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Seeking Religious Freedom on Native Lands

lynnell — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:12:37 -0500

By Lynnell Mickelsen and Susan Lenfestey
There's a wee bit of a backlash in South Dakota since its legislature passed the most sweeping abortion ban in the country two months ago. It appears many residents are not exactly lying back and taking it.
According to last week's New York Times, (See the original story at nytimes.com) Republican Governor Mike Rounds enthusiastically signed the law and promptly watched his job approval ratings drop 14 points. A flood of new, energized Democratic challengers is now running for the state legislature. And abortion-rights activists are gathering signatures to put the law on hold and put it on the ballot for voters to consider this November.

Nothing Prepared Me for Bush

susan — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:23:24 -0500

In this excerpt from Alternet.org, Robert Scheer lays out how we wound up in our current political cesspool -- even if we have to swallow hard to accept that Nixon got anything right. For the entire interview with Onnesha Roychoudhuri go to AlterNet
Robert Scheer spent over 30 years interviewing American presidents and candidates since Nixon, but it was only in retrospect that he discovered a disturbing pattern. Scheer's new book Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan and Clinton - and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush explores the crippling effects the campaign process had on every candidate he interviewed - and how our presidents have become increasingly out of touch with American voters.

News flash: Voters reject $100 hand-outs from Republican Congress. Complain that the Repubs are treating them like whores.

lynnell — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:12:32 -0500

by Lynnell Mickelsen
Have we reached the tipping point? Because for the last two decades or more, the conventional political wisdom has been that you can never go wrong with a rebate or tax cut..that the rubes in fly-over country will cash their dinky checks, vote Republican and not pay any attention to the huge tax cuts and payments heading out to oil companies and big CEOs.
Heck, I thought the $100 checks to "ease the burden of high gasoline prices" was just a joke, mainly because it amounted to three tanks of gas in my 1997 Plymouth Voyager. Plus Im one of those crazy-assed libruls from a blue state. But according to the story in the Monday, New York Times the GOP hush money aint working very well anymore.