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Akin Still Leading McCaskill
by Articleman 8/20/2012 - 11:52 pm
Best demonstration I have ever seem in a poll about how polarized and rigidly partisan American politics has become. Akin's favorability is 24, and yet he gets 44 in the sample.
Read the full article at
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/08/akin-44-mccaskill-43.html#more
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FBI admits to using surveillance drones over US soil
By Dan Roberts in Washington, guardian.co.uk, 16 June, 2013
[....] Speaking in a hearing mainly about telephone data collection, the bureau's director, Robert Mueller, said it used drones to aid its investigations in a "very, very minimal way, very seldom".
However, the potential for growing drone use either in the US, or involving US citizens abroad, is an increasingly charged issue in Congress, and the FBI acknowleged there may need to be legal restrictions placed on their use to protect privacy.
"It is still in nascent stages but it is worthy of debate and legislation down the road," said Mueller, in response to questions from Hawaii senator Mazie Hirono.
Hirono said: "I think this is a...
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We are losing the art of writing and of conversation
OK, admittedly this is not "news", but I couldn't resist posting this. I didn't feel that I had anything to add to it, so I've added it to "In the News". I apologize if that crosses a line…
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Egypt tourism minister protests over Islamist governor
Reuters, June 19, 2013
CAIRO - Egypt's tourism minister tendered his resignation on Tuesday over President Mohamed Mursi's decision to appoint as governor of Luxor a member of a hardline Islamist group blamed for slaughtering 58 tourists there in 1997.
Prime Minister Hisham Kandil did not accept the resignation of Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou, who remains in the post for now. However, the move pointed to a split in government over an appointment that one critic called "the last nail in the coffin" of the tourism industry.
Mursi appointed Adel Mohamed al-Khayat, a member of al-Gamaa al-Islamiya, as Luxor governor this week, a move seen as a sign of a deepening political alliance between the once-armed group and the...
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Protests Expand in Brazil, Fueled by Video of Police...
By Robert Mackey, The Lede @ nytimes.com, June 18, 2013
Includes lots of images and videos.
Last Updated, 6:57 p.m. As my colleague Simon Romero reports from São Paulo, more than 200,000 Brazilians filled the streets in cities across the country on Monday to protest the high cost of living and lavish spending on soccer stadiums ahead of next year’s World Cup, in demonstrations that have intensified as images of police brutality against peaceful protesters spread on...
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I'm not surprised by this at all. There's a deep partisan divide but that's not the whole story here. There's a substantial evangelical minority in Missouri that agrees with Akins. They get a lot of pseudoscience from the Falwell's and Robertson's on their evangelical "news" programs to help them justify their policies and positions. There are fundamentalist christian "scholars" feeding them fraudulent information like Dr. John Willke who is no doubt Akin's source. Or David Barton feeding the evangelicals fraudulent history.
All this isn't new, but it does seem that these "scholars" have gotten better at peddling lies since the days of Dr. Yoder claiming 6 LSD users were blinded from staring at the sun while tripping.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/drugs/lsdsun.asp