Selective Outrage
We drink in our news from the sources we trust, through the lens we feel comfortable with, amidst the people with whom we fit.
SO FAR LEFT, WE ARE RIGHT
HANG THE JURY
If a juror believes a defendant is guilty of breaking the law, but believes also that the law itself is not just, she has the right to vote with her conscience and not with the law.
The Original Occupy
Americans maintain a somewhat outdated vision of Canada as a nation of tree huggers and environmentalists. To wit, unlike every other industrialized nation in the world, Canada has regressed on climate change initiatives.
Jaime Answers Your Sequestions
I’m as sick as anyone hearing about the fiscal cliff and I’m guessing Congress was as well, which is why they set up the sequester as a looming bipartisan disaster to force their hands into creating a workable budget.
Gun Nuts and Chilled Speech
When Daniel Ellsberg, Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky, along with a handful of the world’s most prominent political activists, join together to bring suit against you in U.S. federal court it’s fair to say you have a problem.
LIPA Style
LIPA would have failed miserably during Sandy if Nikola Tesla was the CEO of LIPA and Roger Ailes was the communications director. LIPA is broken because Long Island is broke.
Dead Addicts Don’t Get Better
More than 350 Long Islanders lost their lives to accidental overdose last year – about one per day. Nationwide, someone dies of an overdose every 19 minutes and countless others survive, but suffer irreversible brain damage.
Spy v. Spy
Videotaping would be “subject to too much scrutiny in court,” one DIA officer suggested in Thailand and CIA counsel concurred: “Even totally legal techniques will look ugly.”
Putting the “Fun” in Fundamentalism
For those who insist on God as part of the original intent in America, allow me to disabuse you of the most commonly mistaken beliefs. To begin, there are no references to God in the Constitution.
From Watergate to Occupy Wall Street
The men who brought down one of the most toxic administrations in American history were lamenting the toxic state of today’s political environment. That’s pretty terrible.
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