18 April 2008
The done deal
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Robert Koehler
If politics is the art of saying nothing, then Barack Obama is sure blowing it, isn’t he?

His latest “gaffe,” to proclaim at a private fundraiser in San Francisco (of all places) that small-town Americans are bitter and cling...
17 April 2008
Letter to Hillary: remember when John McCain slimed your daughter
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Paul Loeb
Dear Hillary,

Reasons abound why you should do all you can to defeat John McCain—but for you, it should be personal. Maybe you've forgotten in the heat of the Democratic contest. But remember McCain's cruel joke about your...
03 April 2008
We're sitting in at the House Judiciary Committee Office right now
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David Swanson
A dozen of us have begun a sit-in at the House Judiciary Committee office. Come join us at Rayburn 2138. Leslie Angeline and Ellen Taylor of Code Pink are the leaders here. Laurel Jensen is here, and Michael Heaney, Thalia Doukas, Darryl...
03 April 2008
City of Peace
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Bob Fitrakis
The great moral issue of our era is the illegal war in Iraq. Like the issues of slavery, the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War in past epochs, silence on this issue equals complicity.

On March 17, the Citizens...
03 April 2008
Fire and race
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Robert Koehler
What could be more brittle than “Americanism”? What could be more tedious than the mass defense of its teary-eyed, ahistorical ignorance?

We are still in the toddler stage of national awareness, apparently, too young to be...
27 March 2008
Keep the Republic
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Robert Koehler
The ground feels a little soft, but we’re going to stand it.

Premise one: Having a fair election — all votes counted, all who are eligible and want to vote allowed to vote — is far, far more important, even in 2008, than who...

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