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• Senator pushes for expansion of "V-chip" video censorship technology

  Published: August 4, 2007, 2:01 pm

  Tags: Classification, Democrat, Dvd, Mark Pryor, Markpryor, V Chip

  under: DisplaysThe Democratic Senator for Arkansas -- Mark Pryor is his name -- wants to expand on the "V-chip" video content blocking program, and create a tracking system that could enable parents to censor content on platforms including TV, DVD, and the internet. A new bill proposed by Senator Pryor calls for the FCC to look into ways of

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• Democrat/Republican…Flip a Coin

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:06 am

  Tags: Grassroots Democracy, Presidential Race, Third Party, Third Parties, Green Party, Republican, Us Politics, Elections, Democrat, Election

  the concerns I have with the Democrats listed above. Green lawmakers would be able to make objective decisions based on true facts. Green lawmakers would not be beholden to insurance companies, oil companies, military contractors, auto makers, etc., etc., etc Are you still going to vote Democrat or Republican? If so FLIP A COIN they are

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• Why vote?

  Published: August 4, 2007, 11:07 am

  Tags: Ballot Issues, Grassroots Democracy, Progressive Politics, Third Party, Working Families Party, Third Parties, Long Island Politics, Green Party, Local, Politics, Election, Elections, Democrat, News

  to get endorsed by: The Democrats; The Republicans; Working Families; The Conservative Party; and The Independence Party. One can only wonder how one does that. I find it hard to believe that out of the hundreds of thousands of people in Suffolk County, Steve Levy is the only person who truly wants to do the job, and the only person

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• Cindy vs. Nancy

  Published: August 10, 2007, 10:22 pm

  Tags: Bushist, Sheehan, Wapo, Pelosi, Democrat, Media, Congress

  cares into the election of a Democratic Congress, and we haven't gotten what we believe we earned, which is an assertive, coequal branch of government that has the will and the spine to bring the Bushists to

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• Token Democratic quote

  Published: August 10, 2007, 9:54 pm

  Tags: Immigrant, Republican, Cnn, Democrat, Media

  in sight, but the only Democrat it can find to quote is Ted Kennedy, and even he gets sandwiched between massive slices of white-bread Republicans. Here's the quote (or paraphrase) sequence:Chertoff (R-Jafar)Gutierrez (R-who?)The White House (R-bunker)Duhbya (R-blithering)Perino (R-flack)Chertoff again (R)My boy Teddy (D)Gutierrez again

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• Democrats who don't dirty their hands with politics

  Published: August 8, 2007, 3:37 pm

  Tags: Brooks, Propaganda, O Neill, Republican, Democrat, Politics, Democracy, Massachusetts, Duhbya, Carter

  o.k. with schisms within the Democratic Party, even now that we have a Democratic governor for the first time in nearly two decades.Much of the South has two conservative parties. It's hard to see how that's better for democracy.In any case, I think Democrats are less dangerous in unified government than Republicans. The reason is that Democrats

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• 1974

  Published: August 8, 2007, 12:22 pm

  Tags: Constitution, Authoritarian, Republican, Democrat, Nixon, Democracy

  power? How is it that the Democratic Party is so easy to bully and so unable to deliver a sustained and pointed political message? How is that the American people aren't more dissatisfied? How did self-government become too much trouble?I've just written a letter to my daughter, who is the same age I was when Nixon resigned. I had to apologize

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• Philosoraptor comments

  Published: August 6, 2007, 10:07 pm

  Tags: Bushist, Comment, Philosoraptor, Republican, Democrat

  with the Washington Democrats, despite being a lifelong Democrat myself and having long been a party regular. So it's not as if I'm reckoning the Democrats to be halo-wearing demigods the way wingnuts wax rapturous about Duhbya.The Bushists and other Republicans had more "high-level contacts with Saddam" than al Qaida could ever

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• Why America is in trouble

  Published: August 6, 2007, 12:24 am

  Tags: Surveillance, Bushist, Constitution, Republican, Democrat, Ruling Class, Duhbya, Demagogue

  course). The lily-livered Democrats failed to find any guts at all to protect the Constitution. And once passed, the Bushists continued to demagogue the issue.This is all about politics, not security. The GOP politics is anti-Constitutional universal surveillance, and the Democratic politics is timidity in the face of Republican willingness

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• Regular guyism

  Published: August 6, 2007, 12:06 am

  Tags: Globe, Wangsness, Gore, Republican, Democrat, Romney, Media

  are regular guys. The Democrats aren't (and if you think Dennis Kucinich is, you're not a regular guy, either), and the Republicans sure aren't.But the media insists on force-feeding us this sort of obvious bullshit about favored candidates or candidates with favored PR people or candidates whose regular-guyism happens to fit into the

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• We Pledge Our Lives

  Published: August 9, 2007, 10:22 am

  Tags: Military, 2008 Election, Iraq, Congress, Democrat, Politics, Republican, Presidents

  of whether they’re Democrats or Republicans. A friend of mine asked me if military service was a necessary qualifier for me to support a candidate. I answered that it was not necessary but would certainly inform my decision. Why is this important? After all, we don’t require politicians to be doctors to legislate health

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• Not Playing Well Together

  Published: August 3, 2007, 9:47 am

  Tags: Congress, Democrat, Republican, Politics

  they won the vote 215-213. Democrats claimed the vote was a tie 214-214 and therefore defeated. Though it wasn’t in the “official” record until the wee hours of the morning, the “official” vote was 212-216. The Republicans staged a walk out in protest, which seemed to affect the Dems not at all. They

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• Edwards Attack on Clinton Donors

  Published: August 3, 2007, 1:15 am

  Tags: 2008 Election, Congress, Democrat, Politics, Presidents

  He called on Democrats to “stop the merger between News Corp and the Dow Jones Company.” He also called on other Democratic candidates to return all contributions from News Corp executives in light of the way FOX treats Democrats. (News Corp owns FOX, HarperCollins, New York Post, the Weekly Standard, TV Guide,

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• Why vote?

  Published: August 15, 2007, 11:07 am

  Tags: Ballot Issues, Grassroots Democracy, Progressive Politics, Third Party, Working Families Party, Third Parties, Long Island Politics, Green Party, Local, Politics, Election, Elections, Democrat, News

  to get endorsed by: The Democrats; The Republicans; Working Families; The Conservative Party; and The Independence Party. One can only wonder how one does that. I find it hard to believe that out of the hundreds of thousands of people in Suffolk County, Steve Levy is the only person who truly wants to do the job, and the only person

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• Green Party faults Dem Congress for passage of Bush’s ‘police state’ spy bill

  Published: August 15, 2007, 11:23 pm

  Tags: Grassroots Democracy, Green Party, Ballot Issues, Third Party, Third Parties, Democrat, Elections, Press Release, George W Bush, Election, Us Politics, Politics

  only lie with the Democrats and Republicans who voted for it. It also lies with Democrats like Sen. Harry Reid who claim to have opposed it, but declined to block the bill with a filibuster,” said Carl Romanelli, 2006 Green candidates for the US Senate in Pennsylvania. Greens have accused Democratic leaders of posing as an

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