The Huffington Post
APRIL 29, 2009
Robert L. BorosageCo-Director of the Campaign for America’s Future
Posted April 28, 2009 | 08:55 PM (EST)
Obama’s Grade at 100? What About Our Grade?
Grading a president after 100 days always strikes me as presumptuous. The only real grade is an incomplete. And as good teachers will tell you, letter grades - as [...]

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On May 21, Montana Women For will be sponsoring An Evening With Elsie Fox. Elsie is an extraordinary 101 year old political activist who was involved with Union Organizing in the United States in the 1930’s and has stayed politically active ever since. A Communist, she has never bowed to considerable public pressure to [...]

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Rep. Joel Boniek (R-Emigrant) is proposing a bill (HB 661) to make it more difficult for licensed physicians to provide medical services by adding licensing fees compliance, inspections and other requirements.  His bill is particularly directed at the Mountain Country Women’s Clinic in Livingston.  Please contact Rep. Boniek and express your opposition to his bill, [...]

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A new group of professionals, homeowners and concerned citizens is forming to plan strategies to help local homeowners who are having trouble making their mortgage payments avoid foreclosure and loss of their home.
The group is looking for bankers, lawyers, real estate professionals, credit counselors and others to take part in planning the response. [...]

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Friends,
Help stop a former Monsanto executive from working in the White House!
Currently America is in the middle of a record food safety crisis and it could get a whole lot worse.
There’s a possibility that former Monsanto executive Michael Taylor and irradiation proponent Dr. Michael Osterholm will be named to top food safety spots in the [...]

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A Bank Bailout That Works
by JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
This article appeared in the March 23, 2009 edition of The Nation.
March 4, 2009
The problem with America’s banks is not just one of liquidity. Years of reckless behavior, including bad lending and gambling with derivatives, have left them, in effect, bankrupt. If our government were playing by the [...]

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Obama’s War?
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by KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL
This article appeared in the March 9, 2009 edition of The Nation.
February 18, 2009
Two decades and two days after the Soviet army withdrew from its disastrous occupation of Afghanistan, it saddens me that we may be heading down the same path. Especially troubling is that President Obama, who wisely ordered a [...]

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Tim Cahil, adventure writer and humourist
Kira Salk,  war correspondent and National Geographic writer and first woman to walk across Papua New Guinea
Scott McMillion, journalist and auther of “Grizzly”
Alston Chase, biographer and naturalist and Jack Russell dog expert
Maryanne Vollers, authors of Ghosts of the Mississippi, Icebound, Wolf, and Hillary Clinton collaborator on Living History
and nationally reknowed [...]

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Labor’s Man Joins Treasury Team
by WILLIAM GREIDER
February 16, 2009
People getting nervous about Barack Obama’s plans to rescue the financial system got a kernel of good news they probably did not recognize. Ron Bloom of the United Steelworkers Union, a brainy veteran of investment banking, has been asked to join the insiders–advising Treasury officials on the [...]

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Congressman Frank’s Plan To Reduce Military Spending
1. Withdrawal From Iraq:
A timely withdrawal from Iraq could create $105 billon in savings in year one, if the recommendations from Center for American Progress report “Building a Military for the 21st Century” are followed
At the present time, the United States is spending about $10 billion a month to [...]

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