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SOPA creator’s latest bill proposes stripping peer-review from science funding
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Keystone’s Endorsement by a TV ‘Leftist’
The controversy over the Keystone XL pipeline doesn't get covered much in corporate television–it takes tens of thousands of activists marching in Washington to get a few words on the nightly newscasts. But the State Department's recent draft assessment of the pipeline's environmental impact got a mention on one show, and it said a lot. Not about the pipeline, really, but about corporate media. The comment came on the roundtable discussion on ABC's This Week (3/3/13). The panel, like so many of these discussions, was tilted to the right: A Republican mayor from Utah (Mia Love), a former Bush adviser [...] … Read More
patriots – Star-Dudded: Why a relatively anonymous draft class is …
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New Bill Would Require the Conscription of “All Persons Between the Ages of 18 and 25 to Perform National Service”
Charles Rangel is now putting forward a bill that would force young people to take up arms for the state, or at least work in some uniformed way to help the government with their never ending war effort. … Read More
David Axelrod: White House made ‘mistake’ in releasing draft immigration bill
A former top adviser to the president said Monday that the White House had made a “mistake” in distributing a draft bill on immigration reform, as Republicans attacked the leaked blueprint as an attempt to sideline bipartisan input. “The mistake here was to disseminate it so…
Barbara Bruno: Dreamcatcher: The National Football League Is an Iraq War Veteran’s Next Mission
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