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Last night, the Bertha Knight Landes Room in Seattle's City Hall was the venue for the first big forum of candidates for Washington's open First Congressional District. It may seem odd that the ...
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The Florida House redistricting committee finalized their work today and submitted plans for Congressional and Legislative districts today.
Plans and data may be ...
by kansasr
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As Jon Stewart continues to hold Stephen's super PAC hostage , ...
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Hi
Fellow Dkos Bloggers,
Last year I searched in vain for an extended care (three months to one year) alcohol and drug addiction residential treatment center with mental health services in ...
by Marina Asbury
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On Tuesday, the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to clear ...
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by David Nir
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The Jane Addams Hull House Association is shuttering its operation after 122 years of serving Chicago's less fortunate families.
Hull House was founded in 1899 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr,
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So, I've decided that to further my learning about progressive political theory, I can't just observe. I have to ask questions. From now on I will be asking a question every single day. It may be ...
by Travis Arbon
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John Tyler became the 10th president of the United States in 1841 — and today - incredibly - he still has two living grandchildren.
Tyler, who lived from 1790-1862, had 15 children ...
by Paleo
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This is a VERY last minute fill-in for LP, who was going to do one---BUT something came up at a neighbor's .....so she just Em me 5 minutes ago.
So.......Subject???: Weather? It's super ain't ...
by Phil S 33
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Since the days of Charlemagne, the Christian rulers of Europe had been trying to get Denmark into the Christian fold, but King Gorm had strongly resisted the mission of Bishop Unni. Under the rule ...
by Ojibwa
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They've been planning it for a month and a half now. Occupying an entire building at an as-yet-undisclosed location in downtown Oakland, while having a shitload of fun doing it. At least that's the ...
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Sen. Adlai Stevenson III in his New School speech, available on youtube, remembers when Congress was not ideological. That was back in the glory days of the 1960's and 1970's. That era began to ...
by Musial
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You have heard about the glowing achievements of Bain Capital, and other groups that have 'creatively destroyed' corporations.
And you've probably wondered why such expertise and benefits ...
by Mustellus
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by Jed Lewison
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I've seen a lot of material complaining that members of the "1%" are not paying their fair share toward the costs of running our country. While I'm pretty sure that they are not paying enough, "fair ...
by Karl Balke
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This is quite a long piece (over 7000 words) weaving a narrative thread through my young life that I think illustrates a key principle of unschooling. That principle is that the natural desire and ...
by leftyparent
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According to Citizens for Tax Justice they estimate that enacting the Buffett rule will raise $50 billion per year for the U.S. Treasury. That is $500 billion in a decade which is no chump change.
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by Drdemocrat
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Perhaps you have heard by now that Twitter has a new policy (or not so new) of blanket censoring Tweets by country of origin and topic-
[Twitter Allows for Censorship of Tweets in Individual ...
by ek hornbeck
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In the early 90s, business was booming for L. Ron Hubbard's brainspawn, Scientology.
Ron lectured that the main goal of a Scientologist is to get up the Bridge, bring in others, and thus create a ...
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