America is suffering from record-breaking increases in the cost of gasoline, which is now above four dollars per gallon and is expected to go over five dollars per gallon by the end of the summer. At the same time, the effects of global warming are damaging our economy as well. These problems make now exactly the wrong time to celebrate the gas-guzzling, carbon-spewing, inefficient Corvette with a National Corvette Day.

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In a USA Today editorial this morning, Republican Congressman Trent Franks manages to warp the fabric of American freedom in two different ways in his effort to justify torture.
First, he claims that “America’s distinguishing hallmark, its bedrock foundation, is that we hold to the self-evident truth that all men are created by God”. Of […]

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The Bush administration has decided to let an organization called World Vision continue to operate under a $1.5 million grant from the federal government, even though World Vision is using that money to hire only workers who agree to the Catholic Apostles’ Creed and the organization’s Statement of Faith:
Statement of Faith
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The Bush White House denied any knowledge of Jack Abramoff at one time. And yet the crooked and corrupt Jack Abramoff visited the White House 115 times. Now it comes to light that the Bush administration is withholding 600 pages of documents pertaining to “internal White House deliberations” having to do with Jack […]

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Supporters of the Republican presidential candidates are loathe to admit that their candidates don’t support math and science education. Present them with evidence, such as their opposition to a bill in Congress that supports math and science education, and they’ll make excuses. They’ll offer abstract ideological excuses for their candidates’ hostility to science […]

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As of today, the Irregular Times project to assemble 2,008 reasons to elect a progressive President in 2008 has reached 25 percent of its goal. There are now 504 reasons listed, leaving 1,504 more to go before January 1, 2008.
We’re organizing these reasons into categories, and in doing so, getting a good idea of […]

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When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, huge numbers of Americans reacted by going to the Gulf Coast to help out in person, or by making financial donations to organizations providing assistance to survivors. Most Americans are glad to see federal dollars going to the area to help in the recovery.
Sadly, the response by Republican […]

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Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington and Utah signed an agreement with the western provinces of Canada today to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent over the next twelve years. New Jersey and Florida have committed to even stronger cuts over the long term - 80 percent greenhouse gas reduction over […]

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The separation between the Bush administration and reality has just gained new breadth. You know it’s time for a big change in Washington when the Vice President of the United States declares in all sincerity that his office:
does not consider itself an ‘entity within the executive branch that comes into the possession of classified […]

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In order to better understand the political history that Fred Thompson brings to his 2008 campaign for President, I took a look this morning at the issues that Fred Thompson declared as most important at the height of his time in the Senate back in 1999.
One issue that is conspicuously missing from Senator Thompson’s 1999 […]

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