Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Media Matters

Media Matters for America is a progressive research and information center dedicated to monitoring conservative misinformation. Conservative misinformation is news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda. MediaMatters.org was launched in May 2004.
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Monday, November 29, 2010

Reverend Amos Brown

"This is the first lesson that must be learned. If you don’t think for yourself, somebody else will do your thinking for you. And whoever does your thinking will be your master, and you their slave."

-- Reverend Amos Brown.
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Sunday, November 28, 2010

John Conyers, Jr.

Democratic congressman John Conyers, Jr. has been serving Michigan's 14th district since 1965. Among other distinguished efforts during his three decades in office, Conyers established the Congressional Universal Health Care Task Force, whose mission is to pass universal health care legislation that would guarantee every American access to affordable, comprehensive, quality health care.
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Saturday, November 27, 2010

Kofi Annan

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

-- Kofi Annan, Secretary, General of the United Nations.
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Friday, November 26, 2010

Health care

The United States spends twice as much on health care per capita than any other country, according to National Center for Health Statistics. Meanwhile, life expectancy at birth in the United States is an average of 78.14 years, which ranks 47th in highest total life expectancy compared to other countries, according to the CIA Fact book.
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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Reed v. Reed

A 1971 Supreme Court decision overruled an Idaho Probate Court judgment that "males must be preferred to females" in appointing administrators of estates. In Reed v. Reed, both parties sought to be named the administrator of their son's estate. The Court concluded in a unanimous decision that the law's dissimilar treatment of men and women was unconstitutional.
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Syriana

George Clooney won an Oscar for his role in the 2005 film Syriana. The film depicts several characters who are involved in the geo-political events of a shifting Middle East country and its oil industry. Clooney plays a CIA agent who untangles unscrupulous national and corporate interests in securing oil drilling rights in the midst of a planned regime change.
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