Panel weighs fate of Florida, Michigan votes

Decision could have major impact on battle between Clinton, Obama

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The Dem Primary's Final Week: Everything You Need to Know

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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Know the Enemy

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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Clinton's Choice: Scorch The Earth Or Prepare To Fold

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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Japanese woman caught living in man's closet

He became suspicious when the food started disappearing. But she lived there FOR A YEAR.

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Carville: I Think Obama Will Win General Election

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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Jimmy Page Reveals Led Zeppelin's Secrets

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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How "The Daily Show" Is Changing The Internet Video Industry

“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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Q&A: Michigan and Florida delegates

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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Culture of Deception

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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FLDS raid appears to have backfired - Los Angeles Times

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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Chertoff: Low threat of WMD terror attack

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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Report: Air Force unit fails nuclear security inspection

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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Iraq: Thousands protest proposed U.S. security pact

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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Still Crying Dept: Seat ALL Delegates Clinton Lawyer Demands

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 Excuse to Fight On?

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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Cardinal: Priest to stay out of politics

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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Israel 'has 150 nuclear weapons'

One of the greatest human rights crimes on earth: Carter describes Israeli treatment of Palestinians.

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1/3 of All Public High School Students Drop Out of School

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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Smoke a Joint and Your Whole Family Could End Up Homeless

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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Clinton did not raise 10mil in 24 hours: FEC reports

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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New York Times Perpetuates the Myth that George Bush Won the 2000 Election

They buried the truth about the 2000 election, and they're still burying it today.

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New York Times Perpetuates the Myth that George Bush Won the 2000 Election

They buried the truth about the 2000 election, and they're still burying it today.

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Xenophobia and Anti-Gay Legislation Galore in Oklahoma

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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Even the FBI Is Outraged over U.S. Torture

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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War Crimes & Puzzle Pieces:Obama, McClellan, Rove, and Bush

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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McClellan says he believed Bush as war started

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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Army Suicides Are Now the Highest in Nearly 20 Years

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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Burma's junta lashes out at aid donors

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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Mentally incompetent defendants on rise

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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Campaign: Obama Iraq trip under consideration

"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 TOM BEVAN This is clever and pretty darn funny:




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Why gas is so expensive

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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New York to Back Same-Sex Unions From Other States

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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The Mega-Pentagon: A Bush-Enabled Monster We Can't Stop

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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today's quote...

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."

- Mark Twain

Gay marriage to begin June 17 in California

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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Florida court throws out DNC suit

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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Amnesty International condemns US, China in report

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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FBI files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war criminals

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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Where is the Outrage?

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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Democrats Are Advised to Seat Half of 2 States’ Delegates

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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Study Public Schools Just As Good as Private Schools

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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Top Censored Story: Halliburton Sold Nuke Components to Iran

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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Bush Aide Scores White House War Propaganda

Breaking news and analysis on the political, social, economic and cultural activism that mainstream media commonly ignore.

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How G. W. Bush made one Republican into an Obama supporter

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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8 Medical Terms Your Doctor Uses to Insult You

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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Karl Rove Accidently Emailed 500 Deleted Emails to Reporter

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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Asia Times: Bush to attack Iran by August.

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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IRAN: Tehran carefully rooting for Obama

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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Iran plays positive role in preparing Iraq conference:Sweden

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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Nepal's King: 15 Days to Leave Palace - TIME

(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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60 years of human rights failure

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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When It Comes to Politics, Government Is All Too Helpful

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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Putin appointment to Belarus post concerns U.S.

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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Iran speaker warns nuclear agency

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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Why Israel Is Talking to Its Enemies

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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Barak expected to give Olmert ultimatum: Quit, or I walk

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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Barak demands Olmert step aside as Israeli PM

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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Olmert scandal threatens political storm

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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Democratic Party lawyers give opinion on Florida & Michigan

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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Democrats' dilemma

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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In every dream home, a heartache

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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BURMA: NLD Members Arrested; Suu Kyi’s Sentence Extended

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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How Bush & Cheney Ripped Off the CIA & the Pentagon

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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Dems May Pick up 11 Seats in the Senate

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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Vietnam reports ''UFO'' explosion off Cambodia coast

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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Obama Practices Looking-Off-Into-Future Pose

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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Ex-White House spokesman: Bush used 'propaganda' to sell war

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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McClellan whacks Bush, White House

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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Anti-Smoking Drug Linked To Accidents | The Onion

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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Back up electronic machines with paper

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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Suu Kyi's house arrest extended

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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Bush hits 2008 trail; do Republicans want his help?

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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U.S. says Suu Kyi house arrest will not affect aid

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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First California gay weddings may be on a Saturday

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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Dems have raised so much from so many people that FEC...

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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US Administration Has Hand In Creating Terrorism

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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Chertoff urges anti-terror fight in Pakistan

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 to host second U.N. anti-racism conference in 2009

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 claim first sequencing of female DNA

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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"Veterans for Freedom" is a front for Joe Lieberman

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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China Drops 1-Child Rule for Quake Victims

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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Hallucinating McCain Sees Iran as Bigger Threat than Russia

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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Where Does One Find the Courage to Resist?

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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U.S., Iran and Arab neighbors to meet on Iraq

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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Memories of Iraq Haunted U.S Soldier Until His Suicide

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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Iraq says 6 suspected teenage bombers detained

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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Rocket fuel, Pesticides and Pharmaceuticals Swirl in America

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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Birthrate Is Turning Modern Conventional Warfare on Its Head

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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They Used Pat for Public Consumption Just Like Jessica Lynch

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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Chinese Are Left to Ask Why Schools Crumbled

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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'Sleeper cell' case questions Bush's authority

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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Veterans' burials nonstop at national cemeteries

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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Obama: Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs Responsible For Rise In Hate

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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Iraq Vets Get Poor Health Care, Harvard Survey

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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Private psychiatrists offer free service to troops

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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Hushing Up Crisis Of Suicide, Mental Scars

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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Drug taken to stop smoking is linked to traffic mishaps

Daniel Williams hoped Chantix would help him quit smoking and become healthier. Instead, he believes, it nearly killed him.

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Carter sees superdelegates prompting Clinton to quit

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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today's quote...

 

"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."

- Albert Einstein

 

'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.' - Albert Einstein

Get Out.

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 To Air Drama About The 2000 Florida Elections

HBO will air this Sunday “Recount”, a movie about the 2000 Florida elections involving Al Gore and George W. Bush.

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G.O.P. Leaders See Disorder in McCain Campaign

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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N.Y. Man Dies From Toxic Aphrodisiac

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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Friends, comrades live on in hearts of Iraq veterans

On this Memorial Day, many Americans will remember friends and relatives who fell in wars past and present.

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'Miracle' Marine loses final battle

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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How enemies became friends in this unique lesson of Vietnam

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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Obama's political team out-organized Clinton

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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US residents in military brigs? Govt says it's war

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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"Spin" by Brian Springer

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.

"Spin" by Brian Springer

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McCain, Obama spar on veterans benefits

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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Playbook special: Veep tipsheet - Mike Allen - Politico.com

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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What Game Is Hillary Playing?

Nothing reveals the Clintons' lack of principle so clearly as their assertion that Dem Party rules should be abandoned.

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Obama woos Cuban Americans

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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German Parents Post Baby On eBay For 1 Euro!

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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The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

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 invokes RFK assassination as reason to stay in race

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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Hillary Clinton apologizes over Robert F. Kennedy remarks -

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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Spotlight Recasts Church Leaders and Their Support

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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EPA tests plans to protect water from terrorists

(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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Fidel Castro attacks McCain and Bush in column

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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America's Iraq Calendar

 

By Nick Anderson, The Houston Chronicle
From the Cartoonist Group.

America's Iraq Calendar

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another quote for today...

 

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

'In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.' - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It

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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The Most Savage Shock Jock of Them All

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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today's quote...

 

"Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold."

- Bob Marley

'Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.' - Bob Marley

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Portraits of fallen comfort broken hearts

Not long after Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas Kirven was killed in an insurgent ambush in Afghanistan on Mother's Day in 2005, his family was contacted by a stranger.

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China: Roused by Disaster

The quake has revealed the compassionate side of China's Me generation and put the government under unprecedented scrutiny. The country will never be the same

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Clinton Campaign in Talks With Obama About VP Slot, CNN Says

U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is in formal talks with Senator Barack Obama's campaign about becoming his vice presidential running mate, CNN reported, without citing anyone specific.

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Obama, Clinton Campaigns Deny Discussions to End Race

May 23 (Bloomberg) -- The campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama denied a report they are discussing ways of ending the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, including a possible offer to Clinton to be her rival's vice presidential running mate.

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Russia, China unite against U.S. defense plan

Moscow and Beijing have formed closer ties in recent years as part of their efforts to counterbalance Washington's global dominance.

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Joe Lieberman, ideological turncoat

The senator's indictment of the Democratic Party is just as dishonest as his failure to discuss his own evolution as an ally of McCain's.By Joe Conason

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Speechless - Real Clear Politics - Elections 2008 - TIME

Congresswoman Maxine Waters wants to nationalize the oil industry - if only she can find the words:

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Sign The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

2008 is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60th anniversary. It's time for a global conversation about human rights and the values that unite us as one human family. But it can also be a time when each of us chooses to take human rights into our daily lives, by joining a powerful people network. [sign up here]

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Escape from Baghdad By Anna Badkhen

Unlike many who would also like to leave, today I board a cargo plane and fly away.May 22: I am leaving Iraq, and a lot of people who are staying wish they could do the same: Sahar al-Jawari, the unemployed, divorced mother who is slowly selling the last of her jewelry to survive in a city where gunshots are an everyday affair and electricity

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The ugliest election by Gary Kamiya

"Recount," director Jay Roach and screenwriter Danny Strong's first-rate docudrama about the disputed 2000 presidential election, is almost too painful to watch. Close to eight years have passed since a divided Supreme Court ended the epic 36-day battle over the votes by halting the recount in Florida, thus handing the election to George W. Bush.

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Nation's Poorest 1% Now Controls Two-Thirds Of U.S. Soda Can

A report on growing disparities in the concentration of U.S. aluminum-can wealth, released Tuesday by the Department of Commerce, revealed that 66 percent of the nation's recyclable assets are now held by the poorest 1 percent of the population.

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McCain Tells Ellen: You Shouldn't Be Able To Get Married

Below is the CNN news clip on John McCain's appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres show...



Appearing on Ellen DeGeneres's show today, McCain said, "I just believe in the unique status of marriage between man and woman." Ellen replied, "We are all the same people. All of us. You’re no different than I am. Our love is the same."

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David Sirota: A Different Kind of Democracy

A big theme in my upcoming book, The Uprising (due out this coming Tuesday), is our culture's inability to see anything other than elections - and specifically federal elections - as a major instrument of social change or democracy. This myopic view expresses itself in all different ways - the media coverage of presidential campaigns,

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The Federal Reserve: Traitorous America Haters

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart: Perhaps the greatest tragedy caused by the rise of right-wing radio is that now everything -- every single statement made -- is political and not factual. As a result, discussion about negative facts often boils down not to a refutation of those facts, but ad hominem attacks on those who mention those facts. For example,

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For a "Change-Turnout-New Voter" Race, Bill Richardson VP

Richardson Drives New Voter Registration and Turnout. The '08 election will be about change (from different people, to the way we conduct our political system, to policies, to transcending politics), for which voter turnout and new voter registration are the keys.

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Myanmar to Accept ‘All’ Aid Workers

The United Nations secretary general said that Senior Gen. Than Shwe had agreed to allow “all aid workers” to help survivors of the country’s cyclone.

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Wars take a deadly toll, even after vets return home

When a top doctor at the Department of Veterans Affairs learned in February that about 1,000 veterans under VA care attempt suicide each month, he knew just what was needed: A smart public relations strategy.

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Court: Texas had no right to take polygamists' kids

An appeals court has ruled that Texas had no right to seize hundreds of children from polygamous sect.

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Today's food crisis isn't a blip

By Paul E. Roberts For anyone wondering where food prices are really headed, the news that Beijing has begun buying up farmland in Africa and South America offers a troubling hint. When China began acquiring oil fields in the 1990s, it signaled both the end of China's self-sufficiency in oil and the start of a competition between China and...

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Kennedy Roars in Search

Lookups on just about possible variant of Senator Kennedy's name spiked, including everything from the very proper "senator edward m. kennedy" to the more casual "teddy kennedy." Interest in "senator kennedy biography" and…

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another quote for today...

 

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group."

~Franklin D. Roosevelt ~

 

'The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group.' - Franklin D. Roosevelt

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today's quote...

 

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

~Margaret Mead

 

'Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.' - ~Margaret Mead

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We Are Citizens, Hear Us Roar

For years, political pundits have been wringing their hands over dismal voter turnout. Now, with the most energized Democratic presidential primary race in decades, they've been nagging the candidates to wrap up their show, for the good of the party.Well, the voters aren't ready to stop voting.

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Officials say Obama starts search for running mate

Democratic officials say Barack Obama has begun a top-secret search for a running mate.

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Veterans Attest to PTSD Neglect by VA

by: Maya Schenwar and Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t | ReportRecently released documents from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are further proof the VA has failed to adequately address the crisis in veterans' mental health care, according to a former top VA employee turned veterans' advocate.

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More Americans Fear Losing Health Insurance Than Terrorism

Will a new administration and Congress get universal health care right this time?

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Homeland Security's Emerging Immigration Police State

Forced drugging. Abuse. Death. That's what workplace-based immigration enforcement without deeper reform looks like.

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Why Won't Fox Reveal "Analyst" Karl Rove as McCain Adviser?

It has now been more than three months since Karl Rove first appeared on television as a Fox News political analyst on Feb 5. In no fewer than 57 appearances. They have yet to acknowledge the fact that he is an adviser to John McCain.

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McCain Campaign Enlisting Trolls to Spam the Internet

Unlike Obama's online support which has risen up quite organically, it appears that McCain is attempting to manufacture greater web presence through his "Blog Outreach" program.

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'Bush intends to attack Iran before the end of his term'

Israeli officials say Bush, Cheney wish to launch military op. in the coming months but are being held back by "hesitancy of Gates and Rice."

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FBI Agents Complained About Torture in 2002 But Was Ignored

F.B.I. agents complained repeatedly, beginning in 2002, about the harsh interrogation tactics that military and C.I.A. interrogators were using in questioning terrorism suspects, like making them do dog tricks and parade in the nude in front of female soldiers, but their complaints appear to have had little effect, according to an exhaustive report

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ANALYSTS' VIEW: Israel-Syria talks

(Reuters) - Following are comments from analysts after Israel and Syria said in surprise announcements on Wednesday they were conducting indirect peace talks with Turkish mediation. EZZEDIN CHOUKRI-FISHERE, DIRECTOR, ARAB-ISRAELI PROJECT AT THE...

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After Cancer Diagnosis, Kennedy Leaves Boston Hospital

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the longtime Massachusetts Democrat and patriarch of the Kennedy family, has a malignant brain tumor.

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Obama wins Oregon, moves to brink of nomination

Americans see the light, the peace, we want to let go of the good old boys and girls club. We no longer want Corporate Greed, We want Health Care, Not Wealth Care. We want to end the unacceptable hate, shame and war that Bush and Cheney have brought to our country and the World, Peace

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Sen. Edward Kennedy has a brain tumor

BOSTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor. Doctors for the Massachusetts Democrat say tests conducted after Kennedy suffered a seizure this weekend show a tumor in his left parietal lobe. Preliminary results from a biopsy of the brain identified the cause of the seizure as a malignant glioma, they said.

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Sen. Robert C. Byrd endorses Obama

Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan and a one-time opponent of civil rights legislation, is endorsing Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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ASEAN to coordinate Myanmar aid effort

YANGON (Reuters) - Southeast Asian nations will take the lead in an international aid effort for cyclone-hit Myanmar, but the military junta will not give Western relief workers unfettered access to disaster areas, Singapore said on Monday.

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Myanmar's top temple source of comfort

YANGON, Myanmar - As the steady rain that had been falling all day Monday eased off, the monks at the Shwedagon Pagoda began to chant and the worshippers prayed. Many brought their children, some of whom laughed and played marbles in the pavilion.

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Today's quote...

 

"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children."

- Mahatma Gandhi

 

'If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.' - Mahatma Gandhi

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Myanmar: 3 days of mourning for cyclone victims

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's junta on Monday announced a three-day mourning period for cyclone victims, while the country's neighbors said they will establish a task force to handle foreign aid distribution.

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New breed of American emerges in need of food

Philomena Gist understands why it hurts so much to be on food stamps. After all, she's got a master's degree in psychology.

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US: 500 youths detained in Iraq; 10 in Afghanistan

NEW YORK - The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being "unlawful enemy combatants" in detention centers in Iraq and has about 10 detained in Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations.

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Israel should be under the same nuclear control as Iran

18/05/08 "The Tennessean" -- - First, we went after nonexistent nuclear weapons in Iraq, and now we are consumed with the possibility that Iran might develop nuclear weapons sometime in the future.

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Record Obama Crowd, the Size of a City

The campaign, citing figures from Duane Bray, battalion chief of Portland Fire & Rescue, estimated that 75,000 people are watching him speak.

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Clinton Quiet About Her Own Radical Ties

When Hillary Rodham Clinton questioned rival Barack Obama's ties to 1960s radicals, her comments baffled two retired Bay Area lawyers who knew Clinton in the summer of 1971 when she worked as an intern at a left-wing law firm in Oakland, Calif., that defended communists and Black Panthers."She's a hypocrite," Doris B. Walker, 89, who was a member of the American Communist Party, said in an interview last week. "She had to know who we were and what kinds of cases we were handling. We had a very left-wing reputation, including civil rights, constitutional law, racist problems."

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China's next hurdle: shelter earthquake survivors

Jiangyou, China - A critical shortage of tents is casting a pall of uncertainty over the future of people left homeless by last week's earthquake here, as an army of local Chinese officials and volunteers struggle to cope with a stream of refugees. In this city where 340,000 quake victims are living on sidewalks in makeshift shelters...

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Obama to Republicans - "Lay off my wife."

Obama responds to attacks on wife as ‘low class’
ABC’s Robin Roberts talked Barack Obama and Michelle Obama about recent Tennessee GOP attacks that target Michelle.

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New Watergate book says John Dean ordered break-in

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new book on the scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon alleges that White House counsel John Dean ordered the infamous Watergate break-in in 1972, a charge Dean strongly rejected. James Rosen, a...

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Talking to an adversary isn't necessarily appeasement

USATODAY.com - For much of the 20th century, the United States engaged in the smart, yet difficult diplomacy with adversaries that's as much a key to protecting U.S. interests as military force. Among the notable successes were President Nixon's opening to China and years of high-level negotiations with Soviet leaders that helped prevent a nuclear

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Actor John Cusack on new movie "War, Inc" & Outsourced War

An interview with Cusack about his latest film, War Inc., which takes the outsourcing of military operations to the absurd. The movie is set is set in a fictionalized Iraq. It's a funny film. It might have been tough to watch if it weren't, given the level of destruction that five years of occupation have wrought on the real country.

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Is the Party Over?

Two long years ago, veteran political reporter Thomas Edsall published Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power. In the course of several hundred fluidly argued, thoroughly dispiriting pages, Edsall threw a wet blanket on the hopes of Democrats who thought their party stood a fighting chance of

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The Death of the Permanent Republican Majority

Tuesday’s special election in Mississippi, which yielded an eight-point victory for a Democrat in an overwhelmingly Republican district, has signaled to all observers what we’ve known, or at least hoped for, for years; Republicans are doomed.

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Blacklisted by the Bush government

One day in March 2004, Soliman Hamd Al-Buthe, a former member of Saudi Arabia's national basketball team and a government official in the city of Riyadh, picked up his phone for an urgent call with two American lawyers in Washington, D.C. Most of the call concerned a growing confrontation between the U.S. government and the Al-Haramain Islamic...

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In a First, China Commemorates Normal Citizens

For the next three days all public entertainment will cease and the Olympic torch relay will be suspended. NPR's Anthony Kuhn is in Chengdu, near the earthquake's epicenter, and says such a mourning period is unprecedented.

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Siege at Labrang Monastery | New York Times Video

Nowhere is the Chinese policy towards Tibet clearer than at

this Buddhist Monastery in Gansu Province.

 

Siege at Labrang Monastery | New York Times Video

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158 Relief Workers in China Are Killed by Landslides

The announcement of the deaths came as China observed a moment of silence for quake victims.

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U.N. chief going to Myanmar to try to speed aid

YANGON (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will travel to Myanmar this week to try to speed up troubled cyclone relief, his spokeswoman said on Sunday, as signs mounted of a breakthrough in getting aid to survivors.

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China holding 3 days of mourning for quake victims

BEICHUAN, China - China declared three days of national mourning for earthquake victims and ordered a suspension of the Olympic torch relay, as the search for survivors of the disaster grew bleak Sunday.

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Moyers: 'Democracy in America Is a Series of Narrow Escapes,

How American laws to protect Americans are being sub-edited to making money and leaving others to live in poverty while the multinationals make a quick dime by destroying the environment too.

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today's quote...

 

"Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time."

- Albert Einstein

'Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.' - Albert Einstein

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PTSD Epidemic Continues

Iraq Vet with PTSD Kills Self, Brother

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PTSD Marine died after cross-state chase wrote of war stress

Twiggs had been through four tours in Iraq, one in Afghanistan and months of therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder in which he said he was on up to 12 different medications.The symptoms would disappear when he began each tour, he said, but came back stronger than ever when he came home.

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U.S. soldier in Iraq uses Koran for target practice

This is so very disrespectful!!! At least, the U.S. Military had to apologize to the Iraqis -
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. military commanders have apologized to community leaders in Iraq after a U.S. soldier used a copy of the Koran for shooting practice, fearing an outburst of anger among U.S.-allied tribesmen.

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World turns up heat on Myanmar

YANGON (AFP) - World frustration with Myanmar boiled over on Saturday, with accusations of negligence and crimes against humanity over the regime's slow-moving response to the cyclone disaster.

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Iraq war comes to Congress: the Real News coverage

Veterans against the Iraq war testify informally to Congress. As a result, Congress rejects the latest round of war funding! Will formal hearings occur?

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