"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.

us-news, police-dogs, lawsuits, scent-tests

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.

world-news, iraq, baghdad, war-nerd, gary-brecher

"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.

politics, public-financing, election, campaign-finance-reform

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.

politics, crist

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.

world-news, iran, united-states, middle-east

'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 …

politics, election-2008

US Soldiers Doing China's Dirty Work

Seeded on Wed May 21, 2008 3:33 PM EDT (ABC News)

U.S.

world-news, torture, guantanamo

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.

us-news, creationism, evolution

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.

politics, bob-herbert, election-2008

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.

politics, john-mccain, election-2008

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.

politics, clinton, democratic-primary

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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politics, democratic-primary, hillary-clinton, barack-obama, superdelegates

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.

us-news, prison

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.

us-news, democratic-primary, barack-obama, hillary-clinton

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.

us-news, drinking-age, alcohol

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.

politics, obama, democratic-primary

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.

politics, clinton, obama, grassroots

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.

politics, hillary-clinton, demoratic-primary

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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politics, experience, hillary-clinton, barack-obama

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.

world-news, cuba, fidel-castro

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.

technology, nanotechnology

"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.

politics, clinton, obama, democratic-primary

'Potomac Pummeling'

Seeded on Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:38 PM EST (American Prospect)

"Tonight we won in the state of Maryland. We won in the commonwealth of Virginia. And though we won in Washington, D.C., this movement won't stop in Washington, D.C., and tonight we're on our way," Obama told an estimated crowd of 17,000 cheering supporters in Madison, Wisconsin.

politics, democratic-primary, clinton, obama

1,627 is the New Magic Number in the Democratic Primary

Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:24 AM EST

It's pretty obvious at this point that neither Obama nor Clinton will have 2,025 pledged delegates by the end of the primaries, leaving the super-delegates to decide the nominee.

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politics, democratic-primary, super-delegates, hillary-clinton, barack-obama