Articles by: Deborah Montesano
Deborah Montesano is a proud to be a lifelong liberal, a writer and blogger for liberal causes, and a social activist. She keeps leaning further and further to the left, trying to tilt her insanely red state of Arizona in the same direction. Along those lines, her husband describes her as a congenitally optimistic person, whether the evidence warrants it or not. Please join her on Facebook.

40% Of Americans Have Yet To Decide: Is Snowden A Patriot Or A Traitor?

Edward Snowden has done something no one else has been able to do in our politicized, partisan environment: cause opinion to zig-zag across party lines.  Image by John Gara@Buzzfeed

Edward Snowden has done something few have been able to do in our politicized, partisan environment: cause opinion to zig-zag across party lines.

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Private Contractors Are In Charge Of National Security And They’re In It For The Profits

Private Contractors Are In Charge Of National Security And They’re In It For The Profits

One of the loudest alarms set off by the National Security Agency leaks was well articulated by the Project on Government Oversight.

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Better Late Than Never: Evangelicals Push Republicans To Embrace Immigration Reform

Evangelicals, long ‘red state’ supporters, have suddenly embraced the cause of immigrants, raising the question, “Why now?”  Image @TheHuffingtonPost

Evangelicals, long ‘red state’ supporters, have suddenly embraced the cause of immigrants, raising the question, ‘Why now?’ The answers are mixed bunch.

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52 Things Evangelicals Need To Give Up To Be Right With God; Starbucks Is Number 1

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Evangelicals want to boycott companies supporting marriage equality — here’s the short list of where they can start.

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Strange Bedfellows: Justice Scalia And ACLU Both Disgusted By Supreme Court Decision On DNA Testing

Strange Bedfellows: Justice Scalia And ACLU Both Disgusted By Supreme Court Decision On DNA Testing

Ready to give up a little piece of yourself to the government? If not, pay close attention to the mind-boggling decision the Supreme Court just issued.

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‘Pillar Of The Community’ Physician Admits Sexual Abuse But Won’t Go To Prison

Dr. Brian Hansen after his sentencing. From the Hampton Chronicle. http://hamptonchronicle.com/

The victims of sexual abuse were women, the judge was a woman, the prosecutor was a woman. Still, not one day will he spend in prison. How can that be?

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Obama The Third Target Of A Ricin Letter That Says “Me And My Family” Will Die Before Giving Up Guns

Image of man from Hazardous Materials Response Team screen captured from NBC Nightly News

The FBI announced that they are questioning a ‘person of interest’ in the case of letters laced with the toxin ricin sent to politicians this week.

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Catholic Church’s Secret Sex Abuse Files To Be Released By Court Order

Cardinal Roger M. Mahony was “stripped” of his duties as part of the pedophilia scandal; @ ReligionNews

As the Catholic pedophilia scandal evolves, many are relieved to see that government is demanding clarity in the decades-long assault of children.

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3,000 Runners Honor Bombing Victims By Finishing Last Mile Of Boston Marathon

3,000 Runners Honor Bombing Victims By Finishing Last Mile Of Boston Marathon

Those most affected by the Boston Marathon bombing decided they would be neither defeated nor robbed of the momentousness of the race by tragedy.

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AZ’s Brewer Threatens Tea Party Over Medicaid Expansion, Vetoes Their Pet Project And 4 Other Bills

Image from Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/26/jan-brewer-medicaid-expansion_n_3162872.html

Not only are GOP lawmakers at odds with each other, those siding with Jan Brewer are receiving death threats from their more rabid right-wing constituents.

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Can U.S. Tolerate Collapsing Infrastructure As ANOTHER Highway Bridge Falls Into River? (VIDEO)

I-5 Bridge over Skagit River; image @GuardianLV

The investigation needs to look at this bridge to reinforce for the rest of the nation the urgency of investing in our decaying infrastructure.

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Ohio GOP’s Attempt To Suppress Student Vote Backfires, Encourages Them To Register Instead

Students voting… shouldn’t we encourage that?? Photo: Bryce Richter;@UC.Wisc

Some Republicans claim the move to add the amendment is about lowering tuition. Because they’re so concerned about the pocketbooks of out-of-state students.

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Canada Targets Both U.S. And Europe In Effort To Get White House Approval For Tar Sands Pipeline

Tar sands operation; image@SaveBioGems

XL Pipeline: What a sad and disheartening commentary on our democracy if the decision comes down to who can afford the most advertising in the media.

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How Did The Koch Brothers Get Away With Polluting Detroit?

Isn’t that nice? Piles of environmentally dirty waste lining the Detroit shores…courtesy of the Koch Borothers. Photo: Fabrizio Costantini @TheNYTimes

Petcoke releases an average of 53.6 percent more carbon dioxide than coal. And who owns the pile piling up in Detroit? That’d be the Koch Brothers.

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Former GOP Director Of Florida’s Latino Outreach Abandons The Effort, Registers As A Democrat

Pablo Pantoja; image@ThinkProgress

It’s obvious the Latino population is growing, along with its political power, but the GOP can’t seem to grasp that… defections like Pantoja’s help.

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Vicious Triple Homicide In 2011 Now Linked By Evidence To Boston Bombing Suspects

Photo from the FBI. http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston

When authorities released the photos of Boston bombing suspects last month, it may have given a boost for an unsolved triple homicide case.

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‘Irresponsible Leaking Of Classified Information’ May Be Behind DOJ’s Seizure Of Phone Records

‘Irresponsible Leaking Of Classified Information’ May Be Behind DOJ’s Seizure Of Phone Records

The Department of Justice (DoJ) acknowledged Friday that it obtained two months of the Associated Press’ phone records, from 20 separate phone lines, last year.

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Virginia Woman Decides Hating The Dead Is UnChristian; Finds Burial Spot For Bombing Suspect

Bombing suspect’s burial site.; image@EuroNews

Boston Marathon bombing suspect is buried amidst controversy and with the help of one compassionate American who believes in the adage ‘love thine enemies.’

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Multiple Arrests Of Liberal Activists In North Carolina (You Read That Right) Breed More Protests

Protesters prepare to be arrested in Raleigh; @WatchDogWire

‘One of our sayings is ‘Stay in Trouble’ and that’s what we intend to do because we have to fight against anything that threatens the future of our grandchildren.’

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Mississippi Supreme Court Reverses Itself, Grants Stay Of Execution After DOJ Intervention

Mississippi Supreme Court Reverses Itself, Grants Stay Of Execution After DOJ Intervention

On Tuesday, Mississippi came within a whisper of executing a man who has been pleading for DNA testing of previously untested physical evidence.

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