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Iowa Consumers Forced to Make Risky Investment in Nuclear

March 9, 2010 by Bleeding Heartland

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 9, 2010                                          
Contact: Eric Nost, Environment Iowa
515-243-5835 | enost [at] environmentiowa [dot] org

The Iowa Senate voted 37-13 Tuesday afternoon to allow Mid-American Energy to investigate the feasibility of building new nuclear reactors in the state. The utility wants to hike its rates - for the first time in over a decade - by $15 million in order to pay for the study.

Environment Iowa state associate Eric Nost issued a statement in response, "Nuclear power is a not a proven solution to our environmental and economic crises. We call on leaders at all levels of government to invest in what we know works - clean, homegrown energy.

"Energy efficiency and wind and solar energy can create jobs when we need them - now."

At the federal level, Congress and the President are debating similar proposals from utilities that would dole out massive federal loan guarantees for the construction of new reactors. President Obama recently announced the first of the loans would go to two new plants in Georgia.

Orange County: No Longer 'The Right Wing Cradle'.

February 26, 2010 by Calitics

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Melissa Fox
I recently came across a fascinating - and very revealing - article about the political history of Orange County.

Dated July 7, 1974, and titled Orange County: The Right Wing Cradle, the article shows how dramatically Orange County, and in particular my own 70th Assembly District (Irvine, Laguna Beach, Laguna Woods, Lake Forest, Foothill Ranch, and most of the cities of Aliso Viejo, Newport Beach, and Tustin) has changed, both politically and demographically, in the past four decades.

The article describes Orange County as "a stronghold of the John Birch Society, a former stomping ground of the Klu Klux Klan, the fastest growing county in the United States, and the home of the first drive-in church."

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Francis Schaeffer's Article "Subversives From Within" Reposted

Submitted by Celtic_Divas_Bl... on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 13:20
A friend of mine sent this article to me.  Francis Schaeffer is the son of Frank Schaeffer and wrote the book, "Crazy for God".  He was heavily involved, along with his father, in the far Christian right's anti abortion movement.  I am currently reading this book, and I felt the need to share this piece with other readers on this site.  

Glenn Beck and the 9/12 Marchers: Subversives From Within

Who are these people?! Where do they come from?! Ordinary Americans might wonder why anyone would stoop so low as to follow Glenn Beck, Fox News and Dick Armey (and their corporate sponsors masquerading as "FreedomWorks") as they organize their "9/12 March On Washington" to cynically exploit the 9/11 attack.

Patriotic Americans might question the organizer's aim to provide a media forum for dimwitted right wingers to scream "Liar!" "Socialist!" "Antichrist!" "Muslim!" "Death Panels!" "He's not an American!" and so on and on and on about the commander in chief charged with defending us from further attacks. And some people might even cry "shame on you!" to the more mainstream Republicans participating that include Dick Armey of FreedomWorks, as well as GOP Reps. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Mike Pence of Indiana, Tom Price of Georgia, and South Carolina GOP Sen.

Photo of my brothers & I lovely but still think "who are those old guys" b/c to me we're still kids running barefoot in red Geor

Submitted by admin on Sat, 03/28/2009 - 12:40
“Photo of my brothers & I lovely but still think "who are those old guys" b/c to me we're still kids running barefoot in red Georgia clay”
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