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Abandoned Under Obama By Heather Robinson on 11.10.09 @ 6:09AM Earlier this month, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a self-described "Muslim Zionist," traveled to the U.S. to address audiences in New York City and at Yale University. Publisher of the largest English-language weekly newspaper in Bangladesh, Choudhury has been jailed, beaten, nearly blinded, and is now on trial for his life for his reporting, and for his pro-American, pro-Israeli views.Chicago Club Accused Of Racism Over Dress Code
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Six college students from St. Louis accuse a popular Chicago nightclub of using a dress code banning baggy pants to racially profile them, denying them entrance to the club on a recent Saturday night.
The African-American students were part of a group of nearly 200 students from Washington University who were in Chicago on a fall break senior class trip the weekend of Oct.
Democrats Push To End Insurers' Antitrust Exemption
In the ongoing health care overhaul drama, the Obama administration and the health insurance industry have gone from uneasy allies to bitter adversaries. One result is that health insurers stand to lose a privilege their industry has enjoyed for the past 64 years: They, like Major League Baseball, have been exempt from federal antitrust laws. Congressional Democrats are now pushing to strip the health insurance industry of that exemption.Obama Threatens Insurers’ Anti-Trust Exemption
By PETER BAKER (NYT) WASHINGTON — President Obama mounted a frontal assault on the insurance industry on Saturday, accusing it of using “deceptive and dishonest ads” to derail his health care legislation and threatening to strip the industry of its longstanding exemption from federal antitrust laws. In unusually harsh terms, Mr. Obama cast insurance companies as obstacles to change interested only in preserving their own “profits and bonuses” and willing to “bend the truth or break it” to stop his drive to remake the nation’s health care system. The president used his weekly radio and Internet address to challenge industry assertions that legislation will drive up premiums.Sotomayor Confirmed by Senate, 68-31
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/us/politics/07confirm.html?hp WASHINGTON — Voting largely along party lines, the Senate on Thursday confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the 111th justice of the Supreme Court. She will be the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the court. Chief Justice John G.Miss Affirmative Action, 2009
by Patrick J. Buchanan 06/12/2009 Having lost the Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008, Republicans are looking to redefine themselves for a nation that still leans conservative but is less Republican than it has been in decades. The nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S.The Real Tragedy of the Arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
By Melissa Harris-Lacewell, TheNation.com Posted on July 22, 2009, Printed on July 22, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/141485/ Over the past several days a strange characterization of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has emerged. Many are portraying him as a radical who easily and inappropriately appeals to race as an excuse and explanation. This image of Gates is inaccurate.Sonia Sotomayor In Context
By THOMAS SOWELL June 02, 2009 In Washington, the clearer a statement is, the more certain it is to be followed by a "clarification" when people realize what was said. The clearly racist comments made by Judge Sonia Sotomayor on the Berkeley campus in 2001 have forced the spinmasters to resort to their last-ditch excuse, that it was "taken out of context." If that line is used during Judge Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearings, someone should ask her to explain just what those words mean when taken in context.DC COMICS: are they apeasing or entertaining
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Superman and Batman to join forces with Islamic superheroes
Superman, Batman and The Flash could soon be joining forces with The 99, a team of superheroes based on Islamic culture and religion.
By Chris Irvine
Published: 8:39AM BST 06 Jul 2009
The 99, who personify the 99 attributes of Allah, are a creation of Teshkeel Comics in Kuwait, and will soon be appearing in a new mini-series collaborating with Justice League characters from DC comics.
The Kuwaiti comics, which sell about one million copies a year, are already popular in the Middle East with an animated film already commissioned.
Video Games I LOVE (long blog)
I love video games, they take me into a fantasy world to get away from everyday problems. To me, its like a book, you go on a journey and you have control over your character. All of these games are on PlayStation 2.
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