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It's incredibly easy to give yourself over to cynicism in the wake of the Tiller murder. The net effect will be that politicians continue to turn their backs on women as anti-choice advocates push the ball incrementally further toward the goal of limiting a woman's right to choose, and doctors who provide these services will continue to do so with the knowledge that they'll be the targets of demagogues, religious

Sen. Claire McCaskill held a public Q&A in Sedalia last Wednesday, and it's a great demonstration of how these events can break through the DC bubble. No screened questions, just citizens speaking their minds and asking for their senators and representatives to do the same.

Today four Northern California animal rights activists await Federal criminal trial for ghastly crimes including passing out leaflets, chalking slogans on pavement, and chanting. Oh, and using the internet to locate the indivduals they were protesting. Yes, the world's only superpower can't be bothered to defend us against banksters' ursury or death from want of health care, but when it comes to leaflets, chalked slogans, and Google searches, they're here for us. To shut us up.

If David Simon wants to see a blog covering Baltimore zoning board meetings, he should check out the bazillion local blogs over at http://www.blogtimore.com. One of their featured blogs is an outfit called The Dagger — and guess what? They’re looking for people like you to go cover local news.

Yesterday PEER reported that President Obama asked a Bushie lawyer who spent years battling for mountain top destruction coal mining to run the Federal agency that regulates mountain top destruction mining. Change you can believe in? Yes - if you believe in hiring one of Steven Griles' helpers and forever burying ancient streams and hollows under toxic coal mining waste in a mad rush to roast the planet.

Can you help New Hampshire enact marriage equality and gender identity protections today? Do you know any family or friends in New Hampshire? Potential allies in the state Senate say they are not hearing from marriage equality advocates. Please email or call your New Hampshire network today!

The "torture memos" released Thursday show us how America's gulags systematically and deliberately committed torture - a war crime - under explicit polcies of the Bush White House Office of Legal Counsel. President Obama's decision to release the torture memos is a major step forward for the rule of law.

Last Tuesday Homeland Security's very own Border Patrol announced they were canceling their plans to begin aerial spraying of the pesticide imazapyr along a stretch of the Rio Grande the following day. In other words, the agency that demands billions to seal America's borders in large part so they can prevent Americans from voluntarily putting dangerous chemicals in their own bodies grudgingly changed their own plan to involuntary expose Americans to dangerous chemicals.

Now that the recount and the contest trial are over, I thought it was time to recognize those groups and individuals who made major contributions to the coverage of this story.