by Paul Kiel, ProPublica
On the Saturday before Thanksgiving, Lesa Herron of Santa Rosa, Calif., opened a letter from Chase Home Finance (PDF). She’d been denied a permanent modification under the federal government’s loan-mod program, Chase said, because “Your hardship is not of a permanent nature.” No other reason was given.
For Herron, that was hard to [...]
by Denis Campbell
Got $3 million dollars? Have a ‘unique’ product to sell in :30 seconds? Want to reach a 100 million plus people audience in the USA? Then the American football Super Bowl is the place for you to blow the entire wad that quickly!
Since Apple Computer launched the Macintosh computer with a 1-minute tribute [...]
Rev. Irene Monroe
Since the world community has descended on Haiti with relief aid in response to the January 12th earthquake, I am wondering how Haiti’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities are being helped.
As one of Haiti’s most marginal groups the question arises in response to how some American LGBTQ New Orleans were [...]
By Denis Campbell
Starting tomorrow, we’ll be in the Big Apple conducting interviews and checking out the secure homeland from the heart of midtown Manhattan. From invasive departure screening machines to the TSA redline arrival desks, from Ground Zero to 30 Rock, we’ll give you a look at the sights and sounds of the city that [...]
by Robert Reich
A third political party is emerging in America. Call it the I’m-Mad-As-Hell party.
It’s a mistake to see the Mad-As-Hell party as just a right-wing phenomenon – the so-called Tea Partiers now storming the gates of the Republican Party. There are plenty of mad-as-hellers on the left as well – furious at Wall Street, [...]
(Every now and then, the Internet coughs up these anonymous gems along with its regular assortment of fur-balls, hate screed and urban legends, h/t to Dan Fontaine for sending it and apologies/thanks to the original author, on four Google pages you remained anonymously brilliant. -Ed.)
At a certain age, everyone will understand this poor guy…
I thought [...]
SCOTUS Guts McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform
By Denis Campbell
George Orwell was right. It took 25-years beyond 1984 but Big Brother got a Big Win today. In a typically ideological 5-4 decision worse than 1857’s Dred Scott, The US Supreme Court blew the call very badly and now the American consumer will be assaulted as never before with [...]
UPDATED by Rev. Irene Monroe
Religion-based bigotry has been the mainstay of Rev. Pat Robertson’s bully pulpit. And he mounts this pulpit as an uber-God, possessed with an inherent omniscience in knowing not only the mundane and wicked thoughts and actions of man but also in knowing the cataclysmic actions of God’s wrath on man.
While scientists [...]
One year on from inauguration and month on from Copenhagen what has happened to our hope that the US would finally act on climate justice?
by Iestyn Davies
Anniversaries come and go. But none have passed with greater significance to those of us concerned with climate justice than Obama’s first year in office. In this policy field [...]
UPDATED by The Rev Dr. Britt Minshall
As you know I have been travelling to Haiti on mission for 13 years. My friend Pat Smyth joined me on my third trip and has been going on his own for 10 years. You can imagine the horror we and the other Haitian Helpers across the country have [...]
by Denis Campbell
Welcome to the toughest 1st year in the loneliest job in the world. Good that you have a dog and you’re not in Kansas anymore Mr. President. You approached the utter disaster left by the previous occupant with a determination, grit, grace and pragmatism that has long been missing.
Now sir you have to [...]
UPDATED By Denis Campbell
(Republican Scott Brown wins 52%-47% with 70% turnout on a snowy day. Losing sucks, message heard?)
Martha Coakley will squeak to a narrow victory later in today’s Massachusetts special election, even though a media fire storm and feeding frenzy is under way for the contested Senate seat held for 47-years until his death last fall by Ted [...]
Why we need strong financial regulations, because bankers will never learn because they see noting wrong in anything they do as long as it gratifies themselves.
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