Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Tea Parties Forever
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Republicans have become embarrassing to watch. And it doesn’t feel right to make fun of crazy people.
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
The Open Chemical Physics Journal
This report, from a peer-reviewed scientific journal has been refuted by no-one, and is receiving no coverage in the mainstream media.
Recession fueling right-wing extremism, U.S. says
Right-wing extremists in the United States are gaining new recruits by exploiting fears about the economy and the election of the first black U.S. president, the Department of Homeland Security warned in a report to law enforcement officials.

Saturday, April 04, 2009

Analysis: Nation negotiates minefield of bad news
Put aside for a moment the debate over guns. This isn't about policy. It's about asking the urgent question: What is happening in the American psyche that prevents people from defusing their own anguish and rage before they end the lives of others?
Why are we killing each other?
Without excusing one whit of the violent tendencies that ended with so many bullets in so many bodies from Binghamton to North Carolina to Alabama to California in the past month, isn't it time, finally, to figure out where this national dream makes a wrong turn?
"Maybe research can prevent further tragedies of this type," a man named Charles Whitman wrote one day in 1966. Then he ascended a tower at the University of Texas, looked out over the campus, pulled out a shotgun, three rifles and three pistols and killed 16 people.