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Powell Hits Back at Limbaugh: Calling Sotomayor a 'Reverse Racist' Is 'Nonsense'

Ben Armbruster, ThinkProgress. July 6, 2009.

Powell said Sotomayor is a "gifted" and an "accomplished woman" with "a judicial record that seems to be balanced and tries to follow the law."

Colin Powell: Our Streets and Neighborhoods Bear the Indelible Marks of Immigrants’ Cultures

Staff, AlterNet. June 16, 2009.

In a February speech, Powell laid out the rationale for sane immigration policies.

A Different View on Burris: Let Him Into the Senate

Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive. January 2, 2009.

Harry Reid and the Democrats in the Senate should go ahead and seat Roland Burris from Illinois.

Obama's Republican Posse Keeps Growing

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly. October 24, 2008.

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan is the latest Republican to come out for Obama.

Right Wing Succeeds in Campaign to Bring Down Progressive College President

Ryan Powers, ThinkProgress. February 13, 2008.

Gene Nichol, the President of William and Mary, resigned yesterday in protest of a politically-motivated decision not to renew his contract.

Olbermann’s Top 9/11 Story: The Promotion Of Failure In Bush Administration [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, September 12, 2007.

"Iraq has distracted us from punishing those responsible for 9/11," says Olbermann.

"War Made Easy": From the Gulf of Tonkin to WMD [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, August 7, 2007.

A terrific sequence from the new documentary "War Made Easy", which shows the identical pattern of lies that got us into both Vietnam and Iraq.

Colin Powell is Full Of Crap

Guest Blogger, July 9, 2007.

Oliver Willis: Colin Powell was a silent, slithering snake of a man who cheerleaded one of the worst decisions in the history of the United States.

Colin Powell: Bush and Cheney Held Secret Meetings Behind Closed Doors

Guest Blogger, June 29, 2007.

Faiz Shakir: President Bush and Dick Cheney kept torture memos and more secret from their own Secretary of State.

Close Gitmo Now [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, June 11, 2007.

Colin Powell calls on the Bush Administration to end the torture in Guantanamo and to give terror suspects real trials in America.

A Recipe for National Health: More Colin, Less Rice

Guest Blogger, June 11, 2007.

Jayne Lyn Stahl: Despite what anyone may say about him when he was under the White House thumb, few can deny that Colin Powell currently provides leadership with his concern not only for America's image abroad but for the U.S. Constitution.