Dying for Change
by Stephen Pizzo
Over the past few months my wife, Susan, and I have been right up to our chins in elder-care issues. My father is 90, my mother is 87 and Sue's mom is 99 heading straight for the century mark.We're not complaining, mind you. We are so lucky that, at our stage of life, (we're no spring chickens either,) that we still have three out of four of them still with us. |
O'Reilly and Fox News will have more right-wing violence to answer for
by Eric Boehlert
If Fox News is going to continue to traffic in hateful, vigilante-style rhetoric, then folks at Fox News, as well as their apologists in the GOP Noise Machine, are going to have to come up with better talking points to spin away the consequences of the right-wing madness they're so eager to incite. |
NY tabloid calls turncoat Dems 'revolting'
by Raw Story
Even the conservative-leaning New York Post didn't sugarcoat the backgrounds of the two Democratic New York state senators who changed parties Monday night and helped the GOP return to power.The headline for the Post's story, Turncoats are revolting, wasn't just referring to the mini-revolution. |
TMZ: New Clue In Carradine's Death
by TMZ.com
TMZ showed the photo to an expert in auto-erotic behavior, who said the position of David Carradine's hands in the image is consistent with someone playing a dangerous sex game.Brent Turvey, a criminal profiler who has studied auto-erotic asphyxiation, told TMZ that Carradine's tied hands were not necessarily a sign of fowl play. |
NRA's Ill Wind Blows through the Windy City
by Derrick Z. Jackson
President Obama really must say something about guns now, less he fecklessly watch the National Rifle Association take over his beloved Chicago. The NRA is appealing to the Supreme Court after a federal appeals court in Chicago last week upheld a handgun ban in Chicago and the nearby suburb of Oak Park. |
The Trouble with Democrats
by William Greider
The governing party faced an awkward dilemma. People were hurting and furious at the government's generous bailouts for banks. But how could the Democrats do something for the folks without upsetting their friends and patrons in the banking industry? Democrats think they found a way. They are enacting a series of measures described as 'breakthrough' reform and 'unprecedented' defeat for the bankers. Only these achievements are more accurately understood as 'reform lite.' The house is on fire and Democrats brought a garden hose. |
'Police Are Throwing Bodies in the River,' Say Native Protesters
by Milagros Salazar
LIMA - There are conflicting reports on a violent incident in Peru's Amazon jungle region in which both police officers and indigenous protesters were killed.The authorities, who describe last Friday's incident as a 'clash' between the police and protesters manning a roadblock, say 22 policemen and nine civilians were killed. |
We Failed to Follow Bombing Rules: Pentagon
by Agence France Presse
WASHINGTON - US forces failed to follow procedures in carrying out deadly air strikes last month in western Afghanistan that killed dozens of civilians, the Pentagon said.A military investigation by a senior officer outside Afghanistan found 'problems' with US bombing raids in a May 4 battle but it was unclear if the mistakes caused civilian deaths, Defense Department press secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters. |
Time for Sheriff's Office to derail overtime gravy train
by Michael Mayo
Maybe there was a Category 4 hurricane in Broward last summer and we all slept through it. Or maybe we had a stealth terrorist attack and didn't realize it.How else to explain $28 million in overtime pay at the Broward Sheriff's Office?A little bit of overtime for a law enforcement agency we could understand. |
