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DA Refuses to Prosecute Animal Cruelty Case
Pennsylvania is the only state to permit live pigeon shoots. A Pennsylvania district attorney accepted campaign funds from an organization that promotes killing live pigeons in contests, and then …
Cancer Prevention Coalition’s Response to Obama’s Nomination of the Director of the National Cancer Institute
Chicago - Statement from the Cancer Prevention Coalition: “The NCI has become what amounts to a government pharmaceutical company.” Last Wednesday, the White House nominated Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus …
The Far Right’s Hate Element
Washington - The arrests of members of a Michigan-based “Christian” militia group should convince doubters that there is good reason to worry about right-wing, anti-government extremism — and potential …
Connie Schultz | Newspapers Should Start Naming Names
I look forward to the day when news organizations start to ban anonymous comments on their Web sites. Maybe that's the foolish optimist in me, but I want to …
Norman Solomon | Obama in a Bomber Jacket
President Obama has taken a further plunge into the kind of war abyss that consumed predecessors named Johnson, Nixon and Bush. On Sunday, during his first presidential trip to …
Obama in a Bomber Jacket
President Obama has taken a further plunge into the kind of war abyss that consumed predecessors named Johnson, Nixon and Bush. On Sunday, during his first presidential trip to …
Fareed Zakaria | “Swing for the Fences“
America's green czar is counting on big breakthroughs.
Banks Could Be Big Winners of President Obama’s Foreclosure Prevention Program
The Obama administration has announced changes to its signature foreclosure prevention program, Making Home Affordable. The initial foreclosure relief program unveiled one year ago was supposed to help up …
Torture Diaries, Drawings and the Special Prosecutor
Attorneys defending Abu Zubaydah, a Guantanamo prisoner designated as the first “high-value” detainee by the Bush administration, have finally gained access to three volumes of diaries he wrote while …
Taking a Stand to Keep Sitting Legal
San Francisco is poised to become the latest in a string of cities to adopt a law making it a crime to sit on the sidewalk. While it is …