militia-madness is back
And Sarah Palin is their poster girl: Federal agents have broken up a plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black...
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Obama’s Closing Argument
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X3eE18dfmE Thanks to Truthout. Here is some good news from Guardian.Uk, US election: Obama leads McCain by 19 points among early voters, Pew says. But it also sounds like...
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you can shut up now, bill
When William McKinley was inaugurated, a state legislator from New York who had long experience with the force of nature that was Governor (and, at that moment, Vice President-elect) Theodore...
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we don’t torture, but our torture techniques are a matter of national security
The CIA can hide statements from imprisoned suspected terrorists that the agency tortured them in its set of secret prisons, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the...
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I canvassed for Obama for 4 hours yesterday in SW Vancouver, and every voter I spoke to had either voted for Obama already or was planning to. While Washington state doesn’t loom large in either...
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coincidental symbolism
Back in 1998, J. and I started collecting state quarters for our son L.; it seemed fortuitous that the state quarter program had begun the year of his birth, and that he would have long since taken...
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a bad week for good people
I was writing a post on Studs Terkel in my head, on my way to a meeting Saturday morning, when my Mom called to tell me that my Aunt Camilla had passed. And this afternoon, I was just getting wound up...
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Election Results
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i feel patriotic for the first time in my adult life
It should not be extraordinary for our country to elect a mixed-race man with a non-Anglo or Aryan name to our highest office in the 21st century, and in our third century of existence as a nation,...
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the turd in the punchbowl
Yesterday was phenomenal for so many reasons: Obama, Kay Hagan, Larry Kissel, both Udalls, and here in Oregon a number of critical bond measures passed despite the economic worries haunting nearly...
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the worm turns
Conservative über-douchebag Richard Viguerie on November 5, 2004, celebrating George Bush’s re-election by an electoral margin of just 34 votes: [The] network of conservative think tanks, advocacy...
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how will we keep him down on the farm, now that he’s seen d.c.?
Democrat Jeff Merkley is declaring victory over Republican incumbent Sen. Gordon Smith in the Oregon Senate race, moving Democrats one seat closer to a filibuster-proof majority in the body. “This is...
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evidentally we haven’t learned from history
Because we’re doing it again. Today is the 70th anniversary of the end of the two-day race riot known as Kristallnacht, “the night of broken glass,” when Nazi brownshirts and the Aryan equivalent of...
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