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Balkinization - (USA)
http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/07/is-heller-original-meaning-decision.html
Chomsky on The Election, Economy, War, and Peace - (USA)
By Noam Chomsky. Republished from Znet 11/25/08 Noam Chomsky: Tireless critic of Western imperialism. Routinely blackballed by the corporate media he remains far less well known and influential at home than abroad. The Election The word that immediately rolled off of every tongue after the presidential election was "historic." And rightly so. A Black family in the White House is truly a momentous event. There were some surprises. One was that the election was not over after the Democrati
http://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2008/11/30/chomsky_on_the_1.php
No Logo Lite - (USA)
By Max Dunbar. I have seen all these things being used, and I have seen the things they replaced. I will not listen with any patience to any acid listing of them - you know the sneer you can get into with plumbing, baby Austins, aspirin, contraceptives, canned food. But I say to these Pharisees: dirty water, an earth bucket, a four-mile walk each way to work, headaches, broken women, hunger and monotony of diet. The working people, in town and country alike, will not listen (and I support
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/no-logo-lite/
Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of August 9, 2009 - (USA)
Free speech in Obama’s America - jasonhayes.org 08/09/2009 Another video of the SEIU attacks on citizens and voters who oppose Obamacare. Especially telling is the final few seconds of this video that explain how Sec of HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, phoned the same group of SEIU thugs after their violent assaults on these people and told them that they were doing a good job and [...] Video: Sen. Vitter (R-LA): “The angry mob is always welcome at MY Town Halls” - mofopolitics.com 08
http://coachep.com/wordpress/?p=1495
Persecution Politics: Death Panels - (USA)
Credit where credit's due: Sarah Palin knows how to capture headlines. She also knows how to speak the language of America's most persecuted demographic: white Christian conservatives. Many in her audience believe in a secret plot by liberals to enact a radical secular agenda, and they view all progressive policies through the lens of this alleged conspiracy. Sarah Palin on the health care plan : The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will
http://dagblog.com/politics/persecution-politics-death-panels-842
Brainsturbator - (USA)
http://www.brainsturbator.com/
Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog - (USA)
Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, authors of Freakonomics, keep the conversation going from their best-selling book that explores the hidden side of everything.
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/
The New Left - (USA)
Today if you were to take an honest look at the ideas and philosophies of progressives your study of their narrative could lead back as far as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his involvement in sparking the French Revolution. As some consider Edmund Burke the Father of modern day Anglo-American conservatism, Rousseau can be thought of in the same respect to modern day liberals and progressives.Still this does not answer the more pertinent question of “When the modern day liberal/progressive ideology,
http://westernexperience.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/the-new-left/
Sustainable and Sound Infrastructure Now. : TreeHugger - (USA)
As Congress approves 55 billion dollars in corn subsidies and pays 12 billion dollars a month for the Iraq war, the infrastructure in America continues to crumble: Bridges in Minneapolis, steam pipes in Manhattan, highway collapses in Montreal and
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/08/sustainable_and_4.php
Sarah Palin Telling Bald-faced Lies About Healthcare Reform - (USA)
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has adopted a brazen approach to countering Pres. Barack Obama’s proposed healthcare reforms: outright fabrication and unscrupulous lying . She has begun to make the 100% false allegation that Pres. Obama’s reforms would create a “death panel” tasked with promoting euthanasia, and she is now calling reform “downright evil”. It is perhaps the single most irresponsible and reprehensible lie told in the American political sphere in recent years. Palin even chos
http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2009/08/09/3939/sarah-palin-telling-bald-faced-lies-about-healthcare-reform/
Rachel Corrie in Palestine…and in San Francisco - (USA)
By Joel Beinin August 2009 The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the oldest such festival in the United States, was founded in rebellion against received wisdom. Since 1980, the festival has promoted independent Jewish films that contest the conventional Hollywood depiction of Jewish life, particularly its lachrymose over-concentration on Jewish victimhood, and regularly presented “al
http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/08/rachel-corrie-in-palestineand-in-san.html
Matthew Yglesias (July 02, 2008) - Torture Works: For Its Intended Purpose - (USA)
http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/torture_works_for_its_intended.php
Dignity and Peace in the Middle East - (USA)
By John Hope Bryant Special to the World Economic Forum Leaders in the 21st century have to make a decision; light a candle, or curse the darkness. I choose to light a candle, and I also believe that there is a genuine hope for a family reunion of sorts, between the Middle East and the West. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lit a candle, and used his intellect and charismatic leadership to spread love and bring people together, sparking the civil rights movement and the second American revoluti
http://www.johnhopebryant.com/john_hope_bryant_/2008/11/dignity-and-peace-in-the-middle-east.html
In China, the game has changed - Los Angeles Times - (USA)
Squinting through a haze of drizzle and dust, his normally starched white shirt wrinkled and muddied, he climbed unsteadily up a pile of broken concrete and twisted steel where a building once stood. Looking tired but determined, he shouted words of encouragement through a megaphone to rescue teams working below, and then climbed down to sit with grieving mothers, holding their hands and commiserating with them.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-cha15-2008jun15,0,266911.story
Scots cartoonist draws his own conclusions on US politics - (USA)
AN America-based Scots boffin is taking on some of the world’s best cartoonists in a bid to claim back his title of “ Science Idol .” History professor James MacLeod , 43, is hoping his tongue-in-cheek approach to climate change will land him the coveted prize of science’s most socially conscious, and not to mention wittiest, doodler. The Greenock-born dad of two now lives in Indiana where he teaches at the University of Evansville . He admits he’s always been a satirical scribbler ever
http://deadlinescotland.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/8223-1561/
YAR’ADUA PLAYING POLITICS WITH NIGERIA - (USA)
Yar’Adua playing politics with Nigeria By OLUSOLA BALOGUN Nwosu National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Ralphs Okey Nwosu, believes a lot of things are wrong in Nigeria and, according to him, he is particularly worried that President Umaru Yar’Adua is playing politics with nation building. Speaking on a wide range of issues in this interview, he expresses concern that the federal government
http://www.nigerianbestforum.com/blog/?p=20370
Publicity junkie calls for privacy law - (USA)
Lembit Öpik really is the gift that keeps giving, isn’t he? It’s only a matter of days ago that the swinging Lib Dem MP was making the news for canoodling with a lingerie model half his age. Indeed, they were even posing for photos together. Yet now, the bold Lembit has ventured once more into the public domain, and this time he’s angry . What has provoked Lembit’s ire is Some Guy With A Website, who has decided to have some fun during Westminster’s summer recess by asking the general publi
http://splinteredsunrise.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/publicity-junkie-calls-for-privacy-law/
Walt Handelsman: N.S.A. Wiretapping -- Newsday.com - (USA)
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-wh-nsawiretapping,0,1906650.flash
Gay Marriage Is Good for America - WSJ.com - (USA)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121400362307993399.html?mod=rss_opinion_main
Political segregation | The Big Sort | Economist.com - (USA)
Americans are increasingly choosing to live among like-minded neighbours. This makes the culture war more bitter and politics harder
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11581447
links for 2008-11-30 - (USA)
the strangest alchemy - thinkful thinks…. "I don't know how to say what's wrong with that other than it hurts my soul to hear it." (tags: sexuality kink identity) violet blue ® :: open source sex | rate your sociosexuality "I just love that people are always like OMGWHY about casual sex — like we need more of a reason than the fact that it just feels good." (tags: sex sexuality annoying) blogs and therapy « Devastating Yet Inconsequential "Why have this blog at all? Honestly, writing out m
http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2008/11/30/links-for-2008-11-30/
China's Me Generation - TIME - (USA)
The new middle class is young, rich and happy. Just don't mention politics
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1647228-1,00.html
$7 Million Book Deal - (USA)
$7 Million Book Deal November 30th, 2008 by Sharon Liz Smith was having a hard time writing about Sarah Palin’s possible $7 million book deal. I really don’t want to write the fol lowing item, but it’s happening, so who am I to quibble? The hottest thing going in the fairly supine and dormant book publishing world is the ongoing question of the memoir, autobiography, or what have you yet to come from Alaska’s governor, Sarah Palin. The governor is said to now be seeking a hot, hot, hot ag
http://commonsensepoliticalthought.com/?p=3720
The Associated Press: Everything seemingly is spinning out of control - (USA)
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gFmTVpBYsENBOX-9wQvYZGzhk-xQD91F0KMO0
NYPD bows to Muslims for Ramadan - (USA)
Do you ever get the sense that the attacks by Muslim terrorists on 9/11 were just the beginning? Special training, special meetings, special protections? But isn’t Islam the religion of “peace”? From NY1 : In an annual pre-Ramadan meeting, city police officers, religious leaders and community members gathered Monday to discuss steps to ensure a safe holiday. The NYPD says more foot patrols, special patrol cars, increased presence at mosques and greater communication with the Muslim communi
http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/nypd-bows-to-muslims-for-ramadan/
Special Olympics Founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver Dies at 88 - (USA)
Not unexpected, but sad news out of Hyannis this morning .
Eunice Kennedy Shriver , who planted the seeds for the Special Olympics when she launched Camp Shriver on the lawn of her Maryland home, and then with force of will and the clout of her family name spread her vision of lifting the developmentally disabled "into the sunlight of useful living," died this morning.
Mrs. Shriver was 88. She had suffered a series of strokes in recent years and died at 2 a.m. at Cape Cod Hosp
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/12449/special-olympics-founder-eunice-kennedy-shriver-dies-at-88
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