March 28, 2008 Iraq is Undergoing a Cholera Epidemic
Iraq is undergoing a cholera epidemic, exacerbated by the failing sewer
system in the capital and excess of stagnant sewage polluting Baghdad and
much of the rest of the country. While security may be improving, there
seems to be little movement to improve access to basic necessities such
as clean water and electricity.
March 27, 2008 Clifford Stoll:
18 Minutes with an Agile Mind
Clifford Stoll could talk about the atmosphere of Jupiter. Or hunting KGB hackers.
Or Klein bottles, computers in classrooms, the future. But he's not going to.
Which is fine, because it would be criminal to confine a man with interests
as multifarious as Stoll's to give a talk on any one topic. Instead, he simply
captivates
his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations,
asides — and even a science experiment. After all, by his own definition, he's
a scientist: "Once
I do something, I want to do something else."
March 25, 2008 This is Your Brain on Fox While
discussing on Fox News' The Live Desk New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's
endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama, Philadelphia
radio host Dom Giordano
said of Richardson's beard: "I don't know if it's playing into the
ethnic card, or whatever." Host Martha MacCallum stated, "[Richardson]
said, you know, 'It's hard for me,' he said to me once, 'people don't even
know I'm Hispanic,' " and then asked, "So is that part of what
he is ... cultivating here?" Giordano replied, "I think so."
March
21, 2008 Twin DNA Differences
Geneticists are discovering that identical twins don't
have identical DNA. As this ScienCentral News video explains, this surprising
research could
help scientists better understand genetic diseases in the rest of us.
March 20, 2008 John McCain: Unfit to Serve
The gaffes are the least of it. In today's episode of TPMtv, we discuss
why John McCain's poor grasp of foreign policy and military strategy makes
him a dangerous choice for the role of commender-in-chief.
March 19, 2008 Rod Parsley: McCain's
Anti-Gay "Spiritual Guide"
“A spiritual invasion is taking place!” shouted Rod Parsley
at the “War on Christians” conference in 2006. “… Man
your battle stations! Ready your weapons! Lock and load!” Parsley,
an Ohio megachurch pastor and televangelist, promised to build an army of “Patriot
Pastors” to march to the polls, an even bolder political machine than
the one he led in 2004 that helped pass an anti-gay amendment in the state
and nudge George W. Bush to reelection. Parsley’s 2006 candidate,
Ken Blackwell, ultimately lost the governor’s race, but the televangelist
remains an outsized political force, and his “Patriot Pastors” machine
is still a model for church-based electoral organizing—as demonstrated
by Mike Huckabee’s surprise win in Iowa. (read more here)
March 18, 2008 Food Fight: An Abridged History of American-centric Warfare
An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day,
told through the foods of the countries in conflict. For a breakdown of
the actual battles portrayed in the film, visit
here. For the official cheat sheet (breakdown of the foodstuffs), visit
here.
March 17, 2008 Iraq War Veterans Accuse US Military of Coverups
On the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, hundreds of US veterans
of the war say the American military has been covering up widespread civilian
killings in that country. Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman reports their sentiments
aren't necessarily getting a warm reception.
March
13, 2008 The Surge is Working (For Suicide Bombers)
A suicide bomber killed five American soldiers on a foot patrol Monday after
detonating his explosives vest in central Baghdad, the U.S. military said,
the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Iraq in more than a month.
March 12, 2008 The Bush Debt: $7.7 Trillion
On March 11, lawmakers took to the Senate floor and blasted President Bush's
wasteful spending. To fully illustrate the impact, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
(D-RI),
brought up a chart showing the budget plans of President Clinton versus
the budget formulated by Bush. He concluded that by squandering Clinton's
government surplus, Bush has cost the country $7.7 trillion: This next
chart illustrates the value of the differences between the budget landscape
planned
by President Clinton and the one created by President Bush. As you can
see, the difference between the two is a staggering $7.7 trillion. This
number
represents the fiscal harm that President Bush has inflected on our nation.
This number is the Bush debt. [...] Like most concepts of enormous size,
this amount takes some thought to comprehend. $7.7 trillion is $25,000
owed by every adult or child in the United States.
The federal budget
deficit is currently at "$87.7 billion so far this
budget year, double the $42.2 billion imbalance recorded during the same
period in 2007."
Additionally, five
years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, national unemployment is going
up. Between December 2006 and
December 2007, the national unemployment
rate increased by 13.6 percent in seasonally adjusted terms, from 4.4
to 5.0 percent. Additionally, 68 percent of the American public believes
that
redeployment from Iraq would help fix the country's economic woes.
March 11, 2008 Bush ‘Brings Down the House’ with
Song
"Down the lane I look and here comes Scooter, finally free of the
prosecutor. It's good to touch the brown, brown grass of home," sings
President Bush.
March 10, 2008 Al Qaeda Will be “Dancing
in the Streets”
Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who recently declared that al Qaeda would be “dancing
in the streets” if Barack Obama were elected President “because
of his middle name,” again stood by his comments in an interview
with Fox News this morning.
March
5, 2008 McCain Can't Quit John Hagee
There's been a lot of chatter over the
last few days about John McCain's embrace of Pastor John Hagee, who's
well-known
for a history of anti-Catholicism and claims that God will send terrorists
to create a "bloodbath" in America for its support of a two state
solution in Israel/Palestine. So what is it exactly that Hagee's said and
just how much has McCain cozied up to him? TPMtv put all the
choicest moments into one quick video so you could take a look and make
up your own
mind.
