opinion
a shared story
submitted by Grace 145 weeks 3 days 14 hours 39 minutes ago
If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.
It's been a week now, and I still don't know what those "tea...(more)
an original story
written by Robert Cauthorn 73 weeks 6 days 17 hours 37 minutes ago
Online news organization too often confuse page views and unique visitors with success. Real success online requires a deep and passionate engagement with your readers.
an original story
written by Ari for team Bushwhackers... dissent ala mode 249 weeks 5 days 15 hours 55 minutes ago
If you click the resource link I've set up in the box on the right, you can see all of the supporting documents.
Kucinich was supposed to do this earlier -- but the Virginia Tech killings happened on the same day as he was going to file,...(more)
a shared story
submitted by Mr X 183 weeks 6 days 18 hours 5 minutes ago
Ar eport released Tuesday by the Justice Department has documented the Bush administration's unprecedented -- and illegal -- effort to politicize the ranks of the agency's prosecutors and civil service employees with conservatives and true believers in the religious right's agenda.
Under then-Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales,...(more)
a shared story
submitted by Grace for team Bushwhackers... dissent ala mode 199 weeks 2 days 18 hours 48 minutes ago
George W. Bush, the greatest friend Israel has had in the White House, hasn’t been able to keep a commitment to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
a shared story
submitted by Grace 152 weeks 3 days 11 hours 50 minutes ago
I was going to give this a good leaving alone. But there I was flying home from a mellow family visit when El Rushbo filled — and I do mean filled — the screen before me, delivering what he called "my first ever address to the...(more)
a shared story
submitted by Gretchen Wright 159 weeks 3 days 15 hours 39 minutes ago
Thursday night's valedictory speech was quintessential Bush: delusional from beginning to end.
He made Afghanistan sound like a swell place to take a vacation when, in truth, only those with a death wish venture out these days without an armed convoy.
He lauded Iraq as "a friend of...(more)
a shared story
submitted by Lisa for team Obama Watch 160 weeks 2 days 13 hours 45 minutes ago
Over the next couple of years, two very big countries, America and China, will give birth to something very important. They’re each going to give birth to close to $1 trillion worth of economic stimulus — in the form of tax cuts, infrastructure, highways, mass transit...(more)
a shared story
submitted by Adam for team Outdoor news 182 weeks 4 days 3 hours 8 minutes ago
One inevitable measure of a mountain is simply how often climbers escape with their lives. By that standard, K2 stands almost alone in the world.
a shared story
submitted by Robert Cauthorn 194 weeks 4 days 16 hours 27 minutes ago
Former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan has emerged as the best conservative columnist in the nation. And I mean that in the grand old tradition of intellectual and ethical conservatives: a dying breed as the attack dogs and dwarfs took over American conservatism. Anyhow, Noonan is in...(more)
a shared story
submitted by owen 249 weeks 2 days 5 hours 4 minutes ago
The pet food crisis is forcing Americans to face a stomach-wrenching fact: The human food supply is little or no better protected than food for our dogs and cats.
That's true even of domestic products, as we learned from the spinach contamination in September, but even more...(more)
a shared story
submitted by Micca for team Urban farming 89 weeks 18 hours 24 minutes ago
Has the New Urbanism outlived its original purpose? The movement's charismatic founder, Andrés Duany, seems to think so.
Last week's 18th annual Congress for the New Urbanism in Atlanta should have been an unalloyed triumph for Duany and his fellow travelers. Their planning tools for reforming and...(more)
