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• Nieman Watchdog
• Feb 2, 2010 Is basic American telephone service in a death spiral? Bruce Kushnick questions whether AT T and Verizon are trying to kill off the “plain old telephone service” that millions of Americans rely on. In a recent FCC filing cited by Kushnick, AT T stated that landline utilities are from a bygone era, and asked to be relieved of its obligations to...     Nieman Watchdog        more   
• Slate
• Feb 7, 2010 Slate V: Dear Prudence: Managing Multiple Girlfriends A guy who's dating more than one woman at once seeks counsel from Slate's advice columnist, Prudence.     Slate        more   
• TruthOut
• Feb 8, 2010 Obama Administration Demands Anthem Blue Cross Justify Massive Rate Hikes The Obama administration is demanding that California’s largest for-profit health insurer, Anthem Blue Cross, justify a planned 39 percent rate increase for some of its 800,000 customers even though the firm’s parent company saw its profits soar last year. read more     TruthOut        more   
• Feb 8, 2010 Rep. John Murtha Dies at 77 Rep. John Murtha (D-Pennsylvania), a fierce critic of the Iraq war, died Monday at age 77 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Virginia. Murtha was the first Vietnam War combat veteran elected to Congress. Murtha, who had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery, had a...     TruthOut        more   
• RealClearPolitics
• Feb 8, 2010 Five Lessons From the Tea-Party Convention Jay Newton-Small, Time     RealClearPolitics        more   
• Feb 8, 2010 The Problem is Too Much Spending Glenn Hubbard, Wall Street JournalMoody's Investors Service's warning last week that the AAA credit rating of the United States is in jeopardy raises fresh concern about the nation's fiscal health. The question to ask about the president's eye-popping budget, also rolled out...     RealClearPolitics        more   
• Common Dreams NewsCenter
• Feb 8, 2010 Pre-Emptive PR? Seeking A Kinder, Gentler Image For Israel by Sheera FrenkelIsrael submitted its formal response last month to a U.N.-commissioned probe that accused both Israel and Hamas of war crimes during last winter's war in the Gaza Strip. Israel defended its conduct and pledged to fully investigate the U.N. allegations, but stopped short of a U.N....     Common Dreams NewsCenter        more   
• Feb 8, 2010 More Blackwater Contractors Than Cops In Pakistan's Capitol ISLAMABAD, Pakistan  -- There are more private security contractors from Xe, formerly Blackwater, operating in Islamabad than capital police, a religious leader said.Maulana Fazal-ur-Rahman, the leader of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, a Deobandi political party in Pakistan, said there were as many as...     Common Dreams NewsCenter        more   
• AllHeadlineNews.com
• Feb 9, 2010 All Headline News - Breaking News The latest top breaking news, U.S., world, business, politics, entertainment, celebrities, sports, technology, and more.     AllHeadlineNews.com        more   
• Feb 9, 2010 (AHN) Howard Stern Born Howard Allan Stern, he was born to a Austro-Hungarian immigrant parents on January 12, 1954. He has an older sister, Ellen. He grew up in Roosevelt and attended the Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School, but moved to South Side High School in Rockville Center in 1969. - (AHN)     AllHeadlineNews.com        more   
• Consortiumnews.com
• Feb 9, 2010 The Right Gets Itself 'Wired' For years, the Right's media infrastructure had only one weak spot, the Internet, but now that is changing, says Robert Parry. February 3, 2010     Consortiumnews.com        more   
• Feb 9, 2010 Obama's Budget Ducks Pentagon Cuts By exempting the Pentagon from a "freeze," President Obama tries to shield Democrats from GOP attacks, says Ivan Eland. February 2, 2010     Consortiumnews.com        more   
• NiemanWatchdog.org
• Feb 2, 2010 Is basic American telephone service in a death spiral? Bruce Kushnick questions whether AT T and Verizon are trying to kill off the “plain old telephone service” that millions of Americans rely on. In a recent FCC filing cited by Kushnick, AT T stated that landline utilities are from a bygone era, and asked to be relieved of its obligations to...     NiemanWatchdog.org        more   
• Feb 1, 2010 Obama gave a pass to out-of-control military spending The GAO showed that contractors' estimates have nothing to do with reality, and economic hard times may eventually force the President and Congress to rein in outrageously costly warships, planes and missile systems that don't work. But that time isn't here yet.     NiemanWatchdog.org        more   
• The American Prospect
• Feb 9, 2010 The Problem of Too Little Money in Politics The real concern after Citizens United should be that small donors will stop giving.     The American Prospect        more   
• Feb 9, 2010 Eric Holder's War For the attorney general, remaking the rule of law in a new century is as personal as it is professional.     The American Prospect        more   
• Feb 9, 2010 A Tour of Six States Snapshots of the fiscal crisis across the nation.     The American Prospect        more   
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