We know the cops arrested him by claiming he was causing a breacjh of the peace when all he did was yell at cops oon his proprty where he had every right to be and they had none.

  I'm not saying Gates handled the situation well (full disclosure-- I know him a little bit and he can be a cantankerous guy under any cicumstances and being tired from a long trip might have made him even crankier) but it's not a crime to yell at cops or even to accuse them of bad motives when it's not true.

Asked at a press conference whether she'd support keeping the House of Representatives in session into the August recess to complete work on health care reform, Speaker Nancy Pelosi was fairly adamant.

"I think 70 percent of the American people would want that," she said. "I want a bill."

The healthcare issue is about people facing a choice between bankruptcy and dying because they got dropped by their insurance and can't afford new one.

Rather has vowed to never settle the case out of court.

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My personal opinion in that this case is about two arrogant, liberal men in a power struggle, no racism involved. Just big offended egos and ill-considered displays of power. It's been reported that Gates immediately responded to the officer's request for ID by calling the Police Chief to report that the officer's actions were "racist." An act that was likely very offensive to a man who teaches a class on racial profiling. Arrogant (probably classist) Harvard professor presumes cop is a racist idiot and demonstrates his connections and power by reporting this ungrounded assumption to the man's superior. Insulted liberal cop expresses personal pique and salves ego with inappropiate arrest as payback.

Two days ago I had this to say here concerning the Gates incident:

I find it rather shameful that so many educated individuals here can assume they know exactly what happened, and what everyone was thinking, based on whether someone was white or black.

I still stand by that and add President Obama to the foolish list. He started off very well mentioning he wasn't there...and then dove in hook, line, and sinker.

After Jay-Z released "D.O.A. ('Death of Auto-Tune')" The Game saw an opportunity to peel off Jay-Z's key alliance partners to form a coalition and undermine Jay-Z's hegemony. Even if he loses the fight with Jay-Z, The Game's stock goes up because he's "in" with the big guy. All The Game has to do, Lynch says, is survive.
Lynch says that, like the United States, a hegemon like Jay-Z can't afford to get into little battles all the time.

In a first-of-its-kind study, the non-profit Rand Corp linked the rapid growth in U.S. health care costs to job losses and lower output. The study, published online by the journal Health Services Research, gives weight to President Barack Obama's dire warnings about the impact of rising costs if Congress does not enact health care reform.

Meet Tennessee state senator Paul Stanley. He's a solid conservative Republican and married father of two, who according to his website is "a member of Christ United Methodist Church, where he serves as a Sunday school teacher and board member of their day school." (Check out the religious imagery on the site -- the sun poking through clouds, as if manifesting God's presence -- which of course shows Stanley's deeply pious nature.)

Stanley recently sponsored a bill designed to prevent gay couples from adopting children. And when a Planned Parenthood official recently sought his support for family planning services for Memphis teens, Stanley told her, according to the official, that he "didn't believe young people should have sex before marriage anyway, that his faith and church are important to him, and he wants to promote abstinence."