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Close Guantanamo Now!

I’ve had a day today. One of those days where I didn’t get much accomplished but I did remember to wear ORANGE because today, JANUARY 11, 2008, is the six-year anniversary of the first arrival of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay and the ACLU has called for a national day of protest.
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Dodd Says He Will Filibuster FISA

Yesterday, Senator Chris Dodd sent out an email sent he was putting a hold on the FISA legislation. Today he took it a step further announcing “he is prepared to go to the Senate floor and filibuster.” It’s awesome that he’s willing to stand up and fight the FISA bill. Watch the video:

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Twisted Political Appointment: Birth Control Foe to Run Office on Family Planning

On Monday, Bush appointed Susan Orr to “be acting deputy assistant secretary for population affairs.” Talk about your twisted political appointment, Orr, in a “2001 article in The Washington Post, Orr applauded a Bush proposal to stop requiring all health insurance plans for federal employees to cover a broad range of birth control. “We’re quite [...]