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• Letters of Note: You New Biggest Addiction

  
  Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website — Authority: 528
  For the past two days since I discovered Letters of Note, I have been glued to the computer, pausing only to eat, sleep, earn my meager pittance as a freelancer and email snippets of these amazing letters to loved ones. The site is curated by a freelance writer who scours for interesting postcards, letters and other ...
  17 hours ago

• American KGB Hostel for the Brown Skinned

  
  The Vigilant Lens — Authority: 131
  Hey kids!  This is war criminal Donald Rumsfeld visiting the KGB prison/torture museum in Lithuania in 2005.This is the Donald’s letter of thanks for the torture tour and twisted words of Soviet style propaganda.Below is our CIA torture facility in Lithuania, which was in operation in 2005.  It’s just down the ...
  20 hours ago

• Oakeshott asks Ashcroft the simple question: “Are you a non dom or not?”

  
  Liberal Democrat Voice — Authority: 506
  David Cameron, yesterday, on Sky News : I think it time to pass a law that says that if you want to be in the Houses of Parliament, if you want to be a legislator, you need to be or be treated as a full UK taxpayer.” And quite right, too. But what has prompted the Tories’ Damascene conversion? After all, they ...
  1 day ago

• Time for Cameron to lay down the law within his own party

  
  And another thing... — Authority: 585
  SO DAVE plans to legislate to force MPs and peers to prove they’re UK tax-payers or lose their seats. You would have to be certifiably and terminably bewildered to fall for that, surely? Zac Goldfinger admits to being a “non dom”, says he plans to continue that status right up until the election (because ...
  2 days ago

• Of course MPs should pay taxes, but what about MEPs?

  
  News Politics — Authority: 142
  David Cameron says he will require all MPs and peers to pay taxes in Britain (hat-tip, ConservativeHome). Quite right, too.But what about MEPs? Until July of this year, Euro-MPs were paid the same salary as MPs from their home countries. The money came from their national treasuries, and was subject to taxation in ...
  3 days ago

• What the papers say…

  
  Liberal Democrat Voice — Authority: 506
  A look back at the last few days of news and comment in the National newspapers, by former Fleet Street News Editor (and former Editor of Liberal News), Philip Young… including a few clippings you may have missed. Sunday Times, 6.12.09: “A Tory peer has been caught using someone else’s home ...
  5 days ago

• Who is Aafia Siddiqui?

  
  Muslim Media Network — Authority: 136
  By Mauri’ Saalakhan As someone who has been a human rights advocate for most of his adult life, I have seen many cases come and go; few have been as heart rending and consequential as the mysterious case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. More than six years into this saga there still remain many unknowns. What ...
  5 days ago

• Emails Show bin Laden Was Bush Talking Point, not Target

  
  Muslim Media Network — Authority: 136
  Millions of Messages Sent, but Only Handful Mention Al Qaeda Leader By Margie Burns “Missing” White House emails retrieved from Bush administration records indicate that top Bush Justice Department officials had little interest in the pursuit of Osama bin Laden or Mullah Mohammed Omar, head of the Taliban in ...
  5 days ago

• Lord Ashcroft can help Tory transparency

  
  News Benedict Brogan — Authority: 134
  David Cameron owes a great deal to Michael Ashcroft. His relentless focus on key seats, his organisational skills, his knack for motivating candidates with cash carrots and private sector motivational sticks have produced impressive results that could prove decisive at the election. You only have to look at the ...
  6 days ago

• why investment bankers arent special

  
  punkscience — Authority: 120
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~More on the topic of socially useless bankers: Jim Bliss has written a fantastic little piece analysing what it is that investment bankers do and why they are paid such fantastic sums. Its great stuff but I want to go further into ...
  1 week ago

• Not Welcome in DC

  
  Cosmopolitan Conservative — Authority: 128
  It’s not too unusual to see famous people in DC. A few months ago, I walked by Stephen Baldwin in the lobby of the Omni Shoreham. If he hadn’t been on his cell phone, I would have been happy to tell him that he’s aged much better than big brother Alec, and I feel for him at family gatherings. DC still gets ...
  1 week ago

• ARMORED

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 169
  Crime thriller PRINCIPAL CAST MEMBERS Matt Dillon: Chief Officer Michael Cochrane with Eagle Shield Security Columbus Short: newly hired armored truck guard Ty Hackett Laurence Fishburne: Baines, one of his hotheaded coworkers Skeet Ulrich: level-headed Dobbs Fred Ward: their boss Duncan Ashcroft Andre Jamal ...
  1 week ago

• Dems Blast Higher Hurdles for Civil Rights Claims

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 748
  Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (WDCpix) Last year, an Arizona housing developer known for building affordable homes for Hispanics filed a complaint against the City of Yuma, which denied his application to build homes for low to moderate income families in a predominately white high-income neighborhood. The developer sued ...
  1 week ago

• Federal Death Penalty Prosecutions

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 509
  " No Decrease In Death Penalty Approval Rate ," is the title of Ari Shapiros NPR report.  The title refers to capital prosecutions approved by President George W. Bushs final Attorney General, Michael Mukasey and the current AG, Eric Holder. During the Bush administration, opponents of capital punishmentcriticized ...
  1 week ago

• ‘Iqbal’ Derails Tubercular Attorney’s Privacy Complaint

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 150
  Janet L. Conley provides commentary and analysis of a recent court decision involving a man publicly named as having tuberculosis who alleged privacy violations by the CDC: Andrew H. Speaker, the lawyer who made headlines when he took a trans-Atlantic commercial flight while infected with a rare strain of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Spiritualizeds Jason Pierce Relives 1997 Once Again

  
  Spinner — Authority: 731
  Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , UK History seems to have a habit of repeating itself. With this weekends All Tomorrows Parties set to relive the spirit of 1991 with performances from My Bloody Valentine , Primal Scream and J Mascis amongst others, Spiritualized are set to go back to 1997 as they ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Non-Taxpayers Alliance

  
  Next Left — Authority: 579
  Next Left can exclusively reveal that plans are shaping up for a forthcoming launch of a major new right-wing pressure group. The Non-Taxpayers Alliance is to be headed by Tory ppc and non-dom Zac Goldsmith , with Michael Ashcroft as Treasurer . Its launch slogan is expected to be " Were in this together - but ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ashcroft promotion threatens rift

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Tories warned by former colonys prime minister not to give deputy chairman a government post David Cameron was warned yesterday that Britains relations with a key Central American ally would be damaged if Lord Ashcroft was given a government post. In a stinging attack, Dean Barrow, the Belizean prime minister, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tory surge in the north will panic Labour

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 968
  Lord Ashcroft, the mastermind of the Conservatives key seats strategy, has long argued that the party was doing better in battleground marginals than Westminster realised. Todays YouGov poll provides striking evidence to back his claim.
  2 weeks ago

• A prediction: Governor Siegelman will be far from the last victim of this "Bush III"-style administration

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 609
  "As long as we have the same people in charge looking at the question of prosecutorial misconduct, were going to get the same answers. Thats because theyre trying to cover their asses." -- former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, in an interview with TPM Muckraker (see link below) by Ken This is just awful. ...
  2 weeks ago

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