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ACORN and ‘Voter Fraud’ : Bogus Issue Missreported
Top: ACORN voter registrar in New Mexico. Photo by Clayton Kennedy / ACORN. Above: Nevada investigators raid Las Vegas ACORN office looking for evidence of ‘voter fraud.’ Photo by J.C. Hong / AP.Media revive pattern of reporting on alleged “voter … Continue reading
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Tagged ACORN, Campaign Tactics, Community Organizing, Media, Media Distortion, November Election, Republican Party, Voter Fraud, Voter Registration
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Joan Didion : Election by Sound Bite
Portrait of Joan Didion by Robert Birnbaum.Obsessed by ‘lipstick on a pig,’ economic ‘free fall’ and other ‘great stories,’ America has failed to see the real challenges it faces.By Joan Didion / October 17, 2008 This piece appears in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Free Elections, Media, Political Campaigns, Political Spin, Writers
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Bill Ayers? McCain Campaign Connected to REAL Terrorists
McCain’s terrorist: Eduardo Arocena.Convicted murderer Eddie Arocena, being taken from FBI headquarters. Photo by Marice Cohn / Miami Herald.‘McCain’s campaign and advisers find themselves allied with and/or supporting militants who have committed acts that any reasonable observer would define as … Continue reading
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Tagged Counter-Revolutionaries, Cuba, Cuban Exiles, Extremism, Joe Lieberman, McCain Campaign, Right Wing, Terrorism
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Mounted Cops Attack Protesters Led by Iraq Vets
Protesters at Hofstra University, site of the presidential debate, on Oct. 15. Photo by The West / College OTR. Around the time that Barack Obama and John McCain bent over backwards to show that they commiserated with the “hurtin’” middle … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-War Vets, IVAW, Peace Movement, Police Brutality, Police Tactics, Presidential Debates, Social Action
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…I Approve this Method
Cartoon by Charlie Loving / The Rag Blog. The Rag Blog
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Tagged Campaign Tactics, Cartoon, Humor, McCain, McCain Campaign, Satire
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Who Needs Watergate? We’ve Got Joe the Plumber!
Looking good, Joe.Latest on Joe: Things just ain’t what they seem.By sweatpantsmom / October 16, 2008 If you watched the third and final presidential debate last night you know that there were many mentions of “Joe the Plumber.” Joe is … Continue reading
Austin : Former Black Panther Kathleen Cleaver Sparks UT Gathering
‘1968: A Global Perspective’ keynote speaker Kathleen Cleaver, center, at the UT-Austin campus. Immediately flanking her are conference panelists Alice Embree and Thorne Dreyer of The Rag Blog. At far left and far right are Jim Retherford and Carl Webb … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Black Liberation Movement, Black Panthers, Daniel Ellsberg, Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver, Sixties, Texas, UT-Austin
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The Mob : Did John McCain Play Piano in a Bordello?
‘Perhaps McCain was untainted by the mob and corruption, but one wonders if he could have been that successful had he not somehow made his peace with that situation.’By Sherman De Brosse / The Rag Blog / October 15, 2008 … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Cindy McCain, McCain, November Election, Organized Crime, Presidential Campaign
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Galveston Homeless : Where Will They Go?
Galveston: clean-up continues; many still homeless.Post-Ike tent city for homeless to close with no back-up plan. By Sue Sturgis / October 14, 2008 Before Hurricane Ike devastated Galveston Island on the Texas coast, about 60 homeless people spent their nights … Continue reading
How Will the Crash of 2008 Impact the Elderly?
Health care, the nursing home, the retirement home, and, heaven help us, John McCain.By Dr. S. R. Keister / The Rag Blog / October 15, 2008 One of the most frightening aftereffects of the crash of 2008 will be the … Continue reading
Dr. William H. Schubert : The Bill Ayers I Know
Bill Ayers Those of us who care about education and what’s been done to it in the cruel, foolish, and profligate class war from above over the quarter-century that has been my entire adult life are likely to know Bill … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Ayers, Campaign Tactics, Education, Educational Reform, Obama, Obama Smear Campaign, Scholars, SDS, Sixties, Weather Underground, William Ayers
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Casey Porter : Stop-Lossed in Iraq
Eddy Porter holds a photo of his son, U.S. Army Spc. Casey Porter, who is returning for his second tour of duty in Iraq under the Department of Defense’s “Stop-Loss” program. Photo by Ronald W. Erdrich / Abiline Reporter-News.Casey Porter … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-War GIs, Austin, Filmmakers, GI's, Iraq Veterans, Iraq War, Military, Texas
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