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Revealed: Former Goldman Sachs VP Turned Issa Staffer Supervised Scheduling of Elizabeth Warren Incident
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) became infamous overnight for berating Elizabeth Warren and accusing her of lying about her scheduling with the committee. (Photo: republicanconference)

Time for Jubilee
If we’re truly looking for paths toward managing debt and promoting economic stimulus — which is about stimulating optimism as much as anything else — then we ought to …

Violence Brings Pakistan’s Women Advocates to Aid Religious Minorities
Islamabad - In spite of real dangers for those working as advocates with Pakistan’s religious minorities, a number of people have been speaking out against religious discrimination and the …

All Man’s Land
New Dehli – Ernest Hemingway’s collection of stories, Men without Women, examines tense gender relationships. In a particularly poignant story, a young man convinces his partner to have an …

What Comes Next for Wisconsin’s Fledgling Uprising
Stephanie Haw needed a good cry. On the night of August 9th, the rowdy crowd inside Hawk's bar in downtown Madison grew ever quieter as the election …

Obama FCC Kills “Fairness Doctrine” Dead, as Requested by Congressional Republicans
In apparent response to GOP leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee who requested in June that Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Julius Genachowski "strike the Fairness …

Think Again: NPR: Still Bending Over Backward
National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” did a report last week on therapy to turn gay people straight, inspired by the work of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) husband. The story …

Economic Myths: Separating Fact From Fiction
With the recent Iowa straw poll andPresident Obama's bus tour, Americans are hearing a cacophony of arguments about the wobbly economy. The federal stimulus package passed in 2009 was …

Allegations FBI and British Intelligence Tortured Kenyan Rendition Victim
(Image: JR / Truthout) According to an August 17 article in The Guardian UK, lawyers representing Omar Awadh Omar, a Kenyan used car salesman who was kidnapped …

Romney Consistently Wrong on Social Security
While Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may be considered the “reasonable” candidate in the GOP field, his statements on Social Security are just as false and outrageous as any …