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Doug Thompson, founder of Capitol Hill Blue, is stepping down. I can't believe it.<br><br>www.capitolhillblue.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>“I've decided to stand down for a while. Take a breather. A break, if you will, from all this madness called politics,” Thompson wrote. “At this point, I don't know if it will be a permanent break or not. I'm tired and this tilting at windmills business is exhausting.”<br><br>Thompson started Capitol Hill Blue as a weekly web publication on October 1, 1994. He went daily on January 1, 1995, and Blue has published continuously ever since. The web publication broke many stories on misdeeds in the Clinton administration during that President's second term and has been a leader in breaking major stories on corruption in the Bush administration.<br><br>“I've been writing about the foibles, corruption and misdeeds of politicians for more than 40 years but the system we have today is worse than ever,” Thompson says. “I'm no longer sure that trying to educate a deaf audience through journalism is worth the time or the effort.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 2/5/06 11:26 am<br></i>

This is a terrible time to throw in the towel. <br>Our country is rounding the bend to an overt police state and INFORMED resistance was never more important.<br><br>All hands on deck! <p></p><i></i>