The Foreign 4-Propylbenzaldehyde Mystery

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There are seven commercial suppliers of the industrial chemical 4-Propylbenzaldehyde in the United States of America. They are: 3B Scientific Corporation Honest Joy Holdings Rieke Metals, Inc. Oakwood Products, Inc. Riedel-de Haen AG Platte Valley Scientific, LLC ASDI Incorporated Why, …

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An Ajudicative Bedtime Story

All across the land, children are settling down to bed. For them, we offer this audio recording, for the very first time anywhere online, of An Ajudicative Bedtime Story

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Liberal Alternatives To Kirsten Gillibrand

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Kirsten Gillibrand is facing challenges from two liberal candidates in the 2012 U.S. Senate race in New York.

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Most House Democrats Won’t Support Strong Climate Action

In October, Representative Peter Stark introduced the Save Our Climate Act, H.R. 3242, which would create a carbon tax. Only a handful of Democrats are supporting the legislation.

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Arizona Law Would Make It Against The Law To Annoy Or Offend People. It Offends Me, Therefore…

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If you call someone in Arizona on the telephone, or send an email to someone in Arizona that annoys or offends that person, a warrant can be put out for your arrest, and the next time you cross the Arizona state line, you can be tossed into court and have a conviction placed on your permanent record.

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Four Senate Democrats Defend Subsidies For Big Oil

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The next time the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee calls you up asking for money, ask them what they’re doing about these Democratic Senators who are sitting in Big Oil’s pocket: Mark Begich, Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson and Jim Webb.

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Sherrod Brown Plays the People of Ohio for Chumps with his Indefinite Detention Betrayal

On the issue of indefinite detention Senator Sherrod Brown has played the people of Ohio for chumps. The question is whether the people of Ohio will roll over like trained dogs and ask for more of the same. Sherrod Brown: …

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Pipelines Preserved But Glaciers Going In Glacier National Park

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Communities near Glacier National Park need the natural gas that comes through that pipeline, but they also need the water that comes from the glaciers on the nearby mountains. When those glaciers are gone, where are they going to get their drinking water?

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2 Republicans Join 35 Democrats on H.R. 4192, Bill to Overturn Indefinite Detention

On restoring constitutional rights, bipartisanship is only MOSTLY dead. Quick, someone fetch a chocolate-covered nut.

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Perhaps the Most Unfortunately Titled Bill in the 112th Congress is…

… the Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act of 2012 (H.R. 4120). Can you do better?

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Huge Majority of U.S. House Votes to Criminalize Protest Against any Visiting World Leader

Is the Democratic Party the party of civil liberty? Not anymore. Not if you judge by congressional Democrats’ action this past week in overwhelmingly passing H.R. 347, a bill that makes it a federal crime punishable by a year in …

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Congressional Democrats and Republicans Unanimous: Bring the Robot Drones to American Skies

On Valentine’s Day, while many Americans were obsessed with the decision between dark chocolate and milk chocolate, Barack Obama sat with his pen poised over H.R. 658, a bill with a stark impact lying beneath its bland title: “FAA Modernization …

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Marriage Equality Squished In New Jersey, Advanced In Maryland

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Good for Washington! Good for Maryland! Shame on Chris Christie. Gays and lesbians don’t have to get married if they don’t want to, and regressive grumps don’t have to like it if they don’t want to, but the choice to get married ought to be up to the people who are getting married.

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House Republicans Allow XL Pipeline Jobs to Leave America

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94 percent of the congressional GOP voted against keeping jobs in America. Thanks to those Republicans in Congress, jobs that could have gone to American steelworkers can all go to steel mills in foreign countries instead.

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Congress Voting To Blast US Environment With H.R. 7

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If H.R. 7 goes into effect, it will create a negative feedback loop in communities across America, with crumbling resources and a growing economic burden for families who already can’t make ends meet. Oil and gas corporations will benefit if H.R. 7 becomes law, but those corporations already are bringing in record profits. They don’t need our help.

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H.R. 3745, Putting All of a Credit Union’s Eggs in the Collection Basket

There’s a saying that’s popular among credit unions: “not for profit, not for charity, but for service.” Most people know that credit unions are non-profit organizations that return all their proceeds to members, distinguishing them from banks, institutions whose goal …

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Have You Forgotten Obama’s Broken Promise On Corporate Immunity From Prosecution?

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As Barack Obama prepares his re-election campaign, he is being haunted by his past dishonesty about the FISA Amendments Act. Rocky Anderson, presidential candidate for the Justice Party, is ready to remind voters of Obama’s broken promise.

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Jill Stein and Rocky Anderson Take Different Approaches To Opposing SOPA

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Jill Stein posted a short, stark graphic against the Stop Online Piracy Act. Rocky Anderson wrote a long essay against SOPA. Which tactic do you think was more effective?

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