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How does Mike Huckabee know what Jesus would say about the science of global warming, or about the different health care plans, or about how to best promote clean energy resources for America? It seems that Mike Huckabee has grown so arrogant in his lust for power that he has has started to assume that everything that he wants is something that Jesus wants too.

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The unreason of Homeland Security easily matches the unreason of anti-Communism. War, arbitrary imprisonment, unjust trials, torture, government spying against citizens, and on and on, assault the machines that maintain reason in our nation.

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We designed our own logo in satirical protest of the Homeland Security seal, to represent the true nature of the Department of Homeland Security. It’s not security that Homeland Security brings us, after all. Rather, Homeland Security serves to create insecurity. So we remade the Homeland Security seal as the new symbol of a virtual Department of the U.S. federal government: The Department of Homeland Insecurity.

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May I say that this portrait has got some attitude to it that is lacking in most pictures of Kucinich? There’s something about the man that’s very difficult to capture, but this button has got a real lease on the candidate.

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Remember how, a few years ago, there were all these t-shirts, bumper stickers and buttons with the American flag and the slogan: These Colors Don’t Run? Well, it turns out that those colors ran right into a trap in Iraq, and the slogan has become a lot less popular. All those old political […]

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Unfortunately, right wing Supreme Court justices appointed by Republican candidates saw things differently, and ruled to overturn the power of the Clean Water Act to protect a huge number of American waterways and wetlands. Some in Congress are working to overcome that problem with a new piece of legislation to restore the integrity of the Clean Water Act. The bill is called the Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007.

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Ten extra points for mentioning that the words come originally from Benjamin Franklin. It drives the right wing to froth at the mouth with fury when you point out that one of the Founding Fathers was not in favor of the Commander In Chief wrecking American freedom just to make some nervous nellies feel more secure.

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Now, we know that the government has been conducting massive electronic surveillance against American citizens, grabbing information about our telephone calls, mail and email, and internet habits, as well as our commercial activity and travel patterns, and putting all that information into a giant government database that allows the federal government to track our private activities.

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While others walk on treadmills that suck electricity out of a wall socket, going nowhere, bicyclists make their own power and move where they will. While motorcyclists pollute the air with their self-conscious pose of noise, bicyclists cut through the pollution silently.

They clear the roads. They make room for others. They build strength without taking from others’ strength.

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Al Gore does not speak of fear and restriction. He does not threaten loss of liberty. Al Gore looks to expand what is possible to confront the challenges we face today. That’s the kind of wisdom we need in a President of the United States. That’s why we need Al Gore for President in 2008.

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