Decision could have major impact on battle between Clinton, Obama
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From the remaining superdelegates, to the Florida and Michigan delegates, to the last three primary contests, to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama - how the race for the Democratic presidential nomination and the right to go on to face John McCain in November will draw to a close.
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In the parable, the master was not confused when his servants reported that weeds had sprung up with the wheat. He knew he had sown good seed. "This is the work of an enemy," he declared, and, of course, he was right. Today, our society is riddled with weeds. Who put them there? The enemy is subtle. The enemy is the State.
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On the surface, the Clinton forces have a weak hand, their own representatives on the 30-member RBC split between the goal of winning the nomination and refusing to push the rules to the breaking point.
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He became suspicious when the food started disappearing. But she lived there FOR A YEAR.
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Prominent Hillary supporter James Carville diverges from the Hillary campaign message on several key "electability" questions in an interview with TPM Election Central. "If he gets what Kerry got he will still win the election, because the dynamics have changed," he says.
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How is it possible that so many Led Zeppelin songs are based around some of the greatest riffs in history? Jimmy Page reveals the secret.
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“The Daily Show” is a bellwether for the evolution of Internet video. It is also one of those programs that signify for people why they pay so much money for cable.That’s why my eyebrows jumped when I saw the announcement last week that full episodes of three Comedy Central shows will start being webcast.
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A committee of US Democratic Party officials is meeting on 31 May in an attempt to resolve a long-running dispute over whether delegates from Florida and Michigan can take their seats - and select a presidential candidate - at the party's National Convention in September.
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Scott McClellan looks back on one of the most painful experiences of his life in 'What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception.'
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As polygamist families from the Yearning for Zion Ranch await the return of their children, officials in Texas face the fallout after trying to crack down.
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LONDON - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff downplayed the threat of a nuclear terror attack Friday despite recent postings on al-Qaida-affiliated Web sites exhorting militants to pursue weapons of mass destruction for use against the U.S.
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By Michael Hoffman, Air Force TimesThe same Air Force unit that mistakenly flew nuclear-tipped cruise missiles on a B-52 last summer has failed a nuclear security inspection, according to a Defense Department report.Security broke down on multiple levels during simulated attacks across the 5th Bomb Wing's North Dakota base, including attacks
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Tens of thousands took to the streets Friday in opposition to a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security agreement, raising doubts that negotiators can meet a July target to finalize a pact to keep U.S. troops in Iraq after the current U.N. mandate expires
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A day before the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee is set to determine how to seat the delegations of Florida and Michigan, the Clinton campaign's chief lawyer Lyn Utrecht said the committee is compelled to seat both delegations fully and NOT award Barack Obama ANY delegates from Michigan. What? What!!
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Hillary's lawyers today outlined her wish list to the RBC in an open letter to committee members attached after the jump. She again takes a hard line the she wants all delegates seated with 100% of the votes and apportioned the way the states voted in January, even as the Clinton camp braced for defections amongst her 13 supporters on the committee
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CHICAGO, May 30 (UPI) -- Chicago's cardinal Friday said the priest and Barack Obama supporter who derided Sen. Hillary Clinton won't "mention any candidate by name" from now on.In a statement, Roman Catholic Cardinal Francis George said the Rev. Michael Pfleger "has promised me that he will not enter into campaigning. (He) will not publicly
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One of the greatest human rights crimes on earth: Carter describes Israeli treatment of Palestinians.
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Approximately one-third of all children, and 50 percent of minorities, in public high school drop out of high school nationwide. In many of the nation’s “dropout factories,” the percentage of dropouts far outpaces the percentage of graduates.
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For 40 years, we have been waging a "war on drugs." Families are being kicked out of housing when many have done nothing wrong. Drug addiction is bad. But the war on drugs is worse. Frances Johnson, a 68-year-old grandmother in Washington, D.C faced eviction simply because her grandson was arrested for possessing a small amount of marijuana.
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According to this FEC report, Hillary raised only 4.3 million in the 48 hours following Pennsylvania. She raised 1.7 mil on April 23rd and 2.6 mil on April 24th. That's 5.7 million shy of her claim that she raised 10 million in the first 24 hours following that state's primary.
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They buried the truth about the 2000 election, and they're still burying it today.
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They buried the truth about the 2000 election, and they're still burying it today.
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Oklahoma has become a laboratory in which the worst right-wing elements are ramming xenophobic and anti-gay legislation through the Legislature.
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The Justice Department has issued a report on torture, citing testimony by scores of FBI officials outraged over our treatment of prisoners.
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If anything, McClellan's book seems to be the effort not of a man trying to bolster his image, but rather trying to repair it. As press secretary, he was unaware and made to go out in front of the public time and time again to defend only half-truths and distorted information. They made a fool of him, they made fools of us all.
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WASHINGTON — Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan, whose new memoir has sparked controversy about the Bush administration's plans before the Iraq war, said Thursday he is "disappointed that things didn't turn out the way we had hoped they would turn out" at the beginning of the administration.
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Pentagon officials say there were fewer Army suicides last year than they had feared. But it was still the highest number in almost two decades. Two defense officials said Thursday that 108 troops committed suicide in 2007, the most since 1990.
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RANGOON, Burma (AP) — Burma's ruling junta lashed out Thursday at aid donors who promised millions of dollars for cyclone relief, saying survivors didn't need "bars of chocolate."
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WASHINGTON — The number of accused felons declared mentally incompetent to stand trial is rising in 10 of the nation's 12 largest states, delaying local prosecutions and swamping state mental health and prison systems, a USA TODAY review finds.
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"A trip is under consideration but no final plans have been made," Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said.
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Young Hillary Clinton - Real Clear Politics - Elections 2008
Posted by soul Labels: 2008 Presidential Candidates, Hillary Clinton, videoPosted by TOM BEVAN This is clever and pretty darn funny:
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It's not runaway greed or overregulation. It's the world we live in. It's a price that can be seen in a single gallon of California gas.
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Gov. David A. Paterson has directed all state agencies to begin to revise their policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions, like California and Canada.
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After all, seven years, four months, and a scattering of days into the Bush presidency, the Pentagon is deeply entrenched in Washington and still aggressively expanding. It has developed a taste for unrivaled power and unequaled access to the treasure of this country. It is an institution that has escaped the checks and balances of the nation.
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"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
California counties can issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples beginning June 17, the state said in a directive issued Wednesday. The state Office of Vital Records said it chose June 17 because the state Supreme Court has until the close of business on June 16 to decide whether to grant a stay of its May 15 ruling legalizing gay marriage.
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A Florida court threw out a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the Democratic Party's decision not to seat delegates from Florida...Judge Richard Lazarra sided with the party, saying political parties have the right to make their own rules.
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LONDON (AP) — The United States is shirking its duty to provide the world with moral leadership and China is letting its business interests trump human rights concerns in Myanmar and Sudan, a human rights group said Wednesday.
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By Bill Van Auken, WSWSThe most stunning revelation in a 370-page Justice US Department Inspector General's report released this week was that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had formally opened a War Crimes file, documenting torture they had witnessed at the Guantnamo Bay US prison camp, before being ordered by th
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Are we Americans truly savages or merely tone-deaf in matters of morality, and therefore more guilty of terminal indifference than venality? It's a question demanding an answer in response to the publication of the detailed 370-page report on U.S. complicity in torture, issued last week by the Justice Department's inspector general.
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The advice from Democratic Party lawyers is a blow to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s efforts to seat the full delegations from Florida and Michigan.
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Students in public schools have math scores that are just as good if not better than those of students in private schools, according to a new national study. The research focused across several years on 9,791 kindergarten through fifth-grade students.
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Author Jason Leopold reports on one of the top censored stories. Halliburton sold key components to Iran as late as 2005, through an Iranian private oil company, Oriental Oil Kish. In 1996 VP Dick Cheney told US businessmen while on a trip to the Middle East, to ease sanctions in Iran & Libya to foster better relationships with them.
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Breaking news and analysis on the political, social, economic and cultural activism that mainstream media commonly ignore.
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I was a little shocked to find out about a less mentioned problem of the Bush administration - complete and total financial mismanagement. The kind of mismanagement that speaks to a complete lack of coherent planning, restraint, or responsibility.
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Who do you think are the most cynical people in the world? Cops? Executioners? Or maybe prostitutes? Clowns?We're thinking it's doctors. If you want proof, check out some of the horrifying-yet-hilarious slang they use around the office. Yes, these are real.
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Greg Palast of the BBC has uncovered over 500 emails sent by Karl Rove from GOP and RNC servers that were later deleted to inhibit a justice department investigation. What Palast has uncovered is a preliminary plan to 'cage' black voters out of the 2008 election. Oh, O am proud to be an American... c'mon guys, you know the words!
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The source, a retired US career diplomat and former assistant secretary of state still active in the foreign affairs community, speaking anonymously, said last week that the US plans an air strike against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The air strike would target the headquarters of the IRGC’s elite Quds force.
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Iranians are watching the U.S. elections closely and rooting for a victory by the Illinois senator, who has said he's willing to agree to unconditional talks with Iran.
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STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Iran has played a positive role in preparations for a conference on Iraq here this week at which it was hoped US and Iranian delegates could hold bilateral talks, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said Wednesday on the eve of the meeting.
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(KATMANDU) — Nepal's king will have 15 days to leave the palace after his centuries-old throne is abolished, officials said Wednesday, hours before they were expected to declare the country a republic.
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Amnesty International today challenged world leaders to apologize for six decades of human rights failure and re-commit themselves to deliver concrete improvements.
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MEE LAUNG KWIN, Myanmar — As the fisherman sat mending cyclone-damaged nets in his riverside hut here on Saturday, he said he had not known it was the day he and other residents of the Irrawaddy Delta were supposed to vote on the new military-backed Constitution.But the fisherman, 54, did remember that a village leader affiliated with the ruling
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is concerned about a new sign of deepening ties between Belarus and Russia at a time of heightened tensions with both countries.On Tuesday, Russia and Belarus named Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to the post of prime minister of an alliance of the two neighbors.
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Correspondents say Mr Larijani's warning carries weight as he is one of the key Iranian figures in the nuclear standoff. He served as Iran's top nuclear negotiator between 2005-2007 and he sits on the supreme national security council as representative of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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When President George W. Bush appeared before the Israeli Knesset recently and denounced those who appease "terrorists and radicals," it was seen back home as a swipe against Democratic contender Barack Obama for saying that the U.S. should talk to its enemies. But his audience of Israeli legislators, who interrupted Bush's speech at least 14 times
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Following consultations late Tuesday night, Defense Minister Ehud Barak is seriously considering presenting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with an ultimatum on Wednesday: Either the premier resign, or Barak will pull Labor out of the coalition, thus forcing new elections.
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Defense Minister Ehud Barak called on Wednesday on Ehud Olmert to step aside as Israel's prime minister after damaging testimony in a corruption case.
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JERUSALEM - The scandal enveloping Prime Minister Ehud Olmert could force him from power and throw Israel's fractious political system into turmoil.If Olmert exits and his government falls, polls indicate that hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party are well-positioned to take power. That would likely have serious implications...
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A Democratic Party rules committee has the authority to seat some delegates from Michigan and Florida but not fully restore the two states as Hillary Rodham Clinton wants, according to party lawyers.
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USATODAY.com - During the 2000 Florida recount, newly elected Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said, "I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it's time to do away with the Electoral College."
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Remember the boom? The seemingly endless sunny days, the IPOs, the stock options, the insatiable appetites for stuff -- food and drugs and money and exposed pipes and stainless steel kitchens? Remember all that hope and greed and youth and bright shining possibility?Novelist Janelle Brown, a journalist who toiled at California's new media Disney
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The demonstrators, mostly young members of the party, shouted slogans demanding the release of Suu Kyi from house arrest and calling on the regime to allow international relief workers to help bring aid to cyclone victims. They held up a picture of Suu Kyi.
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These 46 pages of step-by-step criminal procedure form only part of a larger body of evidence being presented to Congress. What is presented is astonishing in the scope of the crimes and the billions of dollars stolen by these criminals.
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Here are the best shots, in approximate order: Virginia, New Mexico, Colorado, New Hampshire, Alaska, Mississippi, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon and Texas.
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HANOI (Reuters) - An unidentified flying object exploded in mid-air over a southern Vietnamese island, state media said on Wednesday, a day after Cambodia's air force retracted a report of a mysterious plane crash. The Vietnam News Agency said...
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As the 2008 presidential election draws closer, Democrat Barack Obama has reportedly been working tirelessly with his top political strategists to perfect his looking-off-into-the-future pose, which many believe is vital to the success of the Illinois senator's campaign.
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In a new tell-all memoir on sale next week, former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan writes that the president depended on propaganda to sell the Iraq war to the American public...
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White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence.This new book is harsher than anyone expected.
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The Federal Drug Administration has banned the use of the anti-smoking drug Chantix by pilots or air traffic controllers, citing side effects that have been linked to auto accidents. What do you think?
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The new HBO movie Recount is a fresh reminder of the chaos the surrounded efforts to tabulate Florida's punch-card ballots in the razor-thin 2000 presidential election. Electronic voting machines were once thought to be the solution to hanging chads and other glitches, but they look less magical now
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Burma's ruling junta has renewed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest.Police earlier detained about 20 activists as they marched to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate's home in Rangoon, where she has been held since May 2003.The decision came at a tricky time for the generals, who have been criticised for their response to Cyc...
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By Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush has made it clear he is excited to get out on the campaign trail this election year to help Republicans keep the White House and retake Congress -- but do they want his...
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WASHINGTON, May 27 (Reuters) - The United States said on Tuesday Myanmar's junta missed a chance to start a dialogue with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi by extending her house arrest but this would not affect post-cyclone aid efforts. "We...
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Same-sex couples in some counties will be able to marry as soon as Saturday, June 14, the president of the California's county clerks association said Monday.
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Good morning on this Memorial Day, 2008. We hope most all are enjoying the day and taking some time off to reflect.A few campaign-related stories are in the news this morning, starting with this one from The Politico:
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A group of journalists was taken by officials from Peshawar and Islamabad to Waziristan tribal region, where their meeting was arranged with Pakistan's most wanted man, Baithullah Mehsud. Mehsud, chief of the so-called Taliban Movement has been accused of having a hand in the murder of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto.
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BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. homeland security chief called on Pakistan's new government Monday to strike back against terrorism in its regions bordering Afghanistan or face more attacks of the kind that killed ex-premier Benazir Bhutto.
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GENEVA (AP) — Diplomats have agreed that Geneva will host a second U.N. anti-racism conference, after months of wrangling over the venue.
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Dutch scientists claim they have completed the first sequencing of an individual woman's DNA. The researchers at Leiden University Medical Center say they have sequenced the DNA of one their researchers, geneticist Marjolein Kriek. They plan to publish it after review. No other scientists have verified their data.
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At 1:20 Sen. Durbin exposes Veterans for Freedom as a front for Senators Lieberman and Graham who are on the Advisory Board. It is a 527 that produced an attack ad on Barack Obama. By law 527's are not allowed to advocate a particular candidate, only issues. Another Israel Lobby front exposed!
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Chinese officials announced Monday that the country's strict one-child policy will make some exceptions for certain families affected by the devastating earthquake two weeks ago.
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What are these people smoking?"The threat the government of Iran poses is anything but tiny," thundered McCain - the same "experienced" McCain who mistakenly claimed Iran was supporting Sunni fighters in Iraq...It's the great Iraq scare all over. Republicans again are playing to the least-educated Americans by frightening them with fairytales..."
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Reflections on major recent historical events in the United States by an American citizen: the stolen 2000 "election," the stolen 2004 "election," the illegal invasion of Iraq, the crimes of the destruction of Iraq and genocide in Iraq, the abuses at Abu Ghraib Prison, and the creation and protection of al Qaeda by the CIA, the FBI, and the Pentag
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The United States will prod Sunni Arab states to offer more support to the Iraqi government at a conference in Sweden this week as a way of countering the growing influence of non-Arab Iran in Iraq.
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Until the day he died, Sgt. Brian Rand believed he was being haunted by the ghost of the Iraqi man he killed. The ghost choked Rand while he slept in his bunk, forcing him to wake up gasping for air and clawing at his throat. Eventually, the ghost told Rand he needed to kill himself.
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BAGHDAD - Six teenage boys who said they were being trained as suicide bombers were detained Monday in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said.
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Polluters dump about 240 million pounds of toxins into our waterways each year, and the effects on our environment could be disastrous
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A bizarre new trend is emerging: traditional armed conquests are increasingly less effective, and countries with high birthrates have the edge.
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The official cover-up of football star-turned-soldier Pat Tillman's death by "friendly fire" has led his family on a four-year mission for justice.
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A staggering number of students died as schools collapsed in the May 12 earthquake, and grieving parents are speaking out about shoddy construction.
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By Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press - WASHINGTON — If his cell were at Guantanamo Bay, the prisoner would be just one of hundreds of suspected terrorists detained offshore, where the U.S. says the Constitution does not apply.
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By Joe Milicia, Associated Press - RITTMAN, Ohio — The cracking of rifle fire silenced the twittering blue jays, blackbirds and killdeer. As members of the color guard lowered their rifles, the smell of bitter smoke drifted over the family and friends of former Army Sgt. Ellis Hale, a Vietnam War veteran who died of prostate cancer at age 59.
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There's a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year," Obama said. "If you have people like Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh ginning things up, it's not surprising that would happen."
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By Rob Waters - May 25 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. soldiers returning from the Iraq War with physical or psychological wounds are getting poor treatment from the military and veterans' health care systems, say a majority of Americans polled by Harvard University.
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By PAULINE JELINEK – WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of private counselors are offering free services to troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with mental health problems, jumping in to help because the military is short on therapists.
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Dr. Ira Katz, chief of mental health services for the Department of Veterans Affairs, sent an e-mail to a VA colleague this past February that read:"Shh! Our suicide prevention coordinators are identifying about 1,000 suicide attempts per month among the veterans we see in our medical facilities. Is this something we should (carefully) address
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Daniel Williams hoped Chantix would help him quit smoking and become healthier. Instead, he believes, it nearly killed him.
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Sunday he expects Democratic superdelegates to reveal theirchoice for presidential nominee soon after the final primary in June and that Hillary Clinton will then have to quit the race.
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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
Senator Clinton, I cannot give you the benefit of the doubt.You are too smart.You are too intelligent.You are too politically astute.Your statement was not mistaken.It was intentional.
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HBO will air this Sunday “Recount”, a movie about the 2000 Florida elections involving Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign is in a troubled stretch, hindered by resignations of staff members, a lagging effort to build a national campaign organization and questions over whether he has taken full advantage of Democratic turmoil to present a case for his candidacy, Republicans said.
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Health officials are warning New Yorkers to stay away from an illegal aphrodisiac made from toad venom after the product apparently killed a man. The alert went out Friday after New York City's poison control center received a report from an area hospital that a 35-year-old man had died earlier this month after ingesting a small chunk of the hard,
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On this Memorial Day, many Americans will remember friends and relatives who fell in wars past and present.
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The young Marine came back from the war, with his toughest fight ahead of him.
Merlin German waged that battle in the quiet of a Texas hospital, far from the dusty road in Iraq where a bomb exploded, leaving him with burns over 97% of his body.
No one expected him to survive.
But for more than three years, he would not surrender. He endured more than 100 surgeries and procedures. He learned to live with pain, to stare at a stranger's face in the mirror. He learned to smile again, to joke, to make others laugh.He became known as the "Miracle Man."
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USATODAY.com - When the blood of any war soaks your clothes and covers your hands, and soldiers die in your arms, every breath forever more becomes an appeal for a greater peace, unity and reconciliation.
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WASHINGTON - Call them Kool-Aid drinkers. Political romantics. Starry-eyed dreamers. But as the marathon Democratic primary campaign nears an end, Barack Obama's staff is on the verge of vindicating its belief that the eloquent black freshman senator from Illinois was a unique candidate who could win the Democratic nomination in one of the biggest upsets in presidential politics
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Government lawyers told federal judges that the president can send the military into any U.S. neighborhood, capture a citizen and hold him in prison without charge, indefinitely.
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Footage you were never supposed to see
Artist Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for public consumption. The result of his research is SPIN, one of the most insightful films ever made about the mechanics of how television is used as a tool of social control to distort and limit the American public's perception of reality.
Take the time to watch it from beginning to end and you'll never look at TV reporting the same again. Tell your friends about it. This extraordinary film released in the early 1990s is almost completely unknown. Hopefully, the Internet will change that.
Note: We have posted excerpts of this film. You can find these excerpts by going to the "Spin" section of Brasscheck TV.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama ratcheted up criticism of Republican John McCain on Saturday, comparing him with the unpopular Bush administration and continuing an effort to make the former war hero's opposition to a college aid bill for military veterans a campaign issue.
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is grilling baby back ribs with three VP hopefuls at the "Sedona Summit" at his Arizona cabin this weekend, while Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has to publicly say he's still fighting for the nomination as he makes quiet preparations for picking a No. 2. Here's the latest on Washington's favorite parlor game:
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Nothing reveals the Clintons' lack of principle so clearly as their assertion that Dem Party rules should be abandoned.
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When the Clinton administration returned young castaway Elian Gonzalez in 2000 to Communist-ruled Cuba - a government his mother died trying to flee - angry Cuban exiles helped deliver Florida's electoral votes and victory to Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush.
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Authorities in southern Germany have taken custody of a 7-month-old boy after his parents posted an ad on eBay offering to sell him for one euro, or about $1.60. the baby was placed in the care of youth services in the southwestern Allgaeu region.
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Why do so many in the liberal media simply move on to another topic after stating that Bush took the nation to war based on a lie?
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Hillary Clinton today brought up the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Obama. "We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California" she said, dismissing calls to drop out.
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Discussing her decision to remain in the Democratic contest, she said, 'We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.' Obama's supporters condemn the comments.
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Campaign 2008 is proving that candidates have to vet their members of the clergy.When George W. Bush ran for president in 2000, an influential megachurch pastor from Texas made an early endorsement that helped him win over skeptical evangelical conservatives.That pastor was the Rev. John C. Hagee.
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(CINCINNATI) Water utilities would get earlier warning of viruses, bacteria or chemicals that could be introduced into drinking water systems by terrorists under a test monitoring program set for expansion beyond Cincinnati.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro blasted Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Friday for his criticism of the Cuban government this week, saying McCain had shown why he finished near the bottom of his class at West Point. In...
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By Nick Anderson, The Houston Chronicle
From the Cartoonist Group.
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Elizabeth Royte's new book explains why bottled water is one of the greatest marketing coups of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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As this excerpt from AlterNet's new book, Shock Jocks: Hate Speech & Talk Radio, makes clear, host Michael Savage promotes hatred.
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"Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold."
'Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.' - Bob Marley