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Foreclosuregate and Obama’s “Pocket Veto“
Amid a snowballing foreclosure fraud crisis, President Obama today blocked legislation that critics say could have made it more difficult for homeowners to challenge foreclosure proceedings against them. The …
The Millennium Development Goals: A Check-Up on Latin America’s Progress
With much to deliberate since their last meeting in 2005, 140 leaders from across the globe came together in New York for the Assembly of the United Nations September …
Democrats Come Alive!
Friends, Ok! We're halfway through the week and we're off to a great start. Last week I gave the spineless Dems five friendly suggestions for things they could do …
E.J. Dionne Jr. | Tom Perriello’s Political Experiment
Danville, Va. - Rep. Tom Perriello is this election's test case of whether casting tough votes is better than ducking them, and whether a progressive who fashions an intelligent …
The Government Does Have Something To Do With It
One of the most telling statements of our political era, –made ten years ago this week by Dick Cheney during his Vice Presidential debate with Joe Lieberman on October …
Praise Jesus and Vote Republican
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Foreign-Funded “US” Chamber of Commerce Running Partisan Attack Ads
The largest attack campaign against Democrats this fall is being waged by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a trade association organized as a 501(c)(6) that can raise and spend …
Andrew Bacevich | The Long War: Year Ten
In January 1863, President Abraham Lincoln’s charge to a newly-appointed commanding general was simplicity itself: “give us victories.” President Barack Obama’s tacit charge to his generals amounts to this: …
Exclusion of Coercion-Tainted Evidence Echoes Other Guantanamo Cases
A federal judge's decision today — excluding key testimony from the first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee — is the latest, and potentially most significant, in a series …
Attention Left, Liberal and Radical Groups – Pennsylvania Has Been Monitoring You
Thank you, Institute of Terrorism Research and Response (ITRR), for reminding us how many bad-ass, dedicated and creative groups we count as allies in our efforts to create a …