WASHINGTON (CNN) - The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new analysis....
"Yesterday, President Obama struck a blow to the abstinence-only community, cutting ALL of their funding streams in his new 2010 budget. Obama made it clear...
"Among the giant taboos afflicting Congress these days is the proposal to create a single payer health insurance system (often called full Medicare for...
"To paraphrase Al Pacino in 'Godfather III,' just when we thought we were out, the Bush mob keeps pulling us back in. And will keep doing so. No matter how...
http://votersforpeace.us/press/index.php?itemid=1615 May 18 2009 State Bar Complaints Against 12 Bush-Cheney Torture Lawyers Today, on behalf of Voters for...
"They may be crying about General Motors' bankruptcy. But dumping 40,000 of the last 60,000 union jobs into a mass grave won't spoil Jamie Dimon's day. "Dimon...
"Americans pining for a peaceful existence might consider moving to New Zealand, the most peaceful nation on Earth, according to the 2009 Global Peace Index...
"It was one thing when President Obama reversed himself last month by announcing that he would appeal the Second Circuit's ruling that the Freedom of...
[Grackle note: This is from the UK, but this US has had similar things for decades, like the D.A.R.E. program: "If you smell funny smoke in your parents'...
"Last week, I blogged here on The Huffington Post with evidence rebutting the Pentagon's denials of Taguba's confirmation to the British newspaper the...
[Grackle note: I strongly suspect they will magically find plenty of money to pay for the huge increases in police and prison costs that will occur as a result...
"Dozens of people are missing feared dead in northern Peru after some of the country's worst violence for 10 years. "At least 30 indigenous protesters and 24...
Will U.S. companies like Dell and Hewlett-Packard help China to censor its citizens access to the internet? There are over 300 million internet users in China,...
[Grackle note: Remember that this is all imaginary money, until these entities need real money to cover their derivatives casino losses (credit default swaps)....
"In an earlier time writers like Mencken and Hecht and Liebling loved their newspapers, but the portentous claims for their indispensable role would have made...
"If I was an oligarch and I wanted to buy my spoiled little shit of a son a toy that would make him laugh and laugh for hours, I'd buy him a middle-class...
"The White House is playing hardball with Democrats who intend to vote against the supplemental war spending bill, threatening freshmen who oppose it that they...
"The government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land...
http://www.wwmt.com/articles/roads-1363526-mich-counties.html LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Some Michigan counties have turned a few once-paved rural roads back to...
"As a Canadian living in the United States for the past 17 years, I am frequently asked by Americans and Canadians alike to declare one health care system as...
Yesterday, June 16th, all but five Republicans joined Dennis Kucinich and 31 other anti-war Democrats in voting to end continued funding for US involvement in...
"The world’s major economic powers are all suffering from the economic downturn but even the most cynical doomsayer is sure we'll get ourselves out of this...
A written exam administered by the Pentagon labels "protests" as a form of “low-level terrorism” — enraging civil liberties advocates and activist groups...
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"The fact is that despite the bluster of the American Right that Something Must be Done, the United States is not a neutral or benevolent player in Iran....
Now that the Iranian street protests have dimmed, the US and Israeli governments can stop cheering the people there as brave heroes, and can go back to...
"One dog has yet to bark in this long winding crisis. Beyond riots in Athens and a Baltic bust-up, we have not seen evidence of bitter political protest as the...
"Here's a way for America to cut its spiraling healthcare costs: ice floes. "This idea isn't mine. It's President Obama's. Or rather, it's where we're likely...
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