Progressive Review

• Great moments in school discipline: camper punished for having Swiss Army knife
  Daily Caller - A fifth-grader in Cupertino, California was suspended and threatened with expulsion for bringing a small Swiss Army knife on a school-sponsored, science-oriented camping trip. In early April, Braden Bandermann’s class set off on Garden Gate Elementary School’s annual, week-long pilgrimage for fifth-graders to the Marin Headlands, just north of […]
• Shop Talk: It's lead, not lede
  Sam Smith - One of the true joys in life is to discover that something you thought was true or false but couldn't prove turns out to be what you thought. For example, I could never understand why journalists were starting to spell lead as lede.Journalist Howard Owens has come to my rescue. Howard Owens - Early in my career somebody I obviously respected […]
• Amphibian creatures disappearing faster than thought
  Baltimore Sun -  A new study finds frogs, toads and salamanders disappearing at an alarming rate across the United States.In what they say is the first analysis of its kind, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey and a couple of universities report that declines in environmentally sensitive amphibians are more widespread and more severe than previously t […]
• Judge sentenced to 28 years for kickbacks for sending kids to private prisons
  Black News - Mark Ciavarella Jr, a 61-year old former judge in Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison for literally selling young juveniles for cash. He was convicted of accepting money in exchange for incarcerating thousands of adults and children into a prison facility owned by a developer who was paying him under the table. The kick […]
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• Meanwhile, furthermore & on the other hand
  33% work more than 40 hours a week Jews & secularists are best tippers   The payoff for being on a reality show Apple has $30 billion tax free in Irish accounts 18 big corporations that keep huge amounts of money overseas Stereotype buster of the day Quotes A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. - Mark Twain Po […]
• Rebuilding America: Concentrate on specific issues
   Another in our series on Rebuilding America Sam Smith - I learned this secret many years ago when I first became involved in activism. The issue then was an unwanted fare increase by DC Transit. The organizer was the heavily black and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee but the participants came from all over including 100,000 riders who stayed […]
• The real Hillary Clinton: Whether or not to indict
  On April 27, 1998, deputy independent counsel Hickman Ewing met with his prosecutors to decide on whether to indict Hillary Clinton. Here's what happened as reported by Sue Schmidt and Michael Weisskopf in their book, "Truth at Any Cost:" "[Ewing] paced the room for more than three hours, recalling facts from memory in his distinctive Mem […]
• State Department names Israel lobbyist as special envoy on anti-semitism
  MJ Rosenberg, Mondoweiss - The new State Department Envoy on anti-Semitism is former AIPAC lobbyist Ira Forman, a guy whose entire career has been dedicated to advancing the policies of the Israeli government, at AIPAC and then as head of the National Jewish Democratic Council, where he worked to ensure that Democrats were more hawkish on Israel than Republi […]
• FBI spied on leading anti-war online news journal
  Economic Policy Journal - The editors of Antiwar.com have known for some time that the FBI has had an eye on them. Naturally enough, they used the Freedom of Information Act to request bureau’s files on them and their organization—but the FBI hasn’t been forthcoming. Now the ACLU has filed suit to force the bureau to divulge the extent of its snooping on ant […]
• Police blotter
  Daily Mail, UK - A market trader who ran an illegal lending racket from his fruit and veg stall has avoided jail after a court heard his interest rates were over 100 times lower than licensed payday loan firms.Stephen Fossey, 45, used his pitch at Bacup market, Lancashire, to give credit to up to 180 customers over a four-year period.He typically charged bet […]
• More on federal governrment telephone spying
  Gregory J. Millman, Wall Street Journal - U.S.-based telecoms companies routinely supply hundreds of thousands of records annually in response to subpoenas, which might come from federal, state or local government law enforcement bodies, and any entity with subpoena power can obtain phone records without notice being given to the target of an investigation, […]
• Green Shadow Cabinet: A dehumanized society and emotional suffering
  Clinical psychologist Bruce Levine is assistant secretary for health in the Green Party shadow cabinet Bruce Levine - Big Pharma corruption of mental health institutions has meant an ever-increasing focus on our biochemistry. We are diverted from the reality that many emotional problems are not caused by biochemical or genetic defects but are often natural h […]
• Morning Line: If you have to ask, there's a problem
  Sam Smith - There has been a lot of talk - here and elsewhere - about various Obama violations of the Constitution and, of course, the lawyers are having a field day about it all. But here's something that gets missed. People who support and practice constitutional principles don't need lawyers to argue their case. You just know it. Virtue has  a c […]
• Death notice
  Legacy -  HOLCOMB, Robert (Bob) Died a couple of days ago which wasn't exactly unexpected as he had been in poopy health for years. While he never complained much, those that knew him were aware that he suffered several heart attacks and had quadruple bypass open heart surgery before age 40, and it kinda went downhill from there. ... In addition to his […]