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Karl Rove vs. Karl Rove | The Bald-Faced Lie that Is Karl Rove
Seeded on Sat Oct 22, 2011 8:06 AM EDT (Media Matters for America)
In his weekly column for the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove has written about how Obama is jeopardizing his chances for re-election by appearing too liberal or too populist...American Crossroads, the big money GOP group founded by Karl Rove, is warning Republicans that Presiden …
Senate Democrats Propose 5% Surtax on Millionaires
Seeded on Wed Oct 5, 2011 3:26 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)
The proposal would replace the range of tax deductions for wealthy people, oil companies and other businesses that the president had proposed to end to offset the cost of the job-creation initiatives in his plan. Democratic leaders said they hoped to bring the revised plan to …
Defeatism : Austerian Policies Bring US to the Brink
Seeded on Fri Sep 30, 2011 9:58 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Throughout modern economic history, whether in Western Europe in the 1920s, in the US and elsewhere in the 1930s, or in Japan in the 1990s, every major financial crisis-driven downturn has been followed by premature abandonment—if not reversal—of the macroeconomic s …
Tobacco Firms' Own 1960's Research Showed that Tobacco Smoke is Radioactive
Seeded on Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:43 PM EDT (USA Today)
As the U.S. government begins regulating tobacco, a new study says tobacco companies knew for decades that cigarette smoke was radioactive and potentially carcinogenic but kept that information from the public. More Seeds :: JCAtom
The Strength Of Perry's Ignorance
Seeded on Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:51 AM EDT (NPR)
"[Perry]: I don't think our founding fathers when they were putting the term 'general welfare' in there were thinking about a federally operated program of pensions nor a federally operated program of health care... "Q: So in your view those things fall outside of general welf …
'Nobody in this country got rich on his own. Nobody.'
Seeded on Sat Sep 24, 2011 8:07 AM EDT (CBS News)
An August video of Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren on the campaign trail is heating up on the internet, and some commentators are pointing to the clip - in which Warren makes a case for progressive economic policies - as evidence that the newly minted Democratic …
Is Human Resistance Futile? Maps Show March Of Drug-Resistant Germs
Seeded on Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:57 AM EDT (NPR)
So just tool around this collection of interactive maps showing the march of drug-resistant germs across North America and Europe. The global health nonprofit Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy came up with the ResistanceMap.
Almost 1 Million Young Adults Get New Health Insurance
Seeded on Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:26 PM EDT (USA Today)
As of September 2010, the Affordable Care Act allowed young adults up to the age of 26 to remain on their parents' health insurance plans.
Harvesting 'Limitless' Hydrogen from Organically Self-Powered Cells
Seeded on Tue Sep 20, 2011 3:37 PM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
US researchers say they have demonstrated how cells fuelled by bacteria can be "self-powered" and produce a limitless supply of hydrogen. More Seeds :: JCAtom
Turning Point - ReProgrammed Immune System Vanquishes Cancer
Seeded on Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:08 AM EDT (The New York Times)
At first, nothing happened. But after 10 days, hell broke loose in his hospital room. He began shaking with chills. His temperature shot up. His blood pressure shot down. He became so ill that doctors moved him into intensive care and warned that he might die.
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