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  • John Fund Again?
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s not your imagination-the Sunday shows really do lean right.
    By Paul Waldman
    If you’re up early on Sunday mornings in Washington, you can observe a weekly ritual. Around 9am, a string of chauffeured town cars and SUVs pulls up outside the NBC studio on Nebraska Avenue in Northwest Washington where "Meet the Press" is recorded, and out tumble government officials and politicians, reporters, and pundits. They scan the weekend papers over coffee in the green room, catch up with the (…)

  • Bigotry on the loose
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Carl Bloice
    It wasn’t Copenhagen, it was Washington and something that transpired there recently was ugly and more than a little frightening. Bigotry was on the loose.
    It wasn’t covered much by the country’s major media, and those that did cover it seem to have missed a critical piece of the story which was reported by slate.com and the Financial Times.
    Michael Scherer wrote that of the attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Omni Shoreham Hotel (…)

  • Deadeye Dick Isn’t a Lone Gunman Democrats Shoot Their Own, Too
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DAVE LINDORFF
    Dick Cheney may have demonstrated his ability yet again to go after the wrong target when he bagged his hunting companion instead of his quarry, but the Democratic Party leadership is proving to be even more treacherous in the field than Deadeye Dick.
    Party leaders, including Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) recently pressured Cindy Sheehan not to mount a primary campaign against California Senator Diane Feinstein, a woman who has betrayed party principles, such as they (…)

  • Hackett on withdrawal from Senate race"I made this decision reluctantly,only after repeated requests
    15 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cincinnati, OH - Paul Hackett released the following statement today to his friends and supporters regarding his withdrawal from the campaign for U.S. Senate in Ohio.
    Today I am announcing that I am withdrawing from the race for United States Senate. I made this decision reluctantly, only after repeated requests by party leaders, as well as behind the scenes machinations, that were intended to hurt my campaign.
    But there was no quid pro quo. I will not be running in the Second (…)

  • First Cindy Sheehan,now Paul Hackett-Democrats force The People’s Choice to drop out of senate race
    14 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Democrats Can’t Hackett
    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 (…)

  • Proud to be Liberal
    14 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    One of the great fallacies in modern lore is that liberalism stands for nothing and liberals have no core beliefs. The right wing, from the Pope to the President, has impugned the left by unfairly portraying it as a valueless movement mired in moral relativism.
    This could not be further from the truth. Indeed, the left is the backbone of freedom, the defender of personal liberty, the guarantor of free speech and religious worship and the nurturer of democratic movements (…)

  • The top two Republicans in Congress caught in an outright lie
    13 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Republican staffer has named Frist and Hastert as the two lawmakers that added the vaccine makers liability protection to the defense bill- after the committee had met several times that day, and Dems even asked Alaska Senator Ted Stevens if the language was in the bill, and he told them no.
    After the conference committee broke up, a meeting was called in Hastert’s office, [Rep staffer Keith] Kennedy said. Also at the meeting, according to a congressional staffer, were Frist, Stevens (…)

  • Debating Impeachment Among Democrats
    13 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David Swanson
    Can you even imagine Republicans, even if they were in a minority in Congress, debating whether or not to call for the impeachment of a Democratic president known and documented as guilty of a wide range of high crimes and misdemeanors? In particular, if you can imagine that, can you imagine the Republicans who opposed impeachment arguing that they were doing so for strategic political reasons?
    This is hard to imagine, because the Republicans won a majority in Congress (…)

  • Worse Than McCarthy
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ELLEN SCHRECKER
    When Barrows Dunham, chairman of Temple University’s philosophy department, faced the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953, he knew that his job was on the line. He was determined not to cooperate with the committee or name names; so, after giving his name, address, and - reluctantly - his date and place of birth, he invoked the Fifth Amendment’s privilege against self-incrimination. He was more forthcoming with Temple’s investigation, explaining to a special (…)

  • US Senate Candidate Sheeler “Bush lied. People Died. He needs to be tried"
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Providence, RI - U.S. Senate Candidate Carl Sheeler (D-RI) has challenged his Democratic running mates, Sheldon Whitehouse and Matt Brown, by mail and by phone to support his efforts to call on both Congressmen James Langevin and Patrick Kennedy to support US Representative John Conyers (D-MI) in his impeachment proceedings.
    Sheeler, a Marine veteran and self-described 70’s style Democrat, has been tireless since July 2005 in his efforts to call for the withdrawal of our troops in Iraq: (…)