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Learn the real story behind the WMD in Iraq:

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
by Ron Suskind

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

DaveW recommends:

I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter

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I Am America (and So Can You!)
by Stephen Colbert

rae recommends:

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

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Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

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The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Wellstone

From northcountry’s bookshelf:

The New Golden Age:
The Coming Revolution Against
Political Corruption and Economic Chaos
by Ravi Batra

A novel about contractors in Iraq from the woman that runs The Spy That Billed Me:

Outsourced: A Novel
from RJ Hillhouse.


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Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power by Phyllis Bennis (interviewed on DN!)


Featured by Keith Olbermann, New (Powell's Sale): Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum (whose other books merit serious consideration)


"Explosive" State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
by James Risen


The book the CIA doesn't want you to read: Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
Larry Johnson's review


BT's all-time best seller:

PERMACULTURE:
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Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (Third Edition)


The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!


The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan


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Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists by Eleanor Mills * NYT review


Bury Me Standing: the Gypsies & Their Journey


1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus



Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
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The Price of Privilege:

How Parental Pressure and
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by Madeline Levine


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enough to provoke a filibuster?

Or are we supposed to believe him when he says he can't remember being a member of CAP and didn't know what the group really stood for? This being the same brilliant jurist who has details of hundreds of court decisions on the tip of his tongue?

And are we supposed to believe him when he says he has an open mind, even though every shred of his record says otherwise?

The man is a fucking liar.

Call or write your Senator today.

Filibuster the sunuvabitch!

Cela est bien dit, répondit Candide, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin.

by d52boy on Fri Jan 13th, 2006 at 03:27:17 AM EST
Is Alito worse than the three judges the Democrats let on the bench back in May last year? Owens, Brown and Pryor where not right leaning judges, they were the worst judges Bush could think of at the time.  

I don't believe there will be a filibuster -- and if there is one, the Democrats will lose.  The reason is simple: the Democrats did not lay the ground work for a filibuster during the questioning period -- they refused to work together.  Instead, we got grandstanding of the worst kind: Biden might as well had brushed his hair and had his nails done while on camera; Kennedy pushed an issue even he did not have all the facts.

(How many times have I had to say this: never, ever ask a question at one of these hearings if you do not already know the answer.  Never ask for documents to be made public unless you already know what is in them.

These nominees, obviously, are lawyers.  They know that you only ask a question if the answer benefits you, and you only answer a question if the answer benefits you.  But instead we have stupid Democrats who ask a bunch of questions thinking that the guy will screw up -- and when they don't they end up looking at their papers and say "ok, well, let's move on".  Idiots.)

As it stands now the public doesn't understand why the Democrats have a problem with Alito.  It has been portrayed in the press as simply a partisan issue.  And based on the performance of the Dems on the panel, I can understand why people don't get it.

--- A (former) member of the dreaded MSM, so be kind.

by numediaman on Fri Jan 13th, 2006 at 10:03:38 AM EST
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I agree with all of the above. The important difference between Alito and the other judges you mention is, of course, the influence of the court he's being appointed to.

Bush's reign is exposing not only the endless greed and venality of the right-wing power machine, but the utter bankruptcy of the Democrats.

I don't, frankly, have much hope--it's all part of a much larger national decline. The American century is coming to an end.

Cela est bien dit, répondit Candide, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin.

by d52boy on Fri Jan 13th, 2006 at 09:53:00 PM EST
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