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Morning headlines brought to you by Carolyn Kay MakeThemAccountable.com Top Story Bomb within earshot of Cheney kills 23
BAGRAM, Afghanistan - In what the Taliban claimed was an assassination attempt, a suicide bomber attacked the main gate of a U.S. military base Tuesday within earshot of Vice President Dick Cheney. The explosion killed 23 people, including two Americans, and delivered a propaganda blow that undercut the U.S. military and the weak Afghan government it supports. The Illustrated Daily Scribble
The WorldIraq And U.S. Invite Syria, Iran To Meet
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the U.S. and the Iraqi government are launching a new diplomatic initiative to invite Iran and Syria to a "neighbors meeting" on stabilizing Iraq. The move reflects a change of approach by the White House.
If we were uncharitable, we might call it a FLIP-FLOP. —Caro
Police: Car bomb kills 10 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb killed at least ten people in a crowded commercial area of western Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.
Ex-UN Weapons Chief: US, Europe, UN Council 'Humiliating' Iran
NEW YORK (AP)--Former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said Monday the U.S., Europe and the U.N. Security Council are "humiliating" Iran by demanding that it suspend uranium enrichment before any negotiations and then dictating its rewards.
Afghan Bombing Sends a Danger Signal to U.S.
Al Qaeda and the Taliban appear stronger in the region than at any time since the U.S. invasion. The NationDemocratic leaders to finalize Iraq plan
WASHINGTON - House Democratic leaders are developing an anti-war proposal that wouldn't cut off money for U.S. troops in Iraq while requiring President Bush to acknowledge problems with an overburdened military.
New light shed on CIA s secret prisons
Marwan Jabour's account of life in the CIA's secret internment system, which he described in three interviews with The Washington Post, offers an inside view of a clandestine world that held far more prisoners than the 14 men President Bush acknowledged and had transferred out of CIA custody in September.
Welfare state growing despite overhauls
The welfare state is bigger than ever despite a decade of policies designed to wean poor people from public aid. The number of families receiving cash benefits from welfare has plummeted, but other programs for the poor, including Medicaid, food stamps and disability benefits, are bursting with new enrollees.
Bush’s economic policies have caused a huge increase in poverty. —Caro
REPORT: Undervote Rate Plummets 85% in New Mexico's Native American Precincts
Details now out from New Mexico reveal that undervote rates dropped precipitously in both Native American and Hispanic areas after the state moved from DRE (Direct Recording Electronic touch-screen) voting systems in 2004 to paper-based optical-scan systems in 2006. In Native American areas, undervote rates plummeted some 85%. In Hispanic communities, the rate dropped by 6% according to the precinct data reviewed by EDA, VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.org.
There goes the “stupid voter” argument. —Caro MediaHeadline News' Stouffer called "free market" group that attacked Gore an "environmental group"
On the February 27 edition of CNN Headline News' Robin & Company, anchor Lisa Stouffer … baselessly asserted that TCPR is "(a)n environmental group," despite the fact that, on its website, the center does not call itself an environmental group, but rather states that it provides "timely free market policy solutions" and "promotes personal freedom and limited government." Additionally, while Stouffer noted that a Gore spokeswoman said that "the Gores are renovating their house now to install solar panels," the weblog Think Progress also reported that Gore's office has said that the Gores have "sign(ed) up for 100 percent green power through Green Power Switch" and have "had a consistent position of purchasing carbon offsets to offset the family's carbon footprint."
John Solomon Gives Us Less Than Meets the Eye -- Again
Another non-starter on the front page of the Post, by their resident non-starter reporter. Have the Clinton's been hiding money? Making shady deals or investments and keeping it from the Senate? Not quite.
Did Politico Publish Dan Gerstein's Attack On Bloggers Without Identifying Him As Current -- And Even Paid -- Lieberman Adviser?
Yep, it appears that The Politico may indeed have done just that. On Feb. 16, The Politico turned over its front page to a long hit piece on liberal bloggers by Liebermanite Dan Gerstein. In the piece -- titled "Liberal Bloggers Demonstrate Their Political Immaturity, Democrat Says" -- Gerstein repeatedly unloaded on bloggers, calling them everything from "spoiled children" to practitioners of "high-tech tantrum tactics." He even suggested that the Democratic Party should punish them by denying them access. Needless to say, the bloggers or sites targeted by Gerstein -- MyDD, Kos, etc. -- were leading foes of Senator Joe Lieberman's reelection campaign last year.
XM + Sirius: Good or Bad For Us?
Well, that was fast. Today a Congressional subcommittee will hold a hearing to consider antitrust issues pertaining to the proposed XM / Sirius merger. The WSJ is running a pretty interesting dialog between consumer advocate Mark Cooper (who'll testify today against the merger) and antitrust lawyer Donald Russell about how the merger might change the consumer landscape, and whether the merger should be approved. We're going to give the edge to Russell, who argues that the merger wouldn't create a harmful monopoly, since terrestrial radio, not to mention other sources of audio entertainment and information, create enough "intermodal competition" to allow for consumer choice and create price pressure. Technology & SciencePioneering Estonia holds world's first online parliamentary vote
TALLINN (AFP) - Estonia is pushing the boundaries of technology and democracy a step further by holding the world's first parliamentary e-lection, in which voters can cast ballots online.
Online addict dies after "marathon" session
BEIJING (Reuters) - An obese 26-year-old man in northeastern China died after a "marathon" online gaming session over the Lunar New Year holiday, state media said on Wednesday.
New Study: The Brain is Chaotic
The inner workings of the brain aren’t as organized as once thought. According to a new study, it’s mayhem up there. The findings, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience, could fundamentally change the notions that the brain follows a specific ordered circuit and could have implications in medicine and therapeutic drug options.
2 New Drugs Offer Options in H.I.V. Fight
Two new AIDS drugs, each of which works in a novel way, have proved safe and highly successful in large studies. EnvironmentScientists to U.N.: "Tens of billions" needed to combat global warming
An international panel of scientists presented the U.N. with a sweeping, detailed plan on Tuesday to combat climate change a challenge, it said, "to which civilization must rise." Failure would produce a turbulent 21st century of weather extremes, expanding oceans and displaced coastal populations, it said. For more headlines, visit MakeThemAccountable.com. |
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