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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Hardball: Smerconish Likens Arianna To A Hooker Outing A John For Saying John McCain Didn't Vote For Bush
(1 comments) she says John McCain made a point of saying at a Hollywood party that he didn't vote for George Bush. Now honestly, considering what the Bush campaign did to him in 2000, I don't blame him. The problem is that he denies it now and says he did vote for Bush. That makes him a liar. He either lied to Arianna (and actors Richard Schiff and Bradley Whitford back up Arianna's version) back then or he's lying now.

Thursday, May 8, 2008
Did Rush Limbaugh Tilt Result In Indiana?
In Indiana, 10 percent of Democratic primary voters described themselves as Republicans, a higher rate than in any state but Mississippi, and they went for Clinton by eight percentage points, according to exit polls. In North Carolina, they were 5 percent of the electorate, and went for her by 29 points.

Thursday, May 8, 2008
Chris Matthews Admits: MSNBC Bosses Were "Basically Pro-War"
(1 comments) In a speech at Harvard's Institute of Politics on Monday, Chris Matthews admitted that MSNBC bosses were "basically pro-war during the war." The remark came in a larger discussion of top-down editorial control at the network - of which Matthews claimed there was none, citing the fact that many of his bosses supported Hillary Clinton while he has been very vocal for Obama.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Broke GOP Leaders Warn Shellshocked Reps of Election Disaster
Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party's message isn't good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC's money. Recent defeats in long held republican strongholds in Illinois and Louisiana have put the RNCC members in a panic.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Malaysian blogger charged with sedition for implying deputy PM involved in murder
Sedition is punishable by up to three years in jail. Raja Petra's supporters called the government's move a blow to freedom of speech

Monday, May 5, 2008
Clinton Camp Considering Nuclear Option To Overtake Delegate Lead
With at least 50% of the Dem Party's 30-member Rules and Bylaws Committee committed to Clinton, her backers could -- when the committee meets at the end of this month -- try to ram through a decision to seat the disputed 210-member FL and 156-member MI delegations. Such a decision would give Clinton an estimated 55 or more delegates than Obama. Asked about this article, Clinton said she's always called for seating MI and FL

Monday, May 5, 2008
Myanmar believes 10,000 dead from cyclone
Myanmar's military junta believes at least 10,000 people died in a cyclone that ripped through the Irrawaddy delta, triggering a massive international aid response for the pariah southeast Asian nation. "The basic message was that they believe the provisional death toll was about 10,000 with 3,000 missing,"

Sunday, May 4, 2008
Thomas Friedman: Who Will Tell the People?
(3 comments) Friedman endorses Obama and observes, after seeing the Singapore airport, "We felt, as we have before, like we had just flown from the Flintstones to the Jetsons. If all Americans could compare Berlin’s luxurious central train station today with the grimy, decrepit Penn Station in New York City, they would swear we were the ones who lost World War II." and tells us that the nation building people want to do is in America.

Sunday, May 4, 2008
CBS Poll: Support For Obama Rebounds, In Wake Of Controversy Over Former Pastor, Illinois Senator Builds Lead Over McCai
(1 comments) Barack Obama appears to have rebounded from some of the damage caused by the controversy surrounding his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, according to the latest CBS News/New York Times poll. On one key measure, Obama has seen a big reversal since his denunciation of Wright's remarks on Tuesday. He now leads presumptive Republican nominee John McCain in the hypothetical fall contest by eleven points, 51 percent to 40%

Thursday, May 1, 2008
Pittsburgh, Los Angeles have worst U.S. air pollution
Pittsburgh, a former steel-making center once known for its sooty skies, is the worst U.S. city for short-term particle pollution, the American Lung Association announced on Thursday. It was the first time a city outside California topped any of the association's three lists for different kinds of pollution in its annual "State of the Air" report. Greater Los Angeles was listed as the worst city for ground-level ozone

Thursday, May 1, 2008
White House Lamely Tries to Spin 'Mission Accomplished' banner
PATHETIC! as the anniversary approaches and the banner becomes a symbol of historic levels of stupidity... Dana Perino is not very persuasive in her spinmeistery

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Web in infancy, says Web Inventor
The future web will put "all the data in the world" at the fingertips of every user, Sir Tim Berners-Lee said. "The web has been a tremendous tool for people to do a lot of good even though you can find bad stuff out there." Making the web free to use had a vital role in spreading its use worldwide. There are now 165 million different websites around the world, according to internet research firm Netcraft.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Father of LSD Takes Final Trip
(4 comments) Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died aged 102. Hofmann discovered LSD -- lysergic acid diethylamide, which later became the favored drug of the 1960s counter-culture -- when a tiny quantity leaked on to his hand during a laboratory experiment in 1943. A few days later Hofmann intentionally took a dose of LSD and experienced the world's first "bad trip"

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Barack Obama, Rev. Wright, and Racism, America Responds: We're Not Done With You Yet
(1 comments) Hagee, Robertson, the late Jerry Falwell, and countless other religious leaders of the fundamentalist cloth have delivered countless white versions of "God Damns America" statements. The only difference is that they don't "say it black" in black churches, and then see it looped endlessly around on FOX TV and other cable networks, not to say rerun again and again on talk radio.

Monday, April 28, 2008
NY Times Sunday Circulation Plummets 9.2% While 'WSJ' Gains
(1 comments) Print circulation continues on its steep downward slide, the Audit Bureau of Circulations revealed this morning in releasing the latest numbers for some of the country's largest dailies for the six-month period ending March 31, 2008. When a full analysis appears it is expected to find, according to sources, the biggest dip yet, about 3.5% daily and 4.5 for Sunday.

Monday, April 28, 2008
In the Rezko Trial, A New Name Surfaces: Karl Rove
. Former Illinois state official Ali Ata is expected to testify about a conversation he had with Rezko in which the developer alleged Rove was "working with" a top Illinois Republican to remove the Chicago U.S. attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald.

Monday, April 28, 2008
OpEdNews Poll: Has Reverend Wright Helped or Hurt Obama with Talks and Interviews
(6 comments) click through to vote in the poll

Monday, April 28, 2008
Officials: 31 of 53 girls from sect ranch have been pregnant
53 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 were living on the ranch in Eldorado. Of that group, 31 already have children or are pregnant.

Sunday, April 27, 2008
TRANSCRIPT: OBAMA ON Fox News with Crhis Wallace
Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate from Illinois, sat for an interview Saturday in Indiana with Chris Wallace. The interview aired on "FOX News Sunday."

Saturday, April 26, 2008
Nothing Wrong With Perseverance, Right?
Underneath it all is her dangerous willingness to let race finally finally infect the consciousness of this country. The longer we go, the longer she hangs in, the more Hillary Clinton has been able to make the country wonder if, indeed, it is ready to elect a black president. We hoped we were past that. We talked of Obama as the post-racial candidate. In their retro-shrewdness, the Clintons have called our bluff.

Saturday, April 26, 2008
Obama Plans May General Election Organizing Launch
Pivoting to general election mode, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign announced a 50-state voter registration drive that will kick off four days after the May 6 primaries in North Carolina and Indiana. "Vote for Change" will summon the volunteer army that Obama has amassed in the 47 states and territories that have already held primaries or caucuses this year, along with the nine yet to come.

Saturday, April 26, 2008
Major Clinton fundraiser defects to Obama
(1 comments) uneasy with the tone of the Clinton campaign and was beginning to worry about what this would mean for the general election. It's unclear if this defection will lead to others;

Saturday, April 26, 2008
Leave Taliban alone, Afghan president tells West | World news | The Observer
Karzai says US and British troops are undermining his authority and stopping insurgents from laying down their arms

Saturday, April 26, 2008
If Clinton can't run campaign, can she run White House?
Despite Hillary Clinton's big win in Pennsylvania last week, the story of her campaign is often one of mismanagement and missed opportunities, and it raises questions about how she'd organize and run the White House.

Friday, April 25, 2008
China to Meet with Representatives of Dalai Lama,
China, in an abrupt shift, announced that it will meet with representatives of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader Beijing had accused of masterminding deadly antigovernment protests in Tibet.

Friday, April 25, 2008
Consumer Confidence Hits 26 Year Low
he Reuters/University of Michigan sentiment index decreased to 62.6, from 69.5 the previous month. The measure was down from a preliminary estimate of 63.2 issued on April 11. Consumers are growing increasingly anxious because the economy has lost almost a quarter million jobs so far this year, gasoline is up 17 percent and property values have fallen. Sales of houses and cars have declined...

Friday, April 25, 2008
Limbaugh "Dreams"� of - Doesn't Advocate - Denver Riot
(1 comments) Rush Limbaugh says he was not calling for a riot in Denver during the Democratic National Convention - he only "dreams" of it, to the tune of "White Christmas." For a second day in a row today, the conservative talker discussed the potential for protests and power struggles at the August convention

Thursday, April 24, 2008
How Republicans Plan on Ganging Up on Obama for Being "Weak" on Street Gangs
Scum of the earth swiftboater Floyd Brown has plans to take the low road (rectal road?) to swift boat Obama about gang violence.Brown apparently thinks he can "willie hortonize" Obama. It may even work on irredeemable racists, but there's no doubt, Obama will be able to deal with this one. (This description of news is decidedly one editor's opinion.)

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Bush's disapproval rating worst of any president in 70 years
(5 comments) In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% disapprove. The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt. The previous record of 67% was reached by Harry Truman in January 1952, when the United States was enmeshed in the Korean War.

Monday, April 21, 2008
Colorado U's 4/20 pot smoke-out draws crowd of 10,000
Police issue zero tickets during annual marijuana celebration

Sunday, April 20, 2008
Obama building war machine to respond to 'Swift Boat' attacks
(2 comments) "He's not going to sit there and sing 'Kumbaya' as the missiles are raining in," David Axelrod, Obama's chief strategist, tells Newsweek for its Apr. 28 issue. "I don't think people should mistake civility for a willingness to deal with the challenges to come." The Obama campaign is planning to expand its research and rapid-response outfit to repel planned "Swift-Boat" like attacks, the magazine will report.

Sunday, April 20, 2008
Food crisis threatens security, says UN chief
· Warning of instability and backlash for economies · Progress on development goals could be wiped out "If not handled properly, this crisis could result in a cascade of others ... and become a multidimensional problem affecting economic growth, social progress and even political security around the world," UN's Ban told the conference. World Bank estimates food prices have risen by an average of 83% in the past three years

Saturday, April 19, 2008
Petraeus Hid Maliki Resistance to US Troops in Basra
In Congressional testimony last week, Gen. Petraeus portrayed Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki's late March offensive in Basra as a poorly planned effort that departed from what U.S. officials had expected. What Petraeus did not reveal is that al-Maliki was deliberately upsetting a Petraeus plan to put U.S. and British forces into Basra for a months-long operation to eliminate the Mahdi Army from the city.

Friday, April 18, 2008
Clinton slams Democratic activists at private fundraiser
"We have been less successful in caucuses because it brings out the activist base of the Democratic Party," said Clinton, heard on an audio clip at Huffington. "MoveOn didn't even want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that's what we're dealing with. And you know they turn out in great numbers.

Friday, April 18, 2008
New Lobby Seeks to Redefine 'Pro-Israel' - by Jim Lobe
new group of prominent U.S. Jews who believe that the so-called "Israel Lobby" has been dominated for too long by neoconservatives and other Likud-oriented hawks has launched a new organization to help fund political candidates who favor a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a stronger U.S. role in achieving it. Almost two years in the making, the J Street project plans to spend some $1.5 million

Friday, April 18, 2008
Dean: I need a decision 'now'
(1 comments) Dean says he wants Superdelegates to decide NOW.

Thursday, April 17, 2008
Superdelegates Unswayed by Clinton’s Attacks
A cross-section of superdelegates showed that none had been persuaded much by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s attacks on Senator Barack Obama.

Thursday, April 17, 2008
In Pa. Debate, The Clear Loser Is ABC
When Barack Obama met Hillary Clinton for another televised Democratic candidates' debate last night, it was more than a step forward in the 2008 presidential election. It was another step downward for network news -- in particular ABC News,

Thursday, April 17, 2008
Paul Krugman; Obama Wrong On Most of his Bitter Comments
(1 comments) Barack Obama’s “bitter� comments combined assertions about economics, sociology and voting behavior. In each case, his assertion was mostly if not entirely wrong. let’s hope that once Mr. Obama is no longer running against someone named Clinton, he’ll stop denigrating the very good economic record of the only Democratic administration most Americans remember.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
A changing Philly could be key to Pa. primary
Change is the buzzword in Philadelphia and its suburbs as Pennsylvania's Democratic primary approaches. Its neighborhoods have become more diverse, thanks largely to a 14 percent boost in its foreign-born population, according to Census Bureau figures, and to a strong migration of New Yorkers lured by cheaper housing and a civilized rail commute to their Big Apple jobs.

Monday, April 14, 2008
Poll: 98% of Historians View Bush a Failure
(3 comments) Not only that, more than 61 percent of the historians say the current presidency is the worst in American history. In 2004, only 11.6 percent of the historians rated Bush's presidency in last place. Among the reasons given for his low ratings: invading Iraq, "tax breaks for the rich," and alienating many nations around the world.

Saturday, April 12, 2008
Obama winning big in West Virginia county conventions today
There's a large gap in West Virginia in the grassroots support and county level Democratic activists for Sen. Barack Obama well out of proportion to the polls that showed Sen. Hillary Clinton ahead in West Virginia by a large margin.

Friday, April 11, 2008
Consumer Confidence Hits 26 Year Low
(2 comments) The Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers said its preliminary index of confidence fell to 63.2 in April from 69.5 in March, well below economists' median expectation of a 69.0 reading. The April result was the lowest since March 1982's level of 62.0, when the "stagflationary" period of low growth and high inflation was still fresh in the memory of many Americans.

Thursday, April 10, 2008
Starving Haitians riot as food prices soar
Demonstrators have tried to storm the presidential palace in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, as protests over hunger and rising food prices spread across the developing world. Demanding the resignation of President René Préval, the protesters attempted to break through the palace gates before being driven back by a contingent of Brazilian United Nations peacekeepers who used tear gas and rubber bullets.

Monday, April 7, 2008
Texas officials remove 219 from polygamist ranch
(1 comments) Texas officials removed more people on Sunday from a ranch belonging to a breakaway Mormon sect linked to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs but have yet to find a young woman whose complaints sparked the raids.

Monday, April 7, 2008
The Last Wish of Martin Luther King
as always, he lifted hope from the bottom of his soul. He urged the congregation to be alive and awake to great revolutions in progress. “I say to you that our goal is freedom,” he cried, “and I believe we’re going to get there because — however much she strays from it — the goal of America is freedom!”

Monday, April 7, 2008
Glenn Greenwald: Cokie Roberts Lies About the War and Where the American People Stand
The single most dishonest and propagandistic tactic of establishment journalists is to take their own opinion and assert as a fact that "most Americans" agree with them, even when that assertion is indisputably false.

Sunday, April 6, 2008
Charlton Heston Dead at 84
(4 comments) The film Icon who played Moses, and who later served as president of the Nationial Rifle Association, developed alzheimers, as was portrayed by Michael Moore in Bowling for Columbine

Sunday, April 6, 2008
Anti-McCain groups lag in fundraising
Despite the millions of dollars pooling around Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, anti-McCain funds have fallen far short of the hopes set in November, when a key organizer, Tom Matzzie, reportedly told The Washington Post that the "Fund for America" would raise more than $100 million to support the activities of a range of allied groups.

Friday, April 4, 2008
A Lie or Terrifying MSM Negligence: Why Won't Journalists Demand an Answer?
(2 comments) Mukasey Appears to have either lied or disclosed a secret that will damn the Bush admin as failing to pursue evidence that could have prevented 911. And the mainstream media are not covering this story. Shame on them. No... shame them into covering it.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Mariah breaks Elvis chart record
(3 comments) Singer Mariah Carey has beaten Elvis Presley's US chart record by scoring the 18th number one of her career. Touch My Body, from her new album E=MC2, is the new number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and has also topped its download chart. The achievement means she has now surpassed Elvis Presley's 17 number ones. The Beatles are in front on 20.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Daily caffeine 'protects brain'
Coffee may cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body, research suggests. The drink has already been linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer's Disease, and a study by a US team for the Journal of Neuroinflammation may explain why.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Documents show Pentagon now using FBI to spy on Americans
The military is using the FBI to skirt legal restrictions on domestic surveillance to obtain private records of Americans' Internet service providers, financial institutions and telephone companies, according to Pentagon documents. The American Civil Liberties Union expressed outrage at the new revelations, based its conclusion on a review of more than 1,000 documents turned over by the Defense Department...

Wednesday, April 2, 2008
The Republican War on Voting
(3 comments) Using the Department of Justice, friendly governors, and its usual propaganda outlets, the GOP has propagated the myth of voter fraud to purge the rolls of non-Republicans.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Pennsylvania Turning Bluer and Bluer
(2 comments) Democrats now have more than a 900,000 advantage in voter registration in Pennsylvania, which tended to be a fairly evenly divided state in the past. In relative terms, nearly 30 percent more Pennsylvanians are registered as Democrats as are registered as Republicans.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Scientists set out to unlock secrets of Stonehenge
(1 comments) Archaeologists set out on Monday to unlock one of the secrets of Stonehenge, the majestic monument in southern England -- when were the first standing stones placed at the ancient religious site?

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
USA 2008: The Great Depression
British Paper says US is in Great Depression. 28 million Americans receive Food Stamps.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Alice Walker: Obama is the change that America has tried to hide-- Like King and Mandela
(3 comments) If Obama were in any sense mediocre, he would be forgotten by now. He is, in fact, a remarkable human being, not perfect but humanly stunning, like King was and like Mandela is. He is the change America has been trying desperately and for centuries to hide, ignore, kill.

Saturday, March 29, 2008
Black House Rep Lee (D-TX) Booed by Constituents for Supporting Hillary
Sheila Jackson Lee is backing Hillary, even though 90% of the blacks in her mostly black district are supporting Obama. They booed her at a recent event. Will it affect her re-election efforts?

Thursday, March 27, 2008
Protesters enter Bear Stearns building in New York
About 60 protesters opposed to the U.S. Federal Reserve's help in bailing out Bear Stearns entered the lobby of the investment bank's Manhattan headquarters on Wednesday, demanding assistance for struggling homeowners. Demonstrators organized by the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America chanted "Help Main Street, not Wall Street" and entered the lobby for around half an hour before being escorted out by police.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Pastor Of Clinton's Former Church: Don't Use Wright To Polarize
Tthe pastor at the church that Clinton did once attend has recently expressed public support for Wright. He's even proclaimed it a "grave injustice" to make a judgment on Wright based off of "two or three sound bites," and criticized those who would "use a few of [Wright's] quotes to polarize." ...released a little noticed statement offering a sympathetic defense of the totality of Wright's work.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Is 'success' of U.S. surge in Iraq about to unravel?
A cease-fire critical to the improved security situation in Iraq appeared to unravel Monday when a militia loyal to radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al Sadr began shutting down neighborhoods in west Baghdad and issuing demands of the central government. Simultaneously, in the strategic southern port city of Basra, where Sadr's Mahdi militia is in control, the Iraqi govt. launched a crackdown in the face of warnings...

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Don't discount Gore-led ticket
(2 comments) we may see a brokered convention, meaning the nominee could emerge from a negotiated settlement. "If it (the nomination process) goes into the convention, don't be surprised if someone different is at the top of the ticket,"

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Clinton camp in lockdown mode over Bosnia flap
"We've said all we're going to say on that," said Deputy Communications Director Phil Singer on a Tuesday morning conference call with reporters. A video from CBS News had shown that Clinton's version of having come under sniper fire was not correct. Her campaign chalked up the discrepancy between her account and the video as a case of Clinton misspeaking.

Monday, March 24, 2008
HOw Bad is Economy? Worst since Records Started in 1960!
By the end of 2007, 36% of consumers' disposable income went to food, energy and medical care, a bigger chunk of income than at any time since records were first kept in 1960, according to Merrill Lynch.

Monday, March 24, 2008
Elephant man transformed by Face transplant
horrific image but fascinating and surely life-changing surgery

Monday, March 24, 2008
Supreme Court Allows Inmates to Get Abortions
Arizona sheriff, Joe Arpaio, noted for his harsh, treatment of inmates, wanted the justices to allow him to enforce a jail policy that bars transporting inmates for abortions without a court order.

Monday, March 24, 2008
China Bans Media over Tibet coverage
Chinese ban reporters from Tibet, Ban Websites and news broadcasts covering Tibet protests, including BBC, NY Times, CNN, Youtube. The government has also increased its propaganda campaign aimed at convincing the Chinese public that the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader, instigated the violence in Tibet on March 14 and that China was a victim of separatist terrorist activity.

Monday, March 24, 2008
GOP state parties are in dire straits
At a time when the GOP presidential nominee will need more assistance than ever, a number of state Republican parties are struggling through troubled times, suffering from internal strife, poor fundraising, onerous debt, scandal or voting trends that are conspiring to relegate the local branches of the party to near-irrelevance.

Monday, March 24, 2008
Clinton acknowledges a "misstatement" on Bosnia sniper fire
Clinton acknowleged today for the first time that it was a "misstatement" when she said in a major prepared foreign policy speech last week that "I remember landing under sniper fire" but also tried to brush off the entire issue as "a minor blip." She also gave a revised account of her airplane landing and her tarmac greeting at the Tuzla Air Force base 12 years ago -

Sunday, March 23, 2008
Video: 80,000 Angry Men. Is the US Surge collapsing?
In an investigation, we uncover how thousands of Iraqis employed at $10 a day by the US to take on al-Qaida are threatening to go on strike because they say they have been used by the 'Americans to do their dirty work' and haven't been paid

Sunday, March 23, 2008
Echoes of 1968 return to haunt the divided Democrats | World news | The Observer
(1 comments) The Democrats head for their convention beset by splits and overshadowed by a war, just as they did 40 years ago when Chicago became the focus for extraordinary anti-Vietnam riots.

Sunday, March 23, 2008
Roger Stone; Sleazebag Swinger, May Have Had Role in Bringing Spitzer Down
You might not have heard of sleaze ball GOP operative Roger Stone, a sort of combination of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove with a penchant for swinging -- of the sexual kind.

Sunday, March 23, 2008
McCain's ties to Airbus could cost him votes in Kansas
A lot of people, all over, are angry with John McCain for pushing a lucrative contract that could ultimately exceed $100 billion, to the French company, Airbus. Now we find out also, that McCain hired as his finance director, someone from airbus. Money guy for McCain... former airbus lobbyist... raises questions, doesn't it?

Sunday, March 23, 2008
Will Joe Lieberman be John McCain's Assisted Living Caretaker and Vice-President as They Bomb Iran?
(2 comments) In case you've been so caught up in the battle royale of the Democratic primaries, Joe Lieberman has been escorting John McCain around Iraq and Israel, acting as his assisted living caretaker.

Saturday, March 22, 2008
Barney Frank calls for decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana
(1 comments) "I now think it's time for the politicians to catch up to the public," Frank said. "The notion that you lock people up for smoking marijuana is pretty silly. I'm going to call it the 'Make Room for Serious Criminals' bill."

Saturday, March 22, 2008
US scientists find more 'hobbits' in Pacific
The former island cave inhabitants, some "as small as just over a metre", shared features with the controversial Homo floresiensis specimens discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2004,

Thursday, March 20, 2008
The Origin of Obama's Pastor Problem and the Unanswered Question
By asking voters to understand the context of Wright's anger, though, Obama is counting on voters to accept nuance in an arena that almost always rewards simplicity over complexity. Politicians tend to offer deliberately banal choices... Obama's formulation was different. Explicitly asking Americans to grapple with racial divisions and then transcend them - that's a bolder, riskier request.

Thursday, March 20, 2008
LAT: USA Threatened Corruption Prosecutors to Stay Silent
attorneys in disbanded office specializing in public corruption told to keep mum on real story.

Thursday, March 20, 2008
Chris Bowers: Moving Beyond Transactions, Finding Our National Purpose
Yesterday, I blogged about how connecting the Iraq war to the bad economy held transformative progressive potential since such an argument implied that such large scale military spending was fundamentally a waste of money. Today, Barack Obama made a speech connecting the war to the bad economy, which is a good first step. Unfortunately, Obama's framing was steeped in transactional politics, rather than transformational values

Sunday, March 16, 2008
Dalai Lama: China causing 'cultural genocide'
A spokesman for the Tibetan exile government said it has confirmed at least 80 deaths in Friday's violence and that protests were continuing outside the capital on Sunday, further undermining China's hopes of a smooth run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. What kind of person will, facing this reality, buy tickets to and attend such Olympics?

Sunday, March 16, 2008
Crane falls and crushes building in NYC, four dead
A giant crane fell and crushed a residential building in Manhattan on Saturday, killing four construction workers and injuring more than 10 other people, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

Sunday, March 16, 2008
The Obama I know -- chicagotribune
15 year colleague from the U. of Chicago Law School describes a conversation with fellow law professor Obama, discussing legal issues and nuances of FISA spying. The U of Chicago is by far the most conservative of the great American law schools. It helped to provide the academic foundations for many positions of the Reagan administration. But at the U. of Chicago, Obama is liked and admired by both Republicans and Dems."

Sunday, March 16, 2008
Craigslist Isn't Liable for Biased Postings
The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals said Internet-classifieds company Craigslist Inc. can't be held liable for discriminatory real-estate postings. The ruling is a victory for Internet companies such as Craigslist, eBay Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and others by protecting companies that provide online forums for users' speech.

Sunday, March 16, 2008
Obama's Rezko narrative -- chicagotribune
Barack Obama waited 16 months to attempt the exorcism. When he finally sat down with the Tribune editorial board Friday, Obama offered a lengthy and, to us, plausible explanation for the presence of now-indicted businessman Tony Rezko in his personal and political lives. At the outset, he pledged to answer every question the three dozen Tribune journalists crammed into the room would put to him. And he did.

Sunday, March 16, 2008
Through Bush-Colored Glasses- NY Times
(2 comments) President Bush admitted on Friday that times are tough. So much for the straight talk. Mr. Bush’s denial of the economic truth underscores the need for Congress to push forward with solutions to the mortgage crisis — especially bankruptcy reform to help defaulting homeowners. Lawmakers also must prepare to execute a government rescue of people whose homes are now worth less than they borrowed to buy them

Sunday, March 16, 2008
Late Calls Rarely Merit Snap Decisions
(1 comments) Former presidential advisors say that middle of the night wakeups are not for decisions, more to keep the president in the loop. Historic examples of middle of the night wakeup calls all show the president did not have to make a snap decision.

Sunday, March 16, 2008
Bogus Iranian Election: Hardline critics scoop up votes as rivals are barred
(1 comments) In Iran, they just refuse to allow strong opposition candidates to run. In the US, Corporate Owned media trash the candidates they don't like. Examples: Dean Whoop, Obama's Minister, Kucinich UFO question...

Sunday, March 16, 2008
Clinton, Fighting FOR FL and MI Vote to Count, Tries to Block Count of TX Caucuses
(1 comments) using delay tactics to prevent votes of close to a million caucus goers from being counted. Not asking that of FL or MI voters. Bloggers are saying this is an attempt to delay the primaries and drag them out as long as possible-- Recounts? Same strategy that cost Gore Florida? Just what we need more of

Saturday, March 15, 2008
Clinton Fundraisers Threaten To Take Back Contributions to DNC
Some of Clinton's biggest fundraisers are asking for their money back if they don't get what they want in Florida. The Clinton camp is using this kind of leverage on the DNC to force a capitulation to their demands to allow the Florida and Michigan primaries, which Clinton broke her non-participation vow on.

Saturday, March 15, 2008
Obama expands delegate lead
Picks up some Edwards delegates

Friday, March 14, 2008
Australia will be first to excel at mining the ocean floor
great idea. Strange that the US is not in the lead on this. Ahhh, but it's not about oil...

Friday, March 14, 2008
Dollar falls below parity vs Swiss franc
You used to be able to buy four Swiss Francs for a buck. Thanks GOP!

Friday, March 14, 2008
Right now, feds might be looking into your finances
Each year, federal agents peek at the financial transactions of millions of Americans � without their knowledge. The same type of information that raised suspicions about New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is reviewed every day by authorities to find traces of money laundering, check fraud, identity theft or any crime that may involve a financial institution.

Friday, March 14, 2008
Muslims nations: Defame Islam, get sued?
(1 comments) The Muslim world has created a battle plan to defend its religion from political cartoonists and bigots. Concerned about what they see as a rise in the defamation of Islam, leaders of Muslim nations are considering taking legal action against those that slight their religion or its sacred symbols. Idea pits many Muslims against principles of freedom of speech enshrined in the constitutions of many western govts

Friday, March 14, 2008
Pelosi's Delegate Stance Boosts Obama
"If the votes of the superdelegates overturn what's happened in the elections," said Pelosi, "it would be harmful to the Democratic Party."

Thursday, March 13, 2008
Sex-Trade Clients Speak
A Web site gives men a chance to write anonymously about the complicated reasons they buy sex. Their explanations may surprise you.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
House Approves New Panel To Probe Ethics Questions
The House agreed last night to create an outside ethics panel to investigate alleged wrongdoing by its members. The late-night vote showed Congress is willing -- though just barely -- to increase oversight of its members. A six-person, bipartisan panel will be set up to review suspected ethics violations by House lawmakers.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Fla. House Members Oppose Mail-In Vote
Just when a solution seemed within reach for the thorny issue of what to do about Florida's Democratic delegates, late last night it appeared to have vanished. Florida's entire House Democratic caucus -- including both supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama -- issued a joint statement that aimed to shoot down a proposal to redo the Florida Democratic primary through a mail-in vote.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
UK top cop who led CIA probe found dead
(2 comments) UK top cop who led CIA probe found dead Manchester Police Chief Who Cleared Britain of Helping Secret CIA Flights Is Found Dead ROB HARRIS AP News Mar 11, 2008 13:45 EST A city police chief who led an investigation into charges that Britain cooperated with secret CIA flights to transport terrorism suspects without formal proceedings has been found dead, his deputy said Tuesday.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Spitzer's Hooker's MySpace Page
(1 comments) pictures, here her sing. She's 22, was a runaway... used drugs

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Lawyer questions whether Spitzer was set up, noting political prosecutions
prominent New York lawyer who has written for Harper's Magazine about the politically-motivated dismissals of US Attorneys in the Bush Justice Department says he believes there's a strong case that the fall of New York governor Eliot Spitzer was politically motivated. The house and senate judiciary committees should investigate this immediately

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
At MSNBC, 'Tucker' Is Out, And David Gregory Is In
(3 comments) "Tucker," the struggling early-evening talk show led by the often bow-tied Tucker Carlson, was canceled on Monday by MSNBC and replaced by a new politically oriented program featuring David Gregory, chief White House correspondent of NBC News.

Saturday, March 8, 2008
Bush vetoes waterboarding bill
(7 comments) Bush vetoed legislation passed by Congress that would have banned the CIA from using waterboarding and other controversial interrogation techniques

Saturday, March 8, 2008
Tucker Carlson unintentionally reveals the role of the American press - Glenn Greenwald
(2 comments) In one of the ultimate paradoxes, for American journalists -- whose role in theory is to expose the secrets of the powerful -- secrecy is actually their central religious tenet, especially when it comes to dealing with the most powerful. Protecting, rather than exposing, the secrets of the powerful is the fuel of American journalism. That's how they maintain their access to and good relations with those in power.

Saturday, March 8, 2008
Obama Crushing Clinton 59 to 40 with 78% of Caucus Votes In Wyoming
(2 comments) as expected, Obama clearly conquers Clinton in caucus competition

Saturday, March 8, 2008
Dem Beats Hastert's GOP Replacement in Devastating GOP Defeat
(2 comments) In a devastating defeat, the GOP lost the congressional seat held by former speaker of the house Dennis Hastert. In what was considered a Republican stronghold,held by Hastert for 20 years and won by Bush in 2004, The RNC outspent the DNC, $1.25 to $1.04 Million, spending 20% of its cash on hand. An RNC spokesperson denied that the major loss is a sign of a trend.

Friday, March 7, 2008
Why Iraq war veterans have not had much impact on the debate over the war.
(1 comments) Next week, Iraq Veterans Against the War will hold "Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan"- designed to draw attention to the failures of U.S. foreign policy, the dehumanizing effects of counterinsurgency, and the inadequate provision of veterans' benefits. The event, meant to recall the famous 1971 Winter Soldier Hearings, highlights how little Iraq war veterans have featured in the national political debate over the war

Friday, March 7, 2008
RNC Massively Out Fundraising DNC
Let's see. Ratings od Dem congress in low teens. No war end, no impeachment, sellout bluedogs... what a surprise.

Thursday, March 6, 2008
Seven dead as gunmen hit Jerusalem religious school
(1 comments) Deadliest attack in three years is dramatic escalation in conflict... at least seven people were killed and dozens injured when gunmen opened fire into a crowd of students at one of Jerusalem's largest religious seminaries, the worst attack in the city for at least three years. The attackers, who reportedly disguised themselves as Jewish religious students, were armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Atheist soldier says Army punished him
A soldier claimed Wednesday that his promotion was blocked because he had claimed in a lawsuit that the Army was violating his right to be an atheist.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Three Right Feet Wash Ashore in Western Canda; Authorities Stumped
(1 comments) mystery over three separate incidents of feet washing ashore.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Michelle O Meets Jackie O; Why Michelle Obama Is Fueling Visions of Camelot
there ARE similarities

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Vermont towns vote to arrest Bush and Cheney
(1 comments) Voters in two Vermont towns on Tuesday approved a measure that would instruct police to arrest President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for "crimes against our Constitution," local media reported.

Monday, March 3, 2008
Poll: Most Israelis back direct talks with Hamas...
An increasing number of public figures, including senior officers in the Israel Defense Forces' reserves, have expressed similar positions on talks with Hamas. It now appears that this opinion is gaining traction in the wider public, which until recently vehemently rejected such negotiations.

Monday, March 3, 2008
Buffett Plans to Back Dems in 2008
Obama or Clinton could run a business.

Monday, March 3, 2008
Limbaugh urges listeners to vote for Clinton
Limbaugh has been actively urging his Texas listeners to cross over and vote for Clinton in that state's open primary Tuesday, arguing it helps the Republicans if the Democratic race remains unsettled for weeks to come.

Friday, February 29, 2008
Going Nowhere; The DLC Sputters to a Halt
(1 comments) the right wing, republican lite part of the Democratic party is looking dingy, grey and tattered. Ain't it a shame!

Thursday, February 28, 2008
Comcast Pays to Push Public out of Internet Debate-- Killing Free Speech the Comcast Way
save the internet dot com caught cable giant Comcast stacking a FCC hearing with paid (and apparently sleepy) seat fillers. The hearing was set up to investigate Comcast's recent blocking of the Internet. But the cable giant filled the room with paid sitters so that the public couldn't get in to voice their support for a free-flowing Internet.

Monday, February 25, 2008
DNC to File FEC Complaint Against McCain Campaign
his is an issue of integrity -- and John McCain's lack of it. What the DNC is asking the FEC to do is fairly simple: Require McCain's campaign to abide by the legally binding contract it created with the federal government to enjoy the benefits of the public financing system -- benefits his campaign has already used -- in return for abiding by the program's spending limits.

Monday, February 25, 2008
McCain Withheld Controversial Abramoff Email
In the 2006 Senate report concerning Abramoff's activities, which McCain spearheaded, the Arizona Republican conspicuously left out information detailing how Alabama Gov. Bob Riley was targeted by Abramoff's influence peddling scheme.

Monday, February 25, 2008
Prozac, used by 40m people, does not work say scientists
(1 comments) Prozac, the bestselling antidepressant taken by 40 million people worldwide, does not work and nor do similar drugs in the same class, according to a major review released today.

Sunday, February 24, 2008
How Would Jesus Vote?
(9 comments) As an evangelical who worked in Democratic politics before entering journalism, I'm used to getting looks from liberals who are embarrassed for me when I use the E-word to describe myself. Confusion flickers across their faces as they instantly reassess my political leanings and intelligence. People who have known me for years start asking whether I watch Fox News and brace for spontaneous proselytizing.

Sunday, February 24, 2008
Polls: Texas and Ohio By Region for Clinton and Obama
The poll says they're even in Texas, but with Obama ahead in Dallas, Houston and Austin, he looks stronger. Hillary's ahead in Ohio, especially the vote theft region-- cuyahoga county.

Sunday, February 24, 2008
Kristol: "˜I Recommend The Politics Of Fear'
(2 comments) This morning on Fox News Sunday, New York Times columnist Bill Kristol recommended that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) employ the "politics of fear" to attack Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL): KRISTOL: [Obama's] riding a wave of euphoria. She [Clinton] needs to puncture it. The way you puncture euphoria is reality, or to be more blunt, fear. I recommend to Senator Clinton the politics of fear... focusing on Iran

Sunday, February 24, 2008
Raull Castro elected Cuba's new president
a perfectly managed and carefully orchestrated succession of power that caused little stir in Havana or Miami. In a clear sign of what role the ailing Fidel Castro will play in the coming years, moments after taking office, Raúl asked the nation's assembly to allow him to consult his brother on key matters.

Saturday, February 23, 2008
McCain Disputed On 1999 Meeting
Broadcaster Lowell "Bud" Paxson yesterday contradicted statements from Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign that the senator did not meet with Paxson or his lobbyist before sending two controversial letters to the Federal Communications Commission on Paxson's behalf. Paxson said he talked with McCain in his Washington office several weeks before the AZ senator wrote the letters in 1999 to the FCC urging a rapid decision

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Bob Corker Refuses To Say That McCain Is "˜Temperamentally Suited To Be President'
Last night on Hannity & Colmes, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) coyly suggested that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) does not have the temperament to be president. When asked by Alan Colmes whether McCain is "temperamentally suited to be President of the United States," Corker refused to say

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
NBC reprimands employee for using picture of bin Laden behind Obama story
NBC News said Tuesday it has reprimanded the employee responsible for mistakenly flashing a picture of Osama bin Laden on MSNBC as Chris Matthews talked about Barack Obama. "This mistake was inexcusable," MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines said.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Obama Wins WI, Broadens His Base
(2 comments) Obama is now eating into Senator Hillary Clinton's core support. The make-up of Wisconsin should have worked in Mrs Clinton's favour. Almost 90% of those voting were white, most of them working class and more than 50% of them women - in other words, the group that until now has proved to be her base. But this time she barely won among white women, and lost ground among less educated and lower-income voters.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
"Experienced" Clinton Team Fails to Cover Basics for Delegate Registrations in PA
Governor Ed Rendell bails Clinton out by extending the deadline "due to bad weather."

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
NY Times: Did McCain Have Affair with Lobbyist
(3 comments) A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client's corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself, instructing staff members to block the woman's access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him...

Monday, February 18, 2008
Taking Play Seriously; For Kids AND Adults
...the biological and spiritual underpinnings of play. ...Play is part of the ‘‘developmental sequencing of becoming a human primate. If you look at what produces learning and memory and well-being, play is as fundamental as any other aspect of life, including sleep and dreams.’’ This is a long article. Consider selecting the single page view or print friendly.

Monday, February 18, 2008
A Presidential Candidate Until Just a Short Time Ago, Dennis Kucinich Now Faces a Primary Challenge for His Congressiona

Sunday, February 17, 2008
Same Gun Dealer Sold to 2 Campus Killers
(1 comments) online gun dealer who sold a weapon to the Virginia Tech shooter also sold to the man who killed five students at Northern Illinois University.

Sunday, February 17, 2008
Wheat prices surge 90% to new high
A surge on Friday in prices for wheat used in bread to an all-time high of $19.88 a bushel – the highest yet paid for any wheat contract and a three-fold increase from a year ago – prompted the US baking industry to call for wheat exports to be curtailed. The American Bakers Association stopped short of asking for an export moratorium but pressed for curbs on foreign sales.

Friday, February 15, 2008
MySpace 'Friend Request' Violates Protection Order

Friday, February 15, 2008
Obama's Ties Might Fuel 'Republican Attack Machine'
(4 comments) Hillary Clinton questions whether Barack Obama would be able to withstand what she calls the ''Republican attack machine.'' If Obama does become the Democratic presidential nominee, his Chicago ties might provide the fuel. While the Illinois senator has never been accused of wrongdoing, some of the associations he formed as a community organizer and politician in Chicago may provide fodder for attacks, Dem and Republican

Thursday, February 14, 2008
Clinton banks on Texas as defection adds to woes
Clinton suffered an even more personal rejection yesterday when David Wilhelm, who managed her husband's 1992 campaign for the White House, endorsed her opponent. The defection came as Obama began to peel away sections of Clinton's supporting coalition among working-class households, women, Catholics, and older voters, to win primaries in Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC by overwhelming margins on Tuesday night.

Thursday, February 14, 2008
House finds Bolten, Miers in contempt of Congress
(2 comments) The House voted Thursday to hold White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before a panel investigating the firing of several United States attorneys. Ahead of the vote, Republicans had walked out...

Thursday, February 14, 2008
Romney flipping his support, delegates to John McCain

Thursday, February 14, 2008
NBC Apologizes For Jane Fonda Saying "C**t" On "Today"
watch the videos. It's stupid, really.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Budget Deficit Running at Faster Pace
The federal budget deficit is running at a pace that is more than double last year's imbalance through the first four months of the budget year. In its monthly review of the government's finances, the Treasury Department said Tuesday that the budget was in surplus in January, but totals $87.7 billion so far this budget year, double the $42.2 billion imbalance recorded during the same period in 2007.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Analysis: Obama Cuts Into Clinton Base
Hillary Rodham Clinton has set up Texas and Ohio as her firewall, but the results from Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama's most recent victories give her plenty of reason to worry whether it will hold up. Clinton has been depending upon older or lower income or white or Hispanic or, of course, women. But exit surveys conducted Tuesday showed she can't rely on those groups any more.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Barack Obama and the KKK
(1 comments) This article was published on OpEdNews a year ago. It popped up in our web stats program as one of the top 25 articles viewed this month.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Boulder weighs 'impeaching Bush'
(1 comments) Boulder's elected leaders are expected to decide next week whether to draft and vote on a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Ron Paul scales back ,refuses to back McCain
(1 comments) "I cannot support anybody with the foreign policy he advocates, you know, perpetual war," said Paul. "That is just so disturbing to me."

Monday, February 11, 2008
Colin Powell Likes Obama, hints he may vote against Republicans
(7 comments) ...praised Democratic hopeful Barack Obama...I think he's been an exciting person on the political stage. He has energized a lot of people in America. He has energized a lot of people around the world," Powell told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "And so I think he is worth listening to and seeing what he stands for." But Powell added he did not share all Obama's views, nor did he completely share the views of the other candidates.

Sunday, February 10, 2008
Obama sweeps 3 states, Huckabee takes 2
(4 comments) Sen. Barack Obama swept the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state Saturday night, slicing into Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's slender delegate lead in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Illinois senator also won caucuses in the Virgin Islands, completing his best night of the campaign.

Sunday, February 10, 2008
Maine Puts Topper On Obama Weekend Sweep, Obama Takes Delegate Lead With Wins In 4 States; Clinton Manager Steps Down
Obama pulls ahead of Clinton in number of delegates

Friday, February 8, 2008
Pasing the Torch; Kennedy's Touch on Obama's Words
t's no accident the Kennedy magic has infused itself into the campaign of Barack Obama. Theodore "Ted" Sorensen, the adviser whom John F. Kennedy once called his "intellectual blood bank," is lending his unabashed support -- and eloquence -- to the Obama campaign.

Friday, February 8, 2008
Bush, Congress hit bottom in AP poll
It's almost as if people can barely stand the thought of Prez Bush and Congress anymore. Bush reached his lowest approval rating in The AP-Ipsos poll on Friday as only 30 percent said they like the job he is doing, including an all-time low in his support by Republicans. Congress' approval fell to just 22 percent, equaling its poorest grade in the survey. Both marks dropped by 4 percentage points since early January.

Friday, February 8, 2008
Clint Eastwood: Ann Coulter, others, 'masochistic'

Friday, February 8, 2008
Gloves off: The Dem plan to hit McCain
(1 comments) The playbook starts to evolve

Friday, February 8, 2008
Music cannot change the world, says Neil Young, as he also Bashes Bush
"I know that the time when music could change the world is past. I really doubt that a single song can make a difference. It is a reality," Young told reporters. "I don't think the tour had any impact on voters."

Thursday, February 7, 2008
Senate Passes Stimulus Plan
(1 comments) would speed $600 to $1,200 in rebates to most taxpayers and $300 checks to low-income people, including disabled veterans and the elderly. The 81-16 vote capped more than a week of political maneuvering that ended only when majority Democrats dropped their demand that the proposal offer jobless benefits, heating aid for the poor and tax breaks for certain industries.

Thursday, February 7, 2008
Adoption of Islamic Sharia law in Britain is 'unavoidable', says Archbishop of Canterbury
says that Muslims could choose to have marital disputes or financial matters dealt with in a Sharia court. He added Muslims should not have to choose between "the stark alternatives of cultural loyalty or state loyalty". Dr Williams said there was a place for finding a "constructive accommodation" in areas such as marriage - allowing Muslim women to avoid Western divorce proceedings.

Thursday, February 7, 2008
See-through fish is created to give a clearer idea of how cancer spreads
Each internal organ of the fish and its bones can be seen clearly throughout its life. Observations have shown already that the spread of cancer cells is not random – they home in on a particular area.

Thursday, February 7, 2008
Gangs Turn To Social Networking Sites To Recruit
Young people who visit social networking sites to download music and pictures glorifying criminal street gangs can unwittingly set themselves up to be recruited by those gangs, according to law enforcement officials and youth counselors.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Obituary: Meditation Guru: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
(1 comments) The man who probably did more to popularize mediation in the west, much through his teaching of the Beatles, in the late sixties, has passed away, at an estimated 91 years of age.

Monday, February 4, 2008
Dem battle 'is nearly too close to call'
Clinton a four-point lead over Mr Obama - 47 per cent to 43 per cent - the closest margin yet in a year of fierce campaigning. Obama's advisers believe the 10 per cent of "undecideds" are more likely to move to the Illinois senator than the former First Lady. A Zogby poll gave Obama a narrow lead in California, while other polls gave Mrs Clinton the edge there.

Monday, February 4, 2008
McCain Claims Iraq "Casualties Are Coming Down," But Casualties Actually Increased In January

Monday, February 4, 2008
Lakoff On Obama-If Only!
(1 comments)

Saturday, February 2, 2008
Why The Right Loves A Disaster | Naomi Klein
Washington lobbyists had every reason to believe that the current recession fears would provoke a new round of corporate gift-giving. Yet it seems that the public is getting wise to the tactics of disaster capitalism.

Friday, February 1, 2008
Ohio's Blackwell could be subpoenaed
Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell has been asked to testify next Friday in Washington, D.C., by the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., a Michigan Democrat, is investigating election irregularities, including long lines and challenges to voter registrations.

Friday, February 1, 2008
McCain nearly abandoned GOP
(2 comments) According to Tom Daschle and others, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was close to leaving the Republican Party in 2001, weeks before then-Sen. Jim Jeffords (Vt.) famously announced his decision to become an Independent, according to former Democratic lawmakers who say they were involved in the discussions.

Friday, February 1, 2008
Atlantic: Will Gore Pull The Endorsement Trigger for Obama?
Gore has said he won't endorse. He's happily retired from politics now, a senior statesman, a big-shot investor. He's won an Oscar and a Nobel. The cause he crusaded for has become central to the public conversation in a way even he could never have imagined. All of these are good reasons to stay out of the fray. But they're equally good reasons to jump into it. What would be the risk?

Friday, February 1, 2008
Super Tuesday Battleground Rapidly Expanding
Clinton's campaign appears to have reached it's national zenith on about January 20th, the day after the Nevada caucuses, according to Gallup. At that time, Clinton led Obama 48%--28%. Since then, however, Obama has closed the gap almost every day. The gap has become so close, that Super Tuesday now has a wide-range of battleground states

Friday, February 1, 2008
Chris Bowers: The Disaster Scenario In 2008
a quick timeline of recent major political events since the Democratic takeover of Congress, and explain how the progressive movement is in serious jeopardy in 2008 unless we can reverse the current trends of the debate on the Iraq war: the disaster scenario we face on the electoral front in 2008. The central cause of this scenario is timidity on Iraq.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Harry Reid done good today -- Stands Strong on FISA
(2 comments) Reid met with progressive media leaders yesterday. Maybe he caught some of their attitude juice!

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Washington Liberals Lead Clinton backlash
Washington's liberal establishment - members of Congress, fundraisers and commentators - has coalesced around the view that Bill Clinton is soiling his legacy and wounding Hillary Rodham Clinton's prospects as he rambles around the country in a peevish, piece-of-my-mind monologue ostensibly devoted to helping her win the Democratic nomination.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
FL: Rudy Routed, McCain 36 Romney 31, Hillary 51, Obama, 32, Edwards 15
Say good by to Rudy. The Florida experiment failed. Rumors that Giuliani will endorse McCain Wednesday.

Saturday, January 26, 2008
NYPD analysis opposed WTC command center site
A detailed 1998 New York Police Department analysis opposed the city's plans to locate its emergency command center at the World Trade Center but then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani's administration overrode the objections, The New York Times reported on Saturday

Saturday, January 26, 2008
Leahy And Cornyn: White House Trying To "˜Eliminate' FOIA Office
(1 comments) Bush White House is doing everything it can to neuter the Freedom of Information Act law, trying to de-fund office.

Saturday, January 26, 2008
Jaguars at risk as US blocks their border crossing
(1 comments) Will Lou Dobbs, Tom Tancredo and freinds be responsible for the extinction of the Jaguar? Anti-immigrant hysteria that's building "the wall" is also killing a program that could help the decimated, endangered Jaguar population recover

Saturday, January 26, 2008
Obama overwhelms Clinton in SC; "This Election is about the Past vs. the Future"
(1 comments) Barack Obama won overwhelmingly the South Carolina primary tonight, giving his campaign a boost ahead of the nationwide Democratic contest on February 5. That gives Obama a delegate lead: Obama 63, Hillary 48, Edwards 26, not including superdelegates (members of congress, governors, etc.) where Hillary has a lead.

Saturday, January 26, 2008
Orbiting U.S. spy satellite could crash to Earth
(6 comments) A U.S. intelligence satellite has lost power and could fall to Earth sometime in February or March, a government official said on Saturday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the spy satellite can no longer be controlled and it was not known where on the planet it might come down.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Why does AT&T want to know what you're downloading? - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine
Has AT&T Lost Its Mind? Last week AT&T announced that it is seriously considering plans to examine all the traffic it carries for potential violations of U.S. intellectual property laws. The prospect of AT&T, already accused of spying on our telephone calls, now scanning every e-mail and download for outlawed content is way too totalitarian for my tastes.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
David Cay Johnston Shows That the Rich Are Getting a 'Free Lunch' -- and Guess Who's Picking Up the Tab?
here is no such thing as deregulation. What you have is new regulations. And the new regulations, in many cases, take Adam Smith's "invisible hand of the marketplace" and handcuff it. They diminish competition. They insulate businesses from bad decisions. They drive prices up, not down.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Kucinich Starts New Impeachment Drive
to introduce Articles of Impeachment against Bush on 1/28 the day of Bush’s State of the Union speech. Kucinich said he did not need to hear the president’s assessment. “We know the State of the Union, It’s a lie.� He also fired at Nancy "impeachment is off the table" Pelosi, saying “If impeachment is off the table, truth is off the table. If truth is off the table then this body is living a lie.�

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Candidate economic plans; Solutions or Pandering?
Help for seniors who still pay into Social Security. Tax rebates for almost everyone. Big tax breaks for business. Presidential candidates are engaging in a virtual bidding war these days over who can stimulate the weakening economy most effectively. But analysts wonder whether voters will see this sudden burst of generosity as serious antidotes for the ailing economy or blatant political pandering.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Oscar Awards Nominated
'No Country,' 'Blood' Tie for Oscar Lead

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Group's internal memo points to Obama's struggle with Jewish vote
As the Democratic presidential candidates prepare for Feb. 5's "national primary," a leaked memo from a major Jewish organization shows that Senator Barack Obama may have a difficult time winning votes from the important demographic of Jewish voters.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Study: Rich Countries Do $1.8 Trillion Damage To Poor Countries
UC Berkeley researchers report that environmental damage caused by rich nations affects poor nations so much, it costs them more than their combined foreign debt. The study examined the impacts of the expansion of agriculture, deforestation, overfishing, loss of swamps and ozone completion from 1961 to 2000.

Monday, January 21, 2008
Black Monday! Stock Markets Plunge Worldwide
(5 comments) Stocks fell sharply worldwide Monday following declines on Wall Street last week amid investor pessimism over the U.S. government's stimulus plan to prevent a recession. U.S. markets were closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but the downbeat mood from last week's market declines there circled through Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Sunday, January 20, 2008
Women, Latinos Propel Clinton To First Place
(1 comments) Nevada results contained some worrisome signs for Obama along demographic lines.

Saturday, January 19, 2008
Close contest could make Edwards kingmaker
(1 comments) Edwards could play a major role in deciding who wins, if the contest ends up at the Dem convention

Thursday, January 17, 2008
Fox & Friends livid at report that Olbermann 'runs MSNBC'
Fox hosts have serial hissy fits over Olbermann

Thursday, January 17, 2008
Microsoft seeks patent for office 'spy' software
Big brother gets ever more personal. Sorry Microsoft, but biofeedback practitioners and researchers have been doing this for decades...

Thursday, January 17, 2008
New inflation data explain middle-class squeeze
New data from the Labor Department confirm what most middle-class Americans already know: Inflation is squeezing them.

Thursday, January 17, 2008
$300 to Learn Risk of Cancer of the Prostate
Researchers have reported that a simple DNA test can help predict a man’s risk of getting prostate cancer.

Thursday, January 17, 2008
Obama Joke leaves Colorado Crowd gasping :
it could get a lot uglier. Just imagine the anonymously started, forwarded emails that will soon be heading into your email box. the speaker, pretending to read a telegram, says, " "I have a telegram from the White House." Then he added, "They're going to have to change the name of that building if Obama's elected." Classy?

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Rove previews strategies against Clinton, Obama
Speaking to GOP leaders, Rove outlined talking points for ways to defeat leading Democratic candidates Clinton and Obama. Rove did not mention former Sen. John Edwards. He pointed out that Clinton has a problem giving straight answers, has voted for big spending and against tax breaks. Obama's vulnerability is his lack of experience.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
How the Pentagon Planted a False Story
(1 comments) Senior Pentagon officials, evidently reflecting a broader administration policy decision, used an off-the-record Pentagon briefing to turn the January 6 US-Iranian incident in the Strait of Hormuz into a sensational story demonstrating Iran's military aggressiveness, a reconstruction of the events following the incident shows.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
New Huckabee Adviser Called For "˜A Cop In Front Of Every Mosque' Just "˜For Safe Keeping'
Next- evangelical ambassadors sent to Roswell, New Mexico, to Baptize any aliens on the premises to

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Greenspan joins hedge fund Paulson
Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, is set to join the US hedge fund Paulson & C. as an adviser. Paulson manages $28bn of assets and last year earned billions of dollars when it called correctly the collapse in the sub-prime mortgage market, a collapse which was caused by Dr Greenspan who kept interest rates too low for long, according to some economic commentators.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Discovered: a rodent bigger than a bull
The four million year old heavyweight champ of rodents looks more like a capybara, the largest living rodent, which also harks from South America and enjoys an aquatic lifestyle. The huge capybara-like rodent weighed between one and 1.4 tons. The behemoth, which once lived in forests near fresh water, was uncovered by an amateur palaeontologist on the coast of Rio de La Plata

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Bush Admin Fudged Iraq Gov Budget Numbers to Look Better
GAO questions report on Iraq. The Bush admin, in its last so-called Iraq "benchmark" report, used questionable financial data to assert that the Baghdad government was making progress in managing its budget, a new study says. It focused specifically on whether Iraqis were spending their capital budget, that is money for infrastructure needed to boost the country's lagging economic growth and improve poor public services.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Special counsel sought in CIA tapes case
(1 comments) Conyers, 18 Other Democrats Want Special Counsel for CIA Videotapes Case. Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers, D-Mich., said in a Tuesday letter to Mukasey that the Justice Department's ability to conduct an independent investigation is compromised because the CIA apparently consulted Justice and White House lawyers about the tapes and their destruction. "The department has no business conducting the investigation...

Monday, January 14, 2008
Judge Grants Kucinich Entry to NV Debate
anti-democratic NBC execs who think THEY should decide who Nevada citizens will appeal the judge's ruling.

Sunday, January 13, 2008
Campaign exposes deep rifts in GOP coalition
The house that Ronald Reagan built is in danger of collapsing. All the men running for the Republican party's presidential nomination invoke Reagan's name repeatedly. But all of them offend at least one wing of the party enough that they'd find it difficult, and perhaps impossible, to pull the disparate elements of the old coalition together.

Sunday, January 13, 2008
Bush Mideast speech draws cool response
Bush appears unlikely, based on the regional reaction to his address, to find many Arabs to heed his alarms against Iran, a powerful neighbor and trading partner. Nor did many endorse his speech's other theme - a vision of "free and just society" featuring broad political participation and a voice for moderate Muslims in a region where money and family are common keys to leadership.

Sunday, January 13, 2008
80 Arrested Outside Supreme Court, Protestors Worldwide, Adorned In Orange Jump Suits, Demand Shutdown of Guantanamo Bay
Demonstrators wearing orange jump suits intended to simulate prison garb were arrested inside and outside the building. "Shut it down," protesters chanted as others kneeled on the plaza in front of the court. They were charged with violating an ordinance that prohibits demonstrations of any kind on court grounds.

Sunday, January 13, 2008
New organs hope as scientists use cells to grow beating heart
Scientists have grown a whole beating heart in the laboratory, bringing the goal of growing replacement organs for humans a step closer. About 22 million people around the world live with the threat of heart failure and there is a global shortage of replacement tissue.

Saturday, January 12, 2008
Bob Herbert; Of Hope and Politics
The significance of Barack Obama’s achievement is the fact that he might well be fashioning a positive change in the very character of our nation.

Friday, January 11, 2008
Drug 'can reverse Alzheimer's symptoms in minutes'
arthritis drug, injected weekly, into spine, helps 15 subjects.

Friday, January 11, 2008
Kucinich Granted New Hampshire Recount
(8 comments) The New Hampshire secretary of state will conduct hand recounts of Tuesday's Democratic and Republican primaries. Kucinich said he doesn't expect the recount to affect the results. He alluded to online reports alleging disparities around the state between hand-counted ballots, which tended to favor Barack Obama, and machine-counted ones that tended to favor Hillary Clinton.

Friday, January 11, 2008
Paul Warns Against Rush To War With Iran, All Other GOP Candidates "˜Ready To Attack'
(1 comments) all the GOP chickenhawks were ready to call for armageddon based on a Gulf of Tonkin type bogus conflict. Only Ron Paul had calm perspective. These candidates are frightening.

Thursday, January 10, 2008
9 soldiers killed in attacks north of Baghdad
Six U.S. soldiers were killed and four wounded Wednesday when an improvised explosive device was detonated in a house they were searching in Diyala province, according to a Multi-National Division-Baghdad press release. The Army also announced that three U.S. soldiers were killed and two were wounded Tuesday in an attack in Salahuddin province to the east.

Thursday, January 10, 2008
Nevada Culinary Union endorses Obama
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has won the endorsement of Nevada's largest labor union, giving the underdog candidate a significant boost against frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the Nevada contest. The Culinary Workers Union Local 226 joined with parent organization UNITE-HERE to endorse Obama, union officials announced this morning.

Thursday, January 10, 2008
Study Suggests That Amputee Holds an Unfair Advantage
Track and field’s world governing body is expected to announce that Oscar Pistorius is ineligible to race against able-bodied athletes because his prosthetics give him an unfair advantage.

Thursday, January 10, 2008
Women’s Support for Clinton Rises in Wake of Perceived Sexism
(2 comments) By losing in Iowa, Hillary Rodham Clinton may have gotten more women to see her as a candidate trying to break a glass ceiling.

Thursday, January 10, 2008
Partisanship surfaces in Supreme Court arguments over voter-ID law
During lively oral arguments, conservative justices appeared sympathetic to the 2005 law, which the state's Republican-controlled legislature passed to combat vote fraud. The more liberal justices questioned whether the law is aimed at suppressing the votes of Democratic-leaning poor, elderly and minority voters, who are least likely to have driver's licenses.

Thursday, January 10, 2008
Blackwater dropped blinding tear gas on Iraqis, US soldiers in 2005
Blackwater security contractors employed in Iraq dropped a blinding riot-control gas on Iraqi civilians and US military personnel on a busy Baghdad street in May 2005, according to the reporter who first broke the NSA wiretapping scandal in the New York Times.

Thursday, January 10, 2008
Clinton Relies on Quirky Message Guru
Texas advertising guru and branding whiz who spent most of October on a spiritual soul quest trying to reconnect with "the heart of America," has been tapped for a bigger role in Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Roy Spence, 60, longtime friend of the Clintons, is the quirky Austin-based advertising legend who coined the phrase "Don't Mess With Texas" and developed the Southwest Airlines slogan: 'You are now fre

Thursday, January 10, 2008
Everest conqueror Edmund Hillary dies
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” Sir Edmund Hillary, along with Nepal’s Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first to conquer Mount Everest, has died. He was 88. "Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Proposed Anti-Obama 527 Stirring Controversy
Emily's List, an organization that backs Democratic women candidates who support abortion rights, and the two labor unions, have each set up independent expenditure (IE) subsidiaries for this election cycle to be able to finance thousands of dollars worth of television ads in support of Clinton.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Ron Paul Applauds Kucinich Pans Giuliani, Fox

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
The Clinton rebellion
he question going forward is, did anything else happen in those 24 hours? Did voters decide that experience wasn't so bad after all, and that maybe change was overrated? Did they start to buy the Clinton argument - not credible, in my view - that Obama is without substance? Did Bill Clinton's shameful "fairytale" rant, which deserved to cost his wife thousands of votes, instead have a positive effect for her?

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
The west has not just repressed democracy. It has aided terror
Pakistan has as many paradigms as pundits. What is clear, however, is that meddling will only ever foment disorder

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
France is healthcare leader, US comes dead last: study - Yahoo! News
(3 comments) France is tops, and the United States dead last, in providing timely and effective healthcare to its citizens, according to a survey Tuesday of preventable deaths in 19 industrialized countries. The study by the Commonwealth Fund, measured developed countries' effectiveness at providing timely and effective healthcare.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Glenn Greenwald - Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Reynolds warn of "social unraveling" if Obama loses
Over at National Review, Jonah Goldberg has a "theory" about what might help Obama win in the general election...imagine he loses. I seriously think certain segments of American political life will become completely unhinged. I can imagine the fear of this social unraveling actually aiding Obama enormously in 2008. subscription site.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
McCain beats Romney in New Hampshire; Democrats in a duel
(1 comments) McCain tops Romney, then Huckabee, with Giuliani and Paul Neck and Neck. Hillary leads Obama in early poll reports, by two percent.

Saturday, January 5, 2008
ABC Cuts 3 From Presidential Debate
(3 comments) Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich filed a complaint with the FCC on Friday after ABC News excluded him, fellow Democrat Mike Gravel and Republican Duncan Hunter from its prime-time debates on Saturday. Kucinich argued that ABC is violating equal-time provisions by keeping him out of the debate and noted that ABC's parent Walt Disney Co. had contributed to campaigns involving the four Dems who WERE invited

Saturday, January 5, 2008
NH GOP drops sponsorship of FOX debate
(2 comments) The New Hampshire Republican Party dropped their affiliation with a Republican debate sponsored by Fox News tomorrow night because they have limited the number of candidates that can participate. The Fox debate is excluding Ron Paul even though he poll