Tea Party Pac of the USA outsources fundraising overseas

This morning we find The Tea Party PAC is encouraging followers to visit a fundraising shop at http://www.cafepress.com/TheTEAPartyPAC Where The Tea Party PAC stands to rake in about $5 of profit every time a Hanes shirt made overseas is sold. …

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Crushes to get into Inaugural Route

At Constitution & 14th, people were being crushed against fences, the crowd was so thick.

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How Democracy Works in America

1. Wealthy socialite and daughter of former president declares interest in becoming United States Senator. 2. Wealthy socialite gets in touch with billionaire mayor of the Big Apple. 3. Billionaire mayor deploys top aide to contact powerholders across New York …

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What should Barack Obama ask of us?

I’m inclined to add a subtitle to this post: “…and why shouldn’t we all just go ahead and do it anyway?” In my ideal world, we Americans wouldn’t need a Dear Leader to tell us what we ought to do …

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Indications of Trouble in Ohio Voting?

Where I live in Franklin County, Ohio, lines were so long for the presidential election of 2004 that some people waited six hours in line to vote. Turnout in 2008 is expected to be even higher. How will things go …

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News Flash: Mortgage Corportation is now “Socialist”

Georgia Newsom of Sylva, North Carolina writes in today’s Asheville Citizen-Times against the candidacy of Barack Obama by pointing to what she calls “socialism”: “Why complain? Government intervention, especially Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, programs run by the government with …

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Diversity of Forms: Obama Gear Across States

Is this a sign that the Obama gear supply chain, like the Obama campaign generally, is locally based and responsive to what is locally wanted and available?,

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Prayer for What?

On the front page of today’s USA TODAY there’s a photograph of two women standing in a public square and praying. The New Testament tells Christians not to make spectacles of themselves in public demonstrations of prayer; nevertheless we see …

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Seven Days, Seven Syllables: Sum Up Bush

We have seven days, just seven days, until someone is elected to replace George W. Bush. In commemoration of that blissfully short time, can you sum up the Bush presidency in seven syllables?

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Columbus GOP organizer: Numbers Not Great

An organizer with the Columbus, Ohio GOP just emerged from the Capital Center where John McCain and Sarah Palin will appear later today. She came bearing a plie of t-shirts for sale at $20 apiece and told the fifty or …

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Rally Talk: Some Great Aides!

Overheard in line for the McCain-Palin rally here in Columbus, Ohio (110 minutes until doors open and twelve people are in line… Quel enthusiasm): “I don’t know who they have advising her, but whoever it is, they really need to …

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The Empty Line for McCain and Palin

When I went to the Columbus Barack Obama rally in February 2008, people began lining up the night before. Showing up two hours and ten minutes before the McCain-Palin rally here in Columbus, I hopped right to the front of …

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Violations of e-mail privacy, small and large

While John McCain’s campaign manager huffs and puffs over the fact that someone out there figured out Sarah Palin’s Yahoo password and read her e-mails, calling the affair a “shocking violation of the Governor’s privacy,” he remains mum on the …

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Book Review: Once Upon A Time in the North

As a follow-up to the successful His Dark Materials trilogy of novels (adapted disastrously to film last year as The Golden Compass), Philip Pullman has published a new story entitled Once Upon A Time in the North. Although the story …

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McCain and Palin Scrape for Ohio Audience

For a couple of days now, the presidential campaign of John McCain and Sarah Palin has been sending me e-mails urging me to come to Vienna, Ohio to help demonstrate support for their ticket. If I would sign up online …

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John Edwards Takes Early Lead in Iowa Democratic Caucus!

With 144 of 1781 precincts reporting, John Edwards has taken an early lead in the presidential caucuses for the Iowa Democrats! Here’s how the early count stands: Senator John Edwards : 34.51% Senator Hillary Clinton : 31.63% Senator Barack Obama …

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Environment Eclipses Peace As A Campaign Issue

The environment has passed peace as the frontrunner category in our effort. We’ve got 166 reasons to vote progressive in our Peace category, but our Environment category has surged ahead to 134.

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2,008 Reasons List Reaches 1000 Mark

As of today, our list of 2,008 reasons to elect a progressive President has reached the mark of 1,000. That’s 1,008 reasons left to go, with less than a month left. Oh, dear. Can we make it? Will we be …

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