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Drahn Design. ‘The Same As If He Stepped Into The Klan Gathering’ On Saturday, July 19, former Vice President Al Gore made a surprise appearance at the Netroots Nation convention in Austin, Texas. In his speech, Gore praised the gathering of progressives, saying that they are part of an effort to “reclaim the integrity of American democracy.” While the attendees of Netroots Nation received

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War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. George OrwellThanks to Diane (a TRB reader) / The Rag Blog / Posted July 24, 2008

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Thanks to Mariann Wizard / The Rag Blog / Posted July 24, 2008

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Former SDS president reflects on that oganization's stormy history as the leading edge of the sixties New Left By Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / July 24, 2008 When I joined UT Students for a Democratic Society in the spring of 1965, a bright-eyed freshman on the fast track to scholastic probation, SDS' national president was one Carl Oglesby, whose name was on my membership card. That was

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Janis Joplin and Tina Turner singing together at Madison Square Garden on November 27, 1969. Photo by ©Amalie R. Rothschild. Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era By Michael J. Kramer Michael J. Kramer is a lecturer in History and American Studies at Northwestern University. This article appears in full in The Sixties A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, Vol. I, No. 1, 2008.Whitney

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Congress Revisits Military's Policy On Gays By David Welna / July 24, 2008 More than 12,000 gay men and women have been expelled from the U.S. armed forces since the Pentagon's policy of "don't ask, don't tell" took effect 15 years ago. On Wednesday, Congress held its first hearing on whether to repeal that policy. It happened to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the order by President

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Demonstration against the War in Vietnam, late sixties, Austin, Texas. Photo (c) Alan Pogue / Texas Observer Harry the dentist demanded: 'You know that guy?' By Henry Mecredy / The Rag Blog / July 24, 2008 In the winter of 1969-70 I was driving a dump truck on the Highland Mall construction job, but heading back to the University in the spring. I approached my friend Paul Spencer concerning a

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Clowns emerging from clown car. Michael Chertoff front row, far left. Movable Border Wall, Clown Cars By Melissa del Bosque / July 21, 2008 The Secure Border Fence Act passed in 2006, but the Department of Homeland Security only just realized that the homeland has an international water treaty with Mexico that prohibits the building of fences in the Rio Grande Valley’s floodplain. DHS’

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A Beluga whale swims underwater in the Arctic region. What happens to the Beluga population reflects the effects global warming on the Arctic ecosystem, says Vsevolod Belkovich, a professor at the Russian Academy of Science who is leading a study on the whales. Photo from Getty Images. Whale Playground Sheds Light on Melting Arctic By Conor Humphries / July 24, 2008 A young whale pokes its

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"America's Army" is a video game developed in part by the US Army to lure potential recruits. "America's Army" Video Game Violates International Law by: Michael B. Reagan / July 23, 2008 In May of 2002, the United States Army invaded E3, the annual video game convention held in Los Angeles. At the city's Convention Center, young game enthusiasts mixed with camouflaged soldiers, Humvees and a

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Why Vegan Is The New Atkins By Kathy Freston / July 23, 2008 If you're wondering about the recent articles claiming that a study found that high-protein diets help lose weight and drop cholesterol, please take a closer look. First, the "low fat" diet that was compared to the high-protein one in this study was a full 30 percent fat, which is not low-fat as the phrase is used by any of the top

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Google has launched a rival site to Wikipedia, called Knol. The big difference between the two is how Knol is handling authorship. The Google Blog says: The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. It’s their knol, their voice, their opinion. We expect that there will be multiple knols on the same

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Pushing issue in Congressional campaign By John Nichols / July 23, 2008 Does anyone seriously doubt that one of the reasons why a House Judiciary Committee hearing will at least discuss the "I" word on Friday is Cindy Sheehan's independent challenge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi? Pelosi, famously, took impeachment "off the table" just before the 2006 election. Then, this summer, she edged it

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"I really hate jaywalkers. I despise them. Since I don't run the country, all I can do is yell at 'em. The other option is to run 'em over, but as a compassionate conservative, I would never do that," Robert Novak, quoted in the Washington Post in 2001. "I didn’t know I hit him," Novak, today, after striking a pedestrian with his car.Chris Bodenner / Daily Dish / July 23, 2008 Thanks to

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Good for Something?With national gas prices topping $4 per gallon, bioethanol from alternative sources -- including trash -- is becoming increasingly feasible. Now companies say garbage-based fuel could be commercially viable within two years. Photo from Getty Images. Trash talk that makes sense By Jessica Marshall / July 23, 2008 Within the next two years, some of us may be running our cars on

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Peace movement shows some muscle By Mark Weisbrot, / July 22, 2008 Who says there's no anti-war movement in the United States? In the past two months, the anti-war movement has taken on one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the United States in an important fight. And so far, the anti-war movement is winning. Here's the story: On May 22, a bill was introduced into Congress that

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Updated July 23, 2008 Jane Fonda at Oleo Strut Coffee House, Killeen, Texas, circa May, 1970. Photo by Thorne Dreyer / Space City! The Under the Hood cafe offers an oasis for members of the military to gather and talk of issues of importance. I welcome the opportunity to meet fellow military in an atmosphere of peace and justice. Ann Wright, U.S. Army colonel (retired); Official of the U.S.

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Humberto Lázaro Miranda Ramírez (LAZ) / Dedeté Humor Magazine / Cuba The Rag Blog / Posted July 23, 2008

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The reason the United States now ranks 40th in longevity in the world is our massive subsidies of junk food, according to Public health officials. Here’s what real food can do for health. Janet Gilles / The Rag BlogStudy shows how broccoli fights cancer By Michael Kahn Just a few more portions of broccoli each week may protect men from prostate cancer, British researchers reported on Wednesday

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Once people on Samsø started thinking about energy, a local farmer explains, “it became a kind of sport.” Photo by Joachim Ladefoged. A Danish community’s victory over carbon emissions by Elizabeth Kolbert Jørgen Tranberg is a farmer who lives on the Danish island of Samsø. He is a beefy man with a mop of brown hair and an unpredictable sense of humor. When I arrived at his house, one gray

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Sen. Barack Obama, right, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, July 20, 2008. Reuters. Obama is saying the wrong things about Afghanistan By Juan Cole / July 23, 2008 He hit the right notes during his swing through Iraq, but his plans for that other war could mean trouble. Barack Obama's Afghanistan and Iraq policies are mirror images of each other. Obama wants to send 10,000 extra U.S.

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The crusty ol' Repub says he has no clue how to use a computer. Isn't that cute? By Mark Morford / July 23, 2008 Dear McCain presidential campaign: You know what's funny and cute and just a little bit sad? Wacky old pre-industrial war-hungry guys admitting they don't know a computer from a microwave oven, a hyperlink from a heart med, can't turn on one of those newfangled PC things if his life

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (with Barack Obama): "The middle class is disappearing." Election season will be packed with horserace media distractions, but our economic situation is becoming a matter of life and death. By Matt Taibbi / July 23, 2008 I am a single mother with a 9-year-old boy. To stay warm at night my son and I would pull off all the pillows from the couch and pile them on the kitchen

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New ad encourages drive-by shootings of unmanly men See video below.Via Towleroad comes a new spot for Snickers which appears to endorse violence against the effeminate, or at least against speed-walkers. In the spot, a yellow-shorts-sporting butt-shaking speed-walker is attacked by former A-Team star Mr. T (?!) with a Snickers-shooting machine gun, for being "a disgrace to the man race." Ga-wha

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Homegrown marijuana has become big business in British Columbia By Misha Glenny / July 22, 2008 As we walk into John's basement, the smell is so overwhelming it almost knocks me off my feet. In front of me stand 120 marijuana plants whose thick bushy leaves cover the strong stems. John explains quite nonchalantly that this is just a small growing operation, or grow-ops as they are known

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