By John Byrne, Raw Story. Posted May 30, 2009. A stunning admission from General David Petraeus reveals that the US may have violated international law. The head of the US Central Command, General David Petraeus, said Friday that the US had violated the Geneva Conventions in a stunning admission from President Bush’s onetime top general [...]
Archive for May, 2009
30 May
The Results Are In: Americans Are Now More Closely Aligned With Progressive Ideas Than at Any Time in Memory
By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted May 30, 2009. On issue after issue, significant majorities of Americans favor progressive solutions to the nation’s problems and reject the right’s worldview. On issue after substantive issue, significant majorities of Americans favor progressive solutions to the nation’s problems and reject the right’s worldview. That’s true whether the issue at [...]
29 May
Why We Can’t Compromise On Public-Plan Choice
Featured blog entries-CAF 5/27/09 2:45 PM Jacob S. Hacker Health Care for All 501c(3) health insurance public plan Issues Now! Of all the components of the health reform package that will be debated in Congress this year, none inspires greater admiration or ire than the idea of “public plan choice.” Public plan choice means simply [...]
29 May
Medicare For All: The Wrong Answer To The Right Question
Featured blog entries-CAF 5/28/09 9:25 AM Joe Paduda An Economy for All 501c(4) issues now Issues Now! Jacob Hacker’s enthusiasm for a ‘real’ public plan option is laudable. It also dramatically overstates the strengths of Medicare. I’m not entirely convinced that we need a public plan option, and am even less sure that Medicare should [...]
29 May
SUPREME COURT
thinkprogress.org Right-Wing Hate Rears Its Ugly Head The radical right wing has launched a vicious campaign of racist and sexist attacks against Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s selection to replace the retiring Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court. Sotomayor’s “compelling life story” involves a brilliant legal career after being raised in a South Bronx [...]
29 May
FTC cracks down on robocalls
ZDNet May 28th, 2009 Posted by Jason D. O’Grady The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is cracking down on robocalls, those calls to our mobile and home lines that claim “Your car’s factory warranty is about to expire!” If you’re unfamiliar, consider yourself lucky, then listen to sample audio from some of the most egregious robocalls. [...]
29 May
A wise person for the court
By Ellen Goodman May 29, 2009 SO WE FACE the riddle of the wise old man, the wise old woman, and the wise old person. Sonia Sotomayor, a Bronx-raised and Ivy League-educated “Newyorkrican,” has been nominated to the Supreme Court. What a difference since Ronald Reagan had to reach into a state appeals court to [...]
29 May
Terrorism: the new communism
By Dan Payne May 29, 2009 DICK CHENEY, who didn’t say eight words publicly in eight years as vice president, suddenly won’t shut up. Every day it seems he’s doing interviews and giving speeches on national security, 9/11, and torture. Torture defined. Torture is having to listen to Cheney sneer his way through a speech [...]
29 May
Answering Ahmadinejad
May 29, 2009 POLITICIANS the world over indulge in campaign stunts, and Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is no exception. Facing a presidential election June 12, Ahmadinejad seized upon President Obama’s offer to open a US-Iran dialogue as an opportunity to do some electoral preening. Instead of responding to Obama’s proposal for negotiations, Ahmadinejad said he [...]
28 May
ECONOMY
Recovery In Progress One hundred days ago, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), a bill designed to jump-start the economy and put Americans back to work. Yesterday, Obama sounded a cautiously optimistic note when speaking about ARRA in Las Vegas. “From where we stand today, the road to economic recovery is still [...]
28 May
How Is Cheney Wrong? Let Me Count the Ways
By Ruth Marcus Wednesday, May 27, 2009; 5:52 PM Some people think we’re paying too much attention to former Vice President Dick Cheney. I think we may be paying too little. As bracing as last week’s Obama-Cheney face-off was, the inevitable focus was on the current president, not the former vice. And for those of [...]
27 May
thinkprogress.org Obama’s Supreme Choice Citing her “rigorous intellect” and her “commitment to impartial justice,” President Obama yesterday nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a federal appeals judge from New York, to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court. Legal scholars argue that her record suggests similarities wither the man she is replacing. Thomas Goldstein, a [...]
