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New Evidence of Scott Walker Lying to Congress

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By John Nichols - May. 27 (News Report) - there is new evidence to suggest that Walker’s testimony to Congress about when he began preparing his anti-labor legislation—which sparked mass demonstrations and a recall movement that will culminate with a June 5 vote on whether to recall the governor—was not truthful.

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The President's Last Line of Defense

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Ronald Brownstein - May. 26 (News Analysis) - The new round of national and state surveys this week generally showing President Obama clinging to a tenuous advantage over Republican Mitt Romney reinforce the conclusion that socially liberal, upscale white women may stand as the president's indispensable line of defense in his struggle for reelection. Both the national ABC/Washington Post survey released earlier this week, and the NBC/Marist Polls released Thursday in the battleground states of Ohio, Virginia and Florida show Obama retaining preponderant support among minority voters who were critical to his 2008 victory. Conversely, in almost all of the surveys, Obama faces a consistent pattern of erosion from his already meager 2008 levels of support among whites without a college education.

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Scott Walker, Tom Barrett Face Off In First Wisconsin Recall Debate

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Amanda Terkel - May. 26 (News Report) - Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) aggressively went after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) in the first of two gubernatorial debates, taking him to task for an ongoing corruption probe, repeal of an equal pay enforcement law and out-of-state fundraising....

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America's Best Bike City: Portland, OR

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Bicycling - By Bill Donahue - May. 26 (Opinion) - Sit down, please, and take a deep belly breath now, for the truth is harsh: When a bicyclist pedals down toward the Willamette River, which divides Portland, Oregon, the waters do not part. The automobile traffic does not cease. Cars honk, and in a city obsessed with green transit, there are train rails—a gleaming cyclist’s nightmare—crisscrossing everywhere. And it rains. The sky is a brooding gray between October and May, and in winter the rain, falling as a fine, gentle mist, can be so cold that your gloves almost freeze on your handlebar. And as you near the river, you may find one of Portland’s five drawbridges raised high so a giant steel China-bound cargo ship can come churning through.

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Gay marriage: Judge overturns DOMA, stepping up pressure on Supreme Court

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - May. 26 - A federal judge struck down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which precludes gay couples from receiving federal marriage benefits. She is the third federal judge to do so, suggesting that the Supreme Court might need to step in soon to clarify its position. ...

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"What We Do to the Land, We Do to the People"-- May 24 West Virginia Direct Actions Against MTR

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Writing Corner - By Beth Wellington - May. 24 (Opinion) - As part of Mountain Justice Summer Action Camp taking place at the Appalachian South Folklife Center near Pipestem, WV, five members of Mountain Justice and RAMPS boarded a coal barge to protest the destruction of mountains in West Virginia through Mountaintop removal, while other members and their fellow concerned activists blocked coal transport at approximately 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 24.

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Egyptian Voters on the Promise, and Limits, of Historic Election: Sharif Kouddous Reports From Cairo

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Sharif Kouddous - May. 24 (News Report) - Voters are heading to the polls for the second day in Egypt's first competitive presidential election following the ouster of Hosni Mubarak 15 months ago. The first day of voting saw numerous reports of minor violations, but was largely hailed as free of fraud and violence. Ahmed Shafik, Mubarak's last prime minister and now a leading candidate, was swarmed by protesters outside his polling station who hurled shoes and debris at him. Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous and videographer Hany Massoud spent the day traveling to polling stations around Cairo speaking to voters about their choices for president and their concerns in the election. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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George Zimmerman's 'Cozy' Relationship With Sanford Police Questioned

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Trymaine Lee - May. 24 (Investigative Report) - Neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman had a relationship with members of the police department in Sanford, Fla., long before he shot unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin to death in February, newly released information suggests. During a community forum on J

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Letter: Simpson needs 'intervention'

Thu, 24 May 2012 20:27:00 -0700

The Politico - By Patrick Gavin - May. 24 - After former Sen. Alan Simpson’s scathing, profanity-tinged letter to the California Alliance for Retired Americans, one organization is saying, “Enough!” “Call this a political intervention, if you will,” writes Max Richtman, the president and CEO of th

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CAUGHT RED HANDED

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

bbvforums.org - By Bev Harris - May. 23 (Investigative Report) - Four hundred and eighty-eight voters, every one of them in the Tennessee district of US Rep Steve Cohen (D-09), all but four lifelong Democrats, and nearly all Black, had their voting history erased by Shelby County election workers, setting them up for purge from the voter list.

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Money Unlimited

Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - By Jeffrey Toobin - May. 21 (Special Report) - When Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was first argued before the Supreme Court, on March 24, 2009, it seemed like a case of modest importance. The issue before the Justices was a narrow one. The McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law prohibi

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Walker and Deer: a Rebuttal

Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wisconsin Citizens Media Co-op - By Joel Anderson - May. 21 (News Analysis) - the current system of government regulated deer hunting allows people to bag a $750, $1,000 or $8,000 buck for $24. How is that fair? If this is not communism, it at least is socialism. All Kroll and Walker are trying to do is let the market, not government, set the price of deer.

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Bachmann’s Fundraising Whopper

Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Robert Farley - May. 20 (Fact Check) - In several urgent fundraising appeals, Rep. Michele Bachmann falsely claims that biased “liberal judges” redrew her congressional district “in retaliation for repeatedly standing up to President Obama.” The truth is that only two of the five judges were Democratic appointees, and Bachmann’s Minnesota district has become even more Republican than … More >>

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22 states join campaign finance fight

Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Matt Gouras, Mark Sherman Apple - May. 20 (News Report) - Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending.

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The Most Powerful Special Interest in Washington: The Acronym

Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Micah Cohen - May. 20 (Opinion) - A linguistic plague is creeping through the nation's capital - the "bacronym," where a PAC or bill name is chosen so that the initial letters of each word form a desired word.

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After Greenpeace Protests, Apple Promises to Dump Coal Power

Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Robert McMillan - May. 19 (News Report) - This story was produced by Wired as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Apple is cleaning up its energy act. The computer company says that by early next year, the energy used to power its worldwide data centers will all come from renewable sources, such as solar, wind power, or hydroelectric dams. It announced the news Thursday in a post to its website. That's a victory for the environmental activists at Greenpeace, who have been pressuring Apple for more than a year to clean up its act and commit to renewable energy. A major sticking point has been Apple's Maiden, North Carolina, facility, which is on the inexpensive but partially coal-powered Duke Energy grid . Apple had already started building a 100-acre solar array and a biogas energy plant on the site, but was still using Duke for a large chunk of the power at the 500,000-square-foot data center. Now, the company says it will instead use local power providers who use renewable energy. "By the end of 2012, we'll meet the ...

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Mitt Romney Debt Speech Ignores Key Facts

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Tom Raum - May. 16 (News Analysis) - When Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney decried the "prairie fire" of U.S. debt Tuesday, he ignored some of the sparks that set...

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10 Worst Things Arizona's Racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio Has Done

Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Ian Millhiser - May. 11 (Investigative Report) - the Department of Justice filed a formal legal complaint against Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) alleging widespread constitutional violations and lawless mistreatment of Latinos. According to the complaint, Arpaio and his staff engaged in widespread, violent and demeaning mistreatment of Latino residents of Maricopa County, often targeting individuals solely because of their race

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Violence, USA: An Interview with Henry A. Giroux

Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

truth-out.org - By Michael Slate, Henry A Giroux - May. 07 (Interview) - if you are at all concerned, if you are at all awake, in the deepest sense of being awake, and you look at the society we live in you really have got to question, what is going on in the society? How does it link to the terrible things that are going on in the world? How does this link to the fact that the world is a horror?

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Those Revolting Europeans

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - May. 06 (Opinion) - The French are revolting. The Greeks, too. And it's about time.

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Hollande Ousts Sarkozy in French Presidential Election

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Steven Erlanger, Nicola Clark - May. 06 (News Report) - François Hollande swept into office on Sunday, becoming the first Socialist to be elected president of France since François Mitterrand left office in 1995. Mr. Hollande’s campaign promised a kinder, gentler, more inclusive France, but his victory over President Nicolas Sarkozy will also be seen as a challenge to the German-dominated policy of economic austerity in the euro zone, which is suffering from recession and record unemployment.

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French presidential campaign ends with Sarkozy trailing

Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Edward Cody - May. 05 (News Report) - France wound up a long and rancorous presidential campaign Friday with opinion polls predicting victory for Francois Hollande, the Socialist candidate who promises economic stimulus measures to soften the austerity cutbacks imposed by President Nicolas Sarkozy.

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Schwarzenegger: GOP, take down that small tent

Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Arnold Schwarzenegger - May. 05 (Opinion) - It was Richard Nixon who brought me into the Republican fold. He was running for president, and I had recently arrived in California from Austria, which I'd left because the European socialist mentality wasn't big enough for my dreams. Growing up, I was surrounded by kids whose greatest ambition was to one day collect a pension. I didn't intend to spend my whole life dreaming about floating on a government safety net. One day, when Nixon was talking on the television, my liberal friend Artie translated bits of what he was saying. As I recall, he spoke about free enterprise, about less government and taxation, about the need for a strong military. I asked what party Nixon was from. Artie said he was an imbecile Republican. "Then I will be an imbecile Republican," I said. I've been writing my memoirs recently, and looking back at how I came to my political identity has reminded me that this election cycle marks my 44th year as a Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.

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Who's Buying Your Election? New FCC Ruling Requires Broadcasters to Post Data On Ad Purchases

Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - May. 04 (Interview) - We speak with Robert McChesney, co-founder of the national media reform organization Free Press, and Justin Elliott, a reporter at ProPublica working on a project called "Free the Files," that asks people and journalists across the country to visit TV stations, acquire paper data on political ads, and then post the files online at ProPublica.org.

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HANDS OFF APPALACHIA!: Occupy MTR Investor USB

Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Writing Corner - By Beth Wellington - May. 04 (Special Report) - May Day, of course, originally commemorated Chicago's 1886 the Haymarket Massacre, when, during a general strike for the eight hour workday, an unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at police as they dispersed a public meeting, and police fired on workers, killing several demonstrators and resulting in the deaths of several police officers, largely from friendly fire. Mayday, of course, is also "mayday" used as a distress signal for aviators because it approximates the French term "m'aider", meaning "come help me!"

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