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INTERVIEW : Barbara Streisand on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
‘There is too much at stake right now to elect another George W. Bush to the White House’By: Jeffrey Ressner / July 28, 2008 “She sometimes answers questions by e-mail,” said one of Barbra Streisand’s trusted confidants, when asked if … Continue reading
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Tagged Entertainers, Feminism, Hillary, Interview, McCain, Obama, Presidential Campaign, Singers, Women, Women's Movement
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Obama’s Mariachi Ad : What Were They Thinking?
Manny Ramirez: The great guapón as Obama spokesman?Obamarama, Latin StyleBy Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez / July 26, 2008 Have you seen the Barack Obama mariachi ad? It’s on YouTube if you want to check it out. [See it below.] In a … Continue reading
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Tagged Advertising, Hispanic, Latinos, Marketing, Obama, Presidential Campaign, Television
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And You Will Be Brought to Justice, No Matter How Long It Takes
New Zealand Students Offer New Bounty For Arrest of Condoleezza Rice For War Crimesby Ray Lilley / July 26, 2008 WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A group of New Zealand students offered a higher reward Saturday for the citizen’s arrest of … Continue reading
The Surge Has Worked? Right.
In Vietnam they called it ‘escalation’ By James Abourezk / July 27, 2008 Back in the good old days of the Vietnam War General Westmoreland, Lyndon Johnson and Bob McNamara kept sending more troops into battle, calling it “escalation.” It … Continue reading
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Tagged George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraq Occupation, Iraq War, The Surge, Vietnam
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Presidential Campaign : "Liberal Media Bias" Debunked
Cable talking heads accuse broadcast networks of liberal bias — but a think tank finds that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Barack Obama than on John McCain in recent weeks.By James Rainey / July 27, 2008 Haters of … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadcast Media, Corporate Media, Journalism, Liberal Media, Mainstream Media, McCain, Media, Media Bias, Obama, Presidential Campaign
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Will Survivalists Get the Last Laugh?
With multiple crises on the horizon, survivalist views don’t seem as marginal as they did before.By Scott Thill / July 26, 2008. They used to be paranoid preparation nuts who built bomb shelters for a place to duck and cover … Continue reading
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Thanks to Harry Edwards / The Rag Blog / Posted July 27, 2008
The Big Green Bus: Ex-Diesel Goes Veggie
‘Spreading the green gospel’By Patrick Pfeiffer / July 27, 2008 “Either you’re on the bus or you’re off the bus,” was the hackneyed statement proposed to me by three members of Dartmouth College’s Big Green Bus; an ex-diesel goes veggie … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Energy, Biofuel, Energy, Environment, Greenhouse Gasses, Transportation
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Standing on Strong Legal Ground
Hearing on Limits of Executive Power: Vincent Bugliosi Vincent Bugliosi’s opening statements during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the constitutional limits of executive power. The Rag Blog / Posted July 27, 2008
Greed … Has Marked the Upward Surge of Mankind
Evil as the Absence of Empathyby Ernest Partridge / July 26, 2008 We live in a world … hardened and distorted by hate. We communicate in the language of fear and violence. Human beings are no longer viewed as human … Continue reading
BushCo Is Desperate for Results, Even in Failure
The M.E.K. [the Mujahideen-e-Khalqhas, Iranian dissident group] has been on the State Department’s terrorist list for more than a decade, yet in recent years the group has received arms and intelligence, directly or indirectly, from the United States. Some of … Continue reading
The Brewing Storm in Northern Iraq
Vetoing the law came after protests by Kurdish and some Shiite MPs, who boycotted the vote over a secret ballot on Kirkuk’s provincial council seats. (Reuters photo)Election Law Polarizes KirkukBy Afif Sarhan / July 24, 2008 KIRKUK — The controversial … Continue reading
