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Andrew Heyman lives and works in Seattle Washington USA. His true vocation is political writing and agitating for the radical idea that a society that is governed by, and serves the needs of the people is best.
Andrew is also the member of a wonderful family with his loving wife, Pam, and the proud father of 2 wonderful children, Josie and Adam. They all keep him from becoming immersed in blogging to an unhealthy degree, and remind him of why he cares about what is going on in this world in the first place.
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TPM Election Central | Vulnerable GOP Senator Recites Bogus China-Cuba Oil Myth
Friday, 4 July 2008 12:06 A GMT-08
The GOP continues to drill for blackwhite offshore.
Tags: elections
Clicks: 2
Faith and Freedom Network Blogs--Marriage Mocked In Cities Around the World
Tuesday, 1 July 2008 2:20 P GMT-08
Gary Randall outs Arnold Schwarzenegger (as a non-theocrat).
Tags: homophobia
Clicks: 3
Think Progress » Kristol: ‘Republicans are much more open to strong women.’
Sunday, 29 June 2008 3:29 P GMT-08
There is no sack large enough to contain all the crap that this guy is full of.
Tags: sexism
Clicks: 8
Addington: I Can't Talk About Torture Because 'Al Qaeda May Watch C-SPAN.' - Politics on The Huffington Post
Friday, 27 June 2008 3:21 A GMT-08
Wow you can't argue with that logic.
Tags: torture
Clicks: 13
Dobson Hits Obama for "Distorting" Bible | The Trail | washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, 24 June 2008 11:14 P GMT-08
Okay Dobson you need to take the mote of your own "distortion" of your own "fruitcake" eye, before you comment on the speck that is in others.
Tags: theocracy
Clicks: 12
Governments step up blogger arrests
Tuesday, 17 June 2008 1:44 P GMT-08
If bloggers are nothing more than a bunch of voices crying out in the wilderness, then why are so many governments arresting them?
Tags: blogs
Clicks: 37
The Coming Obama-McCain Mudfight - Politics on The Huffington Post
Sunday, 15 June 2008 11:40 P GMT-08
"Drew Westen of Emory University was the most declarative: 'There's no other path to victory for [Republicans] this year than to make Barack Obama foreign and dangerous.'"
Tags: elections
Clicks: 36
McCain: Guantanamo Decision One Of the Worst Ever - Politics on The Huffington Post
Saturday, 14 June 2008 6:48 P GMT-08
Habeas Corpus, still controversial to some after all these years.
Tags: mccain
Clicks: 42
Lanier plans to seal off rough ’hoods in latest effort to stop wave of violence - Examiner.com
Thursday, 12 June 2008 1:48 A GMT-08
Say hello to my little friend (the police state).
Tags: police
Clicks: 49
‘Willie Horton’ ad maker comes back with baseless smear - The Carpetbagger Report
Thursday, 12 June 2008 1:36 A GMT-08
Here goes the conservative movement once again sinking to new lows. Their ability to exponentially do so is truly amazing.
Tags: elections
Clicks: 54
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US Interrogators Turn to Classic Study on Torture for Tips
Wednesday, 2 July 2008 7:46 A GMT-08
I have no doubt that there will still be those who are going to dismiss the latest evidence that the US government has in fact been torturing prisoners in the War OF Terror. I am also sure that anyone who speaks-out against this corruption of b
Obama's Move to the Right
Friday, 27 June 2008 5:41 A GMT-08
It was inevitable. Once the primary season ends, winning candidates always abandon their previous hardline positions, and move to ones that are meant to gather as many "independent" voters as possible. The conservative Charles K
A Report on the Blatantly Obvious--A Politicized Justice Department
Tuesday, 24 June 2008 3:07 P GMT-08
I am shocked! SHOCKED to hear that the justice department hired attorney's based on political ideology:The blistering report, prepared by the Justice Department’s inspector general, is the first in what will be a series of investigati
Taguba Reminds Americans of How Far We Have Fallen
Sunday, 22 June 2008 11:07 A GMT-08
Every once and a while the lies and obfuscation of the current political system and climate in the US are ripped away not by dissent well within the establishment. It is a testament to the dark times that I as an American find myself in, which
Torture Goes Up To the Top
Tuesday, 17 June 2008 5:40 A GMT-08
It looks like that the "few rotten apples" involved in the abuse of prisoners in this War OF Terror is correct. Only they aren't at the bottom of the barrel: A Senate investigation has concluded that top Pentagon officials b
Golf as the Snakeoil for Social Ills
Wednesday, 11 June 2008 9:20 A GMT-08
Well, the Bush administration is taking on the problem of gang violence in America head on, and they aren't afraid to play hardball: A senior Justice Department official says a $500,000 federal grant to the World Golf Foundation is an appropriat
Don't the Iraqis Know That We Can't Leave Because We are Winning
Tuesday, 10 June 2008 9:16 P GMT-08
Big surprise! The Iraqi government doesn't want us to stick around much longer:High-level negotiations over the future role of the U.S. military in Iraq have turned into an increasingly acrimonious public debate, with Iraqi politicians deno
Let the Betrayal Begin
Tuesday, 10 June 2008 8:59 P GMT-08
Ah the general election campaign for president. It is a magical time when we begin to see candidates abandon the base of the party they have just so ardently courted. Barack Obama is no exception:Just days after clinching the Democratic p
Why Sen. Clinton Should NOT Be on the Ticket
Tuesday, 3 June 2008 12:08 A GMT-08
So at last the primary season is over, and we can all move on to the general election, which will sadly focus more on gotcha-scandal-media and slick car commercial PR, instead of the issues that matter most to Americans.Horse race politics stink but
Monsters of Politics Summer Tour: IRAQ!!!
Thursday, 29 May 2008 9:04 P GMT-08
Nothing brings out the superficial nature of American "infotainment" like a Presidential campaign. Every 4 years Americans are subjected to a series of attacks, reposts, and Pavlovian attempts to engage their emotions through a slick
Gary Randall Seeking to Increase Power of Theocratic Clergy
Thursday, 29 May 2008 3:14 P GMT-08
Washinton State's Faith and Freedom Network is a political organization made up of conservative Christian churches. Their goal is pretty standard for such organizations, they want laws based on their interpretation of the Bible, with a foc
Proof Positive of Bush Practicing Blackwhite Doublethink
Wednesday, 28 May 2008 6:15 A GMT-08
When tformer Bush press secretary Scott McClellan, published a tell all book about the Bush administration my first reaction was, "So what?" It seems like everyone that leaves that den of inequity and lies publishes a book distancing
Clinton Goes Way Over the Line
Saturday, 24 May 2008 6:41 A GMT-08
If you haven't heard by now: Smart candidates don't invoke the possibility of their opponents being killed. This seems so obvious it shouldn't need to be said, but apparently, it needs to be said. "We all remember Bobby Kennedy was
McCain Bids Fairwell to a Theocrat
Friday, 23 May 2008 5:12 A GMT-08
But they were such a new couple! I can't believe it is already over: After enduring criticism for weeks, John McCain broke Thursday with two controversial televangelists whose endorsements he once trumpeted in a bid to win support from religious
GITMO & Torture: Still More Important that Clinton/Obama Horserace Politics
Wednesday, 21 May 2008 5:49 A GMT-08
While the media and the "punditsphere" want only to talk about the primary results in Oregon and Kentucky, and if Obama has won the nomination for the Democratic Party; we shouldn't forget that what is at stake in this election. So let
Tales of Real Courage: Matthis Chiroux
Saturday, 17 May 2008 5:56 A GMT-08
Just in case you forgot there is a world outside the presidential election, here is someone who has real real political courage, Matthis Chiroux: On Thursday, Matthis, joined by members of the nonprofit organization Iraq Veterans Against the War, pub
John "Anything for a Vote" McCain
Thursday, 15 May 2008 7:29 A GMT-08
While presidential elections are the political equivalent of a binge alcoholic, I am relishing the spectacle of John McCain "flip-flopping" all over the country as he tries to get elected after 8 years of GOP disaster.The latest is McCain&#
More Theocratic Embraces from John McCain
Friday, 9 May 2008 4:31 P GMT-08
It would be the height of Irony if this entry brought a John McCain spot onto my Google Ads to the right.
Its a Small Occupation Afterall--Baghdad Amusement Park?
Wednesday, 7 May 2008 7:49 A GMT-08
The "Age of Reason" is over. According to The Progress Report, the Pentagon has big plans for the Green Zone in American occupied Iraq:With the help of the Defense Department, the Los Angeles-based company C3 is "developing the
Drug War Racially Biased
Tuesday, 6 May 2008 10:42 A GMT-08
To all those who are privileged enough, or "white" enough to think that there exists no racial or economic class borders in our country, I give you (once again) the "Drug War":More than two decades after President Ronald Reagan es
Shadowy Immigrant Deaths
Sunday, 4 May 2008 8:48 P GMT-08
Detained immigrants are a hairs breath away from being disappeared:Word spread quickly inside the windowless walls of the Elizabeth Detention Center, an immigration jail in New Jersey: A detainee had fallen, injured his head and become incoherent. Gu
Healthcare Becomes A Luxury
Sunday, 4 May 2008 9:03 A GMT-08
Guess what? Things just keep getting worse for Americans' health care. The NY Times has a Sunday exposé on a problem that is hardly a new one:Many of the 158 million people covered by employer health insurance are struggling t
A Deadly Bureaucracy
Saturday, 3 May 2008 6:59 A GMT-08
When ever these "free trade" deals get negotiated, liberal Democrats in the US often get a couple of bones thrown their way to satisfy those pesky human rights junkies (me being one of them). The problem is that everyone knows that th
Rev. Wright is Right about American Terrorism
Wednesday, 30 April 2008 6:59 A GMT-08
There is little doubt that Rev. Wright is a kooky preacher (although way less insane than say Pat Robertson). Senator Obama was correct when he broke with Wright for comments about AIDS and for his bizarre caricatures of President Kennedy and
Justice GITMO style: "We have to have convictions."
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 1:03 A GMT-08
The Washington Post has a bit of a bombshell: The Defense Department's former chief prosecutor for terrorism cases appeared Monday at the controversial U.S. detention facility here to argue on behalf of a terrorism suspect that the military justi