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Israel Is Finally Catching On

by derek, posted to Dissent / News / Our Government / Video

See, in today’s world, governments have to manipulate the public before they can attack their enemies. If you want to invade another country, you just provoke them until they get pissed off enough to do something, then just say you’re defending your self from their attacks. Yea, they’re catching on.

I mean Hizbollah’s stated reason […]

Renegade Art

by mm, posted to Chicago / Dissent

Scott Smith of Chicagoist wrote this post about a group of artists staging an art show on the El tonight.
“…we’re taking back the spaces taken over by private corporations, turning them into places for artwork to be viewed and having a party at the same time.”
Kind of similar to Derek’s idea about creating […]

San Francisco Joins Chicago, D.C. in Revoking the Third Amendment

by derek, posted to Dissent / Opinion / San Francisco

Our Constitution prohibits the infringement of the right of the people to keep and bare arms, but I guess San Francisco voters disagree.

Coyners’ Dig on Frist

by derek, posted to Dissent / Our Government / Transparency

Check out Congressman Conyers’ response to Frist’s tizzy over the Democrats closing the Senate doors.
“Never have I been slapped in the face with such an affront to the leadership of this grand institution.” - Senate Majority Leader Bill FristSorry Senator Frist, but having to face questions about why we are fighting a war based on […]

The Founding Fathers Are Dead

by derek, posted to Dissent / Opinion / Our Government

So, the founding fathers are quite dead now. Why do they still get a voice?

What A Real Debate Looks Like

by derek, posted to Dissent / Transparency / Video

It’s not something we see very often; take two intelligent, eloquent public speakers with abrasive wit and passionately-held opposing viewpoints and put them on a stage and point cameras at them and let them fight it out and see if you learn anything. Amy Goodman from Democracy Now did a wonderful just doing just that.

The […]