Reader Supported News | 19 February 15 PM
Andy Borowitz | Bush Says He Will Harm Nation Differently From His Brother
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "In an effort to distance himself from the legacy of his brother, George W. Bush, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush will use a major foreign-policy speech on Wednesday to assert that, if elected President, he would harm the nation in completely different ways."
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Juan Cole | Today's Top 7 Myths About Daesh/ISIL
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "The self-styled 'Islamic State' Group (ISIS or ISIL), the Arabic acronym for which is Daesh, is increasingly haunting the nightmares of Western journalists and security analysts. I keep seeing some assertions about it that strike me as exaggerated or as just incorrect."
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Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "The self-styled 'Islamic State' Group (ISIS or ISIL), the Arabic acronym for which is Daesh, is increasingly haunting the nightmares of Western journalists and security analysts. I keep seeing some assertions about it that strike me as exaggerated or as just incorrect."
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The Oily Heart of Austerity and Tea Party Economics
Richard Brodsky, Reader Supported News
Brodsky writes: "We've been hearing it for over thirty years: 'Cut income tax rates for the wealthy and supply-side prosperity follows.' Call it the Laffer Curve, Reaganomics, Austerity, the Pro-Growth Agenda; it was the same argument."
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Richard Brodsky, Reader Supported News
Brodsky writes: "We've been hearing it for over thirty years: 'Cut income tax rates for the wealthy and supply-side prosperity follows.' Call it the Laffer Curve, Reaganomics, Austerity, the Pro-Growth Agenda; it was the same argument."
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Tens of Thousands March in Buenos Aires to Protest Death of Prosecutor Investigating President
France 24 and AFP
Excerpt: "Drenched in driving rain and led by prosecutors and opposition figures, the rally is the first major public show of defiance in a murky case that has ignited a political firestorm in Argentina and piled the pressure on President Cristina Kirchner, 61, in her last year in office."
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France 24 and AFP
Excerpt: "Drenched in driving rain and led by prosecutors and opposition figures, the rally is the first major public show of defiance in a murky case that has ignited a political firestorm in Argentina and piled the pressure on President Cristina Kirchner, 61, in her last year in office."
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Hezbollah Leader Says ISIS' Targets Are Mecca and Medina, Calls on Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to Join Fight
Abdelhak Mamoun, Iraqi News
Mamoun writes: "Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah said that Mecca and Medina are the main targets of ISIS, not Jerusalem, pointing out that its caliphate cannot prevail without the Two Holy Mosques, and that the Iraqis had prevented the terrorist group from accessing the Gulf."
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Abdelhak Mamoun, Iraqi News
Mamoun writes: "Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah said that Mecca and Medina are the main targets of ISIS, not Jerusalem, pointing out that its caliphate cannot prevail without the Two Holy Mosques, and that the Iraqis had prevented the terrorist group from accessing the Gulf."
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Everything You Think You Know About Addiction and the War on Drugs Is Wrong
Zeeshan Aleem, Policy.Mic
Aleem writes: "What if everything about the way we thought about drug addiction was backwards? What if the war on drugs was the purest distillation of this backward thinking?"
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Zeeshan Aleem, Policy.Mic
Aleem writes: "What if everything about the way we thought about drug addiction was backwards? What if the war on drugs was the purest distillation of this backward thinking?"
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State Inspector Discouraged from Citing Tennessee Lawmaker Who Dumped 500,000 Gallons of Hog Waste Into a Creek
Ben Hall, News Channel 5 - Nashville
Hall writes: "A state lawmaker, who pumped more than a half million gallons of hog waste into a creek, denies he received special treatment from state regulators. But a NewsChannel 5 investigation discovered one state inspector was told by his managers to look the other way."
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Ben Hall, News Channel 5 - Nashville
Hall writes: "A state lawmaker, who pumped more than a half million gallons of hog waste into a creek, denies he received special treatment from state regulators. But a NewsChannel 5 investigation discovered one state inspector was told by his managers to look the other way."
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