Wall Street's Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene | Bush's Last Crazy Act | Crying Makes You Healthier

Headlines Newsletter November 14th, 2008 All stories, blogs, and video »

Wall Street's Bailout is a Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene -- Why Aren't the Dems Doing Something About It? By Naomi Klein, The Nation Washington's handling of the bailout is not merely incompetent. It may well be illegal. Read more »   "Justifiable Homicides" Are on the Rise: Have Self-Defense Laws Gone Too Far? By Liliana Segura, AlterNet With shoot first/ask questions later legislation passing across the country, are more Americans getting away with murder? Read more »   Are Human Beings Hard-Wired to Ignore the Threat of Catastrophic Climate Change? By Lisa Bennett, Greater Good Climate scientists wonder why people don't do more about global warming. Social scientists have some troubling answers. Read more »   How I Spent Election Night in a Baltimore Jail By Michael M. Hughes, Baltimore City Paper On a night of historic celebration, Baltimore city police arrested revelers without cause or provocation. Read more »   Bush Playing Chicken With Detroit in Last-Gasp Effort to Demoralize the Dems By David Sirota, AlterNet Bush has his thumb on the Democratic Party's most divisive issue. Read more »   How Crying Can Make You Healthier By Roger Dobson, The Independent UK We all know a good cry helps to soothe our minds. Now doctors are discovering that tears may help to heal our bodies, too. Read more »   Don't Count On The Senate to Throw Out Alaska's Ted Stevens By Scott Rafferty, AlterNet Letting the felonious Republican senator languish is another path to a filibuster-proof Democratic majority in the first 100 days. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Rachel Maddow Talks Tough About Lieberman With Sen. Bayh By Ben Armbruster, Think Progress Sen. Evan Bayh expects Lieberman to apologize for attacks on Obama in order to keep his committee chairmanship. Read more »   With One Phone Call, Bush Could Relieve the Economic Pain of Millions By Staff, Office of Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) With just one telephone call, the President could single-handedly jump start the U.S. economy. Why doesn't Bush make the call? Read more »   Citizens Fight Back Against Hate After the Brutal Murder of Marcello Lucero By Lisa Votino-Tarrant, Long Island Wins Last weekend, 7 teenage punks murdered Marcello Lucero because they wanted to go get a "a Mexican." Read more »   The AP and CNN Get 'The Huxtable Effect' All Wrong By Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Brave New Films Why the mainstream media got 'The Huxtable Effect' wrong. Read more »     Sponsored message: Reduce Your Carbon Footprint & Help Local Communities With NativeEnergy carbon offsets, you can help build renewable & energy efficiency projects that reduce greenhouse gases. Our projects also benefit Native Americans, local communities, and family farmers. Join us and get a one-year subscription to National Geographic Magazinefor free--learn more now!

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