O'Reilly Smears Huffpo with His Standard Jackboot Ignorance of Free Speech
by Steve Young
What a surprise. Bill O'Reilly thinks the Huffington Post and Arianna Huffington have "no problem with publishing hate speech." I guess blaspheming the DailyKos was getting old.In his weekly website column which will appear across the country in newspapers, like Sunday in the L.A. Daily News oped section along with my weekly column, O'Reilly took Arianna and Huffpo to task for allowing questionable statements concerning Nancy Reagan's injury. |
China Accuses US of Hypocrisy in Space
by Reuters
A leading Chinese newspaper has accused the United States of hypocrisy in criticizing other nations’ space ambitions while rejecting a proposed space treaty and firing a missile to destroy one of its own satellites.0221 03The United States hit one of its own dying spy satellites with a missile on Wednesday, Washington time - Thursday in Beijing - citing fears that a normal re-entry would risk lives. |
Don’t Rerun That ’70s Show
by Paul Krugman
Will the next president be the second coming of Jimmy Carter? Given Thursday’s economic headlines, full of dire warnings about the return of 1970s-style stagflation, you might think so.Realistically, though, the parallels between the problems facing the U.S. economy now and those of the late-1970s aren’t that strong. That’s the good news. |
Israeli MP blames quakes on gays
by BBC News
An Israeli MP has blamed parliament's tolerance of gays for earthquakes that have rocked the Holy Land recently.Shlomo Benizri, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party, said the tremors had been caused by lawmaking that gave "legitimacy to sodomy".Israel decriminalised homosexuality in 1988 and has since passed several laws recognising gay rights. |
The elusive G spot really does exist, say researchers
by Ian Sample
Doctors claim to have found the first compelling evidence that the G spot exists, but say not all women appear to have one.Ultrasound scans revealed clear anatomical differences between women who said they experienced vaginal orgasms and a group of women who did not. The scans identified a region of thicker tissue where the G spot was rumoured to be lurking, which was not visible in the women who had never had a vaginal orgasm. |
Donors Worried by Clinton Campaign Spending
by Michael Luo
This article was reported by Michael Luo, Jo Becker and Patrick Healy and was written by Mr. Healy.Nearly $100,000 went for party platters and groceries before the Iowa caucuses, even though the partying mood evaporated quickly. Rooms at the Bellagio luxury hotel in Las Vegas consumed more than $25,000; the Four Seasons, another $5,000. And top consultants collected about $5 million in January, a month of crucial expenses and tough fund-raising. |
Depression + Inflation + Famine = Chaos!
by Michael Fox
Oftentimes it seems so inconceivable that we could have come to this place, yet here is exactly what we are facing, right now: Depression in the housing market; retail inflation (due entirely to the price of oil and the plummeting dollar), credit availability all but shut down, and today we discover that grain stores are at their lowest point since they began measuring in 1960: 53 days. |
Nobel Peace Laureate Says US Trying to Stall Cluster Bomb Agreement
by CommonDreams.org
Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams accused the United States on Wednesday of trying to stall negotiations on an international agreement to ban cluster bombs - without even attending talks on the treaty.0221 04Delegates from more than 120 countries are negotiating a convention in New Zealand that would ban the use, production, trade and storage of cluster bombs that cause unacceptable harm to civilians. |
Will Clinton pull the plug on troubled campaign?
by CapititolHillBlue.com
Speculation is mounting that Hillary Rodham Clinton may be ready to pull the plug on her faltering Presidential campaign.Sources within the beleaguered campaign say fund raising has dried up and mounting debts may force a cutback in ads, direct mail and staff. |
Open-Armed Policy
by Cindy Sheehan
Last year, on the 5th anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo torture camp in Cuba, I had the singular privilege of being able to travel there. Travel to Cuba by Americans is, of course, banned, but where in a “free and democratic” society does my government get off telling me where I can travel or not travel? So, defying the incomprehensible ban, our group of intrepid anti-torture and pro-justice activists set off from Cancun, Mexico to Havana on Cubana Airlines. |
Our reputation for flakiness is at stake
by Catl Hiaasen
In a move that could endanger Florida's flaky backwater reputation, the state Board of Education is poised to endorse the teaching of evolution as a science.This is a dangerous idea -- not the presentation of Darwinism in schools, but the presentation of Florida as a place of progressive scientific thought. |
GOP Congressman indicted for extortion, money laundering
by Nick Juliano
Republican Rep. Rick Renzi has been indicted for extortion, wire fraud, money laundering and other charges related to a land deal in Arizona.A 26-page federal indictment unsealed in Arizona accuses Renzi and two former business partners of conspiring to promote the sale of land that buyers could swap for property owned by the federal government. The sale netted one of Renzi's former partners $4.5 million. |
Clinton faces claims of borrowed language
by CNN
Hillary Clinton – whose campaign has spent the past several days pointing to instances of borrowed language in the speeches of rival Barack Obama – is being accused of lifting words from one very familiar politician: her own husband, former President Bill Clinton. |
