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Declare Independence from Foreign Oil

- Governor Bill Richardson
Submitted by Scott Laczay
November 16th, 2007
"America's lifeblood is its energy supply, and foreign energy dependence makes American homes and businesses vulnerable. Our economy and our national security are hurt by the fact that we have grown way too dependent on foreign energy, and way too dependent on oil as our major energy source. "

   18 March 2006

The 21st Century Energy Race

- Senator Hillary Clinton
Submitted by Scott Laczay
November 16th, 2007
"Winning the 21st-century energy race is as important as winning the 20th-century space race. The country that split the atom can end its dependence on oil and launch a new energy solution. We can call it energy 2.0. "

   31 May 2007

Our Energy Policy Weakens Us

- Senator Hillary Clinton
Submitted by Scott Laczay
November 16th, 2007
"Our present system of energy is weakening our national security, hurting our pocketbooks, violating our common values and threatening our children's future. Right now, instead of national security dictating our energy policy, our failed energy policy dictates our national security."

   23 May 2006
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The Dummies' Guide to Stupid Leaders and Misleading Numbers

By Allison Kilkenny
From huffingtonpost.com
May 5th, 2008
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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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McCain's Murderers Row

By Cliff Schecter
May 13th, 2008

A new website (firethelobbyists.com) has been created by the pro-campaign finance reform organization Campaign Money Watch, to convince Senator McCain to fire three lobbyists in the top levels of his o more »

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Republicans Are On A Different Planet

By David Fiderer
From huffingtonpost.com
May 13th, 2008
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huffingtonpost.com — News outlets talk about Bush's approval levels approaching "Nixonian" levels, but they shy away from acknowledging the obvious — that the GOP has become marginalized from the American mainstream.

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The Bipartisanship Scam

By Arianna Huffington
From huffingtonpost.com
May 13th, 2008
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huffingtonpost.com — The road to victory in 2008 doesn't run through a mythical middle that has been dragged far to the right over the past 7-plus years; it runs through the center that opposes the war, favors economic fairness, knows that climate change is real and a crisis, wants to take care of our veterans, and believes in the right to universal health care. In other words, the actual mainstream — the place the majority of Americans inhabit.

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Curtain Time For Barack Obama - Part I

By Evelyn Pringle
From smirkingchimp.com
May 13th, 2008
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smirkingchimp.com — The Illinois political mob already had a major fundraising operation in place for Blagojevich by 2004, and its safe to assume that when Obama and Rezko first started setting up the real estate deal for the mansion and lot in December 2004, Obama never thought about any repercussions on his run for president.

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Lessons from a Gusset Plate

By Ben Shepard
May 12th, 2008

You probably don't know what a gusset plate is. I sure didn't. But the little-known structural component offer a case study in the unlearned lessons of the I-35W bridge collapse. more »

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Cleaning Up After The Con

By Ben Shepard
May 12th, 2008

Again and again and again and again and again and again and again , this blog has chronicled the mess conservative ideology has made of our national infrastructure. But how do we clean it up? How are we going to come up with the 1.3 trillion dollars needed to get our infrastructure back in shape? more »

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The Lucrative Art of War

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From nytimes.com
May 11th, 2008
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nytimes.com — Congress is finally moving to shut down an egregious forms of Iraq war profiteering: defense contractors using offshore shell companies to avoid paying their fair share of payroll taxes. No one will be surprised to hear that one of the suspected prime offenders is KBR, the Texas-based defense contractor, formerly a part of the Halliburton conglomerate allied with Vice President Dick Cheney

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Learning from Gerson

By Ben Shepard
May 10th, 2008

For any student of contemporary conservative rhetoric,a recent column by Michael Gerson provides a fine specimen. Bush's chief speech writer until 2006, Gerson now roosts in the Washington Posts' op-ed section. His Wednesday column is a choice piece of revisionism. more »

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Newt Gingrich to GOP--Wake Up or Perish

By Katrina Vanden Heuvel
From thenation.com
May 9th, 2008
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thenation.com — In a much-publicized plea to his fellow Republicans, Newt Gingrich seems to echo Bill Moyers, who once argued that "the conservative movement stands intellectually and morally bankrupt…"

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