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2010-07-31: Headlines

Ethiopian News Journal: solomon: What the US Should Do About Eritrea 2010-07-31
In 2006, US-backed Ethiopia invaded Somalia and removed from power the Islamic Courts Union, which it perceived as a brewing threat. To the United States, it was another extension of the global war on terror and it openly backed the invasion, claiming that the Islamic Courts were harboring terrorists responsible for the bombing of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.
MWC News: Bob Boldt: The world turned upside down 2010-07-31
WikiLeakes and Julian Assange have submitted their documents to the most stringent vetting before release precisely to avoid the possibility of placing the lives of anyone mentioned in the documents at risk. These statements by Gates and Muller represent yet another obfuscation in a PR campaign characterized by lies and misrepresentations that has passed unaltered from Bush to Obama.
PBS: The Drumbeats of War with Iran are getting Louder 2010-07-31
Dire signs in ramping up of rhetoric, military preparations. | It is the end of July now, but the propaganda campaign to prepare the public for possible military attacks on Iran is already in high gear.
Auburn Journal: Traitor 2010-07-31
Can you believe Americans would defend this guy? | It appears that the anti-war left has been exposed. | Their rhetoric is coming home to roost. | After years of attacking our troops and claiming they are murdering and attacking innocent women and children in the dark of night(1) as a political weapon to defeat G.W.Bush, the momentum they created has lead to an overt act of sabotage against our troops.
ESPN: Bush putting USC in the past 2010-07-31
New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush said Saturday it's time to put the controversy from his days at the University of Southern California behind him. | "I like to think that I'm pretty mentally tough and I never allow any outside distraction to affect me on the football field," Bush said Saturday as the Saints went through their second day of training camp. "Once I step on the field, it's all football."
CBS News: CBSNews : Obama Slams GOPs 'Do-Nothing Policies' 2010-07-31
His election-year push for additional job measures suffered a fresh setback this past week when the GOP blocked the small-business plan. | The president used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to accuse Republicans of "holding America's small businesses hostage to politics." He said the bill has the support of business groups and contains many ideas favored by both parties.
truthout: The Missing Piece Meets the Big O 2010-07-31
I've been trying to wrap my mind around the dispiriting sense of failure that seems to have enveloped the Obama administration on the eve of the November midterms. The right hates him because he won, because he's Black, and because he won.
Salon: | Al Gore | 2010-07-31
The case of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and the massage therapist has been closed. | Former Vice President Al Gore was cleared Friday of allegations he groped and assaulted a masseuse in a luxury Portland hotel room in 2006.
The Ann Arbor Chronicle: Column: Why Not Endorsements? 2010-07-31
Column: Why Not Endorsements? | During my three-year stint as opinion editor at The Ann Arbor News, I grew to dread election season. The dread was due in part to the nastiness that elections often bring out in people — nastiness that typically lies dormant, or is at least well-cloaked by social convention. | Chronicle file photo of Hank Beekley with his team of draft horses — a Belgian and a Shire
NOLA.com: Reggie Bush feels 100 percent, ready to put offseason behind him for the New Orleans Saints 2010-07-31
Running back Reggie Bush said Saturday he's 100 percent healthy for the first time since his rookie season and is eager to get the turbulent offseason behind and help the Saints defend their Super Bowl title. | "It's been a roller-coaster offseason, but I'm back here on the football field, back in front of the Who Dat Nation," Bush said.
The Spoof: queen mudder: The real Chelsea Clinton lies buried in White House Rose Garden 2010-07-31
Saturday, 31 July 2010 A Rose by any other name... | Washington - (Hybrid Tea Rose News): Buried under the fragrant commemorative floribunda cultivars the Laura Bush Rose and the Rose Kennedy Rose lies the truth of those irrascible Clinton years in orifice.And this afternoon the doppelganger strolling up the aisle on her 'father's'

2010-07-30: Headlines

Florida Times-Union: Do you give first-time candidates a shot? 2010-07-30
Do you give first-time candidates a shot? | As the editorial board of The Times-Union holds interviews with candidates, it seems that strong first-timers have become a trend. | There is some tea party influence, certainly. And some good people are stepping up in these difficult times. | Which led us to ask: When do voters give a first-timer the benefit of the doubt? What criteria do you use?
Salon: Defending mothers who kill 2010-07-30
Pregnancy denial is making headlines this week as the world tries to understand how Dominique Cottrez could have allegedly killed eight of her newborn babies.
PolitiFact: Updating Obamas campaign promises on disability 2010-07-30
July 26, 2010, marked the 20th anniversary of the signing of the American with Disabilities Act. President George H.W. Bush signed it into law in 1990 to prohibit discrimination and ensure equal opportunity for persons with disabilities in employment, government services, public accommodations, commercial facilities, and transportation.
TIME: Get Low: Robert Duvall Raises the Bar 2010-07-30
Robert Duvall will turn 80 next year, a fact that hardly seems possible since he's one of those men for whom the term fit as a fiddle should have been invented. But it's been nearly half a century since his first notable role as Boo Radley in 1962's To Kill a Mockingbird. In his latest film, Get Low, Duvall plays a suitably ancient hermit named Felix Bush who senses death's approach and decides to stage and attend his own funeral.
CBS News: CBSNews : US Agency May Skirt Congress on Immigration 2010-07-30
The internal draft written by officials at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services outlines ways that the government could provide "relief" to illegal immigrants - including delaying deportation for some, perhaps indefinitely, or granting green cards to others - in the absence of legislation revamping the system.
The Womens International Perspective: Citizen Mobilization for Housing in Haiti (The Urgency of Housing, Part IV) 2010-07-30
Citizen Mobilization for Housing in Haiti (The Urgency of Housing, Part IV) | "We're mobilizing people in the camps and the shantytowns to let them know that getting housing is a right. Our vision is to make the problem of housing a focal point of people's struggle," said Reyneld Sanon of the Force for Reflection and Action on Housing (FRAKKA by its Creole acronym).
Kaiser Family Foundation: Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report 2010-07-30
Open the calendar popup. | The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations will hold a business meeting to consider, among other things, S. 2982 The International Violence Against Women Act of 2010. | The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies will hold an Aug. 5 forum examining the major policy, research and other developments arising from the 2010 International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) in Vienna.
NPR: I Cant Talk About Chelseas Wedding 2010-07-30
Chelsea Clinton *might* run in 2016. But I'm not allowed to say if she actually will. | It's not that I signed an agreement or anything. It's just a general principle among some of us "in the know" that we can't talk about what *may be* Chelsea Clinton's wedding on *possibly* Saturday at someplace *near* Rhinebeck, N.Y. | If she were getting married on Saturday, and I'm not saying she is, it *could be*
The Nation.: Slacker Friday 2010-07-30
I've got a new "Think Again" column called "What's Wrong with this Mainstream Media Picture?" about coverage of DISCLOSE Act, here. | And my new Nation column about the MSM's embrace of Breitbartism and nuttiness regarding Journolist, is here. | Eric Alterman is a Distinguished Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and Professor of... | Do You Know Who Eric Alterman Is?
SF Weekly: Matt Smith: Larry Bush, HUD Spokesman, Sues Agency: Claims Violations of Anti-Secrecy Laws 2010-07-30
Bush is aces. He's one of the calmest and most ordered people in town. "Dark Prince"? Musta been a Frank Jordan aide talking.
eWeek: New CEO Thompson Sets Course for Storage Startup Virtual Instruments 2010-07-30
VI, a spinoff of Finisar, makes SAN and virtual infrastructure optimization software called SANInsight and VirtualWisdom. These products provide deep monitoring and analysis of how virtualized IT infrastructures and SANs affect business-critical application performance.
TVGrapevine.com: honeySC: Big Brother 12 Updates 1:45 PM BBT, Fri, July 30, 2010 2010-07-30
Brendon says that if anyone is carrying around names that we are going to put up, don't believe it. We have not decided and we are not naming anyone at this point, well Rachel. Lane congratulates them and says that he wanted to beat them, cause they are a powerhouse and it would be an accomplishment to beat them. | Rachel is wearing a police uniform top, probably from the comp. Lane leaves and they wait for the next person.
Salon: WikiLeaks: Not a scoop, but still news 2010-07-30
This originally appeared on Scott Rosenberg's Open Salon blog. | In the chorus of critical reaction to the WikiLeaks Afghanistan documents we heard two strains of criticism: One suggested that the material would harm the U.S. war effort and endanger people working for it. The other suggested that, because no earth-shattering headline could be mined from the mountain of documents, the whole thing was a waste of time.
Washington Post: Happy Hour Roundup 2010-07-30
I just got the vid up of the Weiner interview today. The library book line is classic. | Every time the GOP mentions Charlie Rangel, the Dems should reply "John Ensign - FBI investigation." | "library books to a knife fight" | that's great. I missed it. thanks. | I'm not sure I get Kornacki's point. We are supposed to hold Weiner at arm's length because he has future aspirations?
New York Post: Rangels rise from war hero to DC vet 2010-07-30
Charlie Rangel might have been New York's ultimate political insider, but his rise began a world away in the frozen hills of Korea.
allvoices: USA OR DSA? 2010-07-30
July 30, 2010]-----I wrote this when the healthcare debate was blazing a contentious trail across the nation.Sadly, this article is still relevant today. | The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA now feels like the DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA. The economic, medical and social inequities in this country has now led to a stark political divide.
Gapers Block: SB 1070 at Work in Chicago: Stirrings of Renewed Activism 2010-07-30
Yesterday, the half-million undocumented immigrants of Illinois had a big day. | Aldermen and activists held a morning press conference revealing the details of a new City Council resolution, and in the evening several hundred demonstrators gathered peacefully outside Cook County Jail. Both events focused on immigration reform, a defiant gesture in the face of Arizona's controversial new law that took effect yesterday.
truthout: The Angry Left Needs Hugs and Kisses 2010-07-30
The angry left is angry with Barack Obama. It's lying on the floor kicking and screaming and holding its breath. Goodness is not being accomplished. Injustice continues sort of unabated. Bad people are doing bad things. This is obviously all the president's fault. I wish. The angry left presumes that the president is in full control of the government, when he's obviously not. Even George W.

2010-07-29: Headlines

Socialist Worker Online: An era of crisis and struggle 2010-07-29
Irving Bernstein's two volumes The Lean Years and The Turbulent Years explore the hidden history of U.S. workers' struggles in the 1920s and '30s.
Sacramento News Review: Blair Stenvick: James and John Pitocco 2010-07-29
More stories by this author... | This article was published on 07.29.10. | What inspired you to commit so much time into protesting the wars? | What is the general reaction of passersby?
ringsidereport.com: Tom Eley: The Manny Pacquiao – Floyd Mayweather JR Meltdown: Where the Fault Lies 2010-07-29
The first 100 days of the BP Gulf oil catastrophe have provided an object lesson in the destructiveness and irrationality of capitalism.
Independent Political Report: Green Party Director McMillan Stepping Down 2010-07-29
Posted at Green Party Watch by Ronald Hardy: Brent McMillan, Executive Director of the Green Party of the United States, has announced that he will b...
Lew Rockwell: If God Is Pro-War 2010-07-29
Keywords: question of someone fairly high up in military intelligence recently. | I had to press the point as he beat around the bush for a while. | in that article and by its main proponents as a war of self-defense. | next pre-emptive war –
WILX-TV: Truth Test: Mike Cox Ad 2010-07-29
Mike Cox is on the offensive in one of his latest campaign ads, taking on Pete Hoekstra. But does it pass the Truth Test?
Kuensel, Buhutans National Newspaper: Kuensel Newspaper: Nu 2.2B environmental bill 2010-07-29
Bunakha Hydropower Project 29 July, 2010 - The 180 MW Bunakha hydropower project that will be come up along the Wangchu would have to spend about Nu 2.2B on environment management, according to estimates made by the Indian council of forestry research and education (ICFRE).Occupying 484.
Barre Montpelier Times Argus: Good job by WikiLeaks 2010-07-29
Times Argus Online - Vermont news, Vermont election results, Barre News, Montpelier News, Central Vermont News, local news, Vermont government, Vermont sports, Vermont classifieds, Jobs in Vermon...
Los Angeles Times: The candor war 2010-07-29
The most surprising thing about WikiLeaks' released trove of officially secret documents is how few surprises it contains.
TPMDC: 'TPM Media': Durbin Backs Filibuster Reform 2010-07-29
The Senate's second highest ranking Democrat lent his support today to a growing effort, spearheaded by more junior members, to eliminate or diminish the power of the minority to enforce a 60 vote requirement on Senate business.
World Socialist Web Site: Tom Eley: Gulf oil spill: 100 days of disaster 2010-07-29
The first 100 days of the BP Gulf oil catastrophe have provided an object lesson in the destructiveness and irrationality of capitalism.
Florida Today: Your views: Trading jabs (July 29) 2010-07-29
Your views: Trading jabs (July 29)

2010-07-28: Headlines

Washington Post: Happy Hour Roundup 2010-07-28
Greg: "I'll be on Keith Olbermann tonight at around 8:50 p.m." | Good luck on KO tonight, Greg. Stay loose! | That's just a ridiculous thing for you to write, Greg. | People in the top tax bracket, "these so-called wealthy, most of them are small-business owners." ~ Stephen Hayes on Sunday, July 25th, 2010 in on ABC News' "This Week." | Whew! I was worried we wouldn't get a 'Cuda link.
Salon: | Washington Post | 2010-07-28
Keywords: url: "http:/ / www.salon.com/ news/ politics/ war_room/ 2010/ 07/ 28/ yelling_at_washington_post" | eVar29: "'Brave hero parks outside Washington Post building to shout about how terrible it is' by Alex Pareene" | After getting fired from the Washington Post following a coordinated smear campaign by the trashier elements of the right-wing media, libertarian journalist David Weigel has been hired ...
TPMDC: 'TPM Media': Bachmann: Impeach Obama? Thats Up To Congress (VIDEO) 2010-07-28
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), the chair of the new House Tea Party Caucus, seems to be sitting on the fence over whether President Obama should be impeached. Instead, she's saying that those questions are up to Congress to determine.
Statesman Journal: Gov. Kulongoski: Court ruling is right, Arizona law is wrong 2010-07-28
Mike Cox is on the offensive in one of his latest campaign ads, taking on Pete Hoekstra. But does it pass the Truth Test?