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Oakland liquor store facade a little tipsy
SfgateBay Area News Stories
Feb 07Part of the facade of a liquor store on International Boulevard crumbled and fell to the sidewalk Monday, authorities said. No one was hurt when the brick masonry at the Express Liquor and Market store on International... Presented By: Chicago Booth Bu... »
Why Progressives Should Be Thrilled Newt Won South Carolina
BeyondChron
Jan 23Newt Gingrich is a despicable human being. He divorced his first wife by bringing legal papers to her cancer surgery, and cheated on his second wife while leading the impeachment of Bill Clinton. His presidential campaign has pandered to the worst raci... »
Abdul-Jabbar thrilled with ambassador appointment
abc7 Sports
Jan 19Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has named Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as a global cultural ambassador. »
Apple Opens Up Plant to Outside Monitors
NBC Bay Area Local
Jan 13After a threat of mass suicides and 15 actual tragedies, Apple has agreed to open up its Chinese plant to outside monitors. Apple will join the likes of Nestle, Nike and other corporations to allowing the Fair Labor Association to monitor its work cond... »
AM Alert: Berman-Sherman slugfest set for Southern California
Sacbee.com Capitol Alert
Jan 05When the passing of the Senate Republican leader's baton from one Bob (Dutton) to another Bob (Huff) gets upstaged by a gun at an airport, California lawmakers might be hoping for a day without drama. Both the Senate and the... »
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Byron Dorgan On The Beltway Establishment: "A Bunch Of Hogs At A Slop Pail"
Down With Tyranny!
Jan 30God is great! Bill Moyers is back on PBS. The above clip features an interview with Byron Dorgan, the North Dakota populist who warned most strenuously about the sleazy corporatists-- of both parties-- repealing Glass-Steagall. That repeal is, undoubte... »
Non-Random Notes (Throughout the day)
New West Notes
Jan 27** NEW POLL: MOST WANT GOVERNMENT TO AID CONSUMERS ON FORECLOSURES. In direct contradiction of putative on-and-off Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney’s views, most voters want the government to try to help homeowners caught in the foreclos... »
With Democrats Like Artur Davis, Who Needs Republicans?
Down With Tyranny!
Jan 25Before he was thoroughly rejected by Democrats in the Alabama gubernatorial primary in 2010, Rep. Artur Davis, a conservative corporate shill representing one of the safest Democratic seats in the country, was being pushed by the Beltway Democratic Est... »
Newt And GOP Establishment Panic
Down With Tyranny!
Jan 24Last night's GOP debate in Tampa may have been entertaining or even, for some, cathartic, but these theatrics hardly matter... and for normal people it was just a boring episode in a reality show that is starting to wear a little thin. The Republican E... »
Willard Inc. may be his father's biological offspring, but politically speaking, he's no George Romney
Down With Tyranny!
Jan 24Michigan Gov. George Romney and his son Retard Willard look out over the New York World's Fair grounds, May 18, 1964."Not only was George Romney, that loser, ironclad in his ideological commitments; his vision of how capitalism should work was in every... »