"Added October 17, 2006
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Today, 135 years to the day after the last American President suspended habeus corpus, President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006. At it's worst, the legislation allows President Bush or Donald Rumsfeld to declare anyone -- US citizen or not -- an enemy combatant, lock them up and throw away the key without a chance to prove their innocence in a court of law. In other words, every thing the founding fathers fought the British empire to free themselves of was reversed today with the stroke of a pen." {more}

The farm, says DiCaprio, holds a remarkable array of biodiversity and, because of its size, functions as a carbon sink, a natural environment that stores more carbon than it releases into the atmosphere, and this helps reduce global warming. We have to start acknowledging that every action counts. {more}

Whether you are Democrat or Republican, Independent or other, it is hard to be against clean elections. Private contributions have embedded themselves so deeply into our politics that they have, in the opinions of many, perverted our wonderful system. What can be done about it? You ask. Well, the most obvious solution is taking the money right back out. That is what Arizona and Maine have done and that is what many other states, including California are hoping to do as well. {more}