Many who look beyond the insane rhetoric of never ending lowered taxes for the super-rich, while insisting that Americans work until they drop dead rather than depend on Social Security or Medicare, may have some statistics to back up the concern that the economic policies and direction of the past 12 years has not been […]

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I just posted this note via the contact form at the White House, regarding the forced resignation of Shirley Sherrod from her USDA position.
If Shirley Sherrod is not IMMEDIATELY reinstated in her USDA position, my support of Obama is over. Done with. I donated $250 to his campaign, and for us, that was a […]

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Juan Cole, who regularly publishes some of the most commentary available on the Middle East on his blog, Informed Comment, has published one of the most brilliant take downs of Sarah Palin and the insanity of anti-Muslim and Christian Dominionism rewriting of American History I have seen in his post Palin on the Ground Zero […]

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Signed into law in April by Governor Patrick and effective today, the law, Chapter 74 of the Acts of 2010, imposes severe restrictions on the distribution of constitutionally protected speech on the Internet. The law could make anyone who operates a website or communicates through a listserv criminally liable for nudity or sexually related material, […]

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Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman published a column in the New York Times on July 4th that relates directly to my posts here of July 2nd and July 4th, namely the votes of Lugar and Hill against extending unemployment benefits for the jobless at a time of national economic crisis.
Read all of Krugman’s commentary, […]

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