Archives for General News
April 2012
Monday, April 30:
Mitt Romney, evangelicals seek marriage of convenience
Single Payer Health (9 comments)
What to expect on May Day - Occupy Wall Street
Is Netanyahu misleading Israelis over Iran?
Occupy May Day protest chance to regain autumn momentum
Federal judge stops Texas from banning Planned Parenthood from receiving state funds
Chances of Iran Strike Receding, U.S. Officials Say
Obama criticized in reversal on child farm labor regulations
Robots R'US: Drones Reported On 63 Bases In The USA (1 comments)
Tom Engelhardt: A Global-Profiling President
Legal Headaches Can Emerge From Exposure to Psychological Wreckage
Repeal of Emergency Manager Law Kept off Michigan Ballot because of Wrong Font Size
\Florida Judge Rules Gov. Scott's Random Drug Testing of State Employees Unconstitutional
FCC-Required Political Ad Data Disclosures Won't Be Searchable - ProPublica
Sunday, April 29:
Israeli intel ex-chief: Netanyahu's policy on Iran misleading, messianic
Video: Jeremy Scahill on America's Covert Wars
Senate Democrats plan another trap for Mitt Romney with female voters
Afghan Taliban deny fresh US talks
How Big Pharma Gets You To Stay on a Drug For Life
DEATH OF OSAMA? Judge Denies Request For Release Of Bin Laden Death Pictures
US slowdown intensifies global economic crisis
Promises, Promises: Romney's Pledges Raise Questions
Lynn Buske: Consumers Dump Kellogg's "Natural" Kashi After GMO Report (3 comments)
Ex-Israeli spy boss attacks Netanyahu and Barak over Iran
Man With NO Shame: Romney Takes Credit For Auto Bailout
Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Cases Take Toll on Children
New Scandal for Murdochs - Call for inquiry into Salmond adviser and News Corp
Sen. Franken praises Labor Department for withdrawing new child labor rules
Robert Gibbs: Romney's slogan is Obama "didn't clean up our mess fast enough"
Sheila Dean: "OBAMA: Stop Attacking Elderly U.S. Citizen Latinos in Texas" by Linda Vega
South Carolina ALEC Member Literally Exempted ALEC From State Lobbying And Ethics Laws
Who is Autistic? (2 comments)
Finally....Factual Details Leading Up To Trayvon Martin Shooting (9 comments)
*Commuting for American priests & Ethiopian Security (1 comments)
Whatever Happened To ALEC's PR Campaign? (1 comments)
Teens Drinking Hand Sanitizer To Get Intoxicated (1 comments)
A Cure-all for the Financial Ills of our time? (27 comments)
What the Hell are White People Angry About? Pt. I
Secret religious right Facebook group plotting cyber attack on gay community
*MSNBC: Evidence of Multiple Shooters, Night Raid in Sgt. Bales Case
What Everyone Who Uses The Internet Needs To Know About CISPA
Robert Fisk: The Children of Fallujah - the hospital of horrors (2 comments)
Saturday, April 28:
CISPA Passes the House: Why We Should Be Wary
Sen. Rubio Fined For Receiving Improper Donations During 2010 Senate Race
Blow to Kochs & Chamber: FEC Disclosure Loophole Closes On Secret Donors As Court Won't Stay Ruling (2 comments)
Guess What Drugs and Illegal Substances Are Showing Up in Chicken? (5 comments)
FCC Votes to Put Broadcasters' Political Ad Hauls Online (1 comments)
Friday, April 27:
DSK: New York sex scandal orchestrated
U.S. Amasses Stealth-Jet Armada Near Iran
Fast And Furious: GOP Moves Towards Holder Contempt Resolution At Issa's Behest
ATF: 70 percent of guns found in Mexico come from US (3 comments)
Non-Profit Education Group, Kaplan, Becomes 14th Company To Drop ALEC | ThinkProgress
You Can Be A Patriot or a Profiteer...But You Can't Be Both.
University Presidents Weave A Trail of Deceit
Food Stamps In Crosshairs Of Republicans' Plan To Save Military (1 comments)
Thinking can undermine religious faith, study finds (2 comments)
Padilla takes torture case to US Supreme Court
Broadcasters' Last-Ditch Push to Hide Political Ad Data (1 comments)
Thursday, April 26:
Washington Post's Kaplan and Other For-Profit Colleges Joined ALEC, Controversial Special Interest Lobby (1 comments)
In Hacking Inquiry, Murdoch Plays The Fool
Did You Like George W. Bush's Foreign Policy?
Why Have Medical Journals Not Retracted These Fraudulent Articles? (6 comments)
Enlightened Backbone of Liberalism Amputated: How it Happened (4 comments)
FCC Vote Could Bring Increased Transparency to Political Ads
NSA Domestic Spying Continues Under Obama - Whistleblower Makes Explosive Disclosures
Philadelphia School District announces its dissolution
Five Pennsylvania Legislators Leave ALEC
Your Taxes Will Pay For The Coast Guard To Babysit Shell's Arctic Drilling
Sherwood Ross: U.S. Contingency Plans To Attack Iran Readied in 2005
Facebook and Google Turned Into Government Spies?
House GOP Would Kick 280,000 Children Off School Lunch Program To Protect Tax Cut For Millionaires
Pepe Escobar: A Full Spectrum Confrontation World? (1 comments)
Assembled in America ... a step toward 'made in America'
Texas AG releases voters' Social Security numbers in mix-up
Republican National Committee Files Complaint Over Obama Travel (1 comments)
Charles Taylor aided and abetted Sierra Leone war crimes, Hague court finds
Stop Working More Than 40 Hours a Week - Research Reveals It Actually Decreases Productivity
Obama Vows to Fight for Climate Action, Make Global Warming a Key 2012 Issue (3 comments)
Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson inquiry -- Day 2 | Admits there was a cover-up at NoTW
Rearranging the Deck Chairs at the Postal Service (1 comments)
Did Conservative Sting Operatives Target Planned Parenthood--Again?
News Corp. Exec Considered Enlisting Newspaper Editors in Lobbying Effort
Wednesday, April 25:
What You Need To Know About The Violence Against Women Act
TSA Screeners at L.A. Airport Charged With Taking Bribes
Mom: TSA agents at Wichita airport treated daughter, 4, like a terrorist
Report: NATO misleads with 'Afghan-led' label
ALEC Official Admits Group's Promises To Reform Are Bulls**
Under Control: Relax, Our Nuclear Spill isn't an 'EPPI' (2 comments)
Amazon Arrogantly Ignores ALEC Boycott While Funding Voter Suppression
Antarctic Ice Melting From Below
Murdoch Confirms U.S. Department of Justice Investigation Into News Corporation
DOCUMENTARY SHORT: The Truth About Clean Energy Jobs
Wall Street Lobbied Hard To Water Down Law On Congressional Insider Trading
Erin Brockovich storms Hill's "ivory tower' to promote new doc about impending water crisis
Two Blue Dogs Defeated in Pennsylvania Primaries (7 comments)
Violence Against Women Act: House GOP drafts version, senate fight continues
Debt Collectors Take Places Alongside Hospital Staffs
Blue Cross Faces Allegations That It Drives Up Prices By Stifling Competition
Military Shift Campaign Donations From Ron Paul To Obama In March
In Violation Of Religious Tax Exemption Status, Maryland Catholic Churches Organize To Repeal Marriage Equality Law (2 comments)
TARP Profit A Myth, Claims TARP Inspector General Christy Romero
Schumer Grills Pearce As Arizona Immigration Bill Heads for Supreme Court
INFOGRAPHIC: What You Need To Know About The Violence Against Women Act
Austerity Pushes The UK Back Into Recession -- Will American Conservatives Learn The Lesson?
James Murdoch at the Leveson inquiry - Tuesday 24 April
It's Baaaaaack--US finds Fourth Mad Cow (2 comments)
*Pie in the Sky Platinum Idea. Let's mine near earth asteroids say Planetary Resouces, Inc. (1 comments)
Tuesday, April 24:
Bradley Manning judge orders release of state documents
What Happens When All The Money Vanishes Into Thin Air? (1 comments)
Dan Froomkin: Secret Service, GSA Scandals Attract More Interest Than War
Federal Judge William Acker Says Up Front He's Going to Cheat Me--And Then He Does It (1 comments)
Everything the Leveson Inquiry Knows About James Murdoch - Evidence Now Online
Is Rupert Murdoch About to Take Down David Cameron?
Eight of the Top Ten 2012 Super PAC Donors Are Republicans
Planned Parenthood Worried It's The Target Of New Undercover Sting
Bobby Jindal Sold His Soul and LA Children's Future To ALEC For Political Gain
A Growing Number of State Legislators Condemn ALEC - Drop Membership
IRS Whistleblower Letter On ALEC Sent By Common Cause Names Names (2 comments)
ALEC Says It Plans To Craft Legislation To Take Down State Renewable Energy Targets | ThinkProgress
ALEC and ExxonMobil Push Loopholes in Fracking Chemical Disclosure Rules
Appearing For The Defense Of Arizona's Controversial Immigration Law: Murdoch's Fox News
Latest News Corp. Investigation Emails Show 'Cozy Contacts' With UK Official Over BSkyB Bid
Justice Dept. makes 1st arrest in BP oil spill; ex-engineer accused of obstruction of justice (1 comments)
Defense Department Plans New Spy Service
Live Blogging Bradley Manning's April Motion Hearing | Kevin Gosztola
Senate to vote on array of Postal Service overhaul proposals
Outlay of $14 Trillion Hasn't Solved Problem of Debt
Nick Turse: Memory Failure at the Pentagon
Twitter Account & Messages Not Legally Yours According To Court (2 comments)
Scientists Have Designed a Phone That Works Like X-Ray Glasses (1 comments)
Monday, April 23:
Obama announces new sanctions on Syria and Iran
Israel bans a textbook promoting Arab rights as 'unbalanced'
Spectacular Day for Tenants, Rent Control & Eviction Protections in the Courts of Law
Romney says Obama is "a president who by his own measure has failed'
Alabama AG wants trial date set in Gulf Coast states' suit against BP
Rep. Allen West Ousted From NAACP Event Following Communist Remark
Occupy The Justice Department Implicates Obama Administration Integrity
A "Neighbor From Hell" Can Wreak All Sorts of Legal and Psychological Havoc
Lewis Lapham: Machine-Made News
Wingnuts Furious: Mormon "Cultist' Mitt Romney To Spew Inoffensive Pablum At Liberty University Commencement (2 comments)
Big Ag Industry Rallies To Support New Pro-Child Labor Legislation
Are You "Spring Trained" for Occupy's May Day Strike? (4 comments)
U.S. Transit Hub-Base in Kyrgyzstan for Afghan Heroin
$42 Billion: Medicare Finds Savings From Competitive Bidding
The Entrepreneur of the Future Enabled at Better World Forum 2012
Report: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-CA Denied Access into Afghanistan
Media Favored Romney Over Obama During GOP Primaries: Study
Dept of Homeland Security & ICE Purchase 450 Million Rounds of .40 Caliber Hollow Point Ammo (3 comments)
*#OWS Forecloses on Bank of America - Every Night (2 comments)
Sunday, April 22:
George Zimmerman Released From Fla. Jail
Obama to target foreign nationals' use of new technologies in human rights abuses
Israeli military ready for action in Iran: military
"They Pretend to Pay us and We Pretend to Dress"
How the Media Has Shaped the Social Security Debate -- The Press Plays a Dubious Role (4 comments)
Family of missing Fort Bragg private say they haven't given up hope
Sherwood Ross: U.S. and/or Israel Far More Likely To Attack Iran Than Iran to Attack Israel (3 comments)
Weekend to Stop Drone War Crimes
What a Difference a Day Makes: Life on the Front Lines of Occupy Federal Hall
Army cancels Ted Nugent's performance at Fort Knox over Obama comments
Murdoch to testify about his political influence in UK, move that could discomfit ruling class
Your Propaganda Tax Dollars at Work
Wikileaks to Break 'Bank Blockade' with US Foundation
ALEC Exposed: Now Tell the IRS to Investigate Here
Arizona Immigration Law Arriving At Supreme Court This Week
Stuck in the Past? DOE's Cold War Mindset Leads to Blown Bucks on Nuclear Labs
Lawmakers Unite with Activist Groups to Press for Constitutional Amendment on Citizens United
Undocumented Immigrants Paid $11.2 Billion In Taxes While GE Paid Nothing
ALEC, a Tax-Exempt Group, Mixes Legislators and Lobbyists
Right-Wing Operatives At Abramoff-linked NCPPR Take Up ALEC's Voter Suppression Agenda
ALEC lobbying platform circulating legislatures aims to kill state health care exchanges (1 comments)
Saturday, April 21:
Charles W. Colson, Watergate Felon Who Became Evangelical Leader, Dies at 80
BP blamed for ongoing health problems (3 comments)
RNC's Reince Priebus Tells CNN He Won't Back Romney Yet "Out Of Respect' For Gingrich
At Wal-Mart in Mexico, a Bribe Inquiry Silenced (1 comments)
Whistleblower: The NSA is Lying -- The U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails
Lawmakers Unite With Activist Groups To Press For Constitutional Amendment On Citizens United
Pope: Women Will Never Become Priests (3 comments)
U.S. Republicans seek to provide Israel with $680 million for Iron Dome anti-missile system (2 comments)
Romney defends father against Schweitzer's "polygamy" comment (3 comments)
Meet the Media Companies Lobbying Against Transparency
Jeb Bush Says He Would 'Consider' Being Romney's Running Mate...But Endorses Rubio For The Job
Prosecutors Not Prepared For What Hit Them At Friday's George Zimmerman Hearing
Federal Cancer Research Funding Crisis Threatens Detroit, Nation
Did a 15 year old define your multi-million dollar brand online before you did?
Friday, April 20:
Newest Michigan museum showcases racist artifacts
Romney on Keystone: "I will build that pipeline if I have to myself' (1 comments)
Walmart Workers & Supporters Rally and Demand Justice at South L.A. Walmart
The Politicization Of Domestic Violence
The Catholic League's Campaign Against Jon Stewart Has Officially Begun
Phone hacking: News International faces nearly 50 new claims
Citibank Deaf to Shareholders Rebuke Thinks it was Just Poor Communication, Not Poor Decision Making
To reform the tax code, kill the Bush tax cuts
Vermont Legislature Calls for a Constitutional Amendment to End Corporate Personhood and Doctrine of Money as Speech (1 comments)
Oklahoma personhood bill fails in Legislature
Israeli Conservative Movement Approves Ordination Of Gay Rabbis
Case Dismissed Against Julian Heicklen, Jury Nullification Advocate (1 comments)
Zimmerman's Wife Admits Z Used Self-Defense Excuse Years Ago (18 comments)
Catholics, Really? Bishop In Search Of Hitler and Stalin Says Obama Good Enough Match
This Week in Poverty: Georgia Tries to Get to Zero Welfare Recipients
Whistleblower: The NSA Is Lying--U.S. Government Has Copies of Most Of Your Emails
McConnell Breaks With House GOP, Agrees To Uphold Last Year's Debt Deal
Romney Blames Obama For Bad Economy At Factory Shuttered Under Bush
Religious Right 'War' Room: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Hispanic Vote
The horrific ramifications of the Gulf oil spill
American Bar Association Wants Changes After Report Slams DOJ (1 comments)
*Up To Their Same Old Tricks: The Art Police (2 comments)
Report on Iran's Nuclear Fatwa Distorts Its History
Thursday, April 19:
CHART: How Obama And Romney Compare On Energy Issues
Ousted Secret Service agent plans to sue
The European Stabilization Mechanism, Or How the Goldman Vampire Squid Just Captured Europe (3 comments)
$4.2 million settlement for student paralyzed by bully's punch
Military Labels Rape Victims "Crazy"
Dispatches From The War On Women: A Military Rape Scandal (1 comments)
Dan Froomkin -- ALEC's Strategy Shift May Yet Bring Corporate Gains
Settlers in West Bank outpost build new homes on private Palestinian land
House includes pipeline in transportation bill, set for Senate battle
W.H. escalates budget war with Hill GOP
Child Sexual Abusers Tend To Be A Crafty And Elusive Bunch
Read the Tax Returns From Karl Rove's "Dark Money' Group (Donors Still a Mystery)
ALEC Sends Out an SOS to Breitbart Bloggers (2 comments)
Fraser and Freeman: Creating a Prison-Corporate Complex (1 comments)
Occupy the Pennsylvania Primary?
KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut's Owner Is The 12th Corporation To Drop ALEC
Congressional Approval Up 70% Since February! That's Up From 10% To 17%
Former Bush EPA chief Whitman sounds alarm on chemical security
Down-sizing the American Dream using ideological red meat (1 comments)
Wednesday, April 18:
Panetta offers steps to curb sex assault in military
REPORT: Broadcast News Networks Misrepresent Intelligence On Iranian Nuclear Issues (1 comments)
Colombian Escort Speaks About Secret Service Scandal
CIA seeks new authority to expand Yemen drone campaign
Secret Service: Scale of prostitution party in Colombia revealed (1 comments)
Investigation: Two Years After the BP Spill, A Hidden Health Crisis Festers
Warren Buffett says he has Stage 1 prostate cancer
Dick Clark, host of "American Bandstand," dies at 82
Why Did A Lawyer With GOP Ties Die On A Walk to the Drugstore?
NLRB unionization rights poster rule delayed following emergency injunction in DC Appeals Court
Repressed Memory Case Tramples Sex Abuser Priest (8 comments)
Obama targets oil and gas speculators with proposed new oversight of energy markets
Big Coal Polluters Get a Pass in Obama's Environmental Plan
DOJ Confirms Previously-Denied File Said to Implicate US Officials in Nuclear Espionage by Erik Larson (2 comments)
Tennessee's 'Don't Say Gay' Bill Passes House Committee
Gulf fishermen report eyeless shrimp, malformed fish hearts after oil spill
Do the Wealthy Lie, Cheat and Steal More Than the Rest of Us? (18 comments)
The evidence that may be Sheriff Joe Arpaio's undoing
Internet Inventor Urges Government: Stop the Snooping Bill
Afghanistan Schoolgirls Poisoned In Suspected Anti-Education Attack
Citizens United Thugs Execute Corporate Coup D'etat
Murdoch Watch: Criminal charges considered over newspaper phone hacking in UK
Kevin Gosztola: About Julian Assange's New Revolutionary Television Show (1 comments)
NYT: Poll: Most in US link extreme weather to warming, climate change (1 comments)
What local cops learn, and carriers earn, from surveillng your cellphone records
NYPD confiscates condoms from sex workers
Citigroup investors reject bigger executive pay deal
Watch the First Episode of Wikileaks' Julian Assange's TV Show, Featuring M.I.A.'s Music
Tuesday, April 17:
DOJ review of flawed FBI forensics processes lacked transparency
Sherwood Ross: *Cut Off Aid To Israel If It Attacks Iran (3 comments)
Mitt Romney's Long Involvement In The Politics Of Motherhood
Stung by gas prices, Obama seeks new oil market crackdown
Romney tries to "bracket' Obama, plans "prebuttal' speech in Charlotte
Did the U.S. Special Forces Under Bush/Cheney Train Iranians Now on Terror List?
Time for Koch Brothers to Resign from ALEC
If It's an Election Year, Why Does the Federal Election Assistance Commission Have No Commissioners?
US Treasury Dept. Wording Could Exclude Millions from Health Care Benefits
NYPD Arrests Occupiers For "Sleepful Protest"
ALEC Cries Uncle - Eliminates Its Public Safety and Elections Task Force - Restructures (1 comments)
Those Laboratory Mice Were Children (1 comments)
Israel frees former hunger striker Khader Adnan
Buffett Rule Vote: Tax Measure Fails In Senate
Court Provides Huge Victory for Low Income Section 8 Tenants Facing Eviction (1 comments)
Mitt Romney Endorses Rocky Anderson
Penguin Smarter than Many (most?) Americans
Time for Kochs to Resign from ALEC (1 comments)
Special Report: Tax time pushes some Americans to take a hike
Dilip Hiro: How to Trump a Superpower
Huge Majority Of Americans Think Tax System Unfairly Benefits Rich
Corporations That Spent The Most On Lobbying Saw Tax Rates Decline: Report
Is Washington State Dem Chair Dwight Pelz trying to help Republicans? (9 comments)
Journalists Begins To Take Notice Of Unregistered Lobbying Phenomenon
Supreme Court Rejects Jeffrey Skilling's Appeal In Enron Case
Women job losses: A deeper look at the data
Does anyone realize what the GOP just did? Hint: It involves the super super-rich (1 comments)
Latin America's drug war evolution: Decriminalization and regulation
Monday, April 16:
Senate rejects consideration of "Buffett rule' tax increase for millionaires
Ann Romney To Diane Sawyer On Tying Family Dog To The Car Roof: "The Dog Loved It' (1 comments)
Taxed by the boss: By David Cay Johnston
P5 +1 Iran nuclear talks went swimmingly! Netanyahu is fuming
Senate Republicans Filibuster Buffett Rule
For Economists Saez and Piketty, the Buffett Rule Is Just a Start
Waukesha, WI...Again? Investigation into Romney Sub Sandwich Bribe Allegations Nearly Done
Why the Mean Old White Man Panic? Huge Wave of Second-Generation Immigrant Voters on the Horizon
Prescription Drug Abuse Drives Huge Spike In Poisoning Deaths Among Children: Report
Media Firms Sue to Open Zimmerman File
Obama's World Bank Pick: Dartmouth President Jim Young Kim
Gawkers' Fox News "mole" Joe Muto speaks out - Video
Mitt Romney's Hot Mic Moment Reveals His Tax Plan To Be A Mirage
Government Saves Countless Lives From Tornadoes In Koch And Inhofe Country
Conservative Scholar: Supreme Court Should Uphold Obamacare (1 comments)
More military personnel might have been involved in misconduct before Obama's trip
Latin America v. Obama: US Policy on Cuba, Drug War, Economy Under Fire at Colombian Summit
Two Federal Judges Suggest 20th Century Is Unconstitutional (3 comments)
Miami-Dade Fire Captain Blames Trayvon Martin Killing On 'Shitbag' Parents Of 'Urban Youths'
Israeli official: 40% of names on Shin Bet fly-in blacklist were not activists
Romney Book: 'Nonworking Parents' Produce 'Indolent' and "Unproductive' Kids
GOP Nebraska Gov Vetoes Prenatal Care For Undocumented Women, Cites Nonexistent Planned Parenthood Connection (1 comments)
Unmitigated Disaster Dick Cheney Calls Obama An "Unmitigated Disaster' (6 comments)
Romney Bundler Lobbyies For Birther Dominican Republican Presidential Candidate
Did Reagan-Appointed Federal Judge Engage In A Criminal Conspiracy?
Is the right really breaking up with its racists?
Court Rules Employers Not Liable If Workers Skip Breaks
Iceland forgives mortgage debt of its population
Geithner: Romney claims on women and job losses "ridiculous and very misleading'
Obama On Secret Service Prostitution Scandal: 'I'll Be Angry' If Colombia Allegations True (1 comments)
Sunday, April 15:
Israel arrests 40 pro-Palestine activists at Ben Gurion Airport
Crocker: Afghanistan pullout sets stage for 2nd 9/11 (2 comments)
Iran, big powers agree - to keep talking
How Mitt Romney Ruined Countless Lives And Helped Create The Welfare State (VIDEO)
Mitt Romney: Poor Stay-At-Home Moms Should Work (VIDEO)
Dick Cheney: Barack Obama 'unmitigated disaster' for the country (1 comments)
Top 10 Ways to Remember the Titanic (Slideshow) (1 comments)
Bank of New York Case Tests IRS Power to Halt Foreign Tax Abuses
Extreme Weather Hits US in Night of Tornadoes
Romney Flashback: Poor Mothers Should Be Required To Work Outside The Home Or Lose Welfare
Breaking news: Kucinich seriously considering running for Congress in Washington State (21 comments)
Franklin P. Lamb: "Mama, will Baba Roumieh visit us in Shatila camp?"
A Veteran's Death, the Nation's Shame - Veterans Commit Suicide at a Rate of One Every 80 Minutes (1 comments)
5 Killed as Violent Storms Cut Across Central Plains
January Mitt: Mothers Should Be Required To Work Outside Home Or Lose Benefits (4 comments)
Earth Rights Review: News from Africa
Saturday, April 14:
Iran demands U.S., Europe hold off attack as long as nuclear talks continue, sources say
Assange Show Premiere: Time to Watch "The World Tomorrow" (PHOTOS) (2 comments)
Obama's dirty dozen: Secret Service men behaving badly in Colombia
Sherwood Ross: Liberal Magazine Urges Obama To Quit Afghanistan Now (1 comments)
Amazon.com shareholder proposal for disclosure of political spending; company meeting
Documents provide rare insight into FBI's terrorism stings (2 comments)
The real criminals in the Tarek Mehanna case (4 comments)
Will a "Fight To The Finish" Tear Occupy Apart or Save Its "Soul?" (9 comments)
Friday, April 13:
Secret Service Agents Relieved of Duty in Colombia (1 comments)
Prosecutors: Zimmerman 'profiled,' confronted Trayvon Martin before shooting him (1 comments)
Vermont Senate Votes to Overturn Citizens United (4 comments)
GA Baptist Ministry Cuts Off Funds To Women's Health Clinic That Provides The Morning After Pill
After Complaining About Being Silenced, ALEC Is Deleting Critical Comments From Facebook Page
In Latest Press Release, ALEC Claims To Be 'Transparent, Open'
Virginia House Speaker To Female Activist: Do I Need To Use Littler Words? (3 comments)
Fox News hits back at 'bitter' Newt Gingrich over claims of campaign bias
Murdoch's Times faces email hacking damages claim
Naval Commander Stands Trial for Telling Supercommittee to End the Wars and Tax the Rich
Tennessee senate to define holding hands, kissing as "gateway sexual activity (2 comments)
Charles M. Young: Yes, The 99% Spring is a Fraud (6 comments)
Ann Romney defends role as stay-at-home mom after Democratic pundit's remarks
Exclusive: Leah Bolger's Statement to the Judge of her Hearing for Disruption of Super Committee Charge (12 comments)
Sherwood Ross: Pentagon Continuing Foreign Base Expansion (2 comments)
10 Big Companies That Pay No Taxes (and Their Favorite Politicians)
The Latest SEC/Goldman Sachs Sweetheart Deal Is the Worst One Yet - White Collar Felons Walk
Scrap the Cap; Dennis Kucinich in WA, on Social Security, Taxation, War, Trade, and Justice (3 comments)
North Korean Rocket Said to Fail Moments After Liftoff
Thursday, April 12:
Will Florida's Sunshine Law be Victim in George Zimmerman Prosecution? (15 comments)
Cellphone Radiation Detector App Banned
Pro-Oil Outside Groups Spend More Than $16 Million On Energy Attack Ads Since January (1 comments)
U.S. Presses First-Ever Charges Under LGBT Hate Crimes Law
'Arizona's Largest Energy Company' Will Leave ALEC
Two More Companies -- Including Candymaker Mars, Inc. -- Sever Ties With ALEC
Federal Government Disagrees With Ann Romney: Raising Children Not 'Work'
4 feet of hail in Texas? Reports, photos, & video
Murdoch hacking scandal moves to US
American Crossroads vs. President Obama
Bringing Hate To Paradise: Will Bali Suffer From The Wrath of NOM? (3 comments)
UK attorney to file 4 lawsuits in US against Murdoch's News Corp, says more suits will emerge as inquiry widens (1 comments)
National Review Drops 2nd Contributor, Robert Weissberg, Over Racism
Police Watchdog: UK Authorities Used Poor Judgment In Phone Hacking Scandal
John 'Cougar' Mellencamp to WI Gov Scott Walker: Cease Campaign's Use Of 'Small Town'
Fla. Gov. Rick Scott wins 'Muzzle" award for First Amendment 'violations'
House GOP Freshmen Face Opposition From Democrats, Tea Party In Re-Election Bids
TARP Bailout Money Fails To Reach Neediest Homeowners After Two Years: Report
NJ flood victims ask: Where did those millions in federal aid go?
Gawker's Fox News Mole Reveals Himself As Assoc Producer on The O'Reilly Factor
James O'Keefe Depos in Vera Lawsuit: Breitbart Paid Pimp, Ho Mad Cheddar For ACORN Videos
139 Female Soldiers Have Died in Iraq and Afghanistan
Conservative Billionaire Foster Friess Makes Obama Assassination Joke
Marcus Bachmann Is Still Practicing Ex-Gay Therapy
Lobbying Group, Business Roundtable, For Big Business Boasts Of 100 Meetings A Year With Congress
Conservative Washington Examiner Blasts Bank Settlement: 'It Doesn't Redress The Crime Committed'
'A Community To Which We Belong' (1 comments)
Howard Dean Advises Corporate Health Care Clients To Fund "Both Sides,' Run Attack Ads
Wednesday, April 11:
Chris Christie Calls Americans Couch Potatoes
Romney's ambitious agenda for first day in office won't be easy to achieve
Hackers Take Over National Organization For Marriage's Twitter Account
George Zimmerman Charged With 2nd Degree Murder In Trayvon Martin Killing
Murdoch's US-based News Corp braced as lawyer brings phone-hacking scandal to NYC courts
BREAKING: George Zimmerman in custody, will be charged in Trayvon Martin case
Even The Daily Caller Debunks Romney's Attack On Obama About Women
US Signals a Hard Line in Iran Talks
Iowa Gov. Branstad Attacks 'Shadowy' Bloggers Exposing Pink Slime, Says Asking About Industry Cash Is A 'Smear' (1 comments)
Communist Party slams Allen West (1 comments)
Wendy's Is The Latest Corporation To End Its Membership With ALEC
George Zimmerman to be charged in Trayvon Martin shooting, official says
Ralph Nader Supports Rocky Anderson for President
Paul Ryan Claims Secret Democratic Support (3 comments)
Iran to offer new proposals at nuclear talks
Are Americans oblivious to History, stuck on Stupid or just ideological Idiots?
FBI Attempts to Hold Sibel Edmonds' Book Hostage
A Major Oil Speculator Is Bankrolling The Latest Karl Rove Attack Ad Accusing Obama Of Raising Prices At The Pump (1 comments)
Privacy: Fifth Circuit Considers Constitutionality of Cell Site Location Data
Homeland Security and Navy Award Contract to Hack into Gaming Systems
Mylan Fentanyl Patch New Choice Of Drug To Abuse
Part 6 Heiress Lives In A Tent: The New Face Of The Homeless In America (1 comments)
AUDIO: Hannity Blabbed Content of "Off The Record" Conversation with George Zimmerman (2 comments)
Tuesday, April 10:
Chris Christie: Nation Becoming "People Sitting On A Couch Waiting For Their Next Government Check'
Police Cruiser Shot Up in Trayvon Martin Neighborhood (2 comments)
George Zimmerman Speaks Out on His Terms
NRA, Ralph Reed group plan get-out-the-vote effort
How Murdoch's Aussie Papers Cover Climate Change - NOT Fair and Balanced!
George Zimmerman's attorneys withdraw from Trayvon Martin case
Huck Tells Conservatives To Tune Out Rush
Finally! Supreme Court Will Reconsider Citizens United (2 comments)
Rick Santorum Suspends Campaign
Republican "War On Women" Is Not A Left-Wing Invention - Yep, It's Real
Why Is Your Cell Phone Company Paying For Global Warming Denial?
Santorum Withdraws From Primary
Exclusive: McDonald's Says It Has Dumped ALEC
Major Republican Super PAC Prepares to Take On Obama
Debt Collectors Threaten to Kill Pets, Rape Mothers, and Desecrate Corpses--And We Aren't Kidding (1 comments)
Koch-Funded 'Bush' Economist Uses New Math To Find That Health Reform Increases The Deficit
'Frequent fliers' strain emergency medical system - Series on the 1% that accounts for 22% of healthcare spending (1 comments)
WaPo/ABC Poll: U.S. Public Opposes Military Action Against Iran; Supports Diplomacy And Sanctions
Tom Engelhardt: The Smog of War
Stand Your Ground Laws Coincide With Jump In 'Justifiable Homicides'
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Withdraws Support From ALEC (2 comments)
George Zimmerman Had More Legal Authority To Shoot And Kill Than Our Troops Do At War
Conservative Media Promote Deceptive Unemployment Talking Point
U.S. Aid to Israel Equals $4.9 Million a Day for 64 Years
Part 5 Heiress Lives In A Tent: The New Face Of The Homeless In America (1 comments)
Part 4 Heiress Lives In A Tent: The New Face Of The Homeless In America
Monday, April 9:
Trayvon Martin case: George Zimmerman starts fundraising website (1 comments)
Tax Loophole Romney Made Famous Now In Crosshairs Of Democrats, White House (1 comments)
Occupy East End rejects MoveOn Takeover Attempt
Wisconsin's Repeal of Equal Pay Rights Adds to Battles for Women
A CEO With Shaky Ethics Has At Least One Staunch Defender
U.S. filmmaker repeatedly detained at border (3 comments)
Medea Benjamin: Obama Administration Silencing Pakistani Drone-Strike Lawyer (1 comments)
Greenwald: Report, U.S. trained M.E.K. terror group
The Reason CEOs Make 350 Times More Money Than Their Workers -- And Why That's Terrible for the Economy (4 comments)
Peter Van Buren: Joining The Whistleblowers' Club
Wisconsin Equal Pay Law Repealed Because "Money Is More Important For Men" (1 comments)
Scott Walker Quietly Signs Controversial Anti-Abortion, Abstinence Measures On Eve Of Holiday
Young Progressives Firing Up Grassroots Campaigns Across the Country
After 1 year, White House abandons push for federal contractors to disclose political giving
Scott Walker: Not Just the Scourge Of Public Employees
For Army troops, prescription drugs may add to fog of war
Part 3 Heiress Lives In A Tent: The New Face Of The Homeless In America (1 comments)
German author Grass banned entry in Israel
Sunday, April 8:
US Gives Afghans Control Over Nighttime Raids, Meeting Top Demand
"The Earth is Full" --- it's a fact (2 comments)
International Drone Summit: Killing and Spying by Remote Control
Rick Steve's "I've been duped" (1 comments)
Major Corporations Flee Conservative Voter Suppression Group
National Review Fires John Derbyshire After Racially-Inflammatory Article
Sayonara to Mike Wallace And the TV News Era He Led (1 comments)
Sen. Grassley Tweets President Obama Is "Stupid" -- David Axelrod Fires Back
Voter Suppression 101: How Conservatives Are Conspiring to Disenfranchise Millions of Americans
Part 2 Heiress Lives In A Tent: The New Face Of The Homeless In America (3 comments)
More women vets are homeless, but housing scarce
Mike Wallace dies: Veteran journalist and former "60 Minutes" correspondent was 93
Philadelphia Freedom: Birthplace of the Constitution Takes Center Stage (3 comments)
Welfare Limits Left Poor Adrift as Recession Hit - NYTimes.com
Is Your Drinking Making You an Almost Alcoholic? Interview with Alcoholism Expert (2 comments)
Franklin P. Lamb: Lebanon's wretched triad: Domestic workers"Women "Palestinians
Saturday, April 7:
Heiress Lives In A Tent: The New Face Of The Homeless In America (7 comments)
*Please Help the Hopi Cloud-callers and the Diné Save Their Water (1 comments)
RESOURCE WARS: Frackers Outbid Farmers For Water In Colorado Drought (1 comments)
Tulsa Shootings That Left At Least 3 Dead Were Related, Police Say
WTF? Michigan Republicans Illegally Passed Over 96% of Bills Under 'Immediate Effect'
Republican Governor Scott Walker Eliminates Wisconsin Equal Pay Law
Zbigniew Brzezinski and Robert Kagan on the State of America
Sanford Police Deny Report Armed Neo-Nazis Are Patrolling Town In Case Of "Race Riots'
Greece: Protesters hit news anchor with eggs and yogurt live on air
ALEC loses its anonymity (1 comments)
Incompetent Wisconsin Vote Counter Gives Up Vote Counting Duties | ThinkProgress
Shale Shocked: 'Remarkable Increase' In U.S. Earthquakes 'Almost Certainly Manmade,' USGS Scientists Report (1 comments)
CNN's Erick Erickson Supports Master's Ban On Women
This Is How Much It Costs to Own a Vagina: An Itemized List (2 comments)
Campaign Ads: How To Free the Files at Your TV Station
Intuit Is Now The Fourth Company To Drop Voter Suppression Group ALEC
US justice department indicts former CIA officer over leaks to journalists
Matt Damon about to start filming "anti-fracking blockbuster" (1 comments)
Police link shootings in Oklahoma; 3 dead
Himalayan avalanche buried 117 Pakistani troops, army says
Is WeHo City Councilmember John D'Amico, Landlord's New Point Person?
Highlights of the Brandywine Peace Community's Good Friday Protest at Lockheed Martin (video)
Friday, April 6:
Seymour Hersh: Our Men in Iran?
Current TV countersues Olbermann, seeks damages
Keith Olbermann sues ex-bosses at Current TV for more than $50 million, cites show's glitches
Hi-Ho! The US is a Police State (6 comments)
BBC News Magazine: Forty years in solitary confinement and counting (1 comments)
BREAKING: Kraft Becomes Third Corporation To Drop ALEC
UK's Sky News: We Hacked In The Public Interest (1 comments)
GAME ON: Mr. 1 Percent, Revealed (1 comments)
Romney using ethics exception to limit disclosure of Bain holdings (2 comments)
Meet The ALEC Staffers Who Help Corporations Write Our Laws Complete With Contact Info To Let Them Know What U Think (1 comments)
Almost Half of U.S. Tax Money Goes to Military and Health Care (4 comments)
Cause of 2008 Financial Collapse Remains Lost on Corporate Chieftains (1 comments)
Collateral Damage in the Marcellus Shale (1 comments)
Frustrated And Desperate, Bankers Form Super PAC
US Unemployment Claims Hit 4-year Low Of 357K (4 comments)
ICC won't probe Gaza war because Palestine 'not a state'
Senate's Mitch McConnell tells Obama to 'back off' Supreme Court
Thursday, April 5:
Obama Indicts Sixth Whistleblower Under the Espionage Act (1 comments)
Another Merrill Lynch-Type Collapse at JPMorgan?
Finance expert says speculators are behind high oil and gasoline prices
Michael Vick, Katrina Were Turning Points in Animal Welfare--Humane Leader (3 comments)
*Drilling for oil and gas on Mars.Terra-forming Mars (5 comments)
Resident of Student-Housing Development Dies In a Hail of Bullets
ACA repeal would hit for-profit hospitals ratings
Stopping Climate Change is Much Cheaper Than You Think
GALLOP: Obama Solidifying Lead Among Independents in Swing States
Rupert Murdoch's Sky News admits senior exec approved hacking emails of 'canoe man'
Scott Walker: 'God's Got A Plan' For Me That May Include Higher Office (1 comments)
Gingrich's Health Care Think Tank Files For Bankruptcy
Companies Pledge 15,000 Jobs For Military Spouses
Colbert celebrates Peabody win for super PAC segments
Bill McKibben: How You Subsidize the Energy Giants to Wreck the Planet (3 comments)
President Obama Locks Horns With Chief Justice Roberts Over Health Care Case
PepsiCo Ends Partnership With Koch-Funded Right-Wing Front Group ALEC
'We're beginning to awake from our (environmental) slumber' (2 comments)
Wednesday, April 4:
The Obama DOJ and strip searches (9 comments)
Who Got the Most Votes in Tuesday's Primaries? Not Mitt Romney (2 comments)
Israel's U.S. envoy: Award to Helen Thomas shows Palestinians aren't ready for peace
Afghan bomb kills at least 10, including 3 GIs
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, alleged 9/11 mastermind, to face new trial
The BRICS Will Shape A New World Order, Just Like The US Did After WWII
Greek Suicide: Austerity Measures Led Elderly Pharmacist To Killing Himself In Syntagma Square
5 Ex-Cops Sentenced in Katrina Killings Case
Wisconsin Planned Parenthood Bombing Draws FBI Vow To Protect Public Access To Abortion Clinics
Conservatives love to hate Islam: evidence from a questionable Newsmax article
University Presidents Play Hanky Panky With Taxpayer Dollars
Porn Stars Call For "World's Largest Wank Out" To Oppose Santorum
Sheila Dean: Canada's Privacy czar sounds alarm on drones patrolling U.S. border
Participatory Democracy: From the Port Huron Statement to Occupy Wall Street, Tom Hayden
Tuesday, April 3:
Time Running Out for Sustainable Future
Hedges V. Obama : Chris Hedges Gives Rundown of Day in Court
The Facts Behind the Government's New "Hospitality' Guidelines for Immigrant Detainees
Research: Over 1 Million U.S. Cable Subscribers Cut Cord in 2011
GAO: National Debt Would Skyrocket If ACA 'Obamacare' Not Implemented (2 comments)
Medical Examiner's Mistake Leads to Woman's Wrongful Imprisonment in Alabama
Pro-Romney Super PAC Gets Half Its Donations - $20.5 Million - From The Financial Industry
Farming Vs. Fracking: The Water Wars Begin
BDS update: Israel's Ides of March (1 comments)
Obama Blasts GOP's "Radical Vision" For America
The National Security Committee Knew They Were Going to Get FALSE Confessions from Torture (1 comments)
Incredible Footage Of Dallas: Tornadoes reportedly cause 'tremendous damage' (VIDEO) | Semis tossed around like toys (1 comments)
3 tornadoes tear through Dallas-Fort Worth area
Sign up for the Midwest Trifecta April 13-15, with Col. Ann Wright & Kathy Kelly (1 comments)
International Criminal Court : No Cast Lead probe as PA not A State (3 comments)
Should Occupy Get Involved in Electoral Politics? (3 comments)
Fukushima Radiation Moving Steadily Across Pacific
Anti-government 'sovereign movement' on the rise in U.S., By Kevin Johnson
Tom Engelhardt: The Intelligence Bureaucracy That Ate Our World
Justices Approve Strip-Searches for Any Offense (10 comments)
Heartbroken House GOP Just Wants Its Beloved Earmarks Back
James Murdoch Out As BSkyB Chairman: Reports
Ann Romney Trust Invested In Goldman Sachs Fund That Exited Sex Site Backpage.com
California Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher quits GOP
It's About Sustainability, It's ALL About Sustainability... (1 comments)
Fox Nation Falsely Suggests "Taxpayers Lose $2 Billion" On Solar Trust
SoS Hillary Clinton praises U.S. for uproar over Limbaugh comments
Obama: Ryan Budget Is "Thinly Veiled Social Darwinism'
U.S. Offers $10 Million Reward for Pakistani Militant
Medicaid pushes for fewer early births
The Ryan budget's priorities in two graphs
Officials across US are looking to expand the foreclosure settlement.
The Zimmerman Police Informant Hypothesis
Monday, April 2:
War On Women Taking Its Toll On The GOP
Analysis: ALEC and Old Yeller (aka Kochs and NJ Gov Chris Christie)
Why Israel is even less likely to strike Iran now
Attack On Iran Would Be 'Disastrous' For Middle East, Turkish Prime Minister Warns
GSA chief resigns amid reports of excessive spending
Thanks To Florida Pro-Gun Law, Tampa Can't Stop 2012 RNC Convention Protesters From Packing Heat (14 comments)
Five Preposterous but Persistent Conservative Myths (1 comments)
"Officers, Why Do You have Your Guns Out?"
Syria agrees to Annan's peace plan deadline
Gunman opens fire at East Oakland college
"Lips-Moving, Must-Be-Lying" Santorum Claims California Universities Don't Teach American History
New Poll: Majority Want WI Gov. Scott Walker Recalled - 53% Disapprove; 46% "Strongly Disapprove"
Wendell Potter: Hope the Supremes Strike Down ObamaCare? Get Ready for PanemCare
Where does News Corporation get its money from? The Murdoch empire infographic
Tibet Self-Immolation Wave Among History's Biggest
Wisconsin's Recall Elections Are Set for June 5
Komen's Founder Apologizes to Congress, Asks for Some Money
Michael Klare: Welcome to the New Third World of Energy, the U.S. (1 comments)
Photo Report from Occupy San Francisco
WI Planned Parenthood bombed in act of domestic terrorism
House Republicans struggle to find allies across the aisle for Medicare overhaul
Arizona Law Will Make it a Crime to be Annoying on the Internet (2 comments)
Forbes.com: The Rise And Fears Of The New Elite
Sunday, April 1:
Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden Take On Romney As GOP Rallies Behind Front-Runner
Secretary Hillary Clinton Says Syrian President Assad 'Must Go'
POLL: Women Voters Abandon GOP In Key Battleground States As Contraception Battle Takes Its Toll (1 comments)
Too poor for school uniform, Pakistani boy kills self
Reality Check: Effective U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Much Lower Than Most Other Developed Nations
Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all
International Coalition Pledges Millions in Aid to Syrian Rebels
Trayvon Martin's parents seek federal review of prosecutor
ACLU blasts Baltimore police for handcuffing schoolchildren
Man denied entry into U.S. to bury his son
Hospital Involved In Death Of Anna Brown Has Locations MO, OK, IL, And WI
Unpaid bloggers' lawsuit vs Huffington Post tossed
Nate Silver: For Romney, a Widening Gap Between Urban and Rural Support
Recall drama: Romney, Santorum back Scott Walker at Wisconsin GOP dinner
U.S. obstruction of Afghan massacre investigation alleged
Pro-Corporation Bush Holdover Rankles Consumer Product Safety Commission (1 comments)
Video: Justice Scalia Echoes Republican Political Rhetoric During The Affordable Care Act Argument
Bill Kristol: Right wing attacks on Trayvon Martin "ridiculous'
U.S. calls on Iran to prove its nuclear program not intended for military means
Newspaper Slams Alabama Governor For Signing Grover Norquist's Anti-Tax Pledge (1 comments)
Goldman Sachs Tied To Under-Age Sex Trafficking Site (1 comments)
Police Tracking of Cellphones Raises Privacy Fears
Joint Chiefs Offended By Paul Ryan Lie That They "Did Not Support Obama Defense Budget" (1 comments)
Keith Olbermann's Angry Email Trail Traces Breakup With Current TV
Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on the Constitutionality of the US Constitution (5 comments)
Trayvon Martin case audio: Screams were not George Zimmerman's, 2 experts say
George Galloway Wins Shock Election in Bradford, U.K