Edwards Steps Up

via Lambert Edwards wants you to send a message to Abu Gonzales, the petition is short, sweet and to the point:
Dear Attorney General Gonzales,
Remember the Constitution that you were sworn to uphold?
Remember what this country stands for?
Remember the laws you were supposed to defend?
If you do, then do what is right, just once, and resign.
Sign [...]

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Retirement?

Have you been planning your retirement?  Apparently, about 1/3rds of boomers age 51-61 haven’t, or can’t depending on where they are on the economic ladder.
Nearly one-third of baby boomers ages 51 to 61 are at risk of not having enough in savings to finance a comfortable retirement, according to a study being released Tuesday by [...]

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the Insignificant DLC, Part II

My local paper has a wrap-up of the DLC convention in Nashville this pat weekend. Let’s dissect:
Democrats have allowed Republicans to “brand” them for too long and need to develop their own coherent story for their party and what it stands for, an Emory University psychology professor told the nation’s leading organization of centrist Democrats [...]

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Political Prostitution

Please note that it is the wingnutty GOP that consistently puts abortion front and center of the political stage. Most people, women and men alike, don’t really have a need to stick their noses into another’s private medical decisions, except for the righties.
Six months before the Iowa caucuses, abortion opponents are trying to adjust to [...]

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RIP Ingmar

Ingmar Bergman has passed
Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, an iconoclastic filmmaker widely regarded as one of the great masters of modern cinema, died Monday, the president of his foundation said. He was 89.
”It’s an unbelievable loss for Sweden, but even more so internationally,” Astrid Soderbergh Widding, president of The Ingmar Bergman Foundation, which administers the directors’ [...]

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