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Crooks & Liars:100K Signatures for Impeachment Delivered to Pelosi
Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel (Dave Lindorff):

The dramatic hearing on presidential crimes and abuses of power held on Friday by the House Judiciary Committee was both a staged farce, and at the same time, a powerful demonstration of the power of a grassroots movement in defense of the [...]

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The 4 I’s. Remember them, spread them. Impeachment hearings today in the House of Representatives.
Greenwald: The parade of “shrill, unserious extremists” on display at today’s impeachment hearings
Investigate. Indict. Impeach. Imprison.

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Huffington Post – Bush Leaving Next President Record Federal Budget Deficit
$490 billion projected federal budget deficit for 2009. This does not include the full estimates of further war costs and the quarterly request for additional $100 billion that’s been happening since 2003.  These estimates only hold if the economy does as well as the Bush [...]

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Gavin Newsom talking about new San Francisco solar power incentives, running for governor in 2010, and marriage.
The important news here is that there is going to be a San Francisco solar power rebate of $3k to build solar, $6k if you build solar from local businesses that use locally-trained employees, $10k if you build solar [...]

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Crooks & Liars: Judge bars all evidence obtained by torture
This is actually great news. Whether or not this guy did or did not do anything wrong is besides the point. I don’t care if it’s potentially Al Qaeda-related. It’s besides the point.
Evidence gained from tortured captives is unreliable and often false. To admit something that’s [...]

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RH Reality Check – HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion
This would mean any agency that receives federal grants would allow their employees to deny birth control if they wanted to. So, if some anti-abortion nut is working for a health agency that would regularly give out birth control as requested/needed and they decide their [...]

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Too cool for school pretty much guarantees the presidency. Us Americans love our “personable, familiar” candidates.

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ACLU – Terrorist Watch List Counter
Better be scared! I like how a 6 year old child was on the list and had trouble flying. As well as some US senators & representatives. This is getting ridiculous.
There should be a way to check if you are on such a list and be able to challenge the [...]

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Obama’s Lurch to the Center
John Digby has a great post explaining progressive disappointment with Obama and general Democratic strategy for the election. It also sums up much of my feelings towards the candidate. Yes, we meh.

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Some effects of the new FISA law
The above is a great little snippet of how the world changes due to the new Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 2008.  When you start putting fear into reporters and informants, what you end up with is less information to the people. In an American world where it’s already [...]

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