[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- 4000 Years for Choice: A Visual History With the Power to Transform
- [RHRealityCheck.org - Heather Ault]
[This] project draws from a rich and collective history of women controlling their reproduction for thousands of years. As early as Ancient Egypt, medical tablets contained detailed instructions for abortion and contraception procedures. In every culture studied since, evidence of reproductive control practices has existed. …abortion was legal in the U.S. up until the mid-1800s…
- ACLU Responds to AZ Gov. Jan Brewer’s Ridiculous Comments on U.S. Human Rights Record
- [ACLU Blog - Suzanne Ito]
You might've heard last week that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer was shocked — just shocked! — that the State Department mentioned S.B. 1070, Arizona's new "papers please" racial profiling law, in its first-ever Universal Periodic Review report (PDF) to the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Finding the mere mention of her law "downright offensive," Gov. Brewer fired off a letter (PDF) to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing her "concern and indignation" and asked Secretary Clinton to remove the mention of the law…
- Crisis Not Averted: Krugman and Wells Offer Econ 101 on the Great Recession
- [Firedoglake - David Dayen]
If you want to understand the financial crisis of 2008, this is an excellent place to start, to bookmark, to send along. Krugman and Wells list four reasons for the housing bubble – the Fed’s low interest-rate policy, the “giant pool of money” globally invested into mortgage-backed securities and the like, the exotic financial instruments like MBS which hid risk, and the failure of regulatory authority. They come to the conclusion that securitization actually has created more of a problem AFTER the crisis than before…
- Conservatives Turn on Petraeus over Koran-Burning Comments
- [Firedoglake - David Dayen]
Apparently the Koran-burners’ constitutional right to desecrate an object means more than Petraeus’ constitutional right to say it’s a pretty bad idea. After all, when has that general ever fought for freedom?
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