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Freedom and the Internet
Why The ‘Right’ Gets Net Neutrality WrongBy Art Brodsky / May 5, 2008 Just in time for the House Telecommunications Subcommittee’s hearing tomorrow (May 6) on Net Neutrality legislation, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) and the American Spectator … Continue reading
Bill Moyers : A Texan’s Take on the Journalist’s Job
Bill Moyers with Lyndon Johnson Journalists as Truth TellersBy Bill Moyers / May 4, 2008 [Texan Bill Moyers delivered these remarks on April 3 in Washington, DC at the fifth annual Ridenhour Prize awards ceremony, sponsored by The Nation Institute … Continue reading
Bomb Bomb Iran, Surgical Strike Dept.
United States is drawing up plans to strike on Iranian insurgency campBy Michael Smith / May 4, 2008 The US military is drawing up plans for a “surgical strike” against an insurgent training camp inside Iran if Republican Guards continue … Continue reading
The Modus Operandi of Our Establishment Press
The Media, The Right and 1988: Endless Deja Vuby Glenn Greenwald / May 4, 2008 A large bulk of the political and pundit class are forever stuck in 1972, reflexively viewing every political conflict through its myopic prism (any war-opponent-candidate … Continue reading
Hope This Makes You Breathe Easier
The Greatest Story Never Told: Study Says Smoking Pot Doesn’t Cause Cancer — It May Prevent It!By Fred Gardner / May 4, 2008 Smoking Cannabis Does Not Cause CancerOf Lung or Upper Airways, Tashkin Finds;Data Suggest Possible Protective Effect The … Continue reading
Quote of the Day : Cojones
Concerning Hillary and Obama: “If she gave him one of her cojones, they’d both have two.” James Carville, in Newsweek
Rev. Hagee : John McCain’s Cross to Bear
John Hagee compares † Roman Church † to Hitler The All-White Elephant in the RoomBy Frank Rich / May 4, 2008 BORED by those endless replays of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright? If so, go directly to YouTube, search for “John … Continue reading
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We Must Also Save Ourselves from Ourselves
The Epitome of Conspicuous ConsumptionThe Gospel of Consumptionby Jeffrey Kaplan / May 3, 2008 Private cars were relatively scarce in 1919 and horse-drawn conveyances were still common. In residential districts, electric streetlights had not yet replaced many of the old … Continue reading
Winning Hearts and Minds, Yankee Style
Hospital In Baghdad Casualty of US Air StrikeMay 3, 2009 A hospital in the Iraqi capital’s Sadr City, a Shiite militia stronghold, was damaged in a US air strike on Saturday, wounding around 20 people, medics and witnesses said. A … Continue reading
And if we count the exhibition games in Michigan and Florida…
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More Lies May Still Take Us to War with Iran
Democrats Okay Funds for Covert Ops: Secret Bush “Finding” Widens War on IranBy Andrew Cockburn / May 2, 2008 Six weeks ago President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those … Continue reading
Stop Fighting and Start Talking, Junior
The UK Times Online assesses the success of the Iraq surge‘US military achievement in Iraq has reached peak’May 2, 2008 NEW YORK — An international think tank has called for fundamental political changes in Iraq, stressing that the US military … Continue reading
