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Undernews For May 28th, 2009
Friday, 29 May 2009, 2:13 pm | Undernews
Undernews For May 29, 2009 The news while there's still time to do something about it More >>
Undernews For March 23, 2009
Monday, 25 May 2009, 12:47 pm | Undernews
Sam Smith, Progressive Review - With his comments on preventive detention, President Obama has assumed the privileges of a dictator. There are no constitutional grounds for what he intends to do and nothing therefore to prevent him from expanding the ... More >>
Undernews For May 20, 2009
Thursday, 21 May 2009, 5:20 pm | Undernews
Tree Hugger - New analysis from MIT on how much global average temperatures could rise if we continue burning fossil fuels and emitting carbon like there's no tomorrow indicates that things could be twice as bad as we thought. More >>
Undernews For May 19 2009
Thursday, 21 May 2009, 4:58 pm | Undernews
The 2008 election was a hat trick of infidelity. One candidate's husband had cheated on her. Another candidate was found to be cheating on his wife. And the winner began cheating on his strongest supporters as soon as he was in office. - Josiah Swampoodle More >>
Undernews Extra: Why Washington Doesn't Work
Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 11:19 am | Undernews
The years I have spent in Washington since covering my first story in 1957 can be roughly divided into two parts: a time when the capital and America were getting better and a time when they were getting worse. In that order. More >>
Undernews For May 14, 2009
Friday, 15 May 2009, 3:24 pm | Undernews
NY Times, Imperial CA - Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor. More >>
Undernews For May 11, 2009
Tuesday, 12 May 2009, 4:21 pm | Undernews
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. - Thomas Jefferson Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company - Mark Twain FLOTSAM & JETSAM WHERE'S THE NEWS GONE? Sam Smith ... More >>
Undernews For May 6, 2009
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 1:55 pm | Undernews
Al Jazeera - Up to 100 Afghan civilians may have been killed during an air raid by US forces during a joint operation targeting suspected fighters, a provincial governor has said. If the claims are verified, the deaths in Farah province on the western ... More >>
Undernews For 4 May 2009
Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 12:26 pm | Undernews
Pew Research - Over the first four months of 2009, the Republican Party has continued to lose adherents. In total, the GOP has lost roughly a quarter of its base over the past five years. More >>
Undernews For 30 April 2009
Monday, 4 May 2009, 9:33 am | Undernews
WORD I always feared that my own TV set or iron or toaster would, in the privacy of my apartment, when no one else was around to help me, announce to me that they had taken over, and here was a list of rules I was to obey - Science fiction writer ... More >>
Undernews For 29 April 2009
Monday, 4 May 2009, 9:32 am | Undernews
OBAMA METER 100 DAY REPORT On his 100th day in office, Obama gets a 30% rating from our Obama meter, a figure that has been pretty consistent from the start. His most successful areas are foreign policy outside of the war zones and the environment. ... More >>
Undernews For 1 May 2009
Monday, 4 May 2009, 8:54 am | Undernews
We have 5 percent of the world's population and 25 percent of the people in prison. Either we're the most evil people on earth, or we're doing something wrong . . .I saw more drug use at Georgetown University Law Center when I was a student there ... More >>
Undernews For 16 April 2009
Saturday, 18 April 2009, 2:26 pm | Undernews
WORD: Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes the by-product of the activities ... More >>
Undernews For April 8, 2009
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 2:35 pm | Undernews
Jesus' life didn't go well. He didn't reach his earning potential. He didn't have the respect of his colleagues. His friends weren't loyal. His life wasn't long. He didn't meet his soul mate. And he wasn't understood by his mother. Yet I think I ... More >>
Undernews For April 7, 2009
Wednesday, 8 April 2009, 11:25 am | Undernews
A recently published "terrorism threat assessment" from a Virginia fusion center says the state's universities and colleges are "nodes for radicalization" and encourages law enforcement to monitor First Amendment-protected activities of educational and ... More >>
Undernews For April 5, 2009
Monday, 6 April 2009, 12:42 pm | Undernews
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart More >>
Undernews For April 2, 2009
Friday, 3 April 2009, 10:44 am | Undernews
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. - Thomas Jefferson PAGE ONE MUST PUBLIC SCHOOL FOES FUNNEL ... More >>
Undernews For April 1, 2009
Thursday, 2 April 2009, 4:54 pm | Undernews
Gareth Porter, IPS - Despite President Barack Obama's statement at Camp LeJeune that he had "chosen a timeline that will remove our combat brigades over the next 18 months," a number of Brigade Combat Teams, which have been the basic U.S. Army combat unit ... More >>
Undernews For March 31, 2009
Thursday, 2 April 2009, 3:50 pm | Undernews
The English speaking world may be divided into (1) those who neither know nor care what a split infinitive is; (2) those who do not know, but care very much; (3) those who know & condemn; (4) those who know & approve; and (5) those who know & distinguish. ... More >>
Undernews For March 26, 2009
Friday, 27 March 2009, 4:53 pm | Undernews
Well, maybe it's like Casey says: A fella ain't got a soul of his own, just a piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody. And then it don't matter, I'll be around. In the dark. I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look. Whenever ... More >>
