Donte' Stallworth bonds out of jail on DUI manslaughter charge
by Jennifer Lebovich
Holding his mother's hand, Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte' Stallworth walked out of Miami-Dade County jail about noon Thursday after posting bond on a charge of DUI manslaughter.''I just want to extend my condolences to the Reyes family. My prayers are with them,'' Stallworth told a group of reporters and cameras waiting outside the jail. ``I have full confidence and faith in the legal process.'' |
Blagojevich indicted on 16 federal corruption charges
by Raw Story
Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich has been indicted by federal prosecutors, the AP reports."According to a statement issued by the Justice Department, Blagojevich will be charged along with his brother, two former aides and two business associates," reports Roll Call. |
Keller: The Times will weather 'the deluge'
by Stephen C. Webster
According to New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller, journalism's Old, Gray Lady is actually a bit like Rocky Balboa: in this era of collapsing print ad sales, they got the Eye of the Tiger and will be 'left standing after the deluge.'True as that may be, Keller then exhibited roughly the political sensitivity of Rocky IV, comparing the cause célèbre that is saving the Times to the rescue of refugees in Darfur. |
Barney Frank: Republicans suffer from 'psychological disorder'
by David Edwards
Representatives in the House debated a bill to limit payment to executives of banks receiving bailout money Wednesday. Rep. Barney Frank accused House Republicans of suffering from a "psychological disorder" for opposing a bill which would eliminate their "whipping boy." Franks said Republicans were trying to make the debate about the stimulus bill which was signed into law over a month ago. |
Stewart to Limbaugh: 'Get the f**k out' of NYC
by David Edwards and Ron Brynaert
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, who has been treated like a GOP leader since Obama's election, didn't mince words when it came to pontificating on a new New York tax plan which aims at the state's highest earners.Limbaugh entitled his rant 'El Rushbo to New York: Drop Dead,' and said on his radio show Monday, "I'm going to get out of there totally, 'cause this is just absurd, and it's ridiculous." |
Marijuana helps in battle against cancer: study
by AFP
The main chemical in marijuana appears to aid in the destruction of brain cancer cells, offering hope for future anti-cancer therapies, researchers in Spain wrote in a study released Thursday.The authors from the Complutense University in Madrid, working with scientists from other universities, found that the active component of marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), causes cancer cells to undergo a process called autophagy -- the breakdown that occurs when the cell essentially self-digests. |
Obama Weighing More Troops for Afghan War
by AFP
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama faces a decision later this year whether to send an extra 10,000 US troops to Afghanistan, amid an escalating war against Islamist insurgents, defense officials said.A top general and senior Pentagon official disclosed on Wednesday for the first time details of a pending request from the US commander in Afghanistan for yet more troops for a war that has already lasted more than seven years. |
Republicans show up for press conference with no budget -- after introducing budget without numbers
by John Byrne
At a press conference Wednesday, the two top Congressional Republicans -- House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate House Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) addressed a crowd of some 50 Republicans and their colleagues and ripped Obama's multi-trillion-dollar budget as too expensive. But they didn't, apparently, have a copy of their own budget, according to reporter Sam Stein. |
Ed Schultz joins MSNBC for 6-7 weekday slot
by John Byrne
Veteran talk radio host Ed Schultz joins MSNBC as host of "The Ed Show," premiering on Monday, April 6. The "Ed Show" will air weekdays, 6-7pm ET. The announcement was made this evening by Phil Griffin, President, MSNBC."I am thrilled to have Ed kicking-off our primetime lineup," Griffin said in statement. "Ed's proven that he can connect with Americans and will be a perfect compliment to Chris, Keith, and Rachel. He's already made his mark on radio and I'm excited to see what he'll do with the 6 p.m. hour." |
10,000 more troops may go to Afghanistan
by Dan De Luce
President Barack Obama faces a decision later this year whether to send an extra 10,000 US troops to Afghanistan, amid an escalating war against Islamist insurgents, defense officials said.A top general and senior Pentagon official disclosed on Wednesday for the first time details of a pending request from the US commander in Afghanistan for yet more troops for a war that has already lasted more than seven years. |
Endless Right-Wing Self-Pity
by Glenn Greenwald
The predominant attribute of the right-wing movement is self-victimizing petulance over the unfair treatment to which they are endlessly and mercilessly subjected. Last week, C-SPAN broadcast a Commentary Magazine event that almost certainly set a record for most tough-guy/warrior nepotism ever stuffed onto a single panel, as it featured William Kristol (son of Irv and Gertrude), John Podhoretz (son of Norm and Midge), and Jonah Goldberg (son of Lucianne). Jihadis around the world are undoubtedly still trembling at the sight of this brigade of Churchillian toughness. |
The People Have Mumbled
by Gail Collins
We were so excited about that special Congressional election in upstate New York. Finally, a chance to find out whether the nation really approves of what Barack Obama has been doing! You cannot figure these things out with tea leaves or polls. Just ask the Republicans in Washington. They certainly would be giving Obama more help if the country really demanded it. But what if the people who said nice things about the president to the pollsters just liked Michelle’s vegetable garden? |
Obama Opens Chevy Dealership on White House Lawn
by Andy Borowitz
In a move signaling his most direct involvement in the U.S. auto industry to date, President Barack Obama announced today that he was opening a Chevrolet dealership on the White House lawn.As car-carriers dumped hundreds of unsold 2009 Malibus, Silverados and Cobalts onto the grass in front of the President's historic residence, workmen draped a banner in front of the White House portico reading "Buy a Chevrolet from the USA." |
Why GM failed
by Jack Lessenberry
Politics and Prejudices, which I began writing 16 years ago this month, comes out this week on — Ta da! — April Fools' Day. Traditionally, columnists who hit the streets on April 1 often, especially if they are feeling lazy, write tongue-in-cheek "spoof" pieces that pretend to reveal something impossible to believe, such as that former Vice President Dick Cheney actually has a heart. |
Cracking the Corporate Media's Iron Curtain Around Death at Three Mile Island
by Harvey Wasserman
Chernobyl exploded and Three Mile Island missed by a whisker. They both killed people.But thirty years after the Pennsylvania melt-down, a Soviet-style Iron Curtain has formed between the corporate media and the alternatives, with nuclear power at its center. |
The Bailout Double Standard And The Revival Of Reaganism
by David Sirota
I appeared on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show last night to discuss the seeming double standard between the Obama administration's treatment of car companies and Wall Street firms. You can watch it here.There is clearly a double standard at work: Just a few days ago, Wall Street executives were hosted at the White House for a cheery photo op and reassurance that they will be getting hundreds of billions more in no-strings-attached bailout cash. Then this week, Obama demanded the firing of GM's CEO, and said he may withhold the mere $30 billion or so that the automakers are requesting. |
Tomgram: Ann Jones, Wars Abroad Continue at Home
by Tom Engelhardt
Whether it's $900 billion, more than one trillion dollars, or even, in the long run, several trillion dollars, the spiraling costs of George Bush's wars -- one of which is now in the grim process of becoming "Obama's War" -- are indisputable. It's hardly less disputable that those wars to "protect" America from "global terror" have contributed significantly to the country's economic meltdown, that the harder we pursued (and continue to pursue) those wars abroad, the less safe the underpinnings of our world became. Thought of another way, that famous line of the cartoon character Pogo, "We have met the enemy and he is us," couldn't be more apt. |
I'll have a "Draught Dodger!": Canadian Parliament votes again to let U.S. war resisters stay
by Mike Ferner
On March 30, for the second time in 10 months, Canada's House of Commons told Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative government, including Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney, to stop deporting U.S. soldiers resisting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
O'Reilly Announces Plan To Boycott Minnesota (Not An April Fool's Joke)
by Steve Young
With most every legal option exhausted by Norm Coleman and Al Franken about ready to take his U.S Senate seat, Bill O'Reilly has made his position quite clear. Until Franken leaves the US Senate, he will be boycotting Minnesota.Last night on The O'Reilly Factor... |
In for a Penny, In for $2.98 Trillion
by Robert Scheer
The good news on the government's "No Banker Left Behind" program is that according to the special inspector general's report on Tuesday, the total handout to date is still less than 3 trillion dollars. It's only 2.98 trillion to be precise, an amount six times greater than will be spent by federal, state and local governments this year on educating the 50 million American children in elementary and secondary schools. |
Newt Gingrich: My Third Wife Wants Me to be a Good Catholic
by Cenk Uygur
Newt Gingrich has converted to Catholicism. He apparently has the zeal of the converted because he is already attacking Obama for having anti-Catholic values. He tweeted it out the other day about Obama giving the commencement speech at Notre Dame: "It is sad to see notre dame invite president obama to give the commencement address Since his policies are so anti catholic values." |
To Bush's "Global War On Terror," RIP
by Robert Parry
President Barack Obama has come under some criticism for slowing his promised withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and for beefing up U.S. forces in Afghanistan, but his 70-day-old administration at least has dumped one part of George W. Bush’s bellicose foreign policy: the phrase “global war on terror.” |
Feds seize Madoff's Palm Beach home, Fort Lauderdale yacht
by Arlene Satchell
Federal marshals descended on South Florida on Wednesday, seizing the $9.4 million Palm Beach mansion owned by jailed financier Bernard Madoff's wife and his $2.2 million luxury fishing boat docked in Fort Lauderdale Is your Fort Lauderdale restaurant clean? - Click Here.. |
