Tag: civil disobedience

Crazy, crazy and more crazy
ecthompsonmd August 22, 2012

So, a judge in Texas says that there might be civil war if Obama is re-elected. I have never heard such craziness. Why wasn’t there civil war when he was elected the first time? Why would there be civil war now? Could it be that Fox News is over-stoking conservatives with craziness? More from TPM: Texas Judge Tom Head is worried about what might happen if President Obama wins reelection in November. There could be riots, unrest or a “civil war, maybe,” he told a local television station this week. Because of that, the Lubbock County judge has decided the only

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Keystone Dead For Now
ecthompsonmd January 20, 2012

Just because it looks as if the Keystone Pipeline is dead, don’t think that this fight is over. Some very powerful people stand to make tons of money for this project to simply die. It will be back, I promise. From The Nation: For the second time in as many months, the Obama administration has rejected the Keystone XL pipeline—a hugely controversial project that would traverse the length of the country from Nebraska to the Gulf of Mexico, carrying heavy and dirty tar sands oil from deep in Canada. You’ll recall that, following a summer of protests and civil disobedience, the

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