Friday
Rubio: linking drilling to gas prices is 'disingenuous' | Naked Politics
Rubio: linking drilling to gas prices is "disingenuous" | Naked Politics: Florida's Republican House Speaker says, "For anyone to represent that someone drilling off the coast in Florida is going to lower gas prices here or anywhere in this country is disingenuous and a flawed argument."
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Think Again: Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction: Did “ Everyone” Agree?
Think Again: Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction: Did “ Everyone” Agree?: "the claim that “everyone agreed” that the evidence of Iraqi WMD was incontrovertible is simply false"
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Citing History, Bush Suggests His Policies Will One Day Be Vindicated - washingtonpost.com
Citing History, Bush Suggests His Policies Will One Day Be Vindicated - washingtonpost.com: "just two out of 109 historians said Bush would be judged a success; a majority deemed him the 'worst president ever.'"
Friday
Replicating Rapid Prototyper Replicates Replicating Rapid Prototyper | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
Replicating Rapid Prototyper Replicates Replicating Rapid Prototyper | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com: "You can start counting the minutes now until our planet is submerged in a gray-goo tidal wave of these things"
South Carolina to Offer Cross on Car Plates - NYTimes.com
South Carolina to Offer Cross on Car Plates - NYTimes.com: "The whole issue here is that people are trying to get the state to endorse their religion, and that’s wrong. It’s almost as if there’s insufficient support, and they have to go to the state to get it."
Thursday
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: "the Bush Administration led the nation into war under false pretenses"
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The Wenatchee World Online - A loud motorcycle does not a patriot make
The Wenatchee World Online - A loud motorcycle does not a patriot make: "the Current Occupant welcomed them with open arms at the White House, put on a black leather vest, and gave a manly speech about how he'd just 'choppered in' and saw the horde 'cranking up their machines' and he thanked them for being so patriotic. They are his kind of guys, full of bluster, giving off noxious fumes, and when they leave town, nobody misses them."
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Bloomberg.com: Exclusive
Bloomberg.com: Exclusive Google, Chevron Build Mirrors in Desert to Beat Coal With Solar
Friday
Restaurant menu promises buried in calories, fat
Restaurant menu promises buried in calories, fat: Can I get a diet Coke with that?
The 'Long War' fallacy - Los Angeles Times
The "Long War" fallacy - Los Angeles Times Iraq has shown the limits of U.S. power. We must change America, not the world.
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Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause
Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause: "volunteers and campaign surrogates are encountering a raw racism and hostility that have gone largely unnoticed -- and unreported -- this election season"
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Wonk Room » Right Wing Doctors Audio Clips To Distort Al Gore’s Comments About Cyclone Nargis
Wonk Room » Right Wing Doctors Audio Clips To Distort Al Gore’s Comments About Cyclone Nargis When the Left Wing doctors audio clips it sounds like this: Dick is a Killer (NSFW)
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DispatchPolitics : Food banks quit payday fight Columbus Dispatch Politics
DispatchPolitics : Food banks quit payday lending fight - after threats from national donor Rent-A-Center
Wednesday
Secret Law Debated in Senate Hearing » Secrecy News
Secret Law Debated in Senate Hearing » Secrecy News: "Secret law excludes the public from the deliberative process, promotes arbitrary and deviant government behavior, and shields official malefactors from accountability"
Microsoft | Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime | Seattle Times Newspaper
Microsoft | Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime | Seattle Times Newspaper: "It can decrypt passwords and analyze a computer's Internet activity, as well as data stored in the computer." But can the thumb drive be easily duplicated?
Tuesday
From Chief Prosecutor To Critic at Guantanamo
From Chief Prosecutor To Critic at Guantanamo: "took the witness stand to declare under oath that he felt undue pressure to hurry cases along so that the Bush administration could claim before political elections that the system was working"
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Plant emissions trigger health concerns | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY
Plant emissions trigger health concerns | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY: "exempt from certain air quality rules because it was built before those rules took effect, starting in the 1970s"
Thursday
The Associated Press: Talk of firing Chicago's US attorney cited at Rezko trial
The Associated Press: Talk of firing Chicago's US attorney cited at Rezko trial: "a government witness claims Rezko discussed efforts among top Republicans, including former White House political director Karl Rove and GOP national committeeman Robert Kjellander, to have Fitzgerald fired to derail a corruption probe"
2008 Annual Arab Public Opinion
Poll (PDF file) Key Findings - Iraq: Only 6% of Arabs polled believe that the American surge has wo: worked. A plurality (35% ) do not believe reports that violence has in fact declined. Over 61% believe that if the US were to withdraw from Iraq, Iraqis will find a way to bridge their differences, and only 15% believe the civil war would expand. 81% of Arabs polled (outside Iraq) believe that the Iraqis are worse off than they were before the Iraq war.
Poll (PDF file) Key Findings - Iraq: Only 6% of Arabs polled believe that the American surge has wo: worked. A plurality (35% ) do not believe reports that violence has in fact declined. Over 61% believe that if the US were to withdraw from Iraq, Iraqis will find a way to bridge their differences, and only 15% believe the civil war would expand. 81% of Arabs polled (outside Iraq) believe that the Iraqis are worse off than they were before the Iraq war.
Wednesday
The Good Old Days: The military budget is out of control » FAS Strategic Security Blog
The Good Old Days: The military budget is out of control » FAS Strategic Security Blog: "In the end, we are competing with ourselves."
Tuesday
VA Hid Suicide Risk, Internal E-Mails Show, Follow-Up Reporting On Exclusive Investigation Reveals Officials Hid Numbers - CBS News
VA Hid Suicide Risk, Internal E-Mails Show, Follow-Up Reporting On Exclusive Investigation Reveals Officials Hid Numbers - CBS News: "1,000 suicide attempts per month among veterans" says head of mental health for VA.
RIGHTS-US: Vets' Lawsuit Opens Door on Suicides, Poor Care
RIGHTS-US: Vets' Lawsuit Opens Door on Suicides, Poor Care: "18 veterans commit suicide every week"
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DEVELOPMENT: Family Planning Gets Mere Sliver of Aid Pie
DEVELOPMENT: Family Planning Gets Mere Sliver of Aid Pie: "funding for family planning as a percentage of all population assistance has dropped considerably, from 55 percent in 1995 to 7.0 percent in 2005."
POLITICS-US/IRAQ: Stuck!
POLITICS-US/IRAQ: Stuck!: "That neither Petraeus, now commander of all U.S. forces in Iraq, nor his civilian counterpart, Washington's ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, was able to offer even the slightest clue as to 'how this ends' in Congressional testimony this week added yet one more layer of irony to a war which has systematically defied every prediction of its architects."
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Arphid Watch: Skimming becomes a felony in Washington State | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
Arphid Watch: Skimming becomes a felony in Washington State | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com: "The stark fact that everybody in Washington State is about to become an automatic electronic identity beacon is rather glossed-over"
Tuesday
J.P. Morgan Raises Its Offer for Bear Stearns - washingtonpost.com
J.P. Morgan Raises Its Offer for Bear Stearns - washingtonpost.com: "In the reworked deal, J.P. Morgan agreed to cover the first $1 billion in losses if the value of those securities falls, with the Fed responsible for any losses beyond that."
"if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
"if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
Thursday
Court Details Opposition to Bias in Jury Selection - New York Times
Court Details Opposition to Bias in Jury Selection - New York Times With two justices dissenting, Scalia and guess who? "What a waste of pubic hair."
Monday
Many voting for Clinton to boost GOP - The Boston Globe
Many voting for Clinton to boost GOP - The Boston Globe: "it will sustain this soap opera, and it's something I think we need."
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House Republican Blasts Bush Administration “Stonewalling” » Secrecy News
House Republican Blasts Bush Administration “Stonewalling” » Secrecy News An' it stinks so bad the stones be chokin' 'n weepin' greenish drops...
At the High Court, Damage Control
At the High Court, Damage Control: "Exxon Mobil, the giant oil corporation appearing before the Supreme Court yesterday, had earned a profit of nearly $40 billion in 2006, the largest ever reported by a U.S. company -- but that's not what bothered Roberts. What bothered the chief justice was that Exxon was being ordered to pay $2.5 billion -- roughly three weeks' worth of profits -- for destroying a long swath of the Alaska coastline in the largest oil spill in American history.
'So what can a corporation do to protect itself against punitive-damages awards such as this?' Roberts asked in court.
The lawyer arguing for the Alaska fishermen affected by the spill, Jeffrey Fisher, had an idea. 'Well,' he said, 'it can hire fit and competent people.'
The rare sound of laughter rippled through the august chamber. The chief justice did not look amused."
'So what can a corporation do to protect itself against punitive-damages awards such as this?' Roberts asked in court.
The lawyer arguing for the Alaska fishermen affected by the spill, Jeffrey Fisher, had an idea. 'Well,' he said, 'it can hire fit and competent people.'
The rare sound of laughter rippled through the august chamber. The chief justice did not look amused."
Sunday
Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us | Environment | The Observer: "As early as next year widespread flooding by a rise in sea levels will create major upheaval for millions."
Saturday
Truthdig - Reports - The War Against Tolerance
Truthdig - Reports - The War Against Tolerance: "they offer a window into a worldview that is destroying the United States. It has corrupted the Republican Party. It has colored the news media. It has entered into the everyday clichés we use to explain ourselves to ourselves. It is ignorant and racist"
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Democracy Now! | Discovery Channel Accused of Political Censorship for Dropping Oscar-Nominated Doc on U.S. Torture
Democracy Now! | Discovery Channel Accused of Political Censorship for Dropping Oscar-Nominated Doc on U.S. Torture: "AMY GOODMAN: But if they still own the rights, can they just not air it for three years and keep you from airing it anywhere else?
ALEX GIBNEY: Yes, they can."
ALEX GIBNEY: Yes, they can."
Monday
Alexander Cockburn: The Terrorists Still at Ground Zero, 7 World Trade Tower, Lower Manhattan
Alexander Cockburn: The Terrorists Still at Ground Zero, 7 World Trade Tower, Lower Manhattan: "US interrogators torture men in secret prisons seeking to catch those members of Al Quaeda still at large, starting with Osama bin Laden and Aiman al-Zwahiri. Yet here's Moody's man calmly threatening to destroy the US government's credit ranking unless it follows his agenda, and he strolls around Lower Manhattan unmolested, even if his threats could add up to the financial equvalent of a thermonuclear device planted under the Statue of Liberty."
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