I’d heard about it somewhere a while back. Now Robert Reich has confirmed it wasn’t my imagination. In an article today on Salon.com, Reich talks about Big Pharma’s secret deal with the White House: In exchange for the industry’s support of his health care plan, Pres. Obama has promised not to use the government’s purchasing … Continue reading Obama sells out to Big Pharma
A few years ago, I wrote a post and was taken to task for saying that George Bush had led us into his version of a holy war. He himself used the word “crusade.” Now comes a GQ story, complete with photos, showing that Donald Rumsfeld’s intelligence briefings to the president were covered with select … Continue reading Blood on Bush’s Bible
November 14, 2005. That’s the date of my first post addressing the use of torture by the Bush administration. (Run a Pied Type search on “torture” to see the rest.) My mind was made up long before the current, increasingly heated discussion began. Suffice it to say that while the media, the pundits, and the … Continue reading Let the chips fall
Science is back. As promised, President Obama today signed a bill lifting George Bush’s religion-based restrictions on stem cell research. The move heralds a return to free, open, unfettered scientific inquiry. In a very heated and ongoing debate, religious ideologues argue that it is immoral to use/destroy embryonic stem cells — “human life” — for … Continue reading Stem cell research gets green light again
• Former President George W. Bush starts a 2009 speaking tour next month that will take him to several foreign nations. He’s now listed with the Washington Speakers Bureau and, to date, has ten speeches scheduled. I can’t help wondering who would actually pay good money to hear him speak. Public speaker he is not. … Continue reading Political snapshots
Because our government tried so hard to keep pictures like this out of the press, I thought I’d hang on to this one. This is what we are accomplishing in Iraq. This is why we should get out, now. Photos like this first became public in 2004 because a brave young photographer, Tami Silicio, and … Continue reading Gates reviewing Bush’s photo ban
