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ASBL: Obama Ignores Economic Experts On Stimulus Plan

Chris Gunn | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Biden, Lack of Oversight, Small Business, Abuse, Middle Class Economy, Economy, Middle Class, Obama Administration, Lloyd Chapman, Asbl, American Small Business League, Loopholes, Barack Obama, Business News
Chris Gunn

The American Small Business League (ASBL) released the following press release today. Petaluma, Calif. - President-elect Barack Obama and the new 11...

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ASBL's Lloyd Chapman Questions Whether Obama Stimulus Plan Will Favor Venture Capitalists

Chris Gunn | Posted 02.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Bush Administration, Small Business, Lloyd Chapman, Exception Magazine, Abuse, Chris Gunn, Sba, Economic Stimulus, Venture Capital, American Small Business League, Loopholes, Barack Obama, US Chamber of Commerce, Business News
Chris Gunn

In a guest commentary published on The Exception Magazine's website, www.exceptionmag.com; the President and Founder of the American Small Business Le...

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ASBL Campaigns to Stop Fraud and Abuse in Small Business Contracting Programs

Chris Gunn | Posted 02.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Lou Dobbs, Small Business, Abuse, American Morning, Cnn, Middle Class, Asbl, Lloyd Chapman, Abc, Loopholes, American Small Business League, Cavuto, Business News
Chris Gunn

The American Small Business League released the following play list via YouTube today.

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Making His List: Presidential Pardons and Torture

Allen Keller | Posted 01.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abuse, Human Rights, War on Terror, Presidential Pardons, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Waterboarding, Bush Pardons, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Allen Keller

At their essence, human rights, including a ban on torture, are about respecting human dignity. They are guiding principles for how and what governments ought and ought not do.

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Obama Economic Policy Snubs Small Business

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 01.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Small Business, Bush Administration, Abuse, Transition Team, Economic Policy, Barack Obama, Middle Class, Procurement, Loopholes, Obama-Biden, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

There appears to be a significant disconnect between President-elect Obama's campaign promises to American small businesses and the actual policies he is proposing.

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War Crimes and Incompetence -- the Real Shoes Thrown at Bush

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sere, Stuart Bowen, Inspector General, Abuse, Kucinich, Geneva Convention, Reconstruction, Guantanamo, Armed Services Committee, Bush, Detainee, Prisoner, Chris Weigant, Few Bad Apples, Abu Graib, Waterboard, Waterboarding, Iraq, Carl Levin, Shoes, Shoe, National Security Council, Senate, Torture, War Wire, Bowen, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Last week the Senate Armed Services Committee released a report which basically called Bush and his entire National Security Council war criminals.

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Marching Toward Justice on the 217th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights

Caroline Fredrickson | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Interrogations, Military Commissions, Bill of Rights, Abuse, Open Government, Civil Rights, Guantanamo, Limited Government, Rule of Law, Rendition, Torture, Politics News
Caroline Fredrickson

When our nation's founders ratified the Bill of Rights 217 years ago today, they knew that justice could not be served in secret, and that punishment doled out in the shadows inexorably leads to illegitimacy.

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Friday Talking Points [58] -- [Expletive Deleted] Blagojevich

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Nance Gardner, Expletive, Expletive Deleted, Abuse, Feinstein, Guantanamo, Donald Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld, Mccain, Bowdlerize, Bailout, Condoleezza Rice, National Security, Midotw, Profanity, Spit, Big Three, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Levin, Carl Levin, Detroit, Sam Donaldson, Barack Obama, George Washington, Mddotw, Rod Blagojevich, Rahm Emanuel, World War II, Nixon, Piss, Senate, Auto Industry, Teddy Roosevelt, Cheney, Obama, Vitter, Blago, Bush, Euphemism, Bleep, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Andrew Malcolm, Big 3, John McCain, Go Fuck Yourself, Manufacturing, 2008 Election, Detainee, Warm Bucket of Spit, Prisoner, Gonzales, Go Cheney Yourself, Chris Weigant, Abu Graib, Leahy, Four Letter Word, Warm Bucket of Piss, Ass Backward, Torture, Vonnegut, Anglo-Saxon, Blaggy, Blag, Fitzgerald, Ashcroft, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The history of profanity in American political discourse is an untold story out there just waiting for someone to research and write about -- although...

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Irene Fernandez: The Best or Worst of Malaysia?

Suzette Standring | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Poverty, Rape, Abuse, Detention Camps, Migrant Workers, Kuala Lumpur, Criminal Justice, Immigration, Death, Irene Fernandez, Nobel Prize, Human Rights, Freedom of Expression, Malaysia, Illegal Immigrants, Right Livelihood Award, Poor, Suzette Standring, Torture, Politics News
Suzette Standring

It is a textbook case of laws being used to crush critics of governmental operations. Malaysia may be 9,296 miles from the US, but authorities seeking to silence protest is universal.

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ASBL Recommendations to End Fraud, Abuse, and Loopholes in Federal Small Business Contracting

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Abuse, Barack Obama, Economy, Middle Class, Asbl, American Small Business League, Loopholes, John McCain, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

The American Small Business League believes that it does not make sense to create new programs when the existing programs that were designed to direct federal contracts to middle class firms have been corrupted.

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Obama and McCain Response To One Question Could Redirect Billions Into Middle Class Economy

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 11.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Fraud, John McCain, Small Business, Abuse, Loopholes, Barack Obama, American Small Business, Economy, Middle Class, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

Mainstream Media Could Save Thousands of Small Businesses With One Question For Obama and McCain Thousands of small businesses around the country co...

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Friday Talking Points [51] -- Some Positivity

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Debate, Abuse, Demagogue, Green, Fisa, Mccain, Campaign, CAFE Standards, Sarah Palin, Gambling, Pissed Off, 2008, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Student Loan, Rockefeller, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Health Care, Energy, Jay Rockefeller, Democrat, Congress, Joe Biden, 08, Stimulus, Barack Obama, Biden, Election, 08 Election, Elections, Education, Demagoguery, Anger, Mddotw, College, Wiretapping, Warrantless, Troopergate, GI Bill, Mudslinging, Mother's Day, Mud, Obama, Democratic, Shocked, Waxman, Republican, Pelosi, Casablanca, Minimum Wage, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, 2008 Campaign, Report, Keating Five, John McCain, Keating, Mental Health, Angry, Medicaid, 2008 Elections, Henry Waxman, Alternative, 2008 Election, Crowd, 08 Campaign, Wall Street, Mother, Fat Cat, Palin, 2008 Presidential Race, Charles Keating, Wiretap, Telecommunications, Medicare, Head Start, Rocky IV, Fitzmas, Politics News
Chris Weigant

While we're all waiting for someone to leak the Palin Troopergate Report (which is reminiscent of waiting for "Fitzmas" during the whole Scooter Libby...

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Anything for Passion

Carine Fabius | Posted 11.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Healing, Abuse, Passionate Love, Passion, Self-Loathing, Meaning of Life, Relationships, Living News
Carine Fabius

Beginning when I was 21, I endured my fiancé's abuse and cruelty -- and by extension his hot and cold displays of "love" -- for three long years.

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McCain-Palin Agenda Threatens Teens

Don Ringe | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Girls, Rape, Abuse, Mccain, Health, Teen Pregnancy, Palin, Teenagers, Politics News
Don Ringe

Some will go across the border, consider self-abortion, suicide, and some will suffer serious injuries or die.

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New Government Policy Helps Big Businesses Hide in Small Business Database

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 09.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Bush Administration, Small Business, Small Business Administration, Abuse, Ccr; Central Contractors Registration, Economy, Procurement, Contracting, Loopholes, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

A new Bush Administration policy will make it easier for large businesses to land government small business contracts by misrepresenting themselves as...

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The Estimated Cost of Human Life in Zimbabwe is Four Dollars!

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Civil War, Abuse, Rape, Zimbabwe, Women and Children and Rape, The Elders, Mugabe, Zimbabwe Elections, Tsengeri, Politics News
Michealene Cristini Risley

The state-backed violence has reached a pinnacle in rural areas. Mugabe and his allies think the rural vote will decide the octogenarian's grip on power.

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