DownWithTyranny!:
Only 55 Republican bigots cast nay votes against the Native American Business Development Enhancement Act of 2009. H.R. 1834, passed with an overwhelming margin. 343 to 55, every Democrat voting yes and the GOP split 108 for (Read More)
The Guardian:
Be it giving them Viagra, putting them in a pageant or paying $14m for them, every culture has eccentricities about animalsCan a man kill a goat armed with little more than his eyes? Well, the US military seemed willing to be (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Cash incentives alone won't solve childcare – perhaps Gordon Brown should look at Germany's response to a 'stove premium'While Gordon Brown has had to rethink his plan to abolish tax relief on childcare vouchers, family polic (Read More)
The Devil's Kitchen:
Via Freedom and Whisky, it seems that the head of Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO)—which, for some reason, is allowed to use the police.uk domain name despite being a private company—is in a bit of a tizzy about Co (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
On Monday we went to the National Theatre to see Alan Bennett's new play, The Habit of Art, about a fictional meeting between WH Auden and Benjamin Britten. It was the performance before press night, so there had been no no (Read More)
The Guardian:
He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it againThere's something disturbing about John Hurt. That familiar Mount Rushmore face seems to have ironed itsel (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Once a place to escape to, the suburbs became a byword for conservatism. Owen Hatherley on a surprising exhibition at the London Transport MuseumA couple of years ago, I temporarily moved out of south-east London, where I hav (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Are Herman van Rompuy and Cathy Ashton the best of all available choices as the European Union council president and the high representative on foreign policy respectively? Undoubtedly not. Yet they are competent people and t (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
British troops could be withdrawn from Germany by a future Tory government if other Nato states agreed to take over the UK's commitments there, the shadow defence secretary, Liam Fox, has said.Fox said it is "no longer necess (Read More)
Luke's Blog:
Just catching up on posting some links to a variety of things that have taken my interest or been sent to me:Labour List tells us that Sir Jeremy Beecham is stepping down as Labour Group Leader at the Local Government Associa (Read More)
Macleans.ca Blog Central » Blog Central:
The Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians held a dinner in the Fairmont Château Laurier ballroom. Below, former Reform MP Deb Grey. Former NDP leader Ed Broadbent (right) and NDP MP Yvon Godin. (Left to right) Mini (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The verse-writing of the new president of the European Council is good in parts, says the former poet laureateFirst let me say this: on balance, I would far rather that people in politics were writing poetry than not. Where a (Read More)
TheStar.com - Home Page:
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says the Conservative government will stick with its two-year economic pump-priming strategy but won't be enhancing it with any new spending pr (Read More)
TheStar.com - Canada Top Stories:
The Conservative government says there may be no need for a debate and vote in the House of Commons on Canada's role in Afghanistan when the current military mission expires (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
The verse-writing of the new president of the European Council is good in parts, says the former poet laureateFirst let me say this: on balance, I would far rather that people in politics were writing poetry than not. Where a (Read More)
DownWithTyranny!:
Will they be celebrating the new Gallup numbers in the White House tonight? Will Master Rahm be inviting Larry Summers and Tim Geithner?by KenOkay, it's official now: Gallup has the president's approval rating down to 49 perc (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The appointments of Herman Van Rompuy and Cathy Ashton lay bare the rot at the core of the Lisbon projectIt's not often that the front pages of the Daily Mail and the Guardian have identical headlines. Still, both newspapers (Read More)
Ace of Spades HQ:
I spent some time yesterday talking with a senior editorial member of an influential conservative publication. We discussed a number of things including Afghanistan, and he had some interesting thoughts I wanted to put out in (Read More)
National Review Online:
For Sen. Blanche Lincoln, the moderate Arkansas Democrat, the nation’s health-care woes may lead to more headaches than any medicine could alleviate. Lincoln is a pivotal vote on the motion to begin debate on Senate majority (Read More)