If you make more than $250,000 per year, are you rich?

John McCain has suggested that you're not rich unless you make $5,000,000 per year. This sets the stage for all of those non-rich (less than $5M per year) folks to step up and demand tax relief. Here's a recent Newsweek article, though, that shows that if your household income is…

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Government by the . . . quid pro quo

According to DemocracyNow, the CEO's of big corporations have a distinct preference for who they want in the White House.   How can you tell?  Watch where their contributions flow: The Hill newspaper reports the top executives from the country’s largest companies have donated ten times more money to John McCain’s…

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A video-summary of the recent FOX “News” attacks on Barack Obama

Robert Greenwald has put together another sharp-edged video illustrating what Obama is up against from the corporate media, and especially from FOX "News." [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJox3lZGNgg&eurl=http://foxattacks.com/virus/?utm_source=rgemail[/youtube] And here's a way to take action.

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Which candidate for president is for sale?

All of the candidates are for sale, according to the August 21, 2008 edition of Rolling Stone. The article, by Matt Taibbi, is entitled:  "Candidates for Sale:  What do Obama and McCain have in common?  The same big donors, who will expect to have their way no matter who wins."…

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Mainstream Media Hatchet Jobs aimed at Obama

I'm creating a place to collect the incidents where the mainstream media unfairly dumps on Obama. I'll start with this outrageous Washington Post article (and headline) slamming Obama's proposed budget even while McCain's proposed budge is much worse pursuant to non-partisan sources.

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