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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking government employees (sanitation workers) at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968 — the day before he was assassinated. He was there to lend his support to sanitation workers who were on strike, protesting terrible working conditions and low wages. Taylor Rogers and Elmore Nickelberry were among the 1,300 who

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The meeting room walls in the Dept of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health are lined with poster-sized photographs of people who died at work.These public servants, who have no budget yet for this year and are operating under a continuing resolution from a dysfunctional Congress, are used as punching bags by a workforce which it has made to be one of the safest in the world; that is, when OSHA

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Your vote has a bigger impact in local and midterm elections. There are lots of important issues that affect your daily life. Don't wait for 2012!Registration information here. Most states require you to register in October for November elections. Check your state's rules here.Get your absentee ballot - information here.'

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I found it really disappointing that the County is doing such a lousy job getting out information about early voting. The latest Paperless Airplane covers voter registration, which expired in August, not the ongoing primary. Primary voting information is not an option on the menu at 240-777-8683 (VOTE), although you have to take the extra time to listen to them assure you that the options are

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No cities in Maryland make the top 50 of census returns. That means when it's time to decide how many representatives on Congress, how much federal money for metro, how many pothole fills, how many school lunches, Maryland may not get its fair share.Currently, Virginia and Pennsylvania have slightly better return rates. C'mon Maryland! Return your census!

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Last year, more than 700,000 Marylanders lost their homes to foreclosure when health bills bankrupted them. Insurance companies did that to Marylanders.See what health reform does for Marylanders here.

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Gun owners increase their risk for injury and expense when they injure themselves and their families. No evidence indicates that it increases safety. Not only that, but more often than not, they don't have the money to pay for their health care from the injury! Government health care and your insurance premiums finance their carelessness. Ironic that self-declared libertarians depend on the

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King's next project, after public accomodations and voting rights, was going to be economic equality. His work remains unfinished.Read his speeches and realize you can replace his descriptions of fairness and aspirations to any marginalized groups: immigrants, gays and poor.Here is a speech given in response to King's death by Bobby Kennedy in Indianapolis, Indiana: a city that responded with NO

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Breast cancer screening has risks - risks of exposure to unnecessary procedures like biopsies, that have risks of their own. When healthy women get biopsied and the biopsy goes wrong - produces infection and scarring, for example - the risks outweigh the benefits. That is why asymptomatic healthy women with no risk factors for cancer who are under 50 might not need screening. Women who have

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T.R. Reid explains healthcare in five capitalist economies.PBS Frontline Sick Around the World by TR Reid.In Sick Around the World, FRONTLINE teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies -- the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland -- deliver health care, and what the United States might learn from their

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Obama makes an unannounced visit today to Viers Mill Elementary School.Right wing wackos commenting on WaPo hope the diverse group of little children don't grow up to VOTE!

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From UMd Terp magazine (Fall 2009):A new book by a Maryland alumnus, sportswriter and devoted Terps football fan chronicles the team’s history, from the first game in 1892 to its successes under coach Ralph Friedgen today.John McNamara ’83 uses words, historic photos and replicas of rare memorabilia to create a vivid scrapbook of sorts titled “The University of Maryland Football Vault: The

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They get rich making junk cars, junk bonds and junk insurance policies On April 14, 1994, the executives of America's seven largest tobacco companies came before Congress and each testified that tobacco was not addictive. On November 18, 2008, auto executives flew to Washington on private jets to testify that they needed taxpayer bailouts. “We’re all slashing back” on non-essential expenses, they

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Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

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Jesus apparently took some convincing that he should cast his pearls before swine, or in this case, his bread to the dogs, to make health care accessible.“But Lord,” said the lowly Canaanite woman. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.” Jesus was pleased by her understanding. “Woman, you have great faith!” he said, astonishing the disciples. The disciples watched

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Obama at College Park on Health care reform.

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FDA Commissioner Hamburg today:Compliant industry should support these intitatives that will prevent them from being undercut by firms taking illegal shortcuts:15 days for FDA to issue Warning Letters. Warning letters will no longer be held waiting for firms to respond.No GC reviews unless the case presents a novel legal issue. The Bush adminsitration policy of having letters reviewed by

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The FDA food safety law is written by Big Commercial Farms to keep FDA out of dirty Food, Inc.Find out what food safety requirements didn't pass here and here, here thanks to the commercial farms that contaminate the animals we eat.Findlaw on Food Safety: In the wake of recent food recalls, foodborne illnesses, and reports of unhygienic food processing conditions noted in some factories, the U.S.

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It's true the IRS received the highest ratings since 1956, at 40%. However, confidence in FDA is even lower, at 38%. "The Environmental Protection Agency, Internal Revenue Service, and Food and Drug Administration fall a notch lower in the rankings, as close to 40% of Americans give each of them credit for doing an excellent or good job. The relatively low ranking of the FDA is of particular note

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Corrections can't happen overnight, but the facade that self-regulation works continues to crumble...Mylan selling drugs that don't meet manufacturing specifications: Reuters.FDA lets years go by between inspections: Chcago Tribune

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Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander has failed to connect two serious reader complaints of uncorrected "Pay to Play" journalism.One scandal occurs where Post owner Katharine Weymouth invites politicians and power brokers to an off-the-record party at her home (she called them "Salons" as if it were a bona fide Algonquin Rountable). The Ombudsman finally reveals on Sunday that for weeks

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In Montgomery County our district is represented by legislators in their first terms, including a state legislator and an at-large councilman. Roger Manno has a 100% pro-environmental rating by the Maryland League of Conservation Voters and Environment Maryland. He received a perfect environmental score for the 2008 Legislative Session. This is Manno's second straight year scoring 100%, making

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John McNamara's second book on the Maryland Terrapins drops today.His first book is Cole Classics!, which sold out.UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND HISTORY DETAILED IN FOOTBALL VAULT®The legends and magic moments of Maryland football down through the years has been uniquely captured in words, historic photographs and replica memorabilia over the 144 pages of the University of Maryland® Football Vault®: The

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Frontline: Tyson's corner and Tyson's chicken are killing the Chesapeake Bay.So is Purdue Chicken. Standard Purdue contracts say the company owns the chicken, their feed, and their feeding regimen. They won't take ownership of the chickensh*t that is creating "dead zones" killing fish and crabs and other Bay life.Tyson's corner - as large as Boston or Phoenix, "a case study in harmful impact of

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Today marks the second anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre (32 dead).Slate explains why teddy bears and candles is not a healthy gun policy, and exposes the NRA's fundraising ploy to lie about the existence of President Obama's "10 Point Plan To 'Change' the Second Amendment" in a plan that boosts the number of donations and the number of the dead.

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More information about companies who audited Peanut Corporation of America and looked the other way because cost was more important than their customer's lives.Nestlé's Inspectors Saw Rat Droppings, Rejected PeanutsNestlé USA, considering whether to buy ingredients from Peanut Corporation of America, twice sent its own inspectors to check out the company. Both times, they rejected the company

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Compliance officers have noticed. See the article March 20 on Law.com.Chevy Chase Bank passed by the get-rich-quick schemes, just as it did in the 1980s when the Republican Keating Five brought down the American Savings & Loans. The reason? - SnLs were issuing the same kind of "liar loans" that brought on the financial crisis today. Those loans would never be paid back and the institutions

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The gold standard in the regulated product industry, The Gold Sheet (Vol 43, No 1) has some advice for Regulatory and Quality staff. (RAQA are those staffers who told Peanut Corp of America that it would be illegal and dangerous to sell deadly contaminated peanut butter. ) Last month's Gold Sheet says death and jail is not enough to stop criminal profiteers - RAQA now has to show how complying

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When a product tests out of its specification, the product must be quarantined. That is why specifications exist.The peanut butter made by the Peanut Butter Corporation of America tested positive for salmonella. It should have been quarantined.That doesn't mean it can never be used. The manufacturer can investigate the cause under a plan. The manufacturer can find out what was the root cause of

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Compare the Senate and House stimulus plans:The Democrats in the House propose to increase spending to help poor, and to save schools and public works projects that have suffered under the tax cuts and silly stimulus packages that have gotten us into this mess. The Senate wants to pay us to shop for houses and cars, buying more environmentally harmful junk from companies and banks who can use

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Nope. That's not a misprint. The Post today covers an incident of police incompetance, ineffectiveness, and lies in todays Magazine. It's just one example. The overuse of paramilitary forces occurs regularly in the US and our own neighborhoods - 16 botched raids in VA, 8 in MD, and 2 in DC.In this case, the government lied about having a no-knock warrant.They lied about having any warrant at

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Michael Steele was hand-picked as a poster boy for Republican diversity by Karl Rove and Dick Cheney. Rather than admit what were his principles to voters, he lied to Maryland voters when he ran for Senate in 2006.WaPo: "A fuller picture has emerged about how the plan to capture blacks' votes unfolded -- details that suggest the fliers, and the people paid to distribute them, were not part of a

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Just days after the inauguration, exciting projects that had been frozen for political reasons - even after researchers answered all safety and efficacy questions - are now underway.One project has the promising goal "to achieve restoration of spinal cord function by the injection of hESC-derived oligodendrocyte progenitor cells directly into the lesion site of the patient's injured spinal cord."

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Sarah Palin is setting down roots in Virginia. She selected the newly battleground state as the one in the Lower 48 to start her bid for the Presidency in 2012.SarahPAC, which submitted its filings in November, chose Virginia as its headquarters. Emily Buchanan of Arlington, an anti-choice volunteer for McCain, is listed as the treasurer. Melissa Graeff of the same anti-choice group, a Bob Jones

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The oath of office of the President, dictated by the Constitution, is 35 words long and reads: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."There never was a "So help me God." Historians have searched for support for the urban

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WSJ: The new Acting Commissioner is Food and Drug Administration Chief Scientist Frank Torti.Dr. Frank Torti, the FDA's science chief, is set to become its acting commissioner. President-elect Barack Obama and his transition team could announce a permanentappointee to lead the FDA in the next three weeks, sources said. Wall Street Journal, (subscription required) (01/12) William Gimson III, chief

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WSJ: Now the outsider [from Ralph Nader's Health Research Group] is going inside, mirroring a larger shift in the Washington pendulum toward tougher company regulation. To the consternation of the drug industry, Dr. Wolfe has been appointed to a four-year term on the FDA's Drug Safety and Risk Management Committee, which plays a key role in telling the agency which drugs are safe.What's more, he

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Sarah Palin says she didn't know Katie Couric would be so mean. And when she was, her handlers still made her answer more questions!Before she was tapped, Sarah said Hillary should have expected tough coverage.Palin: "When I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism or, you know, maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I

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In the interest of historical accuracy, stereotypes not modified:By George WandellTwas Christmas Eve in the Bronx; in the old tenement,Not a family was moving, they'd all paid their rent.The landlord was rubbing his hands gleefully,As he gazed, with delight, at his big Christmas tree.The cop in the corner, ever ready for graft,Moved about quite uneasily; afraid of the draft.Up the stairs tramped

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Send your own ElfYourself eCards

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The Tai Lam memorial spot in downtown Silver Spring on Sunday evening.Arrest made in murder of Tai Lam.County police arrest Takoma Park manBy Kiera Zitelman, Online Editor-in-Chief 11/08/2008See also the stories here and here.Around 7 p.m. on Friday, Montgomery County police arrested Hector Mauricio Hernandez, 20, of Takoma Park, for the murder of Blair freshman Tai Lam, according to Lieutenant

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Election Day is this Tuesday, November 4. If you have any problems at the polls, call the Maryland ACLU Election Day Hotline: 1-888-496-ACLU (2258).Virginia voter information is here (English and Spanish).You have rights: Every worker who's eligible to vote has the right to be absent from work if your schedule would otherwise leave you unable to vote at the polls (see Voter Empowerment Card for

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Oops. Joe Wurzelbacher is Charles Keating's brother in law. That's Charles Keating, the man who with McCain's help destroyed Savings and Loans in America. Mr. Keating's son-in-law is Robert Wurzelbacher, a senior vice president of American Continental, Lincoln savings and Loan's parent company, the American Continental Corporation.LATimes: The issue: Probably the biggest political embarrassment

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"Despite what some Republicans would like Catholics to believe, the list of what the church calls "intrinsically evil acts" does not begin and end with abortion. In fact, there are many intrinsically evil acts, and a committed Catholic must consider all of them in deciding how to vote."Although much of Catholic leadership has forsaken other moral principles for the single one that woman can

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The economist who calls today's GOP "The party of stupid" won the Nobel prize in economics Monday. Winner Paul Krugman, Princeton University scholar and New York Times columnist, was recognized for his analysis of how economies of scale can affect international trade patterns.Tore Ellingsen, a member of the prize committee, said, "We disregard everything except for the scientific merits."

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John McCain's War hero/Maverick facade crumbles, thanks to Rolling Stone. Headline quote by HL Mencken.HL Mencken also has a quote for the "W in lipstick":"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the

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Palin defended the government’s $700 billion rescue plan. She defended the surge in Iraq, where her own son is now serving. She defended sending more troops to Afghanistan. And yet, at the same time, she declared that Americans who pay their fair share of taxes to support all those government-led endeavors should not be considered patriotic.NYTimes Thomas Friedman says: I only wish she had been

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WaPo Saturday surprised no one when they admitted that "Sen. John McCain and his Republican allies are readying a newly aggressive assault on Sen. Barack Obama's character, believing that to win in November they must shift the conversation back to questions about the Democrat's judgment, honesty and personal associations, several top Republicans said."With John Kerry in 2004, they had counted on

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Gwen Ifill is no debate moderator. The conditions of a debate are that debators agree to answer the questions posed. If they want to answer other questions, they can pay the media, or lock out the people asking pesky questions, or call on hand selected or planted "reporters." Sarah Palin was allowed to use the debate as her own commercial. Ifill never interrupted, never steered her back to the

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WaPo: Quentin Algood, the owner of [email host] ITS Alaska, said a discreet e-mail system was created from an old campaign account, with access confined to "a group of people, her closest confidants and co-workers and advisers and the person she sleeps with."It also raises more questions about Palin's record of commingling the official and personal. The Yahoo inbox posted on the Internet

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John McCain's fans - rich people who know that McCain's tax plan (but not Obama's) will raise middle-class taxes to pay for the rich - are hiding their real interests behind a race-baiting ad by the Swiftboaters who brought you Willie Horton.I hope they know what they are doing. Lee Atwater was punished for this wickedness with a brain tumor.A dying Atwater said: "It is very important to me that

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Will Barack Obama raise taxes?Rich people, who pay experts - and campaign contributions - to track these things, know what John McCain won't tell you. Barack Obama will lower your taxes, unless you make $230,000 or more a year. John McCain will raise taxes on poor and middle-class Americans. The non-partisan Tax Policy Center separated fact from fiction.WaPo: Obama's plan gives the biggest cuts

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The Press has been giving the lies of McCain Palin a free ride.Tom Toles: McCain had to go on the View before a "reporter" asked him a tough question. Watch!

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As McCain/Paliin continues his phoney outrage on "Lipstick on a pig."Meanwhile, few press outlets add substance behind the reports of phoney outrage, and McCain/Palin get free advertising and a free pass to run out the elction clock - more time when they don't have to talk about Iraq.McCain's treatment of women is filled with abhorrent behavior and heinous language. After he called his wife a

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Are you wondering whether Sarah Palin supported the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska?WAPO says Palin is lying:" Palin did at one time support the Bridge to Nowhere, and the $223 million earmarked for the project was sent to Alaska. Some of it was used for other state projects, about $40 million was used to build an access road to the now-scrapped bridge project and $73 million is sitting in an account

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After all, Jesus was a Community Organizer. Pontius Pilot was a governor.The Catholic community who sponsored his work responded this way:Catholic Democrats is expressing surprise and shock that Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's acceptance speech tonight mocked her opponent's work in the 1980s for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. She belittled Democratic presidential

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Political Cartoonist Matt Davies says Republicans broke it. He hit the nail on the head.(click here to view)Matt DaviesJournal NewsSep 5, 2008EditorialCartoonists.com

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In public, John McCain calls his wife a "trollup" and a "c*nt"John McCain admits he's not knowledgable enough to be president, then he denies he says it.Raw story peeks into a new book by Curt Schecter: Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail

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Sarah Palin, mayor of a town of 6,000, with 20 months experience as Alaska governor, is asking you to make her a heartbeat away from the Presidency.John McCain is 72 years old.His father died at 71.His grandfather (right) died at 61.President Sarah Palin?According to a Harvard study, men born in the United States die on average at the age of 74. POWs and melanoma patients like McCain have a

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A week ago, Sarah Palin didn't know what the Vice President does. "What exactly is it that the VP does every day?" Now she is asking for your vote.Meanwhile, Palin's past has some disturbing parallels to Dick Cheney's.* A scapegoating, firing, and influence peddling story that reminds us of the the Jim Wilson/Scooter Libby scandal.* Oil company shill and global warming deny-er.Alaskans call her

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From Monica Goodling engaged in criminal activity in appointing the country's lawyers based on why they "want to service George Bush," to Republicans insulting minorities everywhere by suggesting the intellect of Clarence Thomas is the best intellectual heft they have to offer the country, legal appointments in the US have reached historic low. While the crimes continue, the effect this has on

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In 2007, Exxon/Mobil earned $1,300 a second.For the second quarter of 2008, Exxon Mobil reported record quarterly earnings of $11.97 billion on total revenues of $138 billion.That 2Q 2008 profit works out to $1,485.55 a second.

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We've already seen the attack machine start on Joe Biden, bringing up charges that he committed plagarism when he described his childhood using facts from Neil Kinnick. He had mentioned Kinnick in previous speeches, but this one time he used the first person ("I") and did not credit Kinnick.Biden had brain aneurysms at the time.See the Biden story on YouTube.

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"so his experience is essentially that of a lawyer and a state legislator. There hasn't been this empty a résumé for a presidential candidate since, uh, hmm. Abe Lincoln. Lawyer and state legislator. Whoa, and they're both from Illinois! It's almost as though God Himself is endorsing ..."You might say times were simpler then, and experience less important. Do you mean times like the dizzying

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How much do you know about Carol McCain, the wife of John McCain before Cindy? She now lives in Virginia Beach."[T]here is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator's presidential campaign. Had events turned out differently, it would be she, rather than Cindy, who would be vying to be First Lady. She is McCain's first wife, Carol, who was a famous beauty and a successful

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For Memorial Day:The next day, Thursday, May 31, 2007, he sat in the heat on a distant tombstone, waiting until he could finish the rest of his work. Just after twelve o'clock, the first people arrived: a vanload of nine honor-guard soldiers up from Fort Knox, dressed in their green Class-A uniforms, with knotted ties and berets. Collins had seen them practicing and pointing at various spots in

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From AP:In a shocking turnabout, the press secretary most known for defending President Bush on Iraq, Katrina and a host of other controversial issues produced a memoir damning of his old boss on nearly every level — from too much secrecy to a less-than-honest selling of the war to a lack of personal candor and an unwillingness to admit mistakes.In the first major insider account of the Bush

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As it did in the run-up to the first US debacle in the Middle East of this century, the Washington Post is putting the pro-War propaganda on Syria and Iran on the front page. Why? War sells papers! Unlike the past, it does include information that challenges the administration. However the facts are buried today on page A12. Here it is: "Missing Evidence in the U.S. Presentation:" "The Bush

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STOP IT.I say this as a first-grade student in the year Hillary graduated from college. When everyone said they wanted to be President, I said so too. Even teachers laughed. Imagine the power that gave to the students to deflate the dreams of elementary school girls.Imagine the derision aimed at the smart, accompished, promising women of Wellsley in 1969, the same year. The year Hillary

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This week, a Beijing court sentenced human rights activist Hu Jia to 3 1/2 years in prison for subverting state authority and to one additional year's loss of his "political rights." He was arrested in part for co-authoring, with Teng Biao, an open letter on human rights. The Washington Post prints Human Rights Watch's translation of the Sept. 10, 2007, letter descriing the imprisonment, torture,

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FDA has user fees to review drug applications but this administration has forced budget cuts that have decimated it's ability to inspect manufacturing plants not just for drugs, but for devices, biological products, food, and veterinary medicine. FDA inspectors wait until the agency can bundle up foreign establishment inspections, and then only give FDA inspectors a few days in each site to

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According to the NY Times, John Edwards' policies are running for President. Ironically, Universal Health Care may be more his legacy than Obama's or even Clinton's. As the architect of these policies, Edwards deserves a place to bring them to reality. He has the ability and courage to do this. To understand the extent of the Edwards effect, you have to think about what might have been.At the

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Toxins, Trailers and Unsafe Toys allowed by the administration: Delay Of Report Is Blamed On PoliticsCHICAGO -- The lead author and peer reviewers of a government report raising the possibility of public health threats from industrial contamination throughout the Great Lakes region are charging that the report is being suppressed because of the questions it raises. The author also alleges that he

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The media coronated Hillary early on ("Hillary Looks Like a Winner") when she won New Hampshire and Michigan. Clearly they were hoping for the ratings and circulation that would be created by a Hillary bash-fest, just as William Randolph Hearst hoped when he told his photographers "You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war." In January, Hillary was "the winner in the race for coverage."

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Good stories here on DKos.DKos Maryland here.Sample ballot here. League of Women Voters info here.Montgomery County Dems site here. Voter info here.Where is the DCC sample ballot for our counties? Does anyone know?

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Any two of these candidates will make a winning Prez-VP ticket, but for those who want to chose their favorite, the NYT election guide 2008 stacks their positions side by side to make a comparison easier than before. Here are the highlights for Edwards, Clinton, and Obama. The NYT analysis includes all the candidates from both parties.Before we get to that, here's a humorous observation from the

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A round up of reasons for Edwards supporters to celebrate:Charlotte (NC) Observer: Edwards was "heavily outspent by his top rivals... Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York are each expected to have spent more than $20 million in Iowa. Reports suggest Edwards could end up spending less than $15 million."Money aside ... [a] candidate who comes out on top -- or even provides the biggest

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China, the country that tortures monks, and the US, the country that tortures just about anyone else, joined forces to protect those who pollute and poison the world's residents at the Greehouse Gases Reduction Conference in Bali this week.When unauthorized parallel meetings were held at the Conference of 187 countries, leader Yvo de Boer, not known for his emotion, was overcome by jet lag and

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BRAC concentrates traffic, funding headaches while removing our soldiers from communities around the countryGAO: Military Base Realignments and Closures: Estimated Costs Have Increased and Estimated Savings Have Decreased, by Brian J. Lepore, director, defense capabilities and management, before the Subcommittee on Readiness, House Committee on Armed Services. GAO-08-341T, December 12.

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Congress has enacted 125 statutes giving the FDA new or expanded responsibilities since 1988, without any new funding to cover the extra work. HuffPo has the story.An FDA advisory board concluded the situation is dire. "FDA's inability to keep up with scientific advances means that American lives are at risk," the report concluded. A report by the Institute of Medicine in 2006 reached the same

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Stem cell research relied on a few donations from fertility clinics that would otherwise be incinerated. Couples undergoing in vitro fertilization have an option when their treatment is finished to donate their embryos to other couples, and many do. But some just can't face the prospect of a genetic child of their own "out there," and yet still want to help others, for example, by making a

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On the Animal Rescue Site and other related sites in the tab at the top of the page, you can make sure a donation is made every day, for example to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on the Purple Box 'fund food for animals' for free. This doesn' t cost you a thing.Corporate sponsors and advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate to

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Are immigrants paying taxes so you don't have to? Apparently so.Hat Tip to Tom Paine.[Texas] Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn was quick to point out that this was the first time any state agency in the country presented "a comprehensive financial analysis of the impact of undocumented immigrants on a state’s budget and economy, looking at gross state product, revenues generated, taxes paid and

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Are Administration scientists the only ones who aren't reading the data?Talking to your kids about anything is a great idea, and talking to them about sex is an even better idea. However, telling them to wait until marriage may not only get them to roll their eyes and tune out, but studies show those who pledge to wait till marriage merely exchange vaginal intercourse for more risky behavior.

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Tom Davis: one lonely "Bushie." Now can we get the Washington Post to stop calling him a "moderate"? He has crossed party lines to vote against corruption less than 10% of the time.

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Burton J. Howard, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry's (now FDA) microchemical laboratory, is shown in the right foreground in this photo from the 1920s. Howard developed a quantitative method to detect mold in ketchup that proved to be indispensable in establishing food adulteration in court. Grover Norquist was realizing his dream to "drown government in a bathtub" when he lobbied Congress to

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RAPS’ Washington/Baltimore Metropolitan Area Chapter is pleased to announce a Summer Happy Hour Network Event.This event provides an opportunity to informally meet other RAPS members in the area in a casual atmosphere. Chapter leaders have asked several local industry representatives and others in the area of drug and device development/regulations to join us. This is an unofficial event, but we

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Only one side of the street of downtown Silver Spring is renovated, while the other side contains an ugly hulking space of the old JC Penney building. There is a huge outpouring of support for the anticipated arrival in the space for the Birchmere, shown by groups like silverspringforward.org.The latest news is the county has cancelled its negotiations with the Birchmere for the space, according

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YouTube - John Edwards on Climate Change here.

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Thanks to A Blog Around the Clock, we have an interview with Presidential candidate John Edwards on the science issues we face today, from NASA and climate change to the issues of bio-terrorism.In honor of LiveEarth, here is his clip of how we should turn climate change into economic opportunity, just as we did during the environmental movement in the 1970s. When the establishment responded to

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This week, Mitt Romney was outed as cruel to animals when he exposed what should have been the beloved family dog to unimaginable stress in a crate on top of his car during a long highway road trip.Today the Post reports more problems for another Republican Presidential hopeful, Rudy Giuliani.Giuliani, still trying to take advantage of being christened "America's mayor" not by New Yorkers but by

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The Army has a new ad aimed at parents of young men, telling them to listen to their kids rather than discourage them from enlisting to go to the Middle East. In this diary I challenge them – and you – to listen to Mike’s story in honor of vets on Independence Day:You’d think living between Walter Reed, Fort Belvoir and Fort Meade, I’d have met more returned vets. I have met only a few. Mike has

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The Post today has a front page story continuing the series by Robert O'Harrow: Costs Skyrocket As DHS Runs Up No-Bid Contracts: $2 Million Security Project Balloons to $124 Million.What were Mr. and Mrs Tom Davis doing during this alarming cost run-up? Instead of letting GSA and the House Government Reform Committee do their jobs overseeing the contract, Davis was speaking before the same

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A Dose of Art and Entertainment Revives a SuburbBy EUGENE L. MEYER Published: June 13, 2007Photo by Steve Ruark for The New York Times Sara Nathan, right, and her son Seth, 3, cool off in a fountain in a newly redeveloped section of downtown Silver Spring. Md.SILVER SPRING, Md., June 12 — Washington’s first suburban shopping district had its heyday here in the 1950s, but as people moved farther

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While Henry Waxman is demanding accountability and explanation for the destruction of evidence, Tom Davis (R-VA) is adamently and bitterly defending his colleagues at the RNCC who deleted emails they shouldn't have sent and were required to retain.See also here. Davis's laughable excuses for Rove and company is even being spoofed by the Brits:"The fact they are entirely and totally missing simply

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Tom Davis defends Alberto Gonzales?Actually, he is defending the Alberto Gonzales of the General Services Administration,Lurita Alexis Doan.This is much smarter: not only is the spotlight is not as bright on GSA as it is on Justice, but GSA contractors are a lot more willing to pay politicians for access to the contracts GSA awards. Davis collects protection money from them, which he wouldn't get

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Tribute to Dad: Chapter 5 of his journal. All I've posted starts here and is tagged here . It will be updated as I have time.Upon returning from summer vacation to the fourth grade in Fishkill, N.Y. in 1948, the class was directed to write a description of the most significant event of their summer holidays. Since I had done very little of significance except weed my father's garden, mow the

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Tribute to Dad: Chapter 5 of his journal. All I've posted starts with this chapter and is tagged here. I will be updated as I have time.James A. ChambleeOn a beautiful spring day in 1972, I glanced out of my closed office window on the ground floor of the Federal Trade Commission building on Pennsylvania Avenue. Beyond the heating grates and the high hedge that provide a warm and secluded winter

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James Anderson Chamblee, 66, a retired computer scientist who founded a company that built concrete sailboats, died Thursday, August 18, 2005 of heart disease at Howard County General Hospital in Columbia. He was a resident of Columbia and Jekyll Island, Ga.Mr. Chamblee was born in Wilmington, N.C. In 1959, he went to work for IBM in New York, where he was part of a team that helped pioneer the

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Democratic Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., walks off stage with parting gifts, after speaking at a graduation ceremony for McLean High School, Wednesday, June 13, 2007, at Constitution Hall in Washington. McLean High School is located in McLean, Va. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) Hillary Clinton proved Virginia is "in play" in 2008 with the standing ovation before

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