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No Immunity for Unconstitutional Spying – Take Action

No Immunity for Unconstitutional Spying – Take Action

The idea that the rule of law – and even the Constitution itself – threatens our safety has been used to justify repeated attacks on civil liberties and the principle of checks and balances since 2001. And now Congress is about to consider new legislation that would further bloat the power of the executive branch by removing crucial judicial and congressional oversight. Legalizing the President’s warrantless domestic surveillance is not what the Founding Fathers meant by ‘checks and balances.’ I…

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Swift-Boating Clinton on 9/11 is Scummy

Swift-Boating Clinton on 9/11 is Scummy

Tell ABC: 9/11 Lies and Propaganda are Unacceptable! Blame Clinton, let Bush off the hook? Anyone who has done the least bit of research into what happened on 9/11 should know better. See Clinton, 9/11 and the Facts, and it’s not only Democrats who are objecting to this thing. Follow the money… Who bankrolled the $40 million for the show? Comment if you know. Max Blumental’s article suggests some possibilities: “The Path to 9/11” is produced and promoted by a…

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Do Political Blogs Change Your Views on Issues?

Do Political Blogs Change Your Views on Issues?

In answer to NOW’s Question of the Week: Do you read blogs? Tell us if blogs change your views on political issues. Blogs are of many kinds: scrapbooks, personal journals, advertising spaces, photo logs. Political blogs are only one form of the blog. The blogosphere is about freedom of expression – dittoheads, propaganda portals, soap boxes, fake identities, but also debate, discussion, original ideas, and scrapbooked information/evidence/argument. Some political blogs actually investigate and report news. Some are focused tightly on…

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Bush’s Real View?

Bush’s Real View?

“You know what I’m gonna tell those Jews when I get to Israel, don’t you Herman?” a then Governor George W. Bush allegedly asked a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman. When the journalist, Ken Herman, replied that he did not know, Bush reportedly delivered the punch line: “I’m telling ’em they’re all going to hell.” More

Labor Day

Labor Day

Have a good Labor Day, America! Labor Day is meant to celebrate the contributions of the working class. The labor unions promoted it as a testament to the cause of worker’s rights. I don’t expect to see much on the origins of the holiday in America’s media this year. In 1898, Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, called it “the day for which the toilers in past centuries looked forward, when their rights and their wrongs would…

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