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2013 Orange County Candidates Forum
2013 Orange County Candidates Forum Please join us in supporting Traci Dippert for the 30th District seat in the Virginia House of Delegates October 14 – 7pm Locust Grove Elementary School Locust Grove, VA It is a Q& A format Spread the Word!...
Elizabeth Warren Explains the Debt Limit
by @alexandergmoore The United States is the only democracy in the world where the legislature debates whether it should pay the bills it has already incurred. Like the Affordable Care Act, the looming issue of the debt limit is pretty confusing. Though it soaks up...
Carpe Hypocrita
104 Republicans Who Are In Congress Today Voted To Increase The Debt Ceiling Under Bush Without Hostage Threats Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) reiterated on Sunday that House Republicans would not allow a clean vote to raise the debt limit and ensure the full faith and...
Day 10
This article will appear in the October 28, 2013 edition of The Nation. The shutdown of the government is a crisis for Americans, who rely not just on the services provided by the affected agencies but on the efficiency of their delivery. When 800,000 federal...
Day 9
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False Equivalence
TO: ABC, NBC, CBS AND CNN from CREDO Mobilize The government shutdown is not the result of a legislative breakdown or both parties refusing to compromise. It is a direct result of the right-wing House Republicans' legislative strategy of taking hostages and making...
Compromise
The Radical Christian Right and the War on Government
By Chris Hedges There is a desire felt by tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement known as the Christian right, to destroy the intellectual and scientific rigor of the Enlightenment, radically diminish the role of government to...
Day 8
As the government shutdown headed into a second week with no resolution in sight, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday made three key points.. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNj8bpY2PEY&w=853&h=480] Read A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
The More Things Change..
Given the extreme ideology of the current slate of Tea Party candidates Cuccinelli, Jackson and Obenshain, this letter to the editor of the Madison Eagle is every bit as on point now as it was then.. Feb. 21, 2003 Letter to the Editor "Cider House Rules" It's...
