Ties 'Right-Wing Radical Threat' To Tea Parties

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Do Civil Libertarians Owe Dick Cheney A Big Thank You?

Stopping Suicide: Mental Health Challenges Within the Department of Veterans Affairs

• Transcript of Penny's presentation [PDF format] [Microsoft Word format]
  
• Penny Coleman's Supplemental Written Testimony
  
• Read Penny's account of the proceedings: "Activist Tells Congress About Suicide Epidemic Among Vets" by Penny Coleman from Alternet, posted Jan 2, 2008
  
• The record of the hearing (with transcripts of testimonies):
  Stopping Suicide: Mental Health Challenges Within the Department of Veterans Affairs
  
• CSPAN.org "House Hearing on Veterans Mental Health Care" Dec 12, 2007
  12/12/2007: WASHINGTON, DC: 3 hr. 54 min.
  Note: If you choose to go to the CSPAN.org website, Search for "Suicide" Then click on the "... Veterans Mental Health..." link.
  

Michelle Obama First Commmencement Speech

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Grandma McCain about Olbermann and Limbaugh.

Meghan McCain's recent efforts to redefine what it means to be a Republican may not be entirely a Generation Y thing, after all. Last night, her grandmother, 95-year-old Roberta McCain, appeared on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and slammed conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, saying "he does not belong to the Republican Party that I belong to."
Asked who bothered her on the left and right, she cited, without missing a beat, "Olbermann" -- "thank God I'm not around people like him" -- and said that Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele's assessment of Limbaugh as an "entertainer" was "exactly right."
"What he thinks about or represents about the Republican Party has nothing to do with my side of it," McCain said of Limbaugh, to audience applause. "I don't know what the man means. I don't know what he's talking about."

The elder McCain's comments come on the heels of the radio commentator calling for her son and granddaughter to be thrown out of the party.
"A lot of people say, 'Well, Specter, take [Sen. John] McCain with you. And his daughter [Meghan]. Take McCain and his daughter with you if you're gonna..." Limbaugh told listeners on his radio show at the end of last month, after long-time Pennsylvania Sen. Alen Specter defected to the Democrats.
"...It's ultimately good. You're weeding out people who aren't really Republicans," Limbaugh said.

Meghan McCain responded to the taunt by Tweet, writing, "RED TIL I'M DEAD BABY!!! I love the republican party enough to give it constructive criticism, I love my party and sure as hell not leavin!"

Olberman/MSNBC coverage of study of Colbert Report, that used Amy Goodman’s appearance on Colbert

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Keith Olberman reported on May 1, 2009 on an academic study published by researchers from The Ohio State University, entitled “The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report.” The study looked at The Colbert Report, the popular “fake news” program, by asking people to view the Colbert segment from Oct. 5, 2006, when Colbert interviewed Amy about her book, Static.
Among the findings, the researchers concluded that participants who were politically conservative were more likely to assume that Stephen Colbert was actually conservative as well, and was merely using humor and satire to advance his conservative views.

Stephen Colbert finally touches on the drug war issue with guest Ethan Nadelmann

The President Speaks @ Arizona State University Commencement

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