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Kenneth L. Stephens | Veterans Day Is upon Us

Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:01:41 -0800

 

 

 

Paul Krugman explains the problem with the hole in the Medicare

doughnut; House pulls budget measure; Alito approved by Federalist

Society; Fallujah is iconic symbol of unconscionable brutality; Pat

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Kenneth L. Stephens | Veterans Day Is upon Us

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111105I.shtml

Viet Nam vet Kenneth " Larry " Stephens writes, " I do not support the

policy of this 21st century Viet Nam. But having said that, I do

support our troops, and as a demonstration of that support, I will

speak out and fight vigorously against the abuse of our troops and the

failure of honesty in this administration by their deliberately hiding

the true human cost of this war. "

 

House Budget Measure Is Pulled

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111105J.shtml

House Republican leaders were forced to abruptly pull their $54

billion budget-cutting bill off the House floor yesterday, amid

growing dissension in Republican ranks over spending priorities,

taxes, oil exploration and the reach of government.

 

Paul Krugman | The Deadly Doughnut

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111105K.shtml

Paul Krugman writes that soon millions of Americans will learn that

doughnuts are bad for your health. And if we're lucky, Americans will

also learn a bigger lesson: politicians who don't believe in a

positive role for government shouldn't be allowed to design new

government programs.

 

Alito Gets Federalist Society Seal of Approval

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111105L.shtml

It was Samuel Alito's kind of crowd Thursday as the conservative

lawyers of the Federalist Society opened their annual convention.

While the society itself does not take positions on judicial nominees,

various speakers and individual members volunteered approving words

for Alito's approach to the law.

 

Mike Marqusee | Fallujah: A Name That Lives in Infamy

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111105M.shtml

Mike Marqusee writes, " Like Jallianwallah Bagh, Guernica, My Lai,

Halabja and Grozny, Fallujah is a place name that has become a symbol

of unconscionable brutality. As the war in Iraq claims more lives, we

need to ensure that this atrocity - so recent, so easily erased from

public memory - is recognized as an example of the barbarism of

nations that call themselves civilized. "

 

Schools in Kansas to Challenge Darwinism

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111105N.shtml

" This action is likely to be the playbook for creationism for the next

several years, " Eugenie Scott, director of the National Centre for

Science Education told the Associated Press news agency. " We can

predict this fight happening elsewhere. "

 

Televangelist Warns of Evolution Doomsday

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111105O.shtml

Conservative Christian televangelist Pat Robertson told citizens of a

Pennsylvania town that they had rejected God by voting their school

board out of office for supporting " intelligent design " and warned

them Thursday not to be surprised if disaster struck.

 

Bob Moser | Cornbread and Roses

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111105P.shtml

Bob Moser writes that in February John Edwards surprised everyone,

announcing a campaign to " eradicate poverty in America. " With a

$40,000 annual salary paid by private funds, Edwards became the first

director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at UNC, Chapel

Hill's law school, largely a think tank designed to bring antipoverty

scholars, activists, journalists and politicians together to cook up

innovative ways to tackle economic and racial inequities.

 

Senate Approves Limiting Rights of US Detainees

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111105Z.shtml

The Senate voted Thursday to strip captured " enemy combatants " held at

Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, of the principal legal tool provided to them

last year by the Supreme Court which allowed them to challenge their

detentions through the US court system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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