Earlier this year, John McCain tried to defend the fact that his presidential campaign was jam-packed with lobbyists:
[T]hey’re honorable people, and I’m proud to have them as part of my team.
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The right to represent interests of groups of Americans is a constitutional right. There are people that represent firemen, civil servants, retirees, and those [...]
Two weeks ago Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) brought an impeachment resolution against President George W. Bush to the House floor.x30×31 It took him nearly five hours to read the resolution’s 35 articles.x32 Each article charges Bush with a criminal act, cites the laws violated and gives supporting evidence.x33 Among the criminal acts [...]
The management of the Sequoia Voting Systems company willfully sent lousy punch cards to Florida for its 2000 general election.x10 Last August, HDNet’s Dan Rather Reports aired that story, which gives an answer to why so many card ballots did not have a single, clean punch for president.x11 Sequoia management switched from their [...]
“I am Dekanawidah and with the Five Nations’ Confederate Lords I plant the Tree of Great Peace.“x1 So begins the Great Law of Peace, the constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy, a union of tribes centered south of Lake Ontario that thrived for 600 years up to the formation of the United States. The preamble [...]
31 cargo ships and barges stranded, twelve ships sunk with crew, 253 sailors drowned—that was the the toll of the most disastrous storm ever to hit the Great Lakes. The first November gale of 1913 started on western Lake Superior when warm southwest winds sped up on Thursday the 6th. On Friday morning [...]
