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Happy Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
October 10, 2005Mark will be off this week celebrating the Jewish holidays with his family.
Sunday Weekly Review: Harriet Who?
October 9, 2005(Archive
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Harriet Who?
Has there ever been a less experienced person nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court?
No judicial experience. One term on the Dallas City Council. A staunch Bush loyalist that he recently appointed as his counsel…
Harriet Miers once said Bush was the most brilliant man she knows.
She really needs to get out more.
Certainly, I will want to learn more. But from what I know about her thus far, it looks like an awful choice. Anyone ready for filibuster? (Abe Fortas, the last “Presidential loyalist” nominated for the Supreme Court, was defeated by a Republican filibuster to the Senate’s Democratic Majority in 1968. For more, see below.)
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Sunday Weekly Review
October 2, 2005(Archive)
With Tom Delay Gone, is it the End of an Era?
1) The Beginning of the End of Congressional Corruption and Croneyism?
Well, it’s a good start…
– Tom Delay INDICTED! and removed as Majority Leader of the House
– The SEC investigation into Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s suspicious stock sale
– The indictment of Bush’s chief procurement officer David Safavian
– The Feds closing in on Karl Rove and Dick Cheney, now that Reporter Judith Miller is out of jail
2) Post-Katrina Disasters
– Brownie goes ballistic! (FEMA Director Mike Brown “Blame-Games” everyone except himself)
– Congress lavishes your tax dollars on non-tax-paying corporations
– Bush desperately tries to look busy on Hurricane Rita
3) Hundreds of Thousands March in Opposition to War. Hundreds….yes only hundreds…march in support of it
And other news of the week…
Chief Justice John Roberts
September 29, 2005(broadcast stream) (.mp3 download Right-click,”Save Target as”,”Save”)
Guest: Robert Peters, President of Morality in Media
John Roberts has been confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States. All the Republicans voted for him. The Democrats split evenly 22-22.
My view: we could have done worse. And, if he is to be believed (and the jury’s out on this), he could be a fine Chief Justice.
But I’m still bothered by an Administration that thinks it appropriate that judges’ records should be hidden from the public and the Senate…..
Today I will announce how I would have voted if I were a United States Senator.
It was an extremely close decision.
Homophobic "Science"
September 28, 2005(broadcast stream) (.mp3 download Right-click,”Save Target as”,”Save”)
An extremely controversial guest today: Paul Cameron, Chairman of the Family Research Institute in Colorado Springs, Colorado, whose anti-gay studies have been vehemently rejected by his peers but embraced by those on the Far Right who would deny Gay Americans equal rights to marry and care for children. Cameron, a former psychologist, has been called “the most dangerous antigay voice in the United States today.”
Cameron claims his studies prove gay people are criminals, killers, deviants, and perverts.
The scientific community does not agree. The American Psychological Association expelled Cameron in 1983. In 1985 and 1986 the American Sociological Association found that Cameron had consistently misrepresented sociological research on homosexuality. The Nebraska Psychological Association formally dissociated itself from him. Cameron’s Family Research Institute has even been classified as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
PAUL CAMERON MISSTATED HIS FINDINGS ON MY SHOW TODAY, AND UNFORTUNATELY, I HAD NOT READ THE STUDY TO WHICH HE REFERRED. He claimed the CDC supported his findings. As is discussed in detail below, the U.S. Center for Disease Control emphatically rejects his research as “bad science.”
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