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Under Obama, feds may still snoop library files
2009-01-19 23:55:00 Image via Wikipedia [From sfgate.com] Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer President-elect Barack Obama ’s nominee for attorney general has endorsed an extension of the law that allows federal agents to demand Americans’ library and bookstore records as part of terrorism probes, dismaying a national group of independent booksellers. Eric Holder said at his confirmation hearing Thursday before the Senate Judiciary ... More About: Library , Rights , Snoop , Files
Shakesville: Barack the Feminist
2009-01-19 20:53:00 [From Shakesville ] posted by Melissa McEwan | Tuesday, January 13, 2009 So, I just got a press release from Ms. informing me that soon-to-be-President Obama will grace the cover of their upcoming inaugural issue revealing, superhero-like, a t-shirt he’s “wearing” (where “wearing” means “poorly Photoshopped to look like he’s wearing”) that reads: THIS IS WHAT ... More About: Barack , Feminist
Religious Clout
2009-01-18 23:18:00 [From The J-Walk Blog] An article about the man who wants to be the successor to Billy Graham: Rick Warren's Clout. How much clout does Rick Warren have? The California megachurch minister and opponent of gay marriage who will deliver the invocation at Barack Obama's inauguration had his income tax returns audited in 1996. ... More About: Religious
Free Market Myth
2009-01-18 16:25:00 [Via Truthout] by: Dean Baker, The Boston Review Regulation is everywhere. Let’s choose who benefits. The extraordinary financial collapse of recent months has been commonly described as a testament to the failure of deregulation. The events are indeed testament to a failure - a failure of public policy. Blaming deregulation is misleading. Traders study charts on Wall Street. (Photo: Bebeto ... More About: News , Market , Free , Free Market , Myth
Norquist Compares The Corporate Tax Rate To Torture, Claims Cutting It Will
2009-01-17 06:13:00 via: Think Progress Earlier this month, National Journal’s John Maggs sat down with anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist to discuss the future of conservatism and the economy. Asked by Maggs about the tax cut proposals in President-elect Obama’s stimulus plan, Norquist said there was only one “real tax cut” in the plan, but that there are “two other ... More About: News , Commentary , Corporate , Torture , Claims
California Nurses Association: Single-Payer Reform Would Be Major Stimulus
2009-01-16 16:54:00 Establishing a national single-payer style healthcare reform system would provide a major stimulus for the U.S. economy by creating 2.6 million new jobs, and infusing $317 billion in new business and public revenues, with another $100 billion in wages into the U.S. economy, according to the findings of a groundbreaking study released today. It may ... More About: Commentary , California , Reform , Association , Single
United States of Climate Change
2009-01-15 05:01:00 Click photo to enlarge. More About: United States , Environment , Climate Change , Climate , Change
EL FAOKHARI, GAZA STRIP
2009-01-14 22:52:00 Image by Getty Images via Daylife 2 months ago: EL FAOKHARI, GAZA STRIP - NOVEMBER 4: A young Palestinian boy helps pick zuccini in the Abu Toama family’s fields east of Khan Younis, where a solitary fig tree has survived repeated Israeli incursions November 4, 2008 in El Faokhari in the southern Gaza Strip . According to ... More About: Commentary , Gaza Strip
WOMEN IN GAZA ARE IN URGENT NEED OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES
2009-01-14 21:32:00 From: Dear Friend, With all of my heart I wish that I did not have to send this appeal. I wish that I did not have to ask you to give generously again and, more than anything, I wish that there was ... More About: Women , Medical , Rights , Gaza , Violence
Israelis Soldiers refuse to serve in Gaza
2009-01-14 16:00:00 Israel Social TV presents: Israelis Soldiers refuse to serve in Gaza ! Israelis protest against the war in Gaza, Tel Aviv January 8th 2009. More About: News , Violence
Heritage Foundation: Torturing Facts, Sacrificing the Poor
2009-01-13 21:50:00 [From NRDC.org] Pete Altman, Climate Campaign Director, Washington, D.C. Ever since the 2008 presidential election boiled down to two candidates that favored action on climate change, the Heritage Foundation has been, well, freaking out about the increasing likelihood that the U.S. will undertake major action on global warming. Just how far gone are the folks at the Heritage ... More About: News , Environment , Facts
When Bush Got Anxious
2009-01-12 23:35:00 [From The J-Walk Blog] What do you think was Bush ’s most “anxious” moment during his presidency? Asked by People magazine what moments from the last eight years he revisited most often, W. talked passionately about the pitch he threw out at the World Series in 2001: “I never felt that anxious any other time during ... More About: News
Landless Movement, Amazon
2009-01-12 19:24:00 Click photo to enlarge. An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazon as state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon March 11, ... More About: News , Rights
Gaza November 16, 2008
2009-01-12 16:45:00 WARNING This image contains graphic or objectionable content. Click to view. The bodies of two Palestinian militants lay near their mortar launcher after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza November 16, 2008. They had been firing mortar rounds into a neighboring Israeli neighborhood. An Israeli air strike killed four Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Sunday ... More About: News , Rights , Violence
The Last Israeli and the Last Palestinian Meet
2009-01-10 18:54:00 By Mike Luckovich at Truthdig More About: Commentary , Violence , Meet , Israeli , Palestinian
Virginity Pledge Doesn?t Stop Teen Sex
2009-01-10 16:20:00 [From WebMD] Virginity Pledge Doesn’t Stop Teen Sex Teenagers Who Take Virginity Pledges No Less Sexually Active, More Likely to Forgo Birth Control, Condoms By Jennifer Warner WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD Dec. 29, 2008 — Teenagers who take virginity pledges are no less sexually active than other teens, according to a new study. But the results, published ...
Happy Meal 2013
2009-01-10 04:36:00 (From: Wired) Artifacts From the Future: Happy Meal 2013 ? Vat-Grown Kobe Beef and Flintstones Ritalin Click for full size More About: Commentary
Exxon CEO Advocates Emissions Tax
2009-01-10 02:26:00 [From WSJ] By RUSSELL GOLD and IAN TALLEY The chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp. for the first time called on Congress to enact a tax on greenhouse-gas emissions in order to fight global warming. In a speech in Washington, Rex Tillerson said that a tax was a “more direct, a more transparent and a more effective approach” ... More About: Environment , Emissions
A Move Toward Veggie Power Aloft
2009-01-07 15:29:00 By MATTHEW L. WALD, NY Times Published: January 6, 2009 WASHINGTON ? Burned by the cost of jet fuel, the aviation industry is trying everything from algae to camelina and jatropha as alternatives, but specialists say that some of the new fuels, which include coal, might simply trade one set of problems for another. On Wednesday, Continental ... More About: Power , Move
EEGs show brain differences between poor and rich kids
2009-01-02 21:15:00 By Robert Sanders, Media Relations | 02 December 2008 BERKELEY — University of California, Berkeley, researchers have shown for the first time that the brains of low-income children function differently from the brains of high-income kids. In a study recently accepted for publication by the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, scientists at UC Berkeley’s Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute ... More About: News , Environment , Kids , Rich , Show
Letter on Gaza
2009-01-01 18:19:00 (Borrowed from Progressive Secretary) Israel i armed forces, aggressively responding to the continued firing of missiles by Hamas, have mounted a devastating attack on Gaza that is killing women and children along with their Hamas targets. Missile firings into Israel continue. The world has lethargically allowed this festering threat to world peace to go on far too ... More About: Commentary , Letter
Child maid trafficking spreads from Africa to US
2008-12-29 07:44:00 The Associated Press Monday, December 29, 2008 EDITOR’S NOTE - In Africa , children of the poor are commodities, often traded like cows or donkeys by adults who value their labor. This story on child maids is the third in an occasional series on the exploitation of African children. Each story stands ... More About: Commentary , Rights , Spreads , Child
2.6 Million Cubic Yards of Toxic Coal Ash Slurry Released in Tennessee Dike
2008-12-25 06:54:00 by Matthew McDermott, New York, NY An environmental disaster of epic proportions just happened in Tennessee . Monday night 2.6 million cubic yards (the equivalent of 525.2 million gallons, 48 times more than the Exxon Valdez spill by volume) of coal ash sludge broke through a dike of a 40-acre holding pond at TVA?s Kingston coal-fired power ... More About: Commentary , Released , Coal , Million
The Great Mumble: A New Generation Slouches Toward Nukes
2008-12-23 16:42:00 Observer.com: by Katharine Jose on December 23, 2008 It wasn’t all that long ago that supporting nuclear power as a Democrat in New York State was an easy way to lose an election. “In 1992 I was in a three-way race for the State Assembly,” said Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, whose opponents in that race were a high school ... More About: Great , Nukes , Generation
Destroying What the UAW Built
2008-12-22 05:37:00 Harold Meyerson, in the Washington Post: In 1949, a pamphlet was published that argued that the American auto industry should pursue a different direction. Titled “A Small Car Named Desire,” the pamphlet suggested that Detroit not put all its bets on bigness, that a substantial share of American consumers would welcome smaller cars that cost less ...
Afghanistan could get up to 30,000 new US troops
2008-12-21 06:03:00 By JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press Writer Jason Straziuso, Associated Press Writer ... More About: Afghanistan , Troops
Brett Favre Beats Lizard People
2008-12-19 14:47:00 (From: ThirtyFiveEight ) Yesterday, the Franken campaign challenged this ballot, claiming that “Brett Favre ” was an identifying mark: The Canvassing Board rejected the challenge and awarded the vote to Coleman. Today, just moments ago, the infamous Lizard People ballot came up for the Canvassing Board’s review! This ballot was initially counted as a Franken vote. The Coleman campaign ... More About: Beats
President Obama Shut Down Guantanamo: ?Yes You Can!?
2008-12-13 05:08:00 By Malachy Kilbride Next month in January the American people will joyfully celebrate the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama and the end to the criminal Bush Administration. Americans will celebrate the belief in our freedom, our vote, and the conclusion of eight years of an unaccountable regime that brought us into war and occupation on ... More About: Commentary , Guantanamo , Shut
Evangelical leader resigns amid controversial comments
More articles from this author:2008-12-12 22:19:00 Jim Brown and Jody Brown - OneNews Now Richard CizikThe controversial Washington lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelical s (NAE) has resigned after he created a stir by expressing support for homosexual civil unions. Richard Cizik has resigned as vice president for governmental affairs for the NAE. In a statement to NAE board members, acting president Leith ... More About: Comments , Controversial , Leader 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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