• Medill Reports - Chicago, Northwestern University
The Patriot Act: Name in Action
When you ask a political strategist about the impact of a bill’s name, they all point to the same example.
The USA Patriot Act of 2001 was actually an acronym for a much longer name: Uniting and Strengthening Ameri
Greene, a 32-year-old unemployed military veteran who lives with his parents, defeated Vic Rawl for the Democratic Senate nomination despite having run essentially no public campaign — no events, no signs, no debates, no website, no fundraising. The
I spent more than two and a half hours not casting a vote on the system before eventually I, the poll workers, and, apparently, the folks at the L.A. County Registrar's central help desk call center, simply gave up.
Morpheus gets interviewed by Cindy Carcamo of the Orange County Register.
Cindy: What are you Protesting?
Morpheus: I am demonstrating for the rights of the individual.
Cindy: What is the problem with SB1070?
Brian McCrary found the perfect venue to gripe about a $90 speeding ticket when he went to the Bluff City Police Department’s website, saw that its domain name was about to expire, and bought it right out from under the city’s nose.
Cops are cracking down on the slaves who dare videotape them, as explained in this Gizmodo article. It's now ILLEGAL in some states to videotape cops, and one man in Chicago is facing felony charges and anywhere from 4 - 15 years in prison if convic
Put simply, if Schanberg's extensively documented claims are correct then John McCain played a central role in perhaps the greatest act of national treachery ever committed in American history.
It's the second time this year that the state has sold buildings to help close the state budget deficit. A sale-leaseback in January raised $735.4 million for the state. The healthy response prompted lawmakers to authorize a second sale.
CLUE TIME: It isn't Hate Speech if you hate my right to express my viewpoint. Progressives groups are gang-tackling the FTC and FCC in order to “monitor hate speech;” i.e., shut up viewpoints they don’t agree with.” It's getting ugly out there.
"We presented a bold and idealistic vision for the future. Some people accused us of lacking good judgement. But I say that outdated ideas show no judgement at all — and the issues are so serious that boldness is necessary...."
In his 1935 book War is a Racket, Butler described the workings of the military-industrial complex and, after retiring from service, became a popular speaker at meetings organized by veterans, pacifists and church groups in the 1930s.
After appearing on 5/28/2010's "The R3VOLution Continues" in which RBN owner John Stadtmiller calls in, Brooke graciously agreed to go on his program as well. NeoCons literally line up to take a crack at her but she handles them: VERY well.
What many Americans don’t realize, is census workers under federal law can actually demand access to any apartment or any other type of home or room that is rented out, in order to count persons in the abode and for "the collection of statistics."
Nevada election officials have banned wearing chicken suits at polling places because of their "inappropriate" political message. The problem started in April, when Harry Reid's potential Republican challenger Sue Lowden infamously suggested that peo
This is part 2 of old ads I dug up for the Harry Browne 2000 presidential run. These were turned down by comedy central because they said they would not play anything political. Boy have they changed their tune. These ads mainly focus on the War on D
"It's very empowering to be in a room with 30 officers and know they can't do shit to you," a Tohono O'odham tribesman told me after the action. "It was definitely going to take some force to get us out of there. Force they did not want to use."
The basics of the contest are simple:
* Film police conducting their duties
* Submit to Cop Block; I’ll discuss how below
* Do not post your video on line before contacting Cop Block
The submissions will be judged on content (what’s actually
The People’s Cube features a fine line-up of fantasy Soviet Agitprop which combines the best of faux Soviet-style propaganda posters with American pin-up calendar for some oddly-satisfying results. Do readers agree?
Marijuana advocacy group Sensible Washington learned that a dozen signed copies of the marijuana legalization initiative for Washington State of which it is the sponsor, were seized last week by the federally-funded WestNET drug task force.