They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.
–Benjamin Franklin
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“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great concentrated wealth in the hands of a few. We cannot have both.”
-Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, 1856-1941
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Why can’t we go back to a time when the government didn’t spy on people? Who are FBI and NSA spying on today? What happened to all the rights that are amended to our constitution?
Paper: FBI spied on MLK widow for years
from RawStory.com Headlines
The Associated Press - HOUSTON
Federal agents spied on the […]
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OK. Texas started. In addition to the ones mentioned here, there are also schools with some solar panels. Can the whole country do this? Can we do a better job at recycling at school? Can we turn in more work electronically and not on paper? Can they cut down on the AC sometimes? What’s happening […]
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So …. If half the republican people want us to withdraw troops from Iraq, we can assume that even more of the democratic people want to withdraw troops. So when will the politicians in Washington know what the people know? When will they listen? When will they start a withdrawal?
This is from ThinkProgress:
51 percent:
Number […]
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Filed under: Election 2008, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Pentagon, Politics, Republicans, U.S. Military, War on Iraq
Why does Fox News want us to have a war with Iran? Why do Americans let Fox News decide what is happening in our foreign policy? Why don’t they have to report real facts?
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Filed under: Corruption, Featured Stories, Foriegn Affairs, Fox News, FrecklesCassie, George W. Bush, Iran, Opinion, Pentagon, Politics, Terrorism, War on Terror
I just got this email. But it sounds like people in other states can call their governor too.
—Freckles
Dear Cassie,
George Bush has done it again. He has sided with insurance and drug company profits over the health and well-being of our nation’s children. Late Friday
night, the Bush administration released a letter to state health […]
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When I was in elementary school, I went to a really old school. It was OK, but not new. A lot of neighborhoods in my town had newer schools and I always thought it would be cool to go to one. Everything pretty and clean. But I just saw this in the […]
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My dad left when I was five. He did not die. He was not in a war. He just left. After he left I was angry at him and sad, but I did not have a grief camp. Maybe it would have made things easier for me and for my brother. They’re probably very […]
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Think Progress has a post up called If It’s Sunday, It’s Karl Rove and in it they have a list of questions that they want the talk show hosts to ask Rove tomorrow morning. Here’s their list:
Promoting the war as a member of the White House Iraq Group
Leaking Valerie Plame’s identity
Compiling the list of […]
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