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Scrooge Budget

Scrooge Budget

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What a Christmas gift (sarcasm dripping…). This morning, the Senate passed a budget hurting low-income families just four days before Christmas. It included cuts to health care, child support, and educational assistance to low-income families while further lowering taxes for the wealthiest Americans and increasing the deficit for the next generations. The vote was so narrow that Vice President Cheney cut short a diplomatic trip to the Middle East to break a 50-50 tie. The bill has been amended to…

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Appoint Special Counsel for Domestic Spying Abuse

Appoint Special Counsel for Domestic Spying Abuse

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The ACLU has issued this call to action for special counsel: President Bush broke the law when he secretly authorized the National Security Agency to spy on Americans. No American is beneath the law’s protection. And no one – not even a U.S. president – is above the law’s limits. Congress should insist that the Department of Justice appoint a special counsel to determine if oaths of office were broken or federal laws were violated. Our system of checks and…

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Take Action Censure Bush

Take Action Censure Bush

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Congressman John Conyers has introduced three new pieces of legislation aimed at censuring President Bush and Vice President Cheney, and at creating a fact-finding committee that could be a first step toward impeachment. .Res.635 would create a select committee – modeled after Sam Ervin’s Watergate committee – to investigate the Administration’s intent to go to war before congressional authorization, manipulation of pre-war intelligence, encouraging and countenancing torture, and retaliating against critics, and to make recommendations regarding grounds for possible impeachment….

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Pause of Mr. Claus – thank you Arlo

Pause of Mr. Claus – thank you Arlo

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As the government treats its citizens as terrorists and criminals, as McCarthy is being remade as an “American hero,” as protest is sidelined, ignored and put further and further away from events, this Christmas song is at least as poignant today as it was when it was written. The only real difference is that you can’t get the half-fare when you fly anymore. A deep bow to Mr. Arlo Guthrie for this one, my favorite. The Pause of Mr. Claus…

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Protest Proposed Head Start Cuts

Protest Proposed Head Start Cuts

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TrueMajority has a campaign that makes it easy to tell your senators and representative to oppose across-the-board budget cuts to important domestic programs like Head Start. http://action.truemajority.org/campaign/headstartcuts The across-the-board spending cuts being debated in Congress don’t differentiate between waste and programs known to deliver strong results. The cuts include programs like Head Start, one of government’s most successful anti-poverty efforts. America cannot continue to weaken our domestic infrastructure; please vote against any legislation that includes across-the-board spending cuts.

Take Action Free Speech

Take Action Free Speech

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Help stop the Pentagon’s offensive on free speech (from American Friends Service Committee) Two years ago, the Defense Department directed its Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA) to establish a domestic law enforcement database that included information related to “potential terrorist threats directed against the Department of Defense.” Earlier this week, NBC broke the story that the Pentagon was using the system to collect information on peaceful gatherings and counter-recruiting activities. NBC obtained a 400 page printout from the database of which…

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