The Toledo Blade remains both skeptical and disappointed that torture investigations have not landed any ‘big fish’: “Grunts who terrified and tortured prisoners in their care are going to jail … [Keep reading >>]
Norfolk’s Virginian-Pilot asseses the national mood, which surprisingly is focused less on terror and more on health care: “For four years now, that message has centered around a specific theme … [Keep reading >>]
The New Orleans Times-Picayune’s Chris Rose sits down with a high school student to asses the changes in his life in the seven months since Katrina: “And since I don’t … [Keep reading >>]
Writing in the Guardian, local writer Wayne Hemingway welcomes Condi to his hometown of Blackburn: “She wasn’t impressed with our Lancashire weather – but then some of the locals weren’t … [Keep reading >>]
Funny how few Latino voices we see represented in the major media’s coverage of the immigration controversy. Meet Gustavo Arellano, a staff writer with Orange County Weekly, where … [Keep reading >>]
Three of the five writers nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Nonfiction– Jacques Leslie, Adam Hochschild, and Rebecca Solnit — have been speakers at the Ruth Group … [Keep reading >>]
As reported by Bob Kemper of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Cynthia McKinney faces charges when stemming from a confrontation with a Capitol security guard who did not recognize her as a … [Keep reading >>]
The Louisville Courier-Journal feels that the removal of Card from the white house was a cosmetic move that obscures other figures more deserving of dismissal: “If that’s all there is, … [Keep reading >>]
Writing in Madison WI’s Capital Times, Margaret Krome writes in support of a local referendum: “Resolved: The United States should bring all military personnel home from Iraq now.”
One can … [Keep reading >>]
The Guardian’s Jonathan Steele just completed his seventh post-Saddam visit to Iraq and he doesn’t like what he sees: “While the violence grows, the political deterioration over the past three … [Keep reading >>]
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ActBlue – Netroots Candidates
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Because you don’t build power by sitting on your hands. Francine Busby is … [Keep reading >>]
Assigned reading: Murray Weiss in the National Journal Insulating Bush.
Karl Rove, President Bush’s chief political adviser, cautioned other White House aides in the summer of 2003 that Bush’s 2004 … [Keep reading >>]
