Feb

28

So that’s why there’s no male birth-control pill

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[From feministing]
After years of news reports that male birth control is on the way, now there’s some support for what feminists have always suspected. It’s not science that’s holding up the creation of a Pill for men– it’s society. The original…
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Feb

28

Strange Bedfellows Unite to Fight AOL’s “Email Tax”

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[From EFF: Breaking News]
National Conference Call – Tuesday, 1pm EST
This Tuesday, an unlikely coalition of left and right, non-profits and small businesses, and Internet advocacy groups will hold a national telephone news conference call to announce an unprecedented combined campaign against AOL’s new “pay-to-send” email proposal – which amounts to an “email tax.”
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Feb

27

From Cash to Yachts, Convicted Congressman Set Bribery Rates

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[From ABC News]
Court Documents Show Randall ‘Duke’ Cunningham Set Bribery Rates
Feb. 27, 2006 — Prosecutors call it a corruption case with no parallel in the long history of the U.S. Congress. And it keeps getting worse. Convicted Rep. Randall “Duke” Cunningham actually priced the illegal services he provided.
Prices came in the form of a “bribe [...]

Feb

27

Judge OKs subpoenas in Libby case

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[From MSNBC.com]
Judge OKs press subpoenas in CIA leak case
Libby defense aims to show any false statements were result of confusion
WASHINGTON – The judge in the CIA leak case said Monday that lawyers on both sides in the perjury trial of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby will be allowed to subpoena journalists and [...]

Feb

26

New Music Video Features “Eyes Wide Open” Boots

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[From: American Friends Service Committee]
Robert Cray in his new music video “Twenty”. Photo from video, courtesy Robert Cray
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Last November 1, as the sun rose over a farm near Dover, New Hampshire the Eyes Wide Open crew once again began laying out more than two thousand pairs of boots representing the U.S. military [...]

Feb

26

The man behind Bushes speeches

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Feb

25

End Game for PATRIOT in Senate

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[From EFF: Action Center Alerts]

The long fight over USA PATRIOT Act renewal is entering its final stages. The Senate will shortly be voting on a PATRIOT renewal bill largely unchanged from the sham “compromise” bill that prompted a bi-partisan rebellion last year. In this final battle, your senators could hold the vote that protects or [...]

Feb

25

CLIPS: O’Reilly: “They’ve got all kinds of Muslim crazies up in Canada running around”

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[From Media Matters for America]
During the February 22 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly claimed that if “Al Qaeda wanted to get in here [the United States], it’s easy,” because “[t]hey’ve got all kinds of Muslim crazies up in Canada running around.” O’Reilly was commenting on the controversial acquisition [...]

Feb

25

Only on Fox: “All-Out Civil War in Iraq: Could It Be a Good Thing?”

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[From Media Matters]
Summary: Fox News featured two onscreen captions during a segment on escalating violence in Iraq that read: ” ‘Upside’ To Civil War?” and “All-Out Civil War in Iraq: Could It Be a Good Thing?”
A segment about escalating sectarian violence in Iraq on the February 23 edition of Fox News’ [...]

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