Freedoms just another word for nothin else to lose.

Coal corporation had their foot on our throat for over a hundred years!

I don't think you will stop MTR while oil is over $100 a barrel.

Of course he could if he wins and if he wants to, the changes that Bush made to weaken the surface mine law and the clean water act were administrative. One man or woman could stop MTR by just making them go back to the old 1977 provisions of the strip mine law, the clean water provisions would put the complets stop on it.

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

Coalbama kicked off this presidential campaign where Abe gave his 1858 "house divided" speech.  Lincoln was then advocating state's rights for slavery in the Union.  Not very impressive start.  It wasn't until an abysmal war effort and being up for re-election in 1862 that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation galvanized the war effort.  The time Lincoln lost cost tens of thousands of wasted lives and more in $'s.  Mere emancipation from mtr in 2008 is another 1858 Lincoln, and he lost that election.  He need to issue an emancipation proclamation from big coal