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• Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer: Great Courage

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 440
  On August 6, 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was formed as an alternative to the segregated Mississippi Democratic Party. Organized in conjunction with the Freedom Summer voter registration drives of SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and COFO (the Council of Federated ...
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• The Art of the Possible: Obama-Style!

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 440
  The pundit-class recently recoiled when the President had the temerity to give himself a B+ when asked to grade his first year in office by Oprah Winfrey. But given the epic challenges that Barack Obama inherited from George W. Bush and the urgency of action that was necessary, this was one instance that ...
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• Health Care Reform: Deeply Flawed, But Pass The Bill

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  I stayed up late to watch the Senate make sausage, and vote for cloture at 1am to grease the skids for the health care bill--a leftover piece of business from the New Deal. Not since Lyndon Johnson enrolled Harry Truman as the first Medicare beneficiary in 1965, has there been a more important event for the health of ...
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• Imagine trying to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 using the legislative techniques of 2009

  
  Dangerous Intersection — Authority: 478
  The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is an impressive piece of legislation, but it would never pass today, certainly not in anything like the form in which it currently exists.  Note: The actual Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which can be found here ) is only 56 pages long (double spaced in 12 point Times Roman font).   It ...
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• Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer: Great Courage

  
  Change the Wind — Authority: 424
  On August 6, 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was formed as an alternative to the segregated Mississippi Democratic Party. Organized in conjunction with the Freedom Summer voter registration drives of SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and COFO (the Council of Federated ...
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• barry channels FDR, JFK, LBJ

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 151
  December 19, 2009Talking with Charlie Gibson he brought up his legacy and how the healthcare bill:will be the single most important piece of domestic legislation that’s passed since Social Security.And back in August, during his “Organization for America National Health Care Forum,” he compared himself to FDR ...
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• Blessed are the Warmakers

  
  PoliticalArticles.NET - Blog — Authority: 137
  By: Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez                They will speak of peace and wage warThey will wage war and call it... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Afghanistan’s Problems Remain Beyond America’s Reach

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  We can’t anymore save Afghanistan from its 13th century culture than we can teach Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to sing rap.Washington“The 30,000 additional troops that I’m announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 — the fastest possible pace — so that they can target the insurgency and secure key ...
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• Guns and butter: Can the U.S. have both at the same time?

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 670
  Filed under: Economic data , Politics In the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnsons economic/social policy, the Great Society, came up against a counterforce and competing claim few in public policy circles at that time had expected: Lyndon Johnson himself. Johnson, in a decision that would alter U.S. society and ...
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• In Search Of Presidential Leadership

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  We’ve come through a generation where we have really denied the existence of a common good or a public purpose. And I think we’ve recognized that that path leads to collapse, the collapse that we’ve seen.James GalbraithWashingtonPresidency Lain Under SiegeWe cannot recall any recent presidency that has been laid ...
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• Ingrams to be awarded honorary doctorates

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 149
  Bruce and Gloria Ingram, active Texas State benefactors and founders of Ingram Readymix, will be awarded honorary doctorates at Texas State this month.
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• So History DOES Repeat Itself!

  
  Change the Wind — Authority: 424
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• Another McGovern takes on a war

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 532
  Another McGovern takes on a war Worcester representative mobilizes foes of Afghan surge By Michael Kranish / Boston Globe WASHINGTON – Representative James P. McGovern, a political activist since he was a schoolboy in Worcester, walked into his congressional office yesterday and proudly ...
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• STEVE RUSKIN’S PICK OF THE WEEK: Powerful and Affecting Presenter, Former POW Charlie Plumb

  
  Eagles Talent Speakers Bureau — Authority: 118
  My pick of the week is former Navy pilot and POW, Charlie Plumb. Regardless of where one stands on the politics of war, the tremendous human sacrifice looms large. The concept of being captured by the enemy, after training to be a legitimate “Top Gun” is staggering. Can one even begin to consider the next five ...
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• Name the Author: ‘Toast Yourselves, Black America’

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 437
  One day after President Barack Obama delivered a war strategy speech that left many feeling wary, it’s become time to play a new game I’m calling, “Name the Author.”Read the words below and see if you can guess who wrote them two days after Obama won the election as the nation’s first black ...
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• Olbermann on Afghanistan: Get out now (Warning to Obama)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Mr. President, it now falls to you to be both former Republican Senator George Aiken and the man to whom he spoke, Lyndon Johnson. You must declare victory, and get out. ... even though the Pentagon is a bunch of perpetually 12-year old boys desperate to stay up as late as possible by any means necessary — get out ...
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• Old Soldiers Never Die, They Just Fade Away

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly [...]
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• News Story Glenn Beck Parody Site Sustained

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  Keeping the Internet safe for satire, the World Intellectual Property Organization ruled that the domain name glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com was not a violation of the conservative political commentators intellectual property. read more
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• Will the Real Obama Please Stand Up?

  
  The Liberal Democrat — Authority: 122
  Ten months into his presidency, we all know the presidents Barack Obama is not, as well as the presidents he does not want to be.It is clear that he is not a liberal mirror image of President Ronald Reagan, reshaping the political landscape. Neither is he, as he himself [...]
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• Thanksgiving 2009 (UPDATED)

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 134
  In honor of the holiday I’m reposting one of my most popular posts ever, entitled Thank A Democrat:If you’re not a wealthy landowner and you vote, thank a Democrat: Andrew Jackson got rid of laws that discriminated against working-class Americans by restricting voting to wealthy landholders.If you’re a woman and ...
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