AltWeeklies Wire
In Defense of Burning The Flag
This year, Congress attempted yet again to waste their time and our taxes on the debate over amending the US Constitution to prohibit burning the stars and stripes.
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James Preston Allen |
07-05-2006 |
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Beltway Jane Versus the Renegade
The campaign to oust Jane Harman from the 36th Congressional seat by Marcy Winograd was a campaign straight from the heart of California politics.
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James Preston Allen |
06-08-2006 |
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This Land Is My Land
Fact is, we are all immigrants on this bus!
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James Preston Allen |
05-10-2006 |
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Teach the Children Well
There has been a lot of public hand wringing lately over public school students choosing to walkout of classes in protest of the anti-immigration bill working its way through Congress.
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James Preston Allen |
03-31-2006 |
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Censure Will Save the Republic
The media is reporting that no Democrats are supporting Russ Feingold's resolution to censure Bush, but this simply isn't true.
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James Preston Allen |
03-16-2006 |
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Bush and the Unspoken Message
When Bush is left unscripted, words come out so twisted you wonder if he puts his words in an Osterizer before pouring them out of his mouth.
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James Preston Allen |
02-02-2006 |
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The Path of Democracy or Militarism
How different would America be if Martin Luther King, Jr. had not been shot down at the hands of an assassin?
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James Preston Allen |
01-19-2006 |
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Making Democracy Safe
As the latest and greatest excuse for going to war is to make Iraq safe for democracy,and as another political scandal befalls Washington’s insiders, the ghost of Mencken may still be asking, “is our democracy safe for the world?”
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James Preston Allen |
01-11-2006 |
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Next Stop – Impeachment!
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, and our problem of late has been that this republic has been too frightened to be vigilant.
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James Preston Allen |
12-22-2005 |
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When Free Speech Is Called Treason
What does it mean when the President's political surrogates start calling critics of the Iraq war traitors for speaking freely? If exercising our Constitutional rights of free speech is treason under these circumstances -- as some on the right maintain -- then let us all stand guilty!
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James Preston Allen |
12-09-2005 |
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Hiding in Red China
It is curious that both the governor of California and President Bush went to China at exactly the same time and for likely the same reason. Both men were ducking scrutiny of their political setbacks.
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James Preston Allen |
11-28-2005 |
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The Road Back From Darkness
California voters' reaction to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's musclebound ego may end up being what stops the Republican neo-con march into darkness.
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James Preston Allen |
11-14-2005 |
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Special-Election Masquerade
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's support for propositions 73 through 78 exposes the corporate-driven right-wing GOP political machine for all of its not-so-compassionate conservatism.
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James Preston Allen |
10-28-2005 |
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Censored in LA
In an interview, political cartoonist Paul Conrad explains why his work won’t be seen by Angelenos.
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James Preston Allen |
07-12-2005 |
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Tags: Paul Conrad
Burning Liberty to Save the Flag
The Constitutional admendment to ban flag burning is a smoke screen for other issues.
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James Preston Allen |
06-22-2005 |
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