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Pop Quiz: How Much Do You Really Know About Drugs and the Drug War?
09-09-2010 01:00:01 - Here is your chance to test your knowledge and find out how much you know about drugs and drug policy.
We Need Your Ideas: A Call for Direct Action in the Climate Movement
09-09-2010 01:00:01 - We're going to have to build a movement much bigger than anything we've built before. That movement is our only real hope, and we need your help to plot its future.
Here's the Skinny About the Secret Plotting and Scheming of the Power Players...
09-09-2010 00:00:01 - What is Washington's real reason for spending $100 billion a year (and counting) fighting a bunch of Arab jihadi instructors?
Congressman: BP "Openly Blackmailing the American Government"
09-09-2010 00:00:01 - BP now claims they can't possibly be able to compensate all the victims of the Deepwater Horizon spill without the government giving them more drilling permits.
Yeah, It?s a Class War
08-09-2010 23:44:00 -
Obama spoke to a labor crowd in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Monday, calling for new energy investment, and new infrastructure. The word most people want to hear from him, of course, is jobs. Where are they going to be, when are they coming back? Wisconsin’s a place where that discussion’s getting very twisted. Once a solid progressive [...]
Slavery as Entertainment?
08-09-2010 23:19:00 -
This ain’t Darkon. One of my favorite joys as a teenage ghetto nerd was playing hour upon hour of Dungeons and Dragons or Star Wars with my friends (most notably our guest blogger “Bill the Lizard”). In particular, I loved running an epic Star Wars campaign where through my machinations the players all ended up in [...]
For Every Koran Burned By Florida Church, MRFF Will Donate a New One To Afgha...
08-09-2010 21:22:00 -
It’s very similar to a tactic that’s been used a number of times to shut down public protests staged by preacher Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church – for every person Phelps brings to one of his protests, opponents of Phelps and his virulently antigay agenda agree to donate a specific amount of money to groups [...]
GOP Candidate: Federally Mandated Civil Rights Destroy Freedom
08-09-2010 21:00:00 -
At an Ohio Town Hall last night, an African-American constituent asked GOP candidate Jim Renacci why people of color should support his candidacy. “I?m concerned about the civil rights and the diversity of your campaign in terms of why anybody of color should be in support of you as a congressman.” Renacci’s [...]
Fox Calls for Repeal of the 20th Century ? 13 Achievements Conservatives Woul...
08-09-2010 18:34:00 -
This post first appeared on Media Matters. Since President Obama’s election, Fox personalities have expressed opposition to or called for the repeal of virtually every progressive achievement of the 20th century, including Social Security, Medicare, the Americans with Disabilities Act, portions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, [...]
The Blind Side of the economic crisis — one million homeless school-ag...
08-09-2010 18:30:00 -
The rise in homelessness among school-aged children is the underside of our current financial crisisAt least 500,000 black school-aged children are currently homeless.Many of you may have seen The Blind Side where a benevolent Sandra Bullock takes a homeless black kid into her home. He?s a [...]
Bigoted Christian Extremists Are Our Worst Enemy: Hate Pastor to ?Pray? Over ...
08-09-2010 18:24:00 -
Despite being warned by none other than Gen. David Petraeus that burning copies of the Quran would do nothing but put U.S. troops in even more danger, and undoubtedly be used as a recruitment tool by terrorists who are determined to do harm to the U.S., the pastor at a church [...]
If Dems Don?t Get to the Polls, ?Redistricting? Could Put Some Republicans in...
08-09-2010 17:59:00 -
This post first appeared on Daily Kos. Anyone so deluded as to think that sitting out this election will punish the Democrats and push them to the left, where they will prevail in the next round of elections, needs only read this: Republicans are within reach of gaining control of eight or more chambers [...]
Why Won?t Top Republicans Denounce the Hate Pastor Set to Burn Korans?
08-09-2010 17:43:00 -
This post first appeared on Think Progress. This week, Gen. David Petraeus, top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, and Gen. William Caldwell, the training commander in Afghanistan, warned that Dove World Church?s ?International Burn a Quran Day? on September 11 would put U.S. troops? lives in danger and undermine NATO?s mission in [...]
What We Did This Summer: Endure A Hot Summer of Injustice
08-09-2010 17:15:00 -
By Sarah Gonzales, ?When our rights are under attack, what do we do? Fight Back!? This slogan was a familiar chant at the many protests that took place this summer in Tucson, Arizona due in large part to the passing of SB 1070, the now infamous anti-immigrant law and HB 2281, which seeks to ban ethnic [...]
Jon Stewart: Mexican Drug Cartel Kidnapped Jan Brewer?s Tongue?
08-09-2010 16:30:00 -
It’s Indecision time, people! After a week off, the Daily Show kicked off its 2010 election coverage with a sweeping overview of recent political developments. There was much to address: Anti-incumbent doomsaying. Obama’s Labor Day address. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s apparent inability to formulate even one complete sentence. According to Jon, “the Democrats’ problem isn’t their ideas [...]
Obama Refuses to Cave on Extending Bush Era Tax Cuts For the Rich
08-09-2010 15:47:00 -
This post originally appeared on the Washington Monthly. The question has been lingering for weeks: would President Obama cave and keep Bush-era tax rates for the wealthiest Americans at current levels? It’s congressional Republicans’ top priority, and plenty of Democrats on the Hill are hedging.Today, the president intends to settle the dispute. No, [...]
Nearly Half The Public Is ?Very Uncomfortable? With Phasing Out Social Securi...
08-09-2010 14:42:00 -
This post originally appeared on Think Progress. A recently-released Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll surveyed Americans on a variety of issues, including their views on the country?s direction, their approval of the president?s handling of the economy, and what they think of Congress? performance.One section of the poll asked respondents how they would feel [...]
Is the Myth of City Life More Significant Than the Real City Itself?
08-09-2010 09:00:01 - The city, as we imagine it -- myth, aspiration, nightmare -- is maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps and statistics.
OK, I Take It Back -- We Don't All Have to Eat Vegan to Save the Planet
08-09-2010 09:00:01 - I used to think being a vegan was the only ethical way to eat. But an important new book suggests we can change our food system to allow for healthy meat consumption.
The Right-Wing Has Made It Next to Impossible for Many Women to Get Abortions
08-09-2010 09:00:01 - For many women, getting access to abortion has become extraordinarily difficult. Conservatives' plan is to make it impossible.
How to Make the World a Better Place Despite the Roadblocks and Naysayers
08-09-2010 09:00:01 - "The world was a cruel, unjust place and, far from saving it, I felt stuck in it. Then I learned that I should fight to change it anyway."
How Censoring Craigslist Helps Pimps, Child Traffickers and Other Abusive Scu...
08-09-2010 01:00:01 - I believe that the current efforts to censor Craigslist's "adult services" achieves the absolute opposite of their intention.
Michael Moore Teaches Rahm Emanuel a F**cking Economics Lesson
08-09-2010 00:00:01 - Moore responds to Obama's chief of staff, quoted as saying he didn't care that tens of thousands of jobs would be lost if GM and Chrysler collapsed.
The Great American Stickup: How the Political Class Mugged America and Handed...
08-09-2010 00:00:01 - With so much opportunity, why has Obama presided over such an economic disaster?
The Justice Department Is Busy, and That?s the Way It Should Be
07-09-2010 23:07:00 -
This post originally appeared on Campus Progress. Last week was a busy one for the Obama administration?s Department of Justice. On Tuesday, following the announcement of a temporary injunction on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, the agency responded by issuing an appeal. “The great potential for significant additional medical breakthroughs [...]
How Many Oil Rigs Will Explode Before We Realize the Future Lies with Clean E...
07-09-2010 23:00:01 - It shouldn't take an oil apocalypse to get our attention. We are facing a continuing threat in the gulf from multiple points of potential peril.
Rape Victims Forced to Undergo ?Finger Test? to Gauge Their Sexual History
07-09-2010 22:54:00 -
Here’s how some Indian doctors, lawyers and judges are going the extra mile to traumatize rape victims, according to a Human Rights Watch report: … a doctor insert[s] fingers in a rape victim’s vagina to determine the presence or absence of the hymen and the so-called “laxity” of the vagina. These findings perpetuate false [...]
Rupert Murdoch Helping Fund North Korean Regime of Kim Jong Il
07-09-2010 21:04:00 -
Pursuing diplomatic engagement with rogue nations demonstrates hopeless weakness and naivite. Strengthening their tyrannical regimes just to make a profit, on the other hand, must somehow be good for America. Bloomberg reports that a unit of News Corp. published mobile video games that were developed by North Korea’s General Federation of Science and Technology. Their work [...]
Do Politicians Give a F**ck About the People Doomed to Chronic Unemployment?
07-09-2010 20:00:00 -
This post first appeared on Balloon Juice. Via Atrios, an excellent post about the recession: [Recession is] often taken as a big deal in the simple sense that the experience of recession sucks. But, people say, there are lots of bad experiences and this is just one of them. Sometimes we have [...]
Sharon Angle Refuses to Take Back Apparent Endorsement of Armed Insurrection
07-09-2010 19:17:00 -
This post first appeared on Think Progress. Among the many radical statements that Nevada GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle has made, two that stand out are her agreement that there are ?domestic enemies? in Congress, and her seeming endorsement of armed insurrection, saying ?Second Amendment remedies? may be necessary if ?Congress [...]
16 Anti-Gay Extremists in Glenn Beck?s Creepy Christian Army
07-09-2010 18:45:00 -
This post first appeared on Media Matters. As he attempts to rebrand himself as a spiritual leader, Glenn Beck has surrounded himself with religious and secular figures who share a fervent opposition to the “homosexual agenda.”1. David Barton David Barton, founder and president of WallBuilders, spoke at Beck’s August 27 [...]
GOP Gains Can be Blunted if Grassroots Dems Get Fired Up and Hit the Polls
07-09-2010 18:08:00 -
This post first appeared on Washington Monthly. QUANTIFYING THE ENTHUSIASM GAP, CONT’D…. Reader J.B. reminded me last night of an item from July about the “enthusiasm gap” that remains relevant. As is obvious by now, Republican voters are chomping at the bit, counting the days until the midterms, while Democratic voters [...]
Arizona Republican Recruits Homeless People as ?Green Party? Candidates
07-09-2010 17:03:00 -
This post first appeared on Booman Tribune. I guess they were never able to prove definitively that South Carolina Democratic senate nominee Alvin Greene was recruited by the GOP. But there isn’t any question about the phony candidates the GOP is supporting in Arizona: TEMPE, Ariz. — Benjamin Pearcy, a candidate for statewide [...]
Wingnut Florida Preacher?s Proposed Koran Burning Makes Very Bad Impressions ...
07-09-2010 16:07:00 -
This post originally appeared on the Washington Monthly. Chances are, you’ve heard about the radical Florida church that plans to “celebrate” the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by organizing a Quran-burning ceremony in Gainesville. The problem is, you’re not the only one who’s caught wind of the story. International news outlets have reported on [...]
Obama: Critics Talk About Me ?Like a Dog?
07-09-2010 14:37:00 -
In a speech delivered in Milwaukee yesterday, President Obama deviated from his prepared remarks to talk about the never-ending onslaught of over-the-top attacks by his opponents: And over the last two years, that?s meant taking on some powerful interests — some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very [...]
Celebrities? Shameful Bottled Water Habits Revealed
07-09-2010 02:00:00 -
Peter Gleick, President of the Pacific Institute, a much famed water research organization in Oakland, California is not usually the person I turn to in order to catch up on celebrity news. But it seems, Gleick is branching out. This may have to do with his new book, Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our [...]
What a Second Stimulus Should ? and Shouldn?t ? Look Like
07-09-2010 00:40:00 -
This post first appeared on Open Left. Recounting the findings of a new study by the Keystone Research Center, the Denver Business Journal reports that “the unemployment rate would approach 16 percent nationally — more than 6 percentage points higher than the current jobless rate — if not for the federal stimulus program.” This [...]
GOP Control Of Federal Trial Courts Has Increased Since Obama Took Office
06-09-2010 22:13:00 -
This post first appeared on Think Progress. The AP?s Mark Sherman reports that GOP obstruction in the Senate has allowed Republicans to further entrench their control over the federal bench, even though a Democratic president is now naming judges: A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women [...]
Jehovah?s Witnesses Mad That Atheists Won?t Keep Their Views to Themselves
06-09-2010 21:53:00 -
You can now download the latest issue of Awake, the Jehovah’s Witness’s strange little magazine. The theme of this issue is those marching militant atheists, so it’s a little bit personal.Unfortunately, I was only able to read as far as the second sentence before I was blinded by the irony. A new [...]
Sen Boxer: Fiorina ?Used to Creating Jobs in China?
06-09-2010 20:21:00 -
This post first appeared on Daily Kos. On Thursday evening, Senator Barbara Boxer had her first debate with failed CEO Carly Fiorina. Much of the debate put Fiorina on defense about her record at HP. Boxer delivered the hardest haymaker of the night with her response about clean energy and AB32–which Boxer [...]
Petraeus: Quran Burning ?Could Endanger Troops?
06-09-2010 18:51:00 -
This post first appeared on Think Progress. On September 11, 2010, the extremist evangelical Dove World Church — whose pastor, Terry Jones, has written a book called ?Islam Is Of The Devil? ? plans to host ?International Burn a Quran Day,? when it will burn Islam?s sacred text and encourage others across the world to do [...]
Obama Calls for $50 Billion Spending on Infrastructure
06-09-2010 17:42:00 -
Obama will be giving details later today about a plan to help stimulate job growth by focusing on infrastructure spending, specifically roads, railways and runways. Although more on his jobs plan will be revealed on Wednesday. The New York Times explains: While Mr. Obama?s plan would call for investment over six years, the White House says [...]
What Doctors Should Be Telling Us About Nutrition
06-09-2010 17:20:00 -
The post first appeared on Food Politics.This month?s San Francisco Chronicle column evolved in answer to a question from a former colleague at the UCSF School of Medicine. Q: What do you think doctors should be telling patients about how best to care for themselves and their families, nutritionally? A: I had my chance when, long ago, [...]
Here?s the Rally in DC You Should Be Attending
06-09-2010 17:05:00 -
This post first appeared on Hullabaloo. It’s not a sexy as Glenn Beck and his Black Robed Regiment of Christian Reconstructionists (just don’t call them Mullahs …) but this rally scheduled for next month in DC is just a teensy bit more relevant to our current problems. It’s called One America, Working Together. Here’s [...]
Don't Cut Social Security, Double It
06-09-2010 09:00:01 - Let's vastly expand the Social Security payout, and making it a true national retirement system.
Chuck Hagel: GOP Is Not ?Presenting Any Alternatives, Any New Options Or Any ...
05-09-2010 23:45:00 -
This post first appeared on Think Progress. Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), the chairman of the Atlantic Council, recently sat down for an interview with the Washington Diplomat. In the interview, the former senator touched on a variety of topics, including what he feels is the need for the United States to ?unwind? from the war [...]
Jan Brewer Fesses up to Lying About Beheadings
05-09-2010 23:41:00 -
This post first appeared on Washington Monthly. Just to put a coda on one of the week’s more peculiar stories, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) conceded she was wrong about immigrants committing beheadings — but she waited until late Friday afternoon on a holiday weekend to fess up. If you’re just joining us, the odd, far-right governor [...]
Why Becoming a Legal Immigrant Is Next to Impossible
05-09-2010 21:00:01 - Many wrongly assume there is a process you can easily go through to become legal. In reality, our immigration system is a bureaucratic nightmare.
9 Shameless Warmongers Who Call Fox News Home
05-09-2010 20:00:01 - Some of the worst purveyors of misinformation about Iraq have been warmly embraced by Fox News.
How Was Your Veal ?Prepared?? Like This Video?
04-09-2010 21:50:00 -
Once again Chicago-based Mercy For Animals has shown eaters what they don’t want to see. In this case the hapless calves torn from their mothers and chained by the neck known as “veal.” The group that exposed DeCoster egg farms years before the mainstream press, released undercover video last week from Buckeye Veal Farm in Apple [...]