Friday, March 15, 2013

Lefty Eclecticism

We know it's easy to have the 'news' at our fingertips, but all news is not equal. If you are interested in foreign affairs, the politics of Washington, state politics, polls, and gay rights, here are some sites you might find illuminating (we mention a few topics currently under discussion.) If you have other blogs you regularly visit please send them to us and we'll take a look and consider posting them in a future blog.

JUST FOREIGN POLICY @ http://www.justforeignpolicy.org

Here Comes AIPAC, Lobby for War

Obama Disses Dem Senators Over Drone Memos

OCO Should Be Eliminated; War Spending Should Be Included In the Base Pentagon Budget

AMERICA  BLOG (News - A great nation deserves the truth) @ http://www.americablog.com
  
Conservative GOP US Senator: My son is gay, I'm for gay marriage (Rob Portman (R-OH)

Big Banks get $75o bn/yr subsidy - 10x bigger than thought (Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has been relentless in going after the big banks' subsidy.

 
DAILY KOS - News - Community - Action @ http://www.dailykos.com

Republican Sen. Rob Portman finds out marriage equality affects his family, decides he supports it

Obama to GOP Senate: 'Ease up on the filibuster, guys.' GOP to Obama: 'Fat Chance'.

(Plus great coverage of the CPAC 2013 annual conference (Conservative Political Action Committee, where all the white, mostly male loonies have gathered to bash Obama and idolize Paul Ryan. This site also has excellent science news, usually on the weekends, and tracks all the latest, reputable polls and reports on them.)

 DEMOCRACY NOW! With Amy Goodman and Juan González
http://www.democracynow.org

New Study Reveals High Toll of Decade-long Iraq War
Study: Use of GMO Crops Fueling Historic Decline of Monarch Butterflies
Michigan Governor Appoints Emergency Manager for Detroit
US Interior Secretary on Arctic Drilling: "Shell screwed up in 2012."

Carol deProsse
Caroline Dieterle

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