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• 2011-04-27 [Talk|Index] Obama Releases 'Long Form' Birth Certificate § “In a news conference Wednesday morning, Mr. Trump claimed credit for forcing Mr. Obama's hand, saying, "I feel I’ve accomplished something really, really important." But he said the document released Wednesday would have to be examined for authenticity.”
• 2010-07-21 [Talk|Index] Google Tells FTC Enforcing “Hot News” Would Create a Hot Mess § “The draft document includes proposed changes to intellectual property laws to protect news entities from aggregators (such as Google News), a loosening of anti-trust laws to allow media outlets to collaborate on paywalls and other methods of charging for the news, as well as a proposal for government subsidization of the industry.”
• 2010-05-02 [Talk|Index] Vendors Who Alerted Police Called Heroes § “Shortly before 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, the vendors – Lance Orton and Duane Jackson, who both served during the Vietnam War and now rely on special sidewalk vending privileges for disabled veterans – said they told nearby officers about the Pathfinder, which had begun filling with smoke and then emitted sparks and popping sounds.”
• 2010-04-26 [Talk|Index] G.O.P. Blocks Debate on Financial Oversight Bill § “Senate Republicans, united in opposition to the Democrats’ legislation to tighten regulation of the financial system, voted on {{date|2010-04-26|Monday
• 2010-04-26 [Talk|Index] A Better Chance at Justice for Abuse Victims § “[The Catholic] church is not doing everything in its power to help victims. In fact, it is worsening the sins of the past by taking a leading role in preventing abused children from getting the compensation they need to help remedy past abuse.”
• 2010-03-25 [Talk|Index] Final Votes in Congress Cap Battle on Health Bill § “Congress on Thursday gave final approval to a package of changes to the Democrats’ sweeping health care overhaul, capping a bitter partisan battle over the most far-reaching social legislation in nearly half a century.”
• 2010-03-24 [Talk|Index] Vatican Declined to Defrock U.S. Priest Who Abused Boys § “Top Vatican officials – including the future Pope Benedict XVI – did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church, according to church files newly unearthed as part of a lawsuit.”
• 2009-10-17 [Talk|Index] Goldman Can Spare You a Dime § “...most Americans know all too well that only the intervention of billions of dollars in taxpayer bailout money saved Goldman from the dire fate of its less well-connected competitors. The growing ranks of under-and-unemployed Americans, meanwhile, are waiting with increasing desperation for a recovery of their own.”
• 2009-09-21 [Talk|Index] Momentum on Climate Pact Is Elusive § “Scientists say the pattern of the last decade – after a precipitous rise in average global temperatures in the 1990s – is a result of cyclical variations in ocean conditions and has no bearing on the long-term warming effects of greenhouse gases building up in the atmosphere.” Possibly... but the overwhelming majority say just the opposite.
• 2009-09-10 [Talk|Index] Are Your Friends Making You Fat? § “...they have for the first time found some solid basis for a potentially powerful theory in epidemiology: that good behaviors – like quitting smoking or staying slender or being happy – pass from friend to friend almost as if they were contagious viruses.”
• 2009-09-08 [Talk|Index] State Discriminated Against Mentally Ill, Judge Rules § “New York State discriminated against thousands of mentally ill people in New York City by leaving them in privately run adult homes, which ... turned out to be little more than institutions themselves.”
• 2009-08-15 [Talk|Index] Why We Need Health Care Reform § “Our nation is now engaged in a great debate about the future of health care in America. And over the past few weeks, much of the media attention has been focused on the loudest voices. What we haven’t heard are the voices of the millions upon millions of Americans who quietly struggle every day with a system that often works better for the health-insurance companies than it does for them.”
• 2009-08-14 [Talk|Index] False ‘Death Panel’ Rumor Has Some Familiar Roots § “the rumor – which has come up at Congressional town-hall-style meetings this week in spite of an avalanche of reports laying out why it was false – was not born of anonymous e-mailers, partisan bloggers or stealthy cyberconspiracy theorists [but rather] from many of the same pundits and conservative media outlets that were central in defeating President Bill Clinton's health care proposals 16 years ago, including the editorial board of The Washington Times, the American Spectator magazine and Betsy McCaughey...”
• 2009-07-27 [Talk|Index] Science Is in the Details § “...it is important that we understand Dr. Collins and his faith as they relate to scientific inquiry.”
• 2009-07-18 [Talk|Index] Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle § “In a move that angered customers and generated waves of online pique, Amazon remotely deleted some digital editions of [Animal Farm and 1984] from the Kindle devices of readers who had bought them.”
• 2009-05-31 [Talk|Index] Abortion Doctor Shot to Death in Kansas Church § “George Tiller, one of only a few doctors in the nation who performed abortions late in pregnancy, was shot to death [in Wichita, KS] Sunday in the foyer of his longtime church as he handed out the church bulletin.”
• 2009-05-20 [Talk|Index] North Carolina Approves Ban on Smoking § “North Carolina, the nation’s largest grower of tobacco, will soon prohibit smoking in restaurants and bars. The ban, signed into law on Tuesday by Gov. Bev Perdue, is another defeat for the ailing tobacco industry on home turf in the South.”
• 2009-05-17 [Talk|Index] My Personal Credit Crisis § “If there was anybody who should have avoided the mortgage catastrophe, it was I. As an economics reporter for The New York Times, I have been the paper’s chief eyes and ears on the Federal Reserve for the past six years.”
• 2009-05-16 [Talk|Index] Obama Can’t Turn the Page on Bush § “...Rumsfeld approved [a collection of daily cover sheets] for the Secretary of Defense Worldwide Intelligence Update, a highly classified digest prepared for a tiny audience, including the president, and often delivered by hand to the White House by the defense secretary himself. These cover sheets greeted Bush each day with triumphal color photos of the war headlined by biblical quotations. GQ is posting 11 of them, and they are seriously creepy.”
• 2009-04-23 [Talk|Index] Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate § “a document filed in a federal lawsuit demonstrates that even as the coalition worked to sway opinion, its own scientific and technical experts were advising that the science backing the role of greenhouse gases in global warming could not be refuted.”
• 2009-03-25 [Talk|Index] The Civil Heretic § “Dyson had proposed that whatever inflammations the climate was experiencing might be a good thing because carbon dioxide helps plants of all kinds grow.”
• 2008-11-13 [Talk|Index] Emanuel Apologizes for Father's "Arab" Comments § “Representative Rahm Emanuel, ... President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, called the president of an Arab-American group today to apologize for comments his father made to an Israeli newspaper.”
• 2008-10-08 [Talk|Index] States' Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal § “Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law ... The actions do not seem to be coordinated by one party or the other...”
• 2008-09-02 [Talk|Index] And Then There Was One § “With his choice of Sarah Palin ..., John McCain has completed his makeover from the greenest Republican to run for president to just another representative of big oil.”
• 2008-07-30 [Talk|Index] Teaching Law, Testing Ideas, Obama Stood Slightly Apart § [2]“Before he outraised every other presidential primary candidate in American history, Mr. Obama marched students through the thickets of campaign finance law. Before he helped redraw his own State Senate district, making it whiter and wealthier, he taught districting as a racially fraught study in how power is secured. And before he posed what may be the ultimate test of racial equality — whether Americans will elect a black president — he led students through African-Americans’ long fight for equal status.”
• 2008-07-07 [Talk|Index] When Fox News Is the Story § “Like most working journalists, whenever I type seven letters – Fox News – a series of alarms begins to whoop in my head: Danger. Warning. Much mayhem ahead.”
• 2008-06-21 [Talk|Index] Banks Trimming Limits for Many on Credit Cards § “After fostering the explosive growth of consumer debt in recent years, financial companies are reducing the credit limits on cards held by millions of Americans, often without warning.”
• 2008-05-27 [Talk|Index] Same Joke, More Regret § [2]“Discussing Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's reference last week to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy during the 1968 primary season, the Fox analyst, Liz Trotta, said Sunday that "now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama, um, Obama – well, both, if we could."”
• 2008-05-12 [Talk|Index] President Apostate? § Luttwak makes the case that Obama might be considered an apostate Muslim by Islamic law, and concludes that “...of all the well-meaning desires projected on Senator Obama, the hope that he would decisively improve relations with the world's Muslims is the least realistic.”
• 2008-03-27 [Talk|Index] Supplier Under Scrutiny on Aging Arms for Afghans § [2]“ Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan sharply intensified, the Afghan government has been dependent on American logistics and military support in the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. .. But to arm the Afghan forces that it hopes will lead this fight, the American military has relied since early last year on a fledgling company led by a 22-year-old man whose vice president was a licensed masseur. .. With the award last January of a federal contract worth as much as nearly $300 million, the company, AEY Inc., which operates out of an unmarked office in Miami Beach, became the main supplier of munitions to Afghanistan’s army and police forces. .. Since then, the company has provided ammunition that is more than 40 years old and in decomposing packaging...”
• 2008-03-27 [Talk|Index] Equity Loans as Next Round in Credit Crisis § [2]“As the housing market spirals downward, home equity loans, which turn home sweet home into cash sweet cash, are becoming the next flash point in the mortgage crisis. .. Americans owe a staggering $1.1 trillion on home equity loans — and banks are increasingly worried they may not get some of that money back. .. To get it, many lenders are taking the extraordinary step of preventing some people from selling their homes or refinancing their mortgages unless they pay off all or part of their home equity loans first.”
• 2008-03-01 [Talk|Index] My Forbidden Fruits (and Vegetables) § “...national fruit and vegetable growers based in California, Florida and Texas fear competition from regional producers like myself. Through their control of Congressional delegations from those states, they have been able to virtually monopolize the country's fresh produce markets.”
• 2008-02-26 [Talk|Index] Oil Hits a High; Some See $4 Gas by Spring § “Gasoline prices, which for months lagged the big run-up in the price of oil, are suddenly rising quickly, with some experts fearing they could hit $4 a gallon by spring.”
• Date|2008-02-19 [Talk|Index] Scientists Would Turn Greenhouse Gas Into Gasoline § “[Two] scientists [at Los Alamos National Laboratory], F. Jeffrey Martin and William L. Kubic Jr., are proposing a concept, which they have patriotically named Green Freedom, for removing carbon dioxide from the air and turning it back into gasoline.” The catch is that it involves additional energy consumption, but that doesn't negate the usefulness of the technique.
• 2007-12-22 [Talk|Index] 9/11 Panel Study Finds That C.I.A. Withheld Tapes § [2]“A review of classified documents by former members of the Sept. 11 commission shows that the panel made repeated and detailed requests to the Central Intelligence Agency in 2003 and 2004 for documents and other information about the interrogation of operatives of Al Qaeda, and were told by a top C.I.A. official that the agency had "produced or made available for review" everything that had been requested.”
• 2007-12-19 [Talk|Index] Bush Lawyers Discussed Fate of Tapes § “At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the Central Intelligence Agency between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes showing the secret interrogations of two operatives from Al Qaeda, according to current and former administration and intelligence officials.”
• 2007-07-10 [Talk|Index] White House Is Accused of Putting Politics Over Science § “Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona told a Congressional committee today that top officials in the Bush administration repeatedly tried to weaken or suppress important public health reports because of political considerations.”
• 2006-12-04 [Talk|Index] Video Is a Window Into a Terror Suspect's Isolation § Article describes the completely out-of-proportion treatment given to an American citizen on US soil, just because of an accusation that he is a terrorist.
• 2006-10 [Talk|Index] In God's Name § [2]“Articles in this series examine how American religious organizations benefit from an increasingly accommodating government.” 8 articles.
• 2006-09-23 [Talk|Index] Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat § “A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.” ... “It also examines how the Internet has helped spread jihadist ideology, and how cyberspace has become a haven for terrorist operatives who no longer have geographical refuges in countries like Afghanistan.”
• 2006-08-26 [Talk|Index] ''Darwin's Deadly Legacy'': what tripe § [2]“The opening scene was perfect. Kennedy walked onto a stage decorated with flasks and beakers and graduated cylinders full of brightly colored water. One had a small flame going under it; the graduated cylinder was bubbling. It was practically an admission that all of the science in the show was going to be fake.”
• 2006-08-25 [Talk|Index] What Happens To All Those Unused Embryos? § [2]“As most of you know DefCon ran an aggressive campaign this summer, targeting the religious right’s war on stem cell research, and fighting for the hope and health of millions of Americans. The religious right’s key talking point throughout this battle has been focused on “defending embryos” — which they consider to be the same as a walking, talking 5 year old. .. While we typically chose not to engage them on that level, when we did, we quickly pointed to the fact that virtually all of the embryonic stem cells that would be used for research would otherwise be discarded anyway, making their “destruction of life” argument moot. .. For all the doubters out there, now you can see it for yourself. Click here to see footage of these unused embryos being discarded, literally thrown into a wastebasket.”
• 2006-06-27 [Talk|Index] Bush Says Report on Bank Data Was Disgraceful § [2]“President Bush on Monday condemned as "disgraceful" the disclosure last week by The New York Times and other newspapers of a secret program to investigate and track terrorists that relies on a vast international database that includes Americans' banking transactions.”
• 2006-04-16 [Talk|Index] A General Misunderstanding § A defense of Rumsfeld by one of his former generals: “...that doesn't mean that a "What's next?" plan didn't exist. It did; it was known as Phase IV of the overall operation. General Franks drafted it and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the State Department, the Pentagon, the Treasury Department and all members of the Cabinet had input. It was thoroughly "war-gamed" by the Joint Chiefs.”
• 2004-11-04 [Talk|Index] The Day the Enlightenment Went Out § [2]“This election confirms the brilliance of Karl Rove as a political strategist. He calculated that the religious conservatives, if they could be turned out, would be the deciding factor. The success of the plan was registered not only in the presidential results but also in all 11 of the state votes to ban same-sex marriage. Mr. Rove understands what surveys have shown, that many more Americans believe in the Virgin Birth than in Darwin's theory of evolution.”
• 2004-09-08 [Talk|Index] Senator Accuses Bush of Cover-Up § [2]“Senator Bob Graham, the Florida Democrat who is a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, accused the White House on Tuesday of covering up evidence that might have linked Saudi Arabia to the Sept. 11 hijackers.”
• 2003-12-05 [Talk|Index] Ex-Senator Will Soon Quit 9/11 Panel, Leaving Gap for Victims' Advocates § “Mr. Cleland has publicly accused the White House of trying to undermine the work of the commission and of Nixonian efforts to conceal important evidence about the government's law enforcement and intelligence failures in the weeks before the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.”
• 2001-10-14 [Talk|Index] Fears, Again, of Oil Supplies at Risk § “"If bin Laden takes over and becomes king of Saudi Arabia, he'd turn off the tap," said Roger Diwan, a managing director of the Petroleum Finance Company, a consulting firm in Washington. "He said at one point that he wants oil to be $144 a barrel" -- about six times what it sells for now.”
• 2001-03-14 [Talk|Index] Bush, in Reversal, Won't Seek Cut In Emissions of Carbon Dioxide § “Under strong pressure from conservative Republicans and industry groups, President Bush reversed a campaign pledge today and said his administration would not seek to regulate power plants' emissions of carbon dioxide, a gas that many scientists say is a key contributor to global warming.”
• 1999-09-30 [Talk|Index] Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending § “Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.”
• 1997-03-09 [Talk|Index] Scientology's Puzzling Journey From Tax Rebel to Tax Exempt § “Scientology's lawyers hired private investigators to dig into the private lives of I.R.S. officials and to conduct surveillance operations to uncover potential vulnerabilities ... One investigator said he had interviewed tenants in buildings owned by three I.R.S. officials, looking for housing code violations ... [and] taken documents from an I.R.S. conference and sent them to church officials and created a phony news bureau in Washington to gather information on church critics.”
• 1993-10-28 [Talk|Index] Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast § “Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast... but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor...”
• 1993-06-27 [Talk|Index] US Fires Missiles at Baghdad, Citing April Plot to Kill Bush § “The United States launched a missile attack against Iraq tonight in retaliation for what President Clinton described as a "loathsome and cowardly" attempt to assassinate former President George Bush during a visit to Kuwait in April.”
• 1987-09-17 [Talk|Index] Biden Was Accused of Plagiarism in Law School § “Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., a Democratic Presidential candidate, was accused of plagiarism while in his first year at Syracuse University Law School...”

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