The other day I went looking for a quote from a civil rights speech that John Kennedy had given during a critical moment of American history, as the National Guard was called out to escort two black students enrolling at the University of Alabama.  I found the passage I wanted and then went ahead and [...]

JogBird asked: READ THIS: **** Cheney’s deregulation agenda is the real (underlying) reason / cause behind the US oil spill by British Petroleum (BP) in 2010 off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. Deregulation coupled with lax government oversight (lackies appointed by **** Cheney at the helm) lead to the omission of [...]

by Andrew Christie On July 21, as USDA chief Tom Vilsack was profusely apologizing to Shirley Sherrod for her rush to judgment, Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter went on the magazine’s Gaggle blog to bemoan the way “the administration mishandled a manufactured scandal” and got played like a violin by the Fox News folks in the matter [...]

RTAmerica asked: The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a catastrophe and as it continues to unfold wildlife and locals are bearing the worst. However, did you know that there was another spill in Alaska? Apparently, BP has another spill to deal, with but with the epic spill in the Gulf, it seems [...]

Will House Dems Oppose a Jobless War Supplemental?

July 24, 2010

by Robert Naiman The war supplemental for Afghanistan is expected to come back from the Senate to the House next week – without any kind of timetable for military withdrawal from Afghanistan, and without money to save teachers’ jobs attached. AP reports: In a take-it-or-leave-it gesture, the Senate voted Thursday night to reject more than [...]

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