Lockerbie Bomber Comatose And Near Death

Abdel Bassett al-Megrahi will take secrets to his grave…

Hurricane Irene: Substance Or Media Hype?

Did the media overdo it?…

Al Gore: Global Warming Deniers Will Be Regarded As We Now See Racists

Al Gore was interviewed on UStream by Climate Reality Project collaborator Alex Bogusky.

“I remember, again going back to my early years in the South, when the Civil Rights revolution was unfolding, there were two things that really made an impression on me,” Gore said. “My generation watched Bull Connor turning the hose on civil rights demonstrators and we went, ‘Whoa! How gross and evil is that?’ My generation asked old people, ‘Explain to me again why it is okay to discriminate against people because their skin color is different?’ And when they couldn’t really answer that question with integrity, …

AL State Rep. Alvin Holmes Calls For Drug Testing Legislators

Submitted by Airedelapaz

Alabama Democrat Alvin Holmes believes what’s fair is fair.

Holmes said he would pro­pose an amendment that would require state legislators to take a drug test and require others who receive federal funds through the state, including those who receive funding for not farming all of their agricul­tural land, to be tested.

“It wouldn’t be fair to just pick out one group of welfare recipients because they are re­ceiving federal funds and re­quire them to take drug tests,” Holmes said.

He has an interesting pro­posal for his colleagues.

“I’m going to volunteer to take one (a …

Stetson Kennedy, Exposer of Klan, Dead At 94

Submitted by greenfloyd

Exposed secret passwords, handshakes, and “how silly they were”…

School Reform Means Never Saying ‘Maybe’

by Stuart Shapiro

The hurricane seems to have passed, but there is still little going on in the world of politics.  So since it is ‘back to school’ week, I thought I would blog on one of those subjects everyone feels passionately about, public schools.  While on vacation, I read this piece, from a few months ago, by former New York superintendent, Joel Klein.  Klein is one of the nation’s foremost reformers, pushing testing, charter schools, and breaking the power of the teachers’ unions.

If the forces behind reform seem scattered and weak, those defending the status quo—the unions, …

Right Wing Politicizes Hurricane Irene

They think it will make Bush’s Katrina failure look better.

“How to Politicize a Hurricane,” Koch Industries lawyer John Hinderaker cried, saying Obama “posed for a photo-op today, pretending to have something to do with the potentially-severe weather event.”

Scared Monkeys: “The President left the friendly confines of “Life styles of the Rich & Famous to try and act presidential. However, it seems like more of a shameless photo-op.”

“Fearless Leader “Takes Charge” At Hurricane Command Center…” Weasel Zippers writes. “More like a pathetic photo-op.”…

Ron Paul: Abortion Is “The Most Important Issue Of Our Age”

It’s not “the economy, stupid”?
To Jacksonville pro-lifers: “Liberty is secondary to life”…

Qaddafi Seen In Zimbabwe

A “unique guest” of President Robert Mugabe…

Obama To U.S. Let’s Regain Our Post-9/11 Unity

“…a lasting virtue, not just one day, but every day”…

Can Sex Strikes Change The World? RT

Submitted by Greenfloyd

Columbian authorities agree to road improvements after hundreds of women wouldn’t have sex with their husbands for 38 days…