- The President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman
- A deal to raise the federal debt ceiling is in the works. If it goes through, many commentators will declare that disaster was avoided. But they will be wrong.
- EXCLUSIVE: Antidepressants and Breast, Ovarian Cancer Link Suggested – Women’s Media Center blog – By Dr. Sharon Ufberg
- The increased risk was indicated with even short term or low dosage use of the medicine, and the link appeared strongest in cases of the widely used SSRI class of antidepressants …
- …the research results vary widely depending on whether a study was funded by the pharmaceutical industry or considered “clean” research… Not one study funded by the pharmaceutical industry reported a link …
- Individual and group talk therapy, movement therapy, meditation, nutritional remedies and body work are just a few of the possible options to try before choosing antidepressant drug therapy.
- [Trigger warning: final paragraph of this article subtly denigrates doctors and/or patients who choose drug therapy. -L]
- We did it! Scholastic drastically cuts corporate-sponsored materials
- …read more about it in today’s New York Times [link].
- Thank HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for Moving Women’s Health Forward | National Women’s Law Center
- Over 60,000 of you signed our petition to support no-cost birth control, and now the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced it is adopting expert recommendations to require health insurers to cover contraception, along with a number of other preventive health services for women, without charging women co-payments. We got you covered — birth control without a co-pay will soon be a reality!
- This decision is a milestone in the effort to improve the health and lives of women and their families and underscores the real and tangible impact the new health care law will have on women’s lives. At the same time, HHS is unfortunately considering a proposal to exempt some religious employers from providing contraceptive services, and we will work to ensure that all women are guaranteed this vital coverage.
- Why the progressives need a Big Idea – The Washington Post
- Those who would chronicle events in Washington can find no richer source of analogy and metaphor than the Three Stooges. These days, I’m thinking of the times when an exasperated Moe, having suffered the indignity of an accidental spritzing or clobbering, turns to Larry or Curly and demands, “What’s the big idea?”
- Rosa Parks essay appears to discuss rape attempt | The Associated Press
- Parks wrote on anything she could get her hands on. …
- “Her story had become mythic and iconic … I can’t imagine what that felt like for her to have a whole history of activism and political work erased and turned almost into a cartoon character,” said McGuire.
- 8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance | Activism
- 1. Student-Loan Debt.
2. Psychopathologizing and Medicating Noncompliance.
3. Schools That Educate for Compliance and Not for Democracy.
4. “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top.”
5. Shaming Young People Who Take Education—But Not Their Schooling—Seriously.
6. The Normalization of Surveillance.
7. Television.
8. Fundamentalist Religion and Fundamentalist Consumerism.
- A Victory Against Dominionist Indoctrination of the Air Force | Politicususa • by Leah L Burton
- …Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) sent me a confidential email [link] …
- …[MRFF] have been exposed to information and situations that are complete and total violations of the U.S. Constitution by military personnel…in their relentless proselytizing of our armed forces personnel. Yet, this one really sent a wave of fear through me.
- We were contacted by 29 out of 31 new missile officers in training who found the presentation about moral justification for pushing the button [to be] beyond a mere infraction …
- …thousands of armed forces personnel, who after attempting to seek resolution through their chain-of-command…end up coming to us desperate for assistance. As of this writing there are 23,353 clients on our list – 96% are Protestant…
- …every time I write or speak about this I am inundated with hate mail, death threats from “Christian Patriots” … It doesn’t matter that…the only thing I am “anti-” about is extremism.
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