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1–John  McCain Votes to Filibuster Minimum Wage Hike.
2–McCain housing policy shaped by lobbyist
4–McCain blasts Obama’s and Clinton’s attacks on NAFTA
5–McCain in NH: Would Be “Fine” To Keep Troops in Iraq for “A Hundred Years”
6–McCain Bush right to veto kids health insurance expansion
7–Senate passes expanded GI bill despite Bush, McCain opposition
8–McCain says overturn the law [...]

Vote to Promote
Most hard-core web users have either seen or used sites like Digg and Reddit at one time or another. These popular news aggregation services use the vote-to-promote model to push interesting user submitted links to the front of their pages. Users then vote on these submissions and the links with the [...]

Make one of these on Wordle.

(via slate.com)
From: [Redacted]
To: [Redacted]
Subject: WHO IS BARACK OBAMA?
There are many things people do not know about BARACK OBAMA. It is every American’s duty to read this message and pass it along to all of their friends and loved ones.
Barack Obama wears a FLAG PIN at all times. Even in the shower.
Barack Obama says the [...]

QUEENS, NY- The 2nd Annual Friends & RPCVs of Guyana Fundraiser, (http://guyfrog.org) will be held on Friday, July 18th at 8:00 pm to Midnight. The fundraiser will be hosted at Liberty Express Restaurant & Bar, 120-12 Liberty Ave, South Richmond Hill, Queens, NY. A raffle will be held during the event, which will include [...]

Ethical Consumerism (hearts) Social Shopping
Recently I was reminded of an article by activist and author George Monbiot from a year ago. He argued that “green consumerism” is pointless when trying to affect environmental and social change but that political participation is the most effective course of action.
If [green consumerism] merely swapped the damaging goods [...]