Tag: us politics
group name: iconoclasm
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May 24, 2007 01:04 PM EDT --
The Progressive notes that on May 9th, George Bush declared absolute emergency powers for the president:
With scarcely a mention in the mainstream media, President Bush has ordered up a plan for . . .
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February 07, 2007 04:54 PM EST --
As reports of hurricane relief fraud surface this week, the Bush administration and the state of Louisiana are likely to use this to further starve legitimate reconstruction in New Orleans.
When the . . .
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January 30, 2007 04:13 PM EST --
Tony Blair gave Catholic adoption agencies all over the UK a twenty month grace period to provide fully nondiscriminatory adoptions to same sex couples, the Guardian reported today. Catholic . . .
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October 24, 2007 06:41 AM EDT --
In the area around San Diego, an area about twice the size of the city of New Orleans has burned since Sunday . But folks there -- even the over 20,000 people evacuated to Qualcomm Stadium -- are . . .
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February 01, 2007 01:37 AM EST --
Celebrated racehorse Barbaro was euthanized January 29th, after a series of surgeries failed to provide him with a mobile and pain-free life. Within eight hours, nearly two thousand accounts of . . .
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March 02, 2008 01:14 AM EST --
Do we really have to choose just one reason that the population of US prisons and jails has increased over 50% in the last four years, from 1.47 million in 2003 , to 2.3 million in 2007 ?
Pew . . .
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July 03, 2007 05:26 PM EDT --
The Bush administration proved today that it is firm in the assertion of the privileges of the Imperial presidency. While signing statements have castrated the institution of legislation in this . . .
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October 19, 2007 04:25 PM EDT --
Have you read an article on the Village Voice web site since 1/1/2004? Then the Feds may be investigating you. Two executives of Village Voice Media have been arrested for violating grand . . .
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January 04, 2008 12:49 PM EST --
Last night, Barack Obama claimed his victory in the Iowa caucuses, not for himself, but for the people. For the people who supported him, and for the people (Democrat, Independent, Republican, and third . . .
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March 05, 2008 01:44 PM EST --
DailyKOS published an article that's getting a little play today, alleging that the Clinton campaign published an attack ad that intentionally colorized Obama's skin to darker, reminiscent . . .
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March 06, 2008 02:57 AM EST --
Over and over again, in this election season, I hear the presidential primary and presidential campaigns reduced to the cult of personality. Will McCain keep us in Iraq? Will Hillary be business . . .
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February 25, 2008 03:29 PM EST --
Having recently put my endorsement behind Larry Lessig 's run for the House (still in the Draft Lessig stage), let me say that I am adamantly repelled by another run by Ralph Nader. I don't . . .
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February 23, 2007 03:30 PM EST --
Today's editorial topic is Hillary's Obama problem. There are some great comments there -- go check it out!
Hillary Clinton is the darling of the Democratic Leadership Council, the closest . . .
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March 06, 2008 12:58 AM EST --
I received an email today with this dispatch from the ILWU:
ILWU Dockers to stop work on May *
*Day in West Coast ports, to express their opposition to the war in Iraq *
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*In a resolution . . .
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February 20, 2008 11:09 PM EST --
Larry Lessig is considering a run for Congress in California, and I want him to run.
And so do a lot of people, including many far from his Stanford home.
He's got a Facebook group. . . .
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