Van Jones is one of the most prominent radicals in America. When he was younger he was a black panther, later he became a radical leninist who joined organizations that wanted to cause a communist revolution in America thereby overthrowing the capitalist system.
Even though Jones is clearly a radical, he was recently appointed one of the most powerful men in America when President Barack Obama appointed Jones his ‘green jobs czar.’
Standing Together toSource: PoliGazette RSS Feed
The Concord Coalition says deficits could be much worse than the Congressional Budget Office is currently predicting, potentially at high as $14 trillion over the next ten years:
Stating that their baseline is more plausible, the Concord Coalition notes: For tax legislation, they assume current law will govern--so if there are tax cuts that have sunsets (as the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts have), CBO is required to project revenues assuming the tax cuts expire as written in theSource: JasonPye RSS Feed
From the Daily News:
Saving lives is Bobby Horvath's work and his passion.
A 15-year veteran with the New York City Fire Department, Horvath has a busy job as a firefighter at Engine 264/Ladder 134 in Far Rockaway, Queens.
But when he's not at the firehouse, Horvath has his hands full as a wildlife rehabilitator, rescuing all kinds of birds and animals in the city and on Long Island.
He's also one of a select group of licensed rehabilitators that the city Parks DepartmentSource: Queens Crap RSS Feed
Sunday Times
Was it a “murky” deal for oil after all?
The main lead in the Sunday Times tomorrow looks set to take the Megrahi release debate into new territory for the paper says it has leaked ministerial letters suggesting this was all about an oil deal with Libya.
This is how the story starts: “The British government decided it was “in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom” to make Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the LockerbieSource: Political Betting RSS Feed
Well, we suspected that we were speaking too soon in our previous posting. For here is already a topper for our ‘weirdest-assed commentary about Ted Kennedy’s demise’ award.
From the erstwhile news magazine, Time:
Ted Kennedy’s Quiet Catholic Faith
By AMY SULLIVAN / WASHINGTON
The wall heading down to the basement in my parents’ house is covered with framed photos of friends and family members. Yet hanging right there inSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed
...besides being rich, and famous.
During his coverage of the Kennedy procession to Boston yesterday, FNC's Shepard Smith implied that Americans should turn a blind eye to the embarrassing power grab about to happen in Massachusetts. What reason did good old Shep give? Teddy often visited people in the hospital and prayed for them without alerting the press of his altruistic actions. Are you kidding me? We should reverse a law that he wanted changed in the first place because heSource: Blonde sagacity RSS Feed
Montgomery County, the economic engine of Maryland, depends on its public schools to compete with Fairfax County. How much does the state contribute to Montgomery’s schools?
In absolute terms, the state contributes quite a bit to Montgomery County’s schools – over a half-billion dollars in direct aid in the last fiscal year. But in relative terms, the state’s investment is quite modest. Consider the following chart comparing the state’s per-pupil aid to public schools by countySource: Maryland Politics Watch RSS Feed
Simply shocking that there would be consequences, eh?
More forests, deserts and grasslands in the U.S. will be used to produce energy under a proposal to cap greenhouse gases, an unintended consequence of efforts to fight global warming, according to a Nature Conservancy report.
A bill that boosts energy from wind turbines and biofuels will increase the amount of land needed for energy development as much as 48 percent, or almost 100,000 square kilometers (38,600Source: Stop the ACLU RSS Feed
[via Lifehacker]. Google Reader finally added a feature that I have been wishing for months or even years. Now you can mark items that older than a day or a week or even two weeks as Read. If you have a significant amount of subscribed feeds in your Reader list, the unread items can pile up pretty quick especially if you are reading prolific bloggers (are any still left since Twitter distracted us?). The earlier solution was to mark ALL items as read and start over. Especially if you areSource: Nerve Endings Firing Away RSS Feed
Here’s what he had to say today about the prospects for getting this bill passed…
From Lakeland Times:
“Nobody is going to bring a bill before Christmas, and maybe not even then, if this ever happens,” Feingold said. “The divisions are so deep. I never seen anything like that.”
Feingold reiterated his appraisal a bit later.
“We’re headed in the direction of doing absolutely nothing, and I think that’sSource: Donklephant RSS Feed
For anyone who has ever had the misfortune of attempting the I-80/I-380 interchange, this is good news:
The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) will hold a location design public hearing Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, in Iowa City to discuss the proposed improvement of the Interstate 80/Interstate 380/U.S.
Barnes & Noblehas posted the cover of Glenn Beck's forthcoming book, Arguing With Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government, which appears to show the weepy cable yapper striking his bestWerner Klemperer poseand, for some unexplained reason,dressed in an East German military uniform.
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Britain's National Health Service treats 1 million patients every 36 hours, employs 1.5 million people and operates with a budget of about $169 billion, according to official statistics. (Alastair Grant / Associated Press)
It's one thing for the British to criticize their National Health Service, quite another for Yanks to malign it. A backlash against U.S. criticism has erupted in cyberspace.
By Henry Chu
LA Times
August 15, 2009
Reporting from London
The Iranian people are calling for help and much of the world either turns a deaf ear or feels it has its own priorities to worry about. Then, the horrors keep playing out, unabated, in the streets, prisons and dungeons of the Islamic Republic of Iran. A reality check.
A 19-year old beautiful Taraneh was not shot with a single bullet to her chest as was the case with Neda Soltani. There were no bystanders in the dungeon with a cell phone to capture the prolongedSource: GraniteGrok RSS Feed
I had only heard of the term in passing, but didn’t really ever look into it. More compelling for me at the time (and this was several years ago) was troops being brought back to the front lines for two or three tours in rather quick succession. Then I stumbled across this site yesterday. It hosts the story of two soldiers who were brought back to Iraq last April, after two previous tours, one with only seven months to go on his eight year commitment to the armed forces. Instead ofSource: PoliGazette RSS Feed
Simon Johnson, professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and co-founder of BaselineScenario.com, argues that if Obama does not sell his plan to overhaul financial regulations to the public, all of our futures will be at risk. Watch the video here.
--Ben Eisler
Check out the latest on TNRtv:
Eisler: Does Improvisation Signal The End Of Classical Music? Or A NewSource: The Plank RSS Feed
PE.com
(clockwise from top left): Kesuan Sykes, Tyrone Miller, Kevin Cox and Emrys John
Four former Marines will stand trial for the slaying of a sergeant and his wife in the couple’s French Valley home last year, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Marine Sgt. Jan Pietrzak, 24, and his wife, Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak, 26, were found bound with duct tape and shot to death, execution style, in their living room Oct. 15. Jenkins-Pietrzak had been Source: The Two Malcontents RSS Feed
“In LaCrosse, Wisc., the Gundersen Lutheran Hospital system is, according to the Dartmouth [Atlas of Health Care], the least expensive place in America for the last two years of life. They have an advanced directive program, and over 90 percent of their patients have an advanced directive. They have electronic health records, so everybody on the staff knows what the advanced directive is. They have a very strong palliative care program for using drugs to manage pain. TheySource: Donklephant RSS Feed
Being the good little foot soldiers we are, we followed our email instructions on visiting Congressional offices to insist on the passage of Obama-care:
Friend —
All throughout August, our members of Congress are back in town. Insurance companies and partisan attack groups are stirring up fear with false rumors about the President’s plan, and it’s extremely important that folks like you speak up now.
So we’ve cooked up anSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed
This Sunday on Fox Sean Hannity, ~ Fox news, is going to air a very important documentary about Barack Obama
Sunday night at 8:00 PM central / 9 PM eastern.
He stated that no one in the news media was willing to do this. Hannity is going back to Obama's earlier days, showing even then his ties to radical professors, friends, spiritual advisers, etc., Source: Theodore's World RSS Feed
