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New Tools for Peace in Afghanistan

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

Development and humanitarian assistance can no longer be an afterthought; they must be central to any strategy the U.S. government puts forward in Afghanistan.

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Do Catholic Bishops Run the United States Government?

Reproductive Justice | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, Health Care Reform, Abortion, Catholic Church, Congress, Catholic Bishops, Politics News

Have you had enough of Democrats that you elect selling you down the river? Are you angry enough?

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News

Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.

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365 Days and Still Thanking Jesus

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Negotiation, Governance, Afghanistan, American Democracy, Peacebuilding, President Obama, Narrative, Middle East, Cold War, Defense Budget, Government, Facilitation, Military, Climate Change, One Year Later, Conflict Resolution, Barack Obama, Timidity to Govern, Politics News

In looking at Obama's first year, we must not fall into the typical trap that pits idealism against pragmatism, where the virtuous line up against the effective, and the purists fight the negotiators.

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Concern for the Attacks on Rangel

David Jones | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York

Read More: Government, Elected Official, Congressman Rangel, Congress, Charles Rangel, New York City, New York News

It seems to me that a whole generation of elected black officials is under scrutiny for financial improprieties and missteps. Woven into some of these attacks is a much less savory motivation of moneyed elites.

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Kid's Cereals Worse Than Adult Ones

Ashley Koff | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Government, Childhood Nutrition, Nutrition, Childhood Obesity, Health, Living News

In spite of their pledges to reduce unhealthy marketing to children, the large cereal companies continue to target children with their least healthy products.

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Timing For Newsom in Governor Race, All Wrong

Mira Veda | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, California, Gavin Newsom, San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Jerry Brown, Politics News

Perhaps, in a few years when he's proven he has the character everyone admired in him in the first place he can jump into another race in politics.

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It's Wednesday Night, What Meeting Am I in?

Chantal Unfug | Posted 10.29.2009 | Denver

Read More: Government, Parks and Recreation, Community Organizing, Denver Parks, La Alma Neighborhood Denver, Denver Public Libraries, Public Libraries, Denver Public Schools, Byers Library, Outdoor Exercise, Outdoors, Denver News

At the discussion about the Byers Library, or the session about Lake Middle School, the anger was the same, the distrust of the bureaucracy was the same, and the total exasperation was the same.

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Networking Governments

Gary Hart | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Government, Public Policy, Epidemic, International Relations, World War II, Cold War, Swine Flue, Harry Truman, World News

More can be done in linking national research laboratories, networking financial regulatory regimes, linking universities, networking environmental protection efforts, and the list goes on.

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Homophobia: Healing It From The Inside Out

Jason Mannino | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Government, Lgbt, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gay Rights, LGBT Issues, Gay Hendricks, Doma, Enda, Homophobia, LGBT Rights, Dadt, Gay, Defense of Marriage Act, Byron Katie, Living News

We still live in a world where too many LGBT people have unconsciously held onto the poisonous, negative beliefs about sexual orientation that our society, churches, and government still force feed us.

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Prison Programs Take Innovative Approach To Reducing Recidivism

Halle Tecco | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Government, Law, Crime, Recidivism, Criminal Justice System, Prison, The Giving Life, Non-Profits, Criminal Justice, Pranks, Living News

Here's a question to the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world: how do we turn tax-consuming inmates into tax paying, law-abiding citizens?

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Goldman Sachs' Black Magic, Here's How They Did It

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Government, Goldman Sachs, Finance, Banking, Financial Crisis, Corporate Communism, Recession, Great Depression, Business News

The question is not why did we bail out the banks. The question is why did we give the banks billions so they could buy assets by the trillions and keep the profits?

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Turn Goldman Anger Into Government Action

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Banking, Financial Crisis, Finance, Recession, Corporate Communism, Great Depression, Goldman Sachs, Government, Business News

We don't want a government commandeered by those in our banking system who have failed and been passed over by technological advancements, innovation and flat-out smarts. But right now, that's what we've got.

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Small Businesses Take A Back Seat In Obama's Health-Care Plan

Newsweek | Kevin Kelly | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Government, Health Care Bill, Small Businesses, Small Business, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Obama, Health Insurance, Health Care, Bill, Health Care Plan, Business News

A healthy percentage of the uninsured, about 46 percent, work for small businesses too poor to afford insurance. And poll after poll says that fear of...

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Three Cups of Teabaggers: Insight from the Right on Afghanistan

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Government, Army, Pashtunwali, Peacebuilding, US Marines, Right Wing, Conservatism, Afghanistan, Tea Party, Conflict Resolution, Peace, Barack Obama, Tea Bagging, Pashtuns, World News

The path of the Right leads to a place where there is nothing left to conserve. This particular dilemma of the American Right provides an angle of insight into the challenge that we face in Afghanistan.

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"...And to the Republic for Which it Stands..."

Gary Hart | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, Public Policy, Town Halls, Town Hall Debate, Pledge of Allegiance, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News

Shouting at town hall meetings may vent anger, but it is not sufficient to eliminate corruption in American government. Exercising popular sovereignty through constructive civic duty, though, would be a start.

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Unhappy Fiscal New Year

Rep. Jason Chaffetz | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, Deficit, Government Debt, Fiscal Conservatives, Federal Budget Deficit, Federal Deficit, Federal Debt, Fiscal New Year, Fiscal Crisis, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics News

Contrary to what some have told us in the past, deficits and debts do matter, and at the levels these debts have been accumulating, they matter a lot.

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The Normalizing of the Presidency

David D. Burstein | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Vice President, Political Commentary, Normalcy, President Obama, Psychology, Presidency, Barack Obama, Government, Politics, American Politics, Obama White House, Political Psychology, Obama Presidency, 2008 Presidential Race, Presidential Election, Politics News

Barack Obama might be one of the most normal presidents we have had in years. His connectedness to the real world is one of the things that made him appealing as a candidate.

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Government Technology: New Alcohol Sweat Monitor Threat To Privacy

washingtonpost.com | Posted 09.25.2009 | Technology

Read More: Government, Government Surveillance, Gov 2.0, Government Technology, SCRAM Anklet, Sweat Alcohol Monitor, Surveillance, Government-Monitoring, Scram, Big Brother, Technology News

The idea that governments could monitor its citizens' every move with technology has been the stuff of fiction for decades, and the technology that al...

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The Future of Gov 2.0: Law by Wiki?

Gadi Ben-Yehuda | Posted 09.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Web 2.0, Health Care, Information Technology, Government and IT, Gov 2.0, Government, Government and the Web, Media News

Bills are crowdsourced already. Lobbyists, lawyers, legislative assistants, and others have their pens out -- and their contributions, unlike Wikipedia editors', go unattributed and unnoticed.

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Am I Free to Speak?

Stephen Herrington | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, Freedom of Speech, Supreme Court, Russ Feingold, First Amendment, John McCain, Corporations, Freedomworks, Hillary Clinton, Constitution, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News

We have, for some decades now, been in an era that the framers did not anticipate, in which the reach and influence of money could shape the political landscape like never before.

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Here Comes Gov 2.0 -- and a New Generation of Federal Workers

Craig Newmark | Posted 09.21.2009 | Technology

Read More: Civil Service, Government, Social Media, It, Barack Obama, Veterans Administration, State Department, Government 2.0, Pragmatism, Service, Washington, Libertarianism, President, Technology News

This is Gov 2.0. Not what you're expecting from federal civil servants, who have been seriously empowered to do their job, and told their jobs really matter -- something they haven't heard for years.

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Pray for Glenn Beck

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birth, Debate, Stories, Family, Children, Media, Campaign, Bureaucrats, Miracle, Reform, Pray, Prayer, Legislation, America, Government, Miracles, Abortion, Cerebral Palsy, Government Takeover, Personal Story, Health Care, Pro-Life, Fears, Pregnancies, System, Fear, Families, Healthcare, Choice, Insurance Coverage, Reform Proposals, Anger, Mother, Unborn Baby, Glenn Beck, Rhetoric, Quality of Life, Politics News

Beck's predictions that health care reform would lead to government bureaucrats euthanizing people like his daughter are dead wrong, but we at Sojournors agree with Glenn on this point: God is the giver of life.

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Apps.gov: Federal Agencies Get Online Store For Cloud Services, Apps

ReadWriteEnterprise | Posted 11.15.2009 | Technology

Read More: Government, Obama Vivek Kundra, Apps.gov, data.gov, Government IT, Obama CIO, Cloud Computing, Vivek Kundra, Technology News

The government cloud computing service rumored since late July is here, and companies are jumping at the chance to join Apps.gov, an "online storefron...

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