Category Archives: RagBlog

Female Ref Barred From Calling GameAP Sports KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Feb. 13) – Kansas activities officials are investigating a religious school refusal to let a female referee call a boys’ high school basketball game. The Kansas State High School Activities … Continue reading →

Saludos desde Resistencia Bookstore, Casa de Red Salmon Arts, It is with great sadness we inform all of our community supporters, comrades, familia and colegas about the passing of our elder, teacher, father, chicanindio, and poeta revolutionario raúlrsalinas. As you … Continue reading →

Bush’s last push for tortureBy Rosa Brooks, February 14, 2008 In its lame-duck year, the administration has been conducting a PR campaign for waterboarding. They’re baack! The Bushies, that is. I was so preoccupied with the presidential primaries that I … Continue reading →

“This is all about trying to reduce the danger to human beings,” … That’s rich, for these hypocrites to be concerned about a falling satellite when they’re spending billions to kill thousands of human beings in Afghanistan and Iraq. We’re … Continue reading →

A 9/11 Every Day For Ten and a Half Years: Most of Us Will Eat Shit Until the Day We DieBy Arthur Silber 12/02/08 “Once Upon A Time” – — -Let us begin with the proposition of greatest importance. From … Continue reading →

Feds Urge Closure of Hurricane TrailersBy MIKE STOBBE, AP, Posted: 2008-02-14 06:55:06 ATLANTA (Feb. 14) – U.S. health officials are urging that Gulf Coast hurricane victims be moved out of their government-issued trailers as quickly as possible after tests found … Continue reading →

Bad Dog!!John Cornyn on the Record John Cornyn is rated by the non-partisan National Journal as the fourth most conservative US senator. The Dallas Morning News reports that he has always been a reliable ally of George W. Bush from … Continue reading →

Rule by fear or rule by law?By Lewis Seiler,Dan Hamburg “The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is … Continue reading →

Guantanamo Comes to Main Street U.S.A.By Mark A. Goldman 12/02/08 “ICH” — — They say that the difference between how democracy in Europe has evolved compared to that of the United States is that in Europe the government is afraid … Continue reading →

We don’t support the troops. Any soldier with real guts would throw down his weapons and tell his commanding officer that the war is illegal, a travesty, a war crime, and that he won’t fight anymore, no matter the consequence. … Continue reading →

The New Crime of Thinking in the USby Gary D. Barnett It looks like the term “thought police” just might take on a whole new and real meaning. This depends on what happens in the U.S. Senate after receiving House … Continue reading →

Corporate Globalization: Standing at the End of the Roadby Ronnie Cummins Standing at the end of Avenida Madero (Madero Avenue) on the last day of January 2008, a stone throw from the Zócalo or City Center of Mexico City, I … Continue reading →