Feb
28
Anyone can be president — except Ralph Nader
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[From ScrippsNews]
[Notice: Ralph Nader is no longer a candidate for the GP nomination, but this issue is an important one for all parties to face. -RS]
By KEN WARD,
Scripps Howard News Service
Bloggers already are deriding him as the second coming of Harold Stassen. Democrats, who accused him of swinging the 2000 election to the Republicans, now [...]
Feb
28
Nader picks Matt Gonzalez as veep
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[From Nola.com]
By ANN SANNER
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader selected Matt Gonzalez, a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, to be his running mate.
“I want someone who shares my sense of justice and opposition to corporate state control over our society,” Nader said Thursday at a news conference [...]
Feb
28
Hillary, Gloria, and the Vagina Litmus Test
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[From Feministing ]
Posted by Ann
They may be on opposite ends of the political spectrum, Gloria Steinem and Michael Barone seem to be in agreement that young women’s lack of support for Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucuses indicates that they are in denial about the pervasive sexism in American society.
Barone:
Today’s young women voters are [...]
Feb
27
Knowing what’s best for poor people
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[From Stuff White People Like]
White people spend a lot of time of worrying about poor people. It takes up a pretty significant portion of their day.
They feel guilty and sad that poor people shop at Wal*Mart instead of Whole Foods, that they vote Republican instead of Democratic, that they go to Community College/get a job [...]
Feb
24
Clarity Sought on Electronics Searches
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[From washingtonpost.com]
U.S. Agents Seize Travelers’ Devices
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Nabila Mango, a therapist and a U.S. citizen who has lived in the country since 1965, had just flown in from Jordan last December when, she said, she was detained at customs and her cellphone was taken from her purse. Her daughter, waiting outside [...]
Feb
24
Turkish troops out of Kurdistan!
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[From Liberal Conspiracy]
Within the past four days, following a lengthy campaign of aerial bombings, a Turkish ground invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan has begun. 10,000 troops in total rolled across the border on Thursday night, according to the Turkish Daily News. This was on the pretext of hunting members of the PKK who live in camps [...]





