Michael Allyn Wells

This week something happened that has shaken the very foundation around me and evidently that of countless others. I have voted in 12 pr...

For some days now I have been meaning to take the time to post about the recent string of police and security response to peaceful assembly....

I recall once before blogging about 9-11 and remarking that I had never been compelled to write a 9-11 poem. Given that we are approaching t...

I can't help but wonder what the ultimate damage assessment and loss of life will look like on the Gulf coast from the savage path of Ik...

As the Beijing Olympics opens to all it's anticipated fanfare, what will be the storyline that emerges around the world? Will it be o...

Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border - washingtonpost.com Planning to travel abroad? When you re-enter the U.S. the Department o...

When the Bush Administration tapped private phone lines with the aid of phone companies but without any court order authorizing the wireta...

Small wonder the Bush administration has insisted on immunity from prosecution for AT&T and other telecommunications that granted gove...

CIA rejects secret jails report CIA jails in Europe 'confirmed' UK apology over rendition flights US judge blocks CIA flight case - ...

For yet a third time, the U.S. Supreme Court has rebuked the Bush Administration on it's handling of the detainees at Guantanamo. It st...

Oh my God! The spastic idiocy of some people! So Dunkin' Donuts runs an ad on its Web site featuring Rachael Ray holding a cup of the c...

Thanks to Jilly , I caught this note on the 2008 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere . Click on the link to see details about nominations, etc....

The end of the Bush Administration can hardly come fast enough. Even as it seem there is a light visible through this dark 8 year long tunne...

WASHINGTON — A technical glitch gave the F.B.I. access to the e-mail messages from an entire computer network — perhaps hundreds of account...

A few poetry items of interest: While Elizabeth Bishop published only about 90 of them in a handful of books, the Library of America is publ...

Ask your Senator and Congressman Why AT&T and others should be granted Amnesty or Immunity from prosecution for violating your right to...

Iran is a country that is enormously literate. Iranians love for poetry spans centuries, but reading of all types of material is serious bus...

It's always amazing to me the lengths many under oppression will go to by contrast to the relative apathetic nature of many in America...

Bush Presses Congress on New Eavesdropping Law - New York Times : WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — President Bush prodded Congress on the issue of eave...