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08.07.2008 3:41 pm

Do liberal blogs contain more profanity than conservative blogs?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Profanity in the blogosphereIn a Washington Times article sure to spark discussion around the blogosphere, conservative pundit Matthew Sheffield has a column today alleging that left-leaning blogs contain far more profanity than their counterparts on the right.

Using George Carlin’s “seven dirty words” as a…

07.31.2008 4:41 pm

Draft regulation would classify contraception as abortion

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

birth control pillsThe Bush administration is attempting to re-define “pregnancy.” From the Wall Street Journal:

The Bush Administration has ignited a furor with a proposed definition of pregnancy that has the effect of classifying some of the most widely used methods of contraception…

07.08.2008 11:39 am

Fact-checking today’s guest editorial about surveillance

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In today’s print edition of the Post-Dispatch, one can find this guest op-ed from Mark Klein and Babak Pasdar on the impending Senate vote on FISA reform that would grant de-facto immunity to telecommunications companies who participated in the NSA’s secret…

06.25.2008 3:47 pm

Torture: Who and by whom, how and how bad

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

My column today pulls together and reflects on last week’s three major developments in America’s ongoing effort to understand how the Bush administration came to approve and use abusive interrogation techniques on prisoners — something that violates every principle of…

06.13.2008 10:58 am

Nation’s high court sides with Guantanamo detainees

The Supreme Court yesterday extended rights to U.S. prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. The ruling, granting habeas corpus to the prisoners, is seen as  a rebuke to the Bush administration. The White House rejected that notion,…

06.03.2008 12:07 pm

U.S. economy - recession or just a slowdown?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The prevailing notion today among most domestic economic and media observers is that the U.S. economy is in a recession — and most believe it will get worse before it gets better. But is that really the case?

Representing the prevailing view,…

05.18.2008 9:00 pm

Monday editorial: Canary on an ice floe

polar_opt.jpgCaught between a federal judge’s order and a mountain of accumulating scientific evidence, the Bush administration reluctantly listed polar bears as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. But the administration pointedly refuses to address the threat that imperils the bears and…

05.14.2008 11:54 am

Funny you should ask: Doug Feith and open thread

BradBlog, a voting rights blog by Missouri’s own Brad Friedman, has the uncut video of Jon Stewart of the “Daily Show” interviewing Douglas J. Feith, author of “War and Decision” and undersecretary of defense under Donald Rumsfeld. The interview ran…

05.08.2008 9:01 pm

Friday editorials: Lost in the fine print

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing significantly tighter air pollution standards for lead — the first update in 30 years. It’s long overdue.

But in announcing the new rule, the Bush administration ignored recommendations from independent scientific advisers who had called for…

04.03.2008 11:54 am

Polar bears and oil leases

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Polar bears are threatened by global warming, which is melting the ice pack on which they hunt and live. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey predict that two-thirds of the world’s polar bears could be extinct by 2050. In January 2007, The…