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There are prophecies in the Bible which indicate that a time is coming in which powerful religio-political forces will persecute a non-conformist minority, attempting to intimidate them into submission, and eventually using deadly force against them. I agree with my Seventh-day Adventist Church in its application of one such prophecy to the United States [...]

If any small group of people or individual deserves the title of Shadow President or Puppet Master, it’s the Office of Legal Counsel.
Please take a few minutes to read the following interviews from the script of a PBS Frontline episode entitled “Cheney’s Law.”

I’m ashamed that the last place I bought gasoline was a Chevron station. If the city of Berkeley can pull off a boycott of Chevron, I too can go down to the next station (by the way, Chevron owns Texaco). I already had good reason to do this, but Monday’s Flashpoints settled it [...]

 

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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Americans are turning out [...]

I just can’t believe how similar this last address was to last years’, and all the others since the major changes in domestic and foreign policy undertaken by this administration began 6 years ago.
Domestically, the “missing class,” missing because they never get mentioned by Congress or President, were missing from Bush’s last State of the [...]

House Republicans are trying to pass a bill that establishes the United States as a Christian nation. Their tactic is to rewrite the early history of our nation to look like it was a band of Christian pilgrims carving out a new empire of Christendom in the New World. Or something.
The Nation article [...]

From the press kit of Alex Gibney’s new film, Taxi To The Dark Side, releasing in January of 2008:
[T]he issue of “torture” is not really about interrogation techniques. It is about a pandemic of corruption that ensues when the rule of law is weakened. He taught me that torture is like a virulent virus – [...]

 

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Just one of the many positive and workable suggestions made by The Smirking Chimp’s Stephen Fleischman is to Soak the Rich. Here’s a quote from the article, found at smirkingchimp.com:

Reverse Reaganomics. Re-institute regulation of industry. Make the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for example, do their jobs, so [...]

How to Get Rich Quick: Be Rich
 Jared Bernstein, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington who characterizes the Bush administration’s policies as YOYO economics, based on You (Are) On Your Own, said the differences in income growth explained why so many Americans have told pollsters that they are feeling squeezed.
“A lot of people [...]

Sorry for the choice language, but it’s Bill Maher, and foul-mouthed or no, his picks for “worst people of 2007″ point to a lot of truth about just what an incredibly good year it has been for the stupid, the dangerous, and the losers of America this year. It would be worthlessly crass if [...]