Slate Pitches I Can Endorse
Indeed a vast, disturbing literature has now accumulated on the ill effects of running marathons. Studies find that up to 1 in 12 participants end up seeking medical help during the race.
Category Archives: Liberal Political News
Trump Speech Fact-Check Fails To Mention Paper’s Relationship With Key Trump Source
Five New York Times reporters collaborated on a summary and fact-check of the speech Donald Trump delivered today, which was a lengthy attack on Hillary Clinton. The fact-check included this bullet point: a Peter Schweizer, the author of "Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich," which Mr. Trump repeatedly referred to, is a well-known conservative author who is a senior editor-at-large at Breitbart News and is affiliated with the conservative Hoover Institution.
Does Brexit Mean We’re Doomed?
Britain's stunning vote to leave the European Union suggests that we've been seriously underestimating Donald Trump's ability to win the presidential election. When you consider all his controversies and self-inflicted wounds over the past month, combined with how much he's getting outspent on the airwaves in the battleground states, it is actually quite surprising that Trump and Hillary Clinton are so close in the polls.
A Call for Love in the Face of Hatred: Rabbi Lerner’s talk at Muhammad Ali’s Memorial
A transcript of Rabbi Lerner's speech is below. To see him speak and to hear about his experiences, please see our post here .
SCOTUS Rules on Immigration, Affirmative Action; House Dems End Gun…
Last CA nuke plant will close; Judge nixes Obama's fracking rules; Study: Toxic chemicals found in residents near fracking sites; PLUS : Researchers turn carbon emissions into stone... Rep. Ted Deutch explains House protest, calls GOP shutdown of C-SPAN 'astonishing', lack of vote on guns 'disgusting'... OUR 700TH EPISODE!!! Record heat in S.W.; CA snowpack gone; Bernie wants YOU to fight climate change; PLUS : Obama warns climate change coming for national parks... Plus: Sanders' call for progressive candidates, the GOP/NRA/Trump lies and obstruction on guns, and more evidence elections matter... As you might imagine, the nation's political cartoonists have a few thoughts following Orlando.
Supreme Court won’t revive Obama plan to shield illegal immigrants from deportation
The Supreme Court handed President Obama's a significant legal defeat on Thursday, refusing to revive his stalled plan to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation and give them the right to work legally in this country. The court's liberals and conservatives deadlocked, which leaves in place a lower court's decision that the president exceeded his powers in issuing the directive.
Palestine’s ‘prayer for rain’: How Israel uses water as a weapon of war
Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had their water supply reduced almost by half. This alarming development has been taking place for weeks, since Israel's national water company, "Mekorot", decided to cut off - or significantly reduce - its water supply to Jenin, Salfit and many villages around Nablus, among other regions.
Warmongering and Necromancy
To get 51 signatures on a dissent channel message is remarkable and suggests a very broad consensus at the working level responsible for implementing policy decisions, that the current [Syria] policy is failing and is destined to keep failing. The entire messiness of the Syrian conflict should be an object lesson repudiating all alleged moral measures that come before it.
Trump Wants Bernie Sanders Supporters to Feel the Donald
Bernie Sanders is not ending his presidential run, but in a C-SPAN interview on Wednesday, the Vermont senator conceded that he's unlikely to be the Democratic nominee. "The insiders wrote the rules of the game to keep themselves in power and in the money.
“China will react if provoked again: you risk the war”
The AntiDiplomatico interviews philosopher, Andre Vltchek: "Russia and China are forming an incredible defensive wall to protect humanity from Western terrorism." Andre Vltchek has become renowned in Italy for being the co-author, along with Noam Chomsky, of the famous book Western Terrorism .
Mitch McConnell wants to protect your Second Amendment rights, to hell with the Fourth
Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even... Sign if you agree: Presidents do not stop working in the final year of their term. Neither should the Senate.
Tributes To Orlando Trouble People Uncomfortable With Homosexuality
In the week after the Orlando shooting, the country joined arms in grief and sympathy. But actually honoring the LGBT dead is a bit too much for a few people who are uncomfortable with homosexuality.
3 Months After Manhandling Female Reporter, Top Trump Aide Leaves Campaign
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski walks a rope line as the candidate signs autographs during a campaign stop at the First Niagara Center, Monday, April 18, 2016, in Buffalo, N.Y. Lewandoswki parted ways with the Trump campaign on Monday. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has parted ways with his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, a little more than three months after Lewandowski physically grabbed and pulled a female reporter, leaving visible bruises on her body.
Comments of the Week: Reading Between the Lines
A photo from one of the many vigils held across the nation in the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub killings. Namely, we noticed that you all were noticing patterns.
6/19/2016
It's hard to imagine. But it sure would be poetic justice if "The Roberts Court" ended up with Roberts and Alito huddled in their own little corner as the last remnants of the Reagan Revolution.
On the Internet Nobody Knows You’re a Comedian
Let's just call this cranky Sunday because why not. Because I read too much of the internet I read a lot of very bad attempts at humor.
A Better World Is Possible: A Father’s Day Note
I remember vividly the feeling of looking at you for the first time the night you were born, on the eve of Father's Day. I sang you a song that I'd sung many times into your mommy's belly.
Whisleblowers Expose Ongoing Culture Of Abuse In Country’s Largest Juvenile Justice System
As Los Angeles County reforms the largest juvenile justice system in the country, a new, damning video shows that the culture of abuse within that system remains intact. In surveillance footage leaked by whistleblowers inside a detention center, four probation officers are seen pummeling a teenager in a holding room.
Minneapolis Summer 2016: Somali Immigrant Neighborhood Shows Less Crime, Not More
Here at Irregular Times, we've been receiving visitors who have been exhibiting a particular paranoia about immigrants from the African nation of Somalia. These visitors insist that Somali-settled communities of the United States have experienced crime spikes.
Pyrrhic Victory? As Iraq rolls back Daesh, can it stay together as a Country?
From all accounts, most people in Fallujah are very happy about being out from under the murderous and puritanical rule of Daesh . But Daesh took the city in January of 2014 for a reason.