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Find textbooks at Alibris!

NOTE: Overstock bests Amazon's prices and is "blue."

THE BOOKS WITH "BUZZ":
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story:

True Compass: A Memoir
by Edward M. Kennedy.

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

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

Boran2 and maryb2004 recommend:

The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde

Must-have information for all presidents-and citizens-of the twenty-first century?

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science behind the Headlines
Richard A. Muller

rae recommends:

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

On BooMan’s shelf:

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

This looks interesting:

Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

Here’s a good one from
Elizabeth Gilbert:

Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

"Crash" * Best Motion Picture, Academy Awards * Only $11.79 at Overstock * 2006 SAG Winner, Best Ensemble

Check out
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Selected new arrivals at 30% off

Recommended by Indianadem and ejmw:
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.


Great Deals
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Find mystery novels by Nancy Pickard ("Kansas")



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:
A Designers' Manual

$79.95 * Sale: $59.95


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


Green Press Initiative
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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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Check out Powell's
"At The Movies"


Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World by Noam Chomsky (Power & Terror: Post 9-11 Talks)


The Price of Privilege:

How Parental Pressure and
Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of
Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

by Madeline Levine


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Any help to any state with the Proposition 13 type of restriction on raising taxes should require the repeal of those restrictions.

The sad fact is that under conservative tutelage a lot of states squandered substantial "rainy day funds" in unnecessary but politically expedient tax cuts, especially cuts to businesses and high-income individuals.

Any help should require that repayment be made to nonrevocable rainy day funds in lieu of repayment to the federal government, with some protective mechanism on when a "rainy day" can be declared.

50 states, 210 media market, 435 Congressional Districts, 3080 counties, 192,480 precincts

by TarheelDem on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 03:08:23 PM EST
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Prop 13 was a constitutional amendment. It would be hard to repeal. But I think making them raise taxes and fight among themselves on how would be sufficient. It would be sufficient in California.
by bento on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 03:28:34 PM EST
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The citizens of California have a gun to their head fiscally and they can't figure out that it might be because of Prop 13?  And folks talk about Southern dementia!  What happened to all those wonderful special referenda?

From Earl Warren and Pat Brown to "dah Gubernator".  From the best schools in the nation to - what - no schools?  No healthcare?

NC raised tobacco taxes this year.  North Carolina. Cigarette taxes.  It was weeks of hell and posturing, but it got done.

50 states, 210 media market, 435 Congressional Districts, 3080 counties, 192,480 precincts

by TarheelDem on Fri Nov 20th, 2009 at 05:43:24 PM EST
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Part of the problem in CA is the same as the problem with the Senate re filibusters: a majority can require a larger majority than itself in the future. Hence, 51% of Senators can approve a filibuster requirement that then requires 60%. While that 51% have in a sense reduced their power, if their agenda is obstruction, they have punched above their weight. Similarly, Prop 13 passed with 62%, I believe, of the vote. A healthy margin. But now you have a 67% requirement to pass taxes. I think it should be an accepted principle of democracy that no majority can impose a requirement for a larger majority than itself.
by bento on Sat Nov 21st, 2009 at 03:20:01 AM EST
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