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• Could Army Have Offered Hassan Way Out Short of Deployment?

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 565
  In my first reporting on the Ft. Hood shooting I noted how counter-productive the Army’s regulations seemed in this particular case in which you had an officer desperate to leave the service but who couldn’t because of the service’s financial commitment to him. NPR’s Liz Halloran has taken up a similar angle ...
  15 hours ago

• Ex-Rep. William Jefferson Given 13-Year Sentence

  
  JONATHAN TURLEY — Authority: 628
  The former Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson received a sentence of 13 years today — the longest term ever imposed on a congressman convicted of bribery. However, it was significantly below the 27 years sought by the Justice Department, which also failed in its attempt to have Jefferson immediately incarcerated. ...
  1 day ago

• Don’t Push Your Luck, Stupak

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 733
  Steve Benen : Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) was able to get his odious amendment through the House, but it’s unlikely to do as well in the Senate, especially after President Obama signaled his desire to see it changed. It led the Michigan Democrat to  start making threats today. “We won because [the ...
  2 days ago

• By-election candidate John Smeaton taking part in Movember

  
  Net News Daily — Authority: 562
  Glasgow North East by-election candidate John Smeaton is taking part in Movember, an annual event in which men grow their moustaches during November. Smeaton, who wrestled a terrorist to the ground at Glasgow airport in 2007, is taking part in the month-long celebration before shaving off his tache at the beginning ...
  2 days ago

• Can We Please Just Tax the Churches Already?

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 733
  One of the few fundamental rights in America which should never have really generated any controversy is the freedom of religion. On the surface, it seems pretty simple. In layman’s terms, this is a country where you can follow any religion or none at all, as you see fit, and the government shall make no law, etc. ...
  2 days ago

• Transparency and the web a rolling debate

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 468
  Lawrence Lessig raises what will be a increasingly intense debate, and the perils of openness in government If health care reform ever emerges from Congress, it is certain to spread nationally a project to require doctors to reveal to an Internet-linked database any financial interests they may have in any drug ...
  2 days ago

• Kathy Kelly video — a “must watch” (yep, even I support some Church sponsorships!)

  
  Vridar — Authority: 416
  From Information Clearing House: Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare, and co-founded [...]
  2 days ago

• Meghan McCain’s Latest: Too Stupid Not to Comment Upon

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 481
  -By Warner Todd Huston Just hearing her name causes me pain and normally I wouldn’t waste a minute’s time worrying about what this vacuous little child has to say on much of anything — as is evidence by the fact that this is the first time my keyboard has shuddered out her name. However, Meghan McCain’s ...
  2 days ago

• Where were you? What were you doing?

  
  W H I R L W I N D — Authority: 124
  When big things happen we tend to remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when we first heard the news. This is the case with everyone who was old enough to understand what was going on when the Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was murdered in 1986. I was just a small kid in 1986 so I don’t remember ...
  2 days ago

• Hassan’s Supervisors Worried He Was Psychotic Before Rampage

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 565
  Throughout the aftermath of the Ft. Hood shooting, I’ve argued that we shouldn’t rush to judgment blaming Islam for Nidal Hassan’s aberrant behavior.  If anyone was at fault it was Hassan himself and the tremendous stress under which he was placed as an army psychiatrist about to be deployed to the Afghan war ...
  2 days ago

• Why Should Public Dollars Pay for the Vanity of Old Men?

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 733
  Digby is fed up with paying for Viagra: I have a moral objection to paying for any kind of erectile dysfunction medicine in the new health reform bill and I think men who want to use it should just pay for it out of pocket. After all, I won’t ever need such a pill. And anyway, it’s no biggie. Just because ...
  2 days ago

• Lou Dobbs Leaves CNN to Become Emperor

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 565
  Lou Dobbs leaving CNN for Mt. Olympus? Is it just me, or did Lou Dobbs signoff statement for his last CNN show sound a bit megalomaniacal? Over the past six months it’s become increasingly clear that strong winds of change have begun buffeting this country and affecting all of us, and some leaders in media, ...
  2 days ago

• How the CBCP turned our Congressmen into Cowards

  
  Filipino Voices — Authority: 471
  House of God or House of Government? “The separation of Church and State shall be inviolable.” - Article 2, section 6 of the Philippine Constitution “There must be no separation between God and Man. Without these conditions, the (RH) Bill if enacted into law will separate our nation from Almighty God.” - ...
  3 days ago

• Friedman Advises Obama to Wash His Hands of Israel-Palestine

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 565
  Bulldozing a president (cartoon: The Economist) Tom Friedman has written one of the oddest, most dispirited columns of his career advocating that the Obama administration turn its back on Israel and Palestine as ungrateful obstructionists to the U.S. sponsored peace process.  Personally, I think Friedman’s ...
  3 days ago

• Why the Green Silence on Brighton & Hove’s Bin Strike?

  
  Dan Wilson — Authority: 110
  I love the Brighton Green Party. I constantly delight at their loquacity. Barely a day goes by in the blogosphere without a fascinating new viewpoint or opinion popping up for our delectation. Here’s a summary of the most recent posts I’ve read and enjoyed: - Green Leader Cllr Bill Randall ruminates about the ...
  3 days ago

• Musings on the Emma Thompson / Exeter University ‘racism’ story

  
  People's Republic of South Devon The Peoples Republic of South Devon — Authority: 140
  We’ve been musing on the Emma Thompson / Exeter University ‘racism’ story this afternoon – hence the headline above. Would you like to read some of our thoughts? Of course you would. First up, Thompson was at an event she organised to discuss racism. Of course she was going to comment on Exeter University ...
  4 days ago

• Aint Enough

  
  Gil The Jenius — Authority: 420
  So. The " big " protest of October 15th led to massive action erupting from thousands of dissatisfied people that has the Fools trembling in their diapers, has rocked the dark underbelly of Our Society and has flung open the long-closed Door to a Better Future. Uh-huh. In your dreams. What was the general ...
  4 days ago

• So THAT’S why the U.S. was happy to see Kazai win in Afghanistan?

  
  Vridar — Authority: 416
  According to a report in AKI (Adnkronos International) Kazai’s erstwhile election rival Abdullah was obliged to withdraw from the race when the U.S. swung its full support behind Karzai. That sounds odd given the media publicity at the time over outrageously fraudulent pro-Karzai election officials (some polling ...
  4 days ago

• What do black people know of racism? Emma Thompson’s dig at white Exeter condemned

  
  People's Republic of South Devon The Peoples Republic of South Devon — Authority: 140
  Exeter MP and Culture Secretary has branded Emma Thompson’s comments ‘untrue and insulting’. Emma (’star of some films’, according to the Western Morning News ) said the whiteness of the city would make the BNP’s Nick Griffin feel at home and she recounted times her black son had suffered racism while he ...
  4 days ago

• U.S. Non-Profit, Central Fund of Israel Supports Settler Reign of Terror

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 565
  Some time ago, Phil Weiss noted that one of the more successful settler fundraising vehicles was the Central Fund of Israel, which raised $12-million in 2007 on behalf of some of the most extreme of West Bank settlements.  The Fund breaks out its support in various categories, one of which I found extremely ...
  4 days ago

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