How Polling Places Can Affect Your Vote
Thursday 19 August 2010
by: Tom Jacobs | Miller-McCune
From: TruthOut.com
Researchers argue the physical location of the polls not only affects how many people vote; it may also influence last-minute decisions regarding which box to mark or lever to pull.
Political pundits seldom pause to ponder polling places. Unless the lines in [...]
Republicans and the Tea Party of No
Monday 17 May 2010
TruthOut
by: Arun Gupta, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
As much as they may grumble, there is a legitimate reason why the Republicans have been labeled the “Party of No.” For decades, the party’s kneejerk stance has been to [...]
The Palin Principle: Bible Trumps Constitution
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By Rick Ungar, True-Slant
11 May 2010
Sarah Palin can’t seem to distinguish between the Bible and the American Constitution.
Appearing recently on Bill O’Reilly’s TV show, Palin advised that what we need to do in this country is -
“Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant [...]
The Unbearable Lightness of Reform
Saturday 27 March 2010
by: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
That wickedly satirical Ambrose Bierce described politics as “the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
Bierce vanished to Mexico nearly a hundred years ago - to the relief [...]
Black Helicopters Over Nashville
Never mind Sarah Palin and the tricornered hats. The tea-party movement is dominated by conspiracist kooks.
By Jonathan Kay | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Feb 9, 2010
The tea-party movement has no leader. But it does have a face: William Temple of Brunswick, Ga. For months, the amiable middle-aged activist has been criss-crossing America, appearing at [...]
December 29, 2009
New York Times
Op-Ed Contributor
Should Old Articles Be Forgot
By WILLIAM FALK
OVER the past year, Americans have spent an average of 11.8 hours a day consuming information, sucking up, in aggregate, 3.6 zettabytes of data and 10,845 trillion words. That, said the University of California, San Diego, researcher who computed these figures, is triple the [...]
September 11, 2009
Editorial - New York Times
A Clear Responsibility
In the moving peroration of his speech to Congress Wednesday night, President Obama cast health care reform as a moral issue that reflects on the character of our country. He also made clear that there are some problems that are too big for individuals to solve on [...]
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Republicans, Religion and the Triumph of Unreason
Wednesday 19 August 2009
by: Johann Hari | Visit article original @ The Independent UK
How do they train themselves to be so impervious to reality?
Something strange has happened in America in the nine months since Barack Obama was elected. It has best been summarised by the comedian Bill Maher: [...]
Bad Baptist, Better Baptist
ARLINGTON, Texas — A prominent African-American pastor says Southern Baptist leaders should publicly repudiate comments by a former Southern Baptist Convention officer that he is praying for President Obama to die.
Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, said he had not heard an interview on Fox News Radio [...]