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08 Jan 20 : 54 | Scott Swenson: HIV Activists Sentenced in Senegal: The Other Side of Rick... Originally posted on RHRealityCheck.org - Information, commentary and community for reproductive health. Pastor Rick Warren is right about one thing, gay rights is a humanitarian issue and a human rights issue. The problem is he offered those comments in defense of retaining the privilege of... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 5 hours ago |
08 Jan 19 : 13 | Larisa Alexandrovna: The evil of it all... Israel's (the far-right government counter-parts to the Bush-Cheney cabal) continued immoral actions in Gaza put in jeopardy not just Israel, but Jews all over the world and not just to growing anti-Semitism and condemnation, but also to violence and retaliation. Here is a sampling: UK: ... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 6 hours ago |
08 Jan 17 : 50 | Patt Morrison: How Many Xes in ''Porn Bailout''? You have to give them points for trying, I suppose. Just don't give them any of my money. Porn mogul Larry Flynt and a fellow named Joe Francis, who dreamed up those "Girls Gone Wild" videos, say they want Congress to deliver a $5-billion bailout to the porn industry. I've always read that when... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 8 hours ago |
07 Jan 23 : 29 | Marlene H. Phillips: McCain's 'Country First' Actually "Republicans First' John McCain sent an email to supporters today, urging them to donate money to Country First, his new endeavor. As if to prove that nothing's changed, he addressed each email recipient as 'My Friend.' And in further proof that nothing's changed, when I clicked on the website I got a whole lot of... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 26 hours ago |
07 Jan 23 : 23 | Ahmed Shihab-Eldin: Obama's 'Hope'less Response to the War on Gaza Bush gave up golf after America's invasion of Iraq. "I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf," he told Americans. "I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal." Last week, as war broke out in Gaza, President-elect Obama... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 26 hours ago |
07 Jan 21 : 02 | June Hopkins: The New Deal Redux Political pundits often draw comparisons between current events and the good (or bad) old days. Especially now. Last year's stock market rollercoaster seems to be a replica of the 1929 crash that led to the Great Depression of the 1930's. Furthermore, President-elect Obama is channeling... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 29 hours ago |
07 Jan 17 : 28 | GroundReport: Captured Mumbai Terrorist is Pakistani, Admits Government Originally published on GroundReport.com, the citizen journalism site covering world news at the local level. By Ajmer Alam Wani JAMMU/ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON, JAN 7: In a bid to distance from conflict with India and after being in denial mode for weeks, Pakistan, which during the past,... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 32 hours ago |
06 Jan 23 : 29 | Harut Sassounian: Turkey Could be Major Political Loser in Israel-Gaza... Turkish diplomats, as far back as the Ottoman Empire, have been masters in the game of playing one major power against another, while pretending to be the best friend of both. More recently, Turkish officials have worn different masks by representing their nation as being European, Islamic,... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
06 Jan 20 : 34 | Michael Hais and Morley Winograd: Mr. President: Bring Us Together The election of Barack Obama signaled the beginning of a "civic" realignment, produced by the political emergence of America's most recent civic generation, Millennials (born 1982-2003). Civic generations, like the Millennials, react against the efforts of divided idealist generations, like the Baby... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
06 Jan 14 : 09 | Nicolaus Mills: Marshall Plan Lessons for Iraq MARSHALL PLAN LESSONS FOR IRAQ By Nicolaus Mills A soon-to-be-released government study of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq, which President Bush once called "the greatest financial commitment of its kind since the Marshall Plan," has labeled the program a $100 billion failure. The ... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
05 Jan 23 : 22 | Janet Carlson: It May Be Time to Redefine Family Roger Angell wrote a wonderful story for the New Yorker a few years back in which he redefined the notion of extended family for our modern times, and I'd like to second that emotion. I liked his story a lot -- perhaps because I... related! Like Angell, I include former step-relations in my own... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
02 Jan 16 : 10 | Jacqueline Salit: How the Independent Movement Went Left by Going Right How the Independent Movement Went Left By Going Right A Special Post-Election Report By Neo-Independent Executive Editor Jacqueline Salit. On election night I watched Barack Obama give his victory speech in Grant Park, cheered on by millions of Americans across the country. They were... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
01 Jan 20 : 31 | David Bromwich: Rules of Engagement from Baghdad to Gaza In the days before Israel's overwhelming retaliation, Hamas -- the anti-Israel terrorist sect and democratically elected majority party in Gaza -- harassed the towns bordering Gaza with missile attacks that made ordinary life impossible. It was a matter of chance that not one Israeli was killed by... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
31 Dec 16 : 17 | Maegan Carberry: From Iowa to Inauguration (Vol. 3): A Retrospective on the... This post is the second in a week-long series. In an effort to remind people of the absurdity that dictates who makes the most important decisions on planet earth, this week I am publishing my private emails from the time I spent in Iowa last winter while making a video about the caucus process. I... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
30 Dec 23 : 02 | Maura Judkis: The Top 5 Environmental Newsmakers of 2008 2008 was a year when environmental news was perhaps more prevalent than any other - from green campaign promises to plastic bottle scares to the staycation - but some names were in the headlines much more frequently than others. Here are five of the most environmentally newsworthy people of the... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
30 Dec 18 : 10 | Hooman Majd: Dear Mahmoud President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's congratulatory letter to President-elect Barack Obama, the first of its kind in the thirty-year history of the Islamic Republic, has so far gone unanswered. President-elect Obama has understandably been busy with filling cabinet and sub-cabinet posts, as well trying... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
30 Dec 02 : 14 | Sandip Roy: Gays and Rick Warren Could Come Together? It seems the party is over for gays. It was all too good to be true. A mention in Obama's acceptance speech on that heady night in Chicago. Then came the news that the gay and lesbian marching band would be in the inauguration parade. And an open lesbian was appointed to head the White House... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
24 Dec 17 : 40 | Adam Neiman: Obama and the Jewish Question Obama's election was liberating in many ways for all of us. For me, as an American Jew, there was a surprise. I had long held a secret resentment of African Americans, secret even from myself. I grew up in Georgia during the civil rights movement. My mother was critically involved in the... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
22 Dec 19 : 10 | Charles Karel Bouley: Barack, Get a Klue If I hear one more pundit say that the choice of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the most historic inaugural of a lifetime sends a message of inclusion I will explode. None of them seem to get it, including Barack Obama. The don't have a Klue. And yes, I'm spelling "Klue" that way on... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
21 Dec 16 : 08 | John Lundberg: Elizabeth Alexander: Obama's Pick For Inaugural Poet Barack Obama has chosen Elizabeth Alexander to read a poem at his inauguration. A well-regarded poet and professor at Yale, Alexander is also a friend of the Obama family. She will be just the fourth "inaugural" poet, joining Robert Frost, who read "The Gift Outright" at Kennedy's inauguration,... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
18 Dec 08 : 20 | Isobel White: Rick Warren: Another Damper on My Chance at Obama-mania Like everyone else who cares about LGBT equality, election night brought a mix of joy as it became apparent Obama would win, and pain as we realized Prop. 8 would pass. My wife and I spent the evening in Union Square trying to enjoy a birthday dinner with friends before heading to the official No on... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
15 Dec 21 : 04 | Maggie Van Ostrand: Is Rudolph a Cross-Dresser? When I was assigned this interview with a bunch of reindeer, I could not have known how difficult it would be to get to the bottom of the Rudolph myth. Neither could I have known how complicated would be the logistics involved in getting reindeer witnesses together to talk to us. Luckily, Sarah... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
11 Dec 09 : 07 | Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess: The Meaning of Obama's Election... This has been a tough year for China--as we argue in our forthcoming book, China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance, it is the most traumatic year in recent memory. Between the Sichuan earthquake, the Tibetan protests (and international reaction along the Olympic torch route), and the frightening... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
08 Dec 02 : 30 | Mike Smith: What I Saw at the Revolution -- Obama Campaign I just read a great post on Steve Clemons Huff Post blog about "Waiting for the Call." Like many, I am sitting by the telephone waiting for Barack Obama to call me in recognition of all of my sweat equity over the last 16 months on this revolutionary campaign. But I only want one job: Director of... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
