... in New York City or Washington around the Sept. read more RSS FEED BLOG WATCH LEFT- read complete article: Officials chase unconfirmed al-Qaida bomb threat (AP)......

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RIVER HILLS �' Wisconsin mothers and fathers, teachers, farmers, firefighters, public safety officers, and other hard working voters across Wisconsin are calling on Alberta Darling and other Republican recall candidates to  take a stand on the violent and hate-filled language  used by Vince ...

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Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), appears to be on a media tour intended to rehabilitate both his own reputation and that of the organization he leads. Yesterday’s article in the UK’s Telegraph may turn out to be one of a...

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“The problem is it’s… I can’t think of a word to describe it.  It’s… well, bizarre doesn’t even come close.  Senseless doesn’t get close.  I can’t identify a reason why it was written.  I can’t figure out what inspired Brooks to write it, well, oth...

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Over the last six months, Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX), along with other members of the House Judiciary Committee, have engaged in an all-out effort to turn back the clock on our immigration laws through a series of bills that may tackle one issue at a time, but equal a comprehensive overh...

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State legislatures, once hailed by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis as “laboratories of democracy” because of their progressive innovations, have for the past couple of decades often been hotbeds of plutocracy instead. The blame for this rests in no small part with a shadowy organization cal...

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Another great art and politics essay by my friend Antonino D’Am brosioR 30; check it out . -Shepard � �......

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Illustration: ssoosay via Flickr (CC) Abby Martin writes on Media Roots : “We are awash in electronic hallucinations. The worse it gets, the more we retreat into those hallucinations. Dying cultures always sever themselves from reality, because reality becomes so difficult to face,...

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OK, it is too easy to hit Michele Bachmann for confusing serial killer John Wayne Gacy with Gacy’s fellow Iowan and movie star, role model, John Wayne. (We learned as kids not to shoot a sitting rabbit.) But the Bachmann decision to compare herself with John Wayne is just nutty! But t...

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I wish sometime that I’d be proven wrong in my pessimism. But it looks like the great upsurge in Wisconsin has petered out. Listen to my interview with Abe Sauer in the June 25 radio show I just posted. Or read progressive editor Matt Rothschild’s gloomy assessment from a week ago:  Wisconsin D...

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