Let’s face it, my fellow freedom and burger loving Americans. It is becoming painfully obvious that our non-negotiable American Way of Life is increasingly under attack. Yet while our meat consumption may be a wedge issue our foes are using against us, it can also be our salvation.

We are facing swarms of terrorists in the Animal Liberation Front, mobs of fanatical extremists at PETA, and hordes of Nazi-like, in-your-face vegans and vegetarians. Like deranged street prophets, they spout all kinds of nonsense about speciesism, the suffering of sentient beings, animal rights, compassion for livestock in factory farms, and other deluded ramblings.

Though we recognize their ridiculous utterances, beliefs, and acts to be those of mentally unbalanced losers who need a ridiculous cause in their miserable lives to prevent them doing the world a favor by committing suicide, how long can we afford to ignore these violent and dangerous individuals? Their numbers are growing way too rapidly for my comfort.

When, in a recent AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) conference, Barack Obama revealed some of the specifics of his revised approach in dealing with Iran and its controversial nuclear program, many John McCain supporters interpreted it as either a sign of weakness or an indication of a flawed character on his part that is out to deceive the US electorate.  It goes without saying that such interpretations as the above are no more than simplistic assessments of a rather complex situation, and thus not a proper analysis of the big picture in which Obama is but one player.  In other words, a proper analysis of the situation would not have so much involved Obama as it would have the skewed nature of politics in the United States, as a result of which a liberal presidential nominee like Obama was eventually forced to speak in the manner of a hawkish neoconservative.

An alliance of civic, labor and church groups has been working together since March of this year with ProgressOhio to persuade Columbus City Council and the Franklin County Commission to adopt resolutions to oppose the ongoing War in Iraq. It appears these efforts are beginning to work. At the time of this writing it has been reported by sources at ProgressOhio that Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman is writing a letter to President Bush expressing opposition to the war. In addition, organizers have heard from County Commissioner Mary Jo Kilroy (now running for US Congress) that there is prevailing sentiment among the members of the Franklin County Board of Commissioners to pass an anti-war resolution.

This campaign to convince the Columbus City Council and Franklin County Commission to pass a Peace Resolution began last Fall on October 20, 2007 at the Citizens Grassroots Congress organized by The Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism (CICJ) and The Central Ohio Green Education Fund (COGEF). Participants at the Congress spent all morning of the day-long congress composing, discussing and finally drafting the language of the proposed Peace Resolution.

We are writing because of the new and immediate danger of a U.S. attack on Iran, either directly by the Pentagon or through Israel. In the next few weeks and months, we need your help to organize and mobilize a grassroots movement in opposition to another illegal U.S. war predicated on lies about “weapons of mass destruction.” The real threat of such an attack was made clear last week, when Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, addressing a convention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington DC, said that Iran's nuclear program must be stopped by "all possible means." Democrats and Republicans seemed united as they lined up to express unequivocal support for this position, presenting Iran’s totally legal development of nuclear energy as a dire threat to "world peace."

King Fossil Fuel has ruled: there will be no Senate debate on global warming this year. And Joe Lieberman's greenwashed campaign gift for John McCain is a no-go.

On June 6 the Senate failed to override a Republican-led filibuster against the bi-partisan Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act. It was a stunning victory for a coal-oil-gas industry that will resonate through the presidential campaign and deep into next year's new presidency and Congress.

The legislation was complex and controversial, involving a wide range of potential strategies to fight the climate crisis. At its core were "cap-and-trade" schemes establishing a federal bureaucracy meant to control emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Proposals introduced by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) promoted renewables and efficiency, among other things. Waiting in the wings was a series of amendments which may have set aside roughly a half-trillion dollars for funding new commercial reactor construction.