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Michael Moore points out what is at stake in this sad election next week. We may be disgusted with the lack of enthusiasm our elected leaders have had for following their campaign promises. At least these are failures of omission. The Republicans campaign promising voters the Flag, Mom, jobs, lower taxes, and, oh yes, apple pie, but deliver us fascist government operations, the loss of civil... 
Remember the 2008 election? We progressives had the political equivalent of World War II on our hands. The humble, but passionate, middle class backed their 5–star general, Barack Obama, and prevailed over the fascist tyranny of the GOP, their tax breaks for the wealthy, the theory of the “Unitary Executive”, and torture. We knew that the troops would finally come home from the misadventures... 
On the anniversary of this tragic day, where so many innocent Americans lost their lives, I was listening to the re-broadcast of the morning of 9/11/2001 on MSNBC. I was surprised that Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric mentioned that Osama bin Laden had threatened a serious attack on this country just three weeks earlier. “So”, I thought, “the NBC news people were aware of this, but the Bush... 
Andrew Breitbart’s own secret video has now been released and it’s a doozy. No, it’s not about fake pimps and hookers and ACORN. It’s not about Breitbart revealing his motives for the hit job on Shirley Sherrod. It’s much worse than that.
The Republican Party is having fits right now, as this video has emerged right when Michael Steele has Breitbart headlining for the... 
For those of you old enough to remember the film, “Top Gun”, there is a point in the film where Tom Cruise, playing the part of “Maverick”, has lost his good buddy “Goose” in an accident for which he blamed himself. A once sure, cocky, guy who felt that he could do no wrong, and was up to any challenge, lost his confidence.
When engaged in a dogfight with Russian MiG’s, Cruise found... 
We all heard that Obama said that even his Administration was guilty of being “too cozy” with the oil superpowers that were supposed to be regulated by the U.S. government, not coddled and fawned over.
We also know that BP had no environmental impact plan, except to say that it was “inconceivable”. It would be funny to relate that back to the movie “The Princess Bride”, which remarked on the... 
For those considering a walk on the wild side by voting Republican this November, I’d encourage them to check their bank account and see whether or not they can afford to be unemployed.
The politically neutral Congressional Budget Office (CB0) has estimated that if the job growth pace continues like it is, Obama will have created more jobs in 2010 than Bush did in all eight years of his so-called... 