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Mar 20 · Only a handful of TV personalities have garnered the kind of attention that Glenn Beck now commands. He is at once vilified and canonized, dismissed out-of-hand and praised as the real deal, debunked or deified, one’s view of him dependent on one’s ability to think for themselves – or, in the alternative, to have him do the thinking for them.
Beck is many things to many people. But if there’s one thing he’s not, it’s stupid. In fact, he is one of the more intelligent hucksters to come alon
Mar 20 ·
A provocative expose on the state of our oceans and the last of the dying great fish...
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Top ocean predators, like bluefin tuna, play a critical role in structuring the overall balance of relationships throughout the food web below them.3 Much like wolves in the Rocky Mountains4, the ocean's top predators are believed to exert a governing and stabilizing effect on the ecosystems they inhabit. Looking at it from a purely human-centric point of view, robust populations of these predato
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We will have to resist the temptation to fold in on ourselves and to ignore the cruelty outside our door.
March 18, 2010 |
Chris Hedges
We stand on the cusp of one of the bleakest periods in human history when the bright lights of a civilization blink out and we will descend for decades, if not centuries, into barbarity. The elites have successfully convinced us that we no longer have the capacity to understand the revealed truths presented before us or to fight back agai
Mar 19 · Yet the same progress will be expected from the public school sector in spite of the 820 million in cuts.
He is not cutting funds for charters, he says they already pay enough. I would love to know what he means by that because charter schools are publicly funded and privately run. His words to the charter school group are appalling in their contempt for public schools and unions.
Noah K. Murray/The Star LedgerNew Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at annual Charter School Associa
Mar 19 · On Tuesday night I received the type of phone call that nobody wants to receive, it was about Liam.
The photo below shows me with Liam on the very first day of his life. He was born a few weeks early so they had to have him hooked up to a couple machines to monitor him for precautionary reasons, but he was very healthy and it looked like he was going to grow up and develop just like any other baby. Liam's mother wanted me to play an important role in Liam's life, I was not related by blood
Mar 19 · If nothing else comes of it, you've got to admit that the health reform movement has given a lot of people a very detailed education about the sausage-making process in Washington. Remember when the word "reconciliation" was universally understood to mean "getting back together" instead of "open partisan warfare," for instance? The tortuous process health reform has wound in its progress from where we were a year ago to where we stand today at least provided many "teachable moments" on how thi
Mar 19 ·
Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to seat Rhode Island Superior Court Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit... She said she hadn’t fully absorbed the historic nature of her new role as the appeals court’s first African-American and second female judge. “I’m in a state of shock right now.”
Thompson’s computer froze as she watched the Senate sess
Mar 19 · This is from an article by Howie Kurtz. He wrote this piece as part of his regular Media Notes column. The St. Pete Times said "We publish it here without additional comment, confident that readers can draw their own conclusions."
The article from the St. Pete Times about the church investigating them.
After decades of digging into the Church of Scientology, reporters and editors at the St. Petersburg Times are accustomed to being denounced by its leaders. But they find it unsettling
Mar 19 · via AlterNet:
Hightower Lowdown / By Jim Hightower
Hightower: Two Right-Wing Billionaire Brothers Are Remaking America for Their Own Benefit
How billionaires' money took over Washington -- and created the mobs who rant against reform.
March 19, 2010 |
Despite a constant racket from the forces of the far-out right (Fox television's yackety-yackers, just-say-no GOP know-nothings, tea-bag howlers, Sarah Palinistas, et al.), the great majority of Americans support a bold progr
Mar 18 · WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs during his press briefing that the rule prohibiting insurance companies from excluding adults for preexisting conditions will not take effect for another four years.
This is the first time I have heard this publicly stated by an official of the administration.
Today. Three days before the purported vote.
Now, the question is, will our media report this to the American people before this debacle of a vote?
Somehow, I don't think most peopl
Mar 18 · For health care reform....
"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."
Eleanor Roosevelt
My wife had a conversation on blog tonight that I will share here - it was the rationalization and minimizing of the Nelson language in the bill, by those who claim to support women's right. It started with this post. The first sentence is maddening. Yes. It is status quo that politicians and anti-choice
Mar 18 · When he called a summit in 1989, he left out educators. Left out the ones who know the most about how to truly educate and promote learning. They silenced a report that proved their condemnations of public schools were not true.
From Edutopia 2007:
In 1989, Bush convened his education summit at the University of Virginia. Astonishingly, no teachers, professional educators, cognitive scientists, or learning experts were invited. The group that met to shape the future of American educ
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