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The noontime rally in Civic Center Plaza....

MoveOn.org announced plans to jump into the statewide special election yesterday, unveiling a television ad they will air for the next five days in major cities throughout the state. The online advocacy group partnered with Democracy for America and the Courage Campaign, a new coalition devoted to organizing progressives throughout California, to produce and pay for the ad. The campaign represents an anomaly for the traditionally nation-based Moveon.org, an effort founder Wes Boyd says their ...

THE PRESIDENT’S men were certain that a war to topple Saddam Hussein was necessary to promote U.S. interests. And they were ready to do anything to get it. That’s the real significance behind the indictment of Dick Cheney’s top aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby and the revelations in the White House leak scandal splashed across the front pages of newspapers last week. ALAN MAASS looks at what the leak scandal represents--and what will happen next....

While Republicans and Democrats geared up for the confirmation battle over Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, one moderate conservative said the Democrats didn't have the necessary ammunition to shoot down the nomination....

President George W. Bush’s nomination Monday of Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court signals that his administration is responding to its deepening political impasse by shifting even further to the right....

For $1,000 Join Jerry & his celebrity friends as they raise money so that "WE THE PEOPLE" can continue paying for Jerry's life on the public dole...

An October 31 USA Today editorial made false, baseless, and misleading claims about special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into the alleged leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was indicted on October 28 for obstruction of justice, perjury, and false statements in connection with the investigation....

"The first question is, which Mr. Dean? The centrist, fiscally conservative, New Democrat NAFTA backer who was governor, OR, the fiery, antiwar, anti-free-trade populist who has emerged on the stump? We'd prefer the former -- and we suspect that, if Mr. Dean indeed nails down the nomination, we'll see at least his partial return in the general election campaign. Indeed, Mr. Dean is a canny, if loose-lipped, pol: In an interview in August before a rally in Falls Church, he said that while...

World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime has called for nationwide protests and student walkouts on Nov. 2, the first anniversary of Bush's "re-election." At last count people in 67 cities, at 43 colleges and universities, and 90 high schools (at last count) will leave work and school and gather in the city centers to declare No! This Regime Does Not Represent Us! and to launch a movement to drive Bush from power. (www.worldcantwait.org). San Francisco convergence point is Civic ...

President Bush nominated federal appeals judge Samuel Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court Monday, just four days after Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination. The 55-year-old Alito is widely seen as a judicial conservative who has been nicknamed "Scalito" for his philosophical similarities to Justice Antonin Scalia. In 1991, Alito backed a Pennsylvania law that required women to inform their husbands before they sought an abortion. His support came in the form of a dissenting vote in the ...