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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Habeas corpus is your opportunity to prove that the proceedings that have led to your incarceration have been improper or incorrect, or have come to the wrong conclusion. Without habeas corpus, it almost doesn’t matter what the law is, because what the law is at that point has almost nothing to do with what the government can do to you. If there is no habeas corpus, it’s just a matter that if there are enough people to guard the cell that you’re in, then your detention stands.

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These Democratic Party senators have lost the support of progressive Democrats. Not only will we no longer support these senators for re-election, we will oppose them. We will do whatever we can, within the law, to make sure that they are not re-elected.

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This action will only take you two minutes, one minute per phone call, but it means everything for the future of freedom in the United States of America. Please, don’t let the telecom spies take over. It’s time for true patriots to stand up in defense of liberty in the USA.

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Why should Democrats bother supporting Obama or Clinton when they won’t keep their promises to Democratic voters? Why should either Obama or Clinton be made President when they won’t do the job they have now as senators? If Clinton and Obama won’t act to defend our freedom from illegal government spying now, why should we believe that either one would defend our freedom as President?

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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards talks a good talk. Senator Russ Feingold knows that all too well.
When it comes to the walk, Edwards’s record in the Senate shows something quite different. Senator Feingold discusses the inconsistency between what John Edwards says and what John Edwards has actually done in an interview […]

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In a December 7, 2007 speech on the Senate Floor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse disclosed the content of previously classified opinions delivered by the Bush Administration’s Office of Legal Counsel:
For years under the Bush Administration, the Office of Legal Counsel within the Department of Justice has issued highly classified secret legal opinions related to surveillance. […]

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Why isn’t just voting Democrat enough? Recent history is littered with legislative answers to that question.
We already have an index of legislative action for the U.S. Senate in the 110th Congress that looks at senatorial cosponsorships along with votes on important issues during the ten months of the current Congress. But there are […]

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