Posted on October 4th, 2008 by Walter Brasch
by Walter Brasch
The vice-presidential debates proved one thing. At the very least, Sarah Palin can be trained.
For several days, she had camped out in one of John McCain’s Arizona houses, where she underwent Debate Boot camp conducted by drill instructors who make Marine DIs appear to be slaggers.
With a few “darns,” “betchas,” and “ya”s, Palin [...]
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Posted on September 25th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
At about 7:30am Pacific Barack Obama addressed the Clinton Global Initiative. After addressing his well known requirements of the financial bill being created in Washington D.C., he put forth other issues.
He committed, again, to a $15 Billion investment each year for 10 years, a total of $150 Billion, in energy research and development for alternative [...]
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Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Listening to Rudy Guiliani’s speech and the RNC chanting “Drill Baby Drill” just turned my stomach. Actually everything Rudy is saying is turning my stomach.
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Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
Finally back from my much needed summer break. Not sure if anyone really missed me, but I have to send a shout-out to all my chicas (and hombres) who had my back while I had my guard down.
Let’s jump right in, to today’s Ten Post Round-Up, why don’t we? The last few days have shed [...]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Darrell Prows
Hey McCain, let’s look at a quote from an article entitled “All eyes on India’s nuclear prize” at P. 32 of the August 4 issue of Business Week magazine. “India hasn’t signed a treaty that created a global fund to compensate victims of nuclear disasters, so reactor-builders in India would have to shoulder the responsibility…’GE [...]
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Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Al Gore wowed the “the Netroots Crowd” today at Netroots Nation. Here’s Part 1 of Al Gore at NetRoots Nation on video:
Egalia has more on Tennessee Guerilla Women.
Sphere: Related Content
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Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Al Gore gave an impassioned speech today in Washington, “laying out his new approach to the entwined challenges of limiting risks from global warming and instability from rising energy prices and declining supplies of fossil fuels.” Watch a clip from Al Gore’s speech here:
In his speech, Gore put forth a challenge to citzens and politicians in [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
Today WaPo reports that Senator John McCain unveiled two components of his energy plan yesterday in Santa Barbara, California.
“[...] , McCain (R-Ariz.) vowed to “put the purchasing power of the United States government on the side of green technology” by buying fuel-efficient vehicles for its civilian fleet of cars and trucks and by retrofitting federal [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
In today’s WaPo Dana Milbank uses his column to bite The Dark Lord, (no, not He-Who-Shall-Not-Be Named), VP Dick Cheney square on the ass while reporting also on Dennis Kucinch’s futile attempt to impeach George Bush. That effort died a quick death.
“Why so unwilling to impeach Bush? As Democratic leaders like to say, two words: [...]
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Posted on May 31st, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I know our readers are all focused on the DNC Rules Committee Meeting today, but I wanted to highlight another important issue in the news today…
California Senator Barbara Boxer gave the Democratic Radio Address today and she spoke about the urgent need for the U.S. to act on global warming before it’s too late. The Senate is scheduled [...]
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