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Rick Perry and the Curious Case of 'Niggerhead' Ranchnew
Rick Perry is between a rock (with a racial epithet painted on it) and a hard place. He's the governor of a border state with an enormous Latino population, and his efforts to not demonize all of them as potential illegal immigrants have already left him castigated by the Tea Party.
The Village Voice |
Steven Thrasher |
10-04-2011 |
Politics
Tags: Rick Perry, Election 2012
It's Fall Already, but "Occupy Wall Street" Has Finally Brought an American Springnew
Well, it's finally happening; as the headline of my piece in February, "Gadfly: Aux Barricades, Wisconsin!", foreshadowed, the barricades are finally being stormed, and, this time not just in Madison, Wisconsin. It's beginning to look like “American Spring” may have finally arrived!
The Memphis Flyer |
Marty Auusenberg |
10-04-2011 |
Politics
It's Fall Already, but "Occupy Wall Street" Has Finally Brought an American Springnew
Well, it's finally happening; as the headline of my piece in February, "Gadfly: Aux Barricades, Wisconsin!", foreshadowed, the barricades are finally being stormed, and, this time not just in Madison, Wisconsin. It's beginning to look like “American Spring” may have finally arrived!
The Memphis Flyer |
Marty Auusenberg |
10-04-2011 |
Politics
Meals, Wheels and $49,000new
Louisiana state representative John LaBruzzo's ethics filings show that he's spent $49,000 of his campaign funds on food and auto expenses since 2009.
Occupy Philly Says the Anti-Big-Bank Revolution is Comingnew
Neither pepper spray nor mass arrests have put a halt to Occupy Wall Street—if anything, it’s galvanized and intensified the 2-week-old movement. But if you think New Yorkers are pissed off, just wait until Philadelphia, the original cradle of the revolution, shows the world how it fights the power.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Michael Alan Goldberg |
10-03-2011 |
Business & Labor
The Attack on Gay-Positive Education in Torontonew
A flyer suggests that the Toronto District School Board's anti-homophobia curriculum encourages "cross dressing for six year-olds."
NOW Magazine |
Enzo Di Matteo |
10-03-2011 |
LGBT
The Worst-Kept Secretsnew
What the major media left out: Project Censored highlights the year's most relevant ignored news.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Rebecca Bowe |
10-03-2011 |
Media
Calif. Governor Signs Bill That Heads Off Ban on Circumcisionsnew
The controversy over male circumcisions have officially been nipped in the bud. Governor Jerry Brown on Sunday signed off on a new law that puts the kibosh local cities and counties to criminalize circumcision for males younger than 18.
Porn Defends the Money Shotnew
Critics gain ground, demanding condom use to control AIDS.
L.A. Weekly |
Dennis Romero |
10-03-2011 |
Sex
Soldier Comes Home on a Special Missionnew
U.S. Army Sgt. Sean Ambriz returned home to Redondo Beach from Afghanistan on a two week “R & R” leave last week. But he wasn’t there only to rest and relax: he was a man on a mission.
Easy Reader |
Mark McDermott |
10-03-2011 |
War
Tags: Afganistan, Sean Ambriz
Mudslungnew
Tales from the other side of New Mexico’s corruption epidemic.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Joey Peters |
09-30-2011 |
Politics
Phish Storynew
A fight on Shakedown Street leaves one man in stitches and another fearing for his family.
Death Metal: Uranium Mining May Start in Oregonnew
Like gold mining, uranium mining falls under the aegis of the 1872 General Mining Law that considers hardrock mining the highest and best use of the public’s land. When it comes to the General Mining Law the issue is usually not whether there will be a mine, but how bad the mine will be.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
09-29-2011 |
Environment
The Evolution of John McKaynew
How a Republican aristocrat turned into a marijuana activist.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
09-29-2011 |
Drugs
Road to Extraditionnew
Every year in Miami, dozens of murderers, smugglers and rapists flee to their homelands.
Miami New Times |
Tim Elfrink |
09-29-2011 |
International
