http://www.bradblog.com Because it's not about Right or Left, it's about Right and Wrong! Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:27:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning California, a state, which, at $1.8 trillion, has the world's eighth largest economy, now finds itself at the edge of an economic abyss. Despite Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's draconian cuts to health care and education of more than $15 billion, purportedly to close a $26.3 ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7527 NY-23's failed Conservative Party Congressional candidate, Doug Hoffman, now says he was "forced to concede" (though it's not clear who forced him, and the concession, as BRAD BLOG readers know, has no legal standing in any case, and, as we noted last week, neither do the voters of New York ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7532 IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Scientists warn while Americans yawn; Climate Thunder Down Under: it's fire season again in Australia, while their debate over climate change heats up ... PLUS: Sarah Palin 'goes rogue' on science ... All that and more in today's Green News Report! Got comments, tips, love ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7529 Just last week Sean Hannity of Fox "News" was forced to offer an apology of sorts for "inadvertently" using falsified footage to make a recent tea bagger protest look larger than it was. The admission came only after Comedy Central's The Daily Show called Fox out for the scam. Though ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7530 The wingnuttery continues to devolve. Last night, Rachel Maddow covered, among other recently related points, the new Rightwing "Pray for Obama" movement supporting, and selling merchandise in support of, Psalms 109:8 which begins this way: "Let his days be few; and let another take his office," and continues with "Let ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7528 Guest blogged by David Swanson Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the corporate "mainstream" media make quite a pair. We're hearing a very "balanced" debate over whether KSM should be tried in New York City, and whether the most insane objections to that proposal are really insane or not. But what ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7526 Guest blogged by Frank Schaeffer Sarah Palin's memoir is a perfect metaphor for what ails America and the Republican Party. Her book is published by the Zondervan publishing house, formerly an evangelical family-run religious publishing powerhouse now owned by Rupert Murdoch. (Back in the day my family's and many evangelical ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7525 IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Obama in China with Hu... (and how and when); Decelerating on the Road to Copenhagen; Dirty Diaper Power! ... PLUS: Are your balls a danger to the environment? ... All that and more in today's Green News Report! Got comments, tips, love letters, hate mail? ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7524 I wish more people had more things to say about Sarah Palin. http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7523 My latest piece at the Guardian today, as written under the auspices of the Commonweal Institute (where I am a Fellow),seems to have stirred up the Tea Baggery on both sides of the pond. I always love the commenters on columns I do at the Guardian. My favorite exchange there ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7522 Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning On Nov. 12, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court alleging that separate House and Senate Resolutions to bar all funds to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) were unconstitutional Bills of Attainder, which violated ACORN's ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7519 While I've always known that the rightwing Washington Times was owned by the self-proclaimed Messiah and "Dear Leader" of the Unification Church, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, I don't think I fully appreciated just how directly in control of the paper the Moonies actually were. Nor did I fully appreciate how ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7521 I was in-studio and on-the-air this morning with a couple of my favorite cats, Rick and Doran of Digital Village, featuring the most maddeningly-catchy theme song in all of radio, on KPFK (L.A. and Santa Barbara's Pacifica station). We talked e-voting, including "open source" secret vote-counting machines (the latest ill-considered fad ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7520 A potentially interesting situation is underway in New York's 23rd Congressional district where post-election canvassing of the recent Special Election for the U.S. House is still underway. According to Syracuse's Post-Standard, the post-election canvass shows the race between Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, who conceded on Election Night, and Democratic candidate ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7518 A long-time BRAD BLOG reader, who wishes to remain anonymous, has finally succeeded in dragging me kicking and screaming onto Facebook. She's been kind enough to set up a BRAD BLOG page over there. So please, if you're a Facebooker, become a fan today and help spread the good word! (And if ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7517 Welcome aboard to our latest new affiliate station - KJFK 1230am in Reno, NV! IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Lights out for Brazil; the Brown Pelican is saved!; America's lakes, not so much; A new threat to your sex life ... PLUS: Clean Coal lies -- about veterans -- on ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7515 [Updated twice below. Once with Hannity's "apology" and then with Stewart's response to it.] The Daily Show still offers just about the best news coverage on cable... UPDATE: Media Matters documents how Hannity's phony video is only "the tip of Fox News' video-doctoring iceberg"... UPDATE, 7:48pm PT: Having no choice but to cop ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7516 How many times does he have to get these stories wrong before ABC News cans their hapless and constantly wrong "investigative correspondent" Brian Ross? We suspect he'll be allowed to keep screwing up, again and again and again, so long as his screw-ups result in lots of media attention. Little ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7514 From AFP: Washington sniper John Muhammad was executed on Tuesday by lethal injection over a series of 2002 shootings that left 10 people dead, a prison official said. Well that'll certainly teach any future snipers from doing same. I guess Nidal Hasan and all the other mass shooters since 2002 didn't get ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7512 There's this: KBR/Halliburton may have poisoned 100,000 in Iraq... Defense contractor KBR may have exposed as many as 100,000 people, including US troops, to cancer-causing toxins by burning waste in open-air pits in Iraq, says a series of class-action lawsuits filed against the company. At least 22 separate lawsuits claiming KBR poisoned ... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7511