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Sunday August 01, 2010 · 8:37 AM PDT

2010/08/01 · 08:37

On http://deadtreeedition.blogspot.com:... I read that the U.S. Postal Service declined The White House’s suggestion that it conduct a pilot test of five-day delivery, according to a document made public this week.

The pressure is coming from --surprise!--Dr. Lawrence Summers, Director of the White House National Economic Council.

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Wednesday July 21, 2010 · 7:24 AM PDT

2010/07/21 · 07:24

I received a letter today from the brave and resilient School of Americas Watch. I'll reprint an excerpt below, but the short version is that the church which has provided the bulk of the funding for their organization has dropped them because Father Roy Bourgeois, SOA director, supports the ordination of women!! (see more...)

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Saturday July 17, 2010 · 9:54 AM PDT

2010/07/17 · 09:54

heartbreak: can the Democratic base bear anymore?

yesterday I posted about the horrenous attacks on clinic providers.

Today the Obama admin has gone one further, to a place that let's admit it, a Hillary Clinton administration would never dare go (Hillary lived through the coathanger era; he didn't)...

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Obama is throwing pregnant women under the bus because

10 votes Vote Now!

Obama is throwing pregnant women under the bus because

he was born from an unplanned pregnancy and has no sympathy for abortion advocates

1 vote

his calculations are that the country is now against abortion

1 vote

he thinks he will win in 2012 despite the rage from women's groups

4 votes

he thinks Sarah Palin's anti-abortion rhetoric is working and he has to match it

3 votes

he is thumbing his nose at Hillary supporters

1 vote

disturbing appeal for help--where's the justice dept?

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Friday July 16, 2010 · 9:51 AM PDT

2010/07/16 · 09:51

I received an emergency letter from the "Feminist Majority" (I wonder sometimes if the title is true anymore).

With all the desperate appeals for funding from organizations (and friends), it made me wonder why we elected a Democratic President. Shouldn't it be the job of him and his Cabinet to enforce the law and protect reproductive health providers with protection from terroristic threats?

Read the letter and suggest what the Obama admin SHOULD be doing so that we don't feel stuck in the Bush admin playbook...

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obama, sebelius, and holder should

37 votes Vote Now!

obama, sebelius, and holder should

guarantee the safety of clinic workers

5 votes

labels these threats as terrorism and pursue criminal charges

27 votes

change the language around reproductive rights to protect women

1 vote

stay the course and abandon this cause

4 votes

remember the austin goolsbee imbroglio?

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Tuesday February 16, 2010 · 6:42 AM PST

2010/02/16 · 06:42

Now, I know the primary seems like a hundred years ago--and in "another country" as James Baldwin once said--but Mr Goolsbee, who was then a major economic advisor to Obama, got caught secretly assuring the Canadians that Obama supported "free trade," with its benefits to corporations for abandoning American workers and American industry, with its brutal crackdowns on organizing among foreign workers.
Needless to say, backtracking occurred, Hillary voiced her concern that NAFTA be modified, and it was laid to rest. For then.

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Obama will support fair trade not free trade

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Obama will support fair trade not free trade

when the cows come home

18 votes

when daily kos readers make it a priority

5 votes

when he gets as much money from us as from them

12 votes

never, he wants the democratic party to be a corporate party

28 votes

as soon as possible, he said he would and he will

4 votes

what lanny davis did

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Wednesday February 10, 2010 · 12:58 PM PST

2010/02/10 · 12:58

Remember Honduras, everybody? An impoverished Central American country where the elected President had the temerity to challenge the oligarchy and the corporate interests running sweatshops?

Remember how the Americans were the only country to accept an election run by the military coup? One of the only countries to keep its ambassador (a Bush appointee) in Honduras after the coup?

Remember how Senator DeMint flew down to advocate for the coup and how Lanny Davis' PR firm worked for the coup?

Well, here's what happened:

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Friday February 05, 2010 · 7:25 PM PST

2010/02/05 · 19:25

one of the things I love about the left blogosphere, and the Kos community particularly, is our generosity. Well here is a place we can make a difference as progressives...

and since I've received so many interesting and helpful comments, I'm reposting this appeal with new information--

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Friday December 25, 2009 · 5:58 PM PST

2009/12/25 · 17:58

Prepare to have your heart broken.
I've said this before: I beg you to read the following.
And then let the State Department and the Obama Administration--however you can--know what you think of their actions in Honduras.

http://upsidedownworld.org/...

"As a revolutionary I will be today, tomorrow
and forever on the front lines of my people,
all the while knowing that I may lose my life."
- Walter Trochez, 25, murdered in Tegucigalpa
on December 13.

The bodies of slain activists are piling up in Honduras. While it's being kept quiet in most Honduran and international media, the rage is building among a dedicated network of friends spreading the word quickly with the tragic announcement of each companero/a.

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The U.S. should withhold funding from Honduras regime

49 votes Vote Now!

The U.S. should withhold funding from Honduras regime

Immediately

14 votes

should have done it months ago

30 votes

but Lanny Davis said the coup was okay

2 votes

ooh--Venezuela might not support the coup so we should

3 votes

I read the news today oh boy

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Tuesday December 15, 2009 · 4:42 PM PST

2009/12/15 · 16:42

You may feel like your heart is breaking after what has happened with the war and healthcare and unemployment. I do. I don't want any more bad news. But I felt impelled to read the following at http://direland.typepad.com:

Walter Trochez, 25 years old, a well-known LGBT activist in Honduras who was an active member of the National Resistance Front against the coup d'etat there, was assassinated on the evening of December 13, shot dead by drive-by killers. Trochez, who had already been arrested and beaten for his sexual orientation after participating in a march against the coup, had been very active recently in documenting and publicizing homophobic killings and crimes committed by the forces behind the coup, which is believed to have been the motive for his murder. He had been trailed for weeks before his murder by thugs believed to be members of the state security forces.

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Wednesday October 28, 2009 · 4:35 PM PDT

2009/10/28 · 16:35

Paul Havens writes for the Associated Press that every country in the U.N (except Israel and Palau) voted today to condemn the US embargo of Cuba, the highest number of votes so far. Havens writes that Cuba's Foreign Minister Rodriguez likened the policy to "an act of genocide" that is "ethically unacceptable."

U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice reacted strongly, calling the Cuban diplomat's statements "hostile" and "straight out of the Cold War era."
"Here we go again," she said of Rodriguez's speech. "I suppose old habits die hard."

What should happen next, Kossacks?

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The U.S. should end the embargo against Cuba

35 votes Vote Now!

The U.S. should end the embargo against Cuba

when Cuban accepts predatory capitalism

2 votes

when the U.S. gets universal healthcare as they already have in Cuba

1 vote

never, we should remain the bullies of Latin America

2 votes

immediately, in order for Obama to deserve the Peace Prize

19 votes

by the end of Obama's first term, in case he doesn't win re-election

11 votes

investigative journalism is NOT dead...yet

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Tuesday October 06, 2009 · 1:11 PM PDT

2009/10/06 · 13:11

I'm wanting to make sure all Kos readers know about the websites of two incredible men who have been courageous pioneers in investigative journalism. They badly need our readership and support right now, so that there still IS some reporting outside of the wretched "wire services."

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I believe investigative journalism is

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I believe investigative journalism is

only available on the internet

5 votes

alive if we keep it alive

7 votes

the only salvation of our democracy

10 votes

gone for good

2 votes

when the men with guns came, I...

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Sunday August 16, 2009 · 7:51 AM PDT

2009/08/16 · 07:51

Progressives have been so gobsmacked (isn't that a great British term) by the healthcare shockers that we've neglected to follow the events in Central America. However, these events have great significance to us.
Here's why:

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lets try to stop this now

kossacks who care about women's equality needed

every day brings some new

disturbing appeal for help--where's the justice dept?

remember the austin goolsbee imbroglio?

what lanny davis did

locked out workers need our help

honduras--after the U.S. stopped trying

I read the news today oh boy

U.S. embargo of Cuba

investigative journalism is NOT dead...yet

when the men with guns came, I...