Blogging from Phoenix- Lawyers appointed to represent the 8-year-old St. Johns Arizona boy accused of killing his father and another man last month have asked the judge to throw out the boy’s confession, along with evidence gathered at the crime scene. In motions filed this week by attorneys Benjamin Brewer and Ronald Wood, It is […]

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Blogging from Phoenix- While watching Vice President Richard Cheney offering the obligatory major media exit interviews the last couple weeks, It becomes difficult not to infer he sounds very much like a man who is not the least bit concerned, he may face criminal prosecution for crimes committed against the United States while in office.
Which […]

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Blogging From Phoenix- President Elect Barack Obama continues to puzzle progressive liberals with his selection of neo-conservative evangelical pastor Rick Warren to offer the invocation at his inauguration. The man republicans tagged as the most liberal member of the United States Senate, Has been delighting the opposition with his cabinet choices and the selection of […]

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Blogging from Phoenix- It seems money was not the only thing George Bush spent eight years borrowing from the Chinese, In what civil libertarians hope is the first of many bipartisan congressional reports into the Bush administrations eight year abuse of civil liberty.
A panel of twenty five Senators which included twelve republicans, concluded former defense […]

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Blogging from Phoenix- (psburton) Representative Barney Frank joined others this week, in what appears to be a growing chorus of democrats publicly calling on the President Elect, to step up and start voicing his positions on the multitude of crises facing a Nation he will lead in a few short weeks. “We only have one […]

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Blogging from Phoenix – The United Kingdom, through its Internet service providers has censored Wikipedia, for publishing an article, which included the image of a young naked girl on an album cover. The album “Virgin Killer” was first released in 1976 by the Scorpions. The cover was changed soon after because of the controversy it […]

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Most of the discussion of racism in the US are “ain’t it awful” laments that ignore the dirty little secret of America: That people face less racism in the US than in the rest of the world, and that racism is a slowly disappearing in the United States.
Does racism exist? Yes. But next to the […]

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A leaked June memo, outlining the decision by Mormon Church leadership to use resources and staff in support of California’s Proposition 8, may just eventually end up costing the cult far more than the 20 million or so it spent helping get the ballot initiative passed.
I do not know a lot of openly gay people, […]

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In the noisy and bitter aftermath of Proposition 8’s failure in California, national protests by gay and straight groups are sweeping the country.  The gay marriage issue isn’t really about marriage, it’s about homosexuality which, like abortion, is viewed by Christians as a moral issue and not a political one.
Morality, however, is a fruitless avenue […]

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Two women activists, Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu, remain jailed in a Bulawayo jail after a peaceful protest two weeks ago.
The women, members of WOZA, were part of a group demonstrating to pressure the government about aid going to destitute farmers. LINK
The KubatanaBlog describes the peaceful protest:
On arrival at the Government Complex, the group of […]

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Conservative talk show hosts are jumping on Barack Obama’s words in a YouTube video of a 2001 Chicago Public Radio Interview. Now Conservative talk show hosts are just like Legislators — you can’t trust them to tell the entire truth — don’t listen to them . . . listen to Obama: In this interview, Obama […]

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The Columbus Dispatch reports that OH officials are looking into whether state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed to dig out personal information about Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (AKA “Joe the Plumber”), some of which was used  by the MSM to damage the credibility of this private citizen who dared challenge Sen. Barack Obama on […]

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Within a few days of the “Joe the Plumber” incident, I was reading about his tax lien, that he lacked a full plumber’s license, and that
the plumber currently has an income level that would make him eligible for Obama’s proposed tax cut rather than the tax increase.
ABC news then found quotes a lot of […]

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The right wing blogs had their tails in a knot over the weekend about a Missouri prosecutor claiming that “lies” against the candidate would be “prosecuted”.
Even Missouri governor Blout got into the act:
“What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas […]

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The single best word to describe this true story of a hate crime surrounded by deceit is riveting. Eyes of a Monster is a morality play that has been personalized by the naivete of its author, taking the reader deeply into the psyche of women who love men on death row. It is a treatise […]

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Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson writes that in his own way, Trig Palin, too has made history in this election year:  
In addition to Barack Obama making history as the first African American to be nominated for president and Sarah Palin taking her shotgun to the glass ceiling, there was a third civil rights barrier […]

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John McCain is depending on Palin power to generate the kind of grass roots swell that delivers an upset November 4Th. Even GOP insiders admitted prior to Palins selection, the party strategy was to sandbag downstream and retain as many house and senate seats as possible in the face of an inevitable Obama landslide.
What a […]

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Whether it is true or not, that several high ranking democratic party insiders and senior Obama-Biden campaign staffers are privately expressing a sense of growing anxiety over the popularity of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. I speculate the deployment of Hillary Clinton to shore up support amongst women and independents who may account for some of […]

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Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson notes that Spike Lee has taken to “grandiloquently divid[ing] American history into two epochs, “B.B.” and “A.B.” - Before Barack and After Barack.” With John McCain’s selection of AK Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, Obama went from making history to being history in the span of 12 hours.
The […]

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This is incredible. Liberal blogger Alex Jones leads his fans in a chant for peace and love then turns around and bullies conservative pundit Michelle Malkin with chants of “Kill Michelle Malkin.” So I guess Jones thinks peace and love involves axes and machine guns.
You know, the irony here is that Michelle Malkin was absolutely […]

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My fellow liberals may just mock Sarah Palin right into the White House, the gut reaction most liberal and moderate pundits expressed toward the Governor of Alaska, was the very emotion she used to get herself elected in the first place,
John McCain’s gamble may just be hoping the Obama campaign will focus on her personality […]

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Senator Obama’s acceptance speech this evening begins the very difficult task of transforming from a black candidate into the candidate who happens to be black, the blue collar working class democrats and independents who have yet to express support for the party nominee, are the same kind of folks who encourage their children to emulate Tiger woods’ […]

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In a brilliant move clearly aimed at appeasing the Christian Far Right, John McCain stunned the political world by announcing that Bigfoot will be his vice presidential choice. The surprise announcement brought unified praise from Bush/Cheney Republicans, Pavlovian evangelical extremists, and knuckle-dragging pundits in what is being dubbed a bold political stroke.
Rush Limbaugh expressed mild […]

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Today’s google news on Georgia has a statement from Senator Obama as the top headline.
What’s wrong with this picture? The dirty little secret is that Obama’s first statement on Russian aggression against the country of Georgia was along the lines of: “why can’t we all be friends”.
The relationship between Russia and the West is long […]

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Today’s NYTimes has an article on the epidemic of HIV among African Americans in the US.
I almost skipped it, figuring it was just another politicized “Ain’t it awful” article blaming the problem on racism and the lack of universal health care.
However, it is a fairly good article about the world wide fight against the HIV […]

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By RB Scott 
In April Thomas Sowell, a respected conservative scholar, wrote an insidious column undercutting Barack Obama and attacking preemptively the presumptive stupidity and gullibility of an American electorate that would elect him President simply to make a little history. (http://www.townhall.com/col umnists/ThomasSowell/2008/0 4/29/an_old_newness )  
This would not be particularly noteworthy were Sowell not […]

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Peter Steinfels of the NYTimes has read and analyzed Senator Obama’s speech proposing to increase funding of church charities as is done by President Bush’s “faith based initiatives”.
The original report was hopeful (NYTIMES LINK). The first part sounded hopeful:
In embracing the same general approach as Mr. Bush, Mr. Obama ran the political risk of alienating […]

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Some real crazyness is being done in the name of copyright protection.
I’ve written in the past that a new treaty might allow customs officials to check your laptop for music and film when you enter the country, and I’ve written about a “download protection” program aimed at college students downloading songs that was being promoted […]

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Obama’s been in the news courting faith voters, talking to evangelical leaders.
McCain? He’s been visiting Colombia and Mexico. Ho hum. Yawn.
I was bemused when one political writer wondered if the hostage rescue in Colombia had been “timed” for his benefit. Tres estupido.  What if the rescue had gone wrong? But of course, the rescue merely […]

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Usually when I write “Grandmom’s guide to computer” series, I get a geek who corrects my ignorance.
That’s fine: I’m a doctor, not a geek, and the series is trying to explain basic computer stuff that I had to learn painfully on my own to others who might, like me, be from the stone ages of […]

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