Blagojevich Wants to Talk | Obama Taps Rick Warren to Deliver Inaugural Invocation | Iraqi Journalist Abused?

PEEK Newsletter December 18th, 2008 More blogs and video »

Blagojevich Wants to Talk: "To Quote Elvis, 'Hang Loose'" By Staff, Huffington Post Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Wednesday that he "can't wait" to tell his side of the story. Read more »   Signs of Abuse? Iraqi Shoe-Throwing Journalist Kept from Court By Siun, Firedoglake Iraqi officials did not let al-Zaida appear and his family is very worried about what this means Read more »   Obama Taps Science-Hating Homophobe Rick Warren to Deliver Inaugural Invocation By PZ Myers, Pharyngula Meet the new boss, same as the old boss? (Update: Rev. Joseph Lowery, a supporter of same-sex marriage, is giving the benediction). Read more »   Did Dick Cheney Just Confess to a War Crime on National TV? By ZP Heller, Brave New Films The VP and his hubris have finally gone too far. Read more »   Iraq Ambassador Addresses Growing Demand to Free Iraqi Journalist By Staff, CODEPINK Women for Peace: Action Blog CODEPINK takes action to support al-Zaidi and his anti-war sentiment. Read more »   Even the State Department Recommends Dumping Blackwater By Satyam Khanna, Think Progress A panel commissioned by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has called for the security firm's contract not to be renewed next year. Read more »   Slimy Newt: How Gingrich Is Hoping to Trick the Public By Taking the 'High Road' By Digby, Hullabaloo Never take Newtie at face value. He's a slime, just as his name suggests. Always has been, always will be. Read more »   Bush's 'Legacy Project' Is Really Rolling: Here's a List of the Latest Lies By Steve Benen, Washington Monthly Prominent administration officials and/or Bush allies push the notion that the war in Iraq really was a great idea, reality notwithstanding. Read more »   It's Vilsack: Obama Picks Pro-GMO and Pro-Biofuels Ag Secretary By Tara Lohan, AlterNet There are ample reasons to be alarmed. Here are a few. Read more »   Proposed Interior Secretary Salazar: Obama's Most Controversial Cabinet Choice? By Roberto Lovato, Of America Questions about Salazar's past may bring more unwanted negative attention to Obama. Read more »   Is Caroline Kennedy Winning Over Skeptics? By Sam Stein, Huffington Post Are Democrats warming up to the idea of Senator Kennedy? Read more »

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America Punked on the Bailout | Pot Reform on the Way? | Bigot Pastor Tapped for Obama's Inauguration

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Did America Get Punk'd on the Bailout? By David Sirota, Campaign for America's Future The answer is yes ... now here's what to do about it. Read more »   Could Obama's Pro-Marijuana Commerce Secretary Spell a Golden Era for Pot Reform? By Scott Thill, AlterNet Bill Richardson believes we need to "rethink and decriminalize" our cannabis laws. Now that he's in office, he has the chance to achieve it. Read more »   A Bigot, Anti-Choice Pastor Picked for Obama's Inauguration By Sarah Posner, TheNation.com A very strange pick -- Pastor Rick Warren opposes gay marriage, doesn't believe in evolution and compared abortion to the Holocaust. Read more »   Why Iranians Love and Loathe Ahmadinejad and Think Nuclear Technology's Their Right By Hooman Majd, AlterNet An Iranian-American author explains why their president elicits such passionate emotions from both supporters and opponents. Read more »   Obama Should Worry About Iraqi Shoes, Too By Ben Lando, AlterNet When Iraq's violence escalates, President Obama better not be caught on his heels when he's blamed for losing Bush's "win." Read more »   In This Era of Hope, Obama Must Embrace a Genuine Agenda of Peace By David Cortright, AlterNet Obama's election was in substantial part a mandate for ending the war and demilitarizing U.S. foreign policy; now it's time to hold him to it. Read more »   How To Be an Ethical Consumer Without Breaking the Bank By Suyeon Khim, Campus Progress There are many affordable ways to spend your hard-earned cash in accordance with progressive values. Read more »   Bikes Point the Way to a Sustainable Future By Chris Carlsson, AKPress Bicycling subcultures signal a sensibility that stands against oil wars, environmental devastation, urban decay and monocultural sprawl. Read more »   Lessons from an Emergency Room Nightmare By Harold Pollack, The American Prospect Several people made mistakes in my wife's care. The worst and most deadly mistake was ours. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Did Dick Cheney Just Confess to a War Crime on National TV? By ZP Heller, Brave New Films The VP and his hubris have finally gone too far. Read more »   Even the State Department Recommends Dumping Blackwater By Satyam Khanna, Think Progress A panel commissioned by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has called for the security firm's contract not to be renewed next year. Read more »   Slimy Newt: How Gingrich Is Hoping to Trick the Public By Taking the 'High Road' By Digby, Hullabaloo Never take Newtie at face value. He's a slime, just as his name suggests. Always has been, always will be. Read more »   Is Caroline Kennedy Winning Over Skeptics? By Sam Stein, Huffington Post Are Democrats warming up to the idea of Senator Kennedy? Read more »

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			For 15 years, Michael Cheeks of Spartanburg needed four-hour kidney dialysis sessions three times a week. On Wednesday, Cheeks received the gift of a kidney from a good Samaritan â€" a stranger. "Just real speechless. Nervous, but speechless. I'm still taking it in. It's really overwhelming, just to get my life back," Cheeks, 33, said Tuesday in an interview.
Enjoy a every Sunday Only In The Post & Courier find locations		Johns Island toll road unlikely A toll road probably isn't in the cards for Johns Island. Elected officials from the southern end of Charleston County say they're still considering building a road that spans a part of the island â€" just not one people have to pay to drive on. At a Wednesday meeting called by Charleston Mayor Joe Riley to open a dialogue about a future road on the island, Riley met with Charleston County Councilmen Paul Thurmond and Curtis Inabinett, and the mayors of Rockville and Kiawah and Seabrook islands. Man gets perfect gift from stranger For 15 years, Michael Cheeks of Spartanburg needed four-hour kidney dialysis sessions three times a week. On Wednesday, Cheeks received the gift of a kidney from a good Samaritan â€" a stranger. "Just real speechless. Nervous, but speechless. I'm still taking it in. It's really overwhelming, just to get my life back," Cheeks, 33, said Tuesday in an interview. Riley to meet Obama team Charleston Mayor Joe Riley is expected to join a delegation of mayors today in Chicago to discuss urban policy with a senior adviser to President-elect Barack Obama. The U.S. Conference of Mayors Working Group on Urban Policy will be giving input to Obama transition team officials, who are developing plans for a new office on urban policy in the White House. "This is an incredible opportunity for cities to be a part of the national agenda," Riley said in a prepared statement. Lloyd reverses game decision SLED Chief Reggie Lloyd has reversed himself, nixing a consent agreement he signed last month involving a video game supporters say is based on skill, not chance, to win. The move came after Gov. Mark Sanford raised concerns about a deal Lloyd signed covering Chess Challenge II, a video game already in circulation.
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	Charleston.net News Commercial Real Estate Residential Real Estate Subscribe to the Post & Courier Place a Classified Ad	Cougars handle Chanticleers, give Cremins milestone win
			There was very little pomp and ceremony associated with coach Bobby Cremins' 500th career college basketball victory, and he liked that. There was very little drama either, and he liked that even more. Cremins' College of Charleston Cougars made short work of Coastal Carolina, dispatching the Chanticleers, 73-58, on Wednesday night in what proved to be a a quiet, comfortable feel-good victory for the home team in front of a Carolina First Arena crowd of 3,724.
		State Basketball The Citadel hangs tough with No. 19 Michigan St. EAST LANSING, MICH. â€" Michigan State was too strong at the beginning and end of Wednesday night's game, and the 19th-ranked Spartans held off a Citadel rally for a 79-65 victory at the Breslin Center. Raymar Morgan hit 11-of-12 shots and scored 26 points to lead Michigan State (7-2), which tuned up for a Top 25 college basketball showdown with No. 5 Texas on Saturday. Advice from Testaverde helps Williams to breakout season CHARLOTTE â€" The way DeAngelo Williams sees it, the credit for his breakout season with the Carolina Panthers goes to a 45-year-old guy in Florida. Heels' Hansbrough on cusp of setting UNC scoring mark CHAPEL HILL, N.C. â€" Tyler Hansbrough didn't seem fazed by all the questions about how close he is to breaking the career scoring record that has stood for 30 years at North Carolina. The prospect of giving a speech to the home fans to celebrate the moment, however, is another issue. "I'm going to have to plan something," Hansbrough said Wednesday. "It would be pretty bad if I didn't get the record (with) with all this anticipation."
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	Charleston.net News Commercial Real Estate Residential Real Estate Subscribe to the Post & Courier Place a Classified Ad	Port to offer 5% carrier discount
			The State Ports Authority on Wednesday announced an across-the-board rate discount for the Port of Charleston's container carrier customers. For the first three months of next year, the SPA will reduce its contract unit fees, which is what the agency charges per container moving across the pier, by 5 percent.
		Horseshoe lucky for area An odd-looking sea critter that's a familiar sight on Lowcountry beaches is doing its part to shore up the local economy. A biotechnology firm that uses the blood from horseshoe crabs to help drug makers test the safety of injectable medicines and other products said Wednesday that it will increase the size of its Charleston operations by 60 employees over the next five years. 'This is beautiful,' mortgage broker says of rate cut Tony Jabon had an e-mail in to his mortgage broker by 10 a.m. The 35-year-old environmental consultant in Charlotte had heard about the Federal Reserve's decision to cut its key interest rate to nearly zero and wanted to refinance to something lower than 5.5 percent. Mukasey recuses himself because his son represents key official in investment firm WASHINGTON â€" The fraud investigation of Wall Street money manager Bernard Madoff took unusual twists Wednesday as the U.S. attorney general removed himself and the Securities and Exchange Commission looked into the relationship between Madoff's niece and a former SEC attorney who reviewed Madoff's business. Retailers go to Web to keep market foothold It's closing time for another local business. Global Awakening, the King Street shop that sells handicrafts and fair trade merchandise, will shut its doors in January.
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