Progressive Opinion

huffingtonpost.com — In case you didn't know, the loss of 20,000 American jobs in April is actually good news. You see, economists had predicted 73,000 jobs would be lost last month, so thank God we dodged that bullet, right?!

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tomdispatch.com — When it comes to U.S. advisors at work in Iraq, reporters need look no further than the solicitations sent out by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil itself.

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talkingpointsmemo.com — The simple truth is that given his foreign policy promises in Iraq and tax cut promises at home there's really no way McCain could come up with even a fuzzy plan to balance the budget in his first term. So he's decided instead just promise it.

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pbs.org — Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al Qaeda and toppling a dictator and spreading democracy and protecting ourselves from weapons of mass destruction. But one by one, these concocted rationales went up in smoke, fire, and ashes. And now the bottom turns out to be … the bottom line. It is about oil.

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progressive.org — With President Bush attending his last G8 summit in Japan, it is a good time to assess the foreign policy legacy of his Administration — and what a legacy!

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truthout.org — Patriotism is defending a constitutional principle, in the face of adverse public opinion and White House opposition, and including under its protections even those who might seek to destroy us and the very constitutional principles for which we stand.

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huffingtonpost.com — Every day an average of four construction workers are killed as they go about building America, because OSHA under President Bush is failing construction workers.

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inthesetimes.com — The Fourth of July is the time for patriotic hoohah by national poobahs. So, Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush will no doubt invoke, as he did on Memorial Day at Arlington Cemetery, the "sacrifice" of that "awesome bunch of people." Bush then dressed up his war with tales of the fallen. But some victims of his war didn't merit the president's notice.

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huffingtonpost.com — According to the conservative right , the "true patriot" must surrender reason and conscience, and simply know (without knowing in any meaningful way) that their government can do no wrong. In other words, Americans can't hold their government accountable and still be patriotic.

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truthdig.com — If the long conservative era that began with Ronald Reagan's election is over, will the judges appointed during the right's ascendancy be able to block, frustrate and undermine the efforts of a new progressive majority? Is the Supreme Court, as two influential journalists describe it, 'the last hope of the conservative interests in the United States.'

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