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Thursday, May 15
Speaking of vote suppression and getting out the vote: Hondo, Texas
by
margieburns
on Thu 15 May 2008 08:31 AM EDT
Good news, forwarded from Texas, about the small border community of Hondo, Texas: From the Southwest Workers' Union. The items detailing various methods of vote suppression--including outright fraud to stop earnest citizens from voting--are alone worth the price of admission: " Hondo Voters Ready for REAL CHANGE!
With
record shattering turn out, the voters of Hondo, Texas elected 3
members of the Hondo Empowerment Committee (HEC) to the Hondo City
Council on May 10th. In an elections typically decided by less than 10%
of registered voters, the efforts of HEC and SWU turned out over 51%
(or 1,622) voters. ... more »
Wednesday, May 14
Some good shareholder proposals at ConocoPhillips
by
margieburns
on Wed 14 May 2008 06:31 AM EDT
Shareholders in ConocoPhillips (COP) have submitted some
excellent proposals for today’s shareholder meeting in Dallas,
beginning with the proposal quoted at length on recognizing the rights of
indigenous peoples.
In the interest of full disclosure: On my mother’s behalf, I
have voted our family’s (modest) block of shares in favor of the proposals
listed below, all of them formally opposed by company management. The number of
shares involved will not change company history. I am confident that I am
voting as my parents would have wished, but other shareholders less influenced by
family considerations would do well to support ... more »
Thursday, May 8
Will Al Gore finally weigh in, now that Hillary Clinton is openly race-baiting?
by
margieburns
on Thu 08 May 2008 06:10 PM EDT
Given Hillary Clinton's open espousal of 'white Americans,' if the official Democratic Party is indeed concerned to avert a disaster at the polls, surely this would be a good time for some of the remaining bigtime neutrals to weigh in. How can John and Elizabeth Edwards, and Al Gore, and others keep silence on the (nonexistent) 'race' for the Democratic nomination, at a time like this? Come to think of it, is Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean really somehow obligated to let this kind of thing--Clinton's open and explicit race-baiting--pass without any comment? If they want their party to ... more »
Clinton touts support from 'white Americans'
by
margieburns
on Thu 08 May 2008 02:30 PM EDT
I would not have believed it possible that Hillary Clinton's remarks could become much more ghastly, but she has now managed to plumb deeper: CNN.com reports that Clinton is now openly touting her support from 'whites' : "In what appear to be the New York senator's most blunt comments to date
regarding a racial division in the Democratic presidential race, Hillary Clinton
suggested Wednesday that "White Americans" are increasingly turning away from
Barack Obama’s candidacy.
"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," Clinton said in
an interview
with USA TODAY." It only gets worse:... more »
Wednesday, May 7
How long is the Clinton campaign going to run gun ads against Obama?
by
margieburns
on Wed 07 May 2008 02:03 PM EDT
How long is the Clinton
campaign going to run gun ads against Obama?
--As long as it takes?
Following Sen. Barack Obama’s large win over Sen.
Hillary Clinton in the North Carolina
primary and Clinton’s hairline win
over Obama in Indiana with help
from Rush Limbaugh dittoheads, come news reports of vandalism
incidents and bomb threats at Obama offices in Indiana.
MSNBC reports that
The bomb threats were made in a call to a Terre Haute television station. Lewis Robinson of the
Secret Service's Indianapolis office said the caller made threats against Obama offices in Terre ... more »
Monday, May 5
House Judiciary Committee, tomorrow: Rep. Nadler to Examine Legal "Basis" for Bush Interrogation Techniques
by
margieburns
on Mon 05 May 2008 09:11 PM EDT
Passed along from House Judiciary Comm.
I wish I could attend this hearing. One of the panelists, Philippe Sands, has written a dynamite-sounding book.
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ADVISORY: Rep. Nadler to Examine Legal "Basis" for Bush Interrogation Techniques
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Roussell, Melanie
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Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:15 PM
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CONGRESSMAN
JERROLD NADLER
8th Congressional District of New York
Rep. Nadler to Examine Legal “Basis” for Bush Interrogation Techniques
Lawmakers to Also Consider Subpoenas to Compel Testimony from Key Witnesses
FOR PLANNING PURPOSES: Monday, May 5, 2008
CONTACT: Shin Inouye, 202-225-5635 (Nadler)
Melanie Roussell, 202-226-5543 (Conyers)
Jonathan Godfrey, 202-226-6888 (Conyers)
WASHINGTON, D.C. – ... more »
Sunday, May 4
Fox News, Barack Obama, and Ignorance of Religion
by
margieburns
on Sun 04 May 2008 10:10 AM EDT
Fox News Sunday
today is relentlessly flogging the Reverend You-know-who. In its quest to
bring down Barack Obama, Fox has shifted tactics somewhat, allowing some
negative questions about Hillary Clinton into interviews—asking Terry McAuliffe, for
example, about several prominent members of the Clinton
administration who now support Obama. (McAuliffe’s answer: I cd give you a list
of thousands of former Clinton
people who still support Hillary Clinton. Fair enough.) Fox seems to be moving away from its relentless Hillary-boosting, gradually.
Chris Wallace harped on the Reverend throughout his
interviews with DNC chair Howard Dean, McAuliffe, and Rep. Joe Andrew, ... more »
Leading to Iraq: High crimes and misdemeanors. September, 2005.
by
margieburns
on Sun 04 May 2008 07:22 AM EDT
135th in continuing blog series on the administration push to war. With official Washington back in town after the August
hiatus, official investigations into the lead-up to the war gain a little
headway, although slowly.
September, 2005:
Sept. 9, 2005 – Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS),
Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, requests that the Office
of the Inspector General (OIG) in the Defense department investigate whether
the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy [generically called
‘office of special plans’ but not the official OSP] conducted “unauthorized,
unlawful or inappropriate intelligence activities.”
Sept. ... more »
Friday, May 2
The sad suicide of Deborah Jeane Palfrey
by
margieburns
on Fri 02 May 2008 10:52 AM EDT
The news yesterday that Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called 'DC madam,' hanged herself in a shed on her mother's property, was sad and rattling. I did not cover her trial in DC, did not sit in on any of it or follow it particularly closely. But somehow her suicide feels closer to me than it rationally, objectively is. That may be partly because I did write about her famous client list a few times, earlier. My main interest was what effect, if any, the attacks of September 11, 2001, had on her business patterns. Answer: if anything, the burgeoning defense ... more »
Thursday, May 1
House Judiciary Committee Investigates Rising Gas Prices
by
margieburns
on Thu 01 May 2008 08:20 AM EDT
Too bad May 6 [correction] will not be the date on which the public hears from former Attorney General John Ashcroft, Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff David Addington, and former Office of Legal Counsel attorney John Yoo. But there are other pressing issues besides the torture memos, and May 7 the House Judiciary Committee will commence hearings on gas prices. From the House Judiciary Committee: House Judiciary Committee Investigates Rising
Gas Prices for Americans and Rising Profits for Oil
Companies
(Washington,
DC)- House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr.
(D-MI) announced today that the Committee's Task Force on
Competition Policy ... more »
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