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Leigh Ferrara
Author's Articles
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Conspiracy Watch: Drill, Corsi, Drill
Oil not from living organisms
—Mon Dec. 8, 2008 12:00 AM PST -
Consumer Retorts: Apple Computer
Why is it easier to watch Netflix movies on a PC than…
—Tue Jul. 1, 2008 12:00 AM PDT -
Power Q&A: Hunter Lovins
The avid horsewoman, author, and founder of Natural…
—Mon Apr. 21, 2008 12:00 AM PDT -
Conspiracy Watch: Bill and Hill's Thrill Kill
From the January/February 2008 issue.
—Fri Jan. 4, 2008 12:00 AM PST -
How Green Was My Rally?
From the January/February 2008 issue.
—Fri Dec. 21, 2007 12:00 AM PST -
Kristele Younes, Refugees International
From the November/December 2007 issue.
—Thu Oct. 18, 2007 12:00 AM PDT -
Kirk Johnson, former USAID reconstruction coordinator in Iraq
From the November/December 2007 issue.
—Thu Oct. 18, 2007 12:00 AM PDT -
Bill Frelick, Human Rights Watch
From the November/December 2007 issue.
—Thu Oct. 18, 2007 12:00 AM PDT -
Monica Goodling: 'I Know I Crossed the Line'
In her appearance before the House Judiciary Committee…
—Thu May. 24, 2007 12:00 AM PDT -
MySpace Meltdown: How Barack Obama Lost His Biggest Fan
Much of the new online political organizing work isn…
—Mon May. 14, 2007 12:00 AM PDT -
Interview: The Way of the Gun
Meet Dr.…
—Thu Apr. 19, 2007 12:00 AM PDT -
Attorney Firings: Sampson Speaks
Hung out to dry by the Attorney General, Kyle Sampson…
—Thu Mar. 29, 2007 12:00 AM PDT -
A (Mostly) Warm Reception for Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth' on the Hill
Gore tells Senate committee to put aside politics…
—Thu Mar. 22, 2007 12:00 AM PDT -
A (Mostly) Warm Reception for Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth' on the Hill
Gore tells Senate committee to put aside politics…
—Thu Mar. 22, 2007 12:00 AM PDT -
Valerie Plame and the Attack of the Paparazzi
Former covert operative speaks for the first time?…
—Fri Mar. 16, 2007 12:00 AM PDT -
Don't Lean on Me: Fired Prosecutors Speak Out on Capitol Hill
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, former…
—Tue Mar. 6, 2007 12:00 AM PST -
Journalism Under Pressure
Frontline documentary examines how the Bush…
—Mon Feb. 12, 2007 12:00 AM PST -
Who's Buying Your Commute?
A state-by-state tally of highway privatization projects…
—Mon Jan. 1, 2007 12:00 AM PST -
Shifting Migration
Can a fence along the border clear up 25 million tons…
—Fri Sep. 29, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
Digging Up the Dirt on Gold
Gold's heavy costs
—Sat Jul. 1, 2006 12:00 AM PDT -
How Mining Companies Make a Mess...
...for taxpayers to clean up.
—Wed May. 3, 2006 12:00 AM PDT
Author's Blog Posts
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Pork: The Other Clear Nail Polish
—Wed May. 28, 2008 2:00 PM PDT -
Obama Spokesman Jabs McCain on Al Qaeda-Iran Gaffe
—Wed Mar. 19, 2008 5:46 PM PDT -
Mike Huckabee Cuts Costs, Unintentionally Saves Planet
—Tue Jan. 22, 2008 11:31 AM PST -
What Would You Ask Senator Obama?
—Fri Nov. 30, 2007 2:46 PM PST -
Dreaming of a Green Xmas: Compost Bins, Carbon Offsets, and All
—Fri Nov. 30, 2007 1:44 PM PST -
The Bottom Line Six Feet Under
—Thu Nov. 29, 2007 12:16 PM PST -
Kucinich Campaign Hoping to Rolling Out Energy-Efficient Computers Cooled by Veggie Oil. Seriously.
—Thu Nov. 15, 2007 6:32 PM PST -
Bush Still Peddling Progress in Iraq. Sigh.
—Wed Nov. 7, 2007 2:25 PM PST -
CBS' Vital Campaign News Coverage, Elizabeth Kucinich Still Has a Tongue Ring
—Fri Nov. 2, 2007 11:30 AM PDT -
TSA Falls Short, Foreign Repair Shops Ripe for Terrorist Sabotage
—Wed Oct. 17, 2007 9:45 AM PDT -
Women Lagging Politically, Except for That Whole WH Contender Thing
—Thu Aug. 16, 2007 12:58 PM PDT -
D.C. Seeks to Fight for Its 30-Year-Old Gun Ban in the High Court
—Mon Jul. 16, 2007 11:30 AM PDT -
Bill Richardson Has Great Ads, Is Incapable of Answering Questions
—Tue Jun. 12, 2007 8:05 AM PDT -
God Doesn't Just Hate Rudy
—Fri Jun. 8, 2007 1:45 PM PDT -
The United States: Not Very Peaceful
—Fri Jun. 8, 2007 12:25 PM PDT -
Former Interim U.S. Atty. Inhales Helium Before Hearing, Shifts Blame to Colleague
—Wed Jun. 6, 2007 10:10 AM PDT -
Interim U.S. Attn. and Rove Protege Timothy Griffin Resigns
—Thu May. 31, 2007 10:25 AM PDT -
Thompson Campaign Courts Rove Protege, Not Their Best Move
—Wed May. 30, 2007 10:55 AM PDT -
Prosecutor Firings: Goodling's Testimony, the Gift that Keeps on Giving
—Fri May. 25, 2007 3:05 PM PDT -
Future of State Gun Laws in the Hands of D.C.'s Mayor?
—Wed May. 16, 2007 12:20 PM PDT -
D.C.'s Gun Ban Could Be Headed to the Supreme Court, Gun Laws Beware
—Tue May. 8, 2007 1:30 PM PDT -
How Come Obama MySpace Page Creator Doesn't Have a Lawyer?
—Mon May. 7, 2007 10:15 AM PDT -
Bush: And You All Thought I Was 'the Decider'
—Thu May. 3, 2007 9:43 AM PDT -
Bush's FBI/DOJ Neglect Hate Crimes and Other Civil Rights Cases
—Fri Apr. 27, 2007 11:25 AM PDT -
McCain Neglects to Vote on Iraq War Spending Bill and Everything Else, Really
—Thu Apr. 26, 2007 1:45 PM PDT -
Somebody Needs to Put a Lid on McCain's Straight Talk Express
—Thu Apr. 26, 2007 11:56 AM PDT -
I'm with Salon, All Roads Do Lead to Rove
—Thu Apr. 26, 2007 10:35 AM PDT -
European Members of World Bank Spurn Changes to Family-Planning Policy
—Wed Apr. 25, 2007 2:05 PM PDT -
Future BHO and John McCain to Duke it out on MySpace, and Maybe on TV
—Wed Apr. 25, 2007 11:27 AM PDT -
Walter Reed Conditions Were Not New News (to DoD), Dpt. Held Focus Groups for Years
—Wed Apr. 25, 2007 10:05 AM PDT -
Another Drop in the Bucket, Baghdad Government Pledges $25 Million in Aid for Refugees
—Wed Apr. 18, 2007 2:30 PM PDT -
New Email Released Shows Sampson's a Fibber
—Sat Apr. 14, 2007 10:44 AM PDT -
The Last, Last Hope?
—Fri Apr. 13, 2007 1:25 PM PDT -
Bush Doles Out EVEN More B.S. On the Border
—Tue Apr. 10, 2007 10:40 AM PDT -
Prosecutor Purge: House GOPers Call Out DOJ, Mock Bush's Immigration Record
—Wed Apr. 4, 2007 12:22 PM PDT -
Texas Tots for Sale
—Mon Mar. 26, 2007 4:28 PM PDT -
Prosecutor Purge, Sort Of Like Anna Nicole Smith...
—Mon Mar. 26, 2007 9:16 AM PDT -
Hillary Responds to 1984-style YouTube Ad, Code Pink Sings to Her
—Wed Mar. 21, 2007 7:25 AM PDT -
DOJ Doc Dump, Gonzales Under Fire Still
—Tue Mar. 20, 2007 8:24 AM PDT -
Nowhere To Run To...But Really This Time
—Mon Mar. 19, 2007 1:50 PM PDT -
U.S. Attorney Firing May Be Connected to CIA Corruption Probe
—Mon Mar. 19, 2007 7:12 AM PDT -
Emergency Contraception, Is It Just Around Your Corner?
—Thu Mar. 15, 2007 11:01 AM PDT -
Prosecutor Purge: Senate Doesn't Care What Bush Says, Going to Subpoena White House Officials
—Thu Mar. 15, 2007 7:19 AM PDT -
Center for American Progress' Campus Progress Launches New Iraq Campaign and Film Project
—Wed Mar. 14, 2007 4:18 PM PDT -
Center for American Progress' Campus Progress Launches New Iraq Campaign and Film Project
—Wed Mar. 14, 2007 4:16 PM PDT -
Watchdog Group Files FEC Complaint Against Duncan Hunter's PAC
—Wed Mar. 14, 2007 12:11 PM PDT -
Prosecutor Purge: New Development, Carol Lam Not Fired for Cunningham Investigation
—Wed Mar. 14, 2007 11:10 AM PDT -
Clinton, Edwards Call on Gonzales to Resign
—Wed Mar. 14, 2007 7:34 AM PDT -
Chuck Schumer to Bush on Prosecutor Purge: Explain Yourself
—Tue Mar. 13, 2007 2:30 PM PDT -
Iraq's Refugee Crisis, Nobody Spared
—Mon Mar. 12, 2007 1:30 PM PDT -
Republican Senator Jon Kyl to Block U.S. Attorney Legislation
—Mon Mar. 12, 2007 10:19 AM PDT -
Chuck Who? Americans Don't Know Much About the Potential Prez Candidate
—Mon Mar. 12, 2007 8:20 AM PDT -
NM GOP Party Leader Says Rove Had Hand in Firing USA
—Sun Mar. 11, 2007 1:30 PM PDT -
Libby Pardon Mania
—Fri Mar. 9, 2007 10:25 AM PST -
Rove on U.S. Attorney Firings: This Is So Not A Big Deal
—Thu Mar. 8, 2007 2:42 PM PST -
Update on U.S. Attorneys Probe: DOJ Officials May Be Subpoenaed
—Thu Mar. 8, 2007 5:55 AM PST -
Update on U.S. Attorneys Investigation: DOJ Official Denies Allegations Against Him
—Wed Mar. 7, 2007 10:30 AM PST -
Global Warming...Are You Ready?
—Thu Mar. 1, 2007 8:56 AM PST -
Global Warming...Are You Ready?
—Wed Feb. 28, 2007 12:23 PM PST -
Global Warming...Are You Ready?
—Wed Feb. 28, 2007 11:23 AM PST -
Edwards Zings Clinton On Iraq: Voters Want An Apology
—Tue Feb. 27, 2007 4:45 PM PST -
Troop Readiness Comprised, Bush Cuts Corners Again
—Tue Feb. 27, 2007 4:02 PM PST -
Increase in STD Vaccines Signals Trouble for Abstinence Industry
—Wed Feb. 21, 2007 12:35 PM PST -
Sadr City On the Table for Security Crackdown
—Wed Feb. 21, 2007 11:30 AM PST -
Not So Fast Senator...I Was Wondering If We Could Discuss That War
—Tue Feb. 20, 2007 12:10 PM PST -
RSC Backs Off On Attack Against Pelosi's Blog, Because, Well, They Were Wrong
—Fri Feb. 16, 2007 11:52 AM PST -
Migration Group Says 1 Million Iraqi Refugees Will Flee This Year
—Fri Feb. 16, 2007 11:30 AM PST -
Republicans Say Pelosi's New Blog Violates Copyright Laws
—Thu Feb. 15, 2007 1:28 PM PST -
Tennessee To Require Death Certificates For Aborted Fetuses
—Thu Feb. 15, 2007 1:14 PM PST -
For Love Or Money, Er...Politics
—Tue Feb. 13, 2007 10:40 PM PST -
Banking Industry Offers Credit Cards to High-Risk Group, Again
—Tue Feb. 13, 2007 2:11 PM PST -
One Down... Edwards Loses Liberal Blogger
—Mon Feb. 12, 2007 10:50 PM PST -
Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't
—Thu Feb. 8, 2007 5:30 PM PST -
Edwards Keeps Liberal Bloggers, Grows Thicker Skin, Sort of
—Thu Feb. 8, 2007 2:50 PM PST -
Right-Wingers Lambast Edwards' Liberal Bloggers, Campaign Caves
—Wed Feb. 7, 2007 7:30 PM PST -
Well, It's Definitely Not Disney World
—Wed Feb. 7, 2007 3:52 PM PST -
Congressional Republicans Polled On Global Warming, Slam Al Gore
—Mon Feb. 5, 2007 3:18 PM PST -
Nowhere To Run To
—Mon Feb. 5, 2007 11:37 AM PST -
They Don't Have Ham Sandwiches in the Muslim World, or Petraeus is Nothing More Than an Easy Out
—Tue Jan. 30, 2007 5:12 PM PST -
Dispatch from Sundance: And the (Oscar) Winners Are...
—Tue Jan. 30, 2007 11:40 AM PST -
Dispatch from Sundance: And the (Oscar) Winners Are...
—Tue Jan. 30, 2007 11:39 AM PST -
Bernie Kerik To Try His Luck In Guyana
—Fri Jan. 26, 2007 12:15 PM PST -
Bush to Congress: "I'm Still Making the Decisions Around Here"
—Fri Jan. 26, 2007 10:00 AM PST -
Dispatch from Sundance: Bodine and Gen. Garner Weigh In On New Iraq Movie, "No End In Sight"
—Tue Jan. 23, 2007 12:17 PM PST -
Bush to Pro-Lifers: Don't Stand So Close To Me
—Tue Jan. 23, 2007 8:00 AM PST -
Closest Place With No Clear Channel Ads: Bergen, Norway
—Thu Jan. 18, 2007 3:10 PM PST -
Nowhere To Run To
—Thu Jan. 4, 2007 11:14 AM PST -
Maliki, Too, Thinks He's Not Right For The Job
—Wed Jan. 3, 2007 12:10 PM PST -
Soldiers Too Are "Down On the War"
—Sat Dec. 30, 2006 11:05 AM PST -
Proxy War Anyone?
—Wed Dec. 13, 2006 10:42 AM PST -
Is There a "New Way Forward"?
—Tue Dec. 12, 2006 4:05 PM PST -
Coming to America
—Mon Dec. 11, 2006 3:19 PM PST -
Rummy Reads. Finds Out Civil War Caused American Deaths.
—Fri Dec. 8, 2006 2:27 PM PST -
Iraq's Refugee Crisis More Dire than Darfur?
—Thu Dec. 7, 2006 12:04 PM PST -
Income Inequality in the U.S.? Nah.
—Tue Dec. 5, 2006 5:46 PM PST -
Al Sadr's Mouthpiece Chimes in on Iran, Secession and Saddam
—Tue Dec. 5, 2006 12:56 PM PST -
Are Americans Disengaging or Just Finding Others Ways to Engage?
—Fri Dec. 1, 2006 4:10 PM PST -
Study Shows Abortion Pill Could Prevent Breast Cancer
—Fri Dec. 1, 2006 11:05 AM PST -
Criticism of Maliki Not Just From Al Sadr
—Thu Nov. 30, 2006 5:45 PM PST -
Does the Decider Care What Anyone Thinks?
—Thu Nov. 30, 2006 11:49 AM PST -
Saudi Arabia Plans to Protect Sunni Minority
—Wed Nov. 29, 2006 2:42 PM PST -
"Go Big"..."Go Long"...or "Go Home"?
—Mon Nov. 20, 2006 4:03 PM PST -
"This Just In..." A Fair and Balanced Daily Show
—Mon Nov. 20, 2006 3:39 PM PST -
$2 B for a 700-Mile Fence or $30 B for a Faulty Virtual One?
—Fri Nov. 17, 2006 5:00 PM PST -
"Stay the Course" With a Twist
—Fri Nov. 17, 2006 11:58 AM PST -
Immigration Slips Bush's Mind
—Wed Nov. 8, 2006 10:55 AM PST -
Bill Kristol was Right
—Wed Nov. 8, 2006 9:56 AM PST -
And CBS Projections Don't Show Signs of Letting Up
—Tue Nov. 7, 2006 10:54 PM PST -
The Year of the Woman?
—Tue Nov. 7, 2006 8:40 PM PST -
Yaaaawn....
—Tue Nov. 7, 2006 8:14 PM PST -
If They Do Win, What Then?
—Tue Nov. 7, 2006 7:58 PM PST -
Rove's Election Predictions are Calculated with "THE Math"
—Tue Nov. 7, 2006 7:10 PM PST -
Voter Protection Lines May Be Jammed. Guess Who's to Blame?
—Tue Nov. 7, 2006 5:11 PM PST -
1/3 of White Evangelicals Vote Dem and 57% of Late Deciders Slated to Vote Dem
—Tue Nov. 7, 2006 4:45 PM PST -
The Poster Child for Prop 87 Comes to SF
—Thu Nov. 2, 2006 2:53 PM PST -
Global Warming Compared to Y2K, the "Killer African Bee Scare"
—Tue Oct. 31, 2006 10:39 AM PST -
Companies in China Ask... What's In a Name Anyway?
—Fri Oct. 27, 2006 2:52 PM PDT -
While the Administration Struggles with Spin, USIP Forecasts Iraq's Potential "Descent into Hell"
—Thu Oct. 26, 2006 12:55 PM PDT -
George Washington Refuses to Divest, Grants Scholarship Instead
—Wed Oct. 25, 2006 4:10 PM PDT -
Bush Says Administration is "Constantly" Changing Course
—Mon Oct. 23, 2006 5:15 PM PDT -
GOP Rule and North Korean Nukes
—Tue Oct. 10, 2006 4:20 PM PDT -
Who Holds the Solution to the Byline Gender Gap?
—Tue Oct. 10, 2006 3:21 PM PDT -
Baker Commission Proposes the United States of Iraq
—Mon Oct. 9, 2006 5:04 PM PDT -
Condi v. Warner on Iraq-- "Making Progress" or Taking "Steps Backwards"
—Fri Oct. 6, 2006 1:20 PM PDT -
Environmental Damage: Another Reason Why a Border Fence is a Bad Idea
—Mon Oct. 2, 2006 1:43 PM PDT -
Bush Flip Flops on New Stem Cell Procedure
—Fri Aug. 25, 2006 5:11 PM PDT -
Inhofe Bashes U.N. Peacekeepers, Sings Bush's Praises
—Wed Aug. 23, 2006 4:06 PM PDT -
Can Oil Remain Bullish? Some Call the Commodity on its B.S., But Maybe Too Soon.
—Tue Aug. 22, 2006 2:19 PM PDT -
UN Ambassador turned Wal-Mart PR flak stumbles with diplomacy
—Fri Aug. 18, 2006 4:41 PM PDT









