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The on-again-off-again alliances between conservative and liberal groups is on again, but not without its contradictions. Back in the early Eighties, during the Reagan years, conservatives joined with anti-nuclear power groups to end the multi-billion tax dollar boondoggle called the Clinch River Breeder Reactor in Tennessee. Their joint lobbying in Congress overcame the opposition of…
TO: Members of the United States SenateFR: Ralph NaderDT: March 31, 2005RE: AMTRAK The debate over how we spend tax dollars has been made increasingly more difficult because of President Bush’s costly invasion of Iraq and his insistence on providing tax benefits to the wealthy and massive subsidies to other private industries. Now President Bush…
“This is a sad day for the Schindler family and a blot on the history of American jurisprudence,” said Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith, “we extend our deepest sympathies to the entire Schindler family and thank them for their devotion to Terri and their noble defense of her life”. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3/31/05 Consumer…
“This is a sad day for the Schindler family and a blot on the history of American jurisprudence,” said Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith, “we extend our deepest sympathies to the entire Schindler family and thank them for their devotion to Terri and their noble defense of her life”. “As we mourn Terri, we…
The Terri Schiavo tragedy unfolds in many layers of controversy. They range from the bitter dispute between her husband, Michael, and her father and mother, Robert and Mary Schindler, all the way to the involvement by the Governor, the Congress, the federal courts and many religious, disability rights and medical organizations. If the focus is…
The Republican majority leader in the House of Representatives, Cong. Tom DeLay of Texas, and I agree on one issue dear to his mind and heart. We do not want him to resign from Congress in the midst of deepening scandal surrounding his aggressive political and fundraising activities. Stay put, Tom. The Republican Party needs…
Corporate cyborg, Arnold Schwarzenegger, must be thinking these days that it was not like this in his movies. On the screen, Arnold was the pursuer, the hunter, and the attacker. On the hustings now, it is the nurses, along with the teachers, and the firefighters, who are dogging him everywhere with their protests against his…
Dear Editor, Publisher, Producer, Reporter: We are writing to convey a level of heightened expectation in your forthcoming coverage of the U.S.-Iraq situation. War coverage, and coverage of the period preceding war, test the reliability of our news media. Access to truly independent sources of information is essential, given the government’s control of knowledge, data,…
Having moved along the path of destroying the freedoms and rights hitherto accorded wrongfully injured or defrauded Americans to have their full day in court via state class actions, George W. Bush is now pushing the Congress to make it even more difficult to sue for injuries and fatalities coming from medical negligence or incompetence.…
George W. Bush often says that the safety of all Americans is his highest priority. He doesn’t mean advancing vigorously the implementation of laws he has sworn to enforce against occupational disease and trauma, traffic injuries, air pollution, medical malpractice and other unsafe conditions that are taking the lives of many tens of thousands of…