The Republicans were clamoring that the failure of the health care bill would be “Obama’s Waterloo”. It is turning out that the GOP and their henchmen of the Tea Party “movement” were wrong. The bill was not Obama’s Waterloo but his Austerlitz (to refer to one of Napoleon’s military master piece). Last night, President Obama [...]
Tens of thousands of cases have emerged in dozens of countries from Asia to Europe and from Australia to the Americas. No country seems immune, and the vulnerability of the victims seems only contingent on the number of clergy. The people of the world, their political representatives, their law enforcement and their courts, must execute their responsibilities and demand full accountability and compensation from not only the individual perpetrators of these heinous crimes but the entire organization, including the Vatican, that both protected and aided these pedophiles. Letters of apology, hush money, and empty promises will no longer suffice. The Catholic Church, and Pope Benedict IVI, must stand trial.
The climate change Deniers have pulled a rather clever feat by invoking Orwell in order to hoodwink the public in the very manner which they claim to be trying to expose. All in all it’s fairly impressive to be using the very technique you claim to be warning people against in order to con them.
For the first time in generations, the US Congress has passed a bill reforming our nations health care system.
The House is expected to vote on the Senate health care reform bill and then the reconciliation bill, which includes all the fixes, sometime after 8 pm Eastern Sunday.
