Adding Some Color to Sunday Morning Talk Show Circuit

Sep 26, 2009 - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sprinted through appearances on five consecutive news shows last Sunday, but other African-American lawmakers and opinion-shapers have a hard time getting face time on those programs. Although an African-American is serving as the third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, four African-Americans are chairing important House committees and 17 other Congressional Black Caucus members are holding subcommittee chairs, they haven't made many appearances on the Sunday talk-show circuit. "There hasn't been much change," said Rep. - 13 Comments

Charles Darwin Film Too Controversial for U.S.

Sep 13, 2009 - Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America' A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer. By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor Creation, starring Paul Bettany, details Darwin's "struggle between faith and reason" as he wrote On The Origin of Species. It depicts him as a man who loses faith in God following the death of his beloved 10-year-old daughter, Annie. - 56 Comments

Killing Girls Is Bad, Killing Boys Is Okay

Sep 04, 2009 - Killing Girls Is Bad, Killing Boys Is Okay By Doug Bandow Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is upset about abortion. Well, not abortion per se. But some abortions. - 1 Comment

Dem Rep Who Opposes Photo ID To Vote Requiring Photo ID For Town Halls

Aug 12, 2009 - By Tom Blumer (Bio | Archive) August 11, 2009 - 14:18 ET This is Congressman Eugene Green (HT to an e-mailer), Democrat from Texas, telling the world that if you're not from his District, you're not welcome at his future town hall meetings -- oh, and how he'll enforce his new rule (bold is his): This is how Gene Green has voted on laws relating to requiring photo identification to vote (from the web site "On the Issues"): - 9 Comments

American Hikers are Detained by Iran

Aug 03, 2009 - Swiss push for meeting with U.S. hikers detained in Iran (CNN) -- Swiss diplomats are trying to meet with three American hikers being held in Iran, the Swiss Embassy in Tehran said Monday. The embassy would not say whether Iranian authorities had responded to their request or if diplomats had met the Americans. - 21 Comments

The Obama Haters’ Silent Enablers

Jun 15, 2009 - By FRANK RICH Published: June 13, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14rich.html?em WHEN a Fox News anchor, reacting to his own network’s surging e-mail traffic, warns urgently on-camera of a rise in hate-filled, “amped up” Americans who are “taking the extra step and getting the gun out,” maybe we should listen. He has better sources in that underground than most. The anchor was Shepard Smith , speaking after Wednesday’s mayhem at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. - 127 Comments

Military ignores its own regulations, permits white supremacists to join

Jun 15, 2009 - ((Sorry this is so long, and the language is rough...)) On a muggy Florida evening in 2008, I meet Iraq War veteran Forrest Fogarty in the Winghouse, a little bar-restaurant on the outskirts of Tampa, his favorite hangout. He told me on the phone I would recognize him by his skinhead. Sure enough, when I spot a white guy at a table by the door with a shaved head, white tank top and bulging muscles, I know it can only be him. - 2 Comments

The Pulitzer-Winning Investigation That Dare Not Be Uttered on TV

Apr 21, 2009 - ((I'm still working out how to highlight stuff - sorry)) Published on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 by Salon.com by Glenn Greenwald The New York Times' David Barstow won a richly deserved Pulitzer Prize yesterday for two articles that, despite being featured as major news stories on the front page of The Paper of Record, were completely suppressed by virtually every network and cable news show, which to this day have never informed their viewers about what Bartow uncovered. Here is how the Pulitzer Committee described Barstow's exposés: Awarded to David Barstow of The New York Times for his tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended. By whom were these "ties to companies" undisclosed and for whom did these deeply conflicted retired generals pose as "analysts"? - 10 Comments