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    The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.

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    ratcheting up the pressure

    I assume these recent speeches by Obama are intended to publicly call out Blue Dogs and Senate Republicans to get along and go along once the Economic Plan is presented. From today’s speech at George Mason University:

    This crisis did not happen solely by some accident of history or normal turn of the business cycle, and we won’t get out of it by simply waiting [...]



    a pie in the face is the very least i’d like to give john mccain

    I’d very much like to give him a piece of my mind.

    I was born on Long Island, just a few train stops from Hofstra University. If all you know of Long Island comes from F. Scott Fitzgerald (or Paris Hilton), that strip of expensive real estate may seem like a giant McMansion tract. But when I was born in Garden City in 1965, Long [...]



    Million Doors for Peace

    Click here to sign up for this action.  Walk your neighborhood door-to-door spreading the message to end the illegal war and occupation of Iraq.
    The coalition organizing Million Doors for Peace includes: Catholics United, Cities for Peace, MoveOn.org, Pax Christi USA, Peace Action, Progressive Accountability, Progressive Democrats of America, United for Peace & Justice, USAction & TrueMajority.org, Voters for Peace and Win Without War.

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    on patriotism

    I know we are 3 days past the Fourth, but since Patriotism is the cheesy plastic hurdle that gets reset in the mud of every election year, I have to get this off my chest.

    First, as an illustration of my larger point, it is typical – but nonetheless ridiculous – that so many on the right are lionizing Jesse Helms and expounding on the “appropriateness” [...]



    Housing for People

    The Outsider

    A Newsletter for the Overburdened Taxpayers of Vancouver Washington

    October 23, 2007

    Housing for People

    After attending a meeting yesterday by the Clark County Association of Realtors, I came away with the feeling that they didn’t want to be regulated by any government entity and that the growth management act was a bad thing. They also indicated that infill or high density housing was [...]



    Meet the Candidates Tuesday October 9th

    They say all politics are local. That is why this is a great opportunity to become acquainted with over 10 local candidates who will appear on the November ballot. These are candidates from Vancouver, La Center, Camas, Washougal, and Battleground. They want to represent you in your businesses and neighborhoods. Be an informed voter and join us.

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    enlightening the brown people

    From a transcript of a roundtable yesterday between pro-war bloggers and Marine Maj. Gen. Douglas M. Stone, Commander, U.S. detention facilities in Iraq (where there are now at least 25,000 detainees):

    STONE: We are now almost full-bore into all of our new programs … to understand who we’ve got and what their orientation towards religion, their skill, their education, their morale and motivation of what got [...]



    the jena 6

    My sister and brother-in-law both work at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina (alma mater of Tony Snow, but other than that a great school). A group of students there have organized a trip down to Jena, Louisiana to join the mass protest in support of the Jena 6, which is taking place tomorrow.

    The following is a letter my sister forwarded to me from one [...]

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