Friday, October 12, 2007

village voice > news > Hillary's Infidelity: Clinton Drops Bill's Cuban Advances for a More Hardline Approach by Kirk Nielsen

INFIDELITY
Barack Obama has pushed Hillary Clinton into the Bush camp on Cuba policy. She has even parroted the neocon hard line. Obama may also have opened a serious fissure in the GOP's last Hispanic stronghold (Cuban-Americans)from which at least a trickle of new Democratic votes could flow.
(VILLAGE VOICE)

Media Matters - Gibson knew school shooter was white because "[b]lack shooters don't" shoot themselves; "they shoot and move on"

CAN YOU CITE THAT STUDY FOR ME?
On his FOX radio show, while discussing an incident in which a student shot four people at his Cleveland high school before killing himself, John Gibson - apparently also a noted sociologist on teen rampage and racial differences - asserted that "I know the shooter was white. I knew it as soon as he shot himself. Hip-hoppers don't do that. They shoot and move on to shoot again.
(MEDIA MATTERS)

Law.com - Law Student Faces Disciplinary Action Over Facebook Photo of Pat Robertson

PRO SE
Adam Key posted a picture of Regent University's founder and president Pat Robertson making what appears to be an obscene gesture on the social networking Web site. Key copied it from a YouTube video in which Robertson scratches his face with his middle finger.
The second-year law student said officials at the private Christian university in Virginia Beach, Va., demanded that he either publicly apologize and withhold public comment about the matter, or submit to the law school dean a legal brief defending the posting. Key chose the latter, arguing that his posting was satire protected under the First Amendment. The only real question: how did a law student at Regents find out about the first amendment?
(LAW.COM)

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Truthdig - Reports - The Martyring of Che Guevara

SO, WHO HAS CHE?
These days, few politicians in the United States even seem to care about the subversive Cuban influences in our own backyard that once haunted them. The embargo on Cuba remains to mollify Florida’s aging Cuban community, but what’s important to Washington today is Mideast oil, not protecting the peasants of Bolivia from the likes of Che Guevara.
(TRUTHDIG)