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[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Though a substantial portion of its base is fervently against the Iraq War, the Democratic Party has gone to great lengths to express admiration for the troops. At a time when Democrats have been exhaustively courting moderates and independents, one of its candidates slinging mud at a veterans’

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[roger hollander] An Important Argument in Favor of Voting for Nader « roger hollander: Barack Obama’s vote to renew the Patriot Act, his votes to continue to fund the Iraq war, his backing of the FISA Reform Act, his craven courting of the Israeli lobby, his support of the death penalty, his refusal to champion universal, single-payer not-for-profit health care for all Americans, his call to increase troop levels and expand the war in Afghanistan, his failure to call for a reduction in the bloated and wasteful defense spending and his lobbying for the huge taxpayer swindle known as the bailout are repugnant to most of us on the left. Nader stands on the other side of all those issues.

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[The Caucus] From Pulpits of Ohio, a Mixed Message - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com: However, I also don’t understand why many in the pro-life movement support a war in Iraq and the death penalty. To me, this is one of the great mysteries in life.

[WSJ.com: Washington Wire - WSJ.com] Washington Wire - WSJ.com : Down the Homestretch: Michigan’s ...: Walberg won the district by a surprisingly thin margin in 2006, given that his opponent was an underfunded organic farmer. The National Republican Congressional Committee has funneled its limited resources into playing defense here, but Jackson, in the district’s southeastern corner, has been decimated by the financial crisis, and Walberg’s hands-off policies might not be what this district wants.

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[Just Foreign Policy News] Just Foreign Policy News » Blog Archive » Just Foreign Policy News ...: "Human Rights Watch called on the U.S. government to ensure that detainees are not in danger of being tortured by establishing a mechanism that would provide each detainee with a genuine opportunity to contest a transfer to Iraqi custody, and by verifying the conditions of Iraqi detention facilities to which they could be transferred, through inspections whose results are made public," said the statement.

[Pop + Politics] Pop + Politics : Blog Archive : Afternoon Nibbles: Daily News Roundup: The Democratic presidential nominee’s lead dropped from 10 percentage points to eight since last week, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Both candidates are continuing to campaign hard right through to the end, .

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[bastard.logic] US Labour Unions Tackle Racism « bastard.logic: More from The Politico on the efforts of union leaders to proactively confront racism among their own membership as the US heads into an historic election with a POC at the top of the Democratic Party ticket. h/t Donna .