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 [...]
The Disappearing Intellectual in the Age of Economic Darwinism
by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
We live at a time that might be appropriately called the age of the disappearing intellectual, a disappearance that marks with disgrace a particularly dangerous period in American history. While [...]
Everyone should view the video animation at
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/52591
It illustrates what I knew we were headed for on the first day of the spill. Given enough incompetence, inaction, and corporate complicity, we are on our way to spoiling the north sea and polluting the British Isles (not that they need any help with pollution). Ultimately, we could [...]
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 Great Consolidation
By ROSS DOUTHAT
New York Times
Op-Ed Columnit
May 17, 2010
This feels like a populist moment. Americans are Tea Partying. Greeks are rioting. Incumbents are being thrown out; the Federal Reserve is facing an audit; Goldman Sachs is facing prosecution. In Kentucky, Ron Paul’s son might be about to win a Republican Senate [...]
consortiumnews.com
Pharma Invades Water Supplies
By Gary G. Kohls, MD
April 20, 2010
Editor’s Note: Though the pharmaceutical industry and some government officials have downplayed the risks, there remains a growing public concern about the impact of trace amounts of various drugs and chemicals entering the water supply [...]
Rage on the Right
The Year in Hate and Extremism
By Mark Potok
Southern Poverty Law Center
The radical right caught fire last year, as broad-based populist anger at political, demographic and economic changes in America ignited an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation.
Hate groups stayed at record levels — almost [...]
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 [...]
March 25, 2010
New York Times
Op-Ed Contributor
The Fight Is Over, the Myths Remain
By BRENDAN NYHAN
Ann Arbor, Mich.
AT the White House signing ceremony for health care legislation on Tuesday, President Obama declared, “In a few moments, when I sign this bill, all of the overheated rhetoric over reform will finally confront the reality of [...]
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 [...]