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FISA vote not "moving to center"
I've gotten a million media requests lately to talk about Obama's "move to the center". Exhibit A for that conventional wisdom is Obama's capitulation on ... Full Article At Daily Kos
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Escrow
Bob Fertik has a nifty idea : Now we are asking you to use your money to ensure that Barack Obama lives up to his promise to deliver "change we can believe in. " How? By creating a progressive "escrow" fund that you control. Many progressives... Full Article At Corrente
AZ: Gov. Janet Napolitano - marriage amendment unnecessary
Governor Napolitano starts out fine, explaining that there is any reason to amend the Constitution, but then she goes on to say this (sound familiar?):"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman," Napolitano said. "I don't think the constitutional... Full Article At Pam's House Blend
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District Court: What FISA Did, What the FISA Capitulation Does
Yesterday Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of California issued an opinion in Al Haramain v. Bush, one of the cases challenging the NSA warrantless wiretapping program. EFF has the decision , which is a clear a repudiation of what... Full Article At Daily Kos
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Personal Reflection on the Election Year Frenzy
I think I need to take some of my own advice about understanding the different roles that various folks are going to play. Or perhaps I should, in the words of the classic line from Desperately Seeking Susan, "Just take a valium like a normal person." I get very worked up in ... Full Article At Open Left
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Linda Seger: The Religious Score Card
Dr. James Dobson from Focus on the Family, and others of the very Conservative Christian Right, are losing their power. Not every Evangelical, or every former Republican, or every Christian... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Jeanine Molloff: The Character Issue, FISA and The Constitution
Recently Chris Hedges wrote an article in Truthout entitled: The Corporate State and the Subversion of Democracy. Hedges described the systematic, de facto dismantling of the US Constitution, stemming... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Peter Clothier: Was Obama Wrong to Veer Right?
Progressive Democrats like myself are already watching in some dismay as Barack Obama moves toward the center. The Supreme Court decisions on the death penalty and gun control have pushed the candidate into public statements on hot-button issues... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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The FundamentaList (No. 39)
Latino evangelicals may play a decisive role in future elections, Dobson says Obama has a "fruitcake" interpretation of the Constitution, and culture wars continue in ... Full Article At The American Prospect
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Charles Shaw: What Will Happen to the "Unitary Executive" in the Next Presidential Term?
What if you learned that there were no longer three co-equal branches of government, that the Executive Branch now held powers that could not be checked by Congress or the Courts? Aside from the controversy surrounding "signing statements," what if the President could legally ignore every law that Congress... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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From Kerry to Obama
Barack Obama is a better candidate than his predecessor John Kerry in at least one important sense: he opposes a state constitutional amendment to ban ... Full Article At The New Republic
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McCain and Obama Differ on Same-Sex Marriage Initiative
Barack Obama and John McCain are at odds over a California ballot initiative that would amend the state’s ... Full Article At The New York Times - Politics
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From the Department of Closing the Barn Door After The Unity Pony Drops A Steaming Load
Nice work on the whole worst of both worlds thing, Kos : Markos Moulitsas, a Liberal blogger and founder of the Daily Kos Web site, said he had decided to cut back on the amount of money he would contribute to the ... Full Article At Corrente
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The Emperor of Hope and His Dance of the Seven Veils
Barack Obama has coyly allowed another veil to drop , revealing the contempt for the Constitution he has covered modestly until now. The bright, shiny veils, magnificently embroidered in 18... Full Article At Corrente
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Rewarding good behavior
So many of you are upset that I pulled back my credit card last night, making a last minute decision to hold back on a $2,300 contribution to Obama. Let me explain further: First of all, obvious ... Full Article At Daily Kos
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MRC/NB's Graham on Chicago Tribune Call to Repeal 2nd Amendment
The Chicago Tribune has lurched to the left of Sen. Barack Obama, at least on gun rights, marking the latest point in its evolution from a historically moderate-to-conservative paper to a reliably... Full Article At Newsbusters
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Sandy Goodman: Scalia's Choice: More Deaths to Defend the Constitution
Congratulations, Justice Scalia! After almost 220 years during which millions of Americans have kept guns around the house, Scalia and the rest of the Supreme Court's conservative majority finally decided that Americans have a constitutional right to keep guns around the house for "the defense of... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Time: 'Arch-conservative' Scalia, Unlabeled Stevens
Time's Alex Altman wrote a story online titled "The Future of Gun Control," which declares the text of the Second Amendment to be quite "puzzling" and "convoluted," but its Liberal tilt clearly came through by how it described the justices:... Full Article At Newsbusters
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David Bromwich: Congress to Bush and Cheney: Do What You Want in Iran
Seymour Hersh's "Preparing the Battlefield," in the July 7 New Yorker , will be discussed in the coming weeks by everyone interested in our Foreign Policy and the future of the American ... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Constitutional Convention Urged
Advocates Want Wording Changed To Allow Ballot Initiatives A coalition of groups that want Connecticut to allow ballot initiatives like those in California is urging voters to approve a ... Full Article At Hartford Courant - Politics