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You can log in to Facebook, but can you leave?
This song came to mind regarding Facebook because of the lyric: You can check out any time you like,/ But you can never leave! Bookmark It
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The better question: Is Iraq really done with US?
The headline on a recent Daily Beast story was “Are we really done with Iraq?” I doubt it, even though Barack Obama is saying our involvement there will end in a few months. Interesting that Obama...
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Timoney in Bahrain
The deadly crackdown on Bahraini protesters just happened to coincide with the appointment of former Philly police chief John Timoney to help “improve the human rights record of the Bahraini forces.”...
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FOIA
CJR talks to two experts on problems with Freedom of Information Act requests: It’s hard to figure out how to say this, but it often feels like the way that the Obama administration is handling FOIA...
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Drones
Not everyone thinks letting the CIA have the final say in where and how drones are used to attack is such a great idea. Bookmark It
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Wilkerson: Condi a mascot for billionaires
From Truthdig: Ian Masters has one hell of an interview with Lawrence Wilkerson, who does not hold back. For instance, he says Condoleezza Rice, who is speaking Wednesday in Tampa, is a perfect mascot...
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Iraqi gays treated better under Saddam
If it weren’t for Dick and Dubya, those non-existent WMDs might still be in Iraq. And the post-Saddam Iraqi government would never have gotten the chance to make a joke of democracy and human rights:...
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‘Independent’ is just a state of mind
This one goes out to all the people who insisted Obama would be more progressive in his second term: A radical bill to abolish the independence of regulatory agencies like the Federal Communications...
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Education policy outcomes are funny things
by Natasha Today, Matt Yglesias praised Students First for coming out with a state-by-state education policy report card. In his own words, “Importantly it’s a report card assessing the state of...
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Prediction
The heat over Social Security will die down as the corporate media continues to push the company line that the chained CPI is a brave and noble solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. Obama will...
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Big Money Obama
That should be his new rap name, don’t you think? Obama retains the support of most progressive interest groups, which are working furiously to help him advance immigration reform (generally favored by...
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Australian Federal Elections…
Compulsory voting in the Australian Federal Elections was completed this weekend. In the House of Representative the Coalition Party defeated the Labour Party for the first time in six years. The 81...
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Beware the polar Gore-Tex… or is it cortex?
It seemed I might be able to change my socks two days in a row, but then Arctic air crept in on big bear claws and pushed the swamp back into the deep freeze. The swamp rabbit, flipping out from cabin...
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Ha ha
He’s absolutely awful. But his replacement might be even worse: NBC News President Deborah Turness is in Washington, D.C., this week and will meet with “Meet the Press” host David Gregory and...
View ArticleEconomic recovery surges ahead for CEO pay…
Median CEO pay packages hit the 10.5 million mark in 2013… Propelled by a soaring stock market, the median pay package for a CEO rose above eight figures for the first time last year. The head of a...
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Out of the frying pan
Boy, NBC really doesn’t have a clue why we hated David Gregory, or they wouldn’t be replacing him with someone so similar: Chuck Todd, a political obsessive and rabid sports fan, is the likely...
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Another fake terror threat
Ah yes, I remember when the Obamabots kept explaining to me how much we needed the constitutional law professor in the White House, so fake wars would never happen again! Funny, how few of them admit...
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Who does he remind you of? Via Digby: According to this new YouGov poll, these same patriotic Republicans still love the military passionately but are no longer attached to that moldy old concept of...
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