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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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Kerry lost (probably), and was his own undoing
Reasons to celebrate and be hopeful!
Also in this issue:
- Was it a mess, or a fraud?
- Suppressing the vote
- The ideology of flu-shots
- Wal-mart's numbers game
- Our apoligies
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Our apoligies
Our October issue was inexcusably late. Some of you received it after the Nov. 2nd election, which was dispiriting to you and truly embarrassing to us—I apologize to you. We had two problems. The first was me. I've been crisscrossing the country practically fulltime since mid-July, traveling to more than 60 cities like some modern day Paul Revere, trying to rally a big turnout of grassroots voters. As a result, I've been writing the Lowdown in planes, trains, and taxis.
This write-and-run method seriously slowed our monthly production schedule, causing all of our summer issues to be somewhat delayed. Then came the mad political blitz of the final campaign month, which caused our October issue to be three weeks late coming out of my pen.
That still could have been within the delivery margin— but we had breakdowns at each of four stages in our production process, totally wrecking our schedule. Again, my apologies. The good news it that my travel is now back to normal and we've upgraded our production system, so we're getting back on track—and on time. Thanks for understanding.