Voters want choice.  They not only need to say no they also need to be able to say yes.

The politics of opposition and division is an effort to cause methods or philosophies of governance to compete with each other.  That supposedly reveals what the democratic choice is. Or is something else occurring - is democracy actually a front for something sinister?

First, we learn that exec-branch staffers outed a CIA agent to punish her husband for criticizing President Bush.  Next, we learn that an exec-branch agency has been illegally spying on Americans with Bush's blessings.  

What's next, punitive IRS audits for Bush-critics?

We need to ask ourselves one essential question.  Are we really living in a Democracy that is deserving of that noble title?  

When machines are devised by corporations and used by our government that can be purposefully hacked without a trace to alter the Democratic process, are we living in a true Democracy?  The Diebold Corporation doesn't make mistakes like that by accident.  Let us not forget that they are the ones who make the ATM machines that you get your pocket money out of.  Can you imagine?

When your President begins a campaign of torture against his enemies, is he living by the principles set forth by our Founding Fathers?  You can sugar coat this one as much as you like, but the Vietnamese torturing our boys in Vietnam was wrong - even in war.  Just like it was wrong for our government to authorize and implement these evil tactics in this pseudo-war.

This and other articles on propaganda are available at Mind Your Noodle

In an in-depth investigation by Andrew Buncombe this weekend, a link was discovered between the Lincoln Group and the intense propaganda smear campaign that sunk John Kerry's bid for presidential election.  

President Bush has admitted to authorizing the NSA to spy on American citizens.  But many are asking why.  He already had powers to run emergency wire taps for a period of 72 hours before getting secret court authority.

Jason Galde explains why at Mind Your Noodle

Have you ever wondered why the word 'liberal' has developed into a naughty word these days?  Find out why at "Training the Beast" by Jason Galde.