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MAKE IRAQ TOPIC #1
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet
Democrats cannot continue to ignore the war in Iraq and hope that we can ever again be a majority party. It's time to start demanding some answers.
http://www.alternet.org/sms/22152/

DEBATING GUANTANAMO
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Amnesty's chief goes head-to-head with a White House lawyer about Guantanamo, war crimes, and the word 'gulag.'
http://www.alternet.org/story/22143/

SAY NO TO HILLARY IN '08
Stephen Pizzo, News for Real
Instead of wasting time on Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party, or what'sleft of it, should be searching for inspirational candidates to run forpresident.
http://www.alternet.org/story/22125/

THE VIEW FROM THE 'OWNER'S BOX'
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
The Texas Legislature gives itself a huge retirement pension and, the next day, cuts retirement benefitsfor teachers. Welcome to a Republican-ruled state.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/22147/

EVERYBODY LOVES VADER
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet
Interestingly, as the country has grown more conservative, the Star Wars films have tipped further toward liberalism.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/22140/



FROM THE "PEOPLES EMAIL NETWORK ACTION ALERT" - Janice Rogers Brown THREATENS Social Security

Of all the extremist positions judicial nominee Janice Rogers Brown has taken, her stated agenda to undo all progress on social justice since the New Deal may be the most striking. These are her own words:

"The New Deal, however, inoculated the federal Constitution with a kind of
underground collectivist mentality. The Constitution itself was transmuted into
a significantly different document...1937...marks the triumph of our own
socialist revolution."

The year 1937 was when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of Social Security, who for nominee Brown was some kind of sinister commie plot to be undone at the next opportune century. Abroad coalition of groups has come out in strong OPPOSITION including the NAACP, the National Bar Association, the Congressional Black Causus and many others. Please ask your senators in Congress to do likewise. Go to the following link ... http://www.usalone.com/judges.htm

Equally objectionable nominee William Pryor is cut from the reactionary cloth as evidenced by one of his own quotes:

"With the New Deal, the Great Society, and the growing federal bureaucracy,
we have strayed too far in the expansion of the federal government."

It's no coincidence we have a president running back and forth all over the country for months on end trying to TRICK the American public into rolling some Wall Street dice with their retirement funds, while elsewhere judges rule its perfectly OK for corporations to default on their pension plans. If they can't con us one way, they'll cheat us with their cronies in the courts, unless we SPEAK OUT NOW to stop them. Please forward this message to everyone you know and post it everywhere you can.