Headlines from DemocracyNow.org, a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 650 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US. Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist Sentenced to 3 Years The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at Presid...

Robert Reich's Blog: Is Obamanomics Conservative or Revolutionary?: The basic idea of Reaganomics was that the economy grows from the top down. Lower taxes on the wealthy make them work harder and invest more, and the benefits trickle down to everyone else. Rarely in economic history has a theory be...

I need help finding resources for free/cheap therapy in Pittsburgh. I'm a 23 year old female who suffers on/off from depression, anxiety and pretty much non-existent self-esteem. This past month has been particularly hard and a recent break-up has proven to me that I can't do it on my own. I'm reall...

Can media organizations leverage the social web to get story tips faster than they could through traditional methods? A number of news aggregators believe so and are looking to Twitter for tips. Six weeks ago popular tech news aggregator Techmeme began accepting story tips submitted on Twitter. Toda...

There are two ways to see Obamanomics. The first, much preferred by the White House, is as a set of initiatives so modest as to hardly merit a raised eyebrow. Yes, steps must be taken to deal with the current economic crisis. But assuming the economy recovers next year, Obama's budget projects that ...

I need some help managing anger, depression, and sadness. More specifically, I need to figure out some way for my boyfriend to control his urges to beat the crap out of random people and for me to control my deep depression. The back story is that we are both recent law school graduates. My boyfrien...

No easy answers here, and maybe not applicable to all situations, but I found an article on LifeWay's website with this title.  It's written by Dr. Keith Hamilton.  Here's some information about Dr. Hamilton. . . Keith Hamilton, D.Ed.Min, CFP, CRPC is with the  Georgia Baptist Convention . He ha...

First our elected officials in Albany wanted to charge us a tax to download porn. Now they’re going a step - or should we say, a pole - farther. NY assemblyman wants to tax patrons of strip bars ALBANY, N.Y. – You might call it a “pole tax.” The New York legislator who brought th...

Posted by kdawson (54% noise) View Skip ivaldes3 writes in to note his post up on Linux Medical News, pointing out the severe shortcomings of the Health IT provisions of the just-passed stimulus bill. “The government has authorized enough money to purchase EMR freedom for the nation. Instead t...

Commenter Jaime A. Headden writes: So, Jason, let’s try and consider what taking “marriage� off the books and simply replacing that term with another less loaded one? What do you think would happen, as a thought experiment? I hate to do this, but I feel like I have to restate the question in a...