“YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO SOMETHING…TO LOWER PEOPLE’S EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT THEY’RE GOING TO GET.” This is Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein opening the familiar pandora’s box of rhetoric designed to fundamentalism “change” — i.e; kill off — “entitlements” like Social Security and Medicare. Almost like clockwork, the election results are being used [...]
ARMS DEPOT EXPLOSION IN CONGO: THE DEATH TOLL THAT DIDN’T HAVE TO BE. (Christian Science Monitor) Explosion of government arms depot in capital city of Brazzaville produces at least 213 deaths of residents in the area. Observers note that this death toll was the result of “bad urban planning” if not outright corruption of DRC [...]
Birth control as a hot button issue does not appear top be fading from the forefront of national debate in the near future, stoked by presidential politics and lawmakers eager to make their name in the defense of what some call “religous freedom,” and others deride as unconstitutional overreach. The so-called “culture wars” are storming back to [...]
IF SARASOTA COUNTY, FLORIDA IS GOING TO PROVIDE ALL THE PUBLIC SERVICES, WHY DOES THE CITY OF SARASOTA EVEN NEED TO EXIST? (Sarasota Herald-Tribune) This is the “existential” question which some city officials in Sarasota are driven to ask. It comes as the city, with recession-driven deficits like never before, is considering budget-cutting measures like consolidating city and [...]
A QUIVERFULL OF KIDS: DON’T LAUGH, THE “CULT” OF ANTI-CONTRACEPTION MAY BECOME POLITICALLY MAINSTREAM. (In These Times) “Quiverfull” is a movement promoting an agenda of couples having multiple children under an ideological flag of patriarchal domination. It is depicted on a Learning Channel show called “19 Kids and Counting,” a couple who are literally expecting [...]
WHITE HOUSE PREPARED TO CHOOSE POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY OVER WOMEN’S HEALTH. (Salon) The skirmish between the Obama administration and the Catholic Church and other religious organizations over contraceptives has made headlines for much of this week. Indignant religious leaders and their media allies have bashed the federal government for ruling as part of the new health [...]
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