The James Logan Courier

By Phil Long, Jennifer Mooney Piedra and Martin Merzer
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — "We hold these truths to be self-evident."

"Four score and seven years ago."

And now, add this to the lexicon of American democracy:

"Don't Tase me, bro. Don't Tase me."

Andrew Meyer, the University of Florida student from Weston who tested the limits of free speech during an address by Sen. John Kerry, walked out of jail Tuesday and into cyberspace history — an instant, if likely fleeting, celebrity.

By Trudy Rubin
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

In his address last week on "the way forward in Iraq," President Bush omitted the most important things you need to know.

Most Americans want a strategy that will stabilize Iraq and let us draw down troops without greater chaos. The Petraeus-Crocker testimony to Congress offered tactics that may keep Iraq from crumbling further. But it was up to the president to present a strategy to hold Iraq together and prevent greater radicalization of the entire region.

Instead, Bush punted. Far from offering a "way forward," his Iraq program will — at best — keep the status quo until the mess is dumped on the next president in 2009.

By Wayne Madsen
(MCT)

WASHINGTON — Democratic Senate-House conferees should stick to their guns in support of tough energy legislation aimed at pushing Americans out of their gas-guzzling SUV's in a last-gasp attempt to stop a global warming catastrophe.

Forging the strongest energy bill possible means retaining two House provisions that would increase the gas mileage of the average motor vehicle to 35 miles per gallon from the current 27.5 mpg by 2020 and require that 15 percent of the electricity generated by private utilities come from renewable sources such as solar and wind by the same date.

They also should keep another House provision that levies a $16 billion "windfall profits tax" on oil and natural gas companies in order to dramatically reduce America's unconscionable spewing of global warming gasses like carbon dioxide and methane.

Courier Staff Report

Maybe there was a little too much love left on the field after Friday's Day of Peace demonstration, because neither of the two offenses on the field during the varsity Colt's game against Berkeley's football squad seemed all that violent, although the Colts won easily, 27-0.

Defense ruled the night, instead.

Watch for yourself, as Comcast will televise the game tonight at 7 p.m. Comcast is on channel 28 on the Union City cable tv system.

From wikipedia:
Christabel Harriette Pankhurst DBE (September 22, 1880 – February 13, 1958) was a suffragette born in Manchester, England.

Christabel was the daughter of the lawyer Dr. Richard Pankhurst and suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, and a sister of Sylvia Pankhurst and Adela Pankhurst. Along with her mother Emmeline and others, Christabel co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903. In 1905, Christabel Pankhurst interrupted a Liberal Party meeting by shouting demands for voting rights for women. She was arrested and along with fellow suffragette Annie Kenney went to prison rather than pay a fine as punishment for their outburst. Their case gained much media interest and the ranks of the WSPU swelled following their trial. Emmeline began to take more militant action for the suffragette cause after her daughter's arrest and was herself imprisoned on many occasions for her principles.

Read a 1912 New York Times article about the police hunt for Christabel Pankhurst, free from the New York Times.