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This Week In Depressing Polls - Birthers - Gawker
This Week In Depressing Polls - Birthers - Gawker: "6% of poll respondents think that Hawaii is not part of the country and 4% are unsure."
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Paul Krassner: On the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock
Paul Krassner: On the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock: "It's not that we hate America, it's that we feel the American dream has been betrayed, and we will live our alternative."
Grand Junction a microcosm of efficient healthcare -- latimes.com
Grand Junction a microcosm of efficient healthcare -- latimes.com: "'The interesting thing about healthcare,' ErkenBrack said, 'is quality costs less.'"
Op-Ed Columnist - Republican Death Trip - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Columnist - Republican Death Trip - NYTimes.com: "an unending procession of wild charges and fake scandals, dutifully given credence by major media organizations that somehow can’t bring themselves to declare the accusations unequivocally false."
Thursday
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect: "ConAgra, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, RadioShack, Men’s Wearhouse, State Farm, Sargent, LexisNexis-owned Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, SC Johnson and GEICO have all pulled their ads from Beck's show"
Voting machine hack costs less than $100,000
Voting machine hack costs less than $100,000 You get what you pay for.
Wednesday
"Now Don't You Let the Government Get a Hold of My Medicare" : CJR
"Now Don't You Let the Government Get a Hold of My Medicare" : CJR: "Welcome to the brave new world of politics, full of rants (mostly inarticulate) and chants (mostly inarticulate) and misinformation (mostly quite articulate)"
NASA - Satellites Unlock Secret to Northern India's Vanishing Water
NASA - Satellites Unlock Secret to Northern India's Vanishing Water: "groundwater levels in northern India have been declining by as much as one foot per year over the past decade. Researchers concluded the loss is almost entirely due to human activity."
New SPLC Report: Return of the Militias | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center
New SPLC Report: Return of the Militias | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center: "made up of present and former police officers and soldiers."
Tuesday
FBI's investigation of Tiller killing looks at Roeder's jail visitors - Kansas City Star
FBI's investigation of Tiller killing looks at Roeder's jail visitors - Kansas City Star: "The list of those visiting and communicating with the man accused of killing Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller reads like a who’s who of anti-abortion militants."
Monday
Op-Ed Contributor - Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor? - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Contributor - Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor? - NYTimes.com: "Maybe we can’t afford the measures that would begin to alleviate America’s growing poverty — affordable housing, good schools, reliable public transportation and so forth. I would argue otherwise, but for now I’d be content with a consensus that, if we can’t afford to truly help the poor, neither can we afford to go on tormenting them."
Saturday
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Steven Pearlstein is shrill - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
Steven Pearlstein is shrill - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com: "Anyone who is surprised hasn’t been paying attention since, oh, 1993."
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Giant Ocean-Trash Vortex Attracts Explorers
Giant Ocean-Trash Vortex Attracts Explorers: "Pacific Ocean trash dump twice the size of Texas"
Thursday
Saving Fish is Possible, Unless They’re Past the Tipping Point | Wired Science | Wired.com
Saving Fish is Possible, Unless They’re Past the Tipping Point | Wired Science | Wired.com: "The longer you wait to fix a situation, the harder it becomes."
iFRAME | iframe, eastridge, audio - Life - Colorado Springs Gazette, CO
iFRAME | iframe, eastridge, audio - Life - Colorado Springs Gazette, CO Casualties of War, Part I: The hell of war comes home
Wednesday
Why we learn more from our successes than our failures - MIT News Office
Why we learn more from our successes than our failures - MIT News Office: "Brain cells may only learn from experience when we do something right and not when we fail."
The Columbus Dispatch : Job trend damaging Ohio's kids
The Columbus Dispatch : Job trend damaging Ohio's kids: "More than a third of Ohio's children in 2007 -- nearly 1 million -- were living in families where no parent had a full-time, year-round job." Blame Obama!
Tuesday
Books - At What Height, Happiness? A Medical Tale - Review - NYTimes.com
Books - At What Height, Happiness? A Medical Tale - Review - NYTimes.com: "One exasperated pediatrician, musing on whether outcome justified cost, suggested a clinical trial to settle the question: one group of tiny boys would get growth hormone and each boy in the other group would each get $100,000 cash. Who would be happier and healthier 20 years down the line?"
Recession hurting kids (The Daily Briefing)
Recession hurting kids (The Daily Briefing): "More than a third of Ohio children - 34 percent - were living in families where no parent had a full-time, year-round job in 2007.
That's up from 30 percent in 2000 and should come as little surprise as the state has been hemorrhaging jobs for years."
That's up from 30 percent in 2000 and should come as little surprise as the state has been hemorrhaging jobs for years."
Look out, gov - the ex-gov is comin'! (The Daily Briefing)
Look out, gov - the ex-gov is comin'! (The Daily Briefing): "It’s the southerners. They get on TV and go 'errrr, errrrr.' People hear them and say, ‘These people, they’re southerners. The party’s being taken over by southerners."
Monday
Robin Wells: Hard Truths and the Teachable Moment: The Gates-Crowley Saga
Robin Wells: Hard Truths and the Teachable Moment: The Gates-Crowley Saga: "As long as we walk around with a sense of grievance - notice the word shares the same root as 'grief' - we're going to make ourselves the victims of those who are stuck in their own ignorance and pig-headedness. The difficult fact is that to let go of grievance requires us to become generous, even when we're the wronged party. In each and every moment - and particularly in moments like these - we choose who we're going to be."
Sunday
Wayne County Star
Wayne County Star: "One post pretended to be from a woman with a Mexican boyfriend; the other two posts insinuated the boat had come from Cuba, berated farmers, accused them of breaking the law and praised the Border Patrol for doing a good job.
The posts, which were made anonymously on June 20 and 21, identified themselves on the public part of the website with fake Internet addresses: Imaapplehog2@yahoo.com, poorbabies@hotmail.com and hahaha@hotmail.com. The Star discovered they all had Internet protocol addresses that showed as originating from cbp.dhs.gov."
The posts, which were made anonymously on June 20 and 21, identified themselves on the public part of the website with fake Internet addresses: Imaapplehog2@yahoo.com, poorbabies@hotmail.com and hahaha@hotmail.com. The Star discovered they all had Internet protocol addresses that showed as originating from cbp.dhs.gov."
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Special alloy sleeves urged to block hackers?
Special alloy sleeves urged to block hackers?: "when the sleeves come off, 'you're essentially saying to the world, 'Come and read what's in my wallet,'"
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Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Congressman Dennis Kucinich: "It sets targets that are too weak, especially in the short term, and sets about meeting those targets through Enron-style accounting methods."
Thursday
Congress's Quixotic Push to Repeal Presidential... OpenCongress
Congress's Quixotic Push to Repeal Presidential... OpenCongress One guy for twelve years is better than three guys at four years each?
Wednesday
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Lancaster, Pa., keeps a close eye on itself - Los Angeles Times
Lancaster, Pa., keeps a close eye on itself - Los Angeles Times: "There's nothing wrong with instilling fear"
Iran Fears Drive Mid-East Arms Rush | Danger Room | Wired.com
Iran Fears Drive Mid-East Arms Rush | Danger Room | Wired.com: "a lucrative arms market, dominated by U.S. defense firms"
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Think Progress » Four Right-Wing Supreme Court Justices Argue That Buying Off A Judge Is No Problem
Think Progress » Four Right-Wing Supreme Court Justices Argue That Buying Off A Judge Is No Problem: "all four of the Court’s most conservative members voted that there is no problem when a wealthy businessman literally buys a judge."
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Body of lies: Patients aren't 100% honest with doctors - Los Angeles Times: "Peter Clarke, director of the Center for Health and Medical Communication at USC,... suggests patients have two sets of medical records, a private one between patient and doctor and another for sharing with others.... 'If your physician won't do that, it's reason enough to leave the physician.'"
Thursday
Medical bills underlie 60 percent of U.S. bankruptcies: study - Yahoo! News
Medical bills underlie 60 percent of U.S. bankruptcies: study - Yahoo! News: "'For middle-class Americans, health insurance offers little protection,'"
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SCOTUSblog
SCOTUSblog: "in an eleven-year career on the Second Circuit, Judge Sotomayor has participated in roughly 100 panel decisions involving questions of race and has disagreed with her colleagues in those cases (a fair measure of whether she is an outlier) a total of 4 times. Only one case (Gant) in that entire eleven years actually involved the question whether race discrimination may have occurred. (In another case (Pappas) she dissented to favor a white bigot.) She participated in two other panels rejecting district court rulings agreeing with race-based jury-selection claims. Given that record, it seems absurd to say that Judge Sotomayor allows race to infect her decisionmaking."
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-hsra-domestic-extremism-lexicon_165213935473.pdf (application/pdf Object)
-hsra-domestic-extremism-lexicon_165213935473.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Why the brouhaha over the DHS report on extremism? Because it says anti-abortion activists use "racist and anti-Semitic beliefs to justify their criminal activities."
Why the brouhaha over the DHS report on extremism? Because it says anti-abortion activists use "racist and anti-Semitic beliefs to justify their criminal activities."
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The Washington Independent » Coal, Electric Industries Big Winners in Climate Bill Deal
The Washington Independent » Coal, Electric Industries Big Winners in Climate Bill Deal: "partisan politics takes a backseat to regional interests, and the influence of the energy lobby is king. Indeed, the concessions from Waxman and Markey to this point have been made to satisfy Democrats representing regions heavy with coal, oil and automaker interests."
Friday
Thursday
The List : CJR
The List : CJR: "a comprehensive catalog of relevant stories produced by major business-news outlets on the lending industry and Wall Street during the run-up to the mortgage crisis."
Power Problem : CJR
Power Problem : CJR
"We citizens, like it or not, rely on journalists to provide word of rampant wrongdoing, and now we find ourselves well beyond the worst of all worst-case scenarios, caused, by general consensus, to an overwhelming degree by this most central of business-press beats: finance."
"We citizens, like it or not, rely on journalists to provide word of rampant wrongdoing, and now we find ourselves well beyond the worst of all worst-case scenarios, caused, by general consensus, to an overwhelming degree by this most central of business-press beats: finance."
Saturday
Who Will Be at the Table? : CJR
Who Will Be at the Table? : CJR: "Baucus evicts single-payer advocates from his hearing"
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