White House Preparing Executive Order on Indefinite Detention
Dafna Linzer at ProPublica: The White House is preparing an Executive Order on indefinite detention that will provide periodic reviews of evidence against dozens of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay,...
View ArticleTuesday Reads
Good Morning! The first week of the New Year continues to bring College Football bowls and weird news. The BBC thinks that Arkansas bird mystery may be solved. You may have heard that thousands of...
View ArticleMr. President, How About Supporting Democracy in the U.S.?
Yesterday, President Obama hypocrically praised the Egyptian pro-democracy demonstrators and argued forcefully in favor of the Egyptian government listening and responding to the demands of its...
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Good Morning!! Here are the stories that caught my eye this morning. Reuters: Exclusive: Obama authorizes secret help for Libya rebels President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing...
View ArticleSaturday… Immigrants and Immigration
Good Morning, the sun should have come up on another weekend day, which for most of the politicians and corporate big wigs is just another day to enjoy what ever it is most politicians and corporate...
View ArticleDoublespeak, the Devil’s Advocate and Diogenes’ Endless Quest
Just when you think current events and various public utterances cannot get any more ridiculous, they do. Often, much of what we hear and are expected to take seriously is wrapped in doublespeak,...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Reads
Good Morning!! Yesterday was a pretty busy news day for a Friday. So if you’ve had your sugar bombs and coffee, let me fill you in on the latest before you head outside to enjoy a beautiful June day....
View ArticleSunday Reads: Potpourri
Good Morning Today’s post is bringing you a mixture of different links, a potpourri if you will… But before we get to the bowl of fragrant, colorful, natural, synthetic, faded, smelly, moldy, dried,...
View ArticleLazy Saturday Reads
Guernica, by Pablo Picasso “My whole life as an artist has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against reaction and the death of art. In the picture I am painting — which I shall call...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: Photographs and more Cold
Good Morning Well, what do ya know? Obama administration puts immigration protections on hold after order – LA Times President Obama’s plans to protect millions of immigrants from deportation were...
View ArticleSunday Reads: Earthquake…tRumpquake
Every day, something happens… Breaking: a shallow magnitude 5.1 #earthquake was just felt in the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee. It was preceded by a minor foreshock yesterday. Earthquakes travel...
View ArticleWhite House Preparing Executive Order on Indefinite Detention
Dafna Linzer at ProPublica: The White House is preparing an Executive Order on indefinite detention that will provide periodic reviews of evidence against dozens of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay,...
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