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Guess They Didn't Get To Our Questions

Hey ABC. Next time, instead getting your debate questions spoon-fed from Sean Hannity, maybe listen to those of us here at Campaign for America's Future. Then you won't get your reputation mocked by your peers in journalism, and more importantly for their bottom...

Living Up To Lame Duck Status

President Bush just finished his latest empty speech on global warming. As usual, it was designed to give of appearance of action without actually acting. He did not take questions, presumably because he knows the flimsy rhetoric could not withstand five seconds of...

Five Questions That Should Be Asked At Tonight's Debate

Last week, Al Meyerhoff offered a series of thoughtful questions for tonight's debate between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, 8 PM ET on ABC. In the desperate hope it won't be 90 minutes of blather about supposed gaffes that voters appear completely...

McCain’s Economic Remedy: A Double Dose of the Same

On Wall Street, the masters of the universe have turned to prayer and worry beads. At the Federal Reserve, a full night’s sleep is a fading memory. Across Main Street, the recession is starting to hit, stores are shutting down, bankruptcies are spreading, houses are...

How to Kill An Army: A Scenario

John McCain, who from the early 1980s worked hard to establish himself the one of the Senate's shining champions of Vietnam veterans' issues, completed his betrayal of the Iraq-era troops today. Brandon Friedman of vetvoice.com has the details: Yesterday VoteVets.org...

Taxing News for Tax Day

It's almost quitting time, and if you've put off your taxes and haven't paid them online, you've probably scoped out the post office in your neighborhood with the latest closing time. Or maybe you're planning to speed to the nearest one before it closes. Chances are...

A Patriotic Day

Today is Tax Day, the deadline for filing our tax returns. It is fundamentally a patriotic day, the day where we citizens fund our own government. We are no longer ruled by monarchs who govern by the power of their own wealth. With taxation, we have representation. We...

One Year After Filibuster, Drug Costs Soaring

It was nearly one year go when a conservative filibuster stifled the new congressional majority, did the bidding of the pharmaceutical and insurance companies, and kept the ban on Medicare from negotiating with companies to lower drug costs. So what's been happening...

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