Monthly Archives: April 2008

North Carolina Robo Calls Target Black Households With Bogus Voting Registration Information – African-American households are receiving anonymous robo-calls from “Lamont Williams” with misleading information about voting. Those calls are very similar to tactics recently used in Virginia and Ohio, … Continue reading →

John McCain’s Foreign Policy: Restart the Cold War – On March 26, McCain gave a speech on foreign policy in Los Angeles that was billed as his most comprehensive statement on the subject. It contained within it the most radical … Continue reading →

McCain Opposed Equal Pay for Women Senate Bill – Republican Sen. John McCain, campaigning through poverty-stricken cities and towns, said Wednesday he opposed a Senate bill that sought equal pay for women because it would lead to more lawsuits. The … Continue reading →

U.S. Incarceration Rate is Six Times the World Average – The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners. Indeed, the United States leads the world in … Continue reading →

Colorado State Rep. Douglas Bruce Calls Mexican Migrant Workers Illiterate Peasants – State Rep. Douglas Bruce’s derogatory remarks Monday about Mexican migrant workers could leave him facing a second censure penalty or worse. “We don’t need 5,000 more illiterate peasants … Continue reading →

Anti-Evolution Movie Attempts to Link Belief in Evolution to Nazi Genocide – Comedian and former Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein’s new documentary movie, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, will not open until this Friday, but it has already been widely blasted for … Continue reading →

In April 2005, Media Transparency reported that the neocons bet wrong in the 2000 presidential election by “excitedly preferring John McCain to George W. Bush.” Now, eight years later, John McCain is the heir apparent to the Republican Party nomination … Continue reading →

Merck Drugs Used Ghostwriting to Make it Appear That Research Done by its Employees or Contractors was the Work of Scientists – Merck was using what the JAMA authors call “guest authorship and ghostwriting” to make it appear that research … Continue reading →

Conservative Pat Buchanan Predicts “Fifty-fifty chance of U.S. airstrikes on Iran by October” – On the McLaughlin Group show, Pat Buchanan said, “The president said that Iran better not make the wrong choice. We’re looking at 140,000 troops there by … Continue reading →

Taco Bell, Wal-Mart, NRA Hired ‘Black Ops’ Company That Targeted Environmental Groups – A private security firm managed by former Secret Service officers spied on myriad environmental organizations throughout the 1990s and the year 2000, thieving documents, trying to plant … Continue reading →