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Why the Progressive Caucus Should Vote No on War Money
Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2007-03-22 15:17. Congress
By David Swanson
The Supplemental spending bill proposed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi funds the war. It gives Cheney and Bush roughly another $100 billion. And you can be quite sure they will spend it as they choose, which may include […]

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Last updated March 21, 2007 9:26 p.m. PT
Snubbed alderman sends loud message on racism
By RAF CASERT
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/308548_belgium22.html
SINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium — Wouter Van Bellingen has the name, the lingo, the clothes and the upbringing of your typical Flemish alderman.
One thing sets him apart: Van Bellingen is black in a mostly white city, and for that reason […]

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George Bush is so NOT a Christian.
In recent weeks the growing progressive Christian movement (not to be mistaken with the religious right) of the likes of Jim Wallace and Sojourners has spoken out on the environment and global warming as a moral and social test of faith. Commissions and admonitions like “Love they […]

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I’m not a jerk, I just act like one sometimes. At least that’s what I seem to tell myself every now and then when I realize a pattern in my life that doesn’t fit with my idea that I’m a good guy. I thought this recently when I for the second time, encountered a guy […]

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