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We the Populists: How to Make Taxpayer Funded Bailouts Toxic

Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Breaking Politics News, Goldman Sachs, U.S. Constitution, Business, Constitution, Unions, Seiu, Business News
Linda R. Monk, J.D.

Want to join in the fun? Call Goldman's executive offices at (212) 902-1000, and tell them that nobody makes big profits at public expense while 10.2 percent of Americans are unemployed.

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The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Geithner Should Step Down

Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Politics, Breaking Politics News, Timothy Geithner, Business, Tim Geithner, Business News
Linda R. Monk, J.D.

Geithner's problem is not that he is by nature a corrupt man. It's that he is steeped in the Wall Street way of doing business, which itself is riddled with fraud -- and billions of taxpayer dollars are at stake.

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Obama's Magical Surrealism in Honduras

Bob Ostertag | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Coup, Lobbyists, Central America, Foreign Affairs, Breaking Politics News, Hillary Clinton, Honduras, Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, World News, World News
Bob Ostertag

In light of the Honduran elections, Obama's representative decided that might be a good time to ridicule all the Latin American democracies.

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The World's Original "Banana Republic" Strong-Arms the World's "Last Remaining Superpower?"

Bob Ostertag | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Coup, Central America, Foreign Affairs, Lobbyists, Honduras, Breaking Politics News, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, World News
Bob Ostertag

The deal to reinstate Honduran President Manuel Zelaya unraveled this week, leaving the U.S. as the only government in the western hemisphere willing to let the recent military coup there stand.

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The Night They Brought Old Dixie Back

Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Virginia, Politics, President Barack Obama, Obama Mississippi, Breaking Politics News, Obama Virginia, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Linda R. Monk, J.D.

The Republicans are resurgent, at least for now. It's going to be a hard slog in 2010 and 2012 to keep the grassroots fervor alive -- and the funding to sustain it. In Virginia, we are just plain tired.

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Congress, Accountability, and the Goldstone Report

Salena Tramel | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Congress, Human Rights, United Nations Human Rights Council, Gaza, Middle East Peace Process, Breaking Politics News, Hamas, Israel, World News, The Goldstone Report, World News
Salena Tramel

Congress--and all Americans for that matter--should welcome each and every investigation of human rights violations, wherever and by whomever they may have been committed.

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A Tough Call for Conservative Anglicans: Openly Gay Clergy, or Closeted Pedophiles?

Bob Ostertag | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Episcopal Church, Catholic Church, Breaking Politics News, Roman Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal, Gay, Sexual Abuse, Episcopal Church Split, Politics News
Bob Ostertag

Now all those disgruntled Episcopalians have a choice to make: stay on the team that accepts openly gay priests, or bolt for another team run by closeted homosexual pedophiles. It's a tough call.

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David Paterson Does the Right Thing and Drops the Rock

Anthony Papa | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York

Read More: Breaking Politics News, Rockefeller Drug Laws, Governor David Paterson, Prison, Cocaine, Drug Reform, Drug War, Criminal Justice, New York News
Anthony Papa

Having felt the sting of the Rockefeller laws firsthand -- serving 12 years under a 15-years-to-life sentence -- I understand the full meaning of the reforms that went into effect today.

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Guantanamo Envoy: U.S. Should Have Taken Cleared Prisoners; Some Should Never Have Been Held

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Daniel Fried, Congress, Bbc, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Task Force, Special Envoy to Guantanamo, Guantanamo, Barack Obama, Uighurs, World News, Politics News, Guantanamo Uighurs, Bermuda, Uighurs Bermuda, Guantanamo Bay, Breaking Politics News, Europe, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News
Andy Worthington

To my mind, President Obama missed a golden opportunity to bring 17 Uighur prisoners to the U.S. in his early days in office.

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Is Bagram Obama's New Secret Prison?

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Geneva Conventions, Us Constitution, World, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, President Obama, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Guantanamo, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Judge John D. Bates, World News, Rendition, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Bush Administration, U.S. Court of Appeals, Enemy Combatants, Bagram, CIA Rendition, Bagram Detainees, Cia, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Breaking Politics News, New York Times, Bagram Habeas Corpus, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Leon Panetta, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The Obama administration is following Bush's lead by unilaterally rewriting the Geneva Conventions, presumably to allow it to continue exploiting prisoners of war for their supposed intelligence value.

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Hey, I Got Your Civility Right Here, Champ!

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Teabaggers, Bullying, Bullies, Obama, Kayne, Civility, American Idol, Joe Wilson, Joe the Nerd, Politics, Smerconish, Nancy Grace, Breaking Politics News, Glenn Beck, Bachmann, Simon, Springer, Media News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

I hope that President Obama calling people out on the incivilities will lessen the rewards for acting like a dope. Whether the Kanye comment was leaked or not, we all need to just start calling this behavior for what it is.

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Joe Wilson: Don't Censure - Take His Time

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Censure, Joe the Nerd, Breaking Politics News, Obama, Healthcare Debate, Healthcare Reform, Censure Resolution, Poll, Joe Wilson, Politics News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

Mumbled apologies or standing up in front of everybody for questionable dress downs doesn't really do much for moving forward. It just gets people madder and more resentful.

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Spanish Judge Resumes Torture Case Against Six Senior Bush Lawyers

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Douglas Feith, Philippe Sands, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Spain, Bush Prosecutions, David Addington, John Yoo, Justice Department, Eric Holder, World News, Office of Legal Counsel, Politics News, Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon, Bush Administration Torture, Jay Bybee, Sami El-Leithi, Jamil El-Banna, Omar Deghayes, Guantanamo Bay, Breaking Politics News, William J. Haynes II, Alberto Gonzales, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Judge Baltasar Garzón is pressing ahead with a case against six senior Bush administration lawyers for implementing torture at Guantánamo.

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With New Strategy White House Plays Last Card on Health Care: Lead a Bipartisan Bill or Risk a Defining First Year Failure

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home

Read More: Breaking Politics News, Health Care, Barack Obama, Axelrod, Republicans, Town Hall Meetings, Home News
Jennifer Donahue

The public option has to be minimized and renamed. Co-op is now a loaded a term; try 'non-profit optional choice for those who have no insurance' instead.

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Edward Kennedy's Passing -- A Window of Opportunity

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Breaking Politics News, Politics, Death of Ted Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, Mark Goulston, Ted Kennedy, Politics News
Mark Goulston, M.D.

It is 10:30 AM EDT on Saturday, August 29. As many of you, I am watching the funeral service of Senator Edward Kennedy. I am aware that you and I are also looking at a window of opportunity.

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Remembering the Rock: How Senator Kennedy Helped 200,000 People Fall in Love

Frank Sharry | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Latino Politics, Latino Voters, Breaking Politics News, Ted Kennedy, Ted Kennedy Dead, Politics News
Frank Sharry

Thanks to Kennedy, passage of comprehensive immigration reform is no longer a matter of if but of when.

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Malice, Blowback, and the "Yeah, So?" Gambit

Eric Lurio | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Breaking Politics News, Mitt Romney Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, US Senate, Politics News, Ted Kennedy Successor, Ted Kennedy Senate, Ted Kennedy Senate Seat, Ted Kennedy Dead, Massachusetts, Politics News
Eric Lurio

Kennedy's last public act before he died was to write the Massachusetts Democratic leadership and plead for the law that forbids a governor from appointing a senator's successor, be changed.

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Take That! Moms in Capes Bust Healthcare Myths Across the Nation

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Politics, Women, Obama Healthcare, Health Care Reform, Breaking Politics News, Moms, Health Care, Momsrising, Breaking News, Living News
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

SuperMoms dressed in red capes are distributing powerful truth flyers to passersby to educate them about what health care reform will really do and how it will help.

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A Plea to Barack Obama from the Guantanamo Uighurs

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, World, Judge Ricardo Urbina, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Justice Department, US District Court, Uighurs, Barack Obama, World News, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Guantanamo Uighurs, Uighurs Bermuda, U.S. Court of Appeals, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Breaking Politics News, China, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Four months ago, 17 unjustly detained prisoners wrote a letter to Obama asking for their release. The government censors have only just cleared it and I have reprinted it here.

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Obama Sends the Wrong Message to Our Children

Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 08.31.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Obama Racism, Ronald Reagan, Economy, George W. Bush, Beer, Joe Biden, Obesity, Barack Obama, Childhood Obesity, Politics, Richard Nixon, Alcoholism, James Crowley, Racism, Breaking Politics News, Henry Gates, Glenn Beck, Children, Comedy News
Bruce Tenenbaum

Obama and Gates drank purely foreign libations while Crowley's choice, Blue Moon, is, like Obama, only half American. Is this really the message we need to convey as our economy struggles to climb out of recession?

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Americans, Not Washington, Will Determine Health Care. So Where's the Grassroots Movement?

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Congress, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Breaking Politics News, Washington Post, Abc, Health Care, Gallup, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Jennifer Donahue

When President Obama takes his case for health care to the American people tonight, his job is this: re-energize the large base of Americans who were adamant about the issue a year ago.

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Race in America: Comments on the Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Martha St Jean | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Henry Louis Gates Arrest, Harvard, Al Sharpton, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrested, Black Scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr, Breaking Politics News, The Root, Henry Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Henry Gates Arrested, Politics News
Martha St Jean

One commentator said, " I am tired of the race card being played every time a black person is arrested/questioned or anything else that happens with the police."

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What's Right About the House Health Care Plan

Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Politics, House of Representatives, Senate, Health, Breaking Politics News, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman, Health Care, Politics News
Bruce Tenenbaum

Now that the House members have proposed legislation, it seems fair that I take a few minutes to talk about what they appear to have gotten right.

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California TV Stations "Just Say No" to Drug Policy Ad

Anthony Citrano | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Television, California, Breaking Media News, Media News, Media, Marijuana, Drug Policy, Aclu, Corporate Media, Marijuana Legalization, AB 390, Political News, Politics, California Politics, Breaking Politics News, Media News
Anthony Citrano

Marijuana decriminalization is getting fresh attention due to broad public support of the new AB 390 bill, but only a handful of media outlets, including CNN and CNBC, will air pro-legalization ads.

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How to Resolve the Abortion Conflict

Aspen Baker | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Pro-Voice, War, President Obama, Breaking Politics News, Pro-Life, Common Ground, Pro-Choice, Peace, Politics News
Aspen Baker

A just and lasting peace between pro-choice and pro-life people is possible, but it lies in the history of those who have fought over this issue, not in the tired rhetoric of "common ground."

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