Incredible foreign policy perspective of our future president, I confidently predict (without lending a comment to my personal preferences), will be the next president of the United States of America
A bunch of right wing congressmen, supported by "pro-family organizations," are trying to close a loophole that allows active duty soldiers to buy pornography on base. "Here's a radical idea: how about we let the men and women that put on the uniform and put their lives on the line every day read whatever they want."
This is a good piece from GNN.tv columnist Jeff Cohen about the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s work (especially the poor peoples campaign and anti-war agenda, also known as King's Phase 3).
Shiite militiamen in Basra openly controlled wide swaths of the city on Saturday and staged increasingly bold raids on Iraqi government forces sent five days ago to wrest control from the gunmen, witnesses said, as Iraqi political leaders grew increasingly critical of the stalled assault.
Shiite militiamen in Basra openly controlled wide swaths of the city on Saturday and staged increasingly bold raids on Iraqi government forces sent five days ago to wrest control from the gunmen, witnesses said, as Iraqi political leaders grew increasingly critical of the stalled assault.
Democratic lawmakers are all but certain to say the proposal does not go far enough in restricting the kinds of practices that caused the financial crisis.
Notice how the Democrats are only angry about the lack of restrictions on the practices that "caused the mortgage crisis," rather than the overall problems with the unregulated and arbitrary power of the Federal Reserve.
The Treasury Department will propose on Monday that Congress give the Federal Reserve broad new authority to oversee financial market stability, in effect allowing it to send SWAT teams into any corner of the industry or any institution that might pose a risk to the overall system.