Alliances of tomato growers are working together to enforce low salaries for tomato pickers in Florida. The Florida Tomato Growers Exchange is going so far in promoting grower collusion as to enforce it — threatening to extract $100,000 from any tomato grower that pays its workers a penny more. In an atmosphere of […]

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No matter how cleanly future technology might make burning coal, the process of getting coal out of the ground will remain profoundly filthy. 1200 miles of Appalachian streams have been devastated by a kind of coal mining in which an entire mountaintop is removed in search of coal, and the remaining material is dumped. Every year that this kind of coal mining continues, miles more will be ruined.

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Why is it time for a more progressive president? It’s a simple matter of numbers; most Americans are asking for one. 59% of Americans say they would “like the next president to do more to protect civil liberties while fighting terrorism.” If most Americans are asking for a new president who is […]

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There was not one single question allowed on the subject of government surveillance networks spying on the private activities of American citizens, but there was a question to Rudolph Giuliani on whether he is really a fan of the New York Yankees baseball team.

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Not a single Republican presidential candidate refused to answer the question, or expressed any concern about the question being asked. They all eagerly submitted themselves to the religious test for public office, and in doing so, signaled their willingness to allow religious authority to subvert the Constitution and the rule of law.

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In the Republican presidential debate of November 28 2007, Fred Thompson made a commitment: “Roe v. Wade should be overturned. That depends on the kind of Supreme Court justices we put on the bench.” The Republican audience applauded.
Mitt Romney declared very simply and boldly, “I was pro-choice. I was wrong.” The […]

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In the Republican presidential debate of November 28 2007, Fred Thompson declared that in his time as a Senator, “I never met a tax I liked.” Well, all the things our government does are funded by taxes. Some of them a person may not like, but some are undeniably essential. When Fred […]

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The program provides the pollution tracking information to countries free of charge. If we follow the Republican mode of thinking, that’s dangerous socialism. If we follow a progressive way of thinking, however, we can see that the Europeans are using their space technology to take care of business, instead of snooping into people’s business.

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Why is it time for a progressive president? Most Americans hold the progressive position on closing the extrajudicial detention center at Guantanamo Bay. 57% of Americans say they want the next American president to “close the prison at Guantanamo and schedule trials in the U.S. courts for the terrorist suspects currently held there,” as the […]

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Why is it time for a progressive president? Most Americans hold the progressive position on the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, which requires the issuing of warrants based on probable cause before Americans’ private lives and persons are riffled through and their possessions and personal information is seized. 58% of Americans say they want the […]

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