Alan Greenspan’s ship of fools
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/18/alan-greenspan-ship-of-fools?INTCMP=SRCH The Fed’s FOMC is supposed to steer the US economy to prosperity. As we now...
View ArticleThe “anti-Semitism” smear campaign against CAP and Media Matters rolls on
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2012/01/19/the_smear_campaign_against_cap_and_media_matters_rolls_on/ By Glenn Greenwald Thursday, Jan 19, 2012 Last month, my Salon colleague Justin Elliott revealed...
View ArticleDHS Pumping Money into Drones for Domestic Surveillance, Hunting Immigrants...
DHS Pumping Money into Drones for Domestic Surveillance, Hunting Immigrants and Seizing PotFrom Alternet:...
View ArticleGLSEN releases first national study on homophobia, gender nonconformity in...
From LGBTQ Nation: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/01/glsen-releases-first-national-study-on-homophobia-gender-nonconformity-in-elementary-schools/ Most teachers unprepared to address LGBT issues...
View ArticleFamily Values Republican Style: Hypocrisy? Ex-Wife Says Newt Gingrich Wanted...
From The Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2012/01/19/Hypocrisy_ExWife_Says_Newt_Gingrich_Asked_for_Open_Marriage/ By Lucas Grindley January 19, 2012 So far one LGBT rights group is...
View ArticlePoverty in America: The Subject Presidential Candidates Would Prefer to Ignore
From The Black Agenda Report: http://blackagendareport.com/content/poverty-america-subject-presidential-candidates-would-prefer-ignore Marsha Coleman-.. Tue, 01/17/2012 This week in Johannesburg, South...
View ArticleGays “Make God Want to Vomit”: Meet Santorum’s Honorary Florida Chairman
Whenever I hear a Black Minister ranting and raving about LGBT/T folks I think two things: !: Like Eddie Long he is on the downlow. 2. He is a whore for those right wing dollars and he’s giving lip...
View ArticleIsraelis Facing a Seismic Rift Over Role of Women
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/world/middleeast/israel-faces-crisis-over-role-of-ultra-orthodox-in-society.html?scp=2&sq=israel%20women&st=cse By ETHAN BRONNER and...
View ArticleWhy the Christian Right Becomes More Extreme As America Grows More Tolerant
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/story/151766/why_the_christian_right_becomes_more_extreme_as_america_grows_more_tolerant?page=entire The political movement is “revenge”-based, rather than...
View ArticleFaith-healing: A Modest Proposal on Religious Fundamentalism
From The Women’s Media Center: http://womensmediacenter.com/blog/2012/01/exclusive-faith-healing-a-modest-proposal-on-religious-fundamentalism/ By Robin Morgan January 23, 2012 Author and WMC...
View ArticleThe invention of the heterosexual
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2012/01/22/the_invention_of_the_heterosexual/ The history of straightness is much shorter than you’d think. An expert explains its origins By Thomas Rogers Sunday,...
View ArticleRedefining Chutzpah: More Bad Ideas to Burden Women
From On The Issues: http://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/2012winter/2012winter_Schvey.php by Aram A. Schvey Winter 2012 What’s chutzpah? Until December 2011, I would have deferred to the classic...
View ArticleChristo-Nazi Tony Perkins: Gays won’t be Happy with Marriage Equality because...
From Right Wing Watch: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/perkins-gays-wont-be-happy-marriage-equality-because-emptiness-within-them by Brian Tashman January 24, 2012 On Today’s Issues, a...
View ArticleWarning: This Site Contains Conspiracy Theories
From Slate: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/01/anti_vaccine_activists_9_11_deniers_and_google_s_social_search_.html Does Google have a responsibility to help stop the spread...
View ArticleSat., Feb. 4 Day of Action: No Sanctions, No War Against Iran!
From ANSWER: http://www.answercoalition.org/national/news/no-war-on-iran.html January 23, 2012 The ANSWER Coalition is calling on everyone to join a demonstration or to organize one on the National Day...
View ArticleUltra-Orthodox Jews attack woman in Israeli town
From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/24/ultra-orthodox-jews-attack-woman-in-israeli-town/ By Agence France-Presse Tuesday, January 24, 2012 JERUSALEM — A group of ultra-Orthodox men...
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