What’s really inside Baucus' health-care white paper?
Body: "... start dissecting exactly what this supposed Democratic consensus document is all about. First, is it really the consensus plan—the plan that consultants have focus group-tested and carefully...
View ArticleIn the Year 2025...
Body: 2025: the end of US dominance -- the National Intelligence Council global trends review is out, and contrary to 2004's rosy view of 2020-- still dominated by US and with oil to burn--the new...
View ArticleNew HUD guy-- "working in partnership with the private sector"
Body: President-elect Barack Obama has picked the widely respected housing commissioner for New York City, Shaun Donovan, to be the secretary of housing in his cabinet.... Mr. Donovan was considered a...
View ArticleWho has Obama's ear on Foreign Policy?
Body: Quite a list here of who he's meeting with and learning from, and those supposedly "sensible Republicans" are far outnumbered by the usual warmongering criminal ones -- but all is not lost: he's...
View ArticleAnti-Gay "Conscience Clause" -- at the UN too
Body: Alone among major Western nations, the United States has refused to sign a declaration presented Thursday at the United Nations calling for worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality. ...U.S....
View Article"the separation of church and song" and/or unintended consequences?
Body: The inescapable and ubiquitous Christmas songs, specials, etc -- and how us Jews helped create and embed them, have fought against them, and how some deal with it now -- fa-who dor-ay, fa-who...
View ArticleDirect Action Derails Wilderness Auction
Body: Posing as a Bidder, Utah Student Disrupts Government Auction of 150,000 Acres of Wilderness for Oil & Gas Drilling --... While many environmental groups launched campaigns to oppose the sale...
View Articleviolence or non-violence -- Gandhi on israel, Zionists, Holocaust, etc --...
Body: Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews -- ... what did Mahatma Gandhi actually think of the idea of Israel, and of the fate of the Jews of his time?As it turns out, M.K. Gandhi engaged in...
View ArticleDivestment from Israel, and Boycotting --
Body: "I am a black South African, and if I were to change the names, a description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank could describe events in South Africa." ~Archbishop Desmond...
View ArticleNew Study Shows Prop. 8 Success “Not Personal”
Body: New Study Shows Prop. 8 Success “Not Personal” -- If you live in California and are a Republican, attend church at least once a week, hold socially conservative views, and are 65-years-old or...
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