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The DC Shuffle; Saving the World From Death By Coal

Jerry Cope | Posted 04.05.2009 | Green

Read More: 350.Org, Terry Tempest Williams, Big Coal, Gustav Speth, Kathy Mattea, Greenpeace, Coal, Daryl-Hannah, Rainforest Action Network, Wendall Berry, James Hansen, Climate Change, Bill Mckibben, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Vandava Shiva, Robert Kennedy, cop15, Green News

March 2nd was historic -- a shining example of what citizens in a democracy can achieve when united in a common cause: eliminating coal-fired power plants in the US.

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Reading The Pictures: Killing That Little Monkey

Michael Shaw | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Bush Chimp, Connecticut, Monkey Cartoon, Feminizing Obama, Obama, Media, Monkey Amok, Bush, The Chimpster, Politics, Giuliani, New York Post, Sam Stein, Kill Monkey, Racism, Hillary Clinton, Huffington Post, Stimulus Package, News, Robert Kennedy, Delonas, Media News

The buck(shot) stops here? Well obviously it likens Obama to a monkey, playing on a long-standing African-American racist slur.

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Capital Strike?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, Rush Limbaugh, John Boehner, Employee Free Choice Act, Economic Crisis, Franklin Roosevelt, Eric Cantor, Barack Obama, American Enterprise Institute, Hilda Solis, Bail Outs, National Association of Manufacturers, Ideological Hegemony, Talk Radio, Fox News, Drudge Report, Club for Growth, Chamber of Commerce, Nationalization of Banking Industry, Progressivism, Republican Party, Robert Kennedy, Bailout Bandits, Politics News

The day will come when Obama will have no choice but to remind the giant corporations through tough government action that the U.S. is not just another one of their wholly owned subsidiaries.

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

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The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

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Two Memos Caroline Kennedy Needs

John R. Bohrer | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Caroline Kennedy, New York Senate Seat, David Paterson, Robert Kennedy, Politics News

Critics are saying Kennedy's lobbying of Paterson and the state's powerbrokers is evidence of her disrespect for the people. Which is why Caroline should take it statewide.

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Lessons from the Senators Kennedy

John R. Bohrer | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Caroline Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy Senate Seat, Caroline Kennedy Senate, New York Senate Seat, Robert Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

Questions about inexperience and nepotism are circulating about Caroline, which shouldn't come as a surprise: no Kennedy has ever gone for his or her first elected office without such talk.

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Is it Time for Dinosaur Feathers?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Economic Crisis, Creative Leap, Economy, Barack Obama, Robert Kennedy, Politics News

America seems ready to grow dinosaur feathers. There's a yearning for a new way to go forward.

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Obama Assassination Jitters

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Kennedy, Assassination, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Presidency, Secret Service, Jfk, Politics News

There is a very real danger of violence to Obama. That's the unfortunate price that elected officials, in this case a new president, who inspire hope must pay.

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How the Obama Election Transformed Historic Locations

Jim Wallis | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Violence, Racism, 1968, Police, Chicago, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., 2008 Election, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Mayor Richard Daley, Barack Obama, Robert Kennedy, Grant Park, Election Reaction, HuffPost Election Reaction, Politics News

Children of color, indeed of all colors, across America woke up on Wednesday morning not just to a new day, but a new world.

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The Night Robert Kennedy Finally Won

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Forty years after his assassination shattered dreams and brought his quest to change America to a sudden, brutal halt, Robert Kennedy reached the goal that had been denied him in life.

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MacBush

Norman MacAfee | Posted 12.05.2008 | Entertainment

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Stone assembled a game cast to play the characters who've wrought destruction upon the world in these past seven years. Except for two or three, they are bland and vague versions of the real.

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Obama Is Dominating in the Polls, but Four Things Keep Me Awake at Night

Mitchell Bard | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics

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As a lifelong Democrat who has seen my party lose winnable races, I can't help thinking about how things can go wrong this year. These are the four factors that keep me up at night.

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Just Where/When Has McCain Led in Any Crisis? His Only 2 Speeds are Lame and Impetuous

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: President Kennedy, Leadership, John McCain, Cuban Missile Crisis, Robert Kennedy, Crisis, 2008 Election, Politics News

I may have missed it, but I never read of John McCain's leading anything in that crisis. And, thankfully. With his impulsive leadership style, we might not be here writing about it.

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Cesar Chavez at the Root of Obama's Campaign: Grassroots Latino Voter Outreach

Randy Shaw | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, Yes We Can, Obama National Latino Advisory Council, California Primary, Strategy, California, Miguel Contreras, "Camp Obamas, Primary, Outreach, Los Angeles, " Eliseo Medina, 2008 Election, Obama Campaign, Obama Supporters, Cesar Chavez, Nonviolence, Marshall Ganz, Latino Voters, 1968, Organizing Drives, Fast for Our Future, Sharon Delugach, Door-to-Door Campaigning, UFW, Si Se Puede, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, On the Ground, Robert Kennedy, Politics News

If Barack Obama's campaign wins on November 4th, LA should be identified as the birthplace of the grassroots voter outreach strategy that dramatically changed the political course of the US.

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McCain & the Missiles of October

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, McGeorge Bundy, John McCain, Mccain Gambling Anger, Mccain Judgment, Thad Cochran, Maxwell Taylor, Cuban Missile Crisis, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, American Graffiti, Curtis LeMay, David Shoup, George Will, David Brooks, John McCain-John F. Kennedy, McCain Temper, Robert Kennedy, Politics News

Many voters are attracted to McCain's quick, "don't look back" decision-making and fancy that he will keep them secure. But would he? The experience of October 1962 strongly suggests otherwise.

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Kaboom. Oops, There Goes the Neighborhood! How to Rewrite Your Way Around Regulation You Don't Like

Jessica Catto | Posted 11.07.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Energy, Aspen Film Fesitval, "Crimes Against Nature, Jr., " Environment, Strip Mining, Robert Kennedy, Morgan Freeman Narrates, Entertainment News

Emotion and impact are the hallmarks of a new documentary on... strip mining. "Crimes Against Nature," involves you visually and viscerally in the amputation of earth's monuments.

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Live From The Oasis At The DNC - Slow Down To Speed Up

Russell Bishop | Posted 09.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Huffington Post Dnc, Lessons in the Key of Life, Oasis, Russell Bishop, Dnc, Deidre Hall, Keys to Life, Living, Robert Kennedy, Unplug, HuffPost Oasis, Living News