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Are We Still A Representative Democracy Guided By The Rule of Law?...
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 12:56pm PDT
The Buffalo News has revealed that a former spokesman for President Bush has been encouraging U.S. newspapers to run news stories from Iraq written by two combat veterans who are now embedded reporters in Iraq. The veterans are from a pro-war group called Vets for Freedom that has ties to the Republican Party. We speak with John Stauber of the Center for Media and Democracy....
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 7:41am PDT
We take a look to the Supreme Court's decision overturning Vermont's campaign finance law. The 1997 law placed the nation's tightest restrictions on much candidates running for state office in Vermont could spend on elections and on how much individuals could bankroll candidates....
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 7:38am PDT
The United States has launched a diplomatic offensive to block Venezuela's bid for a two-year rotating seat on the United Nations Security Council. The U.S. instead is lobbying heavily for Guatemala to take over the seat being vacated by Argentina....
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 7:15am PDT
You have noticed, to be sure, how our nation's politics gravitates to the binary position year after year. Webster's dictionary defines "binary" as "something made of two things or parts." So, parties, politicians and voters are overwhelmingly either characterized as conservative-right wing or liberal-left wing....
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 9:30pm PDT
Why delay renewal of hugely important civil rights legislation that Republicans themselves say they support? By stalling, the GOP is throwing a bone to conservative Southern whites, the writer says. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a political analyst and social issues commentator and the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black" (Middle Passage Press)....
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 9:26pm PDT
Democratic strategist James Carville's wife, Mary Matlin, hosted a $500/plate fund-raiser for Scooter Libby's Defense Fund, former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney before being indicted in the CIA leak investigation....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 9:16am PDT
Frank Moore for President 2008. Candidate of the Just Makes Sense Party. Vote for Frank Moore. He gets results!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 11:29pm PDT
On Tuesday, US President George Bush touched down in Vienna for the annual summit of US and European Union (EU) leaders. After brief talks in Vienna, Bush is due to fly to Budapest on Thursday for the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian uprising....
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 10:17pm PDT
Greenberg is mentioned below. He co-wrote a paper recently with James Carville - Download the latest strategy memo from Greenberg and Carville: "From Underperforming to Overperforming" . Carville is hosting a fundraiser tonight for Scooter Libby - Why is a top Democrat strategist hosting a fundraiser for Cheney's top former aide? . Mentioned below is Jerome Armstrong who is featured in, "SHILL TO HACK, CELEBRATED LIB STRATEGIST HAS SHADY MARKET PAST", http://www.nypost.com/business/shill_...
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 11:21am PDT
The U.S. Supreme Court made two important decisions on the death penalty that will impact the fate of hundreds of men and women that are on death rows nationwide. Stewart Alexander, Candidate for California Lieutenant Governor, says, “I respect the decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court, however the entire process of capital punishment in America is flawed.”...
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 9:57pm PDT
Before me are the three press releases for the recent “Campaign for America Future” (staged by “progressive” Democrats) conference announcing the three daily schedules for the mid-June sessions in Washington DC, entitled “Take Back America”. The Iraq war did not feature at all on the first two days, and slunk in to the proceedings briefly as one of the last panels, on the last day, featuring, of course, Joe Wilson, husband of V. Plame....
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 6:42am PDT
WASHINGTON — Ask Steve Robinson, a local Democratic committeeman from Lawrence, Kan., if his state is posed to help reverse right-wing rule in Congress, and he looks you straight in the eye and answers a firm “yes.”...
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 10:20pm PDT
The Nepalese government is to dissolve parliament and set up an interim government that will include the country's Maoist rebels....
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 10:20pm PDT
Two years from now, Hillary Clinton might be pleased to hear the kind of boos and antiwar chants that greeted her days ago when she spoke at the annual Take Back America conference of Democratic activists and argued against a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. But so much of politics is about timing. And right now, Clinton is facing a serious problem of premature triangulation....
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 6:44am PDT
The alleged Toronto terror plot is being used by Canada’s ruling elite to stampede the public into accepting a dramatic shift to the right in Canada’s foreign and domestic policies....
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 6:30am PDT
It's time to put every Congressional candidate -- incumbents
and newcomers alike -- on notice that if they want our votes, they must take a
clear, public stand on ending the Iraq war and preventing any other unjust, illegal
war....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 11:28pm PDT
Facing an increasingly hostile group of law students in an Oxford seminar that had somehow gone dreadfully wrong, beads of sweat began to pop out on John Bolton's furrowed brow. Amidst a rising chorus of taunts, jeers, hisses and outright denunciations, Bolton was swiftly surrounded by his entourage of three American security agents and whisked out the door of the seminar room at Oriel College on Friday, the 9th of June....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 7:10am PDT
Federal prosecutors have decided not to charge President Bush’s top advisor Karl Rove with any crimes in the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. The prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has made no official statement but Rove’s attorney said early this morning that Fitzgerald announced the decision in a letter to him on Monday....
Posted: Wed, Jun 14, 2006 6:22am PDT

