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Outside a home state office of Senator John McCain, a hand written protest sign read "NDAA = Death To Due Process". Outside the office of U.S. Representative John Carter, the signs warned, "Carter Wants You In Prison", and declared in red, white and blue designs, "NDAA - Take This Law And Shove It", and "Remember Your Oath? We Do!" more]

1. H.R. 3261
   Stop Online Piracy Act: Popularly known as SOPA, this bill would have allowed corporations to haul Americans and American organizations... [more]
   
   Johnny Isakson Embraces Big Government For Baseball
   U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson proudly displays on his official Senate web site an endorsement he received from Tom Schatz, the President of the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste. In the endorsement, Schatz says of Isakson, "The fight against big government is an uphill battle. Thanks to people like Sen. Isakson, taxpayers have a fighting chance and will continue to score victories." I wonder what the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste would say about the bill Johnny Isakson co-sponsored in the Senate... [more]
   
   Only 26 Stand For Separation Of Church And State In Congress
   Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve H.R. 2070, the Prayer Act of 2011. The legislation, if passed in the Senate and signed into law by the President, would not only allow, but mandate the creation of a government-sponsored expression of religious worship on public land on the National Mall in Washington D.C. The bill would enshrine in our nation's capital... [more]
   
   Voters Want Less Military, Fewer Lobbyists, Sanders Poll Finds
   U.S. Senate Bernard Sanders is conducting a survey this week to find out what the priorities of the American people are in the time before Barack Obama's State of the Union Address. So far, the most important issue has to do with the spread of corrupting forces within Washington D.C. 88.12 percent of respondents... [more]
   
   XL Pipeline Push For 2 Months Unemployment A Terrible Exchange
   The XL pipeline is a proposed project to lay a giant tube across the middle of the United States like a belt, a conduit for thick crude oil extracted from the Alberta tar sands flowing south across the Ogllala Aquifer all the way down to Texas, where the oil can be refined in order to be sold for burning. Current environmental protections clearly forbid such a project, but corporations from the fossil fuels industry have been pushing the Obama White House to create special waivers of those protections... [more]
   
   They Voted To Throw Americans In Prison Without Charge: Target These Senators In 2012
   Yesterday, the U.S. Senate had one final opportunity to defeat the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 1540). The NDAA grants the federal government the power to seize Americans and throw them into prison without trial for as long as it likes, on the mere accusation that the Americans imprisoned are somehow associated with a terrorist organization. The accusation does not need to be substantiated with evidence. So, in essence the NDAA gives the federal government the power to imprison... [more]
   
   Indefinite Imprisonment Roll Call of Shame: Only Sanders, 6 Democrats and 6 GOP Stand Up
   Today, both the Republican and Democratic political parties lost the right to claim that they stand for freedom, justice and the American way. In the U.S. Senate this afternoon, there came to the floor a terrible bill for a final vote. This bill, H.R. 1540,... [more]
   
   Pete DeFazio Takes On Wasteful Military Spending
   Republicans like to talk in general terms about cutting government waste, but it's a congressional Democrat, Pete DeFazio, who has the guts to get specific. DeFazio is going after the single biggest source of wasteful spending in the federal government: The U.S. military. "This year," DeFazio explained on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday, "the Pentagon will spend $670 billion, about $2 million... [more]
   
   Americans Elect Mischaracterizes Bernie Sanders on Priorities and on Same-Sex Marriage
   Americans Elect doesn't call it a ratings system or a "National Match" anymore, but the information that constituted its ratings for hundreds of possible presidential candidates is still there. That rating information is still being used to characterize presidential candidates as the initial vote to pick its presidential nominee creeps ever closer, now just 124 days away. And that information is still plagued with error:
   • A new "priorities" ranking of presidential contenders flatly... [more]
     
     

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