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Republicans Block Bill Extending Low Interest Rates on Student Loans

Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a bill that would have frozen student loan interest rates before they are set to double on July 1. In a partisan vote of 52 to 45, the Senate failed to reach the...

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CISPA...the beginning of the end of online privacy?

Thom Hartmann talks with Steve Bucci, Ph.D. , Senior Research Fellow, Defense and Homeland Security-the Heritage Foundation Website: www.heritage.org about the Cybersecurity Information Sharing and...

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How unpopular can Obama get? Inmate gets 40% of votes against President in...

Just how unpopular is President Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in a Texas prison received four out of 10 votes in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary. Inmate Keith...

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Carville Tells Democrats to Wake TFU as They Could Lose the Election

"A long time ago a great three-time governor of Louisiana, Earl Long, said about Jimmie Davis, the two-time not very good governor of Louisiana, "You couldn't wake up Jimmie Davis with an earthquake."...

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Petition against right-wing propaganda "think-tank", "Heartland Institute".

Tell Microsoft, Pfizer, and Heartland’s other funders to stop funding Heartland and its dirty climate change denier smears. Help us stand up to the business of climate change denial, and call on...

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How Many Minimum Wage Hours Does It Take To Afford A Two-Bedroom Apartment In...

Time to grab your pitch forks and torches! Not really much of an article, and most people posting here know this but here are some facts! added by: kennymotown   42 comments

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Obama administration's plan for disclosing toxic chemicals used in fracking...

The Obama administration's proposed rule for hydraulic oil and gas drilling on public lands is the equivalent of closing the barn door after the horses have escaped. The Interior Department issued a...

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Richard Branson’s drugs plea

Sir Richard Branson has claimed Spain could help solve its economic woes — by legalising cannabis. The Virgin boss, 61, said tax from sales of the drug would resolve some of the country’s problems and...

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As beef cattle become behemoths, who are animal scientists serving?

Cameras rolled one day last fall as Ty E. Lawrence led journalists into a room-sized meat locker on the campus of West Texas A&M University, where bloody sides of beef, still covered with a slick...

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A Nuclear Clash Could Starve the World By Causing Nuclear Famine

CNN... . A nuclear clash could starve the world By Jayantha Dhanapala and Ira Helfand, Special to CNN . updated 7:57 AM EDT, Fri May 11, 2012 . Sunao Tsuboi, who suffered horrific burns in Hiroshima,...

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Large number of Bush advisers flocking to Romney's campaign team !

How sad is this, hardly ever mentioned on the debate circuit by Republicans was George Bush because of his incredibly poor performance as President. Now it seems as if Romney if elected will have...

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Appalachian women put strip mining on trial

It's been almost 35 years since Lois Gibbs became an environmental activist after she discovered her 7-year-old son's elementary school in Niagara Falls, N.Y., was built on a toxic waste dump. This...

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Accretive Health Debt Collector Defends Embedding Employees Inside Hospitals

Accretive Health, a debt-collection company under fire from Minnesota and federal officials for aggressive tactics to squeeze money from hospital patients, is striking back at critics. In a rebuttal...

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Contradicting the Jesus! It's Sunday you know what means!

Wow. Two gay women get arrested in North Carolina when they try to apply for a marriage license. It's Sunday time to pray away the Religious Rights Hatred of Non-Believing Citizens! For Colbert's fine...

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Scottish Nurse Khalil Dale Becomes 3rd Western Beheading Victim in Pakistan;...

"THE Red Cross has halted most of its work in Pakistan following the death of Scottish nurse Khalil Rasjed Dale. A risk assessment will now be carried out before a decision is taken on whether it will...

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North Carolina governor takes a swing at Mississippi

Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue of North Carolina raised some eyebrows in the South when she not only lashed out at her own citizens for an anti-same-sex marriage ban but adding that the measure made...

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Obama Appointee Vows $1 Billion in Subsidies for Corporate Jets

"Remember when Obama was railing on about "the tax-break for corporate jets," during the debt-ceiling fights of 2011? He repeatedly invoked this "tax break," which was really about how some corporate...

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Feds Central to Occupy Crackdown

Newly Discovered Homeland Security Files Show Feds Central to Occupy Crackdown "Fusion Centers, a post-9-11 creation, are a federally-funded joint project of the DHS and the US Justice Department...

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Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signs open-carry gun bill into law

Oklahoma will become the 25th state to allow the open carrying of handguns. Gov. Mary Fallin signed into law Tuesday a measure that allows Oklahomans to openly carry handguns. The measure, Senate Bill...

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Kuala Lumpur war tribunal finds Bush, Cheney, six others guilty of war crimes

KUALA LUMPUR, 11 May 2012 (mathaba) "The five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered a guilty verdict against former United States President George W. Bush and his associates at the Kuala Lumpur War...

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