Untested Rape Kits: New Senate Bill Asks Why
Women undergo a lengthy and intrusive exam to gather physical evidence, which evidence is supposedly going to be used to bring rapists to justice. However, a New York Times editorial points out that...
View ArticleUpdated: Obama, please don't let Boehner claim this issue
This morning, I saw what I have been dreading for months. Newsweek just published "How Obama Got Rolled by Wall Street" and right in the middle of the article is this sentence: It was little surprise...
View ArticleNo, everyone is NOT talking about privatization
What is this sentence doing in Obama's speech? And if everybody is still talking about privatizing Social Security, they need to be clear: It will not happen on my watch. No Democrats are talking about...
View ArticleWhat Happened to Obama?
This will be a very short diary, because the article on which it is based should be read in its entirely. I can't possibly do it justice. To whet your appetite, here are a couple of excerpts:when...
View Article#OccupyWallStreet makes Time magazine
Attention from the press has been sadly lacking, but now, thanks to fine work by many (especially Kossack Charlie Grapski), #OccupyWallStreet is beginning to get the some of the coverage it deserves....
View ArticleSanders 1st senator to support #OccupyWallSt
According to RawStory, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann this evening:“What I appreciate about what is going on in New York right now is there is a spotlight...
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New York Times changes its story on blame for Brooklyn Bridge arrests -- updated
FreakOutNation has posted a couple of screen shots to show that the New York Times has changed its story about the Brooklyn Bridge arrests in a subtle but important way to shift the blame to...
View Articleupdated: prison companies profiting from the crackdown on immigration -- an...
On September 28, as part of its series on immigration detention, the New York Times addressed the scandal of seemingly uncontrollable immigrant abuse by the multinational prison industry in an article...
View ArticleDid a man "affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street protests" tackle a police...
I was struck by a picture in the Seattle PI article "Thousands of protesters fill NYC's Times Square," that had the following text beneath it:A man affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street protests...
View ArticleUpdated for ALEC: Should Obama step aside for Clinton? Survey says... no, and...
Obama is by no means a shoe-in for the 2012 election, and his ability to govern has been compromised by growing hostility toward him. Perhaps it is time for him to do what Truman and Johnson did, step...
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