[From ABC News] With Harsh Words for Current Field, Nader Says Candidacy as Urgent as Ever Rick Klein 01.30.2008 Former independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader said in an interview Wednesday that he will launch another presidential bid if he’s convinced he can raise enough money to appear on the vast majority of state ballots this [...]
Archive For January, 2008
Global Warming and the Permian Extinction
[From The Straight Dope] …consider the Permian extinction of 251 million years ago. You remember — the cataclysmic event where maybe 95 percent of all species on earth died off? … One of the various theories about its origin is that a huge upsurge of hydrogen sulfide, produced by anaerobic microbes in the ocean, had [...]
Democrat Kucinich quits White House race
By JOE MILICIA, Associated Press Writer CLEVELAND – Democrat Dennis Kucinich is abandoning his second, long-shot bid for the White House as he faces a tough fight to hold onto his other job — U.S. congressman. In an interview with Cleveland’s Plain Dealer, the six-term House member said he was quitting the race and would [...]
Drought could close nuclear power plants
[From MSNBC.com] Southeast water shortage a factor in huge cooling requirements The Associated Press A man fishes next to the water outflows of the McGuire Nuclear Station near Lake Norman, N.C., on Monday. Lake Norman has dropped to about a foot above the minimum level needed for a backup system at the plant. LAKE NORMAN, [...]
O’Reilly Admits “Pink Pistols” Story Exaggerated
[From EDGE New York City] by Kilian Melloy When Bill O’Reilly of Fox News and “no spin zone” fame featured a report on “gay gangs,” the umbrage GLBT people took was business as usual except for one thing: the report crossed a pro-firearms GLBT group called The Pink Pistols. CQPolitics.com reported on, and The New Yorks [...]
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US President George W. Bush (C) leans over to talk with a girl (R) after Bush participated in a lesson for young children on the importance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day during a tour of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC, 21 January 2008. By Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty. Tags: president <BR/>
Conservative minister targets Microsoft over gay rights
[From PageOneQ ] Anti-gay pastor and Antioch Bible Church leader Rev. Ken Hutcherson is advancing his battle against corporate giant Microsoft’s supposed support of the “homosexual agenda” today, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “There are 256 Fortune 500 companies alone pouring millions upon millions of dollars into pushing the homosexual agenda,” Hutcherson explains to the Telegraph. [...]
Over 500 gays serve openly in military
[From RawStory.com Headlines] Army Sergeant Darren Manzella is one of about 500 gay members of the military that serves openly without consequence despite the divisive policy that mandates their discharge, he tells USA Today. Manzella, with the backing of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, will be on the Michelangelo Signorile Show on SiriusOutQ this afternoon, at [...]
Truest statement of the week
[From Third Estate Sunday Review] Well, you’ve changed positions within three years on, you know, a range of issues that you put forth when you ran for the Senate and now you have changed. You know, you said you would vote against the Patriot Act; you came to the Senate, you voted for it. You [...]
The Opposition That the Islamic Republic of Iran Needs
[From Critical Montages] Nazila Fathi of the New York Times reports that, from 2003 until recently, Iran’s Islamic government “permitted relative freedom” to the Marxist Left — “Leftist students [who] use an anti-imperialist discourse toward the United States and say they have no plans to overthrow the Iranian government” but “refer to the government as [...]