Big Endorsement - Seattle Times endorses Obama !!!

Obama should be the next president of the United States because he is the most qualified change agent. Obama is a little young, but also brilliant. If he sometimes seems brainy and professorial, that's OK. We need the leader of the free world to think things through, carefully. We have seen the sorry results of shooting from the hip.

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Stopping At Nothing To Win

In the military culture that shaped John McCain, there is no more important responsibility than the promotion boards that select the right officers for top positions of command. It's a sacred trust in McCain's world, because people's lives are at stake.

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The Government, the media and Afghanistan

The U.S. military relied on an "independent journalist" to deny villagers' claims of large-scale civilian deaths. It turned out the "journalist" is Fox's Oliver North. Why are we talking about pigs and lipstick?

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By the bright shiny object the Republicans trotted out last week.







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No way, no how, no McCain-Palin.

19 days before HHS rule changes everything

HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt has proposed a new rule that will limit the rights of women to receive medically accurate information and treatment. The result would be limited access to birth control and abortion for women all over the country - regardless of state law.

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Government Plans Seizure of Fannie and Freddie

The government informed the two mortgage-finance companies that it is preparing a plan to seize them and place them in a conservatorship, officials and executives said.

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Three University of Kentucky Journalists Jailed at RNC

On Monday night, three journalists from the Kentucky Kernel were arrested while documenting the protests outside the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. Nothing indicates that any of the three were actually participating in the protests, much less violating any laws that would warrant their arrest.

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