Author: Steven D

New Wingnut Meme: Sedition Law Needed

Sedition is a word with a long, and embarrassing, history in the United States, beginning with the “Alien and Sedition Acts” passed by our second President, John Adams, and used to arrest a number of newspaper...

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Schwarzenegger — Environmentalist?

Well he is a California politician where environmental issues are taken more seriously than most states in the USA, but even so, this story caught me way off guard: Sacramento — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s...

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Global Warming Update: More Bad News

Just yesterday we learned that glaciers are melting in Greenland (and around the world) at an unprecedented rate, faster than even climate scientists had predicted as a worst case scenario. Well today’s news, at least for...

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Bush: A Divider, not a Uniter, in Iraq

And you thought his ability to polarize the population only applied to his own country. Not so, it’s a multinational service now, as this story in the NY Times demonstrates: BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 17 — Not long after the...

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Signals

Everyday you can see them, if you look close enough, if you’re willing to hunt for them. It’s not hard to do. Little signs that help us interpret the underlying narrative that our media won’t talk about, either...

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