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AUSTIN, Texas -- No sooner do we win a long struggle to clean up politics and restore democracy in this country than we find the whole thing under attack, and we have to go out and re-fight the same battle all over again. Good thing we're not easily discouraged.
This is what's happening in Arizona, where the successful Clean Elections law is now under attack by the big special interests and national conservatives with ties that run from Tom DeLay (surprise!) to Bush's fund-raising machine.
Micah Sifry of Public Campaign reports, "They've raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that doesn't mention anywhere its true intent, to de-fund the Clean Elections system." This charming endeavor is masquerading under the misnomer "No Taxpayer Money for Politicians," a misleading moniker right up there with Bush's "Clear Skies and Healthy Forests" initiatives. What a shame they couldn't figure out a way to call it the Patriot Amendment.
This is what's happening in Arizona, where the successful Clean Elections law is now under attack by the big special interests and national conservatives with ties that run from Tom DeLay (surprise!) to Bush's fund-raising machine.
Micah Sifry of Public Campaign reports, "They've raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that doesn't mention anywhere its true intent, to de-fund the Clean Elections system." This charming endeavor is masquerading under the misnomer "No Taxpayer Money for Politicians," a misleading moniker right up there with Bush's "Clear Skies and Healthy Forests" initiatives. What a shame they couldn't figure out a way to call it the Patriot Amendment.
(COLUMBUS, OH, 6/15/04) - On Wednesday, June 16, the Ohio office of the
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Ohio) will hold a news
conference in reaction to the arrest of Nuradin Abdi, a Columbus Muslim
who was indicted Monday on four counts of conspiring to provide support
for Al-Qaeda.
The news conference will take place following the conclusion of Nuradin's bond hearing on Wednesday afternoon at the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Columbus, Ohio.
WHERE: U.S. Federal Courthouse, 85 Marconi Blvd., Columbus, Ohio WHEN: Following conclusion of bond hearing (Hearing at 1:30 pm)
"Given previous cases involving American Muslims in which evidence proved to be faulty or non-existent, we are concerned about the strength of the charges against Mr. Abdi," said CAIR-Ohio Executive Director Jad Humeidan.
Humeidan cited the cases of Army Chaplain James Yee and Oregon attorney Brandon Mayfield. Both men were cleared of all charges following extensive damage to their reputations.
The news conference will take place following the conclusion of Nuradin's bond hearing on Wednesday afternoon at the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Columbus, Ohio.
WHERE: U.S. Federal Courthouse, 85 Marconi Blvd., Columbus, Ohio WHEN: Following conclusion of bond hearing (Hearing at 1:30 pm)
"Given previous cases involving American Muslims in which evidence proved to be faulty or non-existent, we are concerned about the strength of the charges against Mr. Abdi," said CAIR-Ohio Executive Director Jad Humeidan.
Humeidan cited the cases of Army Chaplain James Yee and Oregon attorney Brandon Mayfield. Both men were cleared of all charges following extensive damage to their reputations.
For those with amnesia it was neither Reagan nor rock nor radiation that
ended the Marxist regime in Russia. One of the best sellers of 1969 was
Will the Soviet Union Survive Untill 1984? by an astute Russian. Due to
Reagan, gulag socialism lasted an extra half decade.
The mainstream media spent an entire week mythologizing Ronald Wilson Reagan. Why did the corporate for-profit media spend so much time creating a cult of personality around a former President with an estimated 105 IQ? Because the actual historical reality of Reagan’s life are so shockingly reactionary you need the pageantry, majesty and imagery of a Hollywood-scripted finale to cover up the thousands of damning facts.
AUSTIN, Texas -- Such comfort. At the close of the G-8 summit, described by President Bush as "very successful" (except we didn't get anything we wanted), the president offered us comfort on the uncomfortable topic of torture: "Look, I'm going to say it one more time. The instructions went out to our people to adhere to the law. That ought to comfort you."
"We're a nations of laws," he went on. "We adhere to laws. We have laws on the books. You might look at those laws, and that might comfort you."
"We're a nations of laws," he went on. "We adhere to laws. We have laws on the books. You might look at those laws, and that might comfort you."
The U.S. House of Representatives will soon have the chance to protect our national forests with two upcoming forests votes.
One vote will protect Alaska's Tongass Rainforest and stop fiscally irresponsible spending by prohibiting taxpayer dollars from being wasted on new logging roads in the Tongass National Forest. For decades, American taxpayers have been forced to subsidize clearcut logging in the Tongass; in a single year, taxpayers spent $36 million on the Tongass logging program and received only about $1 million in revenue.
The second vote, on the Forest Wildlife Conservation amendment, would conserve wildlife and ensure sustainable forest management.
Please take a moment to ask your U.S. Representative to protect our national forests and vote YES on the Tongass amendment and the Forest Wildlife Conservation amendment. Then ask your family and friends to help by forwarding this e-mail to them.
To take action, click on this link: pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id=695&id4=ES
Background
One vote will protect Alaska's Tongass Rainforest and stop fiscally irresponsible spending by prohibiting taxpayer dollars from being wasted on new logging roads in the Tongass National Forest. For decades, American taxpayers have been forced to subsidize clearcut logging in the Tongass; in a single year, taxpayers spent $36 million on the Tongass logging program and received only about $1 million in revenue.
The second vote, on the Forest Wildlife Conservation amendment, would conserve wildlife and ensure sustainable forest management.
Please take a moment to ask your U.S. Representative to protect our national forests and vote YES on the Tongass amendment and the Forest Wildlife Conservation amendment. Then ask your family and friends to help by forwarding this e-mail to them.
To take action, click on this link: pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id=695&id4=ES
Background
Many writers mourning the death of our 40th president fail to mention that
Ronald Reagan's administration brought on a poverty and despair that
inflicted an entire generation of minorities and changed the sound and
reality of ghetto life from a pursuit of the dream deferred into a descent
into the American nightmare. The children of that era are many of the
progenitors and purveyors of modern hip-hop, and Reagan's presidency
single-handedly changed that music. Ronald Reagan is hip-hop's first
president, and while America mourns, rappers are still rapping about the
rusted legacy he left behind.
Federal energy regulators have just released more than 400 pages of
documents that suggest former Enron chairman Ken Lay and former chief
executive Jeff Skilling were aware that Enron's west coast traders may
have broken the law by using manipulative trading tactics in California to
boost Enron’s profits during the height of that state's power crisis.
Moreover, one of Enron's most powerful Washington, D.C. lobbyists, who met with several members of the Bush administration in the spring of 2001 about Enron's opposition to price controls on electricity sales in California, was told by Tim Belden, the mastermind behind Enron's notorious trading scams, less than a year earlier that Belden and other traders working at the company's West Coast trading desk in Portland, Ore., spent the better part of 2000 and 2001 breaking the rules governing California's power market "when opportunities presented themselves to make money.”
Moreover, one of Enron's most powerful Washington, D.C. lobbyists, who met with several members of the Bush administration in the spring of 2001 about Enron's opposition to price controls on electricity sales in California, was told by Tim Belden, the mastermind behind Enron's notorious trading scams, less than a year earlier that Belden and other traders working at the company's West Coast trading desk in Portland, Ore., spent the better part of 2000 and 2001 breaking the rules governing California's power market "when opportunities presented themselves to make money.”
Mr. Wasserman: Just read your latest, and I couldn't agree with you more;
Reagan was a lot of things, but certainly not one of my "best" Presidents.
After the berlin wall-fall, PJ O'Rourke (Rolling Stones token conservative)
made essentially the same point that yu are making; R & R, LEVI jeans
brought about the fall of communism. He made a point that the Soviet people
had only one choice for shoes, those made (poorly)in Bulgaria. Western,
moern, youth culture brought doen the evil empire. I think the same argument
should applied to Cuba; our culture will bring down Fidel.
Flag Day is near (June 14), and the Pledge of Allegiance court case
is expected to be decided soon. As an attorney, I am asked about the case's
historic precedent. The history of the Pledge shocked my libertarian mind.
The Pledge was the origin of the salute of the horrid National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis). The Pledge's original salute was straight-armed. The Pledge's creator was a National Socialist in the U.S. (Francis Bellamy).
The Pledge was the origin of the salute of the horrid National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis). The Pledge's original salute was straight-armed. The Pledge's creator was a National Socialist in the U.S. (Francis Bellamy).