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The great Republican NLRB freakout of 2011 is a little hard to write about, because by explaining what’s going on in a way that makes it more interesting than watching paint dry, you’ve almost certainly done the Republicans a favor by sensationalizing [...]
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Obama meeting with Wall Street execs, many top donors, to apologize. Does he need their money, or should be looking towards Americans?
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Remember how the Obama team’s 21st century internet campaign fundraising would immunize it from needing money from the usual special interests? [...]
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The Supreme Court’s Dukes vs. Walmart, raising the bar for plaintiffs in class action suits, means workers who already have it bad in this economy probably won’t have it any better, and won’t be able to do much about it.
Can’t Win. Don’t Try.
The [...]
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Continuing a pattern, The Drudge Report prominently featured the following headlines on June
27, all of which involved crimes or violence allegedly committed by
African-Americans:
[The Drudge Report, 6/27/11]
Related:
Gawker: Matt
Drudge’s Angry Black People Obsession
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President Barack Obama spoke to LGBT supporters (and generous contributors) at a gala fundraising event in New York City Thursday night. Because of the event’s location and timing — smack in the middle of the New York state legislature’s debate on gay [...]
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Captain Louis Renault: What in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick Blaine: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Louis Renault: The waters? What waters? We’re in the desert!
Rick Blaine: I was misinformed.
So Jon [...]
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This week, Keith Olbermann debuted
his Countdown show on Current TV, having left MSNBC earlier this year. According to
Nielsen numbers released by Current, Countdown’s
Monday night debut attracted 179,000 viewers between the ages of 25-54. It
was an impressive showing for [...]
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How important is privacy online?It is a well-known—though questionable—truth in the online community that consumers won’t pay for privacy. Accordingly, most companies regard the entire issue warily. For them, privacy means expensive disclosure requirements, constraints on their ability to collect information [...]
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This is what I found in the CBO’s summary.
Recently, the federal government has been recording budget deficits that are the largest as a share of the economy since 1945. Consequently, the amount of federal debt held by the public has [...]
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Barbie Latza Nadeau, author of the Beast Book
Angel Face, about Amanda Knox, has reported from Italy for Newsweek Magazine since [...]
More resignations for Newt Gingrich’s campaign today. Gingrich says he doesn’t know why they left.
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Two fundraisers from Newt Gingrich’s campaign have resigned, citing Gingrich’s excessive debt. Total defections so far for the self-proclaimed candidate: 18. Unnamed officials familiar with the details of his [...]
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TV funnyman (I love that phrase) Jon Stewart is back in the news again, as he so frequently seems to be. For reasons I don’t fully understand, Chris Wallace thought [...]
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Oil and Gas exec makes claim that’s hard to believe
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Jack Germond has been covering national politics and Washington since 1960. He spent 20 years with the Gannett papers, then eight with [...]
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Did Facebook intentionally block the website of UK-based labor protest organizers? The company denies the allegation, but UK activists aren’t convinced.
Labor unions and student activists in the United Kingdom are organizing a massive strike of public workers to protest cuts planned by Prime Minister David [...]
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The United States has about 200,000 military personnel in Afghanistan, half of them troops, half of them contractors.
President Barack Obama put over two-thirds of that number there,
first with a big escalation in 2009 that everyone refuses to pay the
slightest [...]
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By eXtina
The Daily Kos
via Alternet.org
Bravo:
The bias of the media is towards laziness, conflict, and sensationalism.
And NOT, a liberal bias.
And then they moved on to the shot that has already been heard around the world:
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JERSEY CITY, NJ — With the Statute of Liberty as a backdrop, Jon Huntsman will introduce himself as “a governor, a businessman, and a diplomat,” as he outlines a campaign positioned against the attacks of the other GOP contenders looking to take on his [...]
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Is the Obama administration finally preparing to apply real pressure on the Bahraini regime in response to its crackdown on pro-democracy protesters? The biggest labor federation in the U.S. sees a glimmer of hope in a new Department of Labor investigation into [...]
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The animus between Jon Stewart and Fox News is nothing new to anyone with a cable box: The former routinely lampoons the Becks, Hannitys and O’Reillys of the world for their partisan histrionics, while the latter presents “The Daily Show” as a [...]
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Devoted fans of the popular cop show can probably recite it in their sleep: “In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate
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NEW ORLEANS — Republicans head into 2012 united in their disdain for an unpopular, big government-loving, internationalist president.
The name of that president: George W. Bush.
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The way the last week has gone, Anthony Weiner’s decision to resign from Congress isn’t that surprising. Obviously, it’s impossible to say what the future holds for him. This is America, the land of second (and third and fourth and fifth…) [...]
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House Democratic leaders could begin the process of taking away Rep. Anthony Weiner’s committee assignments today as part of a final push to force him from office, even as a minor backlash against calls for his resignation has emerged from one corner [...]
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The fight over presidential authority in the military conflict in Libya reached a tipping point Wednesday, morphing from an academic discussion over the War Powers Resolution to a serious challenge to President Barack Obama’s authority to keep U.S. forces involved in the [...]
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question of regulation and regulatory uncertainty. And I took this very
much to heart. As I’ve said before, I’m a big believer that it’s
important for us to
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While virtually nobody will be surprised by the conclusions, a study published by Brown University economists Brian Knight and Nathan Schiff has quantified something long debated in electoral circles, the undue influence granted to states with early primaries.
For those scoring at [...]
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A survey by the National Federation of Independent Businesses released Tuesday showed small businesses are less optimistic about the direction of the economy. The release marked the third decline in as many months of the Index [...]
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Barack Obama, the President of Hope and Change, has proven to be the same old same old, on steroids. Like many Presidents before him, Barack Obama, the man who once pledged to make his staff sign commitments to not go into lobbying after their [...]
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Reps. Howard Berman and Brad Sherman, two House Democrats who have served alongside each other in neighboring Southern California districts for more than a decade, have long maintained a healthy rivalry.
But the knives might soon come out.
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Democrats controlling the Senate are vowing that any deal this summer to cut the deficit won’t cut back benefits for people enrolled in Medicare.
Majority Leader Harry Reid called on Republicans to take any cuts to Medicare benefits “off the table.”
The [...]
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NY celebrities and Democrats are still pushing hard for a bill in support of gay marriage. However, Republicans in NY senate still hold their ground and stand against bill.
The effort to legalize gay marriage in New York is getting an all-out lobbying effort from Democrats and celebrities, but there’s still no sign of [...]
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Entitlements? They seemed to work just fine from the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt until the 80s. Of course there is always room for realistic discussion of how to best administrate those entitlements, and which ones are creating a positive return to society. [...]
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President Obama’s advisers think a corporate tax cut will make America more competitive, but is he getting advice from the wrong people? Marshall Auerback on where the real key to recovery lies.
Message to Barack Obama: It is time to panic. Our economy is [...]
Continue Reading →Meanwhile, despite Mr. Perry’s stated opposition to a federally-mandated health insurance exchange and the state’s participation in lawsuits aimed at overturning federal health reform, officials at the Texas Department of Insurance acknowledge that since last fall, with the help of a $1 million grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, they [...]
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By Adelle M. Banks
Religion News Service
(RNS) Southern Baptists meeting in Phoenix adopted a plan Tuesday (June 14) to try to boost minorities in their top leadership posts as they face continuing reports of stagnant baptism rates and declining membership.
Members [...]
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By Peter Kenny
Religion News Service
GENEVA (RNS) The Obama administration’s new envoy for international religious freedom told a U.N. commission on Tuesday (June 14) that government, political, religious and business leaders must stand ready to condemn hateful ideology.
Borrowing from recent [...]
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GOFFSTOWN, N.H.—Mitt Romney couldn’t have scripted an easier debate for himself.
The Republican presidential frontrunner came into the debate looking strong and emerged from it stronger, as his opponents repeatedly passed up opportunities to go on the attack – and [...]
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Let’s be clear: Monday night’s Republican presidential debate will soon be forgotten. There will be countless other forums between now and the start of the primary and caucus season, and nothing that was said by any of the seven candidates who participated [...]
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