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Investigation Discovers Lou Dobbs Hired At Least Five Undocumented Immigrants To Work At His Estates
Author, radio host, and TV personality Lou Dobbs - who ended his long career at CNN this past November with an $8 million severance pay package - made his …
Finance Committee Chair Demands IRS Investigate Rove’s American Crossroads and Other Corporate Front Groups
Contributors to these groups beware - you may not be anonymous for long. A big victory Wednesday, September 29, 2010, for democracy as the Chairman of the Senate Finance …
William Astore | Our State Department: A Tiny Branch of the Pentagon
Last week, a quotation and a joke captured the zeitgeist of the American moment. The quotation came from Philip J. Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, related …
Federal Budgets Are Moral Documents
“... Budgets are moral documents,” states Congresswoman Barbara Lee, but “they don't lend themselves to a moral reading.” She adds that increases in military spending are made at the …
Environmental Justice Comes Back to Life
The Environmental Protection Agency last week resuscitated an interagency working group to tackle environmental justice, an issue that hasn’t been discussed much in Washington in nearly a decade. EPA …
Obama’s Latino Strategy Faces Voting Barriers in Swing States
This week could help decide the fate of the mid-term elections. Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid - facing a close re-election fight in Nevada - brought to the …
Guitars Not Wars
What happens when music fails to inspire, but instead entertains only?
Max Eternity | Guitars Not Wars
What happens when music fails to inspire, but instead entertains only? Is such a thing possible, and is it occurring now? Social justice, politics and music have always been …
Marijuana “Prohibition” on California’s Ballot
Note: Families all across America have been touched in one way or another by the 37-year-old drive to eradicate marijuana use. Beyond the prison overcrowding that has resulted, many …
Second Soldier Alleges Former Tillman Commander Ordered “360 Rotational Fire” in Iraq
Another former soldier of Bravo Company 2-16 (2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment) has said in a radio interview that a controversial battalion commander ordered soldiers to open fire on …