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On Presidents' Day, Words of Wisdom and Warning from the 4th President of the United States

Washington's Horrid Revolving Door Includes Former NHTSA Regulators Working for Toyota on NHTSA Issues

"A 'Win-Win' Solution to Airport Security and Health Care Reform Problems

Health Care "Reform" Disaster More Proof of Corporate Control of Federal Government

Disastrous Bush Regime May Be History, but "Pay More and Get Less" Privatization Schemes Continue Unabated

No Change, Just More of the Same: Corporate Lobbyists Still Dominate Washington

US Being Terrorized by a Vocal, Erroneous, Frenzied, Right Wing, Hypocritically Religious Fundamentalist Minority

After Almost 30 Years of GOP and GOP-Lite Rule, Government Has Discarded Any Semblance of a Moral Compas

One Insanity of the Last Two Decades, Forced Arbitration by Private Justice Providers, Finally Exposed as Fraud

US House Trade Act Attempts to Change Abominable "Free Trade" That Works Just for Corporate Plunderers to "Fair Trade" That Works for the People

US Ranks 15th In High-Speed Internet Access; Another Disgraceful Statistic For Our Country in the 21st Century

CIA Lied About Lying to Congress, While Obama is Disturbingly Like Bush on Intel Lies

What Iraq and Afghanistan Quagmires Are Costing an Economically Depressed Country and Struggling Regular Americans

US Continues Expanding Our Garrison Empire at the Expense of Health Care and Other Needed Programs at Home

Medicare Fraud a Continuing Growth Industry: Latest Case in Florida Echoes Jeb Bush's Involvement in Fraud in the 1980's

Privatization of US Presence in Iraq and Afghanistan Filled With Fraud, Abuse, and Waste; Privatization of US Intel Ditto

Dairy Prices are a Scam Promoted by a Monopolistic Dairy Industry

Still "Business as Usual" in Washington With Help and Support of Democrats and Money Politics

Irish Commission Issues Harsh Report on Government Failure To Stop Abuse of Children in Roman Catholic Run Institutions

An Example Of How Government Oversight Continues to be a Joke Inside Washington

Senate GOP Members Stripped House Dem David Obey's Pandemic Preparation From Stimulus Bill

Lobbying Reform a Myth; "Pay to Play" Remains The Rule

Obama FDA Proactive with Food Safety; Ends Bush Era Corporate Protection That Caused Illness and Deaths

Corporate America Will Make Phony Pledges To Get Stimulus Money

USO Sends Beauty Queens to Tour Gitmo

Are Some States Pulling a "Giuliani" Failing to Upgrade Emergency Workers' Communication Equipment

"I Kid You Not"

How Quickly is Obama's Administration Restoring the Public Safety of Consumers Destroyed by Criminal Bushites?

Corporate Lobbyists Run Washington

Hardworking Americans Screwed by Super Rich Wall Street Thieves and the Tax Code

Vomitoriums for Regular Americans Should be Built Near Capitol Hill and K Street

Agribusiness Companies Manipulate Government

Multiple Killings in Communities in Alabama and Germany by Apparently Deranged Gunmen

Cover Its Ass: CIA Destroyed More Interrogations Tapes Than Previously Admitted

"Privatization" Another Way To Steal From Taxpayers

US Infrastructure Gets Another D In American Society of Civil Engineers 2009 Report

CA High School Students Put Civics Into Action

Congress Gets Another Pay Raise While Every Day Thousands of Regular Working Americans Lose Their Jobs

Hayden's Tenure At CIA Proof He Should Not Be Allowed To Continue As Director

Melamine Found in US Manufactured Infant Formula

History Shows Democrats With Both White House & Congress Governed Prudently - GOP Did Not

Under Bush & McSame Women Get Less Pay and Pay More for Health Care Than Men

Alaska's GOP Senator Ted Stevens Found Guilty On All Seven Counts

Conservatives Distrust and Fear Government "Of, By, and For The People"

Advice From Economist to Obama: Planning Is Not A Dirty Word

Bush GOP Politicized Federal Departments and Agencies Screw Small Businesses

While Sid & Sarah Saber Rattle, Bush Regime Causes NASA Dependence on Russia

800,000 Laid-Off Workers "You're on your Own" Wall Street Perps "Collect $700,000,000,000"

Republican Governor of Louisiana Fails Gustav Emergency Response

Financial Disaster Because Of Deregulation; We Told You So

Bank Failures and Taxpayer Bailouts In Bush and McCain Family Histories

Cheney Appointee, Former Head of KBR, Pleads Guilty to Bribery

Another Failed Bushite Privatization Project

Obama Sounds a Strong Economic Populist Message

Diebold Admits Its Counting Software Does Not Count Votes Correctly

McSame & Bush Actively Working Against Women's Reproductive Rights

More insight on Joe Biden

Census Bureau Annual Report Will Show Rich are Richer, Poor are Poorer

Little Progress Three Years After Katrina

Will Obama's Chance to be 21st Century FDR be Negated by His Postpartisanship?

The US Missile Defense System Scam

Another Bush's Legacy - Destroyed and Politicized Federal Agencies

Another Bush Legacy: Turning The United States Into A Surveillance State

American Values Flushed Down The Toilet By the Bush Regime

Obama Economic Advisers' New Theme: CEO's Are The Salt of the Earth

More Cities Plan To Build Modern Streetcar Systems

DOJ Should Terminate Everyone Involved In Hiring Scandal Especially Unqualified Immigration Judges

While Most Corporations Paid No Taxes; McSame Wants To Give Them More Tax Breaks

Bush Privatized Invasion and Occupation of Iraq With War Profiteers

Social Security In Great Shape and Celebrating Another Anniversary!

Bush Desecrates Our Flag, Again

Bush Politicized Agencies Continue To Disregard Consumer Food Safety

Yet Another Dishonorable Attorney General, Michael Mukasey

NRA Spies On Its Gun Violence Prevention Political Opposition

7th Anniversary of Bush Ignoring bin Laden Memo Right Before 9-11

Under Bushites Unregulated Commodity Trading Push Food Prices Up Dramatically

Privatization of Intelligence Gathering Yet Another Disastrous Bush Legacy

Republicans To Blame For Energy Crisis

Bushite "Solution" to Fannie and Freddie Creates More Problems

Congress Needs To Place Conditions On Any Fannie and Freddie Assistance

US Fails To Measure Up: 12th in Human Development; 42nd in Global Longevity

Court Attacks Constitution: Prez Can Imprison US Citizens Without Trial Indefinitely

Army Recruitment of Felons Causes Grave Problems

An International War Criminal as U.S. President and Commander-In-Chief?

Another Sub-Prime Lending Bank Bites the Dust; Bush Echoes of Reagan Regime

Iraq Occupation Damages Some US Troops' Moral Compass

Justice For All Denied To Illegal Immigrants by Bush Regime

Will Bush administration Make Taxpayers Bail Out Wall Street?

Sid, Social Security Has Been Successful Since FDR, Not A Disgrace As You Are

Bernanke and the Federal Reserve a Failure, Just Like the Rest of the Bushite Regime

Consumers Not Protected by Bushites in Federal Agencies and Departments

When Will the G-8 Emerge From Its Bubble?

Katrina Trailers Redux: Highly Toxic, Weak Regulation, No Accountability

Sen. Bernie Sanders Sponsors "10 Million Solar Roofs Act of 2008"

Bushites Lied About Hunt Oil Deal in Kurdish Region of Iraq

Economist Dean Baker Explains Barack Health Care v. John Health Care

Charged Suspect of USS Cole Bombing a Saudi, NOT an Iraqi or Afghani

July 4th and the Concept of Environmentalism as a "Real-World View"

Two of a Kind Right Wingers: Dubya and Colombia's Uribe

The Fed Under the Bush Regime Is A Failure

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