Jesse the Body and American Secrecy
We should all be grateful to former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura for being a high-profile figure asking important questions about our corrupt government. Ventura is absolutely correct, for example, that our government has even admitted to fabricating us into war in Vietnam (through the staging of the Gulf of Tonkin incident), yet the discovery and admission of that deceit a few years ago caused nary a raised eyebrow among the watchdogs in our traditional news media.Jesse's new book "63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read" has been filled with indisputable tidbits of information-- full declassified documents-- available to all in the public domain. It's an indictment of a government that has seemingly made secrecy, or lack of transparency, its #1 public objective. According to Ventura, our government saw fit to classify as "Top Secret" 16 million documents in 2010 alone. It's an absurdity. On Thursday, he spoke to Al Jazeera, where they're less committed to protecting the U.S. political class.
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Old-fashioned racism may be coming back in vogue, replacing the veiled racism of the Willie Horton/"welfare queen"/Obama birther variety. A poll finds that 46%(!) of registered Republican voters in Mississippi support a legal ban on interracial marriage.
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Albert Pujols will be profiled by Bob Simon on Sunday night's "60 Minutes."
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Tina Fey answers the Proust Questionnaire in the May issue of Vanity Fair.
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