Progressive Review

• Santorum was on board of hospital chain accused of offenses
  Huffington Post -  Despite his advocacy for patients' rights and his stake in providing care for severely vulnerable children, Santorum has avoided discussing another personal experience with the health care industry. From 2007 through the first half of 2011, Santorum served on the board of directors of Universal Health Services, Inc., one of the countr […]
• How Obama is still covering up bank fraud
  From an interview by Paul Jay of Real News Network with William K. Black, author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One, who teaches economics and law at the University of Missouri  Kansas City. He was the Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from 2005-2007. Black was litigation director of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and gener […]
• A robotic soution to sock sorting
  Improbable Research - The ubiquitous ‘Stray Sock Syndrome’ can be a considerable headache for human sock-owners and sock-sorters. But help is afoot courtesy of the Computer Science Division at the University of California at Berkeley, US, and the Max Planck Institut Informatik, Germany. Where a team of computer scientists and robotics experts have “… conside […]
• Billionaire says he might give $100 million Gingrich campaign
  Haaretz, Israel - Billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson told Forbes magazine in an interview that his financial backing of Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is based on more than just Gingrich's staunch support for Israel. .“What scares me is the continuation of the socialist-style economy we’ve been experiencing for almost four years, […]
• Santorum claims there is no such thing as a liberal Christian
  Right Wing Watch - [In a 2008 speech], said Santorum, there really is no such thing as a "liberal Christian" at all and anyone who doesn't share his right-wing views doesn't really have any right to claim to be a Christian: Is there such thing as a sincere liberal Christian, which says that we basically take this document and re-write it […]
• How religious bullies infiltrate public schools
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• American Airlines fires 13,000 on advice of Romney's old firm
  Addicting Info -On Wednesday, February 1st, American Airlines announced that it will take the advice of Mitt Romney’s firm, Bain Capital, and lay off 13,000 workers -15 percent of its workforce- replacing their pension plans with 401(k) plans and ending company-paid retiree healthcare. The lay off announcement came only seven days after American Airlines hir […]
• GOP health notice
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• Morning line
  Based on our moving average of polls:Obama in virtual tie with Santorum, Romney Santorum over Romney by 8 Romney leads Santorum by 51 delegates Electoral count: Obama 196-94 Although the consensus among Democrats is that Santorum would be easy to beat and although he is benefiting from a disproportionate primary turnout of grouchy old white guys who think ha […]
• Santorum abuses Christianity again
  Drudge Report - "Satan has his sights on the United States of America!" Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has declared. "Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition. […]
• Reader comment
  Downgrading music An example of the excessive zeal and protection in music is the Irving Berlin Estate.They have worked so hard in protecting his music, demanding high fees for any performance or hint of a tune that it is no longer known, no longer played and his name is forgotten.  It is a triumph of the industry: Irving Berlin has been protected into obliv […]
• The results are in: austerity is a flop
  Paul Krugman, NY Times - Early 2010 austerity economics — the insistence that governments should slash spending even in the face of high unemployment — became all the rage in European capitals. The doctrine asserted that the direct negative effects of spending cuts on employment would be offset by changes in “confidence,” that savage spending cuts would lead […]
• Some of the corporations backing major climat change denier, Heartland Institue
  Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc.: $5,000 AT&T: $100,000 BB&T: $16,105 Comcast Corporation: $35,000 General Motors Foundation: $30,000 GlaxoSmithKline: $50,000 Microsoft Corporation: $59,908 Nucor Corporation: $502,000 PepsiCo, Inc.: $5,000 Pfizer: $130,000 Reynolds American Inc.: $110,000 Time Warner Cable: $20,000_______________________________________ […]
• Insaneatorum of the day
  WTEE, Steubenville, OH - Republican candidate Rick Santorum says President Barack Obama is pushing a radical environmental agenda that unwisely limits energy production and turns its back on science. The former senator from Pennsylvania told voters in eastern Ohio on Monday that science is on the side of those who want to aggressively produce more oil and na […]
• Comparing maps: Steinbeck's Travels With Charlie & Kerouac's On the Road
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