I never met Paul Wellstone, and never had the privilege to vote for him, but I admired him a great deal. He was a constant fighter for what he believed in, a tireless champion for those of us who could not fight for ourselves, and an inspiration. He literally restored my faith in elections in [...]
Archive for October 25th, 2002
Rest In, Peace Paul Wellstone
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Wellstone is Dead
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CNN.com – Senator, family killed in Minnesota plane crash – Oct. 25, 2002 God d*mn it, this is not fair: Minnesota (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife and a daughter died Friday in a small plane crash near Eveleth, Minnesota, Democratic sources said. The sources said three staff members and two crew members [...]
Drug Company financed test may not reveal truth
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There are no guarantees that studies paid for by drug compnaies are honest, accurate, or will even see the light of day: •Researchers rarely were allowed a say in the design of the clinical trials, with only 10 percent of contracts covering how data is collected and monitored and only 5 percent covering how data [...]
Bush Endorses McBride!
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Daily Kos: Bush endorses McBride Bill McBride, the Democratic nominee for governor, has bagged the biggest endorsement of his campaign: Republican Gov. Jeb Bush. “He really is one of the great Floridians of our time,” Bush says of McBride — the same opponent the governor has been attacking as a “reckless corporate lawyer” in ads [...]
The important names from the shootings
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Tim form Road to Surfdom reminds us who the important names (stupid permalinks are down. Look for the post entitled “Shootings -Day its over) from the sniper case really are: The second point I wanted to make was simply to remind us of those who were killed: Go read the entire list, and the snippets [...]
Is Invading Iraq a Humanitarian gesture?
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After announcing that the war will begin in eight weeks, Hoagland goes on to say that Bush needs to make the case in clear terms. Since Hoagland likes Bush, he figured he would be nice and try and do it for him. The article is pretty mush the same arguments that we have failed to [...]
Krauthhammer spins again
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This is not true: One of the proudest achievements of the Clinton administration was the Agreed Framework with North Korea. Clinton assured us that it froze the North Korean nuclear program. North Korea gave us a piece of paper promising to freeze; we gave North Korea 500,000 tons of free oil every year and set [...]
Allard in bribe scandal?
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Denver Post.com – Allard request raises eyebrows This is why we need publicly financed campaigns. Even if Allard did nothing wrong, the situation certainly looks suspicious: U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard pushed for a delay in accounting reform days after accepting campaign money from the three big accounting firms that fiercely opposed the new rules, federal [...]
Bush's rules would increase pollution
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Not that this is a surprise, but a consultant for the EPA says that the new pollution rules Bush favors would add pollution: Air pollution from oil refineries and factories would increase under new rules the Bush administration is preparing, according to two new studies by a consultant used by the Environmental Protection Agency. The [...]
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