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Article by John on April 2nd, 2009 at 7:32 am Mt. Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt closeup. Image via Wikipedia Since the 1980s (when I worked for Eastern Airlines, which no longer exists due to deregulation fever) we as a people have amnesia when it comes to the lessons that history teaches us. Regulations did not just magically appear one day. They were derived from the wisdom that came about from the mistakes of the past. Reagan [...]
Article by John on October 26th, 2008 at 8:00 am Video highlights: PRIORITIES Tax cut for 95% of working Americans End tax breaks for “outsourcers” Reduce health care costs Energy independence Better education FUNDING Stop $10 billion waste in Iraq Bailout oversight Bush/McCain tax cuts for top 2% expire Close corporate loopholes Audit spending and eliminate programs that don’t work
Article by missy on October 24th, 2008 at 2:40 pm And I’m going to make a point of remembering the name Ashley Todd. (CNN) — A Republican campaign worker who told police she was assaulted by a man angered by a John McCain sticker on her car admitted she made up the report, the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, assistant police chief said Friday. Ashley Todd, 20, of College Park, Texas, will be charged with filing a false police report, [...]
Article by missy on September 9th, 2008 at 3:52 pm Unfuckingbelievable. Under Mayor Palin, Wasilla, Alaska charged rape victims for the forensic tests known as “rape kits,” which are necessary to successful prosecution of rapists and which almost every other town in Alaska (and I assume in the country) pays for out of municipal funds. But Mayor Palin’s police chief didn’t want to burden taxpayers with $5,000 to $14,000 a year for the forensic exams at a [...]
Article by John on September 1st, 2008 at 7:53 pm Image by Getty Images via Daylife The police once again lock up some innocents right away as a show of force in order to presumably intimidate the rest into behaving. Different event, same old tactics. Ho-hum. Statement forwarded from Democracy Now!: Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 p.m. local time. Goodman was arrested while attempting to free two [...]
Article by John on September 1st, 2008 at 9:29 am Excerpt from Talking Points Memo: Getting Real About Palin: When Palin became governor they went for another bite at the apple. Palin, her husband and several members of her staff began pressuring Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan — a respected former Chief of the Anchorage police department — to can Wooten. Monegan resisted, arguing that the official process regarding [...]
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