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POPSMSNBC Fires Imus It's official: Imus' show has been completely dropped from MSNBC (not just suspended like before). News sources say it's likely that CBS Radio will follow suit by canceling Imus' radio program as well.
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POPSConservatives Angry with Rupert Murdoch But the little people would have none of it. It was the contamination of traditional media by politically hostile elements that bothered them. Why was Al Jazeera shown on BSkyB? And why did BSkyB broadcast Channel 4's Death of a President, which mocks-up the assassination of George W Bush?
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POPSConservative newspaper calls for Hastert's resignation over scandal This morning's Washington Times . House Speaker Dennis Hastert must do the only right thing, and resign his speakership at once. Either he was grossly negligent for not taking the red flags fully into account and ordering a swift investigation, for not even remembering the order of events leading up to last week's revelations -- or he deliberately looked the other way in hopes that a brewing scandal would simply blow away. He gave phony answers Friday to the old and ever-relevant questions of what did he know and when did he know it? Mr. Hastert has forfeited the confidence of the public and his party, and he cannot preside over the necessary coming investigation, an investigation that must examine his own inept performance.
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POPSHP 'admits spying on reporters' Has no one clipped this? It's turning into a huge scandal. Forget losing their jobs, HP execs (and/or board members) could face criminal charges for this. And what does it say about our privacy that phone companies rolled over for private investigators so willingly?
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POPSAffirmation of Worth Boosts Scores of Black Children African-American schoolchildren who completed a brief writing assignment designed to reaffirm their sense of self-worth received higher grades at the end of the semester than those given a control intervention, a new study finds. These better-performing children closed the grade gap with their white peers by 40 percent, apparently because the assignment interrupted the harmful effects of declining performance early in the semester.
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POPSTobacco Companies Charged with Racketeering, Conspiracy to Deceive The wording of this ruling is truly incredible. In the end, the enormous fines were not imposed but the damage to the tobacco companies legal stance has been done. Prosecutors and defendants alike are bracing for the floodgate of individual cases against cigarette-makers this ruling has enabled.
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POPSNew Census Map of Foreign-Born Populations in US From today's story on the 2005 American Community Survey: The number of immigrants living in American households rose 16 percent over the last five years, fueled largely by recent arrivals from Mexico, according to fresh data released by the Census Bureau. And increasingly, immigrants are bypassing the traditional gateway states like California and New York and settling directly in parts of the country that until recently saw little immigrant activity — regions like the Upper Midwest, New England and the Rocky Mountain States. EDIT: Hmm...my clipped version looks a little fuzzier than the source...what's up with that? :)
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POPSBush blocked probe into anti-terror spying I know, you're astounded! “ The president of the United States makes the decision ,” Gonzales told the committee hearing, during which he was strongly criticized on a range of national security issues by Specter and Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, the panel’s senior Democrat.
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POPSIndian call centre staff fed up with racist abuse Racial-tinged abuse has gotten so bad that Indian support workers formed their own organization to deal with the verbal abuse they endure daily from privileged Westerners at their support jobs. That's not cool. "The Indians seem to be the villains in the entire piece, but it's not the Indians taking away jobs from Australia and England and the US. It is their own industrialists and multinationals which will decide where will be the cheapest labour available. Today it is India, tomorrow it might be the Philippines, South Africa or China,"
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POPSMissouri rep. files state resolution that recognizes a "Christian God" I can't believe the American legal system has to continually deal with these attempts to get around the US constitution. The problem is that even small, local wins for inserting faith into the laws set a precedent for other attempts...so defenders of the constitution have no choice but to take on all these cases. Like plugging holes in the dam. I worry a deluge of cases might overwhelm us by sheer number.
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POPSRegretful former neocon Fukuyama audio interview A short piece on NPR. It's prudent to keep in mind that Fukuyama has his own agenda for breaking with the neocons (not the least of which, an upcoming book). And he also conveniently fails to mention his own key role in penning the manifestos that originally urged the US into war. But to hear him say things like calling Iraq a "clear bait-and-switch" is satisfying nonetheless.
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