OpEdNews - Article: Rush to Judgment: Talk Radio's 'Truth Detector' Blows a Fuse--Again

Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:57 PM EST (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

By Walter Brasch It wasn't unusual that Rush Limbaugh went ballistic on his show, Nov. 13. He does that several times a day.

politics, conservative, liberals, courts, lawyers, judges, liars, leader-of-the-pack, media-hounds, rush-limpballs

Joplin Independent:Lieberman lambasted for health care industry ties

Seeded on Fri Nov 6, 2009 6:11 PM EST ()

Thursday morning in the Dirksen Senate office building, nine peaceful protesters refused to leave Joseph Lieberman's office until the senator agreed that he would stop taking campaign contributions from the insurance industry. I was among those arrested.

health

Iran's Choice | The White House

Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 1:36 AM EST (Welcome to the White House)

Thirty years ago today, the American Embassy in Tehran was seized.

world-news, obama, iran, hostages

Fox Fox Sake, John Stewart examines the "War on Fox"

Seeded on Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:30 AM EDT ()

I love the time frames that Fox is willing to call itself news

entertainment, fox-news, propaganda, daily-show, john-stewart, jerry-springer, comentators

Watertown Daily Times | Few answers: Hoffman unfamiliar with district issues

Seeded on Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:41 AM EDT ()

Douglas L. Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate for the 23rd Congressional District, showed no grasp of the bread-and-butter issues pertinent to district residents in a Thursday morning meeting with the Watertown Daily Times editorial board.

us-news, dick-armey, hoffman, carpet-baggers

Palin's Pet Hoffman Has Taliban Ties

Seeded on Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:28 AM EDT (Firedoglake)

It's a great endorsement — as far as Hoffman's opponents are concerned. As special assistant to Ronald Reagan, Rohrabacher played a key role in the late 1980s getting money and arms to Muslim extremists in Afghanistan.

us-news, new-york, taliban, terrorists, hoffman, rohrabacher

Newt's War of Independence -

Seeded on Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:09 AM EDT ()

Having reenacted the Battle of Trenton via Twitter this weekend, Newt Gingrich talks to the Daily beast about Sarah Palin's flawed fight for "ideological purity," his own "betrayal" of conservatives in New York, and what George Washington would do about Afghanistan.

politics, republicans, gop, palin, conservatives, carpet-baggers

The end of the F-22, a case study Military procurement boondoogles: Video

Seeded on Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:37 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

Rachel does a great job in explaining the birth and death of a plane that cost us a third of a billion dollars per. A plane that was born after its usefulness and spent more time in the shop than in the air.

us-news, obama, f-22, mccains, military-industrial-complex-boondoogles

WellPoint net profit falls, but results beat views

Seeded on Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:01 AM EDT (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S.

business, medicare, profits, medicaid, wellpoint

Talk of "global cooling" based on bogus statistics

Seeded on Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:49 AM EDT (Ars Technica)

The AP went beyond this analysis by sending out temperature data to four statisticians, without informing them what the data represented, and asked them to identify any trends in the data. Apparently, none of them saw any sign of global cooling.

science, change, climate

Prometheus new payment model seeks to reform the toxic health care payment system

Seeded on Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:57 PM EDT ()

Unveiled on September 13, non-profit PROMETHEUS Payment™, Inc.

health

Federal Agencies Enter an Agreement Regarding Transmission Siting on Federal Lands

Seeded on Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:56 PM EDT (Welcome to the White House)

Today, Obama Administration officials released a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by nine Federal Departments and Agencies to make it faster and simpler to build transmission lines on Federal lands.

technology

Bank of America Removes American Flags Honoring Dead Marine

Seeded on Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:27 PM EDT ()

WTH

us-news, soldiers, heroes, bank-of-america, flags

States Struggle To Fill Budget Gaps | The Onion

Seeded on Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:11 PM EDT (The Onion)

As the economy continues to falter, states are finding it difficult to remain solvent.

odd-news, satire

Surprise: Sequoia To Open Source Evoting Code | Techdirt

Seeded on Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:08 PM EDT (Techdirt)

Just last week there were reports that Sequoia had accidentally revealed some of its source code -- but this week Sequoia has surprised a lot of people by announcing plans for a new e-voting system which will have open source e-voting software included.

technology, open-source, sequoia, electronic-votings

Muhammad Cartoonist Targeted: US Indicts Two for Plot to Attack Danish Newspaper -

Seeded on Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:32 AM EDT (SPIEGEL ONLINE)

American law-enforcement authorities have arrested two men charged with preparing terrorist attacks against Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that offended Muslims around the world in 2005 when it published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

world-news, free-speech, denmark, cartoons, riots, muhammad, jylland-posten, muslisms

Renditions Case: Milan Trial Could Expose Italian Role in CIA Kidnapping -

Seeded on Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:29 AM EDT (SPIEGEL ONLINE)

A public prosecutor in Milan has completed a five-year investigation into the CIA and their Italian counterparts. The case of the extraordinary renditions kidnapping of Egyptian suspected terrorist Abu Omar is also a test of judicial independence in Italy.

world-news, cia, italy, justice, rendition, milan

Corzine Up 5 Points In New Jersey

Seeded on Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:26 AM EDT (Quinnipiac)

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine leads Republican challenger Christopher Christie for the first time in their five-month slugfest, on top 43 - 38 percent among likely voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

politics, new-jersey, polling, corzine, pollsters, christie, quinnipiac

Post Tech - Obama tech adviser Susan Crawford plans departure

Seeded on Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:21 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

White House technology policy adviser, Susan Crawford will leave her position in January to return to the University of Michigan Law School where she is a tenured professor, according to the Obama administration.

technology, crawford, susan

So, Uh. How Much CIA Money Inadvertently Funds The Taliban?

Seeded on Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:33 AM EDT (Firedoglake)

The New York Times reports that Hamid Karzai's brother, who has long been suspected of running a drug ring in southern Afghanistan — I mean, I asked Said Jawad, the Afghan ambassador to the U.S., about Ahmed Wali Karzai's ties to opium trade in 2007 for TPM — is actually …

world-news, cia, hamid-karzai, opium, terrorist-funding, karzai-family

Thomas Frank: Obama Is Right About Fox News - WSJ.com

Seeded on Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:59 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

I love the martyr apporoach from the the Fox conservatives as of late. Even the seletive memory is endearing.

politics

Healthcare system wastes up to $800 billion a year

Seeded on Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:47 PM EDT (Reuters)

The U.S. healthcare system wastes between $505 billion and $850 billion every year, the report from Robert Kelley, vice president of healthcare analytics at Thomson Reuters, found.

health, health-care, fraud, abuse, waste

UK Supermarket Pulls Fox News Ads Over Beck's Obama Remarks

Seeded on Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:10 PM EDT ()

The supermarket chain Waitrose has withdrawn its advertising from the Fox News Channel, shown in the U.K. on Sky, after its customers complained at remarks made about U.S. President Barack Obama by presenter Glenn Beck.

entertainment, uk, glenn-beck, sky, advertisers, waitrose

F.A.A. Revokes Licenses of Pilots Who Missed Airport -

Seeded on Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:59 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Less than a week after two Northwest Airlines pilots got distracted in their cockpit and flew more than 100 miles beyond their destination airport, the Federal Aviation Administration revoked their licenses.

us-news, pilots, faa

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Somebody Buy Joe Lieberman a Puppy

Seeded on Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:54 PM EDT ()

If he supports the GOP filibuster here, it is time to strip him of any Democratic Party Chairmanships and kick his butt out of the party.

politics, gop, public-option, lieberman, health-reform, cloture-votes, fillibusters

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