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Follow this link to Amazon.com where each purchase you make provides a small commission from Amazon. Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the science of global warming with Al Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change in the most talked-about documentary at Sundance. An audience and critical favorite, An Inconvenient Truth makes the compelling case that global warming is real, man-made, and its effects will be cataclysmic if we don’t act now. Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way: often humorous, frequently emotional, always fascinating. In the end, An Inconvenient Truth accomplishes what all great films should: it leaves the viewer shaken, involved and inspired. |
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Monday,
February 19, 2007
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No.
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| From
the Chair, February 13, 2007
by Ron McBride See What WeDemocrats is doing now... |
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| From
the Chair, February 18, 2007 by Ron McBride See What WeDemocrats is doing now... |
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The
Hillary Illusion
by Anthony Wade February 19, 2007I have sat on this story for a couple of years now; waiting until it was close enough to the 2008 elections to have the relevance necessary for progressives to truly take notice. For some this may come as a shock but it is a necessary dialogue that must be had, before it is too late. The country has come too far in the 2006 elections to watch another four years be flushed away in the White House. Everybody needs to take a deep breath, sit down and realize right now that Hillary Clinton cannot win in 2008. Read More... |
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| Yellow-Dog
Democrat by Alllie They call us yellow-dog Democrats, claim if the Democrats ran an old yellow dog for office we would vote for that yellow dog. And we probably would. Certainly I would never vote for a Republican. But how did I get here? Why do I vote Democratic? 1. My grandparents had a small farm in rural Tennessee. I spent a lot of time there as a child. When I was very little I remember my grandparents got water from a cistern. My grandmother would let the galvanized bucket fall into the cool darkness of the well, then she would turn the crank on the winch above it, bringing the weight of the water up into the light, the rope taunt and damp. Read More... |
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| Universal
Health Single Payer Insurance by Ron McBride February 19, 2007 The state of health care in the United States is a disgrace. For millions of Americans it is a struggle between food and medical. While I am a supporter of John Edwards, I must disagree on his approach to Universal Health Care. As a former executive with a major health and life insurance company, I know that keeping insurance companies in the middle allows them to suck up huge amounts of insurance premium dollars to pay for their built-in unbelievable overhead and executive salaries, and for shareholder profits, none of which is available to you when you get sick. Read More... |
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Questions
about Iraq
by Eric Lafayette At last Henry Kissinger understands that he owes the truth not to the Princes that he serves but to the American citizens who created the country where he built a formidable career. Here are his words about success in Iraq: Read More... |
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Thomas
Jefferson and the Democratic-Republican Party
by Larry Sakin [We continue our Presidential series begun in February with this from Larry Sakin on Thomas Jefferson - the First Democrat. If you would like to write a brief profile of you favorite or most hated president, send it to Norla at wtpeditor@wedemocrats.org. Now sit back and enjoy a profile of Jefferson.] America's third president, Thomas Jefferson was quite a character. A polymath, Jefferson made a name for himself in the sciences, arts, and politics. Jefferson is remembered most as the author of the Declaration of Independence, and creating the progenitor of the Democratic Party. Read More... |
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| Journey
of a ("Self-Hating") Jew by David Rovics There are few issues more divisive in US society, including on the left, than the issue of Israel and Palestine. Even the word "Palestine" is divisive! The state of Israel claims to represent Jews worldwide. This is a preposterous and plainly incorrect claim, but one often made and often assumed, to the detriment of much of humanity. People who vocally oppose Israeli policies are labeled anti-Semites. Jews who oppose Israeli policies - or who dare to question the right of this apartheid state to exist as such - are labeled "self-hating Jews." Supporters of Israel are using historic anti-Semitism and the memory of the Nazi holocaust as a means to stifle dissent. Reason and compassion is not on their side, so they resort to name-calling. I have some personal experiences with this state of affairs, and I thought I'd recount some of them and share some thoughts on the subject. Read More... |
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| Delusion
Destroys Democracy by Joel S. Hirschhorn Will Americans learn to trust their fellow citizens or stay stuck on stupidly backing serial political betrayers? I have been watching films from the 1940s and 1950s about World War II. It was well known that Adolph Hitler was truly delusional. His delusions prevented him from accepting wisdom and facts from experienced military officers and others, and caused millions to suffer and die. Surely George W. Bush resembles Hitler psychologically. His obsessive delusions about his Iraq war are also causing incredible suffering and death, as well as squandering our nation's wealth. Read More... |
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| Web
of Deceit:
The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy
to George W. Bush by Barry M. Lando Book Review by Walter McElligott I had not finished reading Mr. Lando's complete chronology of Middle Eastern events when I recognized that his book must rank as a "must read" among students of history and political policy. Web of Deceit is also written for apolitical individuals like me whose proximity to the war on terrorism began with television news reports of jetliners smashing into the World Trade Center and Pentagon as America was attacked for the first time since the year after I was born. Read More... |
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| People
Around Us
edited by Holly Lachowicz and Barbara Seyda Book Review by Larry Sakin They say good things come in small packages. The new book People Around Us is certainly a small package- it will take you around ten minutes to read, but those ten minutes may well change your life. Read More... |
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