The President’s counsel [Fred Fielding] wrote following to Representative Conyers and Senator Leahy (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/Memo_070907.pdf)
I found this very interesting and feel it is worthwhile to share with all of you:
“In order to fulfill his constitutional functions, the President,… needs the protection of a principle that shields his close advisor’s from open-ended [...]
IMPEACH DICK CHENEY
Just over 3-1/2 minutes and worth every second of your time!
Middle East Times
Commentary: The death of RMA
William S. Lind
July 6, 2007
WASHINGTON — In the 1989 Marine Corps Gazette article where I and four colleagues first laid out the Four Generations of Modern War, we foresaw two potential futures. One, the way the world has gone, was Fourth Generation [...]
The Middle East Times
Commentary: Iran’s mixed signals
Arnaud de Borchgrave
July 5, 2007
WASHINGTON — The Swiss cartoon shows an angry US general briefing a puzzled President George W. Bush with a map of the Middle East. “Here you can see the Lebanonization of Iraq, the Iraqization of Palestine, and the [...]
The International Herald Tribune
U.S. aborted raid on Qaeda chiefs in Pakistan in ‘05
By Mark Mazzetti
Saturday, July 7, 2007
WASHINGTON: A secret military operation in early 2005 to capture senior members of Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas was aborted at the last minute after top Bush administration officials [...]
The Guardian
Sunday July 8, 2007 4:01 AM
By RON WORD
Associated Press Writer
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani ran into a buzz saw of opposition Saturday when he explained his opposition to elimination of the federal income tax and replacing it with a so-called “fair tax” [...]
The New York Times
July 7, 2007
By DAN MITCHELL
WHEN it comes to economic decisions, there are always trade-offs. Gain one thing and you lose something else. This is particularly true in health care, a market in which a scarce good is ridiculously expensive, but needed by everybody.
The central argument of [...]
The New York Times
July 7, 2007
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
WASHINGTON, July 6 — A powerful House Democrat said on Friday that he planned to propose a steep new “carbon tax” that would raise the cost of burning oil, gas and coal, in a move that could shake up the [...]
The Detroit Free Press
July 6, 2007
By NIRAJ WARIKOO
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
A federal appeals court panel today vacated an order by a federal judge in Detroit that ruled that the Bush Administration’s wiretapping program was unconstitutional — a move that concerned local civil rights advocates and Muslim leaders.
In a 2-1 vote, [...]
The New York Times
July 6, 2007
By JOHN M. BRODER
WASHINGTON, July 5 — After a concerted lobbying effort by property developers, mine owners and farm groups, the Bush administration scaled back proposed guidelines for enforcing a key Supreme Court ruling governing protected wetlands and streams.
The administration last fall prepared [...]
New York Times
July 6, 2007
Bloomberg Says He Will Support State G.O.P.
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ and DANNY HAKIM
At the same time that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has been traveling the country in recent weeks denouncing partisan politics, he has been quietly sending a very different message to the [...]
The New York Times
July 4, 2007
By ADAM LIPTAK
In commuting I. Lewis Libby Jr.’s 30-month prison sentence on Monday, President Bush drew on the same array of arguments about the federal sentencing system often made by defense lawyers — and routinely and strenuously opposed by his own Justice Department.
Critics of [...]
July 5, 2007
Op-Ed Contributor
By MICHAEL KINSLEY
Seattle
WHEN the Republicans in Congress impeached President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, they insisted that it wasn’t about sex, it was about lying. Of course that wasn’t true. Even at the height of their power-mad self-delusions (when Newt Gingrich was conducting [...]
The New York Times
July 5, 2007
Editorial
Justice Denied
In the 1960s, Chief Justice Earl Warren presided over a Supreme Court that interpreted the Constitution in ways that protected the powerless — racial and religious minorities, consumers, students and criminal defendants. At the end of its first full term, Chief Justice [...]
The New York Times
July 5, 2007
By JULIA PRESTON
The number of legal immigrants seeking to become United States citizens is surging, officials say, prompted by imminent increases in fees to process naturalization applications, citizenship drives across the country and new feelings of insecurity among immigrants.
The citizenship campaigns have [...]
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer
2 hours ago
Former White House aide I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, leaves …
WASHINGTON - President Bush commuted the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby on Monday, sparing him from a 2 1/2-year prison term that Bush said was excessive.
Bush’s move came hours [...]
US Supreme Court rejects public school diversity plans that take race into account
MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer
(AP) - WASHINGTON-A half-century after the Supreme Court outlawed racially segregated schools, sharply divided justices clamped new limits on local school efforts to make sure children of different races share classrooms.
The top U.S. [...]
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent
57 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - President Bush, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers’ demands for documents that could shed light on the firings of federal prosecutors.
Bush’s attorney told Congress the White House would not turn over [...]
The New York Times
June 27, 2007
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and MEGAN THEE
Young Americans are more likely than the general public to favor a government-run universal health care insurance system, an open-door policy on immigration and the legalization of gay marriage, according to a New York Times/CBS News/MTV poll. The poll [...]
The New York Times
June 24, 2007
By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
AS befits the boss of America’s best-known contact lens maker, Ronald L. Zarrella, the chief executive of Bausch & Lomb, has always had a keen eye for the fine print.
Even as the big picture at his company became blurred — by [...]
DemocraticEdge extends our deepest condolences during this time of loss to the family of former U.S. Representative Guy VanderJagt. This U.S. Representative was one of the finest orator’s to serve in the House. Representative Vander Jagt understood the use of the English language, how to use it, and how gain [...]
Saturday, June 23, 2007
By Chris Knape
The Grand Rapids Press
GRAND RAPIDS — Construction projects around the state could be taxed, taxed and taxed again.
That’s what contractors are worried about now that they’ve looked at the proposed Michigan Business Tax.
The way it currently is written, the state would tax contractors [...]
Sunday, June 24, 2007
By Jim Harger
The Grand Rapids Press
GRAND RAPIDS — The city’s attempt to cash in on Indian Trails Golf Course began in early May when a former city commissioner introduced a developer to City Manager Kurt Kimball.
One month later, the City Commission bypassed its standing rules [...]
New York Times
June 23, 2007
U.S. Group Says Pakistan Is Building New Reactor
By JANE PERLEZ
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 22 — Pakistan is building a third plutonium production reactor at a major nuclear weapons center, a sign of plans to increase the nation’s nuclear arsenal significantly, a Washington group specializing in [...]
June 23, 2007
Lowering Flag for War’s Dead Brings a New Rift
By IAN URBINA
IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich., June 19 — The Stars and Stripes in front of the Veterans of Foreign Wars lodge here flies at half-staff because Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm issued a statewide order to lower the flag [...]
White House Defends Cheney’s Refusal of Oversight
By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, June 23, 2007; Page A02
The White House defended Vice President Cheney yesterday in a dispute over his office’s refusal to comply with an executive order regulating the handling of classified information as Democrats and other critics [...]
Here’s a preview of some of our research on Fred Thompson. Thompson is trying to run as a “Washington outsider” candidate, but it’s basically just another acting job for the lobbyist-turned-actor.
Here’s what we’ve learned about Fred Thompson’s background and his political views:
* Thompson spent decades as a [...]
‘Signing Statements’ Study Finds Administration Has Ignored Laws
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 19, 2007; Page A04
President Bush has asserted that he is not necessarily bound by the bills he signs into law, and yesterday a congressional study found multiple examples in which the administration has not [...]
Agreement Reached on New Business Tax Keeps Michigan Competitive for Business, Encourages Job Creation
LANSING – Governor Jennifer M. Granholm, Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, and House Speaker Andy Dillon today said they have reached an historic agreement on a new Michigan Business Tax (MBT) to replace the Single Business Tax [...]
New York Times
June 12, 2007
Judges Say U.S. Can’t Hold Man as ‘Combatant’
By ADAM LIPTAK
The federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled yesterday that the president may not declare civilians in this country to be “enemy combatants” and have the military hold them indefinitely. The ruling was a [...]
All kinds of tips for epigraphs to be chiseled on the new George W. Bush Presidential Libary are coming in gratis — and from the most unexpected sources.
Who, for instance, would have imagined that Saudi Arabia’s main English-language newspaper would be using Western psychoanalysis to try [...]
Putin issues stark warning to neighbors
Russian president issues warning over U.S. missile defense ahead of G-8
The Associated Press
Updated: 12:37 p.m. ET June 4, 2007
MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin warned that Moscow could take “retaliatory steps” if Washington proceeds with plans to build a missile defense system [...]
MSNBC News Services
Updated: 7:16 a.m. ET June 5, 2007
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - The White House on Tuesday said it disagreed with rulings by U.S. military judges to drop all war crimes charges against two Guantanamo prisoners facing trial, and that the Defense Department was considering whether to appeal.
“We don’t [...]
The Associated Press
Updated: 12:37 p.m. ET June 5, 2007
WASHINGTON - Former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was sentenced to 2½ years in prison Tuesday for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation.
Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, stood calmly before a [...]
Russia Warns U.S. About Missile System
By MARIA DANILOVA, Associated Press Writer
2 hours ago
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Moscow could take “retaliatory steps” if Washington proceeds with plans to build a missile defense system for Europe, including possibly aiming nuclear weapons at targets on the continent.
Speaking [...]
In a new article, posted on History News Network, the Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission not only criticizes the Bush Admin war on terror, but argues that the role of lawyers is to blame for the way the things turned out.
5-30-07
Legal Policy for a Twilight War
By Philip Zelikow
[...]
Russia Says New ICBM Can Beat Any System
By STEVE GUTTERMAN, Associated Press Writer
3 hours ago
MOSCOW - Russia tested new missiles Tuesday that a Kremlin official boasted could penetrate any defense system, and President Vladimir Putin warned that U.S. plans for an anti-missile shield in Europe would turn the region [...]
Real Time with Bill Maher 05-25-07 (Part 3 of 6)
As a Non-Democratic Liberal, I revel in finding people who discuss what I believe on a national level. It is a rare find, but I found this:
Warning: R Rated.
I have no love of Ben Affleck. I always equate him with his [...]
As a Non-Democratic Liberal, I revel in finding people who discuss what I believe on a national level. It is a rare find, but I found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoDjcm3qOJA&NR=1
Warning: R Rated.
I have no love of Ben Affleck. I always equate him with his character in Good Will Hunting, but surprisingly, his eloquence [...]
With gas prices in Michigan reaching record highs, Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today submitted testimony to Congress on the escalating cost and volatility of gas prices across the nation. Granholm also joined other Democratic governors in asking President Bush to produce legislation that would define gas price gouging [...]
By Eugene Robinson
It just gets worse and worse. We already knew that Alberto Gonzales—who, unbelievably, remains our attorney general—was willing to construe the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions however George W. Bush and Dick Cheney wanted. We knew he was willing to politicize the Justice Department, if that was what [...]
Reprinted from Associated Press
Former President Jimmy Carter listens to a student’s question …
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Former President Carter says President Bush’s administration is “the worst in history” in international relations, taking aim at the White House’s policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.
The criticism from [...]
Miriam Jordan’s WSJ article “Univision Gives Citizenship Drive An Unusual Lift” no doubt comes as unwelcome news in GOP circles.
Jordan reports that Univision Communications, Inc., America’s largest Spanish language broadcasting network, is sponsoring an energized nation-wide campaign to help millions of green card-holders become citizens. In the greater Los [...]
by Christine Stansell
Reprinted from The New Republic
hank God for President Bush, and thank God for Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito,” intoned Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention last week, after the Supreme Court announced its decision in [...]
| Michigan is one of thirty-three states where it’s still legal to fire someone for being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Or because your employer thinks you are. Yes, according to the Human Rights Campaign, straight people have been fired because employers thought they were LGBT.
Nor is this an uncommon problem. [...] GOP’s voter-fraud complaints drove dismissals
New testimony and documents reveal Rove was pressing Gonzales’ office
Reprinted from The Washington Post WASHINGTON - Nearly half the U.S. attorneys slated for removal by the administration last year were targets of Republican complaints that they were lax on voter fraud, including efforts [...] The Impeachment Chronicles: Where is the Black Caucus?
By Bill Hare
Dennis Kucinich took that necessary first step that scores of progressives have been urging for some time in submitting articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney, a necessary first step in ending the Cheney-Bush neocon regime and its steadfast destruction of law and liberty at home and [...] Bush and Cheney: Hard Liquor and Loose Women
By Wayne Madsen Cheney on DC Madam’s list. Yesterday, WMR reported on the DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s list: “WMR has been informed that the CEO of a major corporation is a former CEO but, nonetheless, the aforementioned extremely high-level official of the Bush administration. The individual, who is definitely [...] Republicans Warn Bush Iraq Must Show GainsBy CARL HULSE and JEFF ZELENY WASHINGTON, May 9 — Moderate Republicans gave President Bush a blunt warning on his Iraq policy at a private White House meeting this week, telling the president that conditions needed to [...] City commissioner hints at higher political aspirationsReprinted from the Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com Instead, Tormala said he may challenge incumbent Mayor George Heartwell or move into the 76th State House District, where he [...] It’s time for Michigan to turn back bigotry
Despite the constant drumbeat of bigotry and small minded meanness from Gary Glenn of the Amernican Family Association and his small band of vocal groupies, LGBT organizers, allies and activists across the state have been engaged in trainings to mobilize for equal rights and [...] He’s Impeachable, You Know
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Al, New York Times May 3, 2007 IF [...] Airing Gonzales’ Dirty Laundry
By Bill Boyarsky Since Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ inept stonewalling before the Senate Judiciary Committee shed no light on the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, let’s [...] I dont understand, I’m up to this ‘Mission Accomplished’ part, and I have like 400 pages leftEnclosure: [download]It’s still right there on the taxpayer-financed Whitehouse.gov website. CHECK IT OUT FOR YOURSELF. “Major combat operations in Iraq have ended,” the president said, May 1, 2003. “In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.” Mission Impossible
Four years ago, President Bush delivered his now-infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech aboard the carrier Abraham Lincoln, declaring that military aggression was a successful and appropriate response [...] In Memoriam…Foreign Katrina aid rejected, unused
By John Solomon and Spencer S. Hsu - Washinton Post As the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina were receding, presidential confidante Karen Hughes sent a cable from her State Department office to U.S. ambassadors worldwide. Titled “Echo-Chamber Message” — a public relations term for talking points designed to [...] Energy Plan, Investments in Alternative Energy Will Create Jobs, Grow EconomyIn her weekly radio address, Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today touted the opportunities for job creation and economic growth if Michigan adopts a plan to move to renewable energy sources and continues to pursue investments in alternative energy. At the same time, she said she has been working around the [...] Granholm says schools, Medicaid face budget cuts soon
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Jennifer Granholm tried to put pressure on state Senate Republicans Thursday, saying she will cut school funding and Medicaid reimbursements this summer unless they quickly agree to a tax increase. Senate Republicans responded that Granholm is moving [...] Mich. gov’t faced with possible shutdownBy ALEX ALTMAN Reprinted from The State News Gov. Jennifer Granholm is preparing the state government for a possible shutdown this year in the event that the state legislature cannot balance the budget. Granholm ordered all state departments to draft contingency plans for their programs in case she needs to temporarily [...] Dare to Look Back
I cannot recall [...] Michigan Draft Gore Leaders and SupportersBy: Bob Alexander, Co-Chair, Michigan Draft Gore If you have not checked out the blog 2008Horserace.com. It is very interesting. You can vote for your favorite candidate once a day sometimes, other days less often. For months Gore was in 4th place, then due to his Congressional publicity Gore moved [...] Axis of Cowards: Bush, Congress and the Media
The Courage to Withdraw
By: Saul Landau George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and his staff of neo con hard liners, and assorted handwringers could not have predicted the horror show that erupted in Iraq. The war makers were ignorant. Most remain that way–and proudly. Did Bush shake his head when he saw [...] Jesus ‘Love Bombs’ youReprinted from Truthdig
By Chris Hedges There is a false, but effective, fiction that one has to be born again to be [...] Bush Protest - East Grand Rapids, MIBush Protest - East Grand Rapids, MI A message from MDP Chair, Mark Brewer
We had a tremendous 2006 election up and down the ballot and progressive bloggers played a very important role in our victories. Whether it was fact checking the mainstream media, organizing protests, informing voters with the issues, getting out the vote, helping give everyday Democrats a [...] S.C. new conservative majority
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As reported by the Associated Press 4-18-2007 WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court’s new conservative majority gave anti-abortion forces a landmark victory Wednesday in a 5-4 decision that bans a controversial abortion procedure nationwide and sets the stage for further restrictions. It was a long-awaited and resounding win that abortion opponents had hoped [...] Can you believe this? I am appalled!
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As reported by: americanprogressaction.org Under the Radar MEDIA — RIGHT-WING PUNDITS SUGGEST VIRGINIA TECH VICTIMS LACKED ‘COURAGE’ IN STAYING ALIVE: In his initial comments responding to the tragedy at Virginia Tech, President Bush said that “our nation grieves with those who have lost loved ones at Virginia Tech. We hold the victims [...] Jim Rinck addresses Kent GOP
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Jim Rinck addresses Kent GOP Fear and loathing in Bloomfield Hills
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Let him know he is NOT WELCOME HERE!
Here it is: PROTEST THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER IN EAST GRAND RAPIDS Friday, April 20, at Collins Park on Lakeside Dr. in East Grand Rapids 12:15 pm. Bring signs, banners, drums, noisemakers. We want a loud and visible protest. For more information go to Media Mouse or Activategr.org [...] Coulter (the bigot whore) is coming to Cleary University
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By JONATHAN D. GLATER and KAREN W. ...By JONATHAN D. GLATER and KAREN W. ARENSON In a fierce contest to control the student loan market, the nation’s banks and lenders have for years waged a successful campaign to limit a federal program that was intended to make borrowing less costly by having the government provide loans directly to [...] Wolfie in Sheepish Clothing
Missing E-Mail May Be Related to Prosecutors
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By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG The White House said Thursday that missing e-mail messages sent on Republican Party accounts may include some relating to the firing of eight United States attorneys. The disclosure became a fresh political problem for the White House, as Democrats stepped up [...] Spirit of Solidarity monument almost ready
Almost nine years in the making, a sculpture commemorating labor struggles in the Grand Rapids furniture industry was installed this afternoon in Ah-Nab-Awen Park near the entrance to the Gerald R. Ford presidential museum. The final touches are being put on the memorial for its unveiling and dedication [...] The real roots of the U.S. attorney firings.by Jeffrey Rosen
Iraqi’s finally unite! (Against America)
You have to hand it to Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., for having the chutzpah to cite the fiercely anti-American rally that dominated the anniversary of Iraq’s fourth year of U.S. occupation as evidence that the troop “surge” is working. As opposed to Lieberman, who continues to [...] Remembering newspapers
First, thoughts on Neal Shine: The death last week of the longtime Free Press managing editor and publisher produced an outpouring of grief, affection and respect that was remarkable in itself — and for the deeper meaning of what it represented. Shine was, indeed, everything the [...] Former Kent commissioner announces run for GR’s City CommissionFormer Kent County Commissioner Tom Postmus announced today he is a candidate for the 1st Ward City Commission seat being vacated by four-term Commissioner Roy Schmidt. Postmus served as a county commissioner for eight years before an unsuccessful campaign for drain commissioner last year. The retired food broker said his campaign will [...] If you want to feel better, take a hike
Garrison Keillor A person doesn’t learn much driving around in a car, compared to what you can pick up on foot, and that’s a sad fact about the way most of us live. Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a [...] Spring Break… The Red State tourI apologize that Democratic Edge has slowed down a bit lately. New posts were difficult to accomplish over the past week and a half while I toured some of our Red States for spring break. Having grown up in Florida, I am not unfamiliar with the ways of Red State [...] Enough Already!A friend told me about a 20/20 episode in which John Stossel interviewed people who were fed up. They were so exasperated they took their frustration and did something positive. “Enough,” they said in example after example of situations that compelled each to effect change.I googled Stossel to find his [...] Goodling resigns abruptly
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By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - A top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales abruptly quit Friday, almost two weeks after telling Congress she would not testify about her role in the firings of federal prosecutors. There was no immediate reason given, but Monica M. Goodling’s [...] We must learn again
We must learn them again: “the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself” (Faulkner, 1950). The education we provide children and young people today sadly neglects this individual conflict of “love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.” Instead, we offer [...] Hate, Election tampering, and Christian valuesDuring the Cold War and Ronald Reagan’s presidency the religious right enthusiastically enlisted in his crusade to derail what he called “The Evil Empire” meaning the Soviet Union and its godless tyranny. How interesting it is to see that the religious right has enthusiastically practiced one of the basic [...] Chamber of Republicans
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Editorial -Jeff Winston Warming ruling squeezes Bush from both sides
The Supreme Court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to explain why it has refused to regulate greenhouse gas pollution from cars, putting the Bush administration under pressure from an unusual coalition of environmental groups and leaders [...] Anti-bullying bill sparks frayControversial measure sent to Senate De’Lea Cheatham braces for abuse every day. The 17-year-old senior at Monroe High School says she frequently has been yelled at and shoved by other students because she’s a lesbian. She doesn’t want to get up some mornings because of the intimidation that looms ahead. It [...] Ex-Aide Details a Loss of Faith in the President
Reprinted from NY Times By JIM RUTENBERG AUSTIN, Tex., March 29 — In 1999, Matthew Dowd became a symbol of George W. Bush’s early success at positioning himself as a Republican with Democratic appeal. A top strategist [...] Ahhh… the great outdoors!
“One of the great gifts we can give our children is to make sure they connect with the amazing natural resources [...] Local reps offer no alternative
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By DON BERGMAN In the March 7 Sentinel, state Reps. Bill Huizenga and Arlan Meekhof attacked Gov. Granholm’s proposed services sales tax and accused her of not “getting to work” to reform our government. They said nothing about what services they will cut or what taxes [...] State cuts could affect employee trainingProposed state cuts could have a fairly significant impact on Delta Corporate Services, the arm of the college that uses grant money to train local workers, said Pat Graves, Delta’s director of sponsor programs. The state had allocated $10 million for these economic development job training grants statewide, and that amount [...] MI Senate Democratic Caucus on the Budget
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Michigan is in crisis. Due to a combination of a manufacturing industry devastated by unfair trade policies and the exploding cost of health care, the state is facing a $3 billion budget shortfall. Short-sighted fiscal plans by previous legislatures have only deepened the problem, and now Michigan families [...] Early Christmas Present for Mayor
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- Al Abbasse
Commissioner Tormala was the lone dissenting vote in the 5-1 approval for the Hybrid vehicle requested [...] Electrical savings blowin’ in the windMore than 20 area farmers and residents attended a seminar on small wind power at the MSU Extension office Monday in Escanaba. Lynn Hamilton, a MSU professor, provided an overview of the economics and realities of wind power for homes and farms.
By Kim Hoyum - khoyum@dailypress.net ESCANABA — [...] Side-splitting IRONY!!! Gonzales Aide to plead 5th
How ironic that all of the sudden, Gonzales and his cronies realize that the US Constitution provides RIGHTS! Hmmm, Rights you say? Why that sounds like some Mumbo-Jumbo made up thingy like Habeus Corpus. As I read the following Associated Press story… I couldn’t stop laughing. I believe [...] Surviving at the Pleasure of the President
Granholm continues to protest school budget cuts
Senate Republicans last week passed a plan that would trim $34 per student from K-12 school budgets. That is less [...] Republican senator blasts president’s go-it-alone stance on Iraq policy
WASHINGTON - With his go-it-alone approach on Iraq, President Bush is flouting Congress and the public, so angering lawmakers that some consider impeachment an option over his war policy, a senator from Bush’s own party said Sunday. Meanwhile, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican leader harshly [...] Blog Info:
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By Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein
Reprinted from Between the Lines
Hello Progressive Democrats-
I have always been one to side with caution; particularly when it comes to the safety of kids. But at what point does being cautious blend with being absurd? Check-out the following tid-bit from the 
Lets talk Paul Wolfowitz for a moment. As always with such hubristic goniffs, Wolfie keeps getting into more and more trouble the more he tries to explain things.First, take a look at Wolfie’s 
Reprinted from The New York Times
he ideological roots of the Justice Department scandal aren’t buried in Karl Rove’s office. They reside in a less likely 
By Robert Scheer
By Jack Lessenberry
By Paul Cummins
Gov. Granholm recently signed an official proclamation designating April 20 as “No Student Left Inside Day” in Michigan in an effort to help reconnect children with the outdoors.
From the Holland Sentinel
Having attended the City Commission meeting Tuesday evening, I walked away slightly disheartened. When discussion turned to the mayor’s request for HIS new city purchased vehicle there was very little discussion.
By Sheila Samples 
By TIM MARTIN
