Category: Culture
Talking Back to My TV
by WS Editors | Jan 1, 2010 | MediaTalking Back to My TV—On December 14, Fox News Network’s Glenn Beck returned to a story that he and his colleague Sean Hannity had been working since July: that White House Science and Technology Policy Director John Holdren is an advocate of forced sterilization and compulsory abortions. Holdren was director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy […]
A New Cold War in a Small Tropical Country
by WS Editors | Dec 1, 2009 | Foreign Policy, MediaTHERE WAS A TIME WHEN golpes de estado—military coups—seemed as common in Latin America as elections. A president would lose the support of the army, the business oligarchy, American corporate interests, Washington, or any combination of the foregoing, and golpistas would depose the president—always promising to restore constitutional government as soon as the domestic tranquility […]
The Senator Takes on Talking Points
by WS Editors | Sep 15, 2009 | Media, PoliticsWho Do You Trust? “Who do you trust? The HMO-coddling, drug-company loving, Medicare-destroying, Social-Security hating Bush Administration? Or do you trust the Democrats?” — Senator Ted Kennedy, Dec. 8, 2001 THE HUFFINGTON POST GOT IT RIGHT. SORT OF. “Senator Calls Out Frank Luntz from the Senate Floor” read a June 10 headline on the national Internet news […]
No News Is Bad News
by WS Editors | Apr 1, 2009 | MediaThe press is the only private institution protected in the constitution of a nation whose creation was engendered by angry and eloquent newspaper editors and pamphleteers. Lauri Lebo is a former reporter and author of the Devil in Dover, her account of the “intelligent design” trial she covered for the York Daily Record in Pennsylvania. […]
Expanding Medicare to Cover Everyone | Phil Gramm Finally Gets the Boot
by WS Editors | Aug 1, 2008 | Media, PoliticsMayors Cheer Single Payer—Most of the national news media missed the story in the last week of June: the U.S. Conference of Mayors unanimously endorsed a bill that would provide universal health care under a single-payer system. West Palm Beach Mayor Lois J. Frankel introduced a resolution to support HR 676, Rep. John Conyers’s (D-MI) […]
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Dancing in the Dark: Steps to Avoid a Constitutional Coup in the 2024 Election
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