I cannot accept, your canon that we are to judge pope and king unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton
International
Financial Times Editorial Comment: The first bricks in a new world order. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: April 2 2009 19:31 | Last updated: April 2 2009 22:44. Some useful progress, but still a way to go. That must be the conclusion of the Group of 20 summit in London. Gordon Brown, UK prime minister and chairman of the meeting, set out a six-point plan to save the world. This reflected some real achievements: a generous increase in funding for the International Monetary Fund, a new issuance of special drawing rights and a boost for trade finance. He sounded disappointingly thin on other key areas – notably cleaning up banks and future fiscal stimulus. More detail would have been reassuring. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/20ac6c32-1fb3-11de-a1df-00144feabdc0.html
OECD urges ECB to start quantitative easing By Daniel Pimlott in London. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: March 31 2009 11:57 | Last updated: March 31 2009 11:57. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on Tuesday urged the European Central Bank to cut interest rates closer to zero and begin quantitative easing, as it forecast a deeper recession in Europe and Japan than in the US and UK. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/18cdef6e-1dd7-11de-830b-00144feabdc0.html
Eurozone inflation plunges to record low By Ralph Atkins in Frankfurt. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: March 31 2009 11:31 | Last updated: March 31 2009 11:31 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3d8c80ce-1dda-11de-830b-00144feabdc0.html
Summit success reflects a different global landscape By Philip Stephens. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: April 2 2009 19:12 | Last updated: April 2 2009 19:12 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b0b0c13c-1fb0-11de-a1df-00144feabdc0.html
G20 leaders claim summit success By George Parker, Chris Giles, Edward Luce and David Oakley. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: April 2 2009 19:11 | Last updated: April 2 2009 21:12. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/082652de-1fb0-11de-a1df-00144feabdc0.html
Handshake brokered by Obama saves day By Edward Luce in London. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: April 2 2009 20:53 | Last updated: April 2 2009 20:53. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b75c6726-1fbe-11de-a1df-00144feabdc0.html
New York and Japan vie to host next G20 By George Parker in London. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: April 2 2009 18:56 | Last updated: April 2 2009 18:56. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4002f566-1fad-11de-a1df-00144feabdc0.html
Japan outlines new stimulus move By Michiyo Nakamoto in Tokyo. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: March 31 2009 10:36 | Last updated: March 31 2009 10:36. Taro Aso on Tuesday instructed his ministers to compile a new economic stimulus package “as soon as possible before mid-April” in addition to a longer-term programme for growth. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/64362f08-1dd6-11de-830b-00144feabdc0.html
Financial Times Editorial: Making a good start on missiles. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: April 2 2009 19:27 | Last updated: April 2 2009 19:27. Agreement by Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev, the US and Russian presidents, on a fast-track negotiation to substantially reduce their arsenals of strategic nuclear weapons is good news. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/28b86642-1fb3-11de-a1df-00144feabdc0.html
Financial Times Editorial: Mexico’s drugs war. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: April 3 2009 19:49 | Last updated: April 3 2009 19:49 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/671d04e4-207e-11de-b930-00144feabdc0.html
What politicians in the US won't tell you about the war on drugs By Carlos T Mock, MD. April 4, 2009 http://newsletter91507.blogspot.com/2009/04/financial-times-editorial-mexicos-drugs.html
Get to Cuba before Disney does By Clarence Page. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. April 2, 2009. http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/pagespage/2009/04/get-to-cuba-before-disney-does.html
China
Financial Times Editorial: China slowly grows into its crucial role. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: April 3 2009 19:54 | Last updated: April 3 2009 19:54 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5f673850-207e-11de-b930-00144feabdc0.html
China Vies to Be World’s Leader in Electric Cars By KEITH BRADSHER. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: April 1, 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/business/global/02electric.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
Mess-o-potamia
Israel on Trial By GEORGE BISHARAT. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: April 3, 2009. CHILLING testimony by Israeli soldiers substantiates charges that Israel’s Gaza Strip assault entailed grave violations of international law. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/opinion/04bisharat.html?th&emc=th
Israeli Minister Dismisses Peace Effort By ISABEL KERSHNER. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: April 1, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/world/middleeast/02mideast.html?th&emc=th
U.S. ally's arrest unleashes fierce firefights in Baghdad - At least 15 wounded in gunfights after Iraq holds key U.S. ally and aide By Sudarsan Raghavan. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune and The Washington Post. 1:25 AM CDT, March 29, 2009. BAGHDAD — American and Iraqi forces arrested an influential U.S. ally Saturday, triggering fierce clashes in central Baghdad that threatened to disrupt a key pillar of American efforts to stabilize the capital as combat forces draw down. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-iraq_5smar29,0,6313535.story
Iraqi Militants Show New Boldness By ALISSA J. RUBIN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: March 31, 2009. BAGHDAD — As the American military prepares to withdraw from Iraqi cities, Iraqi and American security officials say that jihadi and Baath militants are rejoining the fight in areas that are largely quiet now, regrouping as a smaller but still lethal insurgency. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/world/middleeast/01insurgency.html?ref=global-home
Gunmen Storm Police Training School in Pakistan By WAQAR GILLANI, SABRINA TAVERNISE and SALMAN MASOOD. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: March 30, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/world/asia/31pstan.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
US to take fight to Pakistan border area By Demetri Sevastopulo, Daniel Dombey and Andrew Ward in Washington. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: March 27 2009 15:18 | Last updated: March 27 2009 23:23 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/684a386a-1ae2-11de-8aa3-0000779fd2ac.html
Missile Strike Said to Kill at Least 10 in Pakistan By PIR ZUBAIR SHAH and ALAN COWELL. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: April 1, 2009. PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Missiles fired from a suspected American drone struck a militant training camp in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people in an attack apparently aimed at one of the area’s most important Taliban leaders, Hakimullah Mehsud, according to news reports, militants and an intelligence official. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/world/asia/02pstan.html?ref=global-home
Washington Post Editorial: The Price of Realism - President Obama's plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan is ambitious and expensive. It is also hard-headed. Copyright by The Washington Post . Saturday, March 28, 2009; Page A12 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/27/AR2009032702716.html
Afghanistan's Karzai Endorses Obama Plan By Pamela Constable. Copyright by The Washington Post. Sunday, March 29, 2009; Page A10. KABUL, March 28 -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that he was in "full agreement" with President Obama's newly announced strategy for Afghanistan, saying it was "exactly what the Afghan people were hoping for" and promising to "work very closely" with the United States to implement the plan. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/28/AR2009032801727.html?hpid=topnews
National
A fine balance for Obama to strike By Edward Luce, Lionel Barber and Chrystia Freeland. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: March 30 2009 00:30 | Last updated: March 30 2009 00:30. American presidents sometimes give interviews in the Oval Office. On this occasion Barack Obama chooses the nearby Roosevelt room, named after Teddy Roosevelt and his distant relative Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the last American president to be faced with a global economic crisis of this magnitude. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/74ab7ed2-1c8d-11de-977c-00144feabdc0.html
‘Robust and stable’ system is goal of US By Krishna Guha in Washington. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: March 30 2009 23:27 | Last updated: March 30 2009 23:27. The US and Europe are united in their desire for far-reaching regulatory reform to strengthen the global financial system, Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, has told the Financial Times. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/86ab7a64-1d65-11de-9eb3-00144feabdc0.html
New York Times Editorial: Questions for Reform. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: March 28, 2009. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sounded the right notes last week when he presented a first draft of the administration’s plan to reform the financial system. He said the system had failed “in fundamental ways” and would require comprehensive overhaul. “Not modest repairs at the margin,” he told Congress, “but new rules of the game.” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/opinion/29sun1.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
Budgets Approved, With No G.O.P. Votes By CARL HULSE. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: April 2, 2009. WASHINGTON — The House and Senate approved budgets of about $3.5 trillion for the government on Thursday with no Republican support, a sign of deep partisan tensions likely to color Congressional efforts to enact major policy initiatives sought by President Obama. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/us/politics/03budget.html?th&emc=th
What We're Not Talking About By Eugene Robinson. Copyright by The Washington Post. Friday, April 3, 2009; Page A19. Not even three months have passed since President Obama's historic inauguration, and already it tends to slip the nation's collective mind that the first black president of the United States is, in fact, black. There may be hope for us after all. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/02/AR2009040203286.html
At least 12 people, gunman dead in New York shootings. Copyright by CNN News. April 3, 2009. (CNN) -- A lone gunman killed at least 12 people and himself Friday in an immigration services center in Binghamton, New York, a government official said. http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/03/binghamton.shooting/index.html
GOP Whacking
Spanish Court Weighs Inquiry on Torture for 6 Bush-Era Officials By MARLISE SIMONS. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: March 28, 2009. LONDON — A Spanish court has taken the first steps toward opening a criminal investigation into allegations that six former high-level Bush administration officials violated international law by providing the legal framework to justify the torture of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, an official close to the case said. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/world/europe/29spain.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
David Letterman's Ad For The New GOP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmzZMVQFtlM
Why a GOP Benefactor Switched Parties By Kathleen Parker. Copyright by The Washington Post. Sunday, March 29, 2009; Page A11. Just as news breaks that political fundraising is down for both parties, Republicans have lost one of their more generous contributors. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/27/AR2009032702568.html
Fox News’s Mad, Apocalyptic, Tearful Rising Star By BRIAN STELTER and BILL CARTER. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: March 29, 2009. “You are not alone,” Glenn Beck likes to say. For the disaffected and aggrieved Americans of the Obama era, he could not have picked a better rallying cry. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/business/media/30beck.html?th&emc=th
Colbert weeps for Beck’s sanity http://www.palmettoscoop.com/2009/04/02/colbert-weeps-for-becks-sanity/
Chicagoland
Blagojevich Charged With 16 Corruption Felonies By MONICA DAVEY and SUSAN SAULNY. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: April 2, 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/us/03illinois.html?th&emc=th
Blagojevich, his brother, top aides indicted By Jeff Coen. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. April 2, 2009 6:46 PM. http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/04/blagojevich-indicted-corruption-illinois-governor-impeach.html
Blagojevich indicted on corruption charges By Hal Weitzman in Chicago. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: April 3 2009 00:17 | Last updated: April 3 2009 00:17 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8db8ff78-1fd8-11de-a1df-00144feabdc0.html
Illinois Enacts Post-Blagojevich Reform of Public Worker Pension Boards By SUSAN SAULNY and KAREN ANN CULLOTTA. Copyright by The Associated Press. Published: April 3, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/us/04illinois.html?th&emc=th
Chicago parking meters: Richard Daley's administration says it's working to correct problems - Widespread glitches reported after dramatic increase in rates By Dan Mihalopoulos. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. April 1, 2009. Mayor Richard Daley trotted out his top aide Tuesday to try to assure the public that officials are doing all they can to correct the "simply unacceptable" work of Chicago's new private parking meter company. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-parking-meters-01apr01,0,3725412.story
Your Lack of Money
Jobless Rate Hits 8.5% as March Payrolls Fall by 663,000 By JACK HEALY. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: April 3, 2009. The American economy shed another 663,000 jobs in March, the government reported Friday, bringing the toll of job losses during the recession to 5.1 million. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/business/economy/04jobs.html?hp
US consumer spending rises in February By Alan Rappeport in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: March 27 2009 13:21 | Last updated: March 27 2009 14:41 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bab4794c-1ad0-11de-8aa3-0000779fd2ac.html
Financial Times Editorial Comment: US should not be taken for a ride. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: March 30 2009 20:58 | Last updated: March 30 2009 20:58. The Obama administration’s firm stance on aid for the country’s struggling carmakers surprised most observers, most of Wall Street, and not least Rick Wagoner, the ousted chief of General Motors. Despite pressure to quit from outsiders in recent months, Mr Wagoner, a 30-year veteran of the company, retained the backing of the board and appeared to think he could hang on. The government rejected his restructuring proposals and insisted on his departure. It was right on both counts. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b1784cce-1d54-11de-9eb3-00144feabdc0.html
Washington Post Editorial: Tough but Fair - President Obama's response to the auto companies offers a narrow path forward. Copyright by The Washington Post
Tuesday, March 31, 2009; Page A16 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/30/AR2009033002761.html
New York Times Editorial: The Last Best Chance for Detroit. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: March 30, 2009. President Obama struck an acceptable compromise on Monday between two unappealing options: letting General Motors and Chrysler go bankrupt right away or giving them tens of billions of dollars more while hoping for the best. Instead, he decided to finance their operations for just a matter of weeks while forcing them to come up with a better plan to overhaul their businesses. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/opinion/31tue1.html?_r=1&ref=global
Downturn Pushes More Toward Bankruptcy By TARA SIEGEL BERNARD. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: April 3, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/your-money/04bankruptcy.html?th&emc=th
Chicago Sun-Times files for bankruptcy By James P. Miller. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. 8:36 AM CDT, March 31, 2009 http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-biz-sun-times-media-bankruptcy-march31,0,3147313.story
U.S. Urges GM to Consider Bankruptcy - Government Plan to Split Ailing Brands From Stronger Ones Is an Option, Firm Says By Peter Whoriskey. Copyright by The Washington Post. Thursday, April 2, 2009; Page A14 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/01/AR2009040103718.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter
Bailed-out banks eye toxic asset buys By Francesco Guerrera in New York and Krishna Guha in Washington. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: April 2 2009 23:20 | Last updated: April 2 2009 23:57. US banks that have received government aid, including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, are considering buying toxic assets to be sold by rivals under the Treasury’s $1,000bn (£680bn) plan to revive the financial system. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/358e479a-1fbf-11de-a1df-00144feabdc0.html
Housing
Alarm over mortgage ‘delinquencies’ By Joanna Chung in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: April 3 2009 19:50 | Last updated: April 3 2009 19:50. The least risky mortgages in the US are showing the sharpest jump in “serious delinquencies”, according to a report released on Friday that raised fresh concerns about the health of the US economy. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/525c45a6-207e-11de-b930-00144feabdc0.html
Foreclosure fallout crosses county lines By Azam Ahmed and Darnell Little. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. April 5, 2009. From Lake County to Will County, the same story has played out across suburban Chicagoland in the past year: Upset neighbors call to complain about an uncut lawn and broken windows. The village comes out to address the problem and inadvertently stumbles upon a foreclosure. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-suburban-foreclosure-05-bdapr05,0,5425992.story
Banks Starting to Walk Away on Foreclosures By SUSAN SAULNY. Copyright by The The New York Times. Published: March 29, 2009. SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Mercy James thought she had lost her rental property here to foreclosure. A date for a sheriff’s sale had been set, and notices about the foreclosure process were piling up in her mailbox. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/us/30walkaway.html?th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1238421719-IsqDrBouYfJr047SXKJ/Wg
As the Foreclosed Move Out, First-Time Buyers Move In By DAMIEN CAVE. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: April 2, 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/us/03florida.html?th&emc=th
US housing price freefall extends into January By Simone Baribeau in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: March 31 2009 14:54 | Last updated: March 31 2009 14:54. Single family home prices in the 20 largest metropolitan areas dropped 2.8 per cent in January, according to Case-Shiller’s index of the 20 largest US cities, another sign that the housing market bottom may still be distant. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3de81a3c-1df9-11de-830b-00144feabdc0.html
GLBT
President Obama’s Administration has not delivered for the The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Community By Carlos T Mock, MD http://www.ambiente.us/04009CTMockObama.html
Chicago Free Press Editorial: Gates confirms we’re on the back burner. Copyright by The Chicago Free Press. April 1, 2009. http://www.chicagofreepress.com/node/3335
Vermont closer to same-sex marriage by Lisa Keen ©Keen News Service 2009. 2009-04-01. http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=20804
State Court of Appeals to Hear Two Same-Sex Marriage Cases By JEREMY W. PETERS. Copyright by Thee New York Times. Published: March 31, 2009.
ALBANY — The state’s highest court agreed on Tuesday to hear arguments in two cases that challenge New York’s recognition of same-sex marriages legally performed elsewhere. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/nyregion/01marriage.html?_r=1&scp=7&sq=JEREMY%20W.%20PETERS&st=cse
Sweden OKs gay marriage. Copyright By 365gay. 04.01.2009 4:56pm EDT. Stockholm) Sweden on Wednesday became the seventh country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage. http://newsletter91507.blogspot.com/2009/04/sweden-oks-gay-marriage.html
Iowa Court Voids Gay Marriage Ban By MONICA DAVEY. Copyright by The Associated Press. Published: April 3, 2009. DES MOINES — Same-sex couples will be allowed to marry in Iowa by month’s end, after a ruling on Friday by the Iowa Supreme Court that found unconstitutional a state law limiting marriage to a man and a woman. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/us/04iowa.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
Iowa Court Says Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional By AMY LORENTZEN. Copyright by The Associated Press. Friday, April 3, 2009; 10:54 AM http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/03/AR2009040300376.html?hpid=topnews
Iowa and Marriage By Carlos T Mock, MD. April 4, 2009. Copyright by Carlos T Mock, MD. The Constitution set three different branches of government: the executive, the legislative, and the judicial. The Judicial has the duty to protect the rights of minorities from the majority. Iowa's Supreme Court unanimous ruling Friday, finding that the state's same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of gay and lesbian couples is a perfect example of the purpose of the Judicial system set by our forefathers. http://newsletter91507.blogspot.com/2009/04/iowa-court-says-gay-marriage-ban.html
The debate over equality for same-sex and unmarried elderly couples By JASON PIERCESON. Copyright by THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER (Springfield, IL). The debate over equality for same-sex and unmarried elderly couples continues in Illinois with the passage of the Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act by the Illinois House’s Youth and Family Committee. Posted Mar 28, 2009 @ 12:03 AM. http://newsletter91507.blogspot.com/2009/03/debate-over-equality-for-same-sex-and.html
Portia Apologizes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ9sBkgDRzY
Pedro Zamora: from 'Real World' to real legend By Choire Sicha. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. April 1, 2009. When "The Real World" premiered in 1992 on MTV, it created a standard in reality television: It cooped up Mormons and gay people and crude bike messengers and splayed their tiny culture wars on TV. http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-tc-tvcolumn-pedro-0331-0401apr01,0,5806328.story
EHarmony launches gay matchmaking service - The heterosexual dating website agreed to start Compatible Partners for same-sex couples as part of the settlement of a discrimination suit. By David Colker. Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times. 10:01 PM CDT, March 30, 2009 http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/la-fi-eharmony31-2009mar31,0,4312726.story
When the spark goes out: Bringing sex back into a relationship By Amy Wooten. Copyright by The Chicago Free Press. April 1, 2009. Relationships typically start out with a bang. But for some long-time couples, those days and nights of steamy, passionate sex are a distant memory. http://www.chicagofreepress.com/node/3328
Immigration
New York Times Editorial: Border Control. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: March 28, 2009. The Obama administration has taken sensible steps to keep Mexico’s vicious drug war from spilling over the border. The homeland security secretary, Janet Napolitano, announced that she was sending hundreds more agents and officers to patrol the border region and to work with the authorities in Mexico. She also is bolstering screening technology at border crossings to root out drugs, drug money, guns and violent fugitives. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/opinion/28sat2.html?ref=opinion
Don’t Deport Benita Veliz By LAWRENCE DOWNES. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: March 28, 2009. A question from the realm of the unanswerable: How will this country be a better place once we force Benita Veliz to leave it? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/opinion/28sat4.html?ref=opinion
Immigrant Detainee Dies, and a Life Is Buried, Too By NINA BERNSTEIN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: April 2, 2009. The hand-scrawled letter from a New Jersey jail was urgent. An immigration detainee had died that day, Sept. 9, 2005, a fellow inmate wrote in broken English, describing chest pains and pleas for medical attention that went unheeded until too late. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/nyregion/03detain.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
Technical
Complaints of internet crime hit record in US By Joseph Menn in San Francisco. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: March 31 2009 00:32 | Last updated: March 31 2009 00:32. Victims of internet crime filed 33 per cent more complaints in the US last year than the year before, signally that electronic fraud is being exasperated by the economic crisis. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e160f504-1d76-11de-9eb3-00144feabdc0.html
I Hate My iPhone By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: April 3, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/magazine/05wwln-medium-t.html?th&emc=th
Google’s Plan for Out-of-Print Books Is Challenged By MIGUEL HELFT. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: April 3, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/technology/internet/04books.html?th&emc=th
American Airlines to test in-flight Internet access for passengers this week By DAVID KOENIG. Copyright 2009 Associated Press. 11:05 PM CDT, March 30, 2009 http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/sns-ap-na-us-airborne-internet-american,0,3202551.story
Medical
FDA Says to Avoid Pistachios Amid Salmonella Scare By GARANCE BURKE. Copyright by The Associated Press. Monday, March 30, 2009; 11:53 PM http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/30/AR2009033002637.html?hpid=artslot
KEEPING MEDICAL INSURANCE WHEN YOU CHANGE YOUR JOB by Roger V. McCaffrey-Boss. Copyright by Gay Chicago Magazine and Roger V. McCaffrey-Boss. April 2-8, 2009 http://www.gaychicagomagazine.com/advice/legallyspeaking.shtml
Drug prices: Wal-Mart/Caterpillar plan may drive down employer health-care costs - Program with Caterpillar aims to reduce employer health-care costs while increasing traffic to stores By Sandra M. Jones. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. March 28, 2009 http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-sat-wal-mart-pharmacy-mar28,0,1451349.story
Obama gets hazy on reefer economics By Clarence Page. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. April 1, 2009. For all of the keen intellect that President Barack Obama showed in his online town hall meeting, he didn't seem to know much about reefer economics. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped0401pageapr01,0,1071790.column
Washington Post Editorial: JAMA's Hush-Up - A medical journal's problematic rule on public disclosure of complaints. Copyright by The Washington Post. Tuesday, March 31, 2009; Page A16. THE EDITORS of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) surely appreciated that Jonathan Leo, a professor at Lincoln Memorial University, made them aware of an undisclosed conflict involving a pharmaceutical company and the author of a study published in the journal. The JAMA editors did not, however, appreciate that Mr. Leo sent a copy of an e-mail to them to a reporter at the New York Times. Nor did they like his airing of his allegation in an article on the Web site of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) -- almost five months after Mr. Leo sent his initial inquiry to JAMA. As a result, the esteemed medical journal has instituted a new set of complaint compliance rules that leave us wondering whether it cares more about its reputation than the integrity of its articles. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/30/AR2009033002765.html
Amid Abuse of Girls in Brazil, Abortion Debate Flares By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: March 27, 2009. SÃO PAULO, Brazil — The waiting room at Pérola Byington Hospital resembles a small day care center many days. Young girls play on the cold tile floors or rock hyperactively in plastic chairs, while their mothers stare pensively at the red digital readout on a wall, signaling their place in line. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/world/americas/28brazil.html?_r=1&hp
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FAITH OR FAMILY? - Devout Catholic couple defies church, turns to science to have a baby By Manya A. Brachear. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. April 5, 2009 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-catholics-ivf-05-apr05,0,6702066.story
An uneasy mix of religion and politics By William M. Daley. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. April 3, 2009. I did not attend the University of Notre Dame. But as a Catholic and co-chairman of Barack Obama's presidential campaign, I have a personal stake in the dispute over the propriety of the university's invitation to the president to be its commencement speaker. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-oped0403cardinalapr03,0,4013786.story
Chicago Tribune Editorial: Cardinal, respect. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. April 3, 2009. The Archdiocese of Chicago is a grand piece of the fabric of this community, one of its leading institutions. It educates our children, it cares for our poor. It provides a rich source of faith. This page doesn't presume to tell a church how to practice its faith. We don't presume to tell Cardinal Francis George how to lead his archdiocese. We do think he is deeply out of line with comments that are a rude repudiation of President Barack Obama. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0403edit2apr03,0,585182.story Editorial Comment: I think the Cardinal needs an act of contrition: first the cathedral roof fell on him, then it caught fire. I believe God is sending him a message.
New York Times Editorial: Evolutionary Semantics, Texas-Style. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: March 30, 2009. The Texas Board of Education gave grudging support last week to teaching the mainstream theory of evolution without the most troubling encumbrances sought by religious and social conservatives. But the margins on crucial amendments were disturbingly close, typically a single vote on a 15-member board, and compromise language left ample room for the struggle to continue. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/opinion/31tue3.html?ref=global
Financial Times Editorial: Catholic tastes. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: March 27 2009 22:34 | Last updated: March 27 2009 22:34. Who would have thought it? The British royal family, it transpires, is not all that keen on absurd anachronisms. Since 1689, royals who wish to accede to the throne have been banned not only from practising Roman Catholicism but also from wedding people who do. But among reforms being discussed by the Queen and the prime minister is a plan to allow British royals to marry Catholics. About time too http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/65c3d728-1b04-11de-8aa3-0000779fd2ac.html
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New York Times Editorial: The Forgotten Rich. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: April 1, 2009. The Senate budget debate began this week against a backdrop of war and recession, rising unemployment and surging foreclosures, runaway health care costs and diminishing insurance coverage — to name just a few of the nation’s big problems. But for Senator Blanche Lincoln, Democrat of Arkansas, and Senator Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona, the most pressing issue is clear: America’s wealthiest families need help. Now. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/opinion/02thu1.html?th&emc=th
Here is the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. http://newsletter91507.blogspot.com/2009/03/here-is-washington-posts-mensa.html
AIRLINE RAP http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1137883380?bctid=16920289001
Introducing the Government-Backed DMV Automotive Repair Center! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi9XCpSYJbY&feature=player_embedded
Dentist http://newsletter91507.blogspot.com/2009/04/dentist.html
The Dinner Date http://newsletter91507.blogspot.com/2009/04/dinner-date.html
New! Carlos now has an online store. Order your books directly from Carlos and have them signed and dedicated.http://www.carlostmock.com/catalog/
In Pride (orgullo),
Carlos T. Mock, MD
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Author: Borrowing Time: A Latino Sexual Odyssey - Floricanto Press 2003.
Nominated for a Stonewall Award by the American Library Association GLBT
Round Table.
Author: The Mosaic Virus – Floricanto Press 2007. Nominated for a Stonewall Award by the American Library Association GLBT Round Table, and a Lammie from The Lambda Literary Foundation
Author: Author: Papi Chulo – Floricanto Press 2007. Nominated for a Stonewall Award by the American Library Association GLBT Round Table, and a Lammie from The Lambda Literary Foundation
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