A Collaborative Journal for New Media http://www.epluribusmedia.org 24 October 2007 12:00:00 EST The disparity between investigation and or indictments of Democrats in relation to Republicans is statistically significant and could have occurred by chance less than one in 10,000 samplings. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/174559166/20071019_political_profiling_2.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/columns/2007/20071019_political_profiling_2.html 10 October 2007 12:00:00 EST The leadership of the Department of Justices Civil Rights Division has reversed its July decision and is now signaling its willingness to permit Voting Rights Section Chief John Tanner to testify before Rep. John Conyers House Judiciary Committee. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/168262203/20071010_tanner_under_bus.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2007/20071010_tanner_under_bus.html 19 September 2007 12:00:00 EST Susie Dow points out that while USAID -- in answer to an ePluribus Media FOIA request -- claims not to have the aggregated data, yet CENTCOM -- in response to an earlier ePluribus Media FOIA request -- included the data in question. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745375/20070727_USAID_does_not_know.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2007/20070727_USAID_does_not_know.html 03 June 2007 4:00:00 EST Tim Griffin has received much attention for his role in voter "caging" lists during his tenure with the Republican National Committee. While Griffin has moved on -- no longer working for the RNC -- three other individuals who have received less attention, were also party to emails identifying voters who could be challenged during the 2004 elections. These three have more recently been appointed to key positions in the RNC. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745376/20070703_caging_viable_tool.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2007/20070703_caging_viable_tool.html 21 May 2007 10:13:01 EST Of all the governmental agencies that have been politicized, none are as crucial to the rights of Americans as the Department of Justice. After all the erosions of Americans' rights, the one avenue of recourse for US citizens has been through the justice system. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745377/20070519_robert_popper.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2007/20070519_robert_popper.html 11 May 2007 15:01:00 EST Over the last several years there has been an exodus of unprecedented proportions of experienced voting rights personnel from DoJ's Civil Rights Division. The most striking feature of the exodus has been the hue of the professional staff members who have left and the hue and political affiliations of the individuals who have replaced them. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745378/20070510_decimating_civil_rights.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2007/20070510_decimating_civil_rights.html 06 May 2007 13:00:01 EST Jim Crow, like the Dark Lord in the popular Harry Potter children's books, never completely died. And the resurrection, assisted by the seeding of political appointees and agreeable new hires within the very government institutions designed to protect the civil rights of Americans, is now dangerously close at hand. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745379/20070505_resurrecting_jim_crow.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2007/20070505_resurrecting_jim_crow.html 15 April 2007 11:45:15 EST Just beneath the surface of the multiple U.S. Attorney scandals lie hints and teasers of the Bush Administration's potentially more damaging politicization of the Justice Department. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745380/20070416_wagging_the_dog.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2007/20070416_wagging_the_dog.html 16 April 2007 12:01:33 EST Were US Attorneys purged also in part because they resisted Bush Administration pressure to federalize law enforcement? The Fat Lady Sings takes a look at this and more... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745381/20070415_project_safe_neighborhood.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/columns/2007/20070415_project_safe_neighborhood.html 15 April 2007 09:03:55 EST Iraq contractor. Those two words evoke different reactions from different people. For the families of the contractors who have been injured, kidnapped or killed as a result of simply doing their jobs, there's a much more pressing concern than public opinion, insurance. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745382/20070304_contingency_contracting.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2007/20070304_contingency_contracting.html 11 April 2007 12:01:01 EST Long before the public was familiar with Kyle Sampson and his role in the firing of U.S. Attorneys Ryan, Lam, Charlton, Cummins, Iglesias, McKay, Bogden or Chiara by the Alberto Gonzales' Justice Department, his name surfaces in the shakeup that brewed thousands of miles away in the Territory of Guam. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745383/us_attorney_fred_black.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2007/us_attorney_fred_black.html 28 March 2007 12:03:55 EST Iraq contractor. Those two words evoke different reactions from different people. For the families of the contractors who have been injured, kidnapped or killed as a result of simply doing their jobs, there's a much more pressing concern than public opinion, insurance. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745382/20070304_contingency_contracting.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2007/20070304_contingency_contracting.html 26 March 2007 00:01:45 EST William W. Mercer serves as the Acting Associate Attorney General of the United States, the third highest-ranking official in the Justice Department, and a member of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' inner circle. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745384/us_attorney_william_mercer.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2007/us_attorney_william_mercer.html 25 March 2007 00:45:00 EST With speculation rampant about the potentially imminent departure - either by resignation or being asked to step down - of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, it would only be appropriate to provide some relevant information about those who have been mentioned as a possible replacement http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745385/20070325_gonzales_replacements.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2007/20070325_gonzales_replacements.html 22 March 2007 00:45:00 EST Cingular Wireless is selectively blocking calls placed to numbers in Iowa run by local phone companies currently involved in multiple suits with its parent company ATT Inc. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745386/20070321_cingular.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2007/20070321_cingular.html 20 March 2007 00:45:00 EST One of the latest and ugliest examples of the mainstream media's endless trashing of Appalachian people is a blog by Jane Smiley -- a novelist whose books I used to enjoy... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745387/20070319_janes_theory.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2007/20070319_janes_theory.html 20 March 2007 00:45:00 EST McAuliffe gives us a hundred reasons to read the book, but never mentions what is crucial. He is presently chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign committee. What a Party should be seen in that light. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745388/20070319_mcAuliffe.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/reviews/2007/20070319_mcAuliffe.html 08 March 2007 01:45:00 EST His documents -- his advice and his counsel -- have been considered by some to lay the foundation for torture, suspension of habeas corpus, warrantless wiretapping, the expansion of power in the Executive Branch ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745389/20070307_gonzales_alberto.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2007/20070307_gonzales_alberto.html 02 March 2007 00:45:00 EST Five part interview with Paul Jay about an entirely different approach toward reclaiming truth on the airwaves. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745390/20070205_go_big_go_home.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/interviews/2007/20070205_go_big_go_home.html 28 February 2007 00:45:00 EST ePluribus Media brings together background stories on US Attorneys, in its ongoing series on Alberto Gonzales' Justice Department. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745391/gonzales_7_backgrounds.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2007/gonzales_7_backgrounds.html 27 February 2007 00:45:00 EST Valerie Plame Wilson was working on counter-proliferation of nuclear arms in Iraq and Iran until she was outed by someone in the White House. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745392/02262007_plame_had_to_go.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/columns/2007/02262007_plame_had_to_go.html 16 September 2006 00:45:00 EST In his review of Professor Michael Berube's book, aaron Barlow continues his research into David Horowitz's vilification of liberal professors. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745393/20060916whywefight.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/reviews/20060916whywefight.html 10 September 2006 16:00:00 EST Jeff Huber reviews the latest book from Pulitzer Prize winner Tom ricks who pulls no punches in his scathing analysis of the run-up to the Iraq War. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745394/200609_fiasco.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/reviews/200609_fiasco.html 29 Aug 2006 16:00:00 EST On the first year anniversary of Katrina, Louisiana resident and writer, Polydactyl reflects on her in-the-moment journals and diaries to remind us of what it was like in the eye of the storm. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745395/200608breaching_levee_intro.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2006/200608breaching_levee_intro.html 10 Jun 2006 16:00:00 EST On June 10th, 2006, Timothy Smith interviewed Fighting Dem Charlie Brown at the first annual YearlyKos Convention. Brown is running for the House of Representatives seat from CA- Congressional District 4 against K Street superstar John Doolittle. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745396/brown200606p1.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/interviews/brown200606p1.html 10 Jun 2006 16:00:00 EST ePluribus Media's Timothy D. Smith interviews John Laesch, running for Dennis Hastert's seat in the Illinois 14th CD. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745397/laesch20060609p1.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/interviews/laesch20060609p1.html 17 May 2006 00:01:00 EST From a chance meeting in 2001 for a wedding in Kyrgyzstan, to an attempt by employees to steal the business, to a new company in Afghanistan, One Missing, One Dead traces the history of an Iraq contractor, Ultra Services, into the the fog of war. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745398/20060512_missingman_p1.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2006/20060512_missingman_p1.html 27 Mar 2006 01:22:43 EST With the rapid hiring and resignation this past week of blogger Ben Domenech from WashingtonPost.com, the issue of plagiarism is once more in the news. The following is an early, previously un-published ePluribus Media story on the rampant plagiarism and propaganda practiced by "reporter" Jeff Gannon and other staff of now defunct Talon News. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745399/0327talon_plagiarism.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2006/0327talon_plagiarism.html 20 Mar 2006 00:20:00 EST As the internet makes searches fast and easy, 'quote gathering' to support opinion is replacing meaningful research both in the classroom and in public, and author David Horowitz exploits this trend in his battle over who controls our public schools and universities. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745400/0319education_pt3.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2006/0319education_pt3.html 11 Mar 2006 23:10:00 EST Civil libertarians are threatening to sue Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan over his plans to build a new city in Florida. Monaghan and his development partner, Paul Marinelli of the Barron Collier Company, intend to control all commercial real estate in the town of Ave Maria and run the town according to strict Roman Catholic principles. If they get their way, stores will not be able to sell pornography, pharmacies will be barred from selling condoms and other forms of birth control, and cable television companies will not be allowed to carry X-rated channels. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745401/0311tom_monaghan.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/2006/0311tom_monaghan.html 25 Feb 2006 01:15:20 EST When it comes to the practice of force-feeding detainees there is indeed a moral question, one that the international community has answered, and it reaches very different conclusions from those apparently reached by the United States. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745402/0221barratt.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/columns/2006/0221barratt.html 21 Feb 2006 00:45:00 EST The United States Congress is currently considering a Democrat-sponsored bill that would radically change the way campaigns are financed, by eliminating corporate donations entirely and establishing strict spending limits on candidates. But not all progressives are happy with the proposed legislation. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745403/0221hr4694.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/news/2006/0221hr4694.html 15 Feb 2006 21:30:00 EST The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on war powers have brought to light a number of less than entirely accurate assertions and assumptions about wartime authorities. Jeff Huber refutes 10 of his favorites. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745404/20060214huber.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/columns/20060214huber.html 11 Feb 2006 01:00:00 EST Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) became part of the American vocabulary after the Vietnam War as its affects on veterans became widely publicized. Now, a new generation of American veterans are again victims of PTSD. This three part series explores the impact of politics on the funding, diagnosis and treatment of veterans suffering from PTSD. It examines the propaganda used to justify a reduction in benefits to veterans with PTSD and the effort to redirect blame for the ravages of war to the soldiers themselves." http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745405/20060206PTSD_intro.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/20060206PTSD_intro.html 31 Jan 2006 16:00:00 EST ePluribus Media's Matt Boersma interviews Bill Winter, Democratic candidate for Colorado's 6th Congressional Distric in 2006. In one of the most conservative areas of an independent-minded state, Bill Winter is running a progressive grassroots campaign that tries to appeal to voters of all stripes. Winter joins over forty other Veterans who are Democratic candidates for Congress this year, the so-called 'Fighting Dems.' http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745406/winter20060130p1.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/interviews/winter20060130p1.html 20 Jan 2006 00:45:00 EST ePluribus Media's Aaron Barlow reviews "Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics" by Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. Armstrong, of MyDD.com, and Moulitsas, of DailyKos.com, are not activists who take issues and positions lightly. In fact, they wear their opinions proudly on their sleeves and respect those who do the same. Yet they recognize that no particular issue can take precedence over all others when it is governance as a whole that is at stake." http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745407/20060119crashing.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/reviews/20060119crashing.html 10 Jan 2006 22:20:00 EST Writer Barbara Morrill puts a human face on the consequences of Hurricane Katrina and the policy decisions that compounded it." http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745408/20060109FEMA.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/20060109FEMA.html 05 Jan 2006 12:00:00 EST Two young humanitarian volunteers are facing federal prison terms. They were arrested while taking to the hospital three migrants found vomiting and bleeding in the Arizona desert." http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745409/20060104pettyjohn.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/columns/20060104pettyjohn.html 29 Dec 2005 22:45:00 EST ePluribus Media reviews "Becoming Mr. Henry: One Man's Path From Learning to Teaching" by Peter Henry. Henry's book means to show just how education should be conducted - not through tests but through interpersonal relationships. He tries to help the nonteacher understand just what goes into becoming a teacher by describing his own background, his quest for a calling, and his final climb up the mountain to the peak of skillful instruction. For such a small book, that's a large task; but Henry approaches it with a sure hand gained through decades in the classroom, years in which he also had to investigate himself in order to keep growing as a skillful, effective teacher." http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745410/20051229mrhenry.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/reviews/20051229mrhenry.html 21 Dec 2005 01:30:00 EST Spurred on by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, both the House of Representatives and the Senate have drafted competing bills with the same goals: removing FEMA from the grip of DHS and restoring its independent agency status. Will FEMA remain where it is now, or will it once again be an independent agency? How did we get into this mess?" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745411/20051216FEMA_p1.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/20051216FEMA_p1.html 19 Dec 2005 00:40:00 EST Future generations may look back on December 2005 as a watershed period in the evolution of the United States of America. The actions taken and decisions made during and subsequent to that month may determine the nature of the separation of powers among the legislative, executive and judicial branches of our federal government for decades — and centuries — to come." http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745412/20051218warpowers.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/20051218warpowers.html 10 Dec 2005 04:00:00 EST ePluribus Media reviews "Not One More Mother's Child" by Cindy Sheehan. The book is a combination of letters written and received, photographs from individuals and professionals, blog posts, quotations from people Sheehan respects, testimony from the Conyers hearings in the basement of the U.S. House of Representatives, media stories and Cindy Sheehan's own testimony." http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745413/20051209notonemore.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/reviews/20051209notonemore.html 01 Dec 2005 00:01:00 EST For a long time, peer review - the way many academic papers, books, and grant applications are evaluated — has been one of academia's unexamined bits of wisdom, often assumed to be right and good. Yet it is a cumbersome, time-consuming process that can act as a brake on new and exciting thought. In addition, it may no longer even be necessary, but replaceable by more efficient and useful Internet vetting procedures. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745414/20051127education_pt2.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/20051127education_pt2.html 29 Nov 2005 00:01:00 EST Emboldened by 2004 election, the Rev. Rod Parsley, of Columbus, Ohio, will be 'Silent No More' about what he considers to be the victimization and suppression of evangelical Christians by laws that stifle their expressions of faith. Parsley is working with 900 other pastors to form a powerful religious-political coalition called the Ohio Restoration Project (ORP). They aim to guide their congregations in support of conservative Christian candidates, who will presumably move the Ohio legislature toward an agenda based more on biblical text than on constitutional law. Toward that end, the ORP is diligently working to get one of its strongest proponents, Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, elected governor. But Parsley's call to action has led other religious leaders in Ohio to speak out against the efforts of the ORP." http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745415/20051128ohio_religion.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/20051128ohio_religion.html 17 Nov 2005 00:01:00 EST ePluribus Media reviews "The Cycle of Doom: Selected Essays in Discourse and Society" by Dubem Okafor. In his book of essays and reviews collected from past work, Dubem Okafor tries to answer this question. A poet, a native of Nigeria who has studied in Nigeria, England, Canada and the United States - and who now makes his home in Pennsylvania - Dr. Okafor is particularly well-suited for this exploration. His conclusions, though, are not particularly pleasant: As he says in the first page of his preface, "The joyous spirit bade adieu a long time ago." http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745416/20051117cycleofdoom.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/reviews/20051117cycleofdoom.html 14 Nov 2005 00:01:00 EST Dann said that he had decided to run for attorney general to "try to change the way business is done in Ohio, from a transactional system to a more transformational form of government, [and] to help lay out the case why [the current] type of government is holding us back — why the corruption is causing us to not be able to make the critical investments we need to make as a state." http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745417/20051114dann.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/news/20051114dann.html 03 Nov 2005 00:01:00 EST These past decades have seen relentless attacks on US educational institutions. Too many of them have been aimed at one thing: the transfer of control over our schools and universities from the institutions themselves into the hands of politicians. School vouchers, No Child Left Behind, David Horowitz's Academic Bill of Rights, and even Intelligent Design: Each of these moves education decision-making from the local school's teacher and administrator to the legislative hall. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745418/20051031education.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/20051031education.html 31 Oct 2005 00:01:00 EST An ePluribus Media interview with Allan Lichtman, professor of history at American University and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Maryland. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745419/lichtman20051025p1.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/interviews/lichtman20051025p1.html 24 Oct 2005 00:00:15 EST The owner of a Virginia business indicted for paying kickbacks in the U.N. Oil-for-Food program in Iraq has a reputed history of dealing with the CIA in foreign arms sales. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745420/20051023warprofiteer.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/20051023warprofiteer.html 18 Oct 2005 02:00:00 EST Military spending is the economic elephant in the middle of America's living room. In 2006, we will commit roughly $500 billion to our armed services, an amount equal to the defense budgets of the rest of the world combined. We'll do so despite the evident reality that our 'best-trained, best-equipped' force is neither trained nor equipped to counter the asymmetric threats we now face and expect to confront for the foreseeable future. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745421/20051018huber.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/columns/20051018huber.html 07 Oct 2005 00:01:00 EST During Bush's 'major' and 'unprecedented' speech Thursday, he made the claim that United States and our partners have stopped a specified number of al Qaeda plots as well as efforts to case targets in the United States or infiltrate operatives into our country. Yet White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan gave answers to reporter's questions following the President's speech that conflict with the President's numbers. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745422/20051007barbinmd.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/columns/20051007barbinmd.html In December, 2004, the Bush administration dodged the legal requirement to have no more than four members of one political party on the USCCR. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745423/crc_p1.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/crc_p1.html Part 1 of the series examines a loosening of state mental health counseling standards and a move to Bible-based counseling begun under the leadership of then Texas Gov. George W. Bush in the 1990's. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745424/20050725fbe_pt1.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/20050725fbe_pt1.html Part 2 of this series investigates what is needed to become a fully credentialed 'Belief Therapist' through Therapon Institute's unique course offerings. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745425/20050725fbe_pt2.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/features/20050725fbe_pt2.html 03 Oct 2005 00:01:00 EST Top 10 Bad Reasons for 'Staying the Course' in Iraq (and One Good One) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EpluribusMedia/~3/158745426/20051003huber.html http://www.epluribusmedia.org/columns/20051003huber.html