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UPDATED: Komen just announced that they are reversing their decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood.  Good decision, but now CEO Nancy Brinker should fire Nancy Handel, then resign herself for this political decision.You've probably heard by now that breast cancer organization, Susan G. Komen Foundation recently terminated its long time partnership with Planned Parenthood purportedly because PP was "under investigation".  The "under investigation" excuse is from a new rule Komen put in place...

Josh Fox arrested on Capitol Hill....

Kate Shepherd reports on emails released under FOIA that confirms what we feared during the BP Macondo well blowout:  in an effort to get the blowout off the television, the government downplayed the environmental damage.  in her report in Mother Jones yesterday, Kate reports on the emails.Report: White House Pressured Scientists to Underestimate BP Spill Size | Mother Jones....

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Video taken in Russia of a crow roof-top snow tubing:...

Buddy Roemer, former Louisiana governor and invisible Republican presidential candidate, was also on the ballot in Iowa.  Roemer, who refuses corporate and PAC money and who also limits individual contributions to $100 per person, has been unsuccessful getting noticed by the media and voters. He was very frustrated during the debates, being denied even an opportunity to share the stage with the better known candidates.  Last night, he went on a Twitter binge that was...

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Another eventful year here at The Hurricane is coming to a close and we appreciate all of our faithful readers.  No matter our political and ideological leanings, one thing remains true that we should especially remember during this season...we are all in this together and each have a responsibility to look after the well being of our fellow human beings.  That obligation to one another often gets lost in the great noise machine of political...

http://this-small-planet.com/2011/epa-study-finds-frac-fluid-components-in-wyoming-town-ground-water/...

http://this-small-planet.com/2011/keystone-xl-pipeline-extension-not-the-real-issue/...

Martha Scanlan, originally from Minnesota, but now living a working on a ranch in Montana, has become popular among bluegrass and cowboy heritage circles.  Her songwriting and singing are beautiful and inspiring.  Her latest project, Tongue River Stories, is music written and performed on a family ranch in the Tongue River Valley of Montana.  Here's a video of one of her songs shot in the cabin she lives in on the ranch: Martha will be...

The Dalai Lama has something to say about today's politics....

A very insightful piece by former GWB staffer David Frum about how the Tea Party is driving the GOP bus right over the 2012 cliff.  ...

http://this-small-planet.com/2011/the-fight-for-equality-from-mlk-to-occupy-wall-street/...

If you are a Colbert fan, you'll already know that he has taken on super pacs and the secret money that is infecting our elections.  By starting his own super pac, he is exposing the hypocrisy of using millions in secret money to influence elections, but has drawn Karl Rove's attorney's attention by pointing out how the crazy new rules allow money in super pacs to keep his donors secret.  Colbert confronts Rove as only...

I've been watching the Occupy Wall Street movement since it started in New York on September 17th.  In the early days, coverage outside of Occupy Wall Street's own website was virtually non-existent, dismissed by the media.  The major networks were no where to be found, and even local coverage was sparse.  It wasn't until a video of a police supervisor pepper spraying peaceful protestors went viral did the media finally wake up.  Read more here......

I was on my way to my local grocer this evening when I learned on my iPhone that Steve Jobs had died. It was one of those moments that, as you grow older, become oh, so familiar...time stops, and that sharp pain of sadness dominates. My earliest memory of this kind of pain was the assassination of JFK, to whom my blog, this small planet, is dedicated, to the deaths of Martin Luther King,...

I lived in Ann Arbor for 6 years and loved going to Michigan football games on crisp Fall Saturday afternoons.  I have to say, though, that among all the shenanigans I witnessed (or participated in) at the games, I never saw this: Go Blue!...

For a Sunday morning laugh:...