By Rob Kall
Zogby Polling :Female Voters Deserting Hillary

By Steve Young
WARNING BARACK! O'REILLY INTERVIEWS HILLARY THEN USES MILLER TO TRASH HER

By Kpominville
John McCain Is A Victim, Not A Hero
How progressives can redefine John McCain and turn his greatest strength into his greatest weakness.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Dwight Black
Partisan Politics And Presidential Powers
Poking fun at average Joe Voter's lack of understanding how to vote and what effects the president has on the policies that affect their life. Voting 101 and alternative uses for the Oval Office are all covered.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Gustav Wynn
ABC News Shielding Cheney After DC Madam Hanging?
Palfrey's supposed suicide raises the stakes in the game between ABC News and the public, why tried to close Pandora's Box after Dick Cheney's number leaked out. Will Brian Ross come forward to tell the story of how this important story was reversed midstream?OE mail Recovery cracked

By Daniel Smith
Lessons Learned In Iraq Not Applied To Iran
Why the public must never take political pronouncements at face valueOE mail Recovery cracked

By Malcolm Shore
Crimes In Broad Daylight
Illegal torture approved by the president. And we can do about it.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Alamgir Hussain
Religions Unite Or Divide?
Religions do not abolish 'Us vs. Them' and 'High vs. Low' distinctions among humans. Instead, they create and nurture such divisions.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Ed Martin
If You're Reading This, George Bush Has Reserved A Bunk For You In One Of His Detention Camps.
George Bush is building detention camps. Their purpose is "to support the rapid development of new programs," without specifying just what those "new programs" might be. But, read on to see if programs Bush already has in place are the ones he's planning on using to put you in one of those camps.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Joan Brunwasser
Loser Take All: Election Fraud And The Subversion Of Democracy, 2000-2008
Warning:This book will make you uncomfortable.Miller pulls no punches. He's happy to spread the blame around � politicians,the Religious Right, corporate interests,election officials,the corporate media,voting machine vendors,fanatics for whom victory is all that matters�all (and more) come in for legitimate criticism.The biggest villains of the piece are those in the GOP who seek nothing less than a permanent power grab andOE mail Recovery cracked

By Mickey Z.
Ashamed To Be American
How much more will it take before everyday Americans collectively hang their heads in shame over their (sic) nation's contemptible conduct?OE mail Recovery cracked

By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
The Ordeal Of Al Jazeera Cameraman Sami Al-Hajj
After six and a half years of imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay military prison, Al Jazeera cameraman, Sami Al-Hajj, was released on May 2, 2008 in a very bad shape. He was carried off a US air force jet on a stretcher when he arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, and immediately taken to hospital. Al-Hajj's case symbolizes the policy of torture and human rights violation of the Bush Administration.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Nathan Nahm
Three Paradoxical Aspects Of The Wright Controversy
Analysis of the Media's Handling of the Wright Controversy: the Media is practicing an indirect form of racism on the pretense that voters at large practice racism; Wright sermons have become controversial because his discredited sermons contain kernel of truthl, not because they are ludicrous, as alleged by the pundits; also discusses why traditional power centers for blacks have been so unenthusiastic to Obama's campaignOE mail Recovery cracked

By Kevin Gosztola
Tapping The Power Of Youth
Raising sights, widening visions, challenging people, and taking charge of a battle that must be waged to redefine and restructure democratic societyOE mail Recovery cracked

By Allen L Roland
THE OBAMA DOCTRINE / A NEW WAY OF BEING FOR AMERICA
Barack Obama is offering the most sweeping liberal foreign-policy critique we've heard from a serious presidential contender in decades. Democrats should not have to act like Republicans to pass some test on national security. It's time to end the mind-set and politics of fear: Spencer AckermanOE mail Recovery cracked

By Marti Oakley
What Will It Take?
Patriotism, conspiracies and other senseless words and thoughts.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Gene Cappa
Iraq War Crimes Report
An official Report documenting the war crimes committed against humanity in Iraq from the very first day of the invasion.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Pamela Drew
The Bonsey Business Of One Nation Under Corporate Rule
For one hundred and fifty one years Skull & Bones was one of the world's most powerful, secret societies. In 1983 Antony Sutton broke the silence and exposed the members, by publishing America's Secret Establishment, An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones. The landmark book is every bit, the meticulously researched, academic work that one would expect from an author of Sutton's calibre. It lists the membersOE mail Recovery cracked

By Winston
Get Out Now.
History will look at this awful Iraq war and note that it was started on a pack of lies, continued by the same and state that the only group who benefited from it, were the Halliburtons of the world and condemn the big bro 43 administration for this vile conflicts of interests.OE mail Recovery cracked

By ALONE
KUWAITI KALEIDESCOPE: May Day 2008, Elections, And Other Insights
This is an editorialized summary of the news from around May Day 2008 at the nexus of where Iran, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf meet--namely Kuwait. The review begins with a report on the labor situation in Kuwait. Then it turns to national elections which are due on May 17. It looks especially at younger voters and critical trends in editorializing and predicting what will happy next in this MAD MAD World.OE mail Recovery cracked

By JGideon
'Daily Voting News' For May 05, 2008
a collection of local, state, national and international articles on electronic voting and election issuesOE mail Recovery cracked

By Roger Shuler
Love Connection? Abramoff And The D.C. Madam
Are there connections between the Jack Abramoff case and the death of the D.C. Madam?OE mail Recovery cracked

By Walter Uhler
America's Occupation Trumps The "Surge" And Petraeus' Counterinsurgency Manual
As Professor Truman Cross has concluded: It is a foolish and disastrous assumption that the government of the United States should learn how to fight anti-colonial wars against peoples who will keep fighting until the Americans and all other foreigners are gone--and then get down to the business of fighting for whatever territory is up for grabs.OE mail Recovery cracked

By David Swanson
68% Want Troops Safely Home In 6 Months
The poll marks a 14% increase from 54% in September.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Mike Ghouse
Could WeTrust The American Media?
Could the Iraq war have been prevented had the American media asked the right questions? How do conservative media commentators frame the actions of different religious communities? Does the media pay due attention to history? Mike Ghouse reflects on the political impact of mainstream media decisions.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Brad Arnold
Rapid Ecosystem Collapse From The CO2 Already In The Air
The elevated CO2 level in the air, combined with normal climate cycles, will combine to rapidly destroy all ecosystems. Fortunately, we can immediately cool the Earth simply and cheaply using a little sun dimming aerosol.OE mail Recovery cracked

By TheSeeker
Eye On The Prize: The Supreme Court
This next election will determine who will be the next appointee to the Supreme Court.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Sherwood Ross
Sadr City, Chicago, And Segregation
For each GI killed in Iraq, 25 Americans are murdered in the good old USA, most of them gunned down in our violent, segregated ghettos. It's time for a change.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Sandy Shanks
War With Iran ... That Is Up To Iraq
According to the highest circles in our government, the evidence of Iranian misbehavior is being presented to Iraqis, not Americans, and "Baghdad will decide what to do about it."OE mail Recovery cracked

By Robert Jensen
The Selling And Shaping Of Our Souls
an edited version of a sermon delivered May 4, 2008, at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Austin, TX.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Steve Young
WHY THE WRIGHT STORY STUCK...and Will Probably Continue To Do So
The right wing echo chamber (right wing radio and Fox News) is a junkyard dog. It grabs on to an issue, a soundbite, a rumor, sometimes (oh, my) even a fib - anything that might damage the image of an opponent - and doesn't let go until it rips it - and the Democrat intended to smear - into unrecognizable shreds. I give you Jeremiah Wright. Actually, it is the ALL the media that has given the story to us. But why? Read on...OE mail Recovery cracked

By Siv O'Neall
Insurrection Of The Famished � Causes And Possible Remedies Of The World Hunger Crisis
In a broadcast interview with Daniel Mermet on French radio*, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler, stated that the current world food crisis is not due to nature, but to man. Over the past few months in multiple places in the world we have been seeing riots caused by food shortages � the revolt of the famished.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Ferdinand
Manifesting Revolution
'This Much is True: You Have Been Lied To.' A review of the controversial new book by Ron Paul.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Stephen Lendman
Sixty Years Of Palestinian Displacement, Occupation And Suffering
On May 14, Israel will commemorate the founding of its state. This article recounts how it was done and what won't be mentioned around the world amidst all the disingenuous hoopla.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Ed Komarek
Return Of The Fascist SS, And The Unbelievable Factor
Excessive secrecy and lack of oversight often lead to holaucast type events. I believe history is repeating itself and a complacent public is being manipulated into a false sense of security while storm clouds gather.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Superdelegates Must Tell Color Of Change What It Can Do With Its Silly Vote For Obama Petition
Color of Change which presumptuously bills itself as the premier national grassroots organization is the latest to jump into bully the super delegates for Obama game. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, DNC Chair Howard Dean tried their hand at it and failed.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Creede Calhoon
Message For Florida And Michigan
Explains the importance of Michigan and Florida democrats in delivering a crushing blow to all things republican this November. Their soul is on the line.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Iftekhar Sayeed
Sister Carrie And The Leisure Class
The year after Thorstein Veblen's classic Theory of the Leisure Class appeared, Theodore Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie followed. Coincidence? Not really: the two books shared many of the same themes.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Chris Rice
Leaderless Resistance & The 9/11/08 General Strike
How we met & how to be a true patriot.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Dean Powers
Wake Up, Democratic Party!!!

By Andrew Bard Schmookler
What Happened To Hillary At The Level Of The Spirit
Hillary endured in the 90s a most savage and dirty assault from the gathering Bushite forces. Emerging from that experience with a greater allegiance to prevailing than to goodness, Hillary was less concerned about rescuing American politics from darkness than about learning the lesson from the dark forces about how power can be dishonorably won.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Don Williams
Hillary's Words Provide Cover For Bush War Crimes
Should George W. Bush send missiles screaming across ancient Persian skies in coming weeks or months, he might well cite remarks by Hillary Clinton when justifying his latest crimes.OE mail Recovery cracked

By PrMaine
Must Lapel Pins Remain Only The Refuge Of Scoundrels
The flap about Obama not wearing a flag lapel pin is part of a more general attack that conservatives have long made on liberals. A way to fight back is proposed for discussion.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Ed Tubbs
I Rage At All The Barbara Cornetts Of The Earth
Ms. Barbara Barnett's extraordinarily bigoted reply to my post was to me as terrifying as terrifying can get. It was terrifying because it reflects an attitude that - however most of us would prefer to pretend it is limited to a small fringe - is pervasive throughout America; it is not particularly uncommon. And I say: We are better than that.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Steven Miles MD
Torture And The Courage To Be Inconvenienced
This is a talk given at the St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church concerning the moral and social implications of torture and responsibility of each of us to act to create a torture-free world.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Anthony Barnes
The High Priests Of Hyperbole!
To some minority conservative pundits, America's racial problem consists of African-Americans and other minorities who fail to realize that there is no racial problem in America. In their attempts to prove this, they often resort to providing anecdotes instead of hard facts.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Cindy Sheehan
A Tale Of Three Sons
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By Allen L Roland
CHENEY AND BUSH TO BE IMPEACHED IN SAN FRANCISCO
Dick Cheney and George W Bush will be impeached in San Francisco on May 17th at the beautiful 500 seat International Studies Academy theater. It will be a world premiere of an inspirational work that will have you on your feet clapping and cheering: Allen L RolandOE mail Recovery cracked

By Rev. Bill McGinnis
Kentucky Derby: Predictor Of Obama Vs. Clinton?
Does The Kentucky Derby Predict Obama Over Clinton In Both Indiana And North Carolina, Followed By Clinton's Forced Withdrawal From The Race? Maybe so, if you read the signs in a certain way.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Angela Zayak
Who Is Really Responsible For Poverty?
Something is very wrong in a world where disparity between the haves and the have-nots is causing widespread death that the haves just ignore in a narcissistic manner and without guilt as the sickness of greed trickles down from the top.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Linn Washington Jr.
MOVE 9 PAROLE: Young Teen Gets Jaded By Justice System
Last week's Parole Board decision involving that MOVE trio (who've served time longer than the average third-degree murder case) underscores the pollution of politics in the justice system....The reason why so many people feel racism infects law, from police to judges to prisons, results from so many being jerked by the justice system so often.OE mail Recovery cracked

By John Kusumi
Activists Paint Pillar Orange
The Chinese democracy movement took action in Hong Kong as the Olympic torch passed through town.OE mail Recovery cracked

By JGideon
'Daily Voting News' For May 3 And 4, 2008
a collection of local, state, national and international articles on electronic voting and election issuesOE mail Recovery cracked

By Jane Stillwater
Dear AOL Subscribers: You Can No Longer Receive E-mails Containing The Word "Blogspot"
Can you believe it? In the last two days, AOL has actually blocked ALL of the e-mails you may have received containing the Blogspot domain name! And what is AOL planning to do next? Block everyone receiving e-mails from CNN? Or Oprah? Or is it just that they hates bloggers? Or maybe they just hate me. Why not? Everyone else does.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Olga Bonfiglio
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Doesn't Mince Words About War And Justice
Shirin Ebadi wants Americans to do what they can to stop the Bush administration's threats to bomb Iran as punishment for presumably making nuclear weapons.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Bill Knell
Witnesses, Pyrotechnicians And Readers Weigh In On The 2008 Phoenix Lights
Lights seen over Phoenix, Arizona, on April 21, 2008, and other places have ignited controversy. The simple explanations provided for these sightings are not standing up to serious scrutiny.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Rowan Wolf
Cheney Pushes The Boundaries - Again
Cheney argues Congress has no authority over the Vice President.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Waldopaper
Speaking The Unspeakable
The nattering hair-helmets and priests of punditry are paid to stifle the truth and fatten us all for the feudal slaughterhouse.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Mike Folkerth
Wall Street Celebrates U.S. Job Losses:
Celebrating the loss of 20,000 additional U.S. jobs in April, is the ultimate spin...read on for the real story.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Andrew Bard Schmookler
The Electability Question: Some Information, Some Thoughts
The political futures markets believe Hillary more likely to win in November if gets the nomination than Obama if he does. Here are thoughts on how they could be right and how they could be wrong.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Citizens Against Government Waste & AP Article
Why Do We Tolerate Pork Or Lobbyist?
How pork & lobbyist have corrupted democracy.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Noah Ben Shea
Packing Pickles And Problems
Doctors say there is enough salt in one pickle to give us all the sodium we need for a year. I'd like more years, and so I consume fewer pickles. But this is a story I still gnaw on over the years. It is a story my father's mother told over and over. And over and over. When I was younger I thought this was just the malaise of her advancing age. But it wasn't. She was simply hoping we were listening.OE mail Recovery cracked

By Marilyn Frith
Bo Bos In Obambiville: Or Why Media Heart Barack
David Brooks' book, Bo Bos in Paradise," inspired the possibility of a connection between the wine-sippers and the wannabes of our press corps in their mutual affection for Barack Obama. Is it real or just a summer affair? Or is it a symptom of something more sinister???OE mail Recovery cracked

By Ncvoter
Update On Robo Calls In NC - Investigation Heats Up - African Americans Key Victims
The investigation into the illegal robo calls targeting African Americans in North Carolina is expanding. Although NC's Atty General has said the calls are illegal, high profile voting advocates are shying away from the "politically incorrect" story. They are not comfortable reporting since the scam benefits a democratic candidate for president. I guess its only voter fraud if republicans are tied to it. Double standard?OE mail Recovery cracked

By Jerod Poore AA CME
We're Scum, Not Heroes
The civil rights of the mentally interesting are ignored because we're considered less than human. Two of the three leading presidential candidates would rather have us out of the picture completely one way or the other.OE mail Recovery cracked

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REPORT :: Racial Disparities Persist In Drug Arrests For Minorities, Esp. African Americans
The study found that, since 1980, the rate of drug arrests for African Americans increased by 225%, compared to 70% among whites.OE mail Recovery cracked

Ohio Democrats Talk Impeachment After AG Refuses To Resign
This time it's Democrats asking a Democrat (Atty Gen) to resign over a sex scandal. Reasoning seems to be that Republican misdeeds have finally been rectified through elections and there's no room for bad government practices now. Gov. Strickland & Sen. Brown are included in effort.OE mail Recovery cracked

Corruption Eats Into Food Rations As Iraqi Civilians Starve
Amidst unemployment and impoverishment, Iraqis now face a cutting down of their monthly food ration � much of it already eaten away by official corruption. "It is impossible for 80 percent of Iraqis now to buy the same items they used to get from the previous regime�s food rations.�OE mail Recovery cracked

10 Questions And Answers About The Indiana Primary
By the time May 6 ends, it may be good to have this discussion of what Indiana had in store for voters (and all Americans) to know about the composition of the Hoosier state. Close? Red? Whatever.OE mail Recovery cracked

A Gritty N.C. City Where Obama Has Appeal On Primary Day
Analysis of Rocky Mount, NC and what will result in elections today gives a look at how Obama may do. Hard times and race are the issues. Rocky Mount is east of Raleigh.OE mail Recovery cracked

Tens Of Thousands Riot In Mogadishu In Eruption Of Anger Over Food Prices - Africa, World - The Independent
Troops have fired into tens of thousands of rioting Somalis, killing two people in the latest eruption of anger over high food prices in Africa, witnesses said.OE mail Recovery cracked

The Lorita Doan Story
Ms. Doan exits the Bush administration as a minor but revealing character in a far more sweeping tale of the partisan undermining of public service.OE mail Recovery cracked

Notes From The War On Terror
The next president and Congress will have to work very hard to uncover all the ways President Bush has twisted or evaded the law, and then set things right.OE mail Recovery cracked

Freezing To Show Warming Trend
Among Zimov's findings: The release of greenhouse gases � particularly methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide�from thawing permafrost underneath Siberian lakes could accelerate global warming and represents an especially worrisome trend in the battle to slow climate change.OE mail Recovery cracked

Top U.S. Officer Says Would Prefer No War On Iran
U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq would make it difficult to mount any attack on Iran, the Pentagon's top officer said in remarks broadcast on Monday, adding that he would prefer to avoid a new regional war. "It would be a very significant challenge for the United States right now to get into a third conflict in that part of the world," Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff added.OE mail Recovery cracked

Rich Bad-boy Countries Are The Least Worried About Climate Change
From the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU): The wealthier a country is, and the larger its CO2 emissions, the less worried its citizens are about global warming.OE mail Recovery cracked

How Fraud Fueled The Mortgage Crisis
Despite its widespread role, fraud hasn't yet been at the forefront of proposed rescue plans, which center on refinancing people out of loans now resetting to higher rates. That may begin to change as the mortgage market continues a meltdown that seems to have no end. As fraud becomes a focus, the question of who did most of the lying and cheating will be crucial in deciding who deserves help in any housing rescue plan.OE mail Recovery cracked

Black Box Voting: 1.1 Million Purged From Indiana Voter Registration Rolls According To State Data
In addition to the recent, outrageously bad decision by the Supreme Court to approve Indiana's draconian polling place Photo ID restrictions-despite the state's inability to offer up a single instance of in-person polling-another 1.1 million voters have now been purged from the voting rolls all together, based on the Hoosier State's own data.OE mail Recovery cracked

TV News Blackout On Pentagon Pundits
Two weeks after a New York Times story (4/20/08) revealed a Pentagon propaganda campaign that had been feeding talking points to TV military analysts, many of whom also had ties to military contractors, the cable and broadcast networks that employed these analysts have almost entirely failed to report this crucial news story.OE mail Recovery cracked

The New Immorality Of Iraq War
In the present phase of the Iraq war, this strategic impoverishment has added a new dimension to the war's immorality. Rather than acknowledge its mistake, Washington pursues the vindication of its policy - but not for Iraq's sake. Rather, the purpose now is the rescuing of US "credibility," lest the nation's power elsewhere be undercut.OE mail Recovery cracked

Torture, Rendition, And International Law
Rendition to torture is thus a clear violation of the prohibition against torture. Indeed, in a 2006 report, the UN Committee against Torture, the international expert body responsible for monitoring state compliance with the Convention against Torture, condemned U.S. use of the practice.OE mail Recovery cracked

Net Neutrality
The failure of Congress to pass comprehensive legislation on net neutrality has forced computer users seeking effective regulation to continue pressuring broadband companies and the FCC, lest potentially unbalanced practices previously exhibited by Comcast, Verizon and others go unnoticed.OE mail Recovery cracked

San Diego Firm Named In Torture Suit
Emad Al-Janabi, a 43-year-old blacksmith filed the action against Steven Stefanowicz and three business entities: Arlington, Va.-based defense contractor CACI International Inc., its subsidiary, CACI Premier Technology Inc., and L-3 Communications Titan Corp. of San Diego, according to Philadelphia-based law firm Burke O'Neil.OE mail Recovery cracked

General Petraeus: Zionism�s Military Poodle
In theory and strategy, in pursuit of defeating the Iraqi resistance, General Petraeus was a disastrous failure, an outcome predictable form the very nature of his appointment and his flawed wartime reputation. Petraeus, unlike most military analysts, was willing to ignore the heavy costs of multiple prolonged tours of duty on US troops.OE mail Recovery cracked

The Last Roundup
For decades the federal government has been developing a highly classified plan that would override the Constitution in the event of a terrorist attack. Is it also compiling a secret enemies list of citizens who could face detention under martial law?OE mail Recovery cracked

Iraq Says No Hard Evidence Of Iran Support For Militia
Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said there was no "hard evidence" of involvement by the neighbouring Shiite government of Iran in backing Shiite militiamen in the embattled country. Asked about US reports that weapons captured from Shiite fighters bore 2008 markings suggesting Iranian involvement, Dabbagh said: "We don't have that kind of evidence... If there is hard evidence we will defend the country."OE mail Recovery cracked

Iran Says New Talks With U.S. On Iraq Meaningless
Iran on Monday dismissed any prospect of new talks with the United States on Iraq, accusing US-led forces on Monday of a "massacre" of the Iraqi people. Washington accuses Iran of funding, arming and training "rogue" elements of Sadr's Mehdi Army to attack US and Iraqi forces, despite its public commitment to stabilizing Iraq. Tehran blames the violence on the US presence in Iraq.OE mail Recovery cracked

'NYT' Vs McClatchy On Iran's Link To Iraqi Insurgents
The highlighting of the NYTs as a mouthpiece for the administrations assertions. The slow cooking of public opinion vs the informing of the public (McClatchy) through journalism.OE mail Recovery cracked

The Tax Cut That Neutered Congress
On Inauguration Day, January 20, 2001, President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney went to work. The centerpiece of their agenda was an unprecedented $1.6 trillion tax cut that took Congress by surprise. The magnitude of the cut caught even House Speaker Dennis Hastert off balance. The Cheney-Bush strategy behind the cut was to preempt the Congress on every issue. It would tame any resistance to a radical agendaOE mail Recovery cracked

It's Official: John And Elizabeth Edwards Will Not Endorse In Prez Race
confirmed they will not endorse either candidate in the presidential race, because they are "saving their political capital for their own causes -- his, fighting poverty; hers, fighting for universal health care," reports, um, People mag.OE mail Recovery cracked

GOP Polling Place Photo ID Restrictions: Keeping Vets (and So Many More) From Voting In America
All of this,despite IN's own admission during the SCOTUS hearing,that there has never been,in the state's entire history,a single known instance of polling place voter impersonation fraud of the type this law is supposedly meant to keep from happening.Please join me in helping folks understand what's going on here.This is not about "voter fraud,"this is about nothing more than voter suppression.Period.It's gonna get worse...OE mail Recovery cracked

County Clerk With Bogus Degree Clashes With Judge Over Web Site
Texas County Clerk who has exposed tens of thousands of local citizens to possible identity theft via her Web site while obscuring her own identity behind a bogus degree faces a challenge to her authority. Ft Bend Clerk Dianne Wilson admitted to selling 'about 20 million documents' to Florida-based data miner Red Vision for $2,000. Several thousand documents with SS and DL numbers still remain on the website.OE mail Recovery cracked

Landowners' Rebellion: Slavery And Saneamiento In Bolivia
Efforts by Bolivia's land reform authorities to free 167 Guaran� families living in servitude in Alto Parapet�, a rural area in the eastern Bolivian lowlands province of Santa Cruz, have brought to light a phenomenon that had remained largely hidden and ignored until now in the country's vast Chaco plains region. Another 1,050 families living in a kind of modern-day slavery are in the Chaco grasslands regionOE mail Recovery cracked

Chris Floyd: Too Much Of Nothing: Crime Without Punishment, War Without End
Chris Floyd articulates apathy surrounding accountability for in-your-face governance (of the criminal kind). It's worth taking time to read through the links embedded and the commentary thread.OE mail Recovery cracked

Clinton Mailing Gun Gaffe
Gun enthusiasts spot mistake immediately.OE mail Recovery cracked

Myanmar Believes 10,000 Dead From Cyclone
Myanmar's military junta believes at least 10,000 people died in a cyclone that ripped through the Irrawaddy delta, triggering a massive international aid response for the pariah southeast Asian nation. "The basic message was that they believe the provisional death toll was about 10,000 with 3,000 missing,"OE mail Recovery cracked

Hundreds Of Laptops Missing At State Department
Although the Dept of State's Inspector General's report is not completed, it is estimated as many as 400 laptops are unaccounted for, which is a large part of the $30 million which needs reconciling. Now comes the task of tracking them down. Much of the information on these computers relates to training material.OE mail Recovery cracked

Clinton Camp Considering Nuclear Option To Overtake Delegate Lead
With at least 50% of the Dem Party's 30-member Rules and Bylaws Committee committed to Clinton, her backers could -- when the committee meets at the end of this month -- try to ram through a decision to seat the disputed 210-member FL and 156-member MI delegations. Such a decision would give Clinton an estimated 55 or more delegates than Obama. Asked about this article, Clinton said she's always called for seating MI and FLOE mail Recovery cracked

Somalia: A Victim Of Bush's Recklessness
Because Bush and the whole Neocon movement has a scarcely disguised, visceral hatred of Islam, they throw all reason out the window to leap at any opportunity to kill Moslems. In the case of Somalia, not only the anti-Islamic Neocons, but also the racist Southern-cracker Neocons have a deeply biased motive for breaching international law to push their pogram disquised as the War on Terror: The Moslems there are also black.OE mail Recovery cracked

How Hillary Clinton Botched The Black Vote
Thomas F. Shaller traces the decreasing black support for Clinton since the SC primary. She didn't understand that Obama's staff had been tracking an increase in his support from blacks even before primaries started. With a stronger support of black women, her total vote count would not need to depend on the Michigan/Florida outcome. And super delegates are impressed by that figure.OE mail Recovery cracked

What The Pentagon Pundits Were Selling On The Side: Propaganda Meets Corporate Lobbying
Of the 27 Pentagon pundits named publicly to date, six are registered as federal lobbyists. That's in addition to the less formal - and less transparent - boardroom to war-room influence peddling described above. (There are "more than 75 retired officers" who took part in the Pentagon program overall, according to Barstow.) The Pentagon pundits' lobbying disclosure forms help chart what can only be called a...OE mail Recovery cracked

Frank Rich: Clerical Double Standards
Frank Rich calls the MSM on its clerical double standard - and educates on pastors on the Right.OE mail Recovery cracked

The Torture Memos: Lessons For All Of Us
It is easy to believe that John Yoo wrote his widely discredited "torture memos" because he holds radical views of presidential authority or because he has some unusual moral failing. The reality, however, may be far more ordinary and disturbing: He willfully followed the lead of White House officials who were eager to find a legal justification for torture.OE mail Recovery cracked

JOHN MCCAIN: The Missing Medical Records
John McCain�s age and his survival of skin cancer impose on him a larger duty than usual to provide detailed, timely disclosure about his health. His temper is legendary, yet the GOP declare it is no longer a problem...anger management? And what about the "c*nt thing?" And what about him attacking a fellow member of Congress? And what about his aggressive cancer? OE mail Recovery cracked

US-backed Plan Sees Shiny Future For Embattled Green Zone
Forget the rocket attacks, concrete blast walls and lack of a sewer system. Now try to imagine luxury hotels, a shopping center and even condos in the heart of Baghdad. That's all part of a five-year development "dream list" - or what some dub an improbable fantasy - to transform the U.S.-protected Green Zone from a walled fortress into a centerpiece for Baghdad's future.OE mail Recovery cracked

Multinationals Make Billions In Profit Out Of Growing Global Food Crisis
Speculators blamed for driving up price of basic foods as 100 million face severe hungerOE mail Recovery cracked

Question For McCain: What If Abortion Became Illegal?
A lot of elected officials say they want to see Roe v. Wade repealed, clearing the way for abortion to be made illegal. But few of them go the extra step and say what they would like to see done to women who have abortions. Throw a scared 17-year-old woman in jail? For how long? A new ad. Watch video.OE mail Recovery cracked

CBS Poll: Support For Obama Rebounds, In Wake Of Controversy Over Former Pastor, Illinois Senator Builds Lead Over McCai
Barack Obama appears to have rebounded from some of the damage caused by the controversy surrounding his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, according to the latest CBS News/New York Times poll. On one key measure, Obama has seen a big reversal since his denunciation of Wright's remarks on Tuesday. He now leads presumptive Republican nominee John McCain in the hypothetical fall contest by eleven points, 51 percent to 40%OE mail Recovery cracked

Government Schools And The Housing Mess
The Law of Unintended Consequences is a fascinating thing. You can never be entirely sure what the second-, third-, etc. -order effects of any action will be. This is especially so with government policy because centralized decision-making can do so much damage to so many people. That ought to humble the politicians and bureaucrats, but it never does.OE mail Recovery cracked

Chafee's New Book Is Tough On Pro-war Democrats & Bush
Book review on Lincoln Chafee and his split with the Republicans, by the Providence Journal. He is working for Obama and maybe he will be back in politics. So he said in a C-Span Book TV.OE mail Recovery cracked

U.N. Sees World Climate Change Deal In 2009
The world can reach a significant new climate change pact by the end of 2009 if current talks keep up their momentum, the head of the United Nations climate panel said on Sunday.OE mail Recovery cracked

Who Will Tell The People? Thomas L. Friedman
We are not as powerful as we used to be because over the past three decades, the Asian values of our parents' generation - work hard, study, save, invest, live within your means - have given way to subprime values: "You can have the American dream - a house - with no money down and no payments for two years."OE mail Recovery cracked

Design Of A Memorial To Flight 93 Fuels Tension Between Families
Complaints about alleged Islamic symbolism in the design of the proposed Flight 93 National Memorial have been cropping up since the first days the winning plan was put on view to the public almost three years ago.OE mail Recovery cracked

Nigeria Oil Rebels Say Mulling Obama Truce Appeal
Rebels who have stepped up attacks on Nigeria's oil industry in the last month said on Sunday they were considering a ceasefire appeal by U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama.OE mail Recovery cracked

Asia Fears Lost Decade From Food Price Shock
Soaring food prices may throw millions of people back into poverty in Asia and undo a decade of gains, regional leaders said on Sunday while calling for increased agricultural production to meet rising demand.OE mail Recovery cracked

Even The Insured Feel The Strain Of Health Costs - McCain's Plan Is A Killer
The economic slowdown has swelled the ranks of people without health insurance. But now it is also threatening millions of people who have insurance but find that the coverage is too limited or that they cannot afford their own share of medical costs. Many of the 158 million people covered by employer health insurance are struggling to meet medical expenses that are much higher than they used to be...OE mail Recovery cracked

Daily Kos: An Old Campaign In A New Digital Era
John McCain has a YouTube problem.OE mail Recovery cracked

The Awfully Nice Guys Allowing US Torture At Guantanamo Bay
Philippe Sands, a British QC, has exposed the 'decent' lawyers who made the brutal interrogation of Guantanamo detainees possibleOE mail Recovery cracked

Ukraine And "Russophobia" Uncensored
The term "Russophobia" reflects a soft approach at dealing with the hard core anti-Russian prejudices. "Anti-Russian" and "Russia unfriendly" can thus be considered more accurate (though not always so perfect) alternatives to "Russophobia".OE mail Recovery cracked

CONTRADICTING PETRAEUS: Iraq Says No Hard Evidence Of Iran Support For Militia
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq said on Sunday it has no evidence that Iran was supplying militias engaged in fierce street fighting with security forces in Baghdad. ADVERTISEMENT Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said there was no "hard evidence" of involvement by the neighbouring Shiite government of Iran in backing Shiite militiamen in the embattled country.OE mail Recovery cracked

Keeping Troops Overseas Isn't As Trouble-free As McCain Says
South Korea, Okinawa, and elsewhere, the American military presence is not without its detractors.OE mail Recovery cracked

Thomas Friedman: Who Will Tell The People?
Friedman endorses Obama and observes, after seeing the Singapore airport, "We felt, as we have before, like we had just flown from the Flintstones to the Jetsons. If all Americans could compare Berlin’s luxurious central train station today with the grimy, decrepit Penn Station in New York City, they would swear we were the ones who lost World War II." and tells us that the nation building people want to do is in America.OE mail Recovery cracked

Baghdad Hospital Damaged By U.S. Missile, Dozens Injured
A major hospital in Baghdad's Sadr City slum was damaged Saturday when an American military strike targeted a militia command center just a few yards away, the U.S. military said. American troops also killed 14 people in separate incidentsOE mail Recovery cracked

Housing Bust Duration: Update
During the last few years of the bust, real prices will be flat or decline slowly - and the conventional wisdom will be that homes are a poor investment.OE mail Recovery cracked

Howard Dean On Fox News Sunday: Your Coverage Is "Shockingly Biased" (VIDEO)
During an appearance on Fox News Sunday this morning, Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean said that Fox's news coverage has at times been "shockingly biased, and I think that's wrong and I just say so right up front." Dean also said he agreed with the netroots campaign to boycott the Democratic debates on the network.OE mail Recovery cracked

Memo To Bush: "�Magic Wand' Not Needed To Deal With Gas Prices
President Bush said Tuesday that he has no "magic wand" to affect gas prices. In reality, gas price is "all about government policy." As the United States has some of the lowest gas taxes in the world, the price at the pump is dominated by the cost of oil: 72% of what you pay at the pump goes to crude oil. Clinton and McCain's summer oil tax break will only impact the taxpayers' coffers - not oil company profits.OE mail Recovery cracked

Despite Repeated Warnings, KBR's Flawed Wiring Still Kills G.I.�s
Accidental deaths in Iraq caused by faulty electrical work are raising questions about the oversight of contractors. It's time to ban KBR and Halliburton from all government contracts as the only thing they do not show contempt for is gouging the American taxpayer.OE mail Recovery cracked

Audit: Up To 400 State Department Laptops Missing
The computers belong to the Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program, run by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, which protects diplomats during stateside visits and trains and equips foreign police, intelligence and security forces. Anonymous sources say that officials are "urgently" scouring offices in the Washington, D.C. area to account for the equipment.OE mail Recovery cracked

Millions For Bridge Collapse. Zero For Levee Failure
Unlike victims of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, who will split $38 million, victims of the New Orleans flood, a man-made disaster, had so little that the rest of us are encouraged to assess their losses as trivial.OE mail Recovery cracked

Judge Rejects Army Corps Of Engineers Immunity Over Katrina
The Army Corps of Engineers can be held liable for flood damage caused by a "hurricane highway," a navigation channel that is believed to have funneled Hurricane Katrina's storm surge into the city, a federal judge ruled Friday.OE mail Recovery cracked

Democrat Cazayoux Wins Congressional Seat In Louisiana - EarthLink - Main News
Don Cazayoux is the first Democrat to win in a district which was Republican since 1974. Area encompasses Baton Rouge. However, in the 1st Congressional District (New Orleans) a Republican won. National interest in Cazayoux's race made it significant.OE mail Recovery cracked

US Weighs Thousands More Troops For Afghan War
New York Times reports that US is expecting to send 7000 more troops to Afghanistan. This would make American contingent about half of the NATO force. Reducing forces in Iraq might be required and action will probably not take place until the next president's watch.OE mail Recovery cracked

RAW STORY: San Diego GOP Chair Revealed As Infamous International Software Hacker
That skill set should come in very handy down there in, of all places, San Diego,where the far-right Republican Board of Supes,and the far-right Republican Registrar of Voters office,have never met a hackable Diebold electronic voting system they didn't love.He,and the other incredibly competitive pirate crews,could crack anything,anytime, usually within minutes after a new piece of software hit the market (and often before!)OE mail Recovery cracked

San Diego GOP Chairman Co-founded International Piracy Ring
Any job applicant knows that background checks are routine – especially for jobs involving authority or oversight of money. So why didn’t the San Diego Republican Party do a simple Google search before naming Tony Krvaric as its chairman?OE mail Recovery cracked