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Short Attention-Span News : Tweet-ening the Pot
A little birdie told me…Short Attention-Span News By Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / June 29, 2009 Help Army Nat.Guard Lt. Dan Choi, fighting discharge 4 being gay, NOW: http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/ic/rl0ze9ehwuz8th/SjZDRRMLFEAhUl4* * *92 city cops n Hidalgo busted by … Continue reading
Austin’s Lloyd Doggett and the Sorta Clean Energy Act
After working hard to reform it, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D,TX) finally voted for the energy bill. Here he speaks at the Austin Global Warming Press conference in June, 2008.The special interests’ ‘Clean Energy’ bill passes the House Austin’s own … Continue reading
Stonewall Was a Riot : Gay Liberation and the Struggle for Social Change
The Stonewall Rebellion, June 28, 1969. Top photo © Fred McDarrah.The Stonewall Rebellion, the fight for gay liberation and the Sixties movement for social change By Michael Bronski / The Rag Blog / June 27, 2009[With a response by Allen … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Gay Liberation, Gay Movement, GLBT Rights, Homosexuality, New Left, Sixties, Social Change, Stonewall Riot
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Where’s Waldo? Play ‘Find That Health Care Lobbyist!’
NPR has started to identify individuals and publish how much cash they have thrown at elected officials to maintain the status quo for private health care insurance companies… By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / June 26, 2009 National … Continue reading
Mexican Elections : Calderón Beats Law and Order Drum
Mexican President Felipe Calderón: his political muscle will be weakened. Photo by Gurinder Osan / AP. With all that sucking the sand from beneath his feet, President Felipe Calderón, like every beleagured right-winger since Nixon, is beating the Law and … Continue reading
Alan Haber : Exposing the Dark Forces
As long as these forces operate, and are not pursued, there is no democracy, whatever the window dressings. By Alan Haber / The Rag Blog / June 25, 2009 See ‘Did the CIA kill Bobby Kennedy?’ by Shane O’Sullivan, Below. … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, CIA, Iranian Elections, Robert Kennedy, Sixties, Social Movements
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Neda and the Kent State 4 : Heartbreaking Then and Now
(Above) Neda Agha-Soltan, 27, who bled to death on the streets of Tehran, Saturday, June 20, 2009. Still shot from video taken with cell phone and posted to YouTube. (Below) Mary Ann Vecchio, a fourteen-year-old runaway, kneeling over the dead … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Iranian Elections, Kent State, Neda, Social Protest
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NASA Scientist, Actress Hannah, Arrested in Coal Mining Protest
Actress Darryl Hannah is arrested by West Virginia State Police Tuesday, June 23, 2009 following a mountaintop removal mining protest in Naoma, W.Va. She was among several hundred protesters who held a rally outside Marsh Fork Elementary school that sits … Continue reading
Short Attention-Span News (A Little Birdie Told Me)
Trippin’ down the cobblestones:Short Attention-Span News By Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / June 25, 2009 [“slow down, you move too fast; you got to make the morning last; just trippin down the cobblestones, lookin for fun and … Continue reading
Health Insurance : The High Cost of ‘Competition’
Can private insurers compete? The truth is that the Republicans aren’t opposed to a government-run system because the private companies can do it better and cheaper — they can’t. They oppose the public insurance choice because they want to protect … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatives, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Republican Party
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U.S. National Debt : Cliffs Notes for Conservatives
Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog. With apologies to Cliffs Notes.Cliffs Notes for Conservatives I find it both bewildering and angering when Republican conservatives lambaste President Obama for the present state of indebtedness on America’s balance sheet as … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Legacy, Economy, Obama Administration, Republican Party
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