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"...the decision came out of a completely different place"

Let no one mistake who has been at the helm these last six years. It is one person and one person alone.

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Updated: US opened fire at elementary school, killed 7 children, injured 3...

Added at the end of diary is link showing insurgents taking break from civil war to step up attacks on occupation troops.I would think this would have made headlines but it didn't. The corporate news...

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Best News: Congress Votes to Outsource Presidency

Modern management techniques are finally being applied in the Federal Government, and none too soon. It is the wave of the future! Congress Votes to Outsource Presidency

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Rare photos: Hiroshima & Nagasaki Hibakusha

The Mainichi Daily News has put together extraordinary photographs of the devastation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki that you may not have previously seen. I know I had not.This is not so much a diary as it...

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Contribute to Miners' Families, if you can (updated)

As you likely know, three rescuers were killed last night and many injured trying to reach the miners who have not been heard from in the 12 days after a cave in at the Crandall Canyon Mine in Emery...

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Sign the Petition to Lower Postal Rates for Small Publications

This is important for free speech and the preservation of small publications like In These Times and The Nation as well as small pubs on the right that need no introduction.We're asking only for your...

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Cancer: one of every two U.S. men and four of every 10 women will get it

"The war on cancer, begun in 1971, has largely failed. Today, 36 years later, one of every two men and 4 out of every 10 women in the U.S. will get cancer at some time during their lives. Now...

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Romney disgraces himself, his party, disgusts everyone else

This from Chris Nelson's Nelson Report via Steve Clemons: Mitt Romney Disgraces Himself: A "New Abyss" in High Fear PolitickingFrom Chris Nelson's insider daily political essay, The Nelson Report:. ....

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The Untold Story of Black New Orleans: free screening tonight in NOLA

In the Faubourg Tremé, the sit-ins began in the 1800s, the Harlem Renaissance started before the Civil War, and the roots of jazz music and Creole cuisine were being nurtured every Sunday in Congo...

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New York Governor's arrest record and speech

With a history of being arrested, the incoming Governor of New York State awaits pouncing by mainstream and right wing press.

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Don't Buy Dell Computers

Boycott Dell.Punish Dell for eliminating thousands of jobs here and shipping jobs overseas to pay international workers starvation wages.Support fair wages for all workers. That is the only way to stop...

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Volunteering For Obama: Karlyn's Story

 "It’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."– Barack ObamaToday, Kos wrote:Obama gained in Central PA.This is a story of how volunteers...

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Think you know Barack Obama?

Oh sure, you've read both of his autobiographies and you dig the way he presents himself.You made phone calls and pounded the pavement for him.You've even sent him money.But do you really know the man?

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McCain opposes Russian occupation of Atlanta

McCain speaks forcefully against Russian invasion of Atlanta

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Palin: Cheney :: Polar Bear: Endangered Species

You would think the governor of the state with polar bears would do all that she could to protect them. You would be wrong.

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Nobody Wants to Go to Their Party

At least 10 incumbent senators, plus several Senate candidates, have sent their regrets."It's probably easier to say who is attending," said Rebecca Fisher, spokeswoman for the National Republican...

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Will Democrats get caught holding?

Why is Barney Frank carrying water for Bush & Paulson?Doesn't he get it that bailing out bankers will come to be known as the Bush/Democrats' scheme, and that it is deeply unpopular just before an...

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**Holy Craps** Updated

This cooks his moose and skins it too.September 28, 2008 McCain and Team Have Many Ties to Gambling Industry By JO BECKER and DON VAN NATTA Jr.http://www.nytimes.com/...

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Medical crisis in Galveston: The Katrina Treatment (updated w/ links)

"A friend is trying hard to do something about the problem of medical care in Galveston and the effect the actions taken by University of Texas Medical Branch are going to have on the indigent of...

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Good News is Always Good News

A tale that begins this way... One sunny day in 2009,

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Eliot Spitzer is writing a column for Slate

The first one was posted tonight, the New York Observer is reporting.Spitzer was recruited to be a columnist for Slate after writing an Op Ed for the WP in mid November.

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Best yet explainer why your pocket was picked & picked again

Don't understand all that mumbo-jumbo about subprime markets crashing?Me either. What is this all about and why will our great grandchildren be paying for this all their lives?What exactly is a...

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Rock Hill, SC lunch counters today... and 48 years ago

When the story broke about two Klansmen apologizing to Congressman John Lewis, I turned to his memoir for what he'd said about Rock Hill. John Lewis had forgiven the Klansmen 48 years ago for beating...

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Prestigious literary firm offers Cheney lucrative book deal but only for candor

Richard Curtis, president & CEO of 10-year old E-reads, today offered Dick Cheney (his wife says the name rhymes with meanie) significantly more than the $2 million Cheney is reportedly seeking for...

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Say G'bye to Dan Froomkin @ WaPo

Today is his last entry at White House Watch.A class act as always, in his last column, Dan honors those who told the truth during the Bush era, or as much of the truth as could be ascertained, and...

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Run Baucus out of DC on a rail

Under the Baucus bailout for the insurance industry, those of us who can not afford insurance, much less the cost of seeing a doctor, would be fined up to $3,800 for failing to buy from the insurance...

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Reason #724,698 not to be hosed by AARP

Bloomberg reporters Gary Cohn and Darrell Preston have won an award named after the most prestigious names in contemporary investigative journalism.Through public documents and scores of interviews,...

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Reid says cut $20 billion in budget-busting oil subsidies

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is calling out the Republican bluff on cutting the federal budget. If you really want to save taxpayers money, he says, kill government tax giveaways to big oil.

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The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

This is a report on what atomic scientists are saying in the journal, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.The lessons of Fukushima in which Hugh Gusterson observes the politics of who is pro, con, and...

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The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists II

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is speeding its publishing schedule in response to the emergency in Japan. This report reviews four recent articles that reflect the thinking of scholars who spend...

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists III

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has today opened the archives on its reporting and analyses of the nuclear incident at Three Mile Island and the aftermath. This diary consists of links to each of...

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Letter from Fukushima worker

Read emails from Fukushima worker especially email #3 which says in part,We at the plants have been working on restoration work without sleep or rest since the earthquake. About two weeks have passed...

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Why did Arizona kill Jose Guerena, 26, Marine veteran of Iraq & Afghanistan?

Why did Pima County, Arizona cops break into the home of Jose Guerena and kill him?Why did 60 police bullets pierce the body of this war veteran who had served honorably twice in Iraq and once in...

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"The Idiot Yankee’s Guide to Rick Perry"

The Columbia Journalism Review links to an informative article by the astute and longtime Texas journalist Paul Burka at the Texas Monthly.The Idiot Yankee’s Guide to Rick Perry as CJR dubs it, the...

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Perry gave tens of millions in federal disaster funds to his political donors...

Texas was hit hard in 2008 by hurricanes Dolly and Ike. The federal government pitched in $3.1 Billion Dollars in disaster relief to help people hit hardest. The relief funding was intended to create...

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When a News Reporter Does the Right Thing

I'd like to draw your attention to the work of Sara Ganim at the Patriot-Ledger in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.She's been doing terrific reporting on the Penn State scandal beginning Thursday, March 31,...

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What's stinking up the air at Main Justice?

When he was sworn in to be Attorney General of the United States on February 3, 2009, Eric Holder said, "There shall be no place for political favoritism, no reason to be timid in enforcing the laws...

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The Marketing of Breast Cancer

In 2002, the Fund for Investigative Journalism supported the work of journalist Mary Ann Swissler as she looked into the finances and politics of the Komen Foundation. Swissler found that the...

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... And Justice for All?

That's the last four words of the pledge of allegiance.Do you believe it?Will you sign this petition? written by a New York man whose dad was shot to death inside his home by cops who were summoned to...

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dKos correction: Nikki Haley indictment rumor is false

Two Daily Kos diaries picked up the rumor in March that the South Carolina governor might be indicted for taxes.The New York Times reports that rumor is false. The Times' article also names Daily Kos...

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Who's funnier than Andy Borowitz?

Borowitz on Twitter:"It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads."@BorowitzReport: "Austerity" is a word said mainly by...

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What about the House?

I haven't seen much about the future of the House of Representatives until Sunday when one article predicted there will be no real change in control of the House.The rather bleak article in a DC news...

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Tammy Duckworth has beaten deadbeat misogynist in Illinois

A Tea Party member elected to Congress two years ago is going down in Illinois. He claims women don't need abortions, even to save their lives. And, he neglected to pay child support for his own...

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Republicans Are Terrific!! Thank them for their many kindnesses.

The Navy Seal shooter who sent bin Laden to hell is scraping by, hard-pressed to find a job despite the pressure of the cost of paying for his family'shealth insurance.The Man Who Killed Osama bin...

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The administration's attack on the press isn't nothing. It is a travesty.

Along with the news guild, about 50 news organizations have sent letters to Attorney General Eric Holder objecting to the subpoenas.Writing letters of indignation to congress critters has value when...

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$weet $weet deal for Congressman Tom Petri (R-GreedyDoD)

USAToday is reporting that    *    Rep. Tom Petri (R-Wisconsin) owns hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of shares in military truck-maker Oshkosh Corp.     *    The stock gained 30% in value as he...

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Will the World Listen & Stop the Terror Raining from the Sky?"

UNRWA Strongly Condemns Israeli Shelling of Its School in Gaza as a Serious Violation of International Law 30 July 2014 Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre KrähenbühlJerusalemLast night,...

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Anonymous Seized the Klan's Main Twitter Account Sunday Morning #OpKKK...

... and wouldn't let go until a short time ago.Anonymous had been in control of the Klan's main Twitter account @KuKluxKlanUSA since 9 this morning, posting its own pictures on the racists' account and...

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Self-publishing 101: Why Indy Publishers are Smart to Use Two Printers and...

I am a former news reporter. These days I work as a book shepherd, editing and designing print and digital books for authors. Doing so keeps me mostly out of trouble and able to pay some of the bills...

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This is cold. The takedown of Billie Holiday by the federal government

Oh, this is a story you do want to see. It will enrage you. It is an excerpt from a new book on how the federal government's war on drugs began by taking the life of Lady Day.It is the tale of an...

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