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Ed Koch when he was Mayor Koch use to ask that very question to New Yorkers walking down the streets of New York quite often. Now Mr. Koch says he has "never been more terrified. (with Obama as president)" In a...

It's 4th of July weekend, time to put aside the concerns and fire up the grill! This weekend's music thread is about all that's good in America from coast to coast, independence and eating, drinking and being merry!

Watching the health care debacle has convinced me of one thing. We need campaign finance reform to fix what ails our congress. Campaign finance reform wouldn't do anything to correct a problem like Joe Lieberman—who is trying to...

This weekend's theme is about songs that make us slow down and think, stop to smell the roses, and just indulge ourselves in wonder as well as songs about the cosmos and Karma.

It has been quite the week for many of us at The Planet, so much going on, I didn’t realize it was Friday and we needed some relief. So let’s do our thing, Ladies and Gents. Free for all Friday.  Whatever...

**WARNING** Disturbing pictures. I met a woman at a conference today who had just returned from a year teaching writing to soldiers in Afghanistan. She told me something disturbing -- that she knew a 20 year Afghani woman who'd...

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 as a technology partner, and since then, has been incorporating...

This weekend's music thread is about victory and celebrating (we deserve to do a little of it after enduring the last year!).

With the recent swearing in, to a second term of President Obama, the message is clear. Social justice and togetherness is the way forward. President Obama's message is clear, and it is not new. The message for social change and...

What we know confidently now is that torture did take place under the Bush Administration by the CIA, that it didn't work or help keep Americans safe, that it permanently undermined our nation's moral authority in the world and that there is absolutely no regret or apology from those who oversaw and committed it.