Shhh! CBS Quietly Recalls Best-Selling, Deadly Toy
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Ahmadinejad's Invitation: No Interest on Either Side? By Stephen Krashen and Daniel Covany
In his speech at Columbia University, Iranian President Ahmadinejad invited university faculty and students "to come and visit Iran, to speak with our university students":
"You're officially invited. University faculty and students that the university decides, or the student associations choose and select are welcome to come. You're welcome to visit any university that you choose inside Iran. We'll provide you with the list of the universities. There are over 400 universities in our country. And you can choose whichever you want to go and visit. We'll give you the platform. We'll respect you 100 percent. We will have our students sit there and listen to you, speak with you, hear what you have to say. Right now in our universities on a daily basis there are hundreds of meetings like this. They hear, they talk, they ask questions. They welcome it." (translation from the Washington Post)
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Conservatives Have No Clothes: An Interview With Greg Anrig
The topic below was originally posted in my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal as well as the Independent Bloggers Alliance, The Peace Tree, Wild Wild Left and Worldwide Sawdust.
To paraphrase former President Ronald Reagan, conservatism is not the solution to the problem; conservatism is the problem. In the recently published book, The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing (Wiley & Sons), policy expert and journalist Greg Anrig indicts right-wing ideology and examines their legacy of insipid governance.
It's a familiar tale of woe for liberals at this point. The conservative method over simplifies problems such as terrorism with misguided fear mongering about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Domestically conservatives will distort the root causes of why inner city schools fail by demonizing the entire public school system or make false claims that Social Security is poised for imminent collapse. In terms of obtaining and holding onto power the conservative method of marketing distortion has been highly effective in most national elections since 1968.
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HUMANISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICA
Humanism is an outlook that affirms the dignity and worth of all human beings.
And human rights stand for the inalienable entitlement of all individuals by the virtue of their being human. And they include the right to life, liberty and security of persons, freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief.
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Democrats Beat Republicans in Yet Another Poll
Given the recent polling data, Republicans should stop speciously pointing fingers and start asking: 1) why do most Americans view us negatively, and 2) what can we actually do to change that?
Last week's Gallup poll found that more American's trusted Democrats over Republicans to do a better overall job and to handle national security and prosperity. The new Washington Post/ABC poll results contain similarly bad news for Republicans.
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