The one journalism outfit I thought could be implicitly trusted FAILS epically.
http://feeds.salon.com/~r/salon/greenwald/~3/ZRd6hHBnPZc/index.html
More folks are catching on as time goes by.
Policies that were wrong under George W. Bush are no less wrong because Barack Obama is in the White House. (my emphasis)
One of the most disappointing aspects of the early months of the Obama administration has been its unwillingness to end many of the mind-numbing abuses linked to the so-called war on terror and to establish a legal and moral framework designed to prevent those abuses from ever occurring again.
Regarding health care, the claims by private insurers that nearly 2/3rds of Americans would drop their private plans in favor of a public option is a de facto admission that private insurance is a failure, and the only way to keep most Americans using private insurance is to force that to be our only option.
That's pretty damned disgusting, as it is a glaring example of the insidious nature of private health insurers.
Some reasons why I think Senator Feinstein needs to go away, for good!
Scientology leader David Miscavige is the focus of this special report from the St. Petersburg Times. Former executives of the Church of Scientology, including two of the former top lieutenants to Miscavige, have come forward to describe a culture of intimidation and violence under David Miscavige. These former Scientology leaders served for years with Miscavige.
Tiananmen Square. Kent State. Tehran U. When the people stand en masse against those in power, and risk their lives doing so, they forever change the world.
The pro-democracy protesters in Iran are changing the world right before our eyes. This will go down in history as something more important than Obama's election. Are you watching?
Iranians show the world how to respond to stolen elections. America has so much to learn!
For such an advanced culture, it is astonishing that some Japanese can be so barbaric and disgustingly cruel. The Cove, a new film that has been hailed as part Flipper, part The Bourne Identity, exposes a sickening and cruel - and illegal business of Japanese fisherman slaughtering wild dolphins in a secret cove in Taiji.
In Japan, fishermen round up and slaughter hundreds and even thousands of dolphins and other small whales each year.In the small fishing village of Taiji, entire schools of dolphins are driven into a hidden cove after a prolonged chase. Once trapped inside the cove, the fishermen kill the dolphins, slashing their throats with knives or stabbing them with spears. The water turns red with their blood, and the air fills with their screams.
This brutal massacre — the largest scale dolphin kill in the world — goes on for six months of every year. Even more scandalous, members of the international dolphin display industry take advantage of the dolphin slaughter to obtain some few, show-quality dolphins for use in captive dolphin shows and dolphin swim programs.
Wow. This is pretty huge!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it had contacted the social networking service Twitter to urge it to delay a planned upgrade that would have cut daytime service to Iranians who are disputing their election.
It's getting violent and deadly in Iran, but this revolution looks very real.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/livetweeting-the-revolution.html#more
A student protester in Tehran helps an Iranian riot cop who was beaten by other protesters.
Meanwhile, other riot cops, conservative Islamic militias, and Arab thugs are mercilessly beating and killing protesters all over Iran.
I can haz catnip?
A celebration of altered states (now legalize it!).
Apart from Obama's victory, this is the biggest story in the world right now, but the western media is strangely quiet on this.
Seriously, even some ayatollahs and election monitors are calling Ahmadinejad's win a fraud.
The people of Iran need to know they have our support and compassion
in their resistance against the mullahs and theocracy.
Andrew Sullivan is all over this, and surprisingly so is Hugh Hewitt from Fox.
The bottom line: If the goal is honest competition in the provision of health insurance, the public option cannot do much good but can potentially do much harm.
