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The Ryan/Biden Catholic smackdown in 20 tweets or less. OK, 21.
Our friends over at National Catholic Reporter started a Twitter campaign during the vice presidential debate on whether the first two Catholic candidates to face each other would get into their faith. Boy, did they. [Full Disclosure: Most of these tweets run to the left of center. Except ours.]
http://www.religionnews.com/politics/election/the-ryan-biden-catholic-smackdown-in-20-tweets-or-less.-ok-21
2012 vice-presidential debate: Vice President Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan’s remarks in Danville, Ky., on Oct.11 (running transcript)
Rabbis Sue Over City’s Circumcision Regulations
The regulation, which is due to take effect on Oct. 21, would most impact mohelim in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community where the practice is most prevalent. It requires them to receive from parents signed written consent forms warning that the procedure “exposes the infant to risk of transmission of herpes simplex virus infection and other infectious diseases.”
Terry Jones In Toronto: Quran Burning Pastor Won't Take Part In Free Speech Debate
TORONTO - An anti-Muslim American pastor who earned an international reputation after burning copies of the Islamic holy text has been denied entry into Canada hours before he was to speak at a free speech rally in Toronto, organizers said Thursday.
Why US media is biased against Arabs and Muslims
Jamal Kanj explains that lopsided US media coverage of the Arab and Muslim worlds is rooted not just in cultural biases and political motives, but in the fact that media reporters and editors themselves are sometimes part of the Israeli military establishment.
Wall Street vs. workers—the class gap widens
A study released Tuesday confirms that the financial parasites on Wall Street have lost nothing from the wrecking operation they have carried out on the US and world economy. The New York state comptroller reports that Wall Street firms will pay out more than $60 billion in compensation to their employees, a sum exceeded only in 2007 and 2008, the two years leading up to the financial crash that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
The Discrediting of US Military Power
mericans lived in a "victory culture" for much of the twentieth century. You could say that we experienced an almost 75-year stretch of triumphalism - think of it as the real "American Century" - from World War I to the end of the Cold War, with time off for a destructive stalemate in Korea and a defeat in Vietnam too shocking to absorb or shake off.Walmart's Historic First Strike
he great recession of 2008, this global economic meltdown, has wiped out the life savings of so many people, and created a looming threat of chronic unemployment for millions. This is happening while corporate coffers are brimming with historically high levels of cash on hand, in both the "too big to fail" banks and in non-financial corporations.No Room for the Poor in This Election
In 90 minutes of debating, Rep. Paul Ryan failed to explain why the Romney-Ryan budget plan wouldn’t inflict hardship on the middle class and the working poor. Actually, poor people weren’t mentioned much, even by his foe, Vice President Joe Biden. This debate was about the middle class, that somewhat amorphous demographic at the center of the presidential campaign.Five Practical Reasons Not To Vote Republican
There is no shortage of reasons not to vote Republican. The litany includes tax cuts for the rich, cutbacks in government programs, obstructing needed legislation, disregard for the environment, denial of women's and other human rights, military escalation.
Despite Republican Efforts To Stop It, Recovery Is Going Strong
The New York Times is reporting on the latest survey of the economy performed by Thomson Reuters in partnership with the University of Michigan. This study finds the consumer sentiment index at its highest point since September 2007. Earlier in this month came the unemployment numbers, which destroyed a popular Republican talking point. And to add a cherry to the top of this bad news, the Economic Cycle Research Institute reported accelerated economic growth for yet another week, further raining on the Republicans bad day.
Below the line: Poverty in America
Official figures say 46 million Americans live in poverty. Beyond that, there's little about poverty that Americans can agree on.
JPMorgan Chase's Debt Collection Agency's Sleazy Tactics to Squeeze Student Loans Debtors of Their Last Cash
JPMorgan Chase's Debt Collection Agency's Sleazy Tactics to Squeeze Student Loans Debtors of Their Last Cash
ast Wednesday night the terms "middle-income" and "middle-class" were mentioned 34 times over the course of the first 90-minute so-called presidential "debate." The phrases rolled jauntily off the tongues of both candidates as they attempted to make impassioned appeals to what is often seen as the most important voting bloc.
John Negroponte: The Death Squad Ambassador
"The El Salvador Option"
John Rendon: The man who sold you Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraq War
