The controversy over Trayvon Martin’s death continues as his father Tracy Martin, described “the police version of events in a meeting Wednesday with Washington Post reporters and editors,” and he told them “he did not believe the official account, which was conveyed to him two days after his 17-year-old son was killed Feb. 26.” From his new Wrecking Ball tour, Bruce Springsteen is performing an updated version of “American Skin (41 Shots)”. “This is for Trayvon,” Springsteen said last night...
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Putting the ‘cad’ in and taking the ‘bra’ off of ‘Abracadabra’
The "feminist" voice denouncing Bill Maher's "misgyny" is one of the most misogynistic groups, arguably, to ever put on their culottes one shaved leg at a time. Seriously, NPR: THIS is who you put up as the "voice of women" against Bill Maher's "misogyny"? (When she's not appearing on Sean Hannity? Seriously?)
Congressman Hustled Off Floor For Hoodie; Trayvon Martin Protest
A congressman was escorted off the House floor after donning a hooded sweatshirt in protest of the killing of Trayvon Martin, an African-American Florida teen. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) was forced off the House floor after giving a speech in which he denounced the sort of racial profiling which appears to have led to 17-year-old Martin being gunned down...
What They Fought and Fight For
To our eyes, the whole grotesque notion of slavery seems impossible, and yet, while we turn our eyes away from the slavery-in-all-but-title exploitation of "illegal immigrants" in sweat shops and farm fields, we struggle to understand how an entire society could have pretended that the horror of slavery didn't actually exist...
Democrats Sees Bad Signs At High Court For Healthcare Reform Law
With at least much of the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc “spoken for,” a pair of Democratic strategists say that they are not as optimistic as perhaps the Obama administration appears to be that the healthcare reform law will survive this week’s legal challenge at the high court. Oral arguments began this week at the high court in a number...
Athena and the Jurists
They're already screaming about how their last shreds of freedom are being stripped from them (which is, frankly, immoderate and frightening language virtually guaranteed to overamp some poor lost soul who treasures his Second Amendment rights.)
On Trayvon Martin… When Will It End
I’m a white woman from a small town in Massachusetts, but I spent 19 years living in Los Angeles. I raised my only child, my white daughter in inner city L.A. schools where she was a minority. Many of her school friends were black, many of my friends in L.A. are black with black sons, and every time I read another piece...
Anger Is Not Enough
we need to focus our anger on gutless state legislators who talk tough and pass stupid and dangerous laws against women, against public safety, against science and education, against regulation and voting rights, against common sense and reason ...
‘Obamacare Is Working’
Its fate may be in the hands of the Supreme Court come Monday, but on Friday Democrats were not shy about defending the landmark 2010 healthcare reform law on the second anniversary of its enactment. While President Obama himself talked about healthcare reform Friday only in the form of a single quote on the White House website, many other...
The Fundamental Madness of Eddie Munster
The notion, implausible and fantastic on its face, is that the "free market" -- which is to say, untrammeled greed -- will benevolently lift all of Mankind on the backs of selfish Supermen -- the Howard Roarkes and John Galts -- who will benevolently move industry and civilization forward because it pleases them to so do.
FRACKING: Corruption a Part of Pennsylvania’s Heritage
by WALTER BRASCH (part 3 of 3) The history of energy exploration, mining, and delivery is best understood in a range from benevolent exploitation to worker and public oppression. A company comes into an area, leases land in rural and agricultural areas for mineral rights, increases employment, usually in a depressed economy, strips the land of its resources,...
With Eyes On Healthcare Reform, Another Patients’ Rights Battle Brews
While public attention might be on this week’s second anniversary of healthcare reform — and next week’s legal challenges against it at the Supreme Court — consumer advocates already have moved onto the next battle for patients’ rights in Congress. Nearly two dozen consumers’ groups wrote a letter Wednesday to GOP House Speaker John Boehner, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi,...
Rick Santorum’s Keynote Speech to the Sith Lords in 2007 … and 2011
Compare and contrast with Santorum's recent "doubling down" when it was revealed that he is stridently anti-pornography (after being anti-gay, anti-contraception, anti-abortion and pro the supremacy of sperm). That "cultural war" hasn't changed, evidently. Not to say that he hasn't flip-flopped on some other issues. For instance, this prefaces his speech, the obligatory self-supplied "biography":
FRACKING: Pennsylvania Gags Physicians
by WALTER BRASCH (Part 1 of 3) A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The procedure is commonly known as fracking. Fracking is the controversial method of forcing water, gases, and chemicals at tremendous pressure of...
‘Dumb Frankenstein’ Premieres, Starring Sarah Palin
Yes, the shocking lack of respect for the dead is, perhaps, a hallmark of Breitbartia, but one would think that the corpse would be allowed to cool before "reanimating" it, in a sort of club-footed attempt to mimic the iconic "Hope" poster of President Obama by Shepard Fairey.
George Clooney Arrested in Protest Outside Sudan Embassy in D.C.
Actor, activist George Clooney was arrested and handcuffed a short time ago, outside of the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C. for protesting Sudan’s blockage of “food and aid from entering the Nuba Mountains area of the country, as well as its treatment of its people.” Clooney’s father, journalist Nick Clooney, 78, was with him and was also arrested, as...
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