European Illegals Attempt To Turn Themselves In

Seeded on Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:31 PM EST (Global Features)

Robert Erickson, who has already pranked the Tea-party folks, is up to new tricks. The offspring of European illegals attempt to turn themselves in.

us-news, illegal-immigrants, prank, immigration-and-customs-enforcement, robert-erickson, tea-party-self-deportation

Thanksgiving And The American Holocaust

Seeded on Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:39 PM EST (The Austin American-Statesman)

Robert Jensen Offers His Annual Observation On Thanksgiving And The American Holocaust. This Is The Holocaust In Which We Did Our Darnedest To Exterminate The Indigenous Population Of The United States. Jensen Has Learned To Stop Hating And Be Afraid.

us-news, thanksgiving, native-americans, robert-jensen, american-holocaust, extermination-of-the-indians

Industry Group Possibly Masquerading As Citizen's Health Care Group

Seeded on Sun Nov 22, 2009 6:30 PM EST (Google)

Americans For Quality And Affordable Health Care Is Opposing Some Of The Health Care Reform Proposals. The Group Is Flying Under The Radar And Keeps Its Affiliations Close To The Vest. One Clue May Be In The Law Firm That Appears To Be Behind The Group.

health, americans-for-quality-and-affordable-health-care, health-care-lobbying, moore-and-van-allen

Coloradans Want Xcel Energy To Justify Executive Travel And Entertainment

Seeded on Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:54 PM EST (Minnesota Indpepdent)

St. Paul- based Xcel Energy May Cut Power To 70,000 Colorado Residents This Year. Their Colorado Customers Want The Utility To Justify Luxurious Perks Given To Utility Executives, And Higher Utility Rates.

us-news, rate-increases, arapahope-community-team-lori-swanson, colorado-power-commission, xcel-enegery

America Will Be On Trial In Khalid Sheik Muhammed Trial

Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:45 PM EST (Maui Times)

America Will Hear About How We Treated Detainees During The Trial Khalid Sheik Muhammed. We Could have Avoided This Problem By Not Mistreating Prisoners In The First Place.

world-news, guantanamo-bay, 9-11-khalid-sheik-muhammed, mistreatment-of-detainess

Students Assist Farmworkers With Strike

Seeded on Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:40 PM EST ()

One Of The Sucesses Of Student Activism In The 2000's Was The Fight To Help The Immokelee Indians. The Indians Harvested Tomatoes Whose Primary Customer Was Taco Bell. Taco Bell Was Ensonced At Many College Campuses Through Aramark. Boycotts Brought Taco Bell To The Table

us-news, tomatoes, taco-bell, aramark, campus-activism, immokelee-indians

Portland May Not Be The Best City For Pedestrians After All

Seeded on Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:52 PM EST (Portland Mercury)

Portland Was Recently Designated One Of The Best Cities For Pedestrians. Recent Deaths In That City Shine The Light On The State's Lack Of Vehicular Homicide Laws

us-news, pedestrian-safetty, portalnd, vehiclar-homicide-laws

Pentagon Back To Investigating Pro-War Spin From Bush Administration

Seeded on Fri Nov 6, 2009 12:39 PM EST (Raw Story)

The Office Of The Inspector General Is Opening A New Investigation Into A Defense Department Initiative To Use Retired Military Leaders To Provide Pro-War Spin. A Rescinded Report Providing Is Providing The Impetus.

us-news, pentagon, propoganda, bush-adminsitration, office-of-the-inspector-general, retire-militray-leaders

Palin Will Go To Wisconsin But Doesn't Want The Media To Cover Her

Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 11:11 PM EST (Wisconsin Radio Network)

Sarah Palin Will Be At The Wisconsin State Fair Park, A Public Facility, For A Wisconsin Right To Life Event. The Media Are Forbidden To Cover Her Appearance.

politics, wisconsin, sarah-plain, wisconsin-right-to-life, wisconsin-state-fair-park

Captitol Hill Health Care Protest Compares Bill To Holocaust. Really.

Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 5:30 PM EST (Campus Progress)

The Protest Against Health Care Featured Signs That Compared The Health Care Bill To The Holocaust. It Was Organized By Michelle Bachman, Which Explains A Lot. Crazy Steve King From Iowa Was Also. Oh, "Cliff" From "Cheers" And Jon Voigt Showed Up, To.

health, teabaggers, health-care-bill, steve-king, michelle-bachman, jon-voigt, john-ratzeneberger

USA Today: Democrats Told To Move To The Right After Tuesday Elections

Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 10:13 PM EST (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)

FAIR accuses USA Today of misreading the Tuesday elections. From their analysis, hanging tightly with Obama was not the cause of Democratic losses in New Jersey and Virginia. Creigh Deeds did not wed himself to the Obama platform and Corzine lost because of local issues.

politics, obama, democratic-party, jon-corzine, doug-hoffman, creigh-deeds, special-elections, new-jersy

Right Wing Talk Show Appearances Fail To Influence New York Election

Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 8:55 PM EST (Media Matters for America)

Conservative Party Candidate, Doug Hoffman Was The Darling Of The Right-Wing Talk Show Circuit This Last Week. But, Despite All Their Efforts At Derailing A Moderate Republican, All The Right-Wing Talkers Did Was Insure That A Democrat Got The Seat.

politics, glenn-beck, sean-hannity, conservative-party, lou-dobbs, doug-hoffman, new-york-congressional-race

Montana Claims That Federal Gun Laws May Not Apply To That State

Seeded on Mon Nov 2, 2009 4:10 PM EST (The Huffington Post)

Montana, Tennesee, and possibly Minnesota and some other states are making a claim that may run smack dab into the commerce clause. The claim is that guns and ammunition, manufactured, and possibly only sold in the state do not constitute interstate commerce.

politics, minnesota, tennessee, montana, gun-laws, guns-and-ammunition, interstate-commerce-clause

A North Dakota Blue Dog Makes His Peace With The Public Option

Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 8:27 PM EST (North Decoder)

North Dakota Democrat, Earl Pomeroy learns to love a health plan with a public option, as long as it is not tied to medicare rates. The question is: will North Dakota's other Blue Dogs, Byron Dorgan, and Kent Conrad come on board?

health, health-care-reform, public-option, north-dakota, kent-conrad, earl-pomeroy, medicare-rates

Students Protest Class Cuts At San Diego Area Community College

Seeded on Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:24 PM EDT (Free Exhange Omn Campus)

Students and faculty are protesting cuts in classes, that are being made as a result of California's fiscal crisis. The protesters claim heavy-handed tactics in response to the protestes.

education, california-community-college-system, california-fiscal-crisis, southwestern-college-san-diego

Exceptions To The Rule

Seeded on Mon Sep 7, 2009 8:34 PM EDT (Chavezian Airspace)

Chomsky and Herman's Propaganda Model of US Mass Media works really well. Except when it doesn't. The exceptional left-wing coverage of some issues shows some interesting exceptions that prove the rule.

us-news, noam-chomsky, mass-media, ed-herman, manufacturing-consent, propaganda-model

The Teacher (1974)-A Prurient Delight

Mon Sep 7, 2009 8:26 PM EDT

Oh, the joys of Cinemax, or as we called it back in the day, "Skinemax." Pornography was not neary as accessible at one time as it was today.

Continue reading this entry ...

entertainment, cinemax, the-teacher, 1970s-films, angel-tompkins, jay-north, skinemax

Blue Dog Reveals Health Care Proposal

Seeded on Mon Sep 7, 2009 7:25 PM EDT (Missoula Independent)

Montana Senator Max Baucus is a leading "blue dog." He is also emerging as a major player in health care proposals. Reports out today show a vigorous rejection of a public option.

us-news, health-care, public-option, montana, max-baucus, blue-dogs

North Dakota Governor Backs Away From Rove Induction

Seeded on Mon Sep 7, 2009 6:42 PM EDT (News/local from www.bismarcktribune.com)

North Dakota Republican Governor John Hoeven was to have inducted Karl Rove into the Scandanavian-American Hall Of Fame at this years' Hostfest, an annual Scandanavian celebration. The state's Democratic-Non Partisan League party has criticized the governor for inducting Rove.

us-news, karl-rove, north-dakota, hostfest, john-hoeven, scandanavian-american-hall-of-fame

Chicago May Remain Two Newspaper Town

Seeded on Mon Sep 7, 2009 6:11 PM EDT (Chicago Tribune)

Jim Tyree may be the white knight that the Chicago Sun-Times needs. Media reports that takeover of the Sun-Times corporation by Tyree may resemble restructuring of GM-Chrysler. The media company may emerge from court proceeding in tact.

us-news, chicago, chapter-11, jim-tyree, gm-chrsysler, sun-times-newspapers

Tobacco Companies Sue To Tell The "Truth"

Seeded on Thu Sep 3, 2009 8:45 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

Tobacco Companies Are Suing To Stop A Law That Requires New Warnings. The Companies Claim That The Law Threatens Their Rights To Tell The Truth About Their Products Under The First Amendment

health, warning-labels, tobacco-companies

Mark Fuhrman Doesn't Like VA Health Care, Or Medicare

Seeded on Thu Sep 3, 2009 8:23 PM EDT (Media Matters for America)

Remember Mark Fuhrman From The OJ SImpson Case. Well, Sean Hannity Thinks Fuhrman Is An Expert On Health Care. Read, If You Wish, Furhrman's Opinions On Such. Or Don't , If You...Don't.

us-news, health-care, medicare, sean-hannity, mark-fuhrman, va-care

Minnesotans Report From Tegucicalpa

Seeded on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:09 PM EDT (Global Features)

A delegation from the United States goes to Honduras to report on what's been happening on the ground since the coup against Martin Zelaya. What that person found was resistance to the military coup in Honduras.

world-news, honduras, martin-zelaya, tegucicalpam-nartin-zelaya

Maybe Financial Aid Doesn't Increase College Costs

Seeded on Thu Sep 3, 2009 6:21 PM EDT (campus progress)

Libertarians have been arguing that aid to colleges actually increases the cost of college. Their argument boils down to the idea that colleges increase costs to absorb the available funds. But tuition keeps rising when federal aid does not. Another explanation may be in order.

education, tuition, student-aid, college-costs

Minnesota School District Won't Show Obama Address Live

Seeded on Thu Sep 3, 2009 6:05 PM EDT (Minnesota Independent)

Conservatives seem convinced that the president telling kids to stay in school is subversive. The Fergus Falls school district listens to the conservatives and scotches live presentation of speech.

obama, education, fergus-falls

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European Illegals Attempt To Turn Themselves In
Source: Global Features
Robert Erickson, who has already pranked the Tea-party folks, is up to new tricks. The offspring of European illegals attempt to turn themselves in.
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Thanksgiving And The American Holocaust
Source: The Austin American-Statesman
Robert Jensen Offers His Annual Observation On Thanksgiving And The American Holocaust. This Is The Holocaust In Which We Did Our Darnedest To Exterminate The Indigenous Population Of The United States. Jensen Has Learned To Stop Hating And Be Afraid.
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Industry Group Possibly Masquerading As Citizen's Health Care Group
Source: Google
Americans For Quality And Affordable Health Care Is Opposing Some Of The Health Care Reform Proposals. The Group Is Flying Under The Radar And Keeps Its Affiliations Close To The Vest. One Clue May Be In The Law Firm That Appears To Be Behind The Group.
1
0
Coloradans Want Xcel Energy To Justify Executive Travel And Entertainment
Source: Minnesota Indpepdent
St. Paul- based Xcel Energy May Cut Power To 70,000 Colorado Residents This Year. Their Colorado Customers Want The Utility To Justify Luxurious Perks Given To Utility Executives, And Higher Utility Rates.
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America Will Be On Trial In Khalid Sheik Muhammed Trial
Source: Maui Times
America Will Hear About How We Treated Detainees During The Trial Khalid Sheik Muhammed. We Could have Avoided This Problem By Not Mistreating Prisoners In The First Place.
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