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ECRI Plunges 9.8%, Double-Dip Recession Virtually Assured
Seeded on Sat Jul 17, 2010 9:39 AM EDT (This Is The Government: Your Legal Right To Redeem Your Money Market Account Has Been Denied | zero hedge)
The ECRI Leading Economic Index just dropped to a fresh reading of 120.6 (flat from a previously revised 121.5 as the Columbia profs scramble to create at least a neutral inflection point): this is now a -9.8 drop, and based on empirical evidence presented previously by David Ros …
Over Fifty Cars Towed From Glenn Beck Event
Seeded on Tue Mar 30, 2010 11:01 PM EDT (WFTV)
Dozens of people who parked at the University of Central Florida for an event say they were set up after their cars were towed. They said event parking signs directed them to a lot, but more than 50 cars in that lot were towed.
DUI Vigilantes Take Law Into Own Hands
Seeded on Tue Jan 26, 2010 2:00 AM EST (fox6now.com)
The fact that FOX 6 was doing a story on DUI Busters even got some of the posters peeved.
"Scent-lineups" Challenged
Seeded on Wed Jul 1, 2009 9:19 PM EDT (USA Today)
Since 2004, two men in Florida and one in California have been freed after DNA evidence exonerated them. They had been convicted, in part, on the use of scent evidence, according to the Innocence Project, which uses DNA to exonerate the wrongly convicted.
Al Sadr and the Irish Republican Army: Learning from History
Seeded on Sun Jul 6, 2008 6:27 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Gary Brecher, aka the War Nerd, says that Sadr has the exact lessons fighting the Americans that the IRA did when fighting the British in the '70s, and is reorganizing his group accordingly.
"Patriot Dollars" as New Public Financing
Seeded on Thu Jul 3, 2008 10:11 PM EDT (American Prospect)
But Obama's success does show that ordinary Americans want a system that places them at the very center of campaign finance. For more than a decade, we have been working with many other scholars and activists to develop just such a paradigm.
FL Governor Crist to Marry Just in Time for Veepstakes
Seeded on Thu Jul 3, 2008 9:43 PM EDT (St. Petersburg Times > Local News)
Florida's most powerful bachelor is getting hitched. Gov. Charlie Crist, single for nearly three decades, on Thursday morning became engaged to his girlfriend of nine months, Carole Rome.
U.S. Steps Up Covert Ops Against Iran
Seeded on Thu Jul 3, 2008 6:03 PM EDT (New Yorker)
L ate last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources.
'Patching up the parties'
Seeded on Sun May 25, 2008 6:26 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)
Pundits seem to be converging on a new conventional wisdom: that the drawn-out and extraordinarily competitive Democratic presidential primary race between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton has cleaved the party in two.Many voters insist that they will not support any Democ …
One in Eight High School Biology Teachers Still Teach Creationism As Valid Theory
Seeded on Tue May 20, 2008 4:58 PM EDT (Wired News)
However, 25 percent said they devoted classroom time to creationism or intelligent design.
Bob Herbert: Let's Be Serious
Seeded on Tue May 20, 2008 4:12 PM EDT (The New York Times)
The general election is about to unfold and we'll soon see how smart or how foolish Americans really are. The U.S.
McCain's Tax Plan Does Nothing for Poor Families
Seeded on Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:50 PM EDT (Think Progress)
Sen. McCain is proposing $3 trillion in tax cuts that would offer nothing to people living and working in poverty. More than half would go to corporations, and much of the rest to high-income taxpayers in the form of AMT relief.
Clinton Strategist Geoffrey Garin Was Quite the Radical
Seeded on Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:44 PM EDT (Philip Weiss)
You can even read his old editorials from his college newspaper in which he calls for the violent overthrow of the US Government.
Democratic Superdelegates Need to Make Their Preferences Known Right Now
Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:26 PM EDT
With Clinton's 9 point victory in Pennsylvania last night the race grinds on. Obama made up a lot of ground in Pennsylvania, where just weeks ago he trailed by over twenty points.
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U.S. Has Less Than 5% of World's Population, 25% of World's Prisoners
Seeded on Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:31 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Indeed, the United States leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to crime and punishment.
Dem Race Will Continue
Seeded on Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:00 AM EDT (The Nation)
Obama supporters will say that her Pennsylvania win will only net Clinton another 14 to 16 delegates -- meaning that she will have to win upcoming primaries by impossibly wide margins to overtake their man's solid delegate lead. And they'll be right.
States Consider Lowering Drinking Age
Seeded on Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:52 AM EDT (USA Today)
Legislation introduced in Kentucky, Wisconsin and South Carolina would lower the drinking age for military personnel only. A planned ballot initiative in Missouri would apply to everyone 18 and older.
Obama endorsed by Ten Former Generals, Admirals
Seeded on Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:05 PM EDT (The New York Times)
These guys seem to think that Obama has passed the requirements of a Commander-in-Chief.
Hillary and Obama: Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up
Seeded on Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:03 PM EST (The New York Times)
A comparison of the campaigns, but this part really jumped out at me.
The Self-Negating Campaign
Seeded on Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:20 PM EST (The American Prospect)
Some of these mistakes, some of these leaks, some of this infighting, and some of this desperation are the inevitable outcome of a campaign behind the eight ball. Clinton's operation looked a lot more disciplined when she was the prohibitive front-runner.
Experience a Bad Indicator of Presidential Success
Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:30 PM EST
There's been a lot of talk about experience in this election on the Democratic side. It is one of the main arguments Clinton's supporters use in her favor, but arguments between her supporters and Obama's about it never seem to go anywhere.
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Castro Resignation Shows Failure of US Cuba Policy
Seeded on Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:47 PM EST (The Washington Post)
Fidel Castro leaving office on his own terms is not the kind of change that successive American presidents envisioned for Cuba. In fact, it's a sign that U.S. efforts to isolate that country and bring down its socialist government have failed.
Most Americans Find Nanotechnology Morally Unacceptable
Seeded on Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:29 PM EST (EurekAlert!)
In a sample of 1,015 adult Americans, only 29.5 percent of respondents agreed that nanotechnology was morally acceptable.
"Superdelegates Aren't Second Class Citizens"
Seeded on Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:53 PM EST (Politico)
But those from red states, apparently, are. Co-Chair of Clinton's MIchigan Campaign: "Superdelegates are not second-class delegates," says Joel Ferguson, who will be a superdelegate if Michigan is seated.
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