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Red States Lead in Divorce, Teen Pregnancy, and Online Porn

07-03-09 9:45 A GMT-08

Family values, indeed.

LAT: Medical bills behind most bankruptcies in 2007

06-25-09 8:52 A GMT-08

Almost 78% of medical related bankruptcies were in spite of the affected families carrying private health insurance at the onset of their medical problems. We can haz public option plez?

Tags: health insurance bankruptcy medical bills health care costs

NYT: Documents Back Saudi Link to Extremists

06-25-09 8:42 A GMT-08

Oops! Money flowed to Taliban and terrorists before 911. The Saudis try to dig out from under a growing pile of evidence.

Tags: saudi arabia world trade center

Public Favors Public Option in HealthCare Plan

06-22-09 12:59 P GMT-08

Having a public option also the best way to keep costs under control. Write or call your Congress person and ask them to make sure the American public is given a real choice and health care reform is given a real chance.

Tags: health care reform congress senate

My favorite Mainstream Picture of Iranian Demonstrations

06-18-09 10:35 A GMT-08

Read the yellow sign. I think that says it all.

Tags: iran iran protests iranelection

Green Icons to Support Iranian Democracy Movement

06-17-09 9:52 A GMT-08

Tags: iran elections

Foreign Policy: What's Really Behind Israel's Call for 'Natural Growth' of Settlements in West Bank

06-15-09 2:49 P GMT-08

I also contend that what is at stake here is cheap (free) land for 'settlers'. Imagine the popularity of the government that can offer such a deal for adventurous types. That's why Olmert wanted to seize Lebanon up to the Litani when Israel was considering giving back West Bank. What politician dares go against the hunger for cheap land in Israel?

Tags: israel west bank lebanon west bank settlements

Reuters: Spring Break Swine Flu May Have Been Around for Over a Decade

06-12-09 1:24 A GMT-08

The immediate ancestors of H1N1 Swine flu that emerged from Mexico during Spring Break are likely to have been around for more than a decade. The current outbreak most likely started in January in that nation. More evidence that the Mexican govt doesn't really care about its people.

Tags: h1n1 swine flu spring break swine flu mexico oligarchy

Report from Gaza: 'We are a human experiment'

06-10-09 11:13 A GMT-08

Tags: gaza palestine israel code pink reconstruction isolation respect

Pension Groups Take Chrysler Sale to Supreme Court

06-08-09 4:54 P GMT-08

Also, owners of previously purchased vehicles are worried about the car company's liability if their automobiles are shown to be defective.

Tags: fiat chrysler supreme court justice ginsberg bankruptcy

Spreading Rogue Protein Responsible for Alzheimers

06-08-09 4:34 P GMT-08

A rogue protein called tau can spread throughout the Alzheimers' brain to destroy tissue. The protein is being compared to the "prion" of vJCD (and mad cow disease).

Tags: health alzheimers mad cow disease proteins infection

Slate: Tragic -- Former Animal Tester Exposes the New Cruelties

06-07-09 6:03 A GMT-08

Are new methods really better than old ones?

Tags: animal cruelty animal testing vivisection scientific research

Washington Post: Sotomayor's Gun Rights Decision Similar To New Ruling by Revered Conservative Circuit Court Judge

06-03-09 6:01 P GMT-08

7th Circuit panel found the knock down of DC's gun right law was okay. 2nd amendment applies only to federal govt or federal enclave like DC. The Decision was a unanimous ruling by 3 Republican appt jurists including Richard Posner.

Tags: gun rights federal government sotomayor supreme court

Alter Net: The Tiller Murder Wasn't a Lone Killer's Sick Plot; It Came Out of the Radical Anti-Abortion Movement

06-03-09 1:09 P GMT-08

Hat tip @AlterNet at Twitter.com

Badtux: It's Not Just Doctors That Gun Goons and Religionists Are Targeting. Judges are often threatened, too.

06-02-09 3:46 P GMT-08

The new motto of the US: If someone doesn't agree with you, you hunt 'em down and kill 'em, apparently.

Tags: gun nuts religionists

Tweet Tees

05-31-09 5:10 P GMT-08

How about 1 that says "Can't breath! Need more room." or "We can haz 200 letters B4 we scratch ur eyes out?"

Tags: twitter tees bigger tweets please

Republicans Get Ugly Over Sotomayor

05-31-09 3:21 P GMT-08

Tags: sotomayor supreme court nomination

Video: Shocking! Hear Supreme Court Nominee Tell Congress of Dependence on Ethnic Heritage to Guide Judgement (this is not the Sotomayor comment you've already heard)

05-31-09 6:52 A GMT-08

Someone gets their backside handed to them.

Tags: sotomayor scotus sonia sotomayor karl rove

Signs Say Recession Ending. Will We Bump Along the Bottom?

05-28-09 5:51 P GMT-08

I'm guessing yes, because the Wall Street banks who got the money don't want to lend it. They'd like to make Obama look bad so they can have their War and 'Tax Cuts for the Rich' Party back on top.

Tags: economy recession war invasion wall street banks

John Yoo Attacking Sotomayor

05-28-09 5:20 P GMT-08

Probably the best thing he's done in a decade. She'd be a shoe-in if this were a general vote with his 'help'.

Tags: sotomayor john yoo sonia sotomayor scotus supreme court

NYT: When the Justices Ask Questions, Be Prepared to Lose the Case

05-26-09 3:15 P GMT-08

The side of a case before the US Supreme Court that gets more questions from the bench is statistically more likely to lose, but even more important is which side gets more negative words spoken about it (and the report did not indicate --to my understanding-- that those disparaging messages had to come from the bench). What's next? Rap slams at the Supreme Court? But one lawyer says study taught her to shut up when a judge was questioning the opposition.

Tags: scotus supreme court john roberts sonia sotomayer

Centrist Print Journalists Say Shut up, Sit Down, and Get Your Ideas From Us!

05-26-09 12:56 A GMT-08

Well, I call the center right because the center has shifted so far to the right, but I see I'm agreeing with the blogger about the propaganda style coming from the newspaper crowd. And MSN is furious about losing control of the American psyche. And watching the Baltimore Sun journo start ranting himself over "cable news" esp MSNBC's stars (no bias there? yeah, right) is priceless.

Tags: mainstream news msn newspapers journalism cable news rachel maddow keith olbermann

Firedoglake: Reagan's Anti-tax Strongholds Feeling Bite of Recession the Worst

05-25-09 3:54 P GMT-08

Discussion of cities and economy of scale, but also of how Big Money co-opts (through their wheel greasing money) Judeo-Christian conservatives. Author believes all that money now is gone, but haven't we seen some of that bailout money we gave the big banks being diverted to politics especially surrounding EFCA? Also a lot of political donations can be hidden by donating to the Chamber of Commerce and other non profits w/o disclosure who can then use it for 'political education' as long as they refrain from endorsing specific candidates. Hat tip @ericgrant at Twitter.com

Tags: reagan revolution recession blue collar workers

Twitter is the New Cave Art?

05-25-09 2:31 P GMT-08

Well, maybe it's not quite as long lasting, though I think I've read some posts from early newlists that come from the mid eighties. They were often approaching twitter like brevity. Even for the early adopters, scientists and computer geeks sending up anything on those sloooowwwww dial up connections from comparatively snail speed computers to glaciially updating BB services a little script was a big thing. Hat tip @irasocol at Twitter.com

Tags: twitter cave art community literature mass communication

AP: Search for homes for 'Slumdog' children picks up

05-24-09 8:29 A GMT-08

Tags: slumdog millionaire stars india slums

WP -- Former Senator Bob Graham: Eye's Forward on Intelligence

05-24-09 7:18 A GMT-08

Graham's revelations that CIA records do not coincide with his meticulous ones in re when they talked to him in his role on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Why they need better record keeping.

Tags: senate intelligence committee bob graham nancy pelosi

Washington Post: Revealing the Hidden Cost Of Credit Cards

05-24-09 7:10 A GMT-08

Notes the fact that the person who pays his or her bill every month is using free money services paid by the rest of us. Now that the Congress and Obama have put constraints on the gouging of the rest of us capitalism with do what it does best, go after those who are getting the service for free.

Tags: credit cards congress obama

Pro Publica: Tortured Profession: Psychologists Warned of Abusive Interrogations, Then Helped Craft Them

05-24-09 6:09 A GMT-08

Tags: sere enhanced intelligence techniques psycologists

NASA New Head is Former Shuttle Commander

05-23-09 7:08 P GMT-08

That has to be good for safety.

Tags: nasa space exploration

Civil Union Reality May Keep Adopted Children From Bedsides of Dying Parent

05-23-09 7:04 P GMT-08

It is not, is never actually the same. Plus it is a way to tell families they are second class citizens.

Tags: civil union same sex marriage hospital rights seccond class families families

NY Times. Californian doesn't even even charge for the extraction of oil in state?

05-22-09 4:53 P GMT-08

In a report mostly going over the talking points of California's search for money and the federal government denying loan guarantees the Jennifer Steinhauer talks about CA starting to charge for oil extraction. ???? WE HAVEN'T BEEN DOING THAT?

Tags: california oi drilling oil extraction budget crisis

RNC Hits Obama For Criticizing Slavery

05-22-09 8:28 A GMT-08

The Above Linkblogs Might Contain "Borrowed" links.

Linkblogs do not substantially contribute traffic to my blog that I can discover. They all go offsite, and are often accessed from my blog. It's possible to access them from the RSS according to my settings. Still, even if I were to get ads clicking on a linkblog from the RSS won't drive more people to my blog than otherwise because they leave my resources. (Note to self, do more posts, less LBs with sources I find). I explain because I sometimes borrow links from people at Twitter, and often forget who put them up. (To fellow Twitterers: If you have a link to your blog, I will point it there, but Twitter, being impermanent, cannot hold your link for people to discover from there. I only 'borrow' them to get news out to as many people as I can who might not have seen the reports and videos found by the smart people I follow at Twitter or find in search rooms.

Former Clinton Loyalist: It's Time for Hillary to Go

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posted 03-12-08

(Title is my summary of Huffington Post analysis)

Excerpt HP commentary by Seth Grahame-Smith "The Monster: A Loyal Clinton Soldier Turns In His Badge ":

She's proven that she cares more about "Hillary" than "unity." More about defeating Obama than defeating the Republicans. She's become a political suicide-bomber, happy to blow herself to bits -- as long as she takes everyone else with her.

tags: hillary clinton 2008 election barack obama 2008 presidential primary bill clinton

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