Jon’’s NewsCloud Journal

People who willfully tell lies and won’t admit it when they get caught shouldn’t be fired from their cushy media jobs. Period.
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Fascinating, life imitates William Gibson novels. Again. That always sends a certain frission up my spine.
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Could be one of the worst. ideas.ever.
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“Months before the invasion of Iraq, U.S. intelligence agencies predicted that it would be likely to spark violent sectarian divides and provide al-Qaeda with new opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report released yesterday by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.” Our own experts told us so!
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Amazing story on how Oregon’s landmark 1971 “bottle bill” came into being, and how bottle deposits are still a hot issue today.
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Which part of “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” don’t they understand?
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The tide is starting to turn, at long last.
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The House last night pushed through its second plan to fund the Iraq war and reshape war policy, approving legislation that would provide partial funding for the conflict but hold back most of the money until President Bush reports on the war’s progress in July.
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Toxic syrup has figured in at least eight mass poisonings around the world in the past two decades. Researchers estimate that thousands have died. In many cases, the precise origin of the poison has never been determined. But records and interviews show that in three of the last four cases it was made in China, […]

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“After seven years, there was literally no evidence it had any impact on student achievement — none,” said Mark Lawson, the school board president here in Liverpool, one of the first districts in New York State to experiment with putting technology directly into students’ hands. “The teachers were telling us when there’s a one-to-one relationship […]

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