–AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl

–AZ-01: Rick Renzi

–AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth

–CA-04: John Doolittle

–CA-11: Richard Pombo

–CA-50: Brian Bilbray

–CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave

–CO-05: Doug Lamborn

–CO-07: Rick O’Donnell

–CT-04: Christopher Shays

–FL-13: Vernon Buchanan

–FL-16: Joe Negron

–FL-22: Clay Shaw

–ID-01: Bill Sali

–IL-06: Peter Roskam

–IL-10: Mark Kirk

–IL-14: Dennis Hastert

–IN-02: Chris Chocola

–IN-08: John read more

Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein:
Partners in Crimes Against Humanity
By David Swanson

The White House has arranged to announce two days before the November 7, 2006, elections a guilty verdict for Saddam Hussein and, no doubt, plans to finally murder him. Meanwhile an appeals process is delaying until at least five days after the elections release of photos of members of the U.S. military and its contractors raping and murdering children and adults at Abu Ghraib.

While use of the death penalty read more

By Richard Dawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com

America, founded in secularism as a beacon of eighteenth century enlightenment, is becoming the victim of religious politics, a circumstance that would have horrified the Founding Fathers. The political ascendancy today values embryonic cells over adult people. It obsesses about gay marriage, ahead of genuinely important issues that actually make a difference to the world. It gains crucial electoral support from a religious constituency whose grip on read more

ImpeachPAC, a federal PAC funding pro-impeachment candidates for Congress, has announced additional endorsements, including: James Wright, Democratic nominee in the Eighth District of Texas; Stacey Tallitsch, Democratic nominee in Louisiana’s First District; Danny Stover, Democratic nominee in Illinois’ 19th; Bill Glass, Democratic and Green nominee in North Carolina’s Ninth; Steve Young, Democratic nominee in the 48th District of California; John Laesch, Democratic nominee in read more

By Sam Harris, Boston Globe

THE MIDTERM elections are fast approaching, and their outcome could well be determined by the “moral values

By David Swanson

“Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers,” by far the best film Robert Greenwald has created, is not about the military industrial complex. Rather, it is about the remaining shell of the former military, having embedded within itself not just the media, but numerous other corporate entities. The U.S. military no longer cooks its own food, washes its own laundry, repairs its own vehicles, or guards its own V.I.P.s. We’ve privatized everything, right down to the shooting read more

Colbert vs. Dawkins [VIDEO]
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/43175

By David Swanson

Recently someone Emailed me a brief policy statement on four major issues. They’d received it from a political activist group, they said, and were passing it along with praise. I think it’s worth commenting on, because the positions are those many progressive groups take, but – far from being “stands” on the issues, as my correspondent described them, they are closer to being methods of rolling over.

Here’s the first:

“The War in Iraq
“We read more

By David Swanson

Lewis Lapham, essayist extraordinaire and editor of Harper’s magazine, asked Congressman John Conyers what he thought the point was of publishing a lengthy report laying out evidence of Bush’s impeachable offenses. Conyers’ response was: “to take away the excuse that we didn’t know.”

But Lapham still wanted to know what the hurry was: why not wait until the Democrats had a large majority, or more investigations were done, or the public demanded read more