Archive for the ‘opinion’ Category

Conservatives Happier Than Liberals

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities.Read the full story

Church of Scientology\\\\\\’s \\\\\\’Operating Thetan\\\\\\’ documents leaked online - Wikinews,

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Wikinews has obtained \\\\\\\'Operating Thetan\\\\\\\' (OT) documents of the Church of Scientology which were leaked via Wikileaks. Although some portions of the manual have been leaked previously, this is believed to be the first time the full unedited version has been leaked.Read the full story

Think Progress » 19 percent

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

19 percent: President Bush’s latest approval rating, according to an American Research Group poll, down from 34 percent just one month ago. Seventy-seven percent of Americans disapprove of the job he is doing, and 79 percent disapprove of his handling of the economy.Read the full story

Quarter of Brits think Churchill was myth: poll

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

LONDON (AFP) - Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real.Read the full story

U.K. conservative angers EU parliament for making Nazi comment

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

A British Conservative sparked anger at the European Parliament on Thursday by saying the chamber president\\\\\\\'s new powers reminded him of tactics used by the Nazi government of Germany to rule without the parliamentary consentRead the full story

New Jersey to become first state in four decades to abolish death penalty | Special reports | Guardi

Friday, December 14th, 2007

For the first time in more than 40 years a US state is to abolish the death penalty.Read the full story

Inteligenta Indiĝena Indigenismo Novaĵoservo: Waxman: State Dept. Official Thwarted Probes

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

"Howard J. Krongard, the State Department's inspector general, has repeatedly thwarted investigations and censored reports that might prove politically embarrassing to the Bush administration, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform charged today in a 13-page letter.Read the full story

©P a l e s t i n e F r e e V o i c e: Palestinian Bomber Star of Israeli Film

Friday, September 14th, 2007

A Palestinian suicide bomber is the unlikely star of a new Israeli film billed by its director as an effort to destroy prejudices that fuel conflict in the Middle East.Read the full story

The United States, Revisionism and Cuba: Is there justification for hating Dr. Fidel Castro?

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

What is with the vociferously Christian, pro-Europocentric neo-conservative American right and Dr. Fidel Castro? Read the full story

Dissident Voice : How Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Relationship conflicts are a universal source of pain and confusion. I frequently counsel couples in distress where the woman is angry and the man is depressed. The woman cannot understand why the man won’t fix the problems in the relationship. The man feels inadequate. Nothing he does is good enough. ...