Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

There's nothing patriotic about the Tea Party Patriots

Seeded on Sun May 16, 2010 11:32 PM EDT (The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and food – TheAtlantic.com)

FTA:

politics

47 trapped on 'nightmare' flight to the Twin Cities

Seeded on Sun Aug 9, 2009 9:17 PM EDT (The Minneapolis Star Tribune)

FTA: When Link Christin boarded a Continental Airlines flight from Houston to the Twin Cities on Friday night, he expected to be on the ground in about three hours and ready for a comfy bed.

us-news, tarmac, airtline

We're creating police who are quick to shoot

Seeded on Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:36 PM EDT (The Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Neil Haugerud argues that recent changes to police training are partly responsible for a dramatic increase in the use of deadly force.

police, us-news, police-brutality

Savage calls for UK travel boycott

Seeded on Wed May 6, 2009 5:39 PM EDT (Media Matters for America)

Savage to "low-life, beer-swilling mutt" at UK Home Office: "[Y]ou can tell your Queen that I will call for a boycott of all travel to Britain by my 8 to 10 million listeners".

politics

Michael Savage Banned From Britain

Seeded on Tue May 5, 2009 9:38 AM EDT (Independent.co.uk)

"This is someone who has fallen into the category of fomenting hatred, of such extreme views and expressing them in such a way that it is actually likely to cause inter-community tension or even violence if that person were allowed into the country"

banned, radio, world-news, conservative, talk-show-host, michael-savage

:: International Congress of Churches & Ministers ::

Seeded on Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:39 PM EDT (iccm-1.org)

The most over-the-top website intro ever. This was linked on Digg.

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It Isn't 'Both Sides' Fault
Source: TNR's The Worst Political Sex Writing The New Republic
The public does not accept the "objective" message spoon-fed by the press that both sides are equally at fault..Instead, it (accurately) assigns most of the blame to the Republican party.
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SWAT team's shooting of Marine causes outrage - Yahoo! News
Source: Yahoo! News
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Jose Guerena Ortiz was sleeping after an exhausting 12-hour night shift at a copper mine. His wife, Vanessa, had begun breakfast.
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The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | guardian.co.uk
Source: Guardian Unlimited
US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week.
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National Lawyers Guild Files FOIA Requests Seeking Evidence of Federal Role in Occupy Crackdown | NationofChange
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With Congress no longer performing its sworn role of defending the US Constitution, the National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Committee and the Partnership for Civil Justice today filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) asking the Department of Justice, the Depar …
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OMG Cops pepper-spray UC Davis students, point blank in face, who are just sitting there doing nothing
Source: AMERICAblog
I'm sorry, this has gone too far. This has happened in police department after police department, and it has gone too far. Our police look like the goons in Russia and China. Please watch this video and send it to everyone you know. This has gone too far.
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