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Undernews For October 22, 2009
Friday, 23 October 2009, 1:34 pm | Undernews
As I tried, for about the seventeenth time, to make sense of the healthcare negotiations, I suddenly realized that I wasn't watching a political debate at all; rather it was one of those conflicts you read about in other countries that are so hard to understand ... More >>
Undernews For October 19, 2009
Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 2:28 pm | Undernews
W e have set up a swine flu page to cover the various issues concrening the flu and the vaccine. At this stage, the only report we have found on the actual effects of the swine flu vaccine is this from the NY Times: "China began its swine flu vaccinations ... More >>
Undernews For October 11, 2009
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 11:53 am | Undernews
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Undernews For October 8, 2009
Friday, 9 October 2009, 3:16 pm | Undernews
Control + Click on date for permanent link, on Comments to make or read comments, and on the envelope to email story to someone WORD What makes a long residence in Washington so bad for one's temper is the horrible display of vanity, especially ... More >>
Undernews For September 29, 2009
Thursday, 1 October 2009, 11:18 am | Undernews
Traveling is a fool's paradise. . .I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. . .My giant goes with me wherever ... More >>
Undernews For September 21, 2009
Tuesday, 22 September 2009, 3:43 pm | Undernews
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Vanity Fair - Last October, Congress passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, putting $700 billion into the hands of the Treasury Department to bail out the nation's banks at a moment of vanishing ... More >>
Undernews For September 16, 2009
Thursday, 17 September 2009, 4:14 pm | Undernews
The real problem isn't what Joe Wilson, Kanye West and Serena Williams said initially. It might have been wrong, rude or even cruel, but at least it came from the heart. The real problem was their disingenuous apology. To borrow a phrase from Joe Wilson, ... More >>
Undernews For September 8, 2009
Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 11:31 am | Undernews
Guardian, UK - Across Latin America and Mexico, there is a wave of drug law reform which constitutes a stark rebuff to the United States as it prepares to mark the 40th anniversary of a conflict officially declared by President Richard Nixon and ... More >>
Undernews For September 5, 2009
Monday, 7 September 2009, 3:19 pm | Undernews
WHY LIBERALS MISREAD OBAMA Sam Smith, Progressive Review - During the campaign the Review pointed out a number of uncomfortable facts about Barack Obama, including that he: Aggressively opposed impeachment action against Bush Had argued that conservatives ... More >>
Undernews For September 2, 2009
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 12:23 pm | Undernews
Sam Smith, Progressive Review - Barack Obama is giving a national speech to school children on September 8. In a stunning example of the administration's intrusion on local public education, the Department of Education has produced a "Menu of Classroom ... More >>
Undernews For August 30, 2009
Monday, 31 August 2009, 11:27 am | Undernews
Sam Smith, Progressive Review - It was sad to lose Ted Kennedy, but as I followed the coverage I couldn't help feeling a bit angry as well. It was almost as if the media, rather than helping in the burial, had stolen his body instead. And then those ... More >>
Undernews For August 25, 2009
Thursday, 27 August 2009, 1:29 pm | Undernews
New Scientist - Stoners may be trading sexual highs for the chemical kind. Males who smoke marijuana daily are four times more likely to have trouble reaching orgasm than men who don't inhale, finds a new study of 8,656 Aussies. Other smokers had ... More >>
Undernews For August 22, 2009
Monday, 24 August 2009, 1:29 pm | Undernews
Undernews For August 22, 2009 Since 1964, the news while there's still time to do something about it More >>
Undernews For August 19, 2009
Wednesday, 19 August 2009, 11:10 am | Undernews
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Undernews For August 15, 2009
Monday, 17 August 2009, 3:37 pm | Undernews
The health care debate has come down to a struggle between greed and hypocrisy. The Republicans see health as a prerogative of wealth while the Democrats want just about anything they can call reform in the next election and have sold themselves ... More >>
Undernews For August 13, 2009
Friday, 14 August 2009, 4:22 pm | Undernews
San Diego City Beat - In July 2008, hotelier and developer Doug Manchester donated $125,000 to help gather signatures for a proposition that would ban same-sex marriage in California. The early money was crucial to getting the initiative-which ultimately ... More >>
Undernews For August 9, 2009
Monday, 10 August 2009, 4:24 pm | Undernews
Zach Carter, Alternet - In February of 2009, newly inaugurated President Obama unveiled a foreclosure prevention program called Making Home Affordable, promising to keep "up to 3 to 4 million" borrowers from losing their homes. But like a similar initiative ... More >>
Undernews For August 2, 2009
Monday, 3 August 2009, 5:07 pm | Undernews
BRITAIN'S SENIOR DIPLOMAT SEES AF-PAK WAR GOING ON FOR DECADES Independent, UK - Britain's most senior diplomat warned that Britain's involvement in the country will last for "decades". Sir Nigel Sheinwald, British ambassador to Washington, painted ... More >>
Undernews For July 29, 2009
Thursday, 30 July 2009, 5:08 pm | Undernews
Sam Smith - One of the reasons the Democratic health care plan is so controversial is because the party and its president want to use corporate economic principles to decide how healthcare should be distributed. The problem with this is that human ... More >>
