Updated: FBI raids homes of RNC protesters and anti-war activists in Minneapolis, MI, NC, Chicago

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Friday September 24, 2010 · 10:01 AM PDT

2010/09/24 · 10:01

This is my home city, Minneapolis: two years after the crazy attacks on the RNC protesters.

*Breaking News* At least four houses in Minneapolis raided, other houses in Michigan, NC, Chicago targeted.

On Friday morning, three houses in the Minneapolis area are believed to have been raided by SWAT Teams. While we have few details right now, the F.B.I. appears to be targeting people associated with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Besides the raids in Minneapolis, houses in Michigan, North Carolina and Chicago were also targeted.

Targeted individuals include people who were involved with protesting the 2008 Republican National convention in Minneapolis in 2008, and others who are a members of a group called the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

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Tuesday August 08, 2006 · 8:59 PM PDT

2006/08/08 · 20:59

Joe Lieberman is picking up the mantle of the man who helped defeat him in 2000. Lieberman will be running in a general election against a Democrat, with the support of Republicans, in an effort that will split the Democratic vote.

Lieberman is the new Ralph Nader, with one big exception: Nader wasn't a Democrat, but Lieberman claims to be.

No, Lieberman is Nader 2.0, and Nader 2.0 is much more ugly than the original. Lieberman is rejecting the decision of the voters, and is willfully stabbing his claimed party in the back. Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Illinois General Assembly: Impeach Bush

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Wednesday April 26, 2006 · 8:47 AM PDT

2006/04/26 · 08:47

The Illinois State Legislature has introduced Joint Resolution 125 (reproduced in full, below the fold) to initiate impeachment proceedings against Bush.

Can they do that?

Yes they can.

Representative Yarbrough stumbled on a little known and never utlitized rule of the US House of Representatives, Section 603 of Jefferson's Manual of the Rules of the United States House of Representatives, which allows federal impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of a state legislature. From there, Illinois House Joint Resolution 125 (hereafter to be referred to as HJR0125) was born.

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Friday October 14, 2005 · 10:03 AM PDT

2005/10/14 · 10:03

Republicans have successfully taken the citadel of power. Democrats want to learn from this success, but before we parrot Republican strategy, let us first think critically.

I argue that it is too easy to draw the wrong conclusions from the success of the Republican Party. There certainly are things that we can emulate, but wisdom indicates that scrutiny and evaluation preclude action.

A few questions to keep in mind when evaluating Republican strategies for success: Read More

Nobody said Republicans want to kill us: Pronoun Abuse and the Deliberately Obtuse

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Tuesday July 19, 2005 · 12:17 PM PDT

2005/07/19 · 12:17

Pronoun Abuse and the Deliberately Obtuse

The Wingnutosphere is bemoaning another great outrage today. Of course, it's a manufactured outrage, but red meat is red meat even if it's mystery meat. So what, you ask, is the new liberal heresy?

From NewsMax:

Young liberals this week flocked to the nation's capital to hear, among other things, liberal television pundit and Democrat political strategist Paul Begala accuse Republicans of wanting to kill him and his children to preserve tax cuts for the rich.

Begala was featured at the first-ever Campus Progress National Student Conference, which was designed to provide campus liberals with the tools necessary to fight the conservative movement. The event also drew former President Bill Clinton, for whom Begala once worked as an adviser.

...

Begala's presence on the panel created a stir when he declared that Republicans had "done a p***-poor job of defending" the U.S.

Republicans, he said, "want to kill us."

Wow. What was Begala thinking? Who could believe that he would say something so outrageous?

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Thursday June 23, 2005 · 3:47 PM PDT

2005/06/23 · 15:47

You've probably heard about the missing $8.8 billion that our politicians and the establishment press seem so keen to ignore.

However, you should be aware that in the 11th hour before transferring power to the Iraqis, the US shipped as much as $20 billion to Iraq on pallets, billions of which were handed out in duffel bags to contractors without any real accountability.

One picture shows grinning CPA officials standing in front of a pile of cash said to be worth $2 million to be paid to a security contractor.

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Wednesday June 22, 2005 · 7:46 AM PDT

2005/06/22 · 07:46

Fox News Sprays Neurotoxin, Allegedly Leading to the Hospitalization of Employee

Fox News Management Is "Keeping People In The Dark" About Insecticide Incidents, Tipsters Allege
Multiple Fox News employees have told TVNewser that their bosses are not being forthcoming with information about recent insesticide sprayings that allegedly led to the hospitalization of an employee. The anonymous tipster who first described how production and technical personnel at Fox News Channel were exposed to diazinon, a neurotoxin class insecticide banned by the EPA for indoor use, sent a follow-up message to TVNewser this morning.

Only One Employee Down? The Roaches Still Rule the Roost

My favorite quote from the story:

"Whatever poison they're spraying at Fox, its not enough," another FNC employee writes.

Shooting Liberally

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Friday June 17, 2005 · 7:47 AM PDT

2005/06/17 · 07:47

So, are there any Kossaks out there who consider themselves liberal gun enthusiasts?

I have long been a supporter of gun control, but I'm softening up a little, and I'd welcome a rational discussion on the merits and limitations of gun control, on the differences between urban and rural issues related to fire arms and the rights of American citizens to bear arms.

Perhaps, most importantly to this post, are there any liberal gun enthusiasts who loath the politics of the NRA and would like to start their own rational, gun-toting progressive fire-arms group/lobby.

I've only fired a gun a couple of times, but I'd like to head out to the range and learn to shoot.

So, even more specifically, are there any Minnesota liberals out there in the Twin Cities area who'd like to get together, fire off a couple of rounds and talk politics?

Let's fire up a conversation, and send me an email if your interested.

Let me suggest a name for our club: Shooting Liberally

Second-Richest Man in the World Says, "The rich are winning."

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Thursday June 09, 2005 · 3:30 PM PDT

2005/06/09 · 15:30

In an interview with Lou Dobbs on CNN, Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, claimed that we are indeed engaged in "class warfare" and that the rich are winning.

BUFFETT: Yeah. The rich people are doing so well in this country. I mean, we never had it so good.

DOBBS: What a radical idea.

BUFFETT: It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.

DOBBS: ...At the same week the House passed the estate tax, Congress passed the bankruptcy legislation, which they had the temerity to call bankruptcy reform, Democrats and Republicans passing this legislation, which is onerous to the middle class. Half of the bankruptcies in this country take place, because people fall ill, serious illnesses result in bankruptcy. Nearly half of the people involved. How do you -- you have watched a lot of politics. What is going on in this country?

BUFFETT: The rich are winning. Just take the estate tax, less than 2 percent of all estates pay any tax. A couple million people die every year, 40,000 or so estates get taxed.

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Tuesday April 19, 2005 · 9:37 AM PDT

2005/04/19 · 09:37

Cyber Sleuths and Blogger Bloodhounds needed!

Yesterday, an acquaintance at ACORN informed me that they're "on the receiving end of some nasty frivolous litigation attack by the right-wing" outfit called Free Enterprise Coalition.

I posted a diary looking for help in researching the Free Enterprise Coalition, and a number of our fellow Kosians dug up some great intel. Thank you for your help!

Today I have some more information. According to my contact, "The plaintiffs in the suit are Mark Rubick and Jamey Koralewski. Their attorneys are Jeffrey S. Creamer and Douglas G Haynam of Shumaker, Loop and Kendrick in Toledo OH."

Also, the rhetoric of this complaint is very similar to a complaint filed by one Mark F. (Thor) Hearne of the American Center for Voting Rights.

The complaints make some bizarre claims, including allegations of bribing potential voters with crack cocaine. It keeps getting more interesting.

More detailed information lies below the fold. Please take a peak. The folks at ACORN need to get as much information as possible to help counter attack this mysterious Free Enterprise Coalition: Read More

Help! Has anyone heard of "The Free Enterprise Coalition"?

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Monday April 18, 2005 · 1:47 PM PDT

2005/04/18 · 13:47

I just received an email from an acquaintance at the local ACORN office here in MN.

She says they're "on the receiving end of some nasty frivolous litigation attack by the right-wing..." outfit called Free Enterprise Coalition.

Has anybody locked horns with this group or heard of them?

She is trying to get as much information on this group as quickly as possible.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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