Social Security Links: May 4
Scott Hochberg Policy Fellow, Strengthen Social Security Campaign www.strengthensocialsecurity.org NEWS Window closing for Gang of 6 Meredith Shiner Politico 5/4/11 http://www.politico.com/... AARP...
View ArticleA blue whirlwind: notes from the CADem Convention
The beginning. Elected in January as a delegate to state Democratic Party, must show up at convention April 29-May 1. Drive up to Sacramento early Friday. Check in time starts 2 PM Friday;...
View ArticleTo Those Condemning Celebration
In the days since Osama's death, my fellow progressives have seen the need to condemn me and those like me for taking to the streets to celebrate. These attacks have been destructive, chipping away at...
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The Hunger Strikers of Guantanamo as Detailed in Files Released by WikiLeaks
Photo by onlyforward Hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay are known to have engaged in hunger strikes at the prison in protest of conditions and their prolonged confinement without trial. A recent...
View ArticleAbysmal results for national civics exam
Well, we now have at least one answer for why most people seem ill-informed about government. The results for the latest national civics exam came out today--and they reveal that most eighth- and...
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The Wavelength: “Underdog” AT&T Tells FCC That Eliminating Competitors Will...
by Eric K. Arnold, Media Consortium blogger The proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger continues to dominate media policy headlines, but the wireless merger isn’t the only game in town. AOL’s recent buyout...
View ArticleCinco de Mayo music video....
http://www.youtube.com/... Just sent this to my TexMex brother in law in South Texas... Happy Cinco, y'all! marco
View ArticleButtering Both Sides of Their Bread?
You can almost hear it now, the ominous signs of Republicans decrying President Obama's explanation of a simple truth. It's a truth they detest, despise, and deplore. They will rant and scream and...
View ArticleKosAbility: Dementia, Caregiving, Personhood & Politics
Almost a year ago I wrote my first KosAbility diary about Caring for loved ones with Alzheimer's dementia. The focus in that one was on the disease and the loved one: the difficulties and hurdles in...
View ArticleThe Biggest Story of the Year?
It doesn’t look like anything can possibly happen before year’s end that eclipses the media attention received by the finding and killing of Osama Bin Laden—and we are sure to endure several more...
View ArticleThe Business Case Against Coal
In less than 2 minutes, Gil Friend, CEO of Natural Logic, Inc and author of The Truth about Green Business, makes a clear business case against coal:
View ArticleHow the Arizona Legislature Accidentally Banned Religious Discrimination on...
Sometimes a legislature doesn't understand what it's doing. But it takes genuine stupidity for a legislature to do the exact opposite of what it intended. Yet that's what the Arizona legislature...
View ArticleOil, Inflation, and Ignorance are Killing Us
Our nations leaders misunderstanding of the nature of deficits, inflation, and money is slowly killing us. Their understanding of how the system works leads them to set unrealistic policy goals that...
View ArticleEvidence shows Osama "Strategically directed" Al Qaeda from Compound
Another reason to praise Barack Obama in the face of the larger GOP/McCain strategy that assumed Osama had been sidelined in caves somewhere in the NW Territories. Not true, infact, he was calling...
View ArticleGOP, the photograph, and the enabling of al Qaeda
I have seen many, many despicable things emerge from the craw of the GOP hate machine over the last few years, but this one takes the cake. Maybe, they sneer, the killing of Bin Laden was a fraud....
View ArticleCan I get some help on WMD info?
I'm in an argument on Facebook (I know, I know) about President Bush and his WMD's in Iraq. The guy I'm arguing with is making the following claims: "...thousands of Iraqis Saddams used as Guinea Pigs...
View ArticleDirty Money for Dirty Laws
What can nearly $80,000 buy these days? Judging from recent campaign filings, it can buy a handful of oil friendly bills in Congress. During the first quarter of 2011, ExxonMobil contributed $79,000...
View ArticleUgh.
Who would have thought that one of the worst things I have read regarding Osama's death would be from someone in New Zealand...
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Bin Laden HATED this car
Former CIA Director and advisor to John McCain during the 2008 campaign James Woolsey bubbles with enthusiasm when speaking of his car: a modified Prius which is a Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle...
View ArticleVeteran Interrogators: "Torture Did Not Lead the U.S to Bin Laden"
As you know, proponents of torture are claiming, facts be damned, that the successful hunt for bin Laden vindicates them. So we (Human Rights First) asked seasoned -- and successful -- interrogators...
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