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"Don't ask, don't tell?" Don't talk about it, at least, not if you're the U.S. Congress. And as for the "Defense [sic(k)] of Marriage Act"? The Obama Administration isn't just not acting to do anything about it, it's actively enforcing it in spite of court rulings.
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California faces a $21 billion budget shortfall ; Gov. Schwarzenegger promises massive across-the-board budget cuts (a.k.a. service cuts). In San Francisco , Mayor Newsom asks department heads to plan for 30% budget cuts, following on 25% cuts last year. In Los Angeles, University of California ...
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Warren Buffett
I recently finished reading Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion , in which Dawkins presents his arguments not only against the existence of God but affirmatively for an affirmation in atheism, tackling such subjects as "is religion the source of morality?" and "is religion actually a bad thing?" ...
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The headline is quite straightforward: "Obama Demands Results From Afghan Reforms." Demands! And not only that, but "Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Mr. Karzai privately that future civilian aid would depend in part on how his government performed" (and don't be fooled by that ...
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Israel
Afghanistan
Foreign Policy
The New York Times leads with the scare story that the IAEA is worried about Iran: International inspectors who gained access to Iran’s newly revealed underground nuclear enrichment plant voiced strong suspicions in a report on Monday that the country was concealing other atomic facilities. ...
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Iran
Israel
From PressTV , based on an article in MarketWatch , comes this news too interesting to report in anything less than full length: The declining state of the US economy has convinced a growing number of American analysts that the US capitalist financial system is doomed to disintegrate. Citing ...
Congress
From Ha'aretz today: Thousands of people in Buenos Aires protested against President Shimon Peres' visit to Argentina on Monday, some of whom carried a banner telling the octogenarian he deserved a Nobel Prize for murder. Protestors in Brazil last week offered Peres a similar welcome, some of ...
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Shimon Peres
Argentina
Brazil
The headlines and articles scream: "one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history," as the U.S. seizes four mosques and one skyscraper in Manhattan. Why? Because they are "owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian ...
World
Iran
"The American people are not the culprits but rather the victims of a system that is not only unsustainable but worse still: it is incompatible with the life of humanity." - Fidel Castro, in his latest essay, "A Science Fiction Story" In this essay, Fidel Castro discusses Barack Obama and the ...
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Fidel Castro
Barack Obama
Here in the United States, it's frequently said (with complete justification) that Republicans (at least, their more prominent elected and recently resigned officials) are divorced from reality. But they're getting a run from their money from across the sea. Here's a sampling of stories you can ...
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Gaza
United States
Malalai Joya is an Afghan woman who was elected to Afghanistan"s parliament in 2005 and kicked out in 2007 by the warlords. She has survived four assassination attempts. She is currently in the U.S. speaking, and today, the San Jose Mercury News printed an op-ed she wrote. Some excerpts: As an ...
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Afghanistan
Barack Obama
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9/11
We're told by everyone from President Obama on down that, in order to prepare for the "challenges of the future," education is the key. And here's what government is actually doing about that: San Jose State University is once again shrinking the size of its freshman class...with less state ...
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And by a 2:1 margin, more people in a worldwide survey (courtesy of BBC ) say capitalism is "fatally flawed" vs. those who say it is "working well." A bare majority does think that capitalism can be fixed with more reform and regulation. Needless to say, the U.S., home of the religion of ...
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Michael Moore
I've only recently discovered the work of Khalil Bendib , almost certainly the best editorial cartoonist you've never heard of (unless you've heard of him). He's got a brand-new book out, Mission Accomplished , which you can purchase from Amazon if you can't find it elsewhere. The back cover of ...
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Bud Day
One of the frequently-heard right-wing criticisms of the Democrats' health insurance "reform" proposals is that "it's a 2000-page bill!" And, per se , that criticism is exactly on point. Of course the right-wing points to that on the grounds that somewhere, secretly hidden in the bill, is the ...
World
The press reports that lobbying by Roman Catholic bishops is widely credited with having pushed through an amendment to the health care bill in the House, making sure there is no possibility that taxpayers money will be used to pay for abortions. Meanwhile, the Roman Catholic church continues to ...
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Yesterday, U.S. military bases across the world observed moments of silence for those killed yesterday at Fort Hood. Today, flags there and at government buildings are at half staff. All perfectly appropriate, I'm sure. But there are American soldiers killed virtually every day in Iraq and ...
World
Iraq
Afghanistan
Everyone saw, I'm sure, that the official U.S. unemployment rate today went over 10%, with the increasingly-acknowledged "real" unemployment rate, which includes the underemployed and those who have given up looking for work, at 17.5% (and even that, as I recall, doesn't include many others, ...
