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The Pen is a real person, and the creator of UTalk, a revolutionary new internet radio interface, to make advocacy messages as facile and easy as possible. With this goal in mind we pioneered one click action pages in the political realm, now imitated by virtually all other action sites on the internet. The premise behind the resource has always been twofold. If people are speaking out to their members of Congress in sufficient numbers one of two things MUST happen. 1) Either our representatives will heed the voices of their constituents and we will have the policy change we want, or 2) People will personally experience being ignored by their members of Congress, and then we have a base of people motivated to seek their replacement. Last year we also added to its resource options fax sending capability, so that messages can be sent by fax to recipients who might not be reachable by web input form or regular email. Besides our own action alerts and pages, many other activist groups have been set up with their own action page creators, including building this capability into the writer article submission interface for OpEdNews itself, to empower them in their own policy missions. And all of these services are provided for absolutely no charge to anyone, supported only by whatever kind donations individuals choose to make from time to time.
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Saturday, October 5, 2013Chump Change: Our New Corporate Health Care System While the health care bill's strongest defenders are bragging that they can save a hundred dollars or whatever, America continues to pay . . . continues to pay . . . CONTINUES to pay more than twice as much as any developed first world country in the world for their health care. These are chump corporate discounts, folks, for anyone with the integrity to admit it.
Monday, September 9, 2013The Dead Bodies They Won't Show Us Pictures Of In a last gasp attempt to try to inflame the American people and its Congress into our own irrational act of international murder in Syria, the administration has flooded our media with pictures of dead bodies. Do they really think all they have to do is show us some bodies lined up in burial shrouds and like Pavlov's mad dogs we will all start foaming at the mouth for war?
Monday, September 2, 2013Action Page: Absolutely NO Syria Attack Without International Consensus In the new authorization for military force measure proposed by the White House much lip service is given to previous UN resolutions, international norms, and the like. So why is it that not a SINGLE other country in the world is interested in joining us in this rash assault?
Saturday, August 31, 2013The Red Line For Impeachment In Syria Kerry contends that Assad was warned that use of chemical weapons was a red line not to be crossed. but he did so anyway. We warn President Obama that rogue executive action to launch an attack is an equally clear red line, and he dare not cross it, and we WILL call for accountability and shame on us if we don't.
Monday, January 21, 2013Unblocking The Pipe (Stop The Filibuster, Part 5) The most important thing to recognize is that the only thing that has ever forced any movement on filibuster reform has been the threat to change it unilaterally. There have been many attempts to reform the filibuster, but only when the Senate was completely fed up and ready to invoke the so-called "constitutional option" has anything ever actually happened.
Sunday, January 20, 2013Robert's Rules Of Disorder (Stop The Filibuster, Part 4) Some may think that because Robert's so-called Rules of Order include a procedure that resembles an attempted cloture vote (to cut off a filibuster) that this was some time honored tradition from the same era as our Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013Pirates Of The Constitution (Stop The Filibuster, Part 3) It was not until at least 50 years after the Constitutional Convention that some perverse senators had the evil idea of exploiting an inadvertent defect in the rules to hijack the process . . . pirates of the Constitution. And that is exactly how they were viewed at the time.
Monday, December 3, 2012How The Filibuster Happened By Accident [Handcuffs On The Constitution, Part 2] This is the second installment of our mini-series on how the filibuster broke our government. Today we focus on why the filibuster is so contrary to the Constitution.
Friday, November 30, 2012How The Filibuster Happened By Accident [A Defect In The Rules, Part 1] This is the first of a multi-part series. We have done some intensive research on how the filibuster came into accidental existence in the history of the Senate, and can report all the accurate facts to you now.
Thursday, November 29, 2012We Need A Million People To Stop The Filibuster We need a million people to submit the action page to Stop The Filibuster. But Now that the Democrats are talking like they will actually move to reform filibuster abuse, the Republicans are threatening to completely shut down the Senate in vengeful retaliation. Isn't that the status quo? Isn't that why the filibuster must be abolished in the first place? Isn't that why we must all speak out now?
Wednesday, November 7, 2012Where Do We Go Forward To From Here, Post Election?? Unless we get cracking right now, and advocate for policy change in voices that WILL NOT be ignored, in another two years we will again be faced with a choice between candidates hard to defend and even greater evils. This is our three part plan on how to proceed going forward.
Saturday, January 21, 2012MTV (Viacom Inc.) REFUSES Ad For The Last War Crime Movie In an astonishing act of corporate arrogance, MTV (Viacom Inc.) refuses to accept an ad for the new feature length film, "The Last War Crime", and admits in the same breath that it is an act of political censorship of the film itself, not just of one particular ad.
Thursday, January 12, 2012More Than 7,000 Protest YouTube's Censorship of "The Last War Crime" Film In response to more than 7,000 personal protest messages, YouTube has attempted to quietly reinstate the clip they censored from "The Last War Crime" movie, while demands that YouTube implement real accountability continue to mount
Tuesday, December 27, 2011YouTube Censors the Waterboarding Scene from The Last War Crime movie Though still not even in official release, YouTube is already trying to suppress "The Last War Crime," a new full-length feature film about indicting Dick Cheney for torture. And by the way, isn't that something billions of people want to see? But YouTube does not want their visitors to see the preview clip of the waterboarding scene from the movie, and a protest is mobilizing against their censorship.
Saturday, July 30, 2011The President Can And Must Invoke 31 USC 3102 To Pay Our National Debts Direct authority for the President to by pass the refusal of Congress to pay for its own appropriations bills is actually found in 31 USC 3102, not some broad reading of the 14th Amendment.
Saturday, November 6, 2010Dead Political Party Walking The Democratic party as a viable political power force is finished for at least the next election cycle. Stick a fork in it, it's done. We see no scenario of possible recovery from this. It's over. The only reason they did not lose back the Senate in round one is because only a third of the seats were in play. The rest they will lose the next time for sure.
Monday, May 3, 2010They've Literally Punched A Hole Into Hell, We Need A Crash Alternative Energy Program Now, Assuming We Even Survive There is no verbal hyperbole sufficient to express the magnitude of the environmental catastrophe now known as Deepwater Horizon. It is nothing short of an Armageddon of Oil. Assuming we even survive this one, we must immediately mobilize a crash program for truly renewable alternative energy resources.
Friday, April 23, 2010Anybody But Kagan, The Worst Choice To Replace Justice Stevens, Part 9 Of The Corporations United Supreme Court Debacle We were not sure if we should address the embarrassingly pathetic performance by Solicitor General Elena Kagan in this analysis series of the multitude of unconscionable and premeditated errors foisted on the American people, when the Supreme Court held that corporations were the true rulers of all us. But since Kagan's name is again being tossed about as a replacement for retiring Justice Stevens, we have no choice.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010The Synchronized Surrender Squad, A.K.A. The Democratic Progressive Caucus Those of us who have so-called progressives supposedly representing us in Congress have cause to complain the loudest. More than sixty of them declared in no uncertain terms last fall that NO bill would pass without a strong "public option". Instead, they did the opposite, working en masse to drag anybody who would hold out back into their slime pit of cowardice.
Sunday, April 11, 2010Part 8 of Supreme Court Analysis: First Amendment Absolutism, But Only For Corporations This is the eighth of our much anticipated installments tearing up into little itsy bitsy pieces the rogue Supreme Court ruling to declare our country the kingdom of the corporations. We're not proud, we're not tired. But there are still yet more fundamental and unforgivable errors in this opinion we have not yet addressed.
