Ann Richards Has Passed
Guest blogged by Joy Williams According to CNN, Ann Richards, the former Governor of Texas, has passed on due to esophogeal cancer. She was a straight talker, a truth teller, and an intelligent and fiery woman. She will be missed. As a former Texan, I found in Ann Richards a salt-of-the-earth kind of person who […]
Republican Politics as Usual: Ugliness from Rove, and the Republicans
Guest blogged by Joy Williams Bush’s speech yesterday and Cheney’s interview this last week on Meet the Press, were the first salvos in their attempt at business as hideously usual during this election cycle. It’s still fear, terror, and divisiveness, and Bush’s speech last night had nothing new, except that he said there was no […]
Democracy in Crisis: Attend Camp Democracy to help save Our Democracy!
Guest blogged by Joy Williams Hello folks, here’s the next in my series of Democracy in Crisis… I hope you can attend this! I emailed David Swanson after hearing him describe Camp Democracy on a few different shows on Air America, and asked him for a few minutes of his time to explain to me […]
Democracy in Crisis: A Conversation with Representative John Conyers, Jr.
Guest Blogged by Joy & Todd Williams Representative John Conyers (bio) has served in the U.S. House of Representatives for over 20 terms, having represented the 14th Congressional District in Detroit since 1964. For all those years he has fought for our democracy. From his website: “In his role on the Judiciary Committee, Representative Conyers […]
Democracy In Crisis – An Exclusive BRAD BLOG Interview with Mike Papantonio
An Exclusive Interview for The BRAD BLOG as Guest Blogged by Joy and Tom Williams… Mike Papantonio and Bobby Kennedy co-host Ring of Fire on Air America. The two attorneys have filed qui tam lawsuits against the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) companies for defrauding the government. We previously posted an exclusive interview with Robert F. […]
Brilliant letter from Luminaries on the Mid East Conflict
Guest Blogged by Joy Williams I listen to Mike Malloy every night that I can, and I heard about this and tracked it down. I hope we will be able to sign on to it, and I have asked Pablo, who posts for Noam Chomsky, if they would try and make it possible for us […]
Democracy in Crisis – An Exclusive BRAD BLOG Interview with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
An Exclusive Interview for The BRAD BLOG as Guest Blogged by Joy and Tom Williams… “The Republican Party, the Republican National Committee, has been using old-fashioned, Jim Crow, apartheid-type maneuvers to steal the last two national elections.” — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Recently, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., (bio) , wrote the article: “Was the 2004 […]