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Undernews For June 2, 2008
Tuesday, 3 June 2008, 6:20 pm | Undernews
His relationship with the Trinity Congregational has seemed curiously idiosyncratic from the start and his awkward exit doesn't help much. Christopher Hitchens reports that "in April 2004, Barack Obama told a reporter from the Chicago Sun-Times that ... More >>
Undernews For May 30, 2008
Saturday, 31 May 2008, 2:18 pm | Undernews
I spent most of my life thinking Congregationalists were kind of boring, like the Chevies of Protestantism. But then I hadn't done much theological rummaging in Chicago. Now we find that the action at Trinity Church is more than just about the Reverend ... More >>
Undernews For May 27, 2008
Thursday, 29 May 2008, 1:49 pm | Undernews
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions, and composed our masterpieces. Never will the world know all it owes to them, nor all they have suffered to enrich us - Marcel Proust More >>
Undernews For May 21, 2008
Saturday, 24 May 2008, 6:24 pm | Undernews
LIA TARACHANSKY, RABBLE, CANADA - Once the catastrophe hit it was a long time before people started to understand what was really going on. By then, the world had abandoned the already marginalized communities, leaving them to fend for themselves while being ... More >>
Undernews For May 17, 2008
Monday, 19 May 2008, 11:51 am | Undernews
NOAH SHACHTMAN WIRED The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to -- and "full control" of -- any kind of computer there is. And once the info warriors are in, the Air Force wants them to keep tabs on their "adversaries' information ... More >>
Undernews For May 16, 2008
Monday, 19 May 2008, 11:36 am | Undernews
GUARDIAN, UK, 2004 Rumors of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still ... More >>
Undernews For May 18, 2008
Monday, 19 May 2008, 12:07 am | Undernews
The notion that we ought to now go to Baghdad and somehow take control of the country strikes me as an extremely serious one, in terms of what we'd have to do when we got there. You'd probably have to put some new government in place. It's not clear ... More >>
Undernews For May 15, 2008
Friday, 16 May 2008, 11:16 am | Undernews
Now that the canonization of Barack Obama, aided by his media acolytes, has slowed a bit, it may be considered less than blasphemy to examine what this circus hath wrought. After all, at some point, even in a mythological age, reality raises its ... More >>
Undernews For May 12, 2008
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 4:32 pm | Undernews
This is the second advisor Obama has dumped for being sensible on Mid East policy. It's a disturbing sign for the future, especially since Hamas was actually elected to lead the Palestinian people. More >>
Undernews For May 9, 2008
Sunday, 11 May 2008, 2:08 pm | Undernews
WASHINGTON POST The U.S. military has, since 2001, cremated some of the remains of American service members killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere at a Delaware facility that also cremates pets, a practice that ended yesterday when the Pentagon ... More >>
Undernews For May 7, 2008
Saturday, 10 May 2008, 5:07 pm | Undernews
Another scoop from Jerry Seper of the Washington Times, one of the best reporters on the Clinton scandal stories. The papers confirm a number of items reported by the Progressive Review including the apparent hush money for Webster Hubbell More >>
Undernews News For May 7, 2008
Thursday, 8 May 2008, 4:40 pm | Undernews
There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and a lot of dead armadillos. -- Jim Hightower More >>
Undernews For May 5, 2008
Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 12:44 am | Undernews
STEVE CHAPMAN, CHICAGO TRIBUNE Obama has been justly criticized for his ties to former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, who in 1995 hosted a campaign event for Obama and in 2001 gave him a $200 contribution. The two have also served together ... More >>
Undernews For May 3, 2008
Monday, 5 May 2008, 11:30 am | Undernews
ABC NEWS The $6 billion reading program at the center of President Bush's signature education law has failed to make a difference in how well children understand what they read, according to a study by the program's own champion - the U.S. Department ... More >>
Undernews for May 1, 2008
Friday, 2 May 2008, 6:51 pm | Undernews
PROGRESS REPORT In a press conference, President Bush said, "I think we're making progress in Afghanistan" -- days after President Hamid Karzai was the subject of an attempted assassination plot. The Interior Ministry said the Taliban, nearly vanquished ... More >>
Undernews For April 29, 2008
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 9:42 pm | Undernews
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies -- in the final sense -- a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. . . . It ... More >>
Undernews For April 28, 2008
Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 12:59 am | Undernews
Beyond the Euphrates began for us the land of mirage and danger, the sands where one helplessly sank, and the roads which ended in nothing. The slightest reversal would have resulted in a jolt to our prestige giving rise to all kinds of catastrophe; ... More >>
Undernews For April 23, 2008
Saturday, 26 April 2008, 11:09 am | Undernews
Barack Obama has one overwhelming advantage in the race for the Democratic nomination: he's not Hillary Clinton. Which means that in some ways - most uncertain - things will be different than they have been under two decades of the Bush-Clinton duopoly. More >>
Undernews For April 22, 2008
Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 2:06 pm | Undernews
WALL ST JOURNAL - According to the 2006 General Social Survey, which has tracked gun ownership since 1973, 34% of American homes have guns in them. . . It turns out they have the same level of formal education as nongun owners, on average. Furthermore, ... More >>
Undernews For April 21, 2008
Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 12:23 am | Undernews
Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands. - John Ralston Saul More >>
