oil,” Robert Ebel told me. Who is Ebel? Formerly the CIA’s top oil analyst, he was sent by […]

Tennessee ADAPT, Randy Alexander, Organizer.
Progress Center for Independent Living in Chicago, Diane Coleman, Executive Director.

Many thanks to Mark Huffman, Vice President of Education and Training for Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee, for being our guest this morning. If you missed the interview we will have it up and running later this week as part of our archives/podcasts. Mark did a fantastic job of explaining what Planned Parenthood […]

I just got back from the Press Conference/Rally held to stave off legislative attacks on abortion, reproductive health, and a woman’s right to control her own body.
SJR127 passed the Senate with only 9 votes against.
Interestingly, Room 31 in Legislative Plaze where the Press Conference was held and where organizations such as Planned Parenthood, Tennessee Coalition […]