General Betrayus: The Senate’s censure of MoveOn is the last straw

Dear Voice of the People, That 22 Democratic US Senators voted shamefully to censure MoveOn.org for their patriotic ad supporting US troops who were betrayed by General Petraeus has caused me to lose all allegiance to the Democratic Party.  Although I am a life-long Democrat, this is the last straw.  One bill after another is [...]

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Open Letter to Democrats

August 4, 2007 Open Letter to Democrats: Starting with Nancy Pelosi’s infamous “Impeachment is off the table” declaration, the Democratic majority in Congress, with the exception of a scant few courageous heroes like Dennis Kucinich, have refused to begin impeachment hearings against the most corrupt, anti-democratic, secretive, and destructive Administration in US history. Presumably, this [...]

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Bill Foster on Faithfully Liberal

Clever scientist just too progressively-passionate to stay out of electoral politics?  Sounds like my dad, except for all the dirt they’d dig up on his daughter if he ever tried to run for office. Bill Foster is challenging Republicans for Dennis Hastert’s House seat in  Illinois.  Read a faithful interview of this up-and-coming liberal by [...]

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Tom Takes on the Trib

Welcome to the new blog of my dad, Tom, a.k.a. Captain Proton.  Here, he will be posting his regular letters to the editor of the Chicago Tribune.  For some reason, the Tribune does not publish the letters he sends on a near-weekly basis.  This blog seeks to remedy the oblivion his wise words would otherwise fall [...]

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