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Obama Deserves the Prize
Given the ever-increasing milquetoast flavor of each successive presidential campaign, I had pretty much decided that in my lifetime I would never see a ...
It’s Simple. Stop Lying to your Kids!
Objectivity scares the hell out of people, because facts always trump wishes. I knew that when I started writing for Black Sun Journal 7 ...
Wikileaks 88.80.13.160
UPDATE 03.04.08: The judge has now dropped his order, allowing Wikileaks to be reached by its original URL. Following the internet furor over the case, Julius ...
Why am I Forced to Vote in Church?
As an atheist, I only go to church when I'm forced to. And as a civic-minded citizen of West Hills, CA, that's about twice a year--on ...
Blackwater: Be Very Afraid
On the Bill Maher show this past weekend (which is absolute must-see TV), Jeremy Scahill appeared via satellite to talk about his book Blackwater: The ...
Editorial Slams Public Schools As ‘State Church’
Dayton, Ohio; and Columbia, S.C. - Americans would revolt if the government forced them to join a state-established church. They guard too fiercely their liberty of conscience, guaranteed by the ...
White House Eviscerates CDC Climate Testimony
WASHINGTON - The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, ...
Marines Enforce Off-Duty Dress Code
Marines Enforce Off-Duty Dress Code
It's not quite Iran, but the military fashion police are out in force in America, proving that the Middle West is often more like the ...
Kansas Rejects Coal Plant: Takes Lead on Warming
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment yesterday became the first government agency in the United States to cite carbon dioxide emissions as the reason for rejecting an air permit ...
Not Moral Enough to Kill or Die for Their Country
The Army, Navy and Air Force unwittingly advertised for recruits on a website for gays, who are barred from military service if they are open about their sexual orientation. ...
Nobel Warms to Gore’s Global Campaign
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness ...
High Court Smacks Down 3 Religious Challenges
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court opened its new term Monday refusing to get involved in two church-state disputes — one over religious organizations paying for workers' birth-control health insurance benefits, ...
Climate Skeptics: Reality Has Just Caught Up With You
Arctic ice loss is "stunning" — total loss possible by 2030, scientists warn
The maiden over at Hells Handmaiden has been running a series recently ...
Let the Truth be Exposed
A new site has emerged for exposing corruption worldwide, both institutional and governmental. Based on a wiki style posting mechanism, its goal is to assist ...
Sanity Returns to Texas
Sanity Returns to Texas
Common sense and justice may have had something to do with it, but it was the parole board's recommendation that did the trick. Texas Governor Rick ...
Vick’s Cynical ‘Jesus’ Ploy Insults All Intelligence
From TMZ.com
Between apologies to everyone from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank -- to all the kids who used to look up to him, Vick ...
Book Review: The Al Qaeda Reader
The Al Qaeda Reader: Martyrdom or Mortardom?
by: Gary H. Johnson, Jr.
Recently, Raymond Ibrahim edited and translated a series of press releases by Al Qaeda's leadership ...
Death Penalty for Bystander in Murder
Death Penalty for Bystander in Murder
(Washington, D.C.) -- Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) today condemned the scheduled August 30 execution of Kenneth Foster, who was convicted of a ...
Furor Over Religious Mudslinging
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A political ad from the Louisiana governor's race is drawing a storm of criticism for accusing Republican Rep. Bobby Jindal of calling Protestants "scandalous, depraved, ...
The Al-Qaeda Reader
I happened upon an amazing interview this morning with Raymond Ibrahim on KPCC / AirTalk with Larry Mantle. Ibrahim has translated and released a number ...
The Shadow of Infrastructure
Hindsight is 20-20. After the dust clears--but often before the bodies are buried--the failure analysis teams swoop in and figure out what happened. We determine who ...
Save Us From Our Cyber Selves
Via Slashdot, this item about Linden Labs shutting down all gambling activity within online community Second Life. The long arm of American law now reaches around the ...
Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe’s Hell on Earth
Zimbabwe has scrapped a scheme allowing fuel purchases with foreign currency, removing one of the few remaining ways for people to acquire petrol in a country struggling with a crumbling ...
If you want to be Surgeon General, be homophobic, uninformed and evasive
The last Bush Surgeon General was muzzled, and the new candidate is woefully uninformed (or more likely just dodgy). To add insult to injury, here is his 1991 paper condemning ...
Surgeon General Was Muzzled by Bush Administration
WASHINGTON, July 10 — Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona told a Congressional panel Tuesday that top Bush administration officials repeatedly tried to weaken or suppress important public health reports ...