Open the Presidential Debates

Seeded on Sat Aug 9, 2008 12:24 PM EDT (The Nation)

"Google and YouTube are organizing a unique presidential forum in New Orleans for September 18. It is likely to be the first debate (or debate-like "event") after the major-party nominating conventions are finished.

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'To Catch a Predator' Suicide Settlement

Seeded on Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:17 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Dateline's 'To Catch a Predator' is wildly popular. Recently they settled a lawsuit with a woman whose brother, a county prosecutor, committed suicide as police made a housecall while Dateline filmed.

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Obama's Mother

Seeded on Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:01 PM EDT (TIME)

"Ann's most lasting professional legacy was to help build the microfinance program in Indonesia, which she did from 1988 to '92—before the practice of granting tiny loans to credit-poor entrepreneurs was an established success story.

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Ruling Gives South Dakota Doctors a Script to Read

Seeded on Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:29 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

CHICAGO -- In a victory for antiabortion forces, doctors in South Dakota are now required to tell a woman seeking an abortion that the procedure "will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique living human being."

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Insurance Industry Forming Activist Army

Seeded on Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:19 AM EDT (Politico)

Ahead of the approaching health care reform storm, the insurance industry is building an ark: a nationwide education campaign aimed at raising an activist army at least 100,000 strong..... ...."What you're seeing is the alignment of the key constituencies for building and st …

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Supreme Court finds history is a matter of opinion

Seeded on Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:42 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)

All nine justices agreed that the original understanding was crucial [to the habeas corpus and gun cases they heard this term]. However, they split 5 to 4 in both cases on how to interpret the history.

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What did Obama Do as an Organizer?

Seeded on Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:54 PM EDT (Bnet)

"He didn't have experience," Augustine-Herron said. "But he had a sensitivity that allowed us to believe that he could do the job." So Obama it was.

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Obama's ACORN

Seeded on Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:13 PM EDT (National Review Online)

IL Project Vote was run by ACORN. Obama's service on the boards of two charitable foundations, the Woods Fund and the Joyce Foundation.

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Obama, Farrakhan, and the Trinity Trumpet

Seeded on Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:45 PM EDT (Bizzy Blog)

Okay so the Trinity Church issue is "old news," but I've been doing research to try to understand Obama's Israel/Hamas, etc views. I came across this link, and wanted to share. Thoughts? Comments?

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WI Dems to Dump Delegate

Seeded on Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:55 PM EDT (Chicago Tribune)

WI delegate was pledged to Clinton. Now says she'll vote for McCain. Bye Bye.

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Obama promises to restore MI, FL votes....?

Seeded on Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:17 PM EDT (Chicago Tribune)

LANSING, Mich. - Gov. Jennifer Granholm says she has gotten personal assurances from presidential candidate Barack Obama that he'll restore the full voting rights of Michigan and Florida's national convention delegates.

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New Ineffectual CFTC Regs

Seeded on Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:12 PM EDT (The Minneapolis Star Tribune)

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators said Tuesday they will place stricter limits on foreign exchanges that trade U.S. oil as concerns continue to grow about the role of speculation in rising fuel prices.

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Japan's weight problem

Seeded on Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:04 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Under a national law that came into effect two months ago, companies and local governments must now measure the waistlines of Japanese people between the ages of 40 and 74 as part of their annual checkups.

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