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A Black Hole Rating System
by Gail Collins
The woes of the world have been so multitudinous lately that it’s hard to give them all proper attention. You start fretting about the collapse of the housing market. Then you wander off into melting glaciers or large cranes collapsing at urban construction sites. And before you know it, the day is over. | Florida House votes to require ultrasound before all abortions
by Josh Hafenbrack
The Florida House on Wednesday mounted what critics called a two-pronged assault on abortion rights, passing legislation that would require pregnant women to undergo ultrasound exams before getting abortions and effectively defining life at conception for criminal prosecutions. | Surge Myth Busted; Spotlight on the Media
by JB Peebles
Interpress Service reports the reality that the surge isn't working in its article titled "Despite Huge Media Campaign, Facts Show Massive Failure in Iraq."The choice of title is important is separating the content from mass produced, perception-managed gunk from the MSM. The writers at Interpress are 1) honest and 2) not beholden to editorial oversight like that seen in all branches of mainstream media. Dahr Jamail, co-author of the Interpress article alongside Ali al-Fadhily, was the only unembedded American reporter in the entirety of Iraq for an extended period which included the rape of Fallujah circa 2004. | Why Is Torture Lawyer John Yoo Still Teaching at Berkeley?
by Barry Yourgrau
John Yoo is one of the prime--if not the prime--formulators of the blatantly inadequate and outrageous legal opinions that justified the Bush administration's use of torture.His opinions were not just idle academic theories: They helped further the actual practice of war crimes and crimes against humanity. | Don't Blame Howard Dean
by Brent Budowsky
Howard Dean is not the tallest tree in the forest of national politics but it is bogus for political insiders to blame the Democratic mess on him.There is one harsh criticism I would have of Dean. He should be speaking far more loudly against attacks that are so destructive they clearly help John McCain. | The Audacity of Depression: Rage fatigue, plastic dirt and happy hour in techno-totalitarian America
by Joe Bageant
One of the best things about the hundred or so book festivals in America is that, with luck, a writer can manage to get drunk with some of his or her readers. And with more luck, the readers pick up the tab. Bear in mind that 90% of all real writers, people for whom writing is their sole income, spend much of their time counting their change in the rest room of the hotels where they are being put up while on tour. Believe me, there are better rackets than writing. | News of the New Depression is slowly being beginning to spread
by Michael Kwiatkowski
If you're at all familiar with Michael Fox (the columnist, not the actor), and you're trying to decide if the current economic crisis is a recession or a full blown depression, he certainly makes it hard to be optimistic. Back in November, Mr. Fox reported that the New Depression had already begun. In February, he reported that it had entered Phase Two, and that it had gone global. | Déjà News? Not Here!
by Michael Fox
This week a large number of news stories have been prominently reported across the mainstream media from London to New York to Los Angeles, informing the public at large of startling developments in the world economy and its deteriorating markets. The singular thread that runs through all these stories, and connects them to you is that, unlike that public at large, you’ve already read about it all - here. First. | Don’t Move On. Start Over - Next Prez Must Make Bush an Unperson
by Ted Rall
Comedian Bill Maher is a brilliant contrarian. He dislikes George Bush. Yet his view of the stolen 2000 election is conventional, ahistorical and quintessentially American: Forget it! Move on! “Oh, Ted,” he replied when I mentioned the judicial coup d’état on his TV show, which aired October 3, 2001. “That’s so September 10th. It really is.” | Time to Break the Silence
by Katrina Vanden Heuvel
Since 1865, when it was founded by Northern abolitionists, The Nation has always believed in the liberating power of truth, of conviction, of conscience, and of fighting for causes lost and found. And like our founders, the magazine has an abiding belief that there is no force so potent in politics as a moral issue. | Arms Race in Space
by Marko Beljac
When the United States recently shot apart a crippled spy satellite over the Pacific Ocean, it also tested an offensive anti-satellite weapon and the potential for ballistic missile defense. “The shot,” as the Pentagon called the $100 million operation conducted on February 20, came immediately after Russia and China put forward a detailed, but flawed, proposal for a treaty to ban space weapons at the United Nations. In response, the United States immediately reaffirmed its unwillingness to participate in any arms control accord covering space. | Good sex doesn't have to take long, survey of therapists finds
by Megan Scott
Maybe men had it right all along: It doesn't take long to satisfy a woman in bed.A survey of sex therapists concluded the optimal amount of time for sexual intercourse was 3 to 13 minutes. The findings, to be published in the May issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, strike at the notion that endurance is the key to a great sex life. | Obama raises $40 million in March
by Nick Juliano
Barack Obama raised $40 million last month, his campaign announced Thursday. The average contribution, it said, was $96. More than 442,000 people donated to the campaign last month, and nearly half of those were first-time contributors.“Senator Obama has always said that this campaign would rise or fall on the willingness of the American people to become partners in an effort to change our politics and start a new chapter in our history,” campaign manager David Plouffe said in an e-mailed statement. “Today we’re seeing the American people’s extraordinary desire to change Washington, as tens of thousands of new contributors joined the more than a million Americans who have already taken ownership of this campaign for change. Many of our contributors are volunteering for the campaign, making our campaign the largest grassroots army in recent political history.” | Sex educator to Leno: Homophobia and homoerotic tendencies linked
by John Byrne
"The streets are teeming with homosexuals," sex educator, author and lesbian porn reviewer Violet Blue writes of San Francisco's Castro District Thursday. "It's just like in those horror-movie fundamentalist videos: Everyone's in leather with their bits and butts on display; murderous Baby Jane drag queens run amok day and night; gay sex is happening in the streets at all hours. There's a huge lube slide at the corner of 18th and Castro by the Bank of America, where of course, virgin straight men are sacrificed should they wander haplessly into our own little Sodom-by-the-Bay. And because I'm a heathen too, every once in a while I lure and toss a straight boy into the fray, just for kicks. It's like a zombie movie, but gayer." | Carter all but formally endorses Obama
by AJC.com
Former President Jimmy Carter came close to endorsing Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, leaving little doubt who the Georgia native will back as a party superdelegate.Speaking to Nigerian reporters Wednesday in the town of Abuja, Carter responded to a question about the prolonged race for the Democratic nomination. |
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