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by | July 15, 2008
Unseemly ties to jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff are dragging down the candidacies of Bob Schaffer and Don Young, two Republicans running for congressional seats this year. Abramoff has a way of returning from the dead to alter the course of political events. It's a safe bet that there will be more Abramoff-related indictments before November and more races influenced by the disgraced influence-peddler.
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by | July 15, 2008
Senator Russ Feingold gets to the heart of the matter: The new FISA bill provides no real judicial oversight or any restraint on surveillance. . . . With more first-hand accounts of former U.S. detainees coming out, it's clear that torture at U.S. bases was not random, but rather policy. . . . Christian extremist opinion leaders are warning about a Barack Obama Supreme Court in typically overheated terms.read article »
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by | July 1, 2008
Rep. Henry Waxman has released a damning new report that details the hundreds of contacts between the Bush administration and the disgraced and incarcerated Jack Abramoff and his team of lobbyists. The report delves into Abramoff's sleazy tactics, and the details are gag-inducing. Lowlights include Abramoff's orchestration of the firing of a State Department official and his shakedown of the government of Congo . . . on behalf of Americans for Tax Reform.read article »
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by | June 15, 2008
While there has been much talk during the presidential primary season of the need for health care reform, the fact remains that all of the White House hopefuls reject the single-payer principle, the approach most likely to achieve universal coverage, despite ample evidence from abroad that single-payer works. Ian Williams looks at a country that found the political will to provide coverage for all its citizens by emulating a model familiar to most Americans.read article » |
by | June 1, 2008
Having been defeated in the courts, the nation's creationists are backing away from directly advocating intelligent design, choosing instead to undermine the teaching of evolutionary theory with appeals to "academic freedom." This spring, the anti-evolutionists unveiled creationism 3.0. And they've already begun a two-pronged marketing campaign, in movie theaters and state legislatures across the country.read article » |
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by | February 1, 2008
John McCain is proud of his role in bringing down lobbyist and crook Jack Abramoff, but a closer look at the Senate Indian Affairs Committee investigation that McCain headed shows that the senator refused to look at corrupt members of Congress involved with Abramoff and allowed influential Republican funders to walk. Meanwhile, CNN has sunk to a new low by hiring key Abramoff crony Ralph Reed as a news analyst.read article »
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by | April 1, 2008
John McCain needed an evangelical to embrace him and send a message to the Christian right that he will do their bidding, even if he's not quite one of them. He settled on End-Timer John Hagee. The Rev. Hagee's dangerous teachings on Israel, the Catholic Church and war with Iran place him on the fringe of American political and religious thought. But Hagee and his multimillion-dollar evangelical empire are deeply plugged into the Republican party. GOP candidates have long sought his blessing.read article »
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