White House backs off cancer test guidelines

Seeded on Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:21 AM EST (The Washington Post)

A top federal health official said Wednesday that the controversial new guidelines for breast cancer screening do not represent government policy, as the Obama administration sought to keep the debate over mammograms from undermining the prospects for health-care reform.

politics, obama, white-house, debate, health-care-reform, policy, breast-cancer, testing, exam, mammogram

Brazil takes off

Seeded on Mon Nov 16, 2009 12:26 PM EST (The Economist)

WHEN, back in 2003, economists at Goldman Sachs bracketed Brazil with Russia, India and China as the economies that would come to dominate the world, there was much sniping about the B in the BRIC acronym.

politics, economy, recession, brazil, crisis, wealth, growth, goldman-sachs, stability, potential

The Lethal Injection College Fund / Here's one billion dollars. Kill a few people, or help thousands?

Seeded on Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:43 PM EST (The San Francisco Chronicle)

Here's a better idea: Skip that, and instead check out the recent study from the Death Penalty Information Center, which states that after all court costs, fees and various social machinations are factored in, the average death sentence costs each state that supports it about $30 …

politics, death-penalty, economic, fees, fort-hood, lethal-injection, karma, death-sentence, john-allen-muhammad, hasan

U.S. Muslims also have died to defend us

Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:39 PM EST (MiamiHerald.com)

A sampling from the web: ``Why are these Muslim invaders allowed to carry on freely in this country -- protected by outreach, Obama, and PC mental illness?'' ``Simply put, most Muslims in non-Islamic countries have an evil axe to grind and a scurrilous hidden agenda.''

politics, military, america, muslim, shooting, army, ft-hood, psychiatrist, nidal-malik-hasan

Everyone's Abuzz Over BPA

Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:58 PM EST (Utne)

While the FDA holes up and takes a good, hard look at the health effects of the widely used plastic additive bisphenol A, there's a flurry of news and activity on the BPA front.

health, chemicals, studies, aggression, erectile-dysfunction, consumer-reports, bpa, bisphenol-a, soups, canned-vegetables

An act of appalling cowardice

Seeded on Mon Nov 9, 2009 12:49 PM EST (MiamiHerald.com)

We don't know why Faleh Hassan Almaleki came to this country in the mid-1990s, and it's unlikely he'll be able to tell us anytime soon. He's in jail in Maricopa County, Ariz., at this writing, in lieu of a $5 million cash bond.

politics, iraq, culture, facebook, freedom, daughter, immigrant, honor-killing, generations

The Swine Flu Screwup

Seeded on Mon Nov 9, 2009 9:13 AM EST (MotherJones.com)

If you can't find any swine flu vaccine for your kids, it won't be for a lack of positive thinking. In fact, the whole flu snafu is being blamed on "undue optimism" on the part of both the Obama administration and Big Pharma.

politics, obama, swine-flu, vaccine, greed, h1n1, pharmaceutical, distribution, big-pharma

Keeping Afghanistan Safe From Democracy

Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 10:29 AM EST (Truthdig)

The most idiotic thing being said about America's involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 U.S. troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in harm's way.

politics, afghanistan, america, troops, soldiers, surge, invasion, western, harm, expanded-mission

Some experts worry that cost controls in health-care reform are too cautious

Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 10:14 AM EST (The Washington Post)

Democrats in Congress are embracing the spirit of President Obama's call to slow the runaway rise of health-care costs but are shying away from some of the most aggressive techniques for achieving that.

politics, obama, democrats, congress, republicans, health-care, insurance, reform, legislation, cost

Maine to vote on gay marriage

Seeded on Mon Nov 2, 2009 3:00 PM EST (The Washington Post)

Maine residents will decide Tuesday whether to repeal a law allowing same-sex marriage, an effort that has succeeded in every state where it has been put before voters.

politics, gay-marriage, same-sex-marriage, maine, me, mormon, legislature, statute, gov-baldacci

Memory lapse: Politico asks, "What if Bush had done" things he actually did

Seeded on Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:57 AM EDT (Media Matters for America)

In support of his dubious argument that the press is treating President Obama more favorably than President Bush, Politico's Josh Gerstein falsely suggested that unlike David Axelrod, Karl Rove was never involved in national security meetings.

politics, obama, bush, msnbc, karl-rove, press, national-security, administration, politico, david-axelrod

30 reasons why Fox News is not legit

Seeded on Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:47 AM EDT (Media Matters for America)

Why the Beltway press has invested so much time and energy in recent weeks defending Fox News, with one scribe even claiming that the White House's public critique of the network was "dangerous to press freedom," and why the press refuses to acknowledge what's so obvious about th …

politics, white-house, journalism, freedom, fox-news, press, pressure, critical, beltway, rupert

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The problem with iPhone killers?

Seeded on Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:20 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

Here we are again. The hype leading up to a new mobile device is reaching a fever pitch. Motorola's Droid sounds, looks, and by some accounts, is impressive.

technology, apple, microsoft, iphone, ipod, mobile, cell-phone, motorola, at-t, operating-system

Senate passes hate crimes bill that would extend protection to gays, lesbians

Seeded on Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:42 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

The Senate cleared a historic hate crimes bill Thursday for President Obama's signature, approving new federal penalties for attacks on gay men and lesbians.

politics, sex, military, senate, race, attack, civil-rights, bill, legislation, disability

Tax Deductions For Pets? The HAPPY Bill

Seeded on Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:52 AM EDT ()

Congressman Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan has introduced a bill that would change the U.S. Tax Code by allowing a new itemized deduction: pet care. The HAPPY Bill, House Resolution 3501, is the Humanity and Pets Partnered Through the Years Act.

politics, congress, tax, expenses, mi, pet-care, deduction, mccotter, happy-bill, house-resolution-3501

Is Afghanistan NATO's Graveyard?

Seeded on Mon Oct 5, 2009 11:08 AM EDT (MotherJones.com)

Celebrating its 60th birthday this year, NATO is looking peaked and significantly worse for wear. Aggressive and ineffectual, the organization shows signs of premature senility.

politics, us, military, afghanistan, taliban, nato, invasion, rhetoric, alliance, dysfunction

The top ten things you didn't know about Iran

Seeded on Thu Oct 1, 2009 1:56 PM EDT (Salon.com)

Thursday is a fateful day for the world, as the U.S., other members of the United Nations Security Council, and Germany meet in Geneva with Iran in a bid to resolve outstanding issues.

politics, israel, nuclear, un, weapons, security-council, diplomacy, mahmoud-ahmadinejad, evidence, rhetoric

Liberals Aren't Un-American. Conservatives Aren't Ignorant.

Seeded on Thu Oct 1, 2009 1:06 PM EDT (Utne)

The University of Virginia scholar views such slogans as clumsy attempts to insist we all share the same values. In his view, these catch phrases are not only insincere, they're also fundamentally wrong. Liberals and conservatives, he insists, inhabit different moral universes.

politics, republican, conservative, liberal, democratic, behavior, motivation, values, beliefs, morals

Debbie Stabenow Makes The Best "Your Mom" Comment In Human History

Seeded on Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:36 AM EDT ()

Jon Kyl (R-AZ): "I don't need maternity care...So requiring that on my insurance policy is something that I don't need and will make the policy more expensive." Debbie Stabenow (D-MI): "I think your mom probably did."

politics, senate, insurance, healthcare, mother, idiots, az, expense, maternity-care, your-mom

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Auditing the Auditors: Contractor Oversight AWOL

Seeded on Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:46 AM EDT (MotherJones.com)

This explains a lot: Little league teams have more players than the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) has staffers overseeing how military contractors are spending the government's money.

politics, war, pentagon, defense, management, contract, monitor, contractor, oversight, commission

The `Culture War' is real and scary

Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:10 PM EDT (MiamiHerald.com)

I don't know who coined the term ``culture war'' to describe our political divisions, but I'm reasonably sure he or she intended it only as a figure of speech.

politics, obama, war, terrorism, racism, gay, abortion, culture, right-wing, anger

Embassy Scandal: A New Abu Ghraib?

Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:27 AM EDT (MotherJones.com)

Will ArmorGroup's embassy scandal inflame the Muslim world in the same way Abu Ghraib did? Members of the Commission on Wartime Contracting, the independent panel established to probe contracting issues in Iraq and Afghanistan, certainly see parallels between the infamous photogr …

politics, iraq, afghanistan, muslim, abuse, scandal, behavior, personnel, abu-ghraib, contractors

9/11: Truth, Trutherism, and Truthiness

Seeded on Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:54 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)

The morning of 9/11, when the alarm went off with National Public Radio's Carl Kasell talking about planes flying into the World Trade Center, I was convinced I'd stumbled into a modern-day War of the Worlds.

politics, obama, bush, democrats, republicans, government, cia, cheney, 9-11, lies

Only one solution for child predators

Seeded on Thu Sep 3, 2009 2:58 PM EDT (MiamiHerald.com)

And what should we do with our monsters?

us-news, children, rape, jail, predators, solution, sex-offender, kidnap, rehabilitation, pedofile

Healthy Options Make People Eat Unhealthy

Seeded on Thu Sep 3, 2009 2:16 PM EDT (Utne)

Having the option to order a salad makes people more likely to order the double bacon cheeseburger or the least healthy item on the menu. And the more self control people have, the more likely they'll be influenced to eat unhealthily, according to Psychology Today.

health, healthy, eating, fast-food, menu, influence, salad, unhealthy, self-control, competing-goals

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