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Friday, June 13, 2008
A Warning to My Old Republican Friends: Screw Up The Obama Moment and You're History -- Literally
(9 comments) If the Republicans -- not to mention their bedrock supporters, such as evangelical Christians, neoconservatives and others -- do not grasp the Obama moment, and then rise to the occasion... they will have doomed themselves to political obscurity and moral opprobrium forever.

Monday, June 9, 2008
Obama and the Open and Unexpected Future
For one who has experienced both eras, the current movement for Barack Obama has achieved a living remembrance of Bobby Kennedy's campaign in the week when RFK's murder is painfully remembered.

Saturday, May 24, 2008
Hillary's Worst Comment Yet
(8 comments) For the second time, and hopefully the last, Hillary Clinton invokes the RFK assassination as a reason for her to stay in the race. What was she thinking in the same week that the last surviving Kennedy brother, Ted, is diagnosed with brain cancer?

Friday, May 2, 2008
Voting Rights Are Too Important to Leave to the States
(1 comments) The NY Times has a good editorial today on how Congress should overstep the Supreme Court, and set mandatory, national voter registration laws that make it easy for everyone to register to vote. Are you listening, Democrats in Congress?

Monday, April 14, 2008
US and Iran holding 'secret' talks on nuclear programme
Iran and the United States have been engaged in secret "back channel" discussions for the past five years on Iran's nuclear programme and the broader relationship between the two sworn enemies, The Independent can reveal.

Friday, November 30, 2007
Clinton NH campaign office hostage situation
A man who reportedly has a history of mental illness burst into a Hillary Clinton campaign office in New Hampshire with what appeared to be a bomb strapped to his chest and took hostages. Several hostages are reported to have been released, but it is not known how many others there might be in the office.

Monday, August 6, 2007
Weapons Given to Iraq Are Missing
The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005... it is nearly impossible for the U.S. military to know whether it is battling an enemy equipped by American taxpayers.

Saturday, August 4, 2007
Democrats' Responsibility for Bush Radicalism
It is staggering, and truly disgusting, that even in August, 2007 - almost six years removed from the 9/11 attacks and with the Bush presidency cemented as one of the weakest and most despised in American history - that George W. Bush can "demand" that the Congress jump and re-write legislation at his will, vesting in him still greater surveillance power, by warning them, based solely on his say-so...

Saturday, July 28, 2007
Forget Third Parties – Hijack The Democrats Instead
(2 comments) Third party alternatives to hopelessly nihilistic Republicans, hopelessly equivocal Democrats, and the hopelessly self-serving lot of them make total sense except for one small problem. They can't win.

Thursday, July 26, 2007
Botulism warnings in canned foods

Thursday, July 12, 2007
China Not Sole Source of Dubious Food
(6 comments) Black pepper with salmonella from India. Crabmeat from Mexico that is too filthy to eat. Candy from Denmark that is mislabeled. At a time when Chinese imports are under fire for being contaminated or defective, federal records suggest that China is not the only country that has problems with its exports.

Monday, July 2, 2007
Country of Origin Food Labeling Law Not Being Enforced!
A law promoted by Tom Daschle and others in Congress was passed 5 years ago which mandates meat and produce be labeled to indicate the country of origin, but due to food industry lobbying efforts and some pro-business Republicans in the White House and Congress, the law is not being enforced. Representative Henry Bonilla, Republican from Texas, has been the strongest opponent of enforcement of the law.

Sunday, July 1, 2007
It's 8am, Do You Know Where Your Breakfast Came From?
(4 comments) The ingredients in your Cheerios might not make you very cheery in the morning if you really knew where they came from... and what was in them.

Monday, June 4, 2007
Science Publisher Elsevier ditches arms trade shows
European Science publisher Elsevier, publisher of journals such as The Lancet, has long organized weapons trade shows. The publisher has finally agreed to end the practice by 2008.