California Republican Representative John Doolittle has added his name in support of H.Res. 598, a bill that proclaims support for the Ten Commandments Commission in its goals, which are to give Christian theology a determinative role in American politics and to exclude atheist Americans, Muslim Americans, secular Americans and anyone else who isn’t a Jew […]

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Alternative Apparel profits from the authoritarian regime that keeps Tibet in chains.

That’s not very alternative, is it?

A company can have a nice sounding name, and still do nasty business.

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So far, John McCain has not denounced Loren Davis at all. Why? Does John McCain actually believe Loren Davis Ministries, and think that there are satanic conspiracies all across the United States? I can’t believe that. The only conclusion I can come to is that John McCain’s campaign, knowing about these outlandish slurs, wants them to continue.

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If Steve Pearce loves the oil corporations so much, why doesn’t he just go work for them? Oh, wait. That was a dumb question. Steve Pearce is working for the oil corporations already… as a member of the United States Congress.

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Some people have tried to limit the scope of the speech, by saying that it is just about confronting racism. The speech is about a great deal more than that. It’s about what it means to be an American. It’s about how we can reconcile the promise of the American nation, and the reality of American failures, moving forward to form, not a perfect nation, but a more perfect union.

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“Some people like to give and don’t particularly like their names to be disclosed… so we’ll take that into consideration.” Those are the actual words that came out of President Bush’s mouth. He plans on taking money from people and from corporations, while President, and not disclosing where the money is coming from.

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A mysterious organization calling itself “Hillary Responders” appeared over this past weekend on the world wide web. The purpose of the website, which proclaims it is not directly connected to the Hillary Clinton campaign, is to provide “talking points” for Clinton supporters on their blogs, on talk radio shows, in letters to the editor […]

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Merrill Lynch and Citigroup lobby for the interests of top investors and gigantic corporations. They lobby against the interests of small Main Street business owners, and John McCain is right there with them.

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John McCain said of corporate lobbyists that “they’re honorable people, and I’m proud to have them as part of my team”. Sending John McCain to clean up Washington D.C. is like using a dirty diaper to wash the kitchen floor.

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The White House justifies its destruction of the records by saying that doing so is “consistent with industry best practices”. What President George W. Bush clearly does not understand is that the federal government of the United States of America is not an industry. Our government is supposed to be of the people, by the people, and for the people. It therefore is expected to follow standards that are higher than those adopted by big business.

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