Wasting Your Vote? by Guadamour

by Guadamour
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Dandelion Salad
Guadamour’s blog post
Nov. 9, 2009

I was in the super market the other day and started conversing with the man repairing the ancient dairy case. It turned out that he was in town from Tucson and was actually a native of the city. I grew up there and was born in a town [...]

Battle Of the Sexes: GOP Males vs Dem Females on HCR + Conyers Singles Out Kucinich & Weiner for Their Work

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VoiceofAmericans2008
November 07, 2009
November 7, 2009 – Healthcare Bill Debate in Congress
Harman (D-CA)

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Glenn Greenwald on Afghanistan, State Secrets, Healthcare and the Media

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Democracy Now!
Oct. 30, 2009
Leading Political, Legal Blogger Glenn Greenwald on Afghanistan, State Secrets, Healthcare and the Media
One of the leading political and legal bloggers in the country, Glenn Greenwald, joins us to talk about about the war in Afghanistan, the Obama administration’s use of state secrets, the healthcare debate, the renewed military commissions at [...]

Representative Democracy IS NOT Democracy

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TheLeftLibertarian
October 31, 2009

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“In 93 percent of House of Representatives races and 94 percent of Senate races that had been decided by mid-day Nov. 5, the candidate who spent the most money ended up winning…” Just soak that up for the time being.
Please dont leave [...]

Public Bailout of Private Insurance – Dump health reform NOW!

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by Clark Newhall
http://www.1payer.net/
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Here is the bad news from the House of Representatives with a timeline for the most massive bailout ever — the bailout of the private for-profit insurance industries.  Looks like they have until 2018 to make all the money they can.
Based on this, I think we should tell liberal [...]

Rhetoric and Reality by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
Oct 26, 2009

I just received a letter from President Obama. Right there on the outside envelope are the words “I need you.” After not answering several letters which I have mailed and faxed to him, I was, for the briefest of moments, curious about this personal plea for [...]

War Is a Hate Crime by Chris Hedges

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by Chris Hedges
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Truthdig
Oct. 26, 2009
Violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people is wrong. So is violence against people in Afghanistan and Iraq. But in the bizarre culture of identity politics, there are no alliances among the oppressed. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the first [...]

Taking Stock of the Republicans By Mike Whitney

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By Mike Whitney
Information Clearing House
October 19, 2009
The Republicans have become deficit hawks. It’s more phoniness from a party of phonies. They’ve decided to stake their political future on opposition to Obama’s agenda. It doesn’t matter what it is; they’re against it. Stimulus is bad because [it] extends unemployment benefits and keeps the states on [...]