AUSTIN, Texas -- I don't get it. What's the percentage in keeping the minimum wage at $5.15 an hour? After nine years? This is such an unnecessary and nasty Republican move. Congress has voted seven times to raise its own wages since last...
10 July 2006
We all remember how the 2004 election was won by Repuglicans because they made the war on terror the central front in their war on Democrats. To be sure, the Iraq war and the economy were reasons enough to get them soundly kicked to the...
07 July 2006
Suzanne Swift's story begins in an all-too-familiar way. A dead-end job, a friendly military recruiter, a promise that signing-up as military police would mean no deployment to Iraq, a broken promise, and a trip to war. Then it takes a...
07 July 2006
From September 8 to 21, Camp Casey will expand into Camp Democracy in Washington, D.C.
Cindy Sheehan and activists in the growing peace movement plan to establish Camp Casey in Crawford, Texas, again this August 16 to...
Cindy Sheehan and activists in the growing peace movement plan to establish Camp Casey in Crawford, Texas, again this August 16 to...
07 July 2006
At the heart of what is often touted as the mightiest empire in
world history, it's not a pretty sight at the start of July. After a few
chipmunk squeaks from the White House a couple of weeks ago about there
being somehow a glimmer of...
07 July 2006
This isn't the first time Joe Lieberman's placed loyalty to his career above
all other allegiances. Afraid that Connecticut's Democratic voters will
reject him in the primary, he's now hedging his bets by planning to run as
an independent...
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