Stand with arrested journalists So far more than 50 journalists, including eight last week, have been arrested in the U.S. while covering the Occupy Wall Street movement. Last Wednesday a documentary filmmaker was arrested for trying to film a congressional hearing; another had his footage erased by police. Unfortunately, the situation is grim on many…
US Business and Government Colluding to Fill American Jobs with Foreign Workers?
Army officer challenges Pentagon’s Afghanistan reports “How many more men must die in support of a mission that is not succeeding?“
Source unknown Ayn Rand (conservative hero): “I am against God. I don’t approve of religion. It is a sign of a psychological weakness …. I regard it as evil.” Jesus Christ: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom…
They have no qualms about doing nasty things such as polluting air and water and not paying their fair share in taxes. They’re called corporations, conservatives, and Koch brothers. And if, as right-to-lifers claim, embryos are people, then embryos too lack feelings and conscience since they have undeveloped nervous systems and are the size of…
See this concise exposé of private-equity funds in the New Yorker: Private Inequity. As a result, private-equity firms are increasingly able to profit even if the companies they run go under—an outcome made much likelier by all the extra borrowing—and many companies have been getting picked clean. … The real reason that we should be…
The January 30th New Yorker has an article by Ryan Lizza on the “Obama Memos.” It tells that depressing story of how President Obama really believed that he could unite the country and rise above partisanship. Again and again he chose to move to the right, in a futile effort to appease conservatives and try…
Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice