Perhaps most interesting in this campaign were some of the negative Democratic ads. They simply assert that the Republican candidate agrees with George W. Bush. That’s all they tried to prove and trotted out the percentage of times the candidate has voted for President Bush’s agenda. That was extraordinary. Just to attach a Republican to…

Minimum wage initiatives are winning in Missouri, Ohio, and Arizona, and winning handily. In Missouri the proposal to increase the minimum wage is winning by almost three to one. Voters are saying that work needs to work; and that if you work hard and full-time in America you shouldn’t be poor. That’s one of the…

the latest news on the election, minimum wage, abortion, Rumsfeld’s resignation, Darfur, Iran, and the U.N. Security Council Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail » Full news summary: Breaking news this afternoon. Rumsfeld to Step Down as Defense Secretary – “President Bush announces he is replacing secretary of defense, saying a…

A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of…

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