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Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger. By Gloria Steinem September 4, 2008 Here’s the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing — the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party — [...]

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Seriously, you think a community organizer could get you a few thousand bucks? It’s the season for Alaskans to be rewarded just for living here and this year’s take is extra sweet: $3,269, a record share of the state’s oil wealth combined with a special cash payout to help with stratospheric energy prices.Lt. Gov. [...]

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Newegg has a 100-Pack of Verbatim 4.7GB 16x DVD-R burnable DVDs on sale for just $18.99 after a [1[$8 mail-in rebate (expiring 9/28). This is a great price, coming out to just under $0.19 per disc. Plus, shipping is free and there is no sales tax (except CA, TN, NJ).

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After finishing as a runner up for Miss Alaska 1984, Sarah Palin went on to be crowned the state’s Queen of Earmarks and its Empress of Fiscal Irresponsibility. Wonk Room: Sarah Palin: Earmark Queen Of The Earmark State In 2000, Sarah Palin, as mayor of the Alaskan town of Wasilla, hired a [...]

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Another feminist icon has denounced McCain VP nominee, Sarah Palin. This time it’s Gloria Steinem. Excerpted from Steinem’s op-ed piece in the LA Times: “This isn’t the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has never [...]

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Via the Basic Income network’s newsletter: USBIG reports that a new movement has sprung up recently in the US that links limits on CO2 emissions with a small basic income. “Peter Barnes, Senior Fellow of “On the Commons”, is promoting the “cap and dividend”, which is basically a resource dividend applied to [...]

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L’Express : La chronique de Jacques Attali : Ultime recours L’impôt est la manifestation financière de la vie en société ; son montant indique la part que la collectivité est prête à mettre en commun pour acheter des services publics. Et, comme pour tout effort, il est d’autant mieux toléré qu’il est justement prélevé et [...]

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Ministers have denied caving in to the energy companies after (James) Gordon Brown ruled out one-off payments to help families struggling to pay soaring energy bills. The Prime Minister faced an angry backlash after he used a keynote speech on Thursday night to make clear that there would be no “short-term gimmicks or giveaways” when [...]

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Steinem on Palin. Friday, September 05 2008 @ 02:19 EDT Contributed by: Stranger Views: 13 Ouch. This is not to beat up on Palin. I defend her right to be wrong, even on issues that matter most to me. I regret that people say she can’t do [...]

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Sarah Palin may not be coming to Florida Monday, after all. But that other lipstick-wearing political rock star, Hillary Clinton, will be campaigning in Tampa and Orlando Monday for Obama. Details on time and place have not been announced. “We are thrilled to have Senator Clinton back in the Sunshine State to stump for [...]

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