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Wednesday June 28, 2006 · 6:44 PM PDT

2006/06/28 · 18:44

If you haven't seen this site before consider yourself lucky you clicked on this diary. The POAC is a catchall for news links and stories you'd otherwise never hear about, and it's not just obscure stuff from all corners of the earth. It's news we all should hear about but don't thanks to our asleep on the job media. Things like Karzai being linked to opium trafficking, or veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom living on the streets
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Do the Netroots Take Care of Their Own? If So, the POAC Needs Your Help NOW!

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Monday June 26, 2006 · 5:13 PM PDT

2006/06/26 · 17:13

The Project for the OLD American Century ... if you're like me you pop on there every day to see what's happening in the world. It's just so darn convenient. Links from all over the world, from all manner of news sources, reporting things I'd never hear of unless I decided to sit infront of the computer ten hours a day and do endless searches for various topics.

Which is about what goes into making POAC such a great site, and what makes it such a shame that TJ is going broke providing such a crucial service. Read More

Coulter Breaks Closed Captioning on My TV

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Wednesday April 12, 2006 · 2:40 AM PDT

2006/04/12 · 02:40

This is completely silly but is too good not to share. I often mute my tv and read the closed captioning so I can listen to music while taking in the news or whatever. I'm flipping channels and get a glimpse of the cadvaer herself on Fox so I stop to read what she has to say about illegal immigrants. The tv dutifully transcribes what she's saying, then it goes back to Cavuto and he frames the next question. Sshe starts answering and then suddenly the words stop and are replaced with a line of spaces and white boxes. I turn on the volume and remute the tv, but nothing. Then Cavuto starts talking again, and it transcribes what he says just fine, but as soon as he throws back to Coulter she gets about five words out and nothing, just the white boxes.

Apparantly, what she has to say is so repulsive it drove the guy doing the closed captioning for Fox batshit crazy. I can't say I'm surprised.

Six Convicted of Terrorism for Hurting Profits

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Wednesday March 15, 2006 · 11:30 AM PST

2006/03/15 · 11:30

Color me surprised this hasn't been diaried yet because it's one of those benchmarks to tell us how bad things have gotten.

Six Convicted for Protesting Animal Cruelty by Huntington Labs

I'm not an animal rights activist myself, and I don't expect people to be outraged that people who firebomb things go to jail, but these six didn't firebomb anything. In fact, there's really no evidence they ever lifted a finger to do anything or help anyone who did. Why are they going to jail then? Because they ran a website that some people happened to use to plan parts of illegal actions. What are they really charged with? Hurting company profits. Read More

Pay Your Credit Card and Win a Visit from Homeland Security

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Saturday March 04, 2006 · 11:16 PM PST

2006/03/04 · 23:16

Courtesy of POAC, I came across this story:

Homeland Security Investigates 'Unusual' Credit Card Payments

That's right, you didn't read that wrong. PAYMENTS, not charges. I'm interested in hearing any possible explanations for how a large credit card payment is any kind of security risk. I wasn't sold on being sent to the long security line if someone else buys your plane ticket for you, because apparently al Qaeda and your parents have that in common.

Really.

Teaching Peace Now a Partisan Issue

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Thursday February 02, 2006 · 1:29 PM PST

2006/02/02 · 13:29

http://progressive.org/...

The jist of the article: teacher makes a slip of the tongue, says:

"When I drive past the courthouse square and the demonstrators are picketing, I honk my horn for peace because their signs say, `Honk for peace.' " She added that she thought "it was important for people to seek out peaceful solutions to problems before going to war and that we train kids to be mediators on the playground so that they can seek out peaceful solutions to their own problems."

and is fired for it. While trying not to sound alarmist, and as a teacher, I'm extremely inclined to believe the teacher's claim. Teachers should not have to refrain from responding to students direct questions about their personal lives on controversial issues (do you go to church? are you a vegetarian?) because all issues discussed are, by definition, controversial. Read More

People Have Rights, Governments Have Interests

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Sunday January 15, 2006 · 1:32 PM PST

2006/01/15 · 13:32

Here's something I haven't noticed in the diaries/media coverage of the NSA domestic spying operation: only people have rights. Laura Bush, the brilliant constitutional scholar that she is, asserted today the government 'has a right' to spy on people suspected of being terrorists. And while this gaff hasn't been repeated (to my knowledge) by the faithful of George II, it's hardly a minority view that the government has 'rights' in the same way that we actual people do.

The problem is that guys like Yoo and Cheney are advancing an agenda that will give the government stealth rights: powers that can't be second guessed and actions whose legality can't be challenged in court. Read More

Project for the Old American Century Needs Our Help

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Thursday October 06, 2005 · 10:56 PM PDT

2005/10/06 · 22:56

Not much for diaries, but I couldn't help but notice a lack of one on this subject. For those that haven't been to this site, I can't recommend it enough.

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/

Here's the thing: the guy who runs the site is about broke and, really, I can't blame him for asking for cash in order to keep the site running. Consider throwing a few bucks his way to keep the site online, buy a t-shirt, donate a bit, whatever. Tell your friends, make them donate too. This site is too good to let go away.

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