Politics

The Lost-Cause/Please Get Lost Hall of Fame

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Religion, Gluttony, Jenna Bush, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Prohibition, George W. Bush, Virginity, President Bush, The Green Party, Ralph Nader, 236.Com, Politics News
Jonathan Leigh Solomon

With Hillary Clinton still "not making any decisions," she now joins a select group of causes and phenomena that just won't go away, no matter how much you wish they would.

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A Hunger Conference with Canapes and Thinly Sliced Veal

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Italy, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Rome, The Environmentalist, World Hunger, Politics, Agriculture, United Nations, Green, Sustainable Agriculture, Green Business, Oxfam, Lifestyle, Drought, Hunger, Inflation, Famine, Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, Climate Change, U.N., Environment, Robert Mugabe, Global Warming, Green News
Janet Ritz

"Leaders can eat what they want as long as they take decisive action to deliver the policies and the aid in agriculture that is needed to ensure that poor people who are suffering from high food prices are helped," said Alexander Woollcombe, a spokesman for the British aid group Oxfam.

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Uncle Grumpy on: "The Men Who Lost Dinner"

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Living, Politics News
Earl Pomerantz

It's been a while since we've had a visit from my opinionated, but not always wrong, Uncle Grumpy. My uncle doesn't let me read his posts ahead of tim...

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Beyond Politics -- Something We Can All Agree On

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 05.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Politics, Schools, Families, Children, Consensus, Peter Breggin, Health, Social Control Parenting, Psychiatric Drugs, Lobotomy, Civil Rights, Living News
Dr. Peter Breggin

From the political left or right, we should be able to come together around the idea that it's bad to use psychiatric drugs to control children. There are better ways.

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Well, Barack, We have a Problem...

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Global Warming, Politics, War, Politics News
Patrick Takahashi

By Patrick Kenji Takahashi (29May08) ...and only you will have the power to provide the solution. Why you? The United States is the mos...

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The United States and France: Vive la Difference?

Lloyd Garver | Posted 05.28.2008 | Living

Read More: France, Politics, Survey, Living News
Lloyd Garver

I went out on the not particularly mean streets of Paris and the Dordogne area to ask the French people some questions. I thought my survey might help us better understand the French and learn what the French people think of us.

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Barber Insults Islam, Receives Saudi Death Sentence

Matthew and Peter Slutsky | Posted 05.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Human Rights, Turkey, Death Penalty, Death Sentence, Blogger, Turkish Barber, Saudi Arabia Human Rights, Saudi Arabia, Politics, Barber Saudi Arabia, Human Rights Watch Barber, Bogday, Home News
Matthew and Peter Slutsky

The Turkish national working in Saudi Arabia allegedly insulted God in an argument outside his shop. A Saudi blogger who reported the incident received a prison sentence and a fine.

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When the Last Resort is the First Resort

Max Bergmann | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Warwire, John McCain, War With Iran, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Politics News
Max Bergmann

What is particularly scary about McCain's policy approach toward Iran and North Korea is that he is willing to go to war again without negotiating with them.

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Roped In

Joan Garry | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Politics, News Coverage, Clinton, Glaad, New York Times, Obama, Mccain, Rope Lines, Media Bias, Pride Parades, Media News
Joan Garry

2008-05-27-hillary_ropeline.jpgThe New York Times today reinforces every stereotype about the candidates by picking three specific photos, each of which affirm what we hear sixty billion times a week from the best political team in the Milky Way.

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Divorce: A Missing Piece of the Gay Marriage Debate

Edward Stein | Posted 05.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Politics, Divorce, Civil Rights, Family Law, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Living News
Edward Stein

Not providing same-sex couples with the legal structure of divorce is not only unfair and unjust, it is bad social policy with negative implications for LGBT people as well as for everyone else.

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Top Twenty Reasons Hillary Clinton Should Stay in the Race

Will Durst | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Wont Leave, Politics, Primaries, Hillary Dropping Out, Hillary to Drop Out, Hillary Will Not Drop Out, Hillary Clinton, Election 2008, Hillary Staying In, 236.Com, Politics News
Will Durst

1. What's that old saying: as go Montana and North Dakota, so goes the world?
2. You want that Vice Presidential nod, you get it the old fashioned way: you earn it.

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NY Times: Bush Appeasement Attack Directed Toward Israel As Well

Max Bergmann | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Warwire, Israel, National Security, Appeasement, John McCain, Politics News
Max Bergmann

The paper makes the very important point that when Bush's appeasement attack was directed not just against Obama, but the leadership of the Jewish state of Israel as well.

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Despite Ruling Children Remain Captive

Suzette Standring | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Child Abuse, Yearning for Zion, Children, El Dorado, Flds, Texas, Polygamists, Warren Jeffs, Politics News
Suzette Standring

For 12 of the 463 children taken from their parents at the FLDS community in Texas, a higher court found that the "round-them-all-up and let's-sort-it-all-out-later" approach is illegal and wrong.

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Petraeus Hearings --- More Obama than McCain?

Max Bergmann and Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Petraeus, Politics, Warwire, Afghanistan, Iraq, National Security, David Petraeus Central Command, General Petraeus, Petraeus Iraq, Politics News
Max Bergmann and Ilan Goldenberg

As the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, you'd think John McCain would show up. But instead he is in California campaigning and fundraising.

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We Don't Know What We Don't Have

Joan Garry | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Politics, Gay Rights, Research, Same Sex Marriage, Politics News
Joan Garry

Hunter College just released the results of a comprehensive study, touted by the institution as the most comprehensive study of lesbian, gay and bisexual attitudes and behavior to date.

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The Answer: Wisdom in Washington

Stephen H. Dinan | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Obama, Race, Clinton, Democrats, Presidency, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Politics News
Stephen H. Dinan

The challenges on our nation's agenda are simply too large for the principles of change and wisdom to exclude the other and are why Obama and Clinton need to combine as a single ticket.

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The Audacity of 'Nope'

Jeremy Gerard | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Obama, Gay Marriage, California Supreme Court, Obama Same-Sex Marriage, Obama Gay Marriage, Politics News
Jeremy Gerard

After last week's California ruling, Obama's position that "that same-sex couples should enjoy equal rights under the law, and he will continue to fight for civil unions" no longer cuts it.

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For Obama and Clinton, Oregon Holds All the Cards

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Clinton, Politics, Oregon, Obama, Campaign, Primary, Democrats, Starbucks, Superdelegates, Barack Obama, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

What if Obama loses Oregon tomorrow, or wins only by the barest of margins?

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The Progressive Crises: Global Warming and Peak Oil

A. Siegel | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Politics, Peak Oil, Climate Change, Global Warming, Politics News
A. Siegel

Facing Peak Oil does not represent simply a question of paying a few dollars more for fuel, but decades of economic tensions and problems globally.

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Costs nothing to be civil

David Horton | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Government, Politics, Zimbabwe, Society, Burma, Values, Civilization, Politics News
David Horton

The rulers of Burma, and Zimbabwe, have recently made sure, if there was a shred of doubt remaining, that they don't run civilized countries. And they...

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Poll: Nearly One-Third of Dems Would Back Clinton Indy Bid

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Independent Bid, Washington Times, Politics, Bellantoni, Hillary Clinton, Rasmussen, Democrats, 2008 Election, Politics News
Christina Bellantoni

If Clinton does not win the Democratic Party nomination, 29% of Democrats say she should run an Independent campaign for the White House.

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Obama Will Crush McCain

Diane Francis | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Obama, Mccain, Hillary, West Virginia, Politics News
Diane Francis

Hillary's supporters will vote for Barack Obama and his running mate. Disaffected Republicans will join the vote for change.

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McCain Was in Favor of Talks with Syria, Despite Saying they Were "Sponsoring and Harboring Terrorists"

Max Bergmann | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, National Security, John McCain, John McCain Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Max Bergmann

McCain is directly contradicting himself by attacking Sen. Obama on his plan to confront Iran at the negotiating table.

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Solving America's Healthcare Crisis, One State at a Time

Doug Bremner | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Drugs, Medications, Insurance, Healthcare, Georgia, Politics News
Doug Bremner

Competition and the private marketplace is not the best approach for healthcare. You just think it is because you've been listening to a bunch of fruit-loops like Rush Limbaugh and Neil Boortz.

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Out of the Mouths of "Activist" Judges

Joan Garry | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Marriage, Gay Rights, Legal, California Supreme Court, California Supreme Court Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, California Gay Marriage Ban, Gay Marriage Supreme Court, California Supreme Court Decision, California Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage Ban, Politics News
Joan Garry

We all know that in our societal debate about same-sex marriage, it is the word "marriage" that trips many people up -- political candidates, conservatives, it even trips up my mother.

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