We are forgetting that we are the rapists and the Iraqis are the victims. Until we get that through our thick skulls, this will only exacerbate this civil war.   more »

While I am not a fan of military coups, in the interest of national security, one would hope that our military would turn on you, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and arrest all of you.   more »

In the Catholic faith if one sins, they go to confession and ask for forgiveness of ones sins. It is at that point after confessing the sinner receives absolution through penance. I think it is about time that the media looks inwardly, confesses to all of us their many sins and does its fair share of penance. Well that is just my Polly Anna thinking coming out.   more »

With that said, I want to wish all a Happy Thanksgiving and as we do give thanks for what we have, we must remember those that continue to go hungry each and everyday of the year.   more »

What I find maddening is the fact that those of us who protested this war right from the start were right. We were right and no one paid attention to us. We were seen as throwbacks of those who marched against Viet Nam in which our patriotic brothers and sisters also dared to speak out against the Johnson and Nixon administrations.   more »

As you will see in writing this piece, I do use the shocking details of man’s inhumanity to man in order to reach out to my readers. I have also done so in writing on what has happened to the children of the Congo. I feel it important in order to raise this awareness.   more »

There can be no democracy and freedom if the most frail and innocent of any country are being terrorized. I would say that children who are being raped, used as sex slaves, beaten and inflicted with the Aids virus are the victims of terror. Wouldn’t you?   more »

In my lashing out directed towards Elliot Spitzer, I titled my piece, “I feel betrayed by Governor-elect, Elliot Spitzer and we must protect Alan Hevesi” That was pretty self-serving of me. I was putting my voice above all others within New York State. Because there are people across New York State that are hurting as E.J. Dionne so rightly points out in his piece. For that, I owe my readers an apology.   more »

Please send this to incoming Speaker, Nancy Pelosi at this email address, sf.nancy@mail.house.gov   more »

While I have defended the actions of Nancy Pelosi in not impeaching President Bush, if Alan Hevesi is impeached, I will scream for Bush’s impeachment from office. I feel that his actions warrant it more than Alan Hevesi’s.   more »

The only motive I see is that Carville wants the Democratic Party to return in which we suffered defeat after defeat in congress. He has not given us one victory since 1992. That is his record.   more »

Are we a perfect country? No, we are not, but there are elected officials, writers, ordinary citizens taking part in this electoral process that are following the words of the late President John F. Kennedy in which he said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country” To those that are at least trying, to help America, I salute you all.   more »

As McCain launches his exploratory committee search on whether or not to run for president in 2008, it would be immoral of you to send more troops into Iraq, when clearly they do not want us there to begin with. Now, if you were to call upon President Bush to send those troops into the Congo to stop the repeated rapes of women and children that is clearly where you would find any moral ground in which to run on.   more »

We must remember that there are still people who go hungry tonight, are in danger of losing their homes or have lost their homes, are without health care and the list is endless of those who continue to this day to suffer. We all must remember that their needs must come first when the 110th congress is sworn in.   more »

Now I hear that James Carville has set his sights on replacing Howard Dean as our chairman and I will be blunt here, can the both of you please shut him up?! During this campaign Carville never entered my mind. But the words and actions of Howard Dean did.   more »

I want to remind everyone reading this, that Long Island especially Suffolk County is one of the most conservative places within this country and Democrats are in the majority when it comes to many elected seats. Even Republican residents wanted a change and as you will see, both Richie and Marsha have delivered them that change.   more »

During these past six years when many felt that this country no longer belonged to them, it was Dean’s message during his presidential bid that reminded us all when he said “Take back our country” In this past midterm election, the people did respond to that message.   more »

While many express their feelings on various online groups, it has only been a little over three days since we gained control of the House of Representatives and only a day since we gained control of the Senate. I think at this time patience is the key and we must all let those voted into power sort this out.   more »

The other day, I started making my own calls to various elected officials to express my outrage and to tell them hands off Alan Hevesi, now is your turn as you read this column.   more »

I only wish God’s speed to the new Democratic majority, but with a little reminder, we will be watching. What many of us do want is a restoration and new life breathed into the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It is only through the drafting and implementation of those documents that make us uniquely American.   more »

The GOP received a sound spanking yesterday and it is also up to them to come to some form of consensus in order to work on behalf of the American people.   more »

To Governor-elect, Elliot Spitzer, I do congratulate you on your blow-out campaign, now is the time to lead the people and more importantly listen to the people. The people told Albany and the media that they want Alan Hevesi to continue on as their watch dog.   more »

When Alan Hevesi wins tonight, my message is to those that have consistently supported him is to take our argument to the state legislature and Pataki himself and say, “Bring em on!”   more »

This is an imporant read for everyone and please pass it on. Thank you, Mary MacElveen.   more »

I feel in these past six years, we have been running a marathon of sorts in which no prize is awaiting us at the finish line, but that we may be finished if America does not put the breaks on this administration through their votes.   more »

Tomorrow we must prove to not only us, but the rest of the world whether or not we are truly the land of the free and the brave. We have got to use our freedom to vote and act bravely to stave off the further erosion of our freedoms. We must stand up for the United States Constitution if it means anything to us and put a halt to its further erosion.   more »

On Tuesday’s Election Day we are to hold these people accountable, Peter King, Joe Lieberman, and others that Bush has supported as he has campaigned relentlessly in the last days of these all important elections. In the first congressional district in New York State, we must not even entertain the notion of electing an inexperienced Republican candidate, Italo Zanzi. We need the experience coming from Congressman, Tim Bishop. The same can be said of Republican, Bob Corker who is running against an experienced elected official Harold Ford, Jr. While Corker has been running racist ads, these are the serious issues that he is failing to address.   more »

As of this date, many of us on Long Island are paying over $200 dollars a month for electricity and some even higher rates and there has been no help coming from George E. Pataki.   more »

In closing, I am here as an American first to reach out to the voters to let them know that ‘We the people’ must change the course of this country come Election Day and that means dethroning King and ousting Joe Lieberman.   more »

It is hard to put into words how this GOP led government that claims it is pro-life can do that to the most innocent on this Earth. This Tuesday as we go to the polls, we must stand up for these innocent children and hand the GOP a defeat heard round the world.   more »

Prior to 9/11 if Bush was truly a man of faith and in God, you would have thought he would have warned the people he swore upon a Bible to serve. He had all the knowledge right in front of him, yet did nothing with it. He chose to ignore it.   more »

If Lawrence C. Levy thinks that I will abandon, Alan Hevesi, he has another thing coming. Senator Hillary Rodham-Clinton had this to say of Hevesi, “I don’t desert my friends” and to those whose pensions are being protected by Alan Hevesi, he is your friend too.   more »

Lastly, when, Lieberman stated in the Hartford Courant article, “As far as I'm concerned, what this campaign is about is between the people of Connecticut and me." I do reject that because how senators vote in congress affects us all.   more »

Mejias supports a more pragmatic policy that would include tougher border security and employer sanctions, a guest-worker program and a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already in the country. Mejias is the son of Hispanic immigrants. He overcame economic hardship to become a lawyer and a Nassau County legislator.   more »

Many like me have had enough of six years of death, destruction, tyranny, lies, sheer hubris in which the most fragile of our society are left to float down the streets of New Orleans. Can anyone with half a brain tell me why should Americans vote Republican? If this piece makes finds its way to the likes of Limbaugh and Coulter, I say “Bring em on” and let us have a real debate of the issues.   more »

When God gave us free will, those that suffer from these diseases, their brains are literally held prisoner in a body that will not respond to their free thought. I find letting them be held prisoner by these bodies is truly immoral. Medically, we are being held within our own Guantanamo Bay with little or no rights.   more »