Guest guest Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 Wed, 17 May 2006 20:40:03 -0400 (EDT) OpEdNews 5/18/06 rob click to read articles http://www.opednews.com/flyer/news_20060517_2.html Newest Articles By Mike Whitney Send Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses; Just No Mexicans, Please Is there room for a different opinion on immigration? Why not disband the Border-guard and install a conveyor-belt between Nogales and Phoenix? Let's unhinge the gates, bulldoze the fences, and welcome anyone who wants to come in. We'd all be better off. By Andrew Bard Schmookler " The Worst President In History? " Why The Question Mark? Sean Wilentz ended the title of his fine article in ROLLING STONE with a question mark. But who else is even in the running? By Verified Voting Foundation Verified Voting Special Newsletter Shockingly, news of the security flaw was topped off on Monday with news that both Diebold and the State of Maryland have been aware of the security vulnerability for at least two years. Further adding to the scandal is the fact that the backdoor (or doors) were designed into the machines intentionally, as Diebold spokesman David Bear admits in the same New York Times article. By Lonna Gooden VanHorn America's Hitler: Part IV Hitler, perhaps because he had been a poor student, mistrusted the intellect and despised intellectuals. Instead of seeking the approval of intellectuals, he crafted his message to appeal to the people's emotions and instincts. Part Four of a five part series on " America's Hitler. " By Greg Palast Big Brother Inc. Tries To Fool Randi Rhodes -- And That's Not Nice I smell mendacity! The sticky-sweet Atlanta drawl of the PR flack for America's private KGB was dancing in rhetorical circles with Randi Rhodes, Air American, on her broadcast yesterday. Unfortunately for the Bush-friendly Spies-R-Us contractor, Randi also has a keen nose for the telltale scent of pure bullshit. By JGideon 'Daily Voting News' For May 17, 2006 a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseas. By Al Kolwicz, CAMBER Action Alert: Is Colorado SOS Stalling? If the SOS stalls long enough, we won't get the data we need, and we won't be able to submit complete testimony at the May 24th public hearing. By Robert C. Koehler Shadow America The guy now occupying the White House may well be the most dangerous president in American history, and not because he's an aberration, but rather because he's homegrown and recognizable: the worst of who we are, dressed up in a suit and power tie. We need to rouse ourselves, as citizens, and stand between this reeling administration and . . . the Constitution. The rest of the world. By Evelyn Pringle Merck Caught Misrepresenting Vioxx Risks Again By Bob Burnett Bush's Desperation Agenda The Bush Administration has abandoned their plans and offered America a desperation agenda. By Randolph T. Holhut ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, NOT SOLDIERS AND WALLS, WILL STEM IMMIGRANT SURGE One way to keep Mexicans from flooding into the United States is to rebuild the Mexican economy and undo the damage from a decade of NAFTA. By Dave Lindorff & Barbara Olshansky Excerpts From The New Book " The Case For Impeachment " Here are excerpts from some of the chapters of our new book " The Case for Impeachment, " just released by St. Martin's Press By Sue Schell, DVMC Clean The House Event With Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky We've been waiting four long years -- and now it's time to use our collective power to take back the House! By Sam Vaknin The Business Of Torture As awareness of human rights increased, as their definition expanded and as new, often authoritarian polities, resorted to torture and repression - human rights advocates and non-governmental organizations proliferated. By Charlotte Laws My Adventure Presenting Animal Rights Philosophy To The FBI The FBI asked me to fly to the Washington D.C. area to lecture law enforcement executives about animal philosophy. By TheBhc The New New Threat While the motivation for the release of the 9/11 video is patently obvious, the immigration discussion now enthralling an easily distracted media and its attendant chattering class is something that has been on the back burning for sometime -- on slow burn -- just waiting for the proper time for Bush to finally enter the fray... By GreyHawk The Intolerable Acts History is repeating itself. Is anybody listening? In 1774, King George III and Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts. In 2006, the Bush Administration has done the same thing. From the Dubai Port to illegal NSA wiretapping, the unitary executive has duplicated the very actions that spawned the birth of our nation. By TheBhc The New New Threat While the motivation for the release of the 9/11 video is patently obvious, the immigration discussion now enthralling an easily distracted media and its attendant chattering class is something that has been on the back burning for sometime -- on slow burn -- just waiting for the proper time for Bush to finally enter the fray and really stir things up. By Jim Bush A Child's Corpse By Earl Hadley The American Dream Wrecked By Christa Brown Secret Files Of Pedophiles Clergy sex abuse survivor calls upon Southern Baptist leaders to rid their ranks of clergy predators. By John Carey TeenScreen And Psychiatry - Pseudo-Science Or Scam? In total alignment with the socialists' agenda, TeenScreen is the latest attempt to subvert individual liberty and destroy the creativity of our next generation. Cloaked in scientific jargon, TeenScreen is creeping into school systems in the dead of night to lure our children into becoming drug company customers. It's time the public learned the truth about this pseudo-scientific scam. By Richard Mathis Theory X And Theory Y Religion How are optimistic belief systems and religions different from negative ones? By Ron Fullwood Making The Iran Thing Legal-Like A military assault on Iran at this point can't be called 'legal'. There is no law the Bush regime has at their disposal that they can use to find Iran guilty of, or as an accomplice to, anything illegal. By Lynn Hirshman The New Immigrants Are Brown; Is That What Makes It A " crisis " ? It is the fact that the 10 or 12 or 20 million undocumented immigrants are brown that makes the current situation a " crisis " rather than a problem to be dealt with calmly and compassionately. By Steven Leser Rove Indictment And Jason Leopold Brief Update By Tedbohne OK CLASS, LETS REVIEW!, WHERE'S THE 757! A 757 did not impact the Pentagon By Martha Rosenberg Milk: It's What's In The Vending Machine After a series of discredited health claims, milk is now being pushed for weight loss. By ********** Bush Is The Banana Peel America Slipped On Bushes irresponsability and his excuses for ineptitude By Gregg Jocoy Bombs Away! Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols built a bomb of fertilizer and dieser fuel and used it to blow up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. This evil deed sent McVeigh to his death and Nichols to jail. Now Uncle Sam wants to use this same bomb design to test a new series of " Mini-nukes " proposed by the Bush administration. Green Party members across the nation are fighting against this dangerous plan. By Maniac The Nazis, Bush And Impeachment The reason that the Nazis were found guilty forms the foundation for impeaching Bush for starting an illegal war. By Tedbohne They're YOUR Children! So What Are You Gonna Do About It!!! Let's look at troop preparedness - (Mild profanity) By George Stone THE PRESIDENT'S NEW FREEDOM COMMISSION ON MENTAL HEALTH In a sweeping move to erase parental rights and hook millions of children on drugs, President Bush created the very mis-named New " Freedom " Commission on Mental Health. Despite the appealing false name and fraudulent compassionate-sounding goals, this is just yet another example of Bush victimizing the people to enrich his friends in big business. This article lays bare the truth of what your government has been up to. By Eugene Weixel AIDS Drug Test Scandal Still Haunts NYC Child Welfare Bigs NYC CHild Welfare Commissioner Mattingly promised a year ago that there was going to be an investigation of the horrors revealed in BBC's television program " Guinea Pig Kids. " It's been a long time, what are the results? By Debby Bodkin Society's Challenge - Answering The Scandals With Personal Holiness Society's biggest challenge is to correct the wrongs that have been committed against precious children and their families - the clergy sex abuse scandals. As a society, we can make the world a safer place for our children and their children. By Joel Wendland Canadian Peace Congress Reconstituted The Canadian Peace Congress, a founding member of the World Peace Council, (WPC) was formally re-established and re-organized at a Conference in Edmonton on April 8, 2006. By Mark Sashine RAPE, USA Our behavior, the behavior of our nation resembles the behavior of the deranged sexual predator down to the letter: seduce, control, rape, make do perverse things, make pictures of that, sell those, get more and more, become more and more violent, seduce, control, rape, drugs, death. See your face in the mirror? It is the face of the rapist. By Web, The Joke: Woman's Poem, Man's Poem each gender's " poetic " vision of the perfect partner click to read articles http://www.opednews.com/flyer/news_20060517_2.html Best News Links from the Web Truthout Stands Behind Jason Leopold And Rove Story We have been contacted by at least three reporters from mainstream media - network level organizations - who shared with us off-the-record confirmation and moral support. When we asked why they were not going public with this information, in each case they expressed frustration with superiors who would not allow it. Another 100+ Machines Fail In Allegheny County (Pittsburgh)! 100's of machines in Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is located, also failed to work correctly today. Allegheny County finally settled on voting machines made by ES & S, after they abandoned hopes of going with Diebold when their machines were found to be hackable, and then later found machines from Sequoia Voting Systems -- who they'd planned to use instead -- were discovered to be similarly hackable. " Alternative " Annual Report Released: " Hurricane Halliburton " " Conflict, Climate Change and Catastropohe " reads the subtitle of this report issued by CorpWatch.org. This hurricane, of course, is seeded -- like a palm is greased -- by pay-offs. Howard Zinn On Fixing What's Wrong When I arrived at Boston University in 1978, it was like showing up at a party after all the guests had gone home. The Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War protests were over, and everyone around me was studying business and honing their resumes. The Sixties had died. All the activists were gone. Except for Howard Zinn. White House Denies Using Patriot Act Against Journalists U.S. Secretly Backing Warlords In Somalia I smell NEOCON. Building A Brand With A Blog ; Huffington Post site now has deals with and AOL, is close to a deal with a video company, and has been approached by Barry Diller to help build a separate satiric news and entertainment site. Using National Guard Won't Stop Illegal Immigration, But May Relieve Pressures Impeding Decent Policy On examination... Bush is an idiot... The plan is not all that substantive. But in the context of Bush's speech, it might have achieved something useful. It showed that Bush, now willing to placate the anti-immigration wing of his party, still refuses to give up the ideal of balanced immigration reform. Judge Voids Georgia Gay Marriage Ban Sleepless nights in GA! Oh the horror...oh the terror!! Judge let them gays out. I rather have 600 gay neighbors as one Neocon. Confidence In GOP Is At New Low In Poll Public confidence in GOP governance has plunged to the lowest levels of the Bush presidency, with Americans saying by wide margins that they now trust Democrats more than Republicans to deal with Iraq, the economy, immigration and other issues If You Don't Want To Return To A Cave Of Bushevik Propaganda, Help Save The Internet Now! Where would you be without an Internet that belonged to the American people, not corporate profit centers, today? Think about it. It would be like going back to living in a cave. It would be like living in North Korea, where the only news is the official news. One Less Car Trip A Day First Step To National Energy Independence Energy economist Charles Komanoff maintains that tiny behavioral changes -- like eliminating one out of 14 car trips -- could, implemented on a national scale, pay off in huge oil-saving dividends. click to read articles http://www.opednews.com/flyer/news_20060517_2.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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