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A Radical's Views on Voting I have a fairly radical view when it comes to voting.

Editor's note: Video of Gravel's speech can be found on Page 2. I have spent enough time inside the American military to have tasted its dark brutality, frequent incompetence and profligate ability to waste human lives and taxpayer dollars.

The Talented Mrs. Palin has gotten that hot. Even her home-state critic former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel is saying that she will run for U.S. President.

"Hey, hey Obama! How many kids did you kill today!?" The above quote was a chant led by former Senator Mike Gravel at an anti-Afghan War escalation rally in front of the White House today.

Hundreds of protesters have gathered near the White House to try and start a new anti-war movement.

Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009 Time: 11:00am - 3:00pm Location: Washington, DC Lafayette Square across from White House 10:30 AM YAF will counter protest the 9/11 "inside job" conspiracy theorists.

Former Alaska Sen. and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Gravel predicted in an interview that Sarah Palin will run for president - and "she's going to surprise a lot of people." Gravel, a Democrat, called Palin's politics "terrible." "But that doesn't detract from the fact that she's a very talented person," he said.

The U.S. Constitution leaves the decision to wage war to Congress, and Congress can enforce its decision not to wage war by refusing to fund it.

Human rights and peace group leaders have drawn plans for mass American rallying Saturday, December 12 in Washington D.C. and in Los Angeles in response to Obama's soon to be announced troop escalation in Afghanistan.

F. Scott's Fitzgerald's old lament that "there are no second acts in American lives" has been proven wrong on so many occasions that it's not even worth discussing.

By David Swanson "Glaubt es mir - das Geheimnis, um die gro te Fruchtbarkeit und den gro ten Genu vom Dasein einzuernten, heisst: gefahrlich leben." - Friedrich Nietzsche On Thursday night I had the privilege of viewing a premier of a film together with its star.

Mike Gravel endorses Adam Kokesh for Congress >> Posted By onlyonesecret 20 hours, 27 minutes ago in Political News > In 2008, Mike Gravel ran for president as a Democrat, then as a Libertarian.

Sen. Ernest Gruening , the 81-year old Alaska Democrat who was one of just two senators to vote against the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution, is defeated in the Democratic primary by former state House Speaker Mike Gravel .

After spending several hundred thousand dollars laying what appeared to be the groundwork for a U.S. Senate run, Merrimack investor Fred Tausch has abruptly changed course, announcing that he would not seek office in 2010.

Fred Tausch is the son and namesake of a Massachusetts motorcyclist who became a legend in some circles for riding his BMW bike for three decades and 600,000 miles.

The Personal Democracy Forum blog "techPresident" has a post today about an e-book coming out next month .

After Barack Obamaa s successful use of onlineA technology in the 2008 presidential campaign, politicians have been busy trying to figure out how to use Web 2.0 tools that are changing the way people communicate and distribute information.