From TruthOut.org: As the military develops increasingly sophisticated approaches to roping in America’s youth, a renewed counter-recruitment movement is fighting back with its own fresh strategies.

Do we really want to write discrimination into the constitution? Constitutional Amendments should be about granting rights, not restricting them. Vote No on 1.
ABA President Michael S. Greco: “We will be close to a constitutional crisis if this issue, the president’s use of signing statements, is left unchecked.”
What a Corker!
Tennessean (editorial) endorses Corker in […]

“Corker? I Don’t Even Think She Votes!” — Brittney Gilbert, NashvilleisTalking.com

President Bush is this close to a veto - his first one ever! Here’s a fun list. Let’s call it “Some bills President Bush didn’t veto”:
Bill Cutting Vital Programs like Student Loans. President Bush will veto stem cell legislation, but he did not veto a plan making American students pay the price for his Administration’s […]

From Amie, Nashville’s Drinking Liberally Goddess:
Howdy, Liberal Drinkers! Come join us this evening, 6pm at the Flying Saucer, for another round of Drinking Liberally!
Hey, do you know what your President did for you while at the G8 Summit? Did he:
a) talk with his mouth full
b) curse next to a live mike
c) grope the German Chancellor […]

Monday, July 17, 7 to 9am
WRVU-FM, 91.1
Listen to Liberadio(!) and liberate your radio from the right!
Our guest on Monday morning is Greg Palast, best-selling author and award winning investigative journalist who broke the story of how Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black Florida citizens from voter rolls before the 2000 election. His reports can be […]

It finally dawned on me why certain people oppose gay marriage and/or civil unions. They’re afraid of the sex. They imagine (or can’t imagine) the sex between two people of the same gender and it frightens them.
But gay marriage isn’t about sex, it’s about love.
And we all know, from our past life experiences, that you […]

Paul Waldman wants to know what is it about Midland, TX that “produces rapist-murderers?” He writes:
Let’s cast our minds back to 2002, when the country learned of John Walker Lindh, a young man who left home in California after converting to Islam to live in Afghanistan with the Taliban. When he was captured by American […]

For those of us who take our symbols of liberty to heart, what happened at the World Overcomers Outreach Ministries Church in Memphis yesterday is a travesty.
Look Mister Pastor Apostle Alton R. Williams, we don’t hang a crown of thorns-wearing founding father from a cross so please don’t disfigure our Lady Liberty.
Seriously. Back off.
And […]

CSPAN begins a new series tomorrow night: The Capitol. Pop the corn, Honey, we’re staying in!
“…you’ve never seen anything like this before on TV.” - Aaron Barnhart, Kansas City Star
“…works in wondrous ways that only C-SPAN can achieve.” - MediaBistro.com
Beginning tomorrow night, join C-SPAN for our three-part special series, The Capitol. We’ll take you inside […]