Glenn Greenwald To Testify Before Congress About the NSA
NSA surveillance critics to testify before Congress: I'll be there via video http://t.co/...— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 26, 2013From the Guardian UK.Congress will hear testimony from critics...
View Article'Criminal Case Against Officer in Unarmed Youth’s Death Falls Apart'
Eighteen months after a police officer fatally shot an unarmed teenager in the bathroom of his home in the Bronx, the criminal case against the officer has collapsed, as a grand jury declined to bring...
View ArticleParty Pragmatists Revolt
Midway between the 2012 and 2014 election campaigns, moderate Republican conservatives are beginning to foment a revolt of their own — a backlash to anti-spending tea party shrillness as budget cuts...
View ArticleMeet the Keyser Soze Behind the Snowden Saga
I keep calling Poitras the Keyser Soze of the story, because she’s at once completely invisible and yet ubiquitous,” Greenwald [said], referring to the character in “The Usual Suspects” played by Kevin...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Political Party Implodes as Assange Cuts Deal with Far Right
The official trailer for Dreamwork's "The Fifth Estate" starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange.From the Daily Beast.Julian Assange's Political Party ImplodesJulian Assange may have blown his...
View ArticlePolice: 8-year-old shoots, kills 87-year-old after video game
CNN) -- An 8-year-old boy intentionally shot and killed his [87]-year-old caregiver on Thursday evening after playing a violent video game, authorities say. Marie Smothers, 90, was pronounced dead at...
View ArticlePutin Says He Could Support U.S. Military Strike on Syria
On the opening day of the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg, President Putin says in an interview that he does not rule out supporting the U.S. in military strikes on Syria, in response to the government's...
View ArticleZimmerman Legal Defense Funds Going to Soon to Be Ex-Wife
George Zimmerman's wife filed for divorce Thursday evening, her lawyer confirmed, less than two months after the former Neighborhood Watch volunteer was acquitted of murder in the shooting of...
View ArticleDeputy NSA Advisor Blinken: President Obama Won't Strike Without...
From NPR Morning EditionDeputy National Security Advisor Tony Blinken said Friday that it's neither President Barack Obama's "desire nor his intention" to strike Syria without Congressional approval....
View ArticleUPDATED: Sen. Coburn: 'Republicans will fold like hot cakes before October 15'
Here is the new hostage-taking plan by Republicans to extort the United States government and overturn the result of a democratic election: House GOP will seek a one-year delay on Obamacare as exchange...
View ArticleHouse Adds Contraception Conscience Clause to Spending Bill
The GOP in the House of Representatives are proving through their actions that the tea party wing could give a fig about government waste.Their current time and resource wasting budget negotiations...
View ArticleUnconscionable Rollout Failure from Folks Who Should Know Better
The creator of Grand Theft Auto has warned there might be teething problems as its online version launches. Last week Rockstar North admitted it was facing "unanticipated" pressure because sales of GTA...
View ArticleObamacare Will Create More Part-Timers--Voluntarily
Another underreported consequence of Obamacare: Full-time workers will voluntarily start working fewer hours and spend more time doing what they want to do, because they won't be locked on a job simply...
View ArticleRelease the Biden
Now we know that negotiations to end the Republican government shutdown have gone to the Next Level. The White House is going to Release the Biden.:President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden...
View ArticleThe History of the Great Technology Known as the Telephone
In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone). Both men rushed their respective designs...
View ArticlePizza Hut Offers Tony Rohr His Job Back After Thanksgiving Battle
November 28, 2013 is turning out to be a pretty good Thanksgiving with genuine reasons to be grateful.Today we learned that Marissa Alexander, Mother Convicted For Warning Shot, Released From Jail and...
View ArticleObamacare is in Crisis
I have been informed by very concerned people in the media, that November 30, 2013 is one of the most important days in the Obama administration because of the "the crisis."And by the crisis, of...
View ArticleReport: Dramatic Improvement Seen in Healthcare.gov Backend Error Rate
First the bad news. Or to be more precise, the formerly bad news, since the situation has been corrected.Enrollment records for close to 15,000 HealthCare.gov shoppers were not initially transmitted to...
View ArticleNo Fools Need Apply
Conventional wisdom says that the rollout and fallout of Obamacare, is what will define political races in 2014.But there is another dynamic brewing that cannot be ignored and will undoubtedly shape...
View Article'Helping me to not die is part of our social contract. Isn't it part of yours?'
A 20-year-old Californian got appendicitis in October 2013. A few months later the bill arrived for his surgery and one-day hospital stay. He posted a picture of his United Health bill and the...
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