For Obama, a Struggle to Win Over Key Blocs
by Adam Nagourney
It is the question that has hung over Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, and it loomed large on Tuesday night after his loss to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania: Why has he been unable to win over enough working-class and white voters to wrap up the Democratic nomination? |
The Other Costs of War: An Evening with Scott Ritter and Cole Miller
by Michael Fox
Stephanie Miller mentioned on her radio show that she would be hosting an event at the Hayworth Theatre in Los Angeles Tuesday evening. With Stephanie there, it surely would be a lively event – but it was that and so much more. The real theme of the evening was the costs of the wars that go undiscussed, and the messengers had important tales to tell. Two true American heroes (in order of appearance)with a lot to teach us: |
Why I Predicted the PA Results Exactly Right
by RJ Eskow
Reliable polls taken in the last 2-3 days showed Clinton beating Obama by an average of 5.8%. But the day before the primary I predicted the spread would be 9.5%. Current reports place it at 9.3%, with 99% of precincts reporting.1 Why did I get it so right when the polls got it so wrong? |
Carter says Secretary Rice "not telling truth"
by Matthew Bigg
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday accused Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of not telling the truth about warnings she said her department gave Carter not to speak to Hamas before a Middle East trip. The State Department has said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State David Welch, the top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East, issued the warning before Carter, a veteran of Middle East diplomacy, went on his trip last week. |
Disapproval of Bush breaks record
by Susan Page
President Bush has set a record he'd presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% disapprove. The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt. |
Study: Masturbation May Prevent Prostate Cancer
by Fox News
Men who frequently masturbate appear to have a lower risk of developing prostate cancer, Australian researchers reported.Researchers from the Cancer Council of Victoria found that men who masturbated more than five times each week were one-third less likely to develop the cancer. |
Why I Left Greenpeace
by Patrick Moore
In 1971 an environmental and antiwar ethic was taking root in Canada, and I chose to participate. As I completed a Ph.D. in ecology, I combined my science background with the strong media skills of my colleagues. In keeping with our pacifist views, we started Greenpeace. |
The Wrong Questions
by Brian Morton
Back in 1990 or '91, I recall interviewing Maryland Lt. Gov. Mickey Steinberg by telephone, as part of my job as a radio reporter on WBAL-AM. The purpose of the interview was to get an answer to one question: After Steinberg had signed onto a tax proposal that Gov. William Donald Schaefer didn't like, and Schaefer had responded with typical pique by stripping Steinberg of all his staff except for a lone driver, did the lieutenant governor feel like his effectiveness in the administration was ended. For the purposes of radio and general information, a simple "yes" or "no" would not have been helpful. But such an answer would have been something, and it would have answered the question. |
What Double-Digit Win!: Rounding Out the Pennsylvania Primary Story
by Dave Lindorff
The corporate media have been quick to buy into and promote the Hillary Clinton campaign claim that she won the Pennsylvania primary by "double digits," but the truth is, that involves a bit of creative rounding.The final figures for the vote are that Clinton won 1,258,245 votes out of 2,300,542 cast, compared to 1,042,297 for Barack Obama. |
CIA admits they will continue rendition program, which allows torture overseas
by John Byrne
The Central Intelligence Agency knew from the beginning that its secret detention and torturous interrogation tactics probably bordered on illegal from the start, according to new documents identified through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.In a filing yesterday, the CIA said it had identified 7,000 pages of classified memos, emails and other records relating to President Bush's secret detention and interrogation program. Human rights groups quickly jumped on the filing -- which came after their own Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking information about those detained. |
Siegelman: Rove 'hijacked' the Dept. of Justice to win elections
by Muriel Kane
In an extensive interview with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, who was released from prison on bond last month pending an appeal of his conviction on corruption charges, laid the blame for his prosecution squarely on Karl Rove's "hijacking" of the federal Department of Justice. |
Why Hillary is still eating Obama's dust
by NY Daily News
Hillary Clinton says she is the one to fix everything, which these days means fixing only one thing: a Republican economy that has looted the country. Then, almost in the next breath, she acts as if she is willing to open a lemonade stand to keep her campaign going. |
Destroying the Democratic party
by CapitolHillBlue.com
Hillary Clinton's win over Democratic Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary Tuesday shows the race for the top job in Washington is far from over and may well go to the party's convention in Denver.Clinton has come back from media-perceived political grave more times than Dracula and the comparison is not coincidental. Her critics feel she is the chief bloodsucker in a political system dominated by opportunistic vampires. |
Md. Court Rules Women Can Withdraw Sexual Consent
by Kristen Wyatt
Women can say "no" at any time during intercourse, and a man can be convicted of rape if he doesn't stop, Maryland highest court ruled Wednesday.In the case of a man convicted of rape in 2004, the judges decided a woman can withdraw consent at any time, even after agreeing to sex. |
Second woman claims she had tryst with Spitzer
by Raw Story
VIA the NY POST: "A second call girl has provided federal investigators with details of Eliot Spitzer's fondness for high-priced hookers, law-enforcement sources told The Post." The lady of the night, who was intimately acquainted with the disgraced governor's pay-for-play sessions, backs up details given to the feds by Ashley Alexandra Dupre, 22, a bombshell brunette who allegedly was a favorite Spitzer hooker, the sources said. |
US News Media's Latest Disgrace
by Robert Parry
After prying loose 8,000 pages of Pentagon documents, the New York Times has proven what should have been obvious years ago: the Bush administration manipulated public opinion on the Iraq War, in part, by funneling propaganda through former senior military officers who served as expert analysts on TV news shows. |
