Positive Universe Abstracts

Huffington Post
Chip Collis
Posted March 31, 2008 | 08:49 AM (EST)
I have noted a number of myths amongst the comments here as to why Hillary should stay in the race. Here are ten enduring, kudzu-like myths, with the debunking they sorely need.
Myth: This race is tied.
No, actually, it’s not. Obama has the lead in number of [...]

Sunday Herald, UK
By Trevor Royle
MILITARY PLANNERS call it the tipping point, the decisive moment when circumstances conspire to replace one set of certainties with the precise opposite, when what passes for normality slides into anarchy and the authorities are powerless to do anything to halt the mayhem.
In Iraq this weekend, the expression has taken on [...]

Baltimore City Paper
by Brian Morton
If you think about it, it’s amazing how completely and thoroughly information has been “managed” over the last seven years of the Bush administration. E-mails have been mishandled and then lost, information that regularly was disseminated to Americans about the workings of their government has been cut off, questions that normally [...]

The Nation.
Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Danny Glover & Barbara Ehrenreich
All American progressives should unite for Barack Obama. We descend from the proud tradition of independent social movements that have made America a more just and democratic country. We believe that the movement today supporting Barack Obama continues this great tradition of grassroots participation, drawing [...]

Huffington Post
Pamela Gerloff
“Most men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and continue as if nothing happened.” — Winston Churchill
Churchill’s words about the human propensity to ignore the truth that is right in front of us reminds me of the mainstream media’s response to Senator Obama’s speech on race. The speech was [...]

Pasadena Star News
THAT idiotic “what me worry?” look just never leaves the man’s visage. Once again, there was our president, presiding over disasters, in part of his making and totally on his watch, grinning with an aplomb that suggested a serious disconnect between his worldview and reality. Be it in his announcement that Iraq is [...]

New American Media
New America Media, News Analysis
Roberto Lovato, Posted: Mar 19, 2008
Editor’s note: Obama’s electrifying speech in Philadelphia on race and race relations points to the realism-idealism gap between his camp and Hillary Clinton’s, writes NAM editor Robert Lovato. Lovato is a writer based in New York.
Barack Obama’s speech in Philadelphia eloquently displayed how [...]