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Gun ’safety’ regulation, VPC style

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:30:06 +0000

Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the rabidly anti-gun Violence Policy Center, claims that guns are unregulated for safety. What he really means, though, is that he believes they have become far too capable to be entrusted to civilian hands.

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Why Don’t Honest Journalists Take On Roger Ailes & Fox News?

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:30:06 +0000

One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, & it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice. It is this: Why haven’t America’s old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network …

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The New McCarthyites

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:30:05 +0000

Today, McCarthy’s heirs are more slick and glib than he ever was, yet their fundamental methods are the same. When Elizabeth Cheney, William Kristol and their media friends slander Justice Department attorneys as the “Al Qaeda 7” and malign the “Department of Jihad,” they are engaging in the smear tactics that became synonymous with McCarthy.

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Tim Weiner Discusses the History of the CIA

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:30:05 +0000

In his balanced, and thus all the more disturbing, history of the CIA, Tim Weiner tells how an agency intended to inform the President about the world became so mired in cloak and dagger politics that the US now lacks the intelligence it needs to operate effectively on the world stage.

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The case for graphic images of war (SFW)

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:30:05 +0000

Some say showing grisly photos and videos of servicemen in distress — or dying — violates an unwritten code. But the fact is, those people are serving in our name.

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Should Rush Limbaugh Leave America?

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:30:05 +0000

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh told listeners this week that hewould “go to Costa Rica” if the Democratic health-care reform plan ispassed and enacted. Liberal bloggers greeted the threat with frenzieddelight — urging Limbaugh to make good on his promise — while theirexasperated conservative counterparts came to Limbaugh’s defense.

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Christians Urged to Boycott Glenn Beck – The Caucus Blog – N

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:30:04 +0000

A liberal evangelical leader responds to the broadcaster’s attack on churches that preach about social or economic justice.

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Group Continues Case To Force Condoms On Porn Industry

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:30:04 +0000

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation announced Thursday that it’s appealing a lawsuit it brought in an effort to force Los Angeles County health officials to require condoms on porn sets in L.A.

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Utah House GOP leader: I went skinny-dipping with teen

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:30:04 +0000

Utah state House GOP leader Garn says he paid woman to keep silent about hot tub incident.

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House votes to open ethics probe of Dem leaders on Massa

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:30:04 +0000

The House overwhelmingly backed a privileged resolution offered by GOP Leader John Boehner (Ohio). The House voted Thursday to open an ethics investigation into what and when House Democratic leaders knew of allegations of sexual harassment against former Rep. Massa

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