Month: June 2005

The NYT says funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will be cut “nearly in half.” The cut eliminates $50 million needed to upgrade “the aging satellite technology that is the backbone of the PBS...

Hi all. This is a quick follow-up to adamgreenfield’s prescient diary of several weeks ago. It looks like he may have been right.From today’s NYT: The United States military charged a New York Army National Guard...

[From the diaries by susanhu.] It’s a big deal on liberal blogs, but is the media waking up to the story?  How are they covering the hearing on the Downing Street Memo held by Congressman Conyers yesterday?...

For some time now I’ve been tracking AOL polls. Without going into great detail the AOL using audience tends to skew more conservative than the public at large. They support the war, almost split but still a majority favor...

In 1917, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were arrested for having organized anti-conscription activities. The U.S. government had just made the decision to entere World War I, and for a whole host of reasons, not the least of...