Recent Votes

• When Half a Million Americans Died and Nobody Noticed

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  Was the US drug Vioxx responsible for far more deaths than has been acknowledged so far?   ARE American lives cheaper than those of the Chinese? It's a question raised by Ron Unz, publisher of The American Conservative, who has produced a compelling comparison between the …

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• As the Collective Heads of the GOP Conservative Tea Party Extremist Evangelical Wing Exploded earlier today, I Looked Out the Window at Work in Tampa and Saw a Rainbow. After all, God did create EACH of us in HIS image he did not stipulate a Separate but

  Today, President Obama, made history when he evolved publicly on the side of justice, equality, humanness, solidarity, freedom, acceptance, civility and announced, at last, for the first time for him and for ANY sitting president EVER in history that he is in favor of the RIGHT  …

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• ALEC Wants You to Pay 750 Percent More for High-Speed Internet

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  The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is the most powerful corporate front group you've never heard of. Drawing the vast majority of its financing from big corporations, the group allows these firms to help write bills that it then secretly passes off to state l …

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• Anger over Trayvon Martin's slaying transcends the issue of race

  Source: The L.A. Times

  This is not just about the color of skin, but the color of authority. It's about a neighborhood bully allowed to carry a gun, encouraged by a reckless law to wield it and absolved by local police, who had barely begun to investigate before declaring the killer "squeaky clean." …

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