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This evening's Rescue Rangers are Louisiana 1976, Patriot Daily, vcmvo2, dadanation, grog, and srkp23, with shayera as editor.

• In It's Do or Die - My Push to Win June 3rd Primary, our very own dkos candidate, Ron Shepston for Congress lays out a detailed financial analysis of what it takes to win this primary. He also asks for our help in order to win. Netroots, you're up! (vcmvo2)
• babeuf rages at the brazen criminality of BushCo and the miserable failure of our so-called free press, in Torture and the Obscenity of "Bittergate". (srkp23)
• joeshwingding continues his outstanding series on the dismantling of financial regulations since 1994 and the economic dangers we face as a result in The Era of Modern Banking. (grog)
• The Cunctator brings us a well-linked piece demonstrating that As Earth Day Nears, White House Pretends To Take Action On Climate. (srkp23)
• gmoke makes the compelling argument that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan need to be part of any discussion of the environment in No War at the Global Warming Conference. (Louisiana 1976)
• Black History: The Native Americans is StormBear's latest, excellent installment of this on-going educational diary series. (dadanation)
• snackdoodle presents our history of violations of human rights and international law since the 1940's in Torture IS an old American value. (Patriot Daily)
• sheddhead shares with us the wonderful protest music of Carol Williams set to powerful slide shows of sheddhead's and others' photography, in Look What They Did to Our Country. (srkp23)
• BooMan23 urges citizen activists to step forward to take leadership where DC has not in We Have to Do Something About Bush's Torture. (Patriot Daily)
• In Enemies Foreign, Enemies Domestic, Jeff Huber compellingly defines who America's enemies are at home, and abroad. (vcmvo2)
• Bastoche continues an outstanding series on neoconservatism with this entry examining the ideology and iconography of the cowboy and how it is deployed by McMaverick, in Cowboy Nation III. (srkp23)
• Yashua discusses 8 reasons why John McCain is Destined to Win. (Patriot Daily)
• johne reports on Congressman Bob Schaffer's increasing credibility problem in New Ties To Abramoff Emerge For Shaffer (Co-Sen). (vcmvo2)
• Mandy Simon of the Washington Legislative Office of the ACLU makes The Case Against NSLs, "the secret government subpoenas issued to gain access to personal or business records without court approval." (srkp23)
• jimstaro rounds up dates of historical significance in the peace movement, and why we should take notice in This Week In Peace History. (vcmvo2)

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