Wikileaks: Decision To Free The Lockerbie Bomber Was About Oil
[Quote]: Among the biggest Wikileaks embarrassments for the UK came out last night, while Julian Assange waits in police custody. Britain’s sudden release of the Lockerbie Bomber, Abdel Baset...
View ArticleStudy Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid
[Quote]: World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, conducted a survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers...
View ArticleModernising US party politics
Companion opinion pieces on Al Jazeera’s English website (Clearly a Tool of the Devil™). Warning: these are rather long and boring. Modernising Liberalism To retain relevance in the 21st century,...
View ArticleIs some homophobia self-phobia?
[Quote]: Homophobia is more pronounced in individuals with an unacknowledged attraction to the same sex and who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such desires, a series of psychology...
View ArticleHouse Hunters is fake: here’s why it matters
[Quote]: From bait-and-switch marriage proposals to wig-pulling, cocktail-tossing catfights, it’s safe to say we’ve grown accustomed to absurd contrivance and scripting in “reality” television. But who...
View ArticleIsraeli panel recommends legalising outposts
Quote A government-commissioned report has recommended that Israel legalise dozens of unsanctioned West Bank settlement outposts, a move that would defy international opposition to settling land...
View ArticleFree birth control cuts abortion rate dramatically, study finds
[Quote]: A dramatic new study with implications for next month’s presidential election finds that offering women free birth control can reduce unplanned pregnancies — and send the abortion rate...
View ArticleGroverNorquist: Up is the new down
[@GroverNorquist]: The Bush tax cuts lapsed at midnight last night. Every R voting for Senate bill is cutting taxes and keeping his/her pledge. Yes, I think all the tags I applied to this post are...
View ArticleWestboro Baptist Church Founder Fred Phelps May Be Gay, Suggests Former...
[Quote]: A former member of the Westboro Baptist Church who recently published a book about leaving the hate-mongering group has also revealed that founder Fred Phelps’s anti-gay ideology may have...
View ArticleCPAC Tea Party Event On Racism Turns Into Chaos
[Quote]: A CPAC session sponsored by Tea Party Patriots and billed as a primer on teaching activists how to court black voters devolved into a shouting match as some attendees demanded justice for...
View ArticleEconomy built for profits not prosperity
Quote via Economist’s View Newly released data on corporate profitability for 2012 show the continuation of historic levels of profitability despite excessive unemployment and stagnant wages for most...
View ArticleDo intellectual property rights on existing technologies hinder subsequent...
Quote A recent study published in the Journal of Political Economy suggests that some types of intellectual property rights discourage subsequent scientific research. “The goal of intellectual property...
View ArticleAccounting for Obamacare: Inside the Company That Built Healthcare.gov
[Quote]: That lack of expertise explains why in building healthcare.gov, the government turned to industry contractors; in particular, to CGI Federal, a subsidiary of CGI Group, a Canadian company. To...
View ArticleUK government tackles wrongly-blocked websites
[Quote]: A spokesman for the Internet Service Provides Association said: “There’s a growing realisation that filters are not perfect and will lead to some over-blocking,” Well, you could have simply...
View ArticleStudy: Less war improves mental health of soldiers
[Quote]: The imminent end of the U.S. war in Afghanistan has triggered some of the highest morale and lowest levels of mental illness among deployed U.S. soldiers in years, according to an Army mental...
View ArticleAT&T vs. municipal fiber
[Quote]: Why is one bandwidth-hungry town building its own 1Gbps fiber network for its citizens when AT&T already offers them 6Mbps DSL? That’s the question AT&T would like to ask city leaders...
View ArticleScott Walker says he consults with God, but his office can’t provide...
[Quote]: Governor Walker has never been shy about flashing his religious credentials, regularly telling audiences about the nondenominational evangelical church he attends, the Baptist preacher who...
View ArticleStudy Confirms That Abstinence Education Has Utterly Failed At Preventing...
[Quote]: “These false, ideologically-driven programs are turning out sexually illiterate young people whose lives and health are put in literal danger by ‘educators’ handing out false information. All...
View ArticleU.S. Legalization of Marijuana Has Hit Mexican Cartels’ Cross-Border Trade
[Quote]: Agents on the 2,000 mile-U.S. border have wrestled with these smuggling techniques for decades, seemingly unable to stop the northward flow of drugs and southward flow of dollars and guns. But...
View ArticleGerman court rules Adblock Plus is legal
[Quote]: Following a four-month trial, a German court in Hamburg has ruled that the practice of blocking advertising is perfectly legitimate. Germany-based Eyeo, the company that owns Adblock Plus, has...
View ArticleChlamydia outbreaks hits nearly 10 percent of small Texas school in district...
[Quote:] According to the Crane Independent School District Student Handbook for 2014-2015, the district “does not offer a curriculum in human sexuality.” In 2012, the district’s School Health Advisory...
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