Archive for April 19th, 2007
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Perls Before Swine
Author Rick Perlstein has signed on to do a new blog on the conservative movement, The Big Con, for the Campaign for America’s Future, where he’s now a senior fellow. Check it out.
–Cross-posted from Tapped.
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
What She Said
Saudi news anchor Buthayna Nasser defends her right to show her face in public.
Via Feministing via SandGetsinMyEyes via MEMRITV. Someone get this woman a spot on CNN International.
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Supreme Beings
Nathan Newman flags the Watters v. Wachovia decision to uphold a regulation exempting the mortgage subsidiaries of banks from regulation by state laws. Newman calls this “a gift to predatory lenders” and notes that the Bush’s administration’s decision to block the state laws, which the Court upheld, “directly fed the predatory lending mortgage bubble and […]
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
The Word is Sociopath
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
The Shame of Korea
South Koreans are apparently worried about a backlash against Korean-Americans on account of the Cho shootings:
Policymakers expressed concern about the potential impact of the killings on South Korea’s relations with the United States — and, more immediately, on the Seoul government’s effort to win Congressional support for allowing the tens of thousands of South Koreans […]
