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I loathe Rush Limbaugh

I just had to vent. I never listen to this guy, but his comments about Haiti are being repeated everywhere. And after listening to his schtick, I'm baffled. Why is...

ProjectPOV: Brainstorming

I've been thinking about the HP Truth Campaign for a few weeks. I'm very excited that we have such enthusiastic support for this project. I'd like to present the...

HP Truth Campaign

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: Dec 22, 2009 @ 7:34 Cher's phenomenal article on the media and e'cat's excellent Rashomon feature have left me thinking that there are some steps we might...

The World According to GOP

In this election year, one issue outweighs all others. No matter how many disagreements we might have with Democrats, nothing is more important than remembering that the GOP has...

Senate seats in play

Whether Obama bashing, teeth gnashing, tea party crashing, or GOP trashing—it's time for progressives to stop talking the talk and start walking the walk. There be elections here! (Yes,...

Un(der)reported News—Year in Review

Happy 2010 everyone! I thought I'd close out 2009 and start 2010 with a tribute to Project Censored, an organization dedicated to highlighting underreported stories every day. Each December Project...

Whither Guantanamo?

McClatchy is running a story this morning asserting that the recent terrorism attempt is going to raise some further obstacles to closing Guantanamo: Likely casualty of air plot: Obama's Guantanamo...

Jolted back to reality

This is the news of the morning: Jet passengers overpower would-be bomber A Nigerian man on an Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight allegedly tried to blow up the airliner, which landed safely. The suspect...

Jingle Planet

I was uninspired blogging at HP Then I spied a link -- "Planet POV" First I shrugged it off I've seen links before Then I thought -- Just check it out It might be something more Blogosphere, Planet's here! Blogging...

Un(der)reported News—Christmas Edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCPh6lAd1ZU Happy Holidays, fellow Planeteers! Un(der)reported News presents 12 news items for the 12 days of Christmas.   How NORAD keeps track of Santa In 2007, Google signed onto the project...