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Thank you, Newt Gingrich. That's something I never thought I'd say, but I'm a Democrat, and I very much appreciate having such important informatio­n to share about the most-likel­y Republican nominee. Meanwhile, what is the Republican party to do? Every candidate is an extraordin­ary disaster. Santorum wants to make birth control illegal because he's so "pro-life" -- unless you count his

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Things I KNOW at this moment, as we enter this 2012 election year: 1.  I KNOW that the Citizens United Supreme Court decision must be stopped, whether it is by overturning or a Constitutional Amendment.  (See Senator Bernie Sanders site.) 2.  I KNOW that ALEC, the group exposed in 2011 that coordinates the writing of state laws to support business interests over the interests of citizens, must

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On September 30, 2011, the New York City General Assembly, the decision-making body for the "Occupy Wall Street" protest, approved this statement of purpose: As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your

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On this day, the 10th ANNIVERSARY of 9/11, I promise: to pay attention to seek out the most trustworthy, courageous, fact-based journalism to ask questions to share what I find, online and in person, and especially, to use all the skills I have to communicate with those who, on the surface, do not agree with me I wholeheartedly encourage others to join me in this promise.

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Regarding Rick Perry's remarks about climate science jeopardizing America's economy. . . On Tuesday, a caller from Texas on Talk of the Nation brought up the fact that natural gas fracking there has made the drought and fires much worse because the process has further depleted the water resources and left property owners with dry wells. It's another bad mark for fracking, and for the

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Today, in a segment on Earthquake Update, Diane asked David Applegate, from the U.S. Geological Survey directly: "My question to you -- because we've talked a great deal on this program about hydraulic fracturing wherein water is injected along with chemicals into shale in order to release gas.  To what extent do you believe that hydraulic fracking could have played a role in this particular

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The White House was evacuated.  The major network offices in NYC shook.  It rippled up and down the east coast.  5.8.    Such a surprise.  One problem is that buildings in the area were not built to withstand earthquakes -- because, historically, earthquakes have not been a problem there.  The epicenter was Mineral, Virginia. Virginia is one of several states where the Appalachian Basin, with

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Thank you, Doug and Elaine, for addressing this issue. I found it scary in 2004 when I read in The Village Voice that Karl Rove, just before the 2003 Iraq invation, and in 2004 National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice, and "Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs," Elliott Abrams, had brought in Apostolic leaders to advise George W. Bush

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This morning NPR's Morning Edition reported: AS FOCUS ON FRACKING SHARPENS, FUEL WORRIES GROW, with concerns from both sides (those who want to live, and those who want to make money). I commented as follows:

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Shouldn't we be talking about the man behind the Republican stubbornness -- GROVER NORQUIST.  Who elected him?  Here is a man who has professed the desire to make the government so small it can be flushed down the toilet, who has all kinds of dirty connections to Jack Abramoff -- and it is his pledge that most of the Republicans are loyal to -- not to the good of their constituents!  More

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INTERNATIONAL HOUR The French legislature has just last night completed the vote to ban natural gas fracking in France.  Earlier this month, fracking was halted in Blackpool, England after the British Geological Survey confirmed that two earthquakes in the area appear to be related to the hydraulic fracking.  A recent study in Arkansas also links fracking to earthquakes, but the U.S. is

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DOMESTIC HOUR As Wisconsin's anti-union law went into effect this week, we also learned of an alleged physical attack -- a "chokehold" -- by Wisconsin's newly re-elected Republican Supreme Court Justice David Prosser against fellow Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, in front of other Justices and staff, which occurred just before the release of the Court's decision on the legality of this very law.

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Hello: I left a message on your phone yesterday afternoon (Thursday 6/30) regarding the link between natural gas fracking and an increase in earthquakes, and the opportunity my daughter had that very morning to ask Congressman Matheson about his support for The Greater Natural Buttes Area Gas Development Project. I did get a call back a few minutes later, though I wasn’t sure if that was

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Please get past the taudry testosterone of Congressman Weiner and discuss the very important issue he was bringing to light at the time Andrew Breitbart posted the infamous photo: the latest extraordinary details of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s falsified Financial Disclosure Forms and the source of the $700,000 unreported income of Ginny Thomas. This is not old news – in fact, the

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I've had enough -- and clearly now so has the world. As I write this, the headlines read "PARTIAL MELTDOWN" -- and that's in the mainstream press. At least one nuclear reactor in Japan is already in meltdown mode.  Yesterday morning started with news that the reactor had expoded the night before.  Should I believe them when they say that the explosion involved an outer structure and did not

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And The Deseret News captures the best portrait of me ever (Sunday, February 27). "And the award for costume design goes to. . ."

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How foolish?  How foolish. Many emotions, but the deepest is sadness.  I am sad to see so many foolishly vote against their own best interests. They have fallen for the concept of "grass roots" and "independence/freedom". It is Orwellian, because the movement they call "grass roots" was completely manipulated and financed by the lobbyists and public relations end of the very industries that

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Dear Mr. Valet Boy, Once, a few decades ago, you, Mr. Hampton, and I shared the same spot in the space/time continuum for a while. At that time, I'm pretty sure I was the most naive of the three of us. It was Los Angeles, it was theatre, and statistically, it was clearly populated with people who were gay. We can, all three of us, think of many individuals we knew, I'm sure, who were gay. But

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March 4, 1997 As I was sitting cross legged in the warm tub this morning, my five year old daughter, who has been missing a lot of time with me of late -- as I have been focusing on treatments, and needing space -- asked me, “Mama, will I ever have breast cancer?” I cannot tell her no. Suddenly, the new truth is: “It runs in the family,” this albatross of potential carcinoma hanging from our

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See Bill Maher's article at Huffington Post by clicking on my title above.

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IN THE FIRST YEAR:*Insurance companies will be barred from dropping people from coverage when they get sick. Lifetime coverage limits will be eliminated and annual limits are to be restricted.*Insurers will be barred from excluding children for coverage because of pre-existing conditions.*Young adults will be able to stay on their parents' health plans until the age of 26. Many health plans

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In celebration of the real EQUINOX, in which the Light begins to overcome the Darkness, I present the moment of greatest Chutzpah, as expressed by the most frustrated Congressman Anthony Weiner, and shared by Rachel Maddow on February 24, 2010.

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First, thank you, Diane, for having Michael Moore on. He certainly has lead the way on both our prime issues of the day, health care and the banking industry, though he rarely has been heard on such mainstream media.Second, for Michael, do you have any information on the involvement of George Bush's cousin, George Herbert Walker, former Global Head of Investment Management at Lehman Brothers,

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Actually, this is a copy of the video I created by going to this website, and allowing it to use my Facebook info, to create this personalized attack. You, too, can do the same.After all, if you seek to know the truth, if you don't like be lied to, if you have a compassionate outlook on life, if you prioritize people over corporations, then, you, too, are a part of those this psuedo-Mormon (as

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Posted on Mark Crispin Miller's News from the Underground, in response to CBS and BBC reports on March 5, 2010 on a marked increase in birth defects in Fallujah:From Barbara Bellows-Terranova:In the reporting on the rise in birth defects in Fallujah, both by CBS and the BBC, a “spokesman for the US military”, Michael Kilpatrick is quoted as saying “No studies to date have indicated environmental

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"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places-and there are so

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I have been an NPR listener, and almost always a local station member, since 1974, but I was deeply disappointed yesterday afternoon to hear the coverage on All Things Considered of the legacy of the historian Howard Zinn, who passed away this week.I have heard Professor Zinn speak many times, and was particularly moved a few years ago by a broadcast of "Voices of a People's History of the United

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You think a mother Grizzly is bad? Watch out.For I am a One-Breasted Woman. An Amazon who sacrifices her breast for a higher purpose. One who refuses to wear a phony bag or strange, surgically-implanted, tissue to make a facade of symmetry -for my real symmetry had to shift. And out of that shift poured the determination to live more fully, say what I know, and shed light on lies and

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Years ago I knew a woman in the process of liberation, exploding with a joy for a grander life than once she'd imagined.In one of our conversations, she introduced me to a dance school in which children learned to go inside themselves to understand what and how to express themselves. It was, perhaps, one of the most significant conversations I've had in the last 18 years, for that brought an

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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As seen and photographed on June 9th, 2009 at the Metropolitan Art Museum in NYC.From the Met's website:Since the 1960s, Ringgold, an ardent feminist and political activist, has used her art to address gender and racial problems in America and Europe, from a personal, sometimes autobiographical, human level. Her naive, folksy style makes these works visually approachable, while her frequent use

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At last! A televised conference at the National Press Club on the "HIDDEN AGENDA" behind the law-twisting and justice-thwarting policies and actions of the Bush/Cheney/Rove Department of Justice.Thanks to NYU Media professor, author, and voting integrity activist Mark Crispin Miller forwarding this link and message from Marilyn Noyes:Judge Clemmons, Scott Horton, Charles Walker Jr. (OUTSTANDING!

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What are we seeing?!Clinton was very frustrating -- a demonstration of how an intelligent, dedicated politician is still run by his penis. What was most annoying about him was the bizarre concurrent behavior - not stepping away from his job for a moment to handle the cheat - the not-unusual obnoxious extra testosterone that seems to be part of the same character that has the drive and ability to

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There's one rule that lies at the heart of every religion -- that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. This truth transcends nations and peoples -- a belief that isn't new; that isn't black or white or brown; that isn't Christian or Muslim or Jew. It's a belief that pulsed in the cradle of civilization, and that still beats in the hearts of billions around the world. It's a faith

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The Inspector General of the Security and Exchange Commission is at work, and one of its investigations shows misconduct in the way the SEC went after Mark Cuban before Bush left office.I commented at The Huffington Post:2004: James Moore, co-author of Bush's Brain (about Rove), goes on book tour with retired Texas Air National Guard Lt. Col Bill Burkett, who witnessed the scrubbing of W's

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Since 2005, advocates for fair elections with all votes counted have been trying to get Jon Huntsman’s attention, but he has always deferred to the Lt. Governor, the designated executive director of Utah Elections. Huntsman, who appeared to be a Governor of both courage and conscience when he stood up against the Divine Strake Test and in favor of Civil Unions for gays, nonetheless, kept his

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OpEdNewsOriginal Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Legacy-Review-My-Origin-by-Barbara-Bellows-Te-090113-314.html January 13, 2009A Legacy Review: My Original 40 Know Bush Facts from 2004, Part I.By Barbara Bellows-TerraNova, In gratitude for the end of the Bush era (still knowing there is an immense amount of work ahead to undo what can be undone), I am moved to post here, over the

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This is an important message that I need to share with you. I noticed that you have endorsed The Peace Alliance and/or the U.S. Department of Peace and Nonviolence Campaign. I am wondering if you would be willing to help? Please consider forwarding this email to your friends, organizations you know and also posting it on websites you visit. Because of the tremendous outpouring of support, the

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My own 1986 calligraphy of a meditation offered by Gerald Pearson, at the last Christmas before he died of AIDS, as told in the astonishingly honest book, Goodbye, I Love You, by his ex-wife, the noted Mormon writer, Carol Lynn Pearson.Click title to go to Album/Slideshow.

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My daughter insisted. With this her first year of driving, on her way home from dance, she had decided to meander through the blocks of Christmas-lit homes, and found something she needed to share. So, we took a detour. And what a sight it was. The family in this house, in this quaint neighborhood, took the genre to a new level of artistry, using the already interesting, multilevel shapes of

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A must read! Bravo to The New York Times!

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BREAKING: MIKE CONNELL, GOP 'IT GURU', KILLED IN SOLO PLANE CRASHSaid Recently Threatened by Karl Rove, Had Been Key Witness in OH '04 Election Fraud CaseBuilt Alternate WH Email System, Websites for Bush, McCain, Swiftboaters, '04 OH Election, More...Read more, including significant updates posted here at the BRAD BLOG.Another important source for information on this is here:The suspicious,

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The Iraqi reporter who threw both his shoes yelled, "This is your farewell kiss, you dog!"

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See more Jack Black videos at Funny or DieA star-studded cast turns out for Marc Shaiman's "Prop 8 - The Musical."

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Brad Friedman of www.BradBlog.com wrote that he was most grateful "That it's our last legitimate opportunity to use the following photos" and invited caption suggestions.I wrote:TOP PICTURE:BUSH: "I appreciate your efforts. See, I'm putting effort into the war, too --- this tray is the heaviest thing I've ever carried! Now, can you direct me to a table --- this height, open space --- wait, no,

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The rest of the world knows about the health effects of the Depleted Uranium weaponry we use. Only Americans are kept in the dark.*****************************************As Europe mourns in Verdun today for those lost in "The War to End All Wars", World War I, we could look to another moment in European history to shed light on the most aggressively silenced story of the Bush administration. In

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At the Sprague Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. . . Hi. I followed up on an email by Heather Bennett, a local candidate, forwarded to me explaining that one of her constituents contacted her about voting at the Sprague Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, where the Diebold TSx was having a problem with recording votes on the lower left of the screen. When I saw that there was nothing with the key

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An Open Letter to Senator Obama and the Democratic Leadership:On Election Night, DO NOT CONCEDE!"Eight years is too much" is how Barack Obama explained why we must win the coming election and begin to restore America. But, even if we receive the most votes, will we win the election?DO NOT CONCEDE!Both of the last two elections were conceded by the Democratic presidential candidate. The 2004

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In my 2006 Christmas Card, following Dennis Kucinich's announcement that he would again run for the U.S. Presidency, and having recently sponsored a bill that would create a Cabinet-level Department of Peace, I cast Studs Terkel as the Wise Man on the left.On October 31, on the very day he received his absentee ballot in the mail, Studs Terkel died, at the age of 96.Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!

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But then there's still Jon Huntsman, Jr.Pat Bagley is also the creator of The Clueless George Presidential Library.

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[Posted, for the first time, at www.opednews.com]I've begun to post the questions I send, separately, in each Friday morning to the most listened-to NPR talk show. Feel free to offer some version of these same questions/comments to other broadcasters and journalists:1. Yesterday on your show analyzing the debate, no one seemed to know what NPR's economy reporter, Chris Arnold, had just stated on

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This morning I received an email from Mark Crispin Miller, the NYU Professor of Media, and Election Protection author/activist, with a letter from Melissa Lammey to MCM, introducing a petition she’d created after watching one of his recent talks on youtube, in which he suggests that Palin was selected to provide an excuse for a surprise election win by Senator McCain, which, in fact, would be the

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Patriotism and truthPublic Forum Letter, The Salt Lake TribuneOctober 5, 2008Sen. John McCain has made patriotism an issue in his campaign for the presidency. Patriotism is indeed a legitimate issue and McCain, shot down, captured and imprisoned for years, suffered greatly. Patriotism, however, must extend beyond military service. Of the dangers threatening our country today, one of the most

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1. If Sarah Palin becomes too much of a liability, who do your panelists think McCain will turn to at the last minute?2. With Lehmann's CEO testifying before Congress on the executive payoffs, did we learn what Mr. Bush's brother, Jeb Bush, on its Board of Directors, or his cousin, George Herbert Walker, in charge of Global Investment, walked away with?

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Breathe, Senator John McCain, and discover your inner blankness. . .When Tom Brokaw reached the culminating moment of the Presidential debate he had, um, well, been the "hired hand" for, he sought some kind of meaning that would make the spectacle appear more, well, worthwhile.And so, moving away from the campaign's legacy of embarrassing spiritual End-of-Timers, Witch-blockers, and

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A theory on the Handler's solution. . .* * * * * * *With Sarah Palin's other recent appearances in mind, my instant reaction to her first response to a question at the Vice Presidential Debate was:They've put her on SPEED!Ritalin, that is. Adderall. Methylphenidate.(Okay now, for those who remember the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies, reread from "Ritalin" on like "Oil, that is. Black

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On the front page of last Sunday’s New York Times was a huge story on John McCain’s gambling problems, citing both his own personal risky high-rolling gambling habits, as well as his and many of his top campaign staff’s financial ties to the gambling casino industry. It was an extraordinary story. Yet I have heard nothing about it since on NPR. Has Steve Schmidt managed to muffle the media on

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When we see or hear reporting on the non-issue of Voter Fraud, we must call it what it is -- AN EXCUSE FOR VOTE SUPPRESSIONIn response to the September 21 NPR Morning Edition Sunday's Report on Voter Fraud in Wisconsin:YOU NEED TO KNOW:There is a major difference between Election Fraud and Voter Fraud.Election Fraud is a broad term for the manipulation of election results--away from the choice of

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The Dark Side:First, you need to know...There is a major difference between Election Fraud and Voter Fraud.Election Fraud is a broad term for the manipulation of election results – away from the choice of the majority of eligible voters.Voter Fraud is the term for voting and/or registering to vote by people ineligible to vote, such as non-citizens, non-residents, those with fictional

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Two of my very favorite truth-seekers in the world are hard at work to stop another election from being stolen again -- and (Glory Be!!) they also know that, as deadly serious as this is, we desperately need to laugh as we rescue our tattered Democracy.Here's their announcement:Investigative journalist Greg Palast and voting rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have just released an

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Does anyone know how the Bush family members employed in top positions at Lehman Brothers faired in this collapse? George W. Bush’s second cousin, George H. Walker, has been the “Global Head of Investment Management” since 2006...And his brother, Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, was appointed to the Lehman Brothers private equity advisory board exactly one year ago, to help the company

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On August 29, 2008, NoVoterLeftBehind.net was born. While it was created by a team of Democrats, the purpose is to count every vote.You can click on screen shot of website to go there, learn more, and volunteer.His Daddy would be proud...

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Though Sarah Palin would like us to believe that her Christianity is evidence of her being an especially fine human being, a listener who emailed Friday's Diane Rehm Show, Hour 1 (26 minutes in on the podcast), cut through the pollution-filled PR on Palin to deliver a shuddering message:"As a committed Christian, I was deeply offended by Sarah Palin and the Republican delegates mocking and

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To those who ran with the rumor that Trig Palin was not Sarah’s child, but her daughter’s – without any more solid evidence than a couple of photos where Bristol’s tummy isn’t perfectly flat: You provided Sarah and her Rovian consultants the escape route they so desperately needed.Now, we have the media trumpeting Obama’s response to the pregnant Bristol story - I have said before and I will

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It did not take long for people to discover the strange circumstances surrounding the birth of Sarah Palin’s youngest child, Trig, widely reported to be a Down Syndrome baby. Ms. Palin only revealed that she was pregnant one month before his birth, when she was in her 7th month, and in the midst of a very busy schedule, with recent trips to Washington, DC and Los Angeles. She bragged about going

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Hours before Obama spoke, NPR's Robert Siegel interviewed "GOP media strategist" Stuart Stevens for his perspective. What a pro this man is. With a history of building illusions of decency where there is none. His 2001 book, written after twisting the truth for the 2000 Bush/Cheney campaign, is called The Big Enchilada: Campaign Adventures with a Cockeyed Optimist from Texas who won the Biggest

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Last week’s death of Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones should have meant so much to every American. Unfortunately, her greatest gift to American citizens and Democracy was largely ignored in the eulogies and obituaries of the mainstream press. It is no wonder, since acknowledging her gift would also reveal their failure to tell us the story when it happened. Even sadder, Democrats, too, have

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WHEREAS, in his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has committed

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What else could he do? As former editorial page editor of the Washington Times, a Visiting Senior Fellow in National Security Communications at the Heritage Foundation, Executive Vice President at the Washington Edelman public relations firm, co-host of KCRW's Left, Right & Center, and frequent contributor on MSNBC, it was Tony Blankley's mission to provide talking points against Obama on "the

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NATIONAL:Why isn't Karl Rove in jail today? If it remains up to the Department of Justice, who can force that White House tool to function as it is supposed to?INTERNATIONAL:While the American media has been reporting that the heroic rescue of officials are claiming that the daring rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages held by the FARC in Columbia was due to the efforts of a powerful

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Former UN ambassador John Bolton told the London Telegraph that Israel will attack Iran after U.S. elections but before Bush Cheney leave office. Between executive orders and portions of defense spending bills, could the Bush administration claim martial law is necessary if the U.S. attacks Iran? Could that be this administration's "October Surprise"?

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Fresh Air Breaks Through With Phillipe Sands - the International Human Rights Lawyer Senate Republicans tried to Silence!Did you hear NPR’s Fresh Air on Thursday, June 19thIf you did, you heard that for the rest of their lives, those who authorized, ordered and/or assisted with the decision to use the interrogation techniques that have been found to be TORTURE – which means Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld

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08.0620 - Yesterday, on NPR’s Fresh Air, Philippe Sands, international lawyer, Director of the Centre of International Courts and Tribunals, and author of Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, told Dave Davies that the interrogation techniques that the Bush Cheney administration has used, which have by now been well documented to have been torture, fall within a

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1. Congressman Kucinich’s 35 Articles of Impeachment include the charge of that Mr. Bush "willfully corrupted and manipulated the electoral process of the United States" and failing to protect the civil rights of African-American voters and others" and impeding "the right of the people to vote and have their vote properly and accurately counted, citing, among many issues, the continuing

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It is actually more possible than ever before for this kind of whole-nation response. All that is needed is: 1. Thorough reporting on the hypocrisy, lies, and damages of this Republican Bush Cheney administration, and how the same people and entities are working to put McBush, er, McCain in the front-man position (and crushing any of the maverick tendencies that once gave him credibility). 2.

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Regarding Senator Clinton as Obama’s veep, I would like to shine a light on the McCain campaign’s hiring of Timothy Griffin. Mr. Griffin was one of those chosen to replace the fired U.S. Attorneys – he was the one known as “Karl Rove’s assistant” and he was specifically put in Arkansas, the better to dig up Clinton dirt. He also resigned suddenly on the day investigative reporter Greg Palast

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“Our brave young men are dying in the swamps of Southeast Asia. Which of them might have written a poem? Which of them might have cured cancer? Which of them might have played a World Series, or given us the gift of laughter from the stage, or helped build a bridge or a university? Which of them could have taught a child to read? It is our responsibility to let these men live . . . It is

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It was just a year ago that American BBC reporter Greg Palast handed over to House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers Jr. copies of emailed voter caging lists sent by Timothy Griffin at the RNC. On that same day, Mr. Griffin suddenly resigned as the replacement U.S. Attorney in Arkansas. Would you please explain to the audience the significance of this, especially since the U.S. press failed to

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Are you aware that on Wednesday, former UN Ambassador John Bolton, speaking at the Guardian Hay Festival in Wales and justifying an attack on Iran, had to be quickly escorted off the stage to avoid a citizen’s arrest for war crimes by Guardian journalist, George Monbiot, for his participation in planning, preparing and waging war against Saddam Hussein?* * *Regarding Scott McClellan: Here in Salt

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My own sign said:BANGING MY POTS AND PANS TO STOPAN ATTACK ON IRANANOTHER STOLEN ELECTIONDEPLETED URANIUM WEAPONSMeanwhile, a similar sign was held high by my husband, Dennis TerraNova, and was picked by The Salt Lake Tribune, posted in their Gallery, and made the front page of the paper the next day: There were four speakers on this day, Marshall Thompson, a Utah Mormon Iraq veteran, whose

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When I read last week that James Baker III hosted a preview of the HBO film Recount at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, I knew that this dramatic interpretation of the 2000 election would disappoint those who long for historical accuracy.And it did.Not in all ways, mind you, but in some extraordinarily essential ones.On Sunday morning, I wrote in an email that

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Former President Clinton's statement that Obama should at least offer Senator Clinton the position of Vice President betrays why Obama shouldn't.Imagining Bill Clinton as first man has been bad enough, but as the husband of the Vice President, the former President would be a horrendous albatross around Barack Obama's neck.Isn't there a better place for Senator Clinton in an Obama administration?

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On Monday the NYTimes quoted Thor Hearne from the American Center for Voting Rights as a "strong advocate for voter ID laws". Hearne is well known amongst voting integrity activists as the Bush/Cheney2004 General Counsel who suddenly appeared as the spokesman for this 1-day-old organization to testify before Congressman Bob Ney's committee in April 2005 and then participate in the Baker Carter

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