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Refreshing Rant – Intolerance

Refreshing Rant – Intolerance

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Intolerant? Yup – of intolerance…. I’m with Mark Morford in this refreshing rant: You, hate-mailers from the sanctimonious Right and even some of you morally paralyzed middle-grounders from the Left, are correct. I am, in fact, deeply intolerant. It is true. I can hide my deep biases and predispositions no longer. I cannot, for example, tolerate the dark and violent road down which this nation seems intent on careening like an Escalade on meth. I cannot tolerate brutal never-ending unnecessary…

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Unable to Mourn, Unable to Care

Unable to Mourn, Unable to Care

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Now that more than two thousand of our side, and who knows, really, how many thousands of the other side (the ones who start counting seem to end up dead fairly often), it’s a good time to review a basic lack in the President, who was put into office through the judicial activism he claims to deplore. This President, simply, doesn’t care. Bush stole the 2004 election – E L Doctorow’s statement Ringing even more truthfully today than it did…

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More DeLay Tricks

More DeLay Tricks

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From the American Progress Action Fund newsletter – Yesterday, Rep. Henry Waxman revealed that DeLay slipped “a $1.5 billion giveaway to the oil industry, Halliburton, and Sugar Land, Texas” into the energy bill. The provision was “mysteriously inserted” into the text of the energy bill “after the conference was closed, so members of the conference committee had no opportunity to consider or reject this measure.” DeLay has launched an assault on the democratic process. Write your representatives and demand this…

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Energy Bill – call today

Energy Bill – call today

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The Energy Bill is bad. Bad bad bad naughty boys put it together with instructions from their bosses in the energy industries, especially oil of course. The bill, which looks like is it about to be passed while we argue about somewhat diversionary issues, would speed oil drilling off of the California, Florida, North Carolina, and other coasts. It would allow oil companies to pollute rivers and drinking water with toxic wastes, giving them a whole lot more money to…

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Dirty politics

Dirty politics

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Sheesh, what next? Charles Babington, The Washington Post: “In bitingly partisan exchanges yesterday, lawmakers plunged into the dispute over Karl Rove’s hand in leaking a covert CIA operative’s identity.” Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) proposed an amendment aimed at Rove “to deny access to classified information to any federal employee who discloses a covert CIA agent’s identity.” Then Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) retaliated by offering an amendment designed to strip the security clearances of the chamber’s top two…

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Fox News Needs Ethical Leadership

Fox News Needs Ethical Leadership

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Isn’t anyone at the helm over there at Fox News? Media Matters is listing some of the reactions of Fox News hosts and reporters to the London attacks. This is sickening. Fox News host Brian Kilmeade: KILMEADE: And he [British Prime Minister Tony Blair] made the statement, clearly shaken, but clearly determined. This is his second address in the last hour. First to the people of London, and now at the G8 summit, where their topic Number 1 –believe it…

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