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Trupiano is the Democratic nominee in Michigan’s 11th District. The audio of this interview is here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/14658

David Swanson: Tony Trupiano, it’s great to talk to you; so how does campaigning compare to working on the radio?

Tony Trupiano: There is no comparison. As you and I are talking, we are 22 days out of the election. David, I can honestly tell you I am not the same person today that I was when I sought your advice and counsel some 14 months read more

By David Swanson

Lewis Lapham, essayist extraordinaire and editor of Harper’s magazine, asked Congressman John Conyers what he thought the point was of publishing a lengthy report laying out evidence of Bush’s impeachable offenses. Conyers’ response was: “to take away the excuse that we didn’t know.”

But Lapham still wanted to know what the hurry was: why not wait until the Democrats had a large majority, or more investigations were done, or the public demanded read more

Monday, October 30, 7 p.m.
Hunt Union Ballroom
New York State University at Oneonta
Oneonta, NY
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By David Swanson

Here’s a 30-minute mp3 file of an interview I recorded earlier today with Tony Trupiano, the former national radio host who is now the Democratic nominee to throw Bush-follower Thaddeus McCotter out of his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives where he fails to represent Michigan’s 11th District. While I support Trupiano and encourage others to do so, in this interview I ask him about positions read more

By David Swanson

If you live in a solidly red (Republican) or blue (Democratic) district, then the Fifth Congressional District of Virginia might strike you as a moderate area being contested by two moderate candidates. The historically Democratic district, which continues to vote for Democratic state governors, switched when its current congressman, Virgil Goode, left the Democratic Party in 2000 to join the party he usually voted with anyway. But Goode does not always vote like a Republican. read more

By David Swanson

A majority of Americans supported attacking Iraq, but now a majority of Americans say it was the wrong thing to do and that they were lied to. If you are among those who supported the attack on Iraq but now believe you were mistaken, then you have one step up on our president – he’s never publicly admitted a mistake in his life. In fact, he once demonstrated the difficulty he has in even imagining being wrong by unsuccessfully attempting to recite the following wise saying: read more

By David Swanson

With “The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders’ Cure for Royalism,” John Nichols has produced a masterpiece that should be required reading in every high school and college in the United States. Unlike several recently published books, this is not an argument for impeaching Bush, not a list of charges, not a rough draft of articles of impeachment. Rather, “Genius” is a history and portrait of the practice of impeachment, a practice that has been used read more