Summary: In this episode, Mary & Freddie take on conservative talk radio’s domination of the airwaves as well as the men running for mayor - their urban plunge and their first televised forum.
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Summary: This is our interview with Loretta Alper, producer, writer & director of the new doc, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. The film “reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one […]
Summary: This Saturday, June 23, is the Tennessee Democratic Party’s big shindig, Jackson Day,* with speakers and special guests, Governor Phil Bredesen and Governor Bill Richardson. In honor of this special day, we bring you our interview with the Volunteer State’s sassy new Democratic Party chairman, Gray Sasser. Sasser’s bringing his 95 county strategy to […]
Representative Mike Turner (D - 51, the fighin’ 51st!), along with representatives from the Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing, the Nashville Peace and Justice Center, Charles Strobel of Murder Victims Families for Human Rights, and Mrs. Joyce House, held a press conference this morning calling for Governor Phil Bredesen to pardon Paul House from […]
At this morning’s post-Urban Plunge press conference, four of the seven mayoral candidates were there to answer questions about their night out on the streets. David Briley, Karl Dean, Buck Dozier, and Howard Gentry all looked a bit tired and unusually disheveled, especially if you’re used to seeing them at forums and campaign appearances in […]
Okay, so Michael Bloomberg just announced that he’s no longer a Republican. On the one hand, I say: Who can blame the guy? On the other hand, what this portends is the not unreal possibility of an all-New-York presidential contest. Hillary Clinton has a solid lead among Democratic contenders, and Rudy Giuliani remains atop the […]
Do “minions” by definition have to be obsequious or servile? Or can they be held in high esteem as an integral part of an organization?
If the latter, then Nashville mayoral candidate Karl Dean has minions. The campaign just released the names of 54 precinct chairs, “marking the strongest grassroots organization announced in the mayoral race.”
According […]
From Public Citizen:
Ordinary voters are being drowned out by corporate and wealthy special interests that co-opt elected officials and raid the federal treasury for earmarks and tax breaks. The result is policy for Big Pharma, Big Oil and Wall Street. But we can change all that.
Senators Durbin and Specter are moving the Fair […]
Did you know that Iraq’s oil workers had unions? And that they are very opposed to the privatization of Irag’s oil? And that their main objective is the renegotiation of the new oil law so that their oil remains in public hands? Did you know that President Bush has his fingers in his ears and […]
In 10 years it’s going to get worse with a whole new generation of grownup Iraqis trying to punish us for what we did to their families when they were eight.
According to a new survey, “Iraq has emerged as the world’s second most unstable country, behind Sudan, more than four years after President George W. […]
