Susan G. Komen for the Cure to Planned Parenthood (and Poor Women): ‘Drop Dead’

Ok, I WAS going to post a Maddow clip relating to Mittens’ overwhelming, inevitable victory in Florida. But come on — you already know the Sunshine State score: Big money, kosher food, negative ads, moon colonies. This is WAY more important:  the Susan G. Komen For The Cure Foundation, one of...

Razing the Project to Save It

(Photo by Infrogmation, used under a GNU Free Documentation License) With the advent of a new administration in Washington providing the long-beleaguered citizens of New Orleans, LA a new sense of hope (no doubt increased upon hearing that the President has promised to visit the region) it’s easy for us to...

What’s up, Gaza?

We often hear about the violent side of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict because that’s more sensational, but we’re subjected to much less about normal, day to day life there.  So what’s normalcy in Gaza right now? Smuggled through tunnels from Egypt, sheep were not selling well in a Gaza...

Poverty in Pakistan, Terrorism, and the IMF

[Crossposted at dKos as a diary, please recommend it.] From the intelligence gathered thus far, the consensus opinion on the Mumbai terrorists is they are Islamist extremists who hail from Pakistan. File that revelation under “no surprise”. But information about the lone captured terrorist,...

No Thanks

(couretsy Get Your War On) Yeah, and McCain is going to start a new “War on Poverty.”  Oh, but don’t worry, this won’t be like Johnson’s War on Poverty, this one will work…  by killing poor people. Seriously, think about it.  If you kill all the poor people, all...