GAO Slams Bush on Terrorism - says Al Qaeda attack likely and we have no plan

Seeded on Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:07 AM EDT (democracyarsenal.org)

The United States Lacks a Comprehensive Plan to Destroy the Terrorist Threat and Close the Safe Haven in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas....

bush, terrorism, 2008, al-qeada

McCain's Cronies: Busting Media Myths On McCain's Lobbyist Hypocrisy

Seeded on Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:06 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

McCain's campaign has more current and former lobbyist bundlers ...

elections, 2008, politics, corruption, mccain, gop, lobbyists

Pentagon Records Detail Prisoner Abuse by US Military AP

Seeded on Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:28 AM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

Military interrogators assaulted Afghan detainees in 2003, using investigation methods they learned during self-defense training, Pentagon documents released Wednesday show.

bush, army, elections, 2008, torture, us-news

Election Madness | Howard Zinn

Seeded on Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:56 PM EDT (progressive.org)

The unprecedented policies of the New Deal—Social Security, unemployment insurance, job creation, minimum wage, subsidized housing—were not simply the result of FDR's progressivism. The Roosevelt Administration, coming into office, faced a nation in turmoil.

economy, politics, workers, organize, pregressive

Media @!$%# Storms and Heartland Reality

Seeded on Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:42 AM EDT (ruraljournalism.org)

So allow me to say this: we white members of the sweating class have been working alongside laboring immigrants, legal and illegal, for decades and have not been killing them with our personal arms in a rage of antipathy, in so far as I know.

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Media @!$%# Storms and Heartland Reality

Seeded on Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:38 AM EDT (CounterPunch.org)

....So allow me to say this: we white members of the sweating class have been working alongside laboring immigrants, legal and illegal, for decades and have not been killing them with our personal arms in a rage of antipathy, in so far as I know.

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Co-Payments for Expensive Drugs Soar - New York Times

Seeded on Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:39 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Insurers are asking patients to pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for prescriptions for medications that may save their lives or slow the progress of serious diseases....they are charging patients a percentage of the cost of certain high-priced drugs, usually 20 to 33 pe …

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White women begin to turn away from Hillary Clinton

Seeded on Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:12 AM EDT (McClatchy)

Clinton's strongest core of support — white women — is beginning to erode in Pennsylvania,..A Quinnipiac University survey taken April 3-6 in Pennsylvania found that Clinton's support fell 6 percentage points in a week among white women.

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Wall St banks 'hooked on emergency funds scheme' | Business | The Observer

Seeded on Mon Apr 7, 2008 1:08 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

Wall Street banks are relying too heavily on tens of billions of dollars in loans made available by the US Federal Reserve. Borrowing levels have rocketed by almost 200 per cent to $38bn a day.

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NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data - WSJ.com

Seeded on Sun Apr 6, 2008 11:56 AM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

NSA uses a cluster of programs, which sparked civil-liberties complaints when they were exposed. They include an FBI program to track telecommunications data once known as Carnivore, a U.S.

bush, 2008, gop, civil-liberties, us-news, nsa-privacy

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 04/05/2008 | Is Hillary Clinton dishonest? A lot of Americans think so

Seeded on Sun Apr 6, 2008 10:14 AM EDT (McClatchy)

"...A recent Gallup Poll found that 53 percent of Americans think Clinton isn't "honest and trustworthy." Just 29 percent said the same of her Democratic rival Barack Obama, and 27 percent said it of Republican John McCain...."

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