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It’s time we tax financial gambles
BY SARAH ANDERSON, Tuesday, June 22, 2010
"Remember the May 6 stock market 'flash crash,' when the Dow plummeted nearly 1,000 points in less than an hour? The experts are still scratching their heads over the exact cause of that historic market bungee jump. What is clear is the plunge never would have happened without automated high-frequency trading, which accounts for 50 percent to 75 percent of daily stock trades."
U.S. senator, young activists started Earth Day movement
U.S. SENATOR SPARKED GLOBAL MOVEMENT
By ROCKY BARKER, McClatchy News Service
"BOISE, Idaho -- One U.S. senator and a core of young organizers turned April 22, 1970, into the day the environmental movement was born.
"On that day, 20 million Americans in 2,000 communities and 10,000 schools planted trees, cleaned up parks, buried cars in mock graves, marched, listened to speeches and protested how humans were messing up their world."
Brazen Environmental Upstart Brings Legal Muscle, Nerve to Climate Debate
The New York Times, March 30, 2010
By Anne C.Mulkern, Allison Winter and Robin Bravender, Greenwire
"A tiny activist group with a shoestring budget and an aggressive attitude is fast becoming a rising power in environmental policy.
Tea partiers proved that I was right
By LEONARD PITTS JR.
"So it turns out that, contrary to what I argued in this space a few weeks back, racism is not ``a major component'' of the so-called tea party movement. I am informed of this by dozens of tea party activists indignant and insulted that I would even suggest such a thing.
"In other news tea party protesters called John Lewis [the "n-word"] the other day in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol..."
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/24/1544302/tea-partiers-proved-that-i...
In defense of Bart Stupak
By E.J. Dionne
"I don’t enjoy disagreeing with my friend Kathleen Parker, a delightful person whose column usually makes me smile, even when my views differ from hers. But I think her comments today on Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) -- she suggests he’s a 'backstabber' who sold out the anti-abortion cause -- are deeply unfair to him. They represent a critique of Stupak that comes from the right wing of the pro-life movement that never wanted health-care reform to pass. She ignores the large number of pro-lifers who did not want the abortion issue to scuttle a chance of extending health coverage to 32 million of our fellow citizens."
Google ends Internet censorship, dares China to make next move
By Michael B. Farrell, Staff writer / March 22, 2010
San Francisco
"After two months of negotiations with Chinese officials over the country’s Internet censorship rules, Google pulled the plug on its China-based website Monday and began redirecting traffic to an uncensored site based in Hong Kong."
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0322/Google-ends-Internet-censorship-d...
Senator Smiley: Al Franken pulls no punches, but adds a few punch lines
By Jason Horowitz 
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 18, 2010; C01
"Al Franken is working on some new material.
"After arriving in the Senate in July after a bitterly contested recount, the former "Saturday Night Live" satirist immediately set out to prove that he was no court jester. He pursued Hillary Clinton's expectations-defying model of bipartisan workhorse and convincingly assumed the role of diligent policy wonk.
The Big Lie About ‘Reconciliation’
By E.J. Dionne 
"WASHINGTON—For those who feared that Barack Obama did not have any Lyndon Johnson in him, the president’s determination to press ahead and get health care reform done in the face of Republican intransigence came as something of a relief.
Cold Truths of a Harsh Winter
February 19, 2010
By Eugene Robinson
"We're the nation that put a man on the moon, so we can't be stupid. We're just pretending, right? We're not really taking seriously the "argument" that the big snowstorms that have hit the Northeast in recent weeks constitute evidence -- or even proof -- that climate change is some kind of hoax."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/02/19/cold_truths_of_a_ha...
Alaskan village stands on leading edge of climate change
BY ANNA YORK
"Reporter Anna York traveled to Newtok, Alaska, to see firsthand how the rising sea threatened the stability of the village and its residents. Her trip coincided with a visit by state and federal governments of the proposed new village site, nine miles north of Newtok across the Ninglick River."
