By Emma Ruby-Sachs
General Petraeus has announced that he supports a review of the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy. Too bad that in his presentation to the Senate Armed Services Committee he told the Committee that eliminating DADT could negatively impact military function.
Petraeus gained support from equal rights advocates when he told Fareed Zakaria that he served with gay individuals in the CIA and that he didn’t think that troops would have trouble adjusting to working with openly gay service members. Today he prepared …

“I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
Theodore Roosevelt – 1912

With these fighting words, Teddy Roosevelt shrugged off an assassination attempt by a deranged Milwaukee saloon owner and — bullet still lodged in his chest — launched into a ninety-minute address railing against the corporatism and corruption that dominated both parties in Washington.
The year was 1912, a time of widespread discontent among both Democratic and Republican reformers. …

Following her call to remove the “Al-Qaeda Seven,” Liz Cheney has released a list of seven additional U.S. officials whose work on behalf of enemies of the state makes them unfit to serve their country.
While most historians agree these people were among some of the greatest legal minds of their respective times, if not of all time, Ms Cheney believes she knows better because daddy says so.
Now, without further ado, we present Liz Cheney’s “Unpatriotic Seven”
John Adams defended British solders accused of perpetrating …

Sen. Jim Bunning, the Kentucky Republican who single handedly delayed unemployment benefits for 400,000 desperate Americans and forced an unnecessary furlough of another 2,000, should be a figure regarded with wonderment.
The awesome power he held in his hands! The utter disregard for vulnerable Americans he exhibited while wielding it!
Bunning is a Republican superhero. He personifies the mean-spirited, hypocritical, wealthy-serving, obstructionist Republican Party. As a result, his fellow GOP senators championed him. South Carolina Republican Jim DeMint said, “He’s my hero this week.” Alabama Republican …

By Axel Woolfolk
As has been now widely reported by mainstream media, more than 600 people gathered for the first ever Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee on February of 2010. The ‘teabaggers’ reveled as they sat there listening to hateful speech after hateful speech by the likes of their champions Tom Tancredo and Sarah Palin among others. The rhetoric, the signs and the vitriol sounded familiar:

“President Obama wants to turn the country into a third world country.”
“Immigrants are taking over the United States, they …

By Kelpie Wilson
If President Obama gets a new start on his presidency in 2010, then progressive, liberal Americans should also get a “do-over” on our activism in support of real change. We need a chance to throw our own Tea Party. I’m calling it Tea Party 2.0 and I have a Facebook page!
First of all, let’s be honest. We were all so exhausted after eight years of Bush and so impressed with ourselves that we elected the first African-American president, that we decided it …

Scott Brown’s election in the Mass. special election isn’t being attributed to a repudiation of the health care legislation, but rather his Patrick Henry-like statement to the effect: ‘Give us weapons to defeat the terrorists, not lawyers to defend them.’ The Republicans apparently see this as a rallying cry that may restore them to power. Gov. Bob McDonnell already quoted it in his response to the President’s State of the Union speech:

So remind me, since when did 41 percent of 100 suddenly constitute a majority?
Oh yeah, I remember now: since George W Bush slunk out of Washington DC in ignominy not 365 days ago. And since the wannabe bipartisan Democratic majority in BOTH houses swore their oaths of office this January, empowered by a landslide election and a popular mandate for change like none seen since the rout of the Goldwaterites in 1964. And yet, since then they have pussyfooted, wavered, caviled and serially wimped …

By Julie Menin
This week saw a barrage of interviews in which Rudy Giuliani eagerly criticized President Obama for his handling of the December 25th terrorist incident on Northwest Airlines Flight 253. Giuliani, as he has been doing since the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, has held himself out as an “expert” on terror. He gives paid speeches all over the country touting his leadership after September 11th and his expertise in dealing with terrorism, and thus appeared on a plethora of morning shows …

By Judge H. Lee Sarokin
When the Bush administration was being criticized over the war in Iraq, its wiretapping policies, and the rendition and torture, its critics were dubbed (particularly by Cheney) as “unpatriotic.” He suggested they were “hurting the morale of the troops and being unsupportive,” “aiding and encouraging our enemies,” “endangering and deterring our intelligence agents” and just plain being “un-American.”
Somehow none of the Cheney’s words seem to apply now. The former Veep has no hesitation in criticizing President Obama and suggesting that …