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AUSTIN – Brushing aside the Republican Party of Texas's arguments, Travis County District Judge Margaret Cooper ruled today that Bill Dingus is eligible to run for State Representative against Speaker Tom Craddick.

Carbon emissions, we're told, cause global warming. Cars cough up carbon. Solution: biofuel. Brilliant! Politicians shovel billions of subsidy taxbucks at farmers who get rich selling corn to bio-refiners. Brazilians burn down that 1990s eco-chic cause, the Amazon rain forest, and plant soybeans. Indonesians hack down so much wilderness for palm oil trees for biodiesel they've climbed into third place on the Worldwide Carbon Emitter's Hit Parade. Turns out leafy growing things store carbon. When they're hacked and burned they cough up their carbon into the atmosphere. All this leaves less food for food .... And then there's this: "We now have quite a lot of evidence that carbon emissions definitely don't cause global warming." - US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Time to Give Congress the Pink Slip?

Eighteen percent. That is the total number of Americans who currently approve of the job Congress is doing, according to an August 2007 Gallup Poll. It’s a significant drop, to say the least, from the 84 percent approval rating Congress received one month after the September 11 tragedy. Americans today are clearly fed up with their elected leaders, yet are doing little to take action and effect change. In fact, in the 2006 mid-term election, nearly 60 percent of Americans didn’t exercise their right to vote.

Almost thirty years ago, as mayor of the City of Cleveland, I  
confronted the money, the power, and the arrogance of private  
corporate interests seeking to rob our citizens of one of their most  
valuable public assets: a municipal electric system that provided low-
cost power to much of the city, Muny Light. As I observe the  
political machinations regarding the Trans-Texas Corridor and related  
attempts to turn publicly financed highways into privately controlled  
profit centers for giant corporations, I find the similarities chilling.

These last few weeks the House has been in a rush to pass spending bills before August recess. In fact, visitors walking the hallways of Congress become immediately struck by the apparent spending battle between the “conservative Democrats” of the so-called “Blue Dog Coalition,” and the Republican Study Committee, or RSC, generally representing the more conservative bloc of Republican House members. Members of each of these groups place large posters on easels outside their offices. The purpose behind this seems clear, to point the finger at the opposite party for the current budget mess that continues to threaten America’s future.

When Republicans had control of the Presidency and both houses of Congress, very little was done to stem the tide of federal spending. In fact, spending increased every year over the past decade. New programs such as “No Child Left Behind,” and entitlements like the Prescription Drug Benefit, were added at great cost to federal taxpayers.

On January 3rd, our nation's 110th Congress opened its first session, following an election in which America's voters gave control of both bodies composing that institution to the Democratic Party for the first time in 12 years. Incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced that the "first 100 hours" of Congressional work time will be spent righting wrongs and pointing American government in a new direction. Change is in the air -- but what kind of change?

All sarcasm aside, what kind of sick parent would you have to be to use your own child to gain political favor by entering the kid into the Congressional Page program? It's not like it's such a well kept secret that you could claim "ignorance" while some abusive twit is raping your kid.

What if we all registered as Independents and simply stopped financially supporting either of our two parties? The Lieberman loss has shown me that Americans are generally pissed at the government and I can only hope that all of Congress will be dismissed in the same way. Vote NO on the Congress and Senate in November.

Please welcome our newest writers: Kevin Breen and Darin Peoples.

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A Republican Woman asks why Democrats do not demand Impeachment
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/why_democrats_do_not_demand_impeachment.html
The tea was held upstairs, past open doors that held the portraits of First Ladies and mementos of previous administrations . . . The sandwiches were delicious – but subsequent events have persuaded me that to remain loyal to America I need to ask that Laura's husband be impeached. Since it is clear the Republicans are not going to clean their own house I am urging Democrats to act now and remove both President Bush and Vice President Cheney from office.

Tea at the White House was lovely, and the hostess graciousness itself. But it is time to impeach her husband, George W. Bush.

Matthew 7:5 - “You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.’


New York State is legend for the corruption of its government. Some New Yorkers might prickle at that but they know it is all too true. In some instances in other places corruption is incidental, arising from one individual or a small number of individuals who abuse their power.

But in New York the story is more complex. That corruption has been enabled by the political structure built mostly by those who identify themselves as Democrats. The abuse of power in New York City, through the

Some people wonder what the last line of my e-mail footer means – Not a lot of them have asked in so many words, but there have been enough to warrant a comment, and an explanation. Without further ado, I give you ... the secret meaning of: Neither DemEAUcrat nor RepublicanT ... I'm a Libertar-I-CAN!

What was that sound on the phone just now? A NSA goon slurping his coffee? We are all wondering if that is static we hear on the line today or Big Brother. And we have also learned that Big Brother has a sister, and her name is Ann Coulter.

In her most recent rant Ann Coulter, not satisfied with the blood bath going on in Iraq and the violations of individual rights perpetuated by the Bush Administration, calls for open war between Republicans and, evidently, everyone else on the face of the Earth and questions the masculinity of Republicans who fail to hit the

"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion." -- Thomas Jefferson; Sept. 28, 1820




How the NeoCons – and the Dems – sunk the Ship of State





As bad as things seem now, it can get worse. This is the conclusion one comes to after reading E.J. Dionne´s commentary in last Monday's edition of the Washington Post.

Dionne urged Democrats to find a vision. Perhaps Dionne simply should paint Senator

I believe that the GOP has successfully leveled the playing field by acting just as unethical as the Democrats. Many of us Republicans will have to make up some new talking points to even try to get our candidates elected into the government. After 5 years of the current Administration, I find that many of us have no candidates who could stand up for honest points of view anywhere. During the investigation by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, Karl Rove and Richard Cheney will be spared any involvement in the media leak of a covert CIA agent. Lewis Libby will take the fall for the Bush Administration in this very serious breach of security. I was hoping for a clean sweep of removing the basic cabinet members appointed by Bush. Power has overcome the truth over and over and even if Rove and Cheney are completely innocent of the charges, they will always seem guilty due to their inability to recognize the truth. It is a sad day for the Republican Party that no law is above the power of the President.