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A cute little piece from commentator, pundit Rachel Maddow. Or, CLICK HERE to View

CAN WE GET THIS RIGHT BEFORE 2008? This is, in my estimation, the "duh" news. We all knew it. Mark Crispin Miller (whom I've had the priviledge of hearing speak twice now) got this all sorted out and wrote a great book about it: Fooled Again. Yet there's still problems with voter registration & voting machine counts - ad infinitum. This is the 21st Century right? Most of us have a computer in the house and probably about 80% of those have some blog that they tweak and toy with on a daily basis. Dell and Microsoft and H-P dominate the market. So, what's the problem? Is the I.T. Desk in Ohio just overwhelmed and underpaid? Come on, people. Get it RIGHT. This is America! Isn't it? Ohio Secretary of State confirms 2004 election could have been stolen by Harvey Wasserman Ohio's Secretary of State announced this morning that a $1.9 million official study shows that "critical security failures" are embedded throughout the voting systems in t...

AFTER THE FALL: WHY AMERICA NEEDS A SPIRITUAL LEFT by Rabbi Michael Lerner For years the Democrats have been telling themselves 'it's the economy, stupid.' Yet millions of middle-income Americans have voted against their economic interests to support Republicans who have tapped a deeper set of needs. Democrats differ on the fix. The center/right activists of the Democratic Leadership Council warn that the Party needs to distance itself more from its economic populism, its anti-war discourse (what they call the George McGovern or Howard Dean wing of the party), and its identification with gays, feminists, and other cultural legacies of the 1960s. On the other hand, center/left activists like Robert Borosage of the mainstream progressive Campaign for America's Future and Katrina van den Heuvel, editor of the Nation, call for big ideas from progressives but actually have little more to offer than the recycled ideas that failed to catch primary voters when they were offered...