by Andrew Kreig Executive Director The Justice Integrity Project Edited by Glynn Wilson The Locust Fork News-Journal WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republican political operative Karl Rove’s help for Sweden as it assists the Obama administration’s prosecution against WikiLeaks could be the latest example of the adage, “Politics makes strange bedfellows.” Rove, who now controls a massive…
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Tea or Coffee? On Tax Cut Deals and Ethics Reform
The Big Picture by Glynn Wilson The coffee tastes more than a little bitter this morning. It is no sweet tea to see your worst political predictions come true. I have been railing for the past five and a half years about the need for a coalition to come together to fight the complete corporate…
Nine Eleven First Responders React to the Senate Filibuster
Daily Show With Jon Stewart The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Daily Show on Facebook The 9/11 first responders watch as Mitch McConnell cries over a friend’s retirement, and Jon Kyl explains why the Senate can’t work the week after Christmas.
Forty Percent of Americans Still Deny Evolution, Though Their Numbers Are Dropping
by Glynn Wilson Showing their bias toward a religious world view and an ignorance of science, four in 10 Americans, slightly fewer today than in years past, believe a god created humans in their present form about 10,000 years ago, according to the latest Gallup poll on the subject. Thirty-eight percent believe god guided a…
EPA Analysis Shows Reduction in Toxic Chemical Releases
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its annual national analysis of the Toxics Release Inventory on Thursday, providing Americans with vital information about their communities, according to EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson. The report shows “a major reduction in toxic chemical releases in 2009,” Jackson said in a statement posted on her Facebook page. “The…
White-Winged Crossbill Evolutionary Adaptation Feeding Technique
Take an up-close look at the remarkable physical adaptations White-winged crossbills use to retrieve seeds hidden inside tightly closed spruce cones. This is a classic example of how species evolve and adapt to survive. Check out the The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s All About Birds Guide for more information on White-Winged Crossbills.
Congress Extends Unemployment Benefits, but at a Terrible Price
Congress passed a deal on Thursday that extends emergency unemployment for more than a year. While this is “huge relief” for the more than 1.4 million long-term job seekers who already have lost their emergency unemployment benefits, according to AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka, he said, “this deal comes at a terrible price: It rewards…
Michael Steele to Run for Another Term as Chair of the Republican National Committee
Daily Show: The Great Gaffesby The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Daily Show on Facebook Puppet RNC Chairman Michael Steele will run for a second term so he can cut taxes for bibillionaires, repeal Obibble-care and protect America’s bibbles, according to comedian newsman Jon Stewart.
Union Activists Protest Corporate Greed, Disrespect of Worker Rights at Rite Aid
Workers, union activists and community supporters marched and took part in more than 40 actions at Rite Aid stores in 11 states yesterday as part of a National Day of Action to focus attention on the company’s corporate greed and disrespect for workers’ rights. Rite Aid, the country’s third largest retail drugstore chain, has been…
FDA Underestimates Gulf Coast Residents’ Exposure to Carcinogens in Seafood
A survey of Gulf Coast seafood consumption habits reveals that many Gulf residents are eating far more seafood, far more often, than the federal government has acknowledged, bringing seafood safety standards under renewed scrutiny, according the Natural Resources Defense Council. Significant discrepancies between estimates by the Food and Drug Administration and reported consumption rates were…
Electronic Mail Wins Landmark Fourth Amendment Protection
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers. In a landmark decision in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak, the court found that email users have the same reasonable expectation of privacy in…
Obama Justice Department Sues BP, Eight Other Companies in Gulf Oil Disaster
The Obama Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit against BP and eight other companies on Wednesday for their role in causing in the Gulf oil blowout in an effort to recover billions of dollars from the largest offshore environmental disaster in U.S. history. The lawsuit asks that the companies be held liable without limitation under…
Job Approval Rating of Congress the Worst in Gallup History
Public assessment of the United States Congress has hit a new low in the eyes of Americans, with only 13 percent saying they approve of the way Congress is handling its job. The 83 percent disapproval rating is also the worst the Gallup Survey has measured in more than 30 years of tracking congressional job…
Republican Governors Blow Off Money for Green Jobs?
In two states where workers are desperate for jobs — Wisconsin, where the jobless rate is 9.4 percent, and Ohio, where it’s 9.9 percent — the incoming governors rejected $1.2 billion in federal funding for high-speed rail projects, which would have created tens of thousands of good jobs. Republican Governors-elect Scott Walker (Wis.) and John…
President Obama Leaves Bill Clinton in White House Briefing Room?
Talk About a Mistake The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Daily Show on Facebook President Obama leaving Bill Clinton in the White House briefing room is the kind of cool confidence that borders on delusional, according to the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Watch and laugh…
Senator Al Franken Says Net Neutrality Plan Leaves Corporate Loopholes
U.S. Senator Al Franken, D-Minn., is now saying the new Net Neutrality proposal just released by the Obama administration from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski would take the country in the wrong direction. “Unfortunately, now that we’ve got more information about his proposal, it’s becoming clear that without significant changes it would take us…
The World’s Worst Companies for Freedom of Association 2010
On International Human Rights Day last Friday, the International Labor Rights Forum named R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. as one of the World’s Worst Companies of 2010 for workers’ freedom of association. Of the top five worst companies, three are headquartered in the United States: R.J. Reynolds, Chiquita Brands International and Fresh Del Monte Produce. According…
Why Michael Moore Posted Bail for WiliLeaks Founder Julian Assange
Guest Column by Michael Moore MichaelMoore.com In the Westminster Magistrates Court in London on Monday, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail. Furthermore, I am publicly offering the…
The President as Charlie Brown: Worthless and Weak
Guest Column by Michael Douglass I gotta tell ya, I feel for this guy. The President of the United States. He gets his ass kicked by friends and enemies from the time the alarm goes off in the morning to a never so gentle goodnight every damn day. On the surface his legislative accomplishments are…
Activist Conservative Judge Strikes Down Health Care Law Mandate
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy As it turns out, here’s a fact not reported by any of the mainstream media today when reporting that Obama’s national health care law was ruled unconstitutional. Henry E. Hudson, the federal judge in Virginia who ruled only the mandate part of the…
