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FISA: Democrats Capitulate to the GOP - Where’s Obama?

Silent, that’s where. On a day where he announces (wisely) that he will decline public funding, the Democrats in Congress bow backwards to the GOP and say ‘put it right here’. Not only that, but they ‘compromise’ on FISA in such a way that telecoms will receive their immunity according to the bought-and-paid [...]

ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron et al Claim Victors’ Spoils

The horsemen of the apocalypse are on the hunt. Here’s the latest news on the pale horses of death: ExxonMobil, Total, Chevron, Shell, et al who have been given preferential treatment and no-bid contract opportunities to service Iraq’s oil fields. (Remember this?)
The NY Times reports:
The deals, expected to be announced on June 30, [...]

Iranians Speaking for Peace

The people in this video are just like the Iranian people I know who live here in California. Hard-working, successful, achieving peaceful people. People who were given an opportunity to succeed here, people who play by the rules set forth here in the US, people who are peace-loving assets in our society.
Now they are raising [...]

It Could Cost Us a City

Newt Gingrich waxes hysterical about the recent decision (PDF) of the U.S. Supreme Court to restore habeas corpus to the Guantanamo prisoners, saying:

: Mr. GINGRICH: On the other hand, I will say, the recent Supreme Court decision to turn over to a local district judge decisions of national security and life and [...]

iPeachment ‘08 - Impeachment for the 21st Century

Yes, it took Dennis Kucinich 5 or so hours to read the litany of Bush crimes into the Congressional record yesterday but really, is that so bad? Evidently so, since news broadcast editors have decided it’s far too banal to mention or even discuss on those television news shows everyone watches to get informed. [...]

“Radical” Isn’t As Scary as Hannity Is

Andy Ostroy is all het up over the right wing framing of Barack Obama as a “radical”.
Radical, defined: of, relating to, or constituting a political group associated with views, practices, and policies of extreme change d: advocating extreme measures to retain or restore a political state of affairs
The fact that the right is [...]

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