The rising cost of food

According to the UN’s latest update on global food prices, the cost of basic foods is still 37% higher than it was last year • Get the data on global food prices since 1990 • Explore the interactive

Datablog Guardian [UK] 7 June 2011

The last monthly report on global food prices before the summer […]

Shame: Ignoring Death Threats to Wisconsin Politicians is Media Bias

Lee Stranahan The Huffington Post 3/15/2011

Three questions for you.

Do you think of Republicans and the Tea Party as dangerous, violent extremists? Do you think the Wisconsin protests over GOP Governor Scott Walker’s move to strip public sector employees of collective bargaining were peaceful? Do you scoff at the right wing notion that mainstream […]

Supreme Court rules in favor of Westboro military funeral protesters

BlackFive.net 3/2/2011

“Speech is powerful. It can stir people to action, move them to tears of both joy and sorrow, and– as it did here– inflict great pain. On the facts before us, we cannot react to that pain by punishing the speaker.” — Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts Yes, it happened. […]

Kansas AFL-CIO activists intimidate, degrade female legislators

Tim Carpenter The Capital-Journal 2/24/2011

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/ Union members wait in the Statehouse foyer Thursday for Kansas House members to enter their chambers. They were protesting a bill prohibiting labor organizations from deducting money from members' paychecks for political action committee dues.

Kansas Republicans accused organized labor activists Thursday of forcing female […]

New Drilling Method Opens Vast U.S. Oil Fields

Associated Press via FoxNews.com 2/10/2011

A new drilling technique is opening up vast fields of previously out-of-reach oil in the western United States, helping reverse a two-decade decline in domestic production of crude.

Companies are investing billions of dollars to get at oil deposits scattered across North Dakota, Colorado, Texas and California. By 2015, oil […]

Common American Journal Condemns Slanderous and Malicious ‘American Chronicle’ Article

12 January 2011

An email this afternoon from Patriots for America brought the following shameful and disgusting article in the American Chronicle of Beverly Hills, CA, to our attention. In the strongest terms possible we condemn the article’s premise that the Westboro Baptist Church and “Conservative Tea Party Activists” are one and the same group. […]

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