tomboy501
Search Members
Type in a member you wish to find
Most Active Members
Most Recent Groups
In the News
Let's Meet Our Good Pal:
tomboy501
Submitted Articles (306)
-
JFK's 'New Frontier' Speech at the DNC July 1960
Posted by: tomboy501 2 months agoJohn F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic nomination at the July 15, 1960 Democratic National Convention.
Discuss (0)
-
Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down MCA
Posted by: tomboy501 2 months, 1 week agoIn a major rebuke to the Bush administration's theories of presidential power -- and in an equally stinging rebuke to the bipartisan political class which ...
Discuss (1)
-
Failed Super Collider lab in Texas gathers weeds
Posted by: tomboy501 2 months, 3 weeks agoHad the Superconducting Super Collider been completed as planned, the magnet would now lie in a 54-mile-long tunnel. After spending billions of dollars, Congress axed ...
Discuss (0)
-
Jello Biafra responds to Savage's Dead-Ted-Kennedy rant
Posted by: tomboy501 2 months, 4 weeks agoThe Dead Kennedys' front man blasts conservative attack-radio douchebag Michael Savage: "It scares the s**t out of me that the most popular radio talk-show ...
Discuss (1)
-
McCain's on Ambien. So much for the 3am call
Posted by: tomboy501 2 months, 4 weeks agoSleeping pills have been proven to be more potent in the elderly. Um, has anyone noticed McCain is elderly? Let's connect the dots. "The ...
Discuss (2)
-
The revolution will not be pasteurized
Posted by: tomboy501 3 months, 3 weeks agoThe very thing that makes raw milk dangerous, its dirtiness, may make people healthier, and pasteurization could be cleansing beneficial bacteria from milk. Milk as ...
Discuss (0)
-
Could the Universe be a Gigantic Brain Cell?
Posted by: tomboy501 3 months, 3 weeks agoOne is only micrometers wide. The other is billions of light years across. One shows neurons in a mouse brain. The other is a simulated ...
Discuss (1)
-
Chertoff's Legal Advice Led to First Case of Waterboarding
Posted by: tomboy501 4 months agoWhen the CIA wanted assurances in the summer of 2002 that their agents would not be prosecuted for using brutal interrogation methods against a so-called ...
Discuss (0)
-
Unleashing the Bugs of War
Posted by: tomboy501 4 months agoSo what's hot at DARPA right now? Bugs. The creepy, crawly flying kind. Scientist Amit Lal and his team insert mechanical components into baby ...
Discuss (0)
-
S.F. video cameras don't deter crime, study shows
Posted by: tomboy501 5 months agoA new UC Berkeley study of San Francisco's 68 security cameras appears to indicate what many city officials have long suspected: The controversial devices ...
Discuss (1)
-
Siberian villagers contend with constant rain of space junk
Posted by: tomboy501 5 months, 1 week agoAltai lies along the flight path of rockets launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in nearby Kazakhstan. Unlike rockets launched from the Kennedy Space Center in ...
Discuss (1)
-
Reporters praise McCain for embracing positions he rejects
Posted by: tomboy501 5 months, 2 weeks agoYes, McCain used to criticize U.S. torture policies, but last month, when push came to shove and McCain's principles ran into conflict with ...
Discuss (3)
-
Obama: I'll discard Bush's unconstitutional executive orders
Posted by: tomboy501 5 months, 2 weeks agoBarack Obama told a cheering crowd at a town hall meeting in Casper today that he would restore respect for law in the White House ...
Discuss (44)
-
Britons throw away half of the food produced each year
Posted by: tomboy501 5 months, 3 weeks agoAbout 20m tons of food is thrown out each year: equivalent to half of the food import needs for the whole of Africa. Some 16m ...
Discuss (0)
-
Obama cabinet may include Hagel as SecDef
Posted by: tomboy501 5 months, 3 weeks agoObama is hoping to appoint cross-party figures to his cabinet and Senior advisers confirmed that Hagel, a highly decorated Vietnam war veteran and one of ...
Discuss (2)
