New British Film About Mumia Abu-Jamal Showing in NYC this week
–An interview with Livia Giuggioli Firth, co-producer of “In Prison My Whole Life”
Ludicrous Road Bond Package at Huge Cost to Taxpayers
During the current predatory economic “recession” Hays County Commissioners must NOT agree to increase the burden of local homeowners via property tax increases resulting from the approval of a $207+ Million Road Bond Package.
Subject: Teacher arrested at JFK International Airport
A public school teacher was arrested recently at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, and a calculator.
Charley James, in Online Journal wrote: “Alaskans speak (in a frightened whisper): Palin is “racist, sexist, vindictive, and mean”,
https://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3716.shtml
This article has wide coverage on the internet but instead of being persuasive, it despite wanting to cheer, makes me, despite what I want to feel, feel she is being picked on.
It totally amazes me how John McCain can stand up and say with a straight face that he will bring change to Washington since McCain’s campaign is run by lobbyists and his campaign manager is a big-time lobbyists.
MSNBC’s decision to yank its two left-wing talking heads – Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews – off election news anchoring duties was long overdue but too little too late.
The damage has been done, as it always is when partisanship replaces journalism and punditry masquerades as objective reporting.
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has found himself in a position he hasn’t been in during many long months of campaigning — on defense against Republican rival John McCain.
Top defense leaders are telling Congress the U.S. must be cautious as the Pentagon begins to cut troops in Iraq and focus more attention on the escalating fight in Afghanistan.
President Bush might have been temped to announce a dramatic drawdown of U.S. troops as a way of declaring victory in Iraq as he is on his way out of office. Whatever happened next would be his successor’s headache.
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like it. It is where the heart is.
It is home. Today, homes — our homes and those of our presidential candidates — are all over the news. The stories range from heart-wrenching crisis to comic ridicule. The coverage about our homes and theirs reveals much about the concerns of our government, our news media and us.