Now, we almost all agree that Bush and Cheney have done bad things.  But have they actually committed crimes?  If you know anyone who has any doubts on this topic, may I recommend a brilliant little book for you to stick in their stocking next month?

Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox’s Office has challenged Donzella James’s lawsuit regarding electronic voting in Georgia, Atlanta Progressive News (APN) has learned. James filed the lawsuit after her the so-called election “results” showed US Rep. David Scott (D-GA) beat her in the Democratic Primary.

Aristotle, one of the great minds of antiquity, thought that the population of states would have to be limited to the few thousand who could be directly seen and addressed at one place. Otherwise, he asked, who would be the herald of such a vast multitude, “Unless he have the voice of a Stentor? Clearly then, the best limit of the population of a state is the largest number which can be taken in at a single view.”

Fired by anger and disgust with George W. Bush, the Iraq war, corporate greed, corruption and human needs cutbacks, voters went to the polls Nov. 7 and terminated 12 years of Republican control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

I know you are dismayed and disheartened at the results of last week's election. You're worried that the country is heading toward a very bad place you don't want it to go. Your 12-year Republican Revolution has ended with so much yet to do, so many promises left unfulfilled. You are in a funk, and I understand.

It really was a remarkable election. Although only 40% of eligible voters cast their ballots, the Democrats really did win a sweeping victory, gaining over 30 seats in the House and recapturing the Senate, when few professional analysts gave them any chance to do so as late as Labor Day.

The tide is slowly turning in America. —Things that seemed completely immutable just days before the Nov. 7 (2006) elections are no more so, as more and more people open their eyes to the grim reality.

One of the inevitable aftermaths of an event as important as the Democratic party's capturing a majority in both the House and Senate as a result of the mid-term elections on November 7th is the plethora of "talking heads" appearing on television to discuss what it all means.

After the Democratic congressional landslide of 2006, Republican pundits, including the president, have begun to spin their interpretation of the results wildly. The election was no repudiation of Republican ideology and policies, they claim.

Chairman John Conyers Jr.  Chairman Henry Waxman.  Those titles will prove to be the most important outcome of yesterday's elections, even if the Dems get the Senate too.  It's investigation and impeachment time.

I keep a copy of Sinclair Lewis's prophetic novel, It Can't Happen Here prominently displayed on my desk. One book among the 10,000+ that I own.
It's a first edition (picked up for a dollar at a book auction I habitually attend.) The jacket reads;

What Will Happen When America Has A Dictator?

A President Hand-picked by Katherine Harris and the Supreme Court, Misleading a Nation into War, Outing an undercover CIA operative, New Orleans...

Were all set to vote again, this time to attempt to stifle the power and influence of the counterfeit loser at the head of our government who slipped accountability in the last election for the epic failures of his first term in office.

Defeating the Republicans decisively will enable trade unionists, civil rights activists, environmental activists, peace activists, and all progressive forces to push a Democratic Congress into trying to make these ten points part of new reality.

While nearly 3 out of 4 Americans believe global warming is real and requires serious measures to reduce greenhouse emissions to fix, no progress has been made on this issue in the last 12 years of Republican control of Congress.

According to a story posted yesterday on The American Prospect's website, beleaguered Sen. George Allen (R-VA) may have improperly accepted stock options from a now defunct technology company known as Xybernaut.

Women voters will play an important role in next week's midterm elections as they register their feelings about the current state of affairs in the U.S.

Lawrence Albright chimes in on the heckling of Barbra Streisand and the bashing of Michael J. Fox -- two celebrities who have discovered the GOP-stoked politics of hate.

As I was listening to The Young Turks interview with Ari Melber of "The Nation" Tuesday morning, there was one phrase that really jumped out at me. He referred to Bush's "binary thinking" as one of the major reasons why his own base has abandoned him.

Rob Kall, executive editor of OpEdNews.com, offers Senator John Kerry some suggestions regarding apologies to the military in the wake of the Senator's recent comments.