I caught a couple clips of one of the Republican presidential debates yesterday on the news. One of the bits was John McCain making a snide attack on Hillary Clinton about "she wants to spend a million dollars on a Woodstock museum." and he's sure it was a great cultural event, but he couldn't attend, he was tied up at the time ( Read more... )

Last year, the top 1% of Americans made 21.2% of the total income in the US ( Read more... )

March, 1969. With the Vietnam War going nowhere fast, and an approval rating of 25%, Richard Nixon begins the secret bombing of Cambodia. He's impeached in 1974, for blatant violations of the law and high crimes and misdemeanors, none related to causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people ( Read more... )

Okay, so President Bush authorized spying on American citizens without warrants or any oversight. The program expanded to include domestic political opponents, peace groups, the ACLU, etc. When this was finally exposed, the President gets up and gives a press conference that can be paraphrased basically as "Iraq, Iraq, Terror, 9/11, Al Queda, ( Read more... )