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by Matt Coker | OC Weekly–A Clockwork Orange
“I haven’t seen you since 1988,” Tim Carpenter says with astonishment as he finally recognizes the progressive activist whose hand he’s been shaking during a brief break between …

by Matt Coker | The O.C. Weekly–A Clockwork Orange
Above the “Teamsters Local 952 Orange County and Vicinity” logo on the wall behind the speaker’s podium at the Orange union hall on Marks Way is the …

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
Since Sarah Palin has been doing such a stand-up job, no pun intended, of distinguishing her platform from that of John McCain when it comes to ANWAR, and her latest plan to …

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
The McCain camp’s latest tactic is to insinuate that Barack Obama’s plan to raise taxes only for people making over $250,000 “sounds a lot like socialism.”
Fast rewind to ten days ago or …

by Linda Milazzo
As corporate media reports obsessively on Joe The Plumber, who misrepresented himself to Barack Obama saying he’d be victimized by Obama’s tax plan, Americans more in need than Joe are being victimized for …

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
We may not come away with much that’s different after this debate, but there is a new character, at least John McCain would like us to think so—Joe the Plumber. Joe was …

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
Dear Senator Obama:
You already know me to be a supporter of yours–not for weeks, or months, but for years. Today, arguably, on the eve of your most important presidential debate, please keep …