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Fringe GOP candidate spends Hitler's birthday with neo-Nazis
by Nick Juliano
An outlandish long-shot seeking the Republican nomination for an Indiana congressional seat spent Sunday at a neo-Nazi gathering celebrating the birth of Adolf Hitler.Tony Zirkle is running for the 2nd District GOP nomination, but he has no support from local party officials, and the front-running candidate there refused to even participate in a recent debate with Zirkle, for fear of legitimizing his candidacy. | Clueless in America
by Bob Herbert
We don’t hear a great deal about education in the presidential campaign. It’s much too serious a topic to compete with such fun stuff as Hillary tossing back a shot of whiskey, or Barack rolling a gutter ball.The nation’s future may depend on how well we educate the current and future generations, but (like the renovation of the nation’s infrastructure, or a serious search for better sources of energy) that can wait. At the moment, no one seems to have the will to engage any of the most serious challenges facing the U.S. | "I Have Some Meth in my Pocket" - at Least One Cable News Personality Told the Truth Last Week
by RJ Eskow
CNN reporter Richard Quest told police who stopped him last week that he had some meth in his pocket. And guess what? He did have some meth in his pocket, according to reports. So that may have been the most honest thing a TV news personality said all week. | Why the system is broken and it might not get any better
by Dennis Jett
A policy of many mastersRight at home, lobbyists now shape actions abroadChicago TribuneApril 20, 2008By Dennis JettDuring this political season, it seems as if the only constant is the promise of change. But even when there is a new occupant of the White House, will real change be possible, especially with regard to foreign policy? | Human rights are more than just words
by Mary Shaw
In his recent speech at UN headquarters in New York, Pope Benedict XVI spoke at length about the importance of human rights. That's all well and good, and I'm sure that the pope is genuinely concerned about many of the human rights issues that currently exist in the world. | Progressives, Liberals, Movements, and Political Parties
by Michael Kwiatkowski
Lately I've been getting an increasing recurrence of the same questions: what is the difference between liberals and progressives, and what is the difference between the Progressive Movement and the Progressive Party? The answers to these questions are important, for as we inch ever closer to the general election in November and as primary battles across the country reach their conclusion the future of our country and our world shall be determined by them—and by how swiftly we figure them out. | Unraveling Iraq: 12 Answers to Questions No One Is Bothering to Ask about Iraq
by Tom Engelhardt
Can there be any question that, since the invasion of 2003, Iraq has been unraveling? And here's the curious thing: Despite a lack of decent information and analysis on crucial aspects of the Iraqi catastrophe, despite the way much of the Iraq story fell off newspaper front pages and out of the TV news in the last year, despite so many reports on the "success" of the President's surge strategy, Americans sense this perfectly well. In the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll, 56% of Americans "say the United States should withdraw its military forces to avoid further casualties" and this has, as the Post notes, been a majority position since January 2007, the month that the surge was first announced. Imagine what might happen if the American public knew more about the actual state of affairs in Iraq -- and of thinking in Washington. So, here, in an attempt to unravel the situation in ever-unraveling Iraq are twelve answers to questions which should be asked far more often in this country: | The Rapture of America
by Mark Biskeborn
In a crazy time people need reassurance, people need support, and America often falls into crazy times.“You’re reading the Bible. That’s a great book,” I say as I sit down to work in a café.I smile and go about my business, nose plunged in my papers.“Yes, we should all read it, especially now,” a man says with a serious look. “You know the day is coming, the day of the Rapture when God will begin the End of Times and make His judgments.” | On the Eve of Destruction
by Stephen Fleischman
"The eastern world it tis explodin',violence flarin', bullets loadin' ..."The surge in Iraq is working, says George W. Bush through his military mouthpiece, General David H. Petraeus, at recent Congressional hearings. The war goes on and Iraqis (and US GIs) are being killed daily although polls show the American people never wanted this war and want their troops out now. | US Policies "for the Good of the Few at the Costs to the Many" Pushing Energy and Food Costs to Record Levels!!!
by Fred Cederholm
I’ve been thinking about shakiness. Actually I’ve been thinking about earthquakes, the US dollar, the February 2008 trade numbers, our trade deficits, our energy deficits, interest rates/ the “auction,” and inflation. Official numbers for our energy imports and our trade deficit(s) for this past February, and the cumulative trade deficit(s) for the calendar year thus far were released last week. While the media may have focused on the anomalies of a growing cluster of hundreds of unexplained quakes in the Pacific Ocean off the State of Oregon and the Friday morning 5.2 shaker in Southeastern Illinois, the real “shakiness stories” should have chronicled the further downward slide of the US Dollar relative to the other major world currencies. Unfortunately there is presently no “Richter Scale” for the precarious shakiness of the Buck. The Dollar is having major seizures! Please read on... | BREAKING NO SPIN NEWS: Obama Spokesman Calls O'Reilly A Hypocrite For Demeaning Obama's Faith
by Steve Young
During a New Hampshire visit to a Barack Obama rally, Fox News host, Bill O'Reilly, followed his "Don't block the shot" moment (and imminent t-shirt blurb), by asking the candidate if he would come on to his Factor show. Obama told Bill he would consider it AFTER the primaries. | Obama For President
by Sherwood Ross
Of course, when fanatics can't attack a man for anything he's actually done that's downright despicable, they'll go after him for what he's said, and if they can't find anything he's said that's awful they'll go after him for what his friends or associates have said. | Will Pennsylvania matter at all?
by John Nichols
There is a chance that, after a month and a half of campaigning and record spending by both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Tuesday's Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary will settle nothing.Of course, if Obama pulls an upset and beats Clinton -- even by the narrowest of margins -- the senator from New York will be finished. Clinton's campaign is essentially broke and a defeat of any kind will make it impossible for her to muster the resources or the energy to carry on for much longer. | Woman files lawsuit against AMR because passenger next to her masturbated while she slept
by Melissa Vargas
A 21-year-old Harris County woman filed a $200,000 lawsuit against American Airlines alleging employees on a flight to Los Angeles from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport failed to protect her while she slept from another passenger who masturbated to her and ejaculated in her hair, according to a lawsuit she filed last week in Tarrant County. | Gas prices climbing with no end in sight
by CNN
U.S. gasoline prices topped out Monday at $3.50 per gallon for self-serve regular, according to AAA -- the highest average price the national auto club has ever recorded. The cost inched up from Sunday's $3.49. A month ago the reading was $3.26 a gallon, and a year ago it was $2.85. | Car bomb kills 2 U.S. Marines in Iraq
by AP
A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle Tuesday at a checkpoint near the western city of Ramadi, killing two U.S. Marines and wounding three others, the military said.One civilian also died and two dozen other people were wounded in the 7:30 a.m. blast, the latest in a string of recent attacks that appear to have been carried out by al-Qaeda in Iraq. | Bill Clinton: Obama camp 'played the race card on me'
by CNN
On the eve of Tuesday’s critical Pennsylvania primary, former President Bill Clinton accused Barack Obama’s campaign of playing the race card against him.After the phone interview with Delaware radio station WHYY Monday night, a stray comment of his on the issue was also recorded before he hung up: “I don’t think I should take any s*** from anybody on that, do you?” |
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