The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

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Eric Prince (CEO of the former Blackwater USA) Accused of Murder

By we are stardust on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 11:37am |
Friday August 28 in US District Court in Alexandria, attorneys for families of  Iraqi civilians slain by employees of Blackwater USA brought charges of murder against Eric Prince, company founder and former CEO. "The person responsible for these deaths is...
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Please Don't Bury the Woodstock Generation Yet (down in the cold, cold ground)!

By we are stardust on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 11:43am |
Last Sunday, August 16, Chris's panel included Ms. CNBC Trish Regan, John Heileman, Rick Stengel, and  Kathleen Prissy-Pants Parker.  It was quite the Algonquin Round Table he'd assembled.  The last segment concerned the "Woodstock Nation" meme as it related to,...
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This is a link to Democracy for America to "thank our health care heroes."

By we are stardust on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 12:26pm |
 Darcy Burner, John Aravosis, Jane Hamsher, Howie Klein, et.al. have created simple ways to thank the Progressive Caucus members en masse.   John Aravosis  has dubbed the effort "Carrots, Not Sticks.":  http://www.democracyforamerica.com/activities/181   Howie Klein also created "Take the Pledge" at...
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A One-sentence Letter to the President and Your Reps. in Congress

By we are stardust on Mon, 08/17/2009 - 5:24pm |
"There will be no lasting economic recovery without a robust Public Option for health care; there may be some temporary recovery on Wall Street, but even that can't last without a People's Recovery."...
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Why do Evangelicals and Pentecostals oppose Health Care Reform?

By we are stardust on Sun, 08/16/2009 - 12:44pm |
I have been bothered by this question, and began looking into it more seriously lately.  I had assumed from polls and conversations with Fundamentalist Christianists who seem to have inordinate influence over the issue, that mainstream Christians were AWOL in...
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Page 425 of the House Health Care Bill: Just Remove It.

By we are stardust on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 8:56pm |
Page 425 is making the Insurrectionists crazy.  If I understand correctly, there were two versions that were originally stand-alone bills, authored and co-sponsored by Republicans, one as a Medicaid measure, one as a Social Security measure.  It provides for Medicare payments for...
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9-12ers in their own words, at their own meeting, and at a Town Hall

By we are stardust on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 6:04pm |
David Long of the Four Corners Free Press (not online) in Cortez, Co attended a July 20 meeting of the Four Corners 9-12 Project (a la Glenn Beck) at the Elks Hall.  Approximately 100 people attended; the subject was health...
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CREEPY ALERT: The National Association of Rural Landowners: "Without Property Rights, no other rights are possible."

By we are stardust on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 10:26am |
This group headed by Ron Ewert is closely associated with the Tea Party movement. They produced this video about revolution, "The Coming Civil War." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Ewwmikc9Q&feature=PlayList&p=941D88BD7A... It is creepy to the Nth degree.  I know the 9-12ers in our county have...
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Happy birthday to our son, Jordan; to the President, and Helen Thomas.

By we are stardust on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 9:29pm |
They are of the astrological sign Leo; The Lion, the independent, the proud (sometimes too proud), the showman, the slow-to-burn with anger. Our son is half-black, half- Aztec, his birth mother from Old Mexico, born across the border in El...
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Newly minted pennies to celebrate Lincoln's 200th birthday out today. Kill the penney instead!

By we are stardust on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:03am |
A penny today costs between 1.4 and 1.7 cents to mint.  The coin is largely zinc now, the mining of which  causes great environmental degradation.  Billions (4.6 billion, I think) are minted each year, but most are stashed in jars and...

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