Alan Augustson

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Blogs have a positive effect on politics.

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Green Party Candidate U.S. House of Representatives Fifth District of Illinois http://augustson2008.usmore...

Alan Augustson: Green Party for Congress 2008 - 5th District of Illinois

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Yes, there is plenty of speculation, conjecture, and outright lies; but blogs allow us to see what real people are really thinking.

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The New Yorker cover featuring Barack and Michelle Obama is not effective satire.

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Regardless the artist's intentions, it was tasteless and offensive. The artist should have anticipated that the majority would not get whatever-was-supposed-to-be-the-point.

Stand Taken 8/3/2008 6:30 PM

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Television news should entertain as well as inform.

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Wake up. Television news has the same function as anything else on television: to sell you cheeseburgers. Television news is sleazy, purile and voyeuristic -- just the way you like it.

Stand Taken 6/22/2008 11:35 AM

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