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  • Election Reform Illinois Conference - E.R.I.C.
    1 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Election Reform Illinois Conference - E.R.I.C.
    Progressive Democrats of Illinois (PDI) is organizing a conference on election reform for our state.
    Saturday, March 4th, 2006 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm
    Batavia Public Library 10 South Batavia Avenue Batavia, IL 60510
    It is our belief that there can be no effective democracy without fair, transparent, accurate, and accessible procedures for voting. We firmly advocate that voting is a right of all citizens of Illinois and the United States of (…)

  • What Both Parties in DC Refuse to Discuss
    1 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Poet Ezra Pound once said The technique of infamy is to invent two lies, then get people arguing heatedly over which one of them is true.
    This can be said of Every Issue in American Politics. The leaders put forth two acceptable ideas, and the tv propaganda dutifully repeats the fake debate 24/7 - all the while omitting the true alternative.
    Iraq
    Acceptable choices: Stay the course, or Redeploy
    True Alternative: Bring Home the Troops
    Health Care
    Fake debate is about how many (…)

  • Democrats create Wealth & Jobs
    28 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    SHOCK & AWE------------------------ DEMOCRATS CREATE WEALTH AND JOBS----------- 1.From Harding In 1921 to Bush in 2003 2.Democrats held White House for 40 years and Republicans for 42.5 years. 3.Democrats created 75,820,000 net new jobs — Republicans 36,440,000. 4.Per Year Average-Democrats 1,825,200---Republicans 856,400. 5.Republicans had 9 presidents during the period and 6 had depression or recession. 6.Republicans had a recession/depression in 177 months and Democrats in 32 months. (…)

  • Congress Lives in a Bubble, Bloggers Know More
    28 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    During the last several years that I’ve been studying politics intensely, it’s become apparent that Congress is living in a bubble, an information vacuum - they don’t even know what’s really going on.
    Take for instance Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning, who cancelled all his newspaper subscriptions and only watches Fox News. Why is a clueless individual such as this allowed to make decisions on things like the "Patriot" Act? It’s ridiculous.
    Well, that’s just one Senator you say. How about (…)

  • DINO stands for "Democrats In Name Only"
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The reason our republic is in crisis is not that we have a ruthless, criminal administration in power; it is not that the press is controlled by self-serving corporations; it is not because rampant bribery has overtaken the Congressional agenda; and even the massive program by Republicans to subvert democracy is inadequate explanation for the crisis. The reason our republic is in crisis is that we have no opposition party.
    Why have the Democrats lost their voice at this crucial moment? Why (…)

  • Skull and Bones- The Secret Society that has Destroyed America
    21 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    KEVIN PHILLIPS: Well, this gets complicated because nobody quite agrees when the intelligence agencies started. But Yale was front and center, because the statue that’s in front of the C.I.A. is Nathan Hail. Nathan Hail’s statue that they copied that from appears in front of Connecticut Hall at Yale in New Haven. So, if you go back to the revolution you have Yale and the Secret Service.
    AMY GOODMAN: It goes back to Andover where Bush went as well.
    KEVIN PHILLIPS: Andover was really in (…)

  • We Must Defend Our Nation’s Principles
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Barbara Lee
    When I cast the lone vote against the September 14, 2001, Use of Force Resolution, I believed, as I do today, that Congress had no business authorizing an unspecified war against an unspecified enemy for an unspecified period of time, and I was worried that the over-broad authority of the resolution was vulnerable to abuse.
    Certainly few, if any, who supported the resolution could have believed that they were casting a vote for warrantless spying on Americans. As (…)

  • 25 US Reps for Bush Impeachment Probe
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Matthew Cardinale
    (APN) ATLANTA-25 US Representatives-including two members of the Georgia delegation-have now signed on as co-sponsors of H. Res 635, demanding a probe which could recommend Bush’s impeachment, including the initial sponsor, US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Atlanta Progressive News has learned.
    If the Democratic Party is able to retake the US House of Representatives, Rep. Conyers would become Chairman Conyers of the House Judiciary Committee, whereas he is currently (…)

  • How Conservatives Went Crazy
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Paul Craig Roberts What happened to a formerly conservative press to reduce it to political partisanship and warmongering? Specifically, I have in mind National Review and the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
    When I was associated with National Review, the magazine understood that the U.S. Constitution and civil liberties had to be protected from government. It was not considered unpatriotic to take the side of the Constitution and civil liberties against a sitting government, even (…)

  • Democrats Can’t Hackett
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Paul Hackett Photo
    Maybe Dick Cheney can’t shoot straight, but at least he didn’t shoot himself in the face. Sadly, you can’t say the same for the leadership of the Democratic party.
    Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid and Rahm Emanuel have not only strong-armed Iraq War vet Paul Hackett out of the Ohio senate race, but out of politics altogether.
    And for what? To give Eagle Scout Sherrod Brown a clear shot at the Senate?!
    Yes. OK. A messy primary is less than ideal as a precursor to a (…)