After the failure in Copenhagen, we heard plenty of talk about how people were going to take action and have this back on track soon. By “soon” they apparently meant 2011 or beyond. Obviously it’s not much of a priority for anyone, including the U…
BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) – Chinese state media blasted the United States on Monday for a planned $6.4 billion arms package for Taiwan, while a U.S. official said Washington was committed to helping the island defend itself.
In an interview Sunday, New York Times economist Paul Krugman hammered conservative talk show host Glenn Beck for spreading blatantly false information about the Democrats’ health care bill — and put the blame squarely on Fox News CEO Roger Ailes.”…
Glenn Greenwald writes: To see how radical our establishment consensus in this area has become, just consider two facts. First, look at the Terrorism policies of what had previously been the most right-wing administration in America’s histor…
The White House estimates that the jobs bill could cost 100 billion dollars. Roughly that amount will create about a million jobs. That is eight million less than the goal of full employment by end of 2012. The gap is to be closed by private sector …
Man, cameras are racist too? What is this world coming to? When Joz Wang and her brother bought their mom a Nikon Coolpix S630 digital camera for Mother’s Day last year, they discovered what seemed to be a malfunction. Every time they took a portra…
This evening’s Rescue Rangers are ItsJessMe, claude, jlms qkw, sunspark says, and mem from somerville with vcmvo2 as editor and reader. The diaries up for rescue tonight are: Policy & the President Articulate and reasonable political analysis…
Title: Treat Me Like Your MotherArtist: The Dead WeatherThe Dead Weather simply kill on this track from Horehound, released in the summer of 2009.The Dead Weather is Alison Mosshart (of The Kills and Discount), Jack White (of The White Stripes and T…
The man accused to attempting to blow up a jet liner outside of Detroit on Christmas Day was, at some point, informed of his right to hear the charges against him in a trial setting, as required by the Constitution of the United States.Because of th…
The article makes clear that President Obama decided months ago that 2010 was going to be the year to repeal DADT. Which makes it all the more troubling that the Pentagon is clearly trying to derail the President’s plan by suddenly calling for yet …