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09 February 2007
Dems change the gas and claim it's a new car
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David Swanson
Democrats on Capitol Hill see the world through bureaucratic shades and have been circulating this self-congratulatory Email:

"Over the last four years,the Republican Congress failed to conduct oversight on the Iraq war and...
07 February 2007
Rightwingers attacking war supporters
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David Swanson
This is what it's come to.  The local newspaper in my town in Virginia today ran an op-ed by rightwinger Cal Thomas attacking Hillary Clinton for her past support for the war.  Thomas began by criticizing Clinton for pretending she had...
07 February 2007
How a bill becomes a signing statement
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David Swanson
At the House Judiciary Committee hearings on Bush's use of signing statements on Wednesday, two exchanges at the end were quite revealing.  Four hours into a hearing interrupted by several votes (thanks, Nancy!) the corporate media had all...
07 February 2007
A world that works for everybody
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Robert Koehler
Peace is a chant, a vibration, a leap of the human spirit into the 21st century and beyond. It's also HR 808 - radical common sense crafted into a bill and introduced this week into the new Congress by Dennis Kucinich.

Let me...
01 February 2007
A new manifest destiny
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Robert Koehler
Half a million people marching against the war seem to be cursed to have their numbers reported as "tens of thousands" in the mainstream media for reasons that strike me as similar to the reeling U.S. auto industry's ongoing reliance on...
01 February 2007
Live blogging from House Judiciary Committee Hearings on Bush's Signing Statements
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David Swanson
Open this article for blogging, beginning at 10:15 a.m. ET.

10:13 a.m. I'm in the room, but you can view a live webcast here. I've just been handed hardcopies of the upcoming witness statements. If you can find them online...

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