Author: michael o. allen
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Bring a trash bag to the polls
In my top-10 tips for avoiding problems when you vote, tip #5 was: Don’t wear political attire to the polls. As I explained, While some states do allow voters to wear campaign clothing and buttons in the polling place, most states do not. Free speech issues aside, in order to avoid any confusion or delay…
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The New York Times presidential endorsement
Editorial Barack Obama for President Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance. The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government systematically stripped…
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“Real Virginia” is changing!
The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sent us What The Pfoek? The attached video from the Daily Show is a hilarious must watch, but also annoying to see how we in Central Virginia are represented to the rest of the country by this woman. FYI- Jon Stewart attended William and Mary so he knows Central Virginia…
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Strength of our faiths
Among the photographs taken by the photog Platon of hundreds of men and women who volunteered to serve in the military and were sent to Iraq or Afghanistan was this striking one of Elsheba Khan at the grave of her son, Specialist Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan. Gen. Colin Powell mentioned the photograph in denouncing the…
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KNOW YOUR VOTING RIGHTS ACT!
The ACLU Communications Department just produced this little YouTube video to present my 10 tips for avoiding problems when you vote. Pass it on! Practice “Safe Voting” — Top 10 Tips Do you practice “safe voting”? The ACLU offers 10 safe voting tips for when you exercise your right to vote. For voting problems or…
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Donnybrook
New Yorker Cover October 27, 2008 by Richard McGuire Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Steal back your vote
Theft of the 2008 Election Will the GOP’s campaign to deter new voters and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president? by ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. & GREG PALAST These days, the old west rail hub of Las Vegas, New Mexico, is little more than a dusty economic dead zone amid a boneyard of bare…
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Block the vote
The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sent us Block The Vote! Oh No You Didn’t!: Be Careful how you vote! This article and the one below it highlights the subtle, not so subtle, and beyond annoying rules, regs, and procedures that Robert Kennedy Jr. believes are part of a Voter Deterrence Strategy that could tip this…
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Not over till
The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sent us this message: Make no mistake, all this punditry predicting that this election is as good as over is not a good thing. As a woman of a certain age who has disected the predicted and actual outcome of every election since 1972 all this outcome predicting is endangering…
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CBS election broadcast news
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