TIME Magazine, 5/21/06 THEY’VE TAKEN THEIR HITS, AND NOW THE DIXIE CHICKS HIT BACK WITH WHAT MAY BE THE BEST ADULT POP CD OF THE YEAR. ER, WILL ANYONE BUY IT? [read…
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Thoughts Upon Leaving the Darwin Exhibition
By Stanley Rogouski, 5/22/06 To put yourself in the right mind to go see the Nile’s Eldredge’s Darwin exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, I suggest doing the following. Make…
Reports on May 18th Rally at White House and March to Rumsfeld’s House
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Your government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance. Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. While Republicans are intent on pushing anti-gay legislation through…
U.N. Panel Backs Closing Guantánamo
NY Times, 5/20/06 GENEVA, May 19 ( A United Nations panel on torture called on the United States today to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and expressed concern over…
Phone record disclosure illegal
By Kenneth J. Theisen, 5/19/06 After the latest Bush administration attack on our privacy rights was disclosed, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s office stated that she “raised concerns when she was told…
Graduation Speakers Bring Pomp, Controversy
LA Times, 5/19/06 At Boston College, students and faculty protest the awarding of an honorary degree to Condoleezza Rice, who will give the address. [read more]
Graduates at New School Heckle Speech by McCain
The jeers, boos and insults flew, as caustic as any that angry New Yorkers have hurled inside Madison Square Garden. The objects of derision yesterday, however, were not the hapless New York…
“Carbon dioxide… we call it life,” TV ads say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A little girl blows away dandelion fluff as an announcer says, “Carbon dioxide: they call it pollution; we call it life,” in an advertisement targeting global warming “alarmists,” especially…
The Road to Guantanamo
A new movie from Michael Winterbottom, The Road to Guantanamo tells the story of the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until…