According to the Raw Story, some California Democrats want to put impeachment back on the table. Several discussions and plans of action regarding impeachment are scheduled to take place during the 2007 California Democratic Convention that starts this Friday. Foremost on the agenda for activists, is persuading Pelosi to change her mind about pursuing articles of impeachment against the Bush Administration.
Archive for April, 2007
Buried on page three of a Washington Post article and written in the glossy ink that used to be the sole reserve of the now-fallen ex-media darling, and other “self-made maverick” John McCain, an unsettling truth regarding Obama, his campaign, and his money can be found. What is this truth? I’ll give you a hint: it involves the cognitive dissonance you might be feeling whenever you try to reconcile, “the outsider” with the “25 million dollar man.”
Come on now, deep in your heart you knew the two couldn’t be one and the same.
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Apparently other people’s words and a smear.
Last week Couric’s Notebook consisted of plagiarized passages from a Wall Street Journal column, an act blamed on one of the show’s producers, who was duly fired over the incident. What made the intellectual theft all the more striking was the sheer stupidity surrounding it and apparently Couric’s newsroom. Not only did the producer plagiarize but he or she apparently lacked the good sense not to steal an article that was less than a month old and from one the nation’s most read newspapers.
Bob Moser Explodes the Myth of Southern Politics
Published by April 7th, 2007 in National. 0 CommentsI’m starting to wonder if Bob Moser is the lone high-profile progressive that truly understands the South and its complexities. Instead of the arrogant recriminations common to outsiders looking in, Moser explodes the myths surrounding what many still refer to as red –make that redneck– state America.
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Urban Libraries: America’s Daytime Homeless Shelters
Published by April 2nd, 2007 in National. 0 CommentsA former Salt Lake City Library Administrator speaks out on the growing problem of the mentally ill and chronically homeless taking day time refuge in America’s public libraries. As someone who lives in a very rural county and rarely see homelessness I found this article heart-wrenching. It’s a long read but it describes many of the problems first hand and actually offers practical solutions.
It’s also a condemnation of how we as a society cast off our mentally ill.
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The most dangerous sport of all: Cheerleading?
Published by April 1st, 2007 in Uncategorized and National. 0 CommentsNo it’s not an April Fool’s prank but something I came across and was fairly shocked by. The Time’s has an interesting article on the dangers of cheerleading –yes cheerleading. It is apparently the single most dangerous activity for young women (I say activity because most people and high schools do not consider it a sport and that’s part of the problem).
Emergency room visits for cheerleading injuries nationwide have more than doubled since the early 1990s, and the rate of life-threatening injuries has startled researchers. Of 104 catastrophic injuries sustained by female high school and college athletes from 1982 to 2005 — head and spinal trauma that occasionally led to death — more than half resulted from cheerleading, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research. All sports combined did not surpass cheerleading.
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