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It's National Nancy Off the Table Day

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By David Swanson

That’s right, children, it’s national Nancy Day, honoring the occasion on May 7, 2006, when Nancy Pelosi first allowed Tim Russert to badger her into agreeing that she wouldn’t permit the impeachment of Saint George or Father Dick, not even if they barbequed children on the White House lawn.

The right honorable Republican National Committee had just sent out a press release reading, roughly, as follows: “Skin me, Miss Nancy, snatch out my eyeballs, t’ar read more

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Listen to the Latest Urban Journal

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The Urban Journal is hosted by Keith Murphy on XM Satellite Radio Channel 169,
“The Power” daily, Monday through Friday, 8pm Eastern and the special
encore edition at 5am.

Urban Journal 5/07 pt. 1 Pulitzer Prize winning author Tom Ricks
Urban Journal 5/07 pt. 2 David Swanson
Urban Journal 5/07 pt. 3 Actor Hill Harper, author of Letters to a Young Sister
Urban Journal 5/07 pt. 4 Actor Hill Harper, author of Letters to a Young Sister

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Take Your Torture Photos to Church Day

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By David Swanson

If you’re paying attention, you know that no more evidence is needed to prosecute and convict our top national torturers, murderers, war mongers, eavesdroppers, and election riggers. If you want to protest our nation’s descent into open lawlessness, by no means delay. If you’re not planning on going to church on May 31st, for godsake don’t. But if you are planning to attend a church that day, and if more torture read more

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Give Everyone Healthcare By Shutting Insurance Companies

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By David Swanson

Our nation has more money than any other, more weapons than all the others combined, and a majority of its citizens believing it is, in some undefined sense, superior. But the people who live in the United States trail many other nations in basic measures of health and well-being. Almost uniquely among wealthy nations, we leave tens of millions of our citizens without health coverage, and many times that number with insufficient — albeit expensive — health insurance. read more

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An Even Worse Bybee Memo

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Jay Bybee wrote another memo that nobody has noticed, one purporting to authorize crimes far worse than torture, the same crimes the torture was itself intended to create false justifications for. On October 23, 2002, Assistant Attorney General Bybee signed a 48-page memo to the “counsel to the president” (Alberto Gonzales) titled “Authority of the President Under Domestic and International Law to Use Military read more

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Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union by David Swanson

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Book Can Now Be Ordered, Book Tour Being Planned

You can now pre-order my book at Amazon.com at http://tinyurl.com/daybreakbook

It’s a thick book containing everything I know – and then some – for $10 (pre-order discount price).  And you can support a good cause by pre-ordering it now.

You can also call or visit your local bookstore right now and ask them to be sure to stock the book.

If you’re in California, Pennsylvania, Florida, New Mexico, read more

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The Wrong Torture Question

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By David Swanson

When Americans get “ethical” these days they ponder the great moral mysteries, like “Is public health coverage fair to insurance companies?” or “If we increase the military budget but reduce one section of it, can the whole world still be safe?” or “Would you still oppose torture if it worked?”

Let me suggest a few reasons why I think that last question is the wrong one.

First, torture DID work. It forced false agreement with war lies, read more

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