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AROUND THE WEB | pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21Washington Post Social Security Privatization would hand Wall Street $9.4 billion windfall...according to a University of Chicago study to be released today [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times Collapse of 60 Charter Schools Leaves Californians ScramblingAfter last month's disintegration of the California Charter Academy, parents are still looking for alternate schools and many teachers are looking for jobs. [ link ] Read the story >
Reuters Navy Rejects Probe of Kerry's War MedalsThe U.S. Navy on Friday rejected a legal watchdog group's [Judicial Watch] request to open an investigation into military awards given to Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry during the Vietnam War, saying his medals were properly approved. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Seeing The Forest Tracing a Smear ArtistGeorge Mason University adjunct professor writes column calling John Kerry an "Uppity Rich Guy with a Superiority Complex". [ link ] Read the story >
American Prospect Now, Smearing the Trial LawyersYou're about to see a concentrated campaign against John Edwards' colleagues. Don't buy into it[ link ] Read the story >
AP Poll: Americans Wary of Politics in ChurchMost Americans oppose political parties obtaining church rosters, says a new poll that found bipartisan opposition to a step the Republicans have taken to identify votersThe Republican National Committee has sought church directories from Southern Baptists and Roman Catholics who support President Bush, a move it said would help them mobilize new voters. Republicans argued that the directories are public documents available to anyone, and the request to church members violated no law. They have continued the practice. [ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post Bush Religion Adviser Quits Campaign PostSexual Harassment Allegations SurfaceDeal W. Hudson, publisher of the conservative Catholic magazine Crisis and a close ally of the Bush White House, has resigned as an adviser to the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign because of allegations that he sexually harassed a Fordham University student a decade ago. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
SFGate.com Bush's faith-based changes scrutinized - He has made changes without Congress' OKPresident Bush has gone "under the radar" and around the Congress to spread his faith-based initiative throughout the federal government, according to a new study released Monday. [ link ] Read the story >
Gadflyer Backlash 101Why conservatives are winning the Campus Wars... by the mid-1990s roughly $20 million dollars were being pumped into the campus Right annually, according to People for the American Way. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times Nation's Charter Schools Lagging Behind, U.S. Test Scores RevealThe first national comparison of test scores among children in charter schools and regular public schools shows charter school students often doing worse than comparable students in regular public schools. Also see: NY Times Editorial: Bad News On The Charter Front [ link ] Read the story >
Arizona School Boards Association Public Schools Trounce Vouchers in ClevelandA major study of the Cleveland Voucher program shows that public school students outperformed voucher students attending private schools in Math, Reading and Language from kindergarten through third grade even though the public school students were substantially less affluent, substantially more minority, and private schools lost their lowest performing students over time. [ link ] Read the story >
MediaMatters.org Bozell repeated lie that Lay slept in Lincoln Bedroom during Clinton yearsThough he was introduced by CNN ... as "part of the truth squad [at the DNC]," L. Brent Bozell III repeated the lie that former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay stayed in the White House's Lincoln Bedroom during Bill Clinton's presidency. [ link ] Read the story >
American Prospect Present DangersNeoconservative dead-enders regroup and start plotting their comeback[ link ] Read the story >
Max Blumenthal The Truth Behind The "Shove It" Incident: Colin McNickle is a Scaife Hatchet ManAfter watching hours of brain-dead coverage of the Tereza Heinz-Kerry "Shove It" incident, I... have yet to see a single pundit on any network even hypothesize about what might motivate Heinz-Kerry to go out of her way to tell a reporter off...Well, it was not just any reporter who she told to shove it, it was Colin McNickle, the editorial page editor of right-wing sugardaddy Richard Mellon-Scaife's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review... [ link ] Read the story >
Antiwar.com Neocons Revive Cold War GroupA bipartisan group of 41 mainly neoconservative foreign-policy hawks has launched the third Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) whose previous two incarnations mobilized public support for rolling back Soviet-led communism but whose new enemy will be "global terrorism." [ link ] Read the story >
ConWebWatch Brent Bozell, Pundit Without a ClueThe Media Research Center's Brent Bozell is at his most entertaining when he's asserting something that has no basis in fact or making claims on which he has done no research. He recently accomplished both in a two-day span. [ link ] Read the story >
Body & Soul More Pills... an op-ed by a physician from the American Enterprise Institue, Sally Satel, [warned that ] the World Health Organization was subjecting poor, HIV-positive people [to medical harm by] approving generic drugs that haven't been proven to work... but the fact is, generic drugs aren't normally tested. All they have to do is prove that they are chemically the same as the brand-name version. Also see: Study Finds Generic AIDS Drug Effective [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times NY Times profile of retiring William F. Buckley doesn't mention $3.1 million from John M. Olin FoundationLessons in mainstream media ignoring Conservative Philanthropy sponsorship of Societal Institutions, #563[ link ] Read the story >
DrugWar.com No Patient is Safe- the War on Pain ReliefUS Drug Czar John Walters attacks pain patients and their doctorsThe U.S. federal government has launched yet another facet of its War on Some Drugs and Users, this time against those who depend upon pain medications. While there are a few who do abuse strong prescription pain medications, most rely upon these medicines to live a complete life unencumbered by debilitating agony Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
Tim Lambert When Think Tanks AttackThink tanks vs Open SourceThe Alexis de Tocqueville Institute’s attack on Linux is just the latest in a series of attacks on Open Source by think tanks: Also see: CSE, Aug 27, 2003, Wayne T. Brough: New Protectionism: Mandates for Open Source Software [ link ] Read the story >
LinuxCult.com Anti-Linux Hatchet Job (by AdTI)In sum, the [Ken, of AdTI] Brown book looks like a clear hatchet job[ link ] Read the story >
Working For Change.com Hijacking historyGrover Norquist's Reagan Legacy Project has its eyes on many prizes...If Grover Norquist has his way, within the next decade the image of President Ronald Wilson Reagan will be permanently stamped upon America's landscape [ link ] Read the story >
Black Commentator Vouchers: The Right's Final Answer to BrownToday's Voucher advocates openly advocate for defunding of urban public schools[ link ] Read the story >
Washington Post In Iraq, the Job Opportunity of a LifetimeManaging a $13 Billion Budget With No ExperienceFor months, newly-hired CPA staffers were wondering "what they had in common," reports the Washington Post, "how their names had come to the attention of the Pentagon, until one day they figured it out: They had all posted their resumes at the Heritage Foundation... [ link ] Read the story >
American Prospect The Squeeze is OnThe last three years have hurt the middle class -- no matter what the American Enterprise Institute or Slate might say....when...Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute writes an article dismissing the notion of a middle-class squeeze, it’s worth taking notice. Also see: [ link ] Read the story >
City Pages Built to FailThe federal No Child Left Behind law is threatening to wreck public education in Minnesota and elsewhereThat's what it was designed to do. [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times Court Says States Need Not Finance Divinity Studies"... decisive rejection of the proposition that a government that subsidizes a secular activity must necessarily ... subsidize the comparable religious activity as well." [ link ] Read the story >
New York Times Court Says States Need Not Finance Divinity Studies"... decisive rejection of the proposition that a government that subsidizes a secular activity must necessarily ... subsidize the comparable religious activity as well." [ link ] Read the story >
AP Salvation Army Accused of DiscriminationCurrent and former Salvation Army employees sued the organization famous for its red Christmas kettles Tuesday, alleging the government-funded group preached religious and sexual intolerance to its staff. [ link ] Read the story >
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Public School Voucher funds used to buy 2 MercedesThe principal of the troubled Mandella School of Science and Math used proceeds from state voucher payments last October to buy two Mercedes-Benz cars for about $65,000. [ link ] Read the story >
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