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"Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building."-- Jim Hightower
December's Lowdown
Corporate elites and their small-minded political servants are creating the Incredibly Shrinking America
"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." What a paragraph! This sparse, 52-word opening of our Constitution did not merely launch a fledgling nation--but a bold experiment in democratic idealism.
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Dressed up in their designer suits, they trade in human cargo
The new racketeers
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- Zapping the beef supply
- Granny d marches on!
- Postmodern piracy
- Suffer the little children
- Hogs at the trough
- Charity begins in the house
- Bill's beer
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Bill's beer
Coming back from Mexico in February, where he had gone to claim that his international drug war is a great success, Bill Clinton was given a beer by Air Force One stewards. No problem, alcohol is a legal drug. But hold your Clydesdales— they gave him a Hemp Golden Beer. The hemp plant (related to marijuana but without the high) has thousands of great uses, from making paper to beer, but demagoging politicians have banned U.S. farmers from growing it. So Bill's beer was made from imported hemp seed. He won't get another, though. The Office of National Drug Control Policy has now banned Hemp Golden (a legal product) from Air Force One, saying it's an "inappropriate" drink for the president's plane.