Apparently. I just got a call from one of the best activists I know on the ground. Amy Tauchman from Turn Dupage Blue just gave me a heads up about this new truthout article talking about the almighty Rahm Emmanuel. So here is the article. And here is the snippit about Cegelis:

   It was the day after Christmas 2005 and Christine Cegelis sat alone at her dining room table, trying to figure out how to tell her campaign volunteers that she was going to drop out of the 2006 Democratic primary.

The next evening she was to meet with friends and colleagues who had organized around her candidacy for the House of Representatives in the 6th District of Illinois. Her volunteers had walked block after block of the suburban district and spent hours making phone calls to solicit donations and promote the campaign. Many of these people had been at Cegelis’s side during her 2004 campaign and witnessed the fruits of their labor when long-time Republican Representative Henry Hyde decided to retire instead of facing Cegelis again in 2006. This was their shot to have a national impact. Continue reading →

By Norman Solomon, a SpidelBlog contributor

Reading his “Letter From Baghdad” column in the New York Times on Sept. 5, you’d never know that Thomas Friedman has a history of enthusiasm for war. Now he laments that Iraq is bad for the United States — “everyone loves seeing us tied down here” — stuck in the “madness that is Iraq.” And he concludes that the good Americans who have been sent to Iraq will not be deserved by Iraqis “if they continue to hate each other more than they love their own kids.”

The column, under a Baghdad dateline, is boilerplate Friedman: sprinkled with I-am-here anecdotes and breezy geopolitical nostrums. For years now, the man widely touted as America’s most influential journalist has indicated that his patience with the war in Iraq might soon run out. But, like the media establishment he embodies, Friedman can’t bring himself to renounce a war that he helped to launch and then blessed as the incarnation of virtue. Continue reading →

Dear Kevin:

      Thank you for contacting me regarding climate change and the environment. I sincerely appreciate the benefit of your views on this very important issue. 

      Representing Arizona, a land rich in cultural, historical, and natural treasures, I am genuinely concerned about human activities that harm or damage these irreplaceable natural wonders. Reduced air quality, climate change and ozone depletion continues to be a serious concern to our Nation. A major contributor to these problems comes from the combustion of fossil fuels. I recognize the need to address these problems and will pursue policies to address them without imposing costly and unnecessary regulatory burdens on businesses.

      The United States works internationally to encourage greenhouse gas reductions. With the Environmental Protection Agency leading the way, the U.S. participates in six of the eight Task Forces of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate. This six-nation Partnership works to develop strategies for improving energy security, and reducing pollution. Continue reading →

By Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr.
President of the Hip Hop Caucus

On July 1, 2007 I sought the support of regular Americans after receiving notification from the U.S. Air Force Reserve that they were threatening to discharge me on the basis of behavior that, in their words, is “clearly inconsistent with the interest of national security.” The behavior in question is my outspoken opposition to the occupation of Iraq and the inadequate and inhuman response to the tragedy of Katrina.
 
As a result of the outpouring of support I received from all over the United States and from around the world, the Air Force backed down.  Thanks to my brothers and sisters in the movement, I will end my service with the honorable discharge that I earned.  I am eternally grateful, and evermore committed to taking on the powers that be for the powers that ought to be.
 
At first, when I informed the Air Force that I would fight their harassment, they threatened me with deployment to Iraq, or even prison time.  Then with the tremendous circulation and widespread publishing of my first Open Letter, the Air Force realized if they were going to challenge me, they would have to challenge thousands of Americans from across the nation outside of Robbins Air Force Base in Georgia, on my hearing date. Continue reading →

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