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Obama and Gay Marriage: Thanks for Nothing
Seeded on Thu May 10, 2012 12:37 AM EDT (Truthdig)
President Obama was finally politically cornered, including by the unscripted remarks of Vice President Biden. Anyone who attributes courage to Obama in making this announcement is in a bemused state of mind. Obama’s calculation was electoral through and through. And the …
America's idiot rich The 1 percent is complaining louder than ever. There can be no reasoning with people this irrational
Seeded on Wed May 9, 2012 6:22 AM EDT (Salon.com)
Some unknown but alarming number of ultra-rich Americans are now basically totally delusional and completely divorced from reality. This is now an inescapable fact, confirmed by multiple media accounts of billionaire thought and an entire special issue of the New York Times M …
How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet
Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 10:36 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Legal and technology researchers estimate that it would take about a month for Internet users to read the privacy policies of all the Web sites they visit in a year. So in the interest of time, here is the deal: You know that dream where you suddenly realize you’re stark …
Target, Upset With Amazon, Will Stop Selling Kindles
Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 8:04 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Target, signaling its growing irritation with its rival Amazon, announced on Wednesday that it would stop selling the online retailer’s Kindle e-readers. Enlarge This Image Matthew Staver/Bloomberg News Unpacking Kindle Fires at a Target in Denver in November. Target has …
Harvard and M.I.T. Offer Free Online Courses
Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 8:02 AM EDT (The New York Times)
In what is shaping up as an academic Battle of the Titans — one that offers vast new learning opportunities for students around the world — Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to off …
How to Destroy Education While Making a Trillion Dollars
Seeded on Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:17 PM EDT (Common Dreams)
The Vietnam War produced more than its share of iconic idiocies. Perhaps the most revelatory was the psychotic assertion of an army major explaining the U.S. bombing of the provincial hamlet of Ben Tre: “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.” If only su …
Jimmy Kimmel Addresses Marijuana Legalization At White House Correspondents' Dinner 2012
Seeded on Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:41 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)
While delivering his remarks at the 2012 White House Correspondents' Dinner, comedian Jimmy Kimmel addressed the issue of marijuana legalization. "What is with the marijuana crackdown? Seriously, what is the concern? We will deplete the nation's Funyun supply?" Kimmel said. "P …
Secret Service probing foreign hard-partying allegations
Seeded on Sat Apr 28, 2012 1:14 AM EDT (CBS News)
(CBS News) WASHINGTON - The Secret Service sex scandal is getting wider. The dispute over payment to a prostitute in Cartagena, Colombia, by a Secret Service agent has triggered new charges of hard partying and impropriety by agents around the globe. Two weeks after the incid …
Et Tu, Pelosi? : Nancy Pelosi Says She'd Back Simpson-Bowles Plan (VIDEO)
Seeded on Sat Apr 28, 2012 1:04 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)
WASHINGTON -- Two progressive organizations have found themselves in the unusual position of being on the opposite side of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. Over the course of the past two years, the former House Speaker has been the most significant obstacle to the ongoing …
Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem
Seeded on Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:14 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are “78 to 81” Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. Of course, it’s not unusual for some renegade lawmaker from either side of the aisle to say …
Supreme Court rejects challenge to New York's rent control
Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:22 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to New York City's famed rent-control ordinance, a post-World War II housing measure that limits the rents of more than a million apartments. The court's refusal Monday to hear the case is a setback for p …
Shift on Executive Powers Let Obama Bypass Congress
Seeded on Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:22 PM EDT (The New York Times)
WASHINGTON — One Saturday last fall, President Obama interrupted a White House strategy meeting to raise an issue not on the agenda. He declared, aides recalled, that the administration needed to more aggressively use executive power to govern in the face of Congressional …
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Rent-Control Challenge
Seeded on Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:46 AM EDT (The New York Times)
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of New York City’s rent regulations. As is customary, the court’s order gave no reasons, and there were no noted dissents.
Apple Security: Products Surprisingly Vulnerable, Studies Find
Seeded on Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:33 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Alright, Apple fans, it's time to face the truth: Your Macs aren't as safe as you might think. According to PCWorld, a report recently released by Internet security firm Trend Micro shows that Apple posted the highest number of reported security vulnerabilities during the firs …
America the Christian Nation - Is Christianity the Basis for Liberty?
Sat Apr 21, 2012 8:55 PM EDT
Recently, one of the first pennies ever produced by the U.S Mint was sold for over a million dollars. What’s interesting about this penny is what it says and how it contradicts what some extreme elements of Christianity often say – that America is a Christian Nation. …
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Jeb Bush: I'd Consider Vice Presidency
Seeded on Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:58 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Bush said he'd consider running if Romney were to ask him. But the former governor added that he's not sure running for vice president is the right thing for him and said he's doubtful he'd even receive the call.
MSNBC's Martin Bashir Condemns Mitt Romney To Hell With Book Of Mormon (VIDEO)
Seeded on Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:17 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Then, he wondered how Romney would be punished for lying, and whipped out the religious text of Romney's faith. “In Section 63, in verse 17 of the Doctrine and Covenants of the Mormon Church we find this: ‘All liars, and whosoever loveth and and maketh a lie, and t …
Is Your Computer Infected? Here's a fix.
Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:51 PM EDT
Hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide may have been infected by hackers in an online advertising scam and may lose their ability to connect to the Internet on July 9.
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State Assembly Takes Up Several Bill For Rent Protections For Tenants
Seeded on Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:27 PM EDT ()
With the U.S. Supreme Court still considering hearing a case about the city's rent laws, Democrats in the State Assembly are trying to strengthen rent protections for tenants, and a package of bills is currently moving through the chamber. NY1's Zack Fink filed the following re …
Clayton Osbon, JetBlue Pilot, Plans To Plead Insanity (VIDEO)
Seeded on Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:39 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Clayton Osbon, the JetBlue captain who experienced a mid-air meltdown on March 27, has plans to plead insanity in a Texas court, according to reports. In a motion filed Wednesday, Osbon's attorneys alerted federal prosecutors that Osbon will state he was insane at the time of …
Bad Social Security Journalism Causes Mass Misunderstandings Of Social Security, Apparently
Seeded on Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:27 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Columbia Journalism Review's Trudy Lieberman has written a lengthy lamentation on the state of our Social Security journalism, and finds that the media -- mostly the Washington Post's Lori Montgomery, naturally! -- has performed a "dubious role" in shaping the debate over the p …
How Lieberman's Bill Would Affect Post Office Closures
Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:28 PM EDT ()
the Postal Service would have to create a set of “service standards” on issues such as accessibility, which it then referenced when considering closing a post office. The USPS would also have to give the public two months to comment on a proposed closure — mo …
Apple, Samsung Settlement Coming? Judge Orders CEOs Tim Cook, Choi Gee-Sung To Meet
Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:22 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd agreed that their chief executives would participate in settlement talks to try to resolve a patent lawsuit over smartphone and tablet technology, according to a court filing. Apple sued Samsung in the United S …
Mitt Romney: I Wouldn't Put Dog On The Roof Again
Seeded on Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:03 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
DIANE SAWYER: As we move away from this primary campaign into the next phase -- again, on Yahoo, we got two questions most often, first about Seamus -- which as you know is out there forever -- would you do it again? MITT ROMNEY: Certainly not with the attention it's received. …
Poll: Walker Regains Lead Over Barrett And Falk
Seeded on Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:41 PM EDT (Talking Points Memo)
A new Daily Kos/Public Policy Polling survey of Wisconsin shows Republican Gov. Scott Walker leading his Democratic challengers in the state's recall election. Walker was tested against all four Democrats in the race: He leads Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett 50 percent to 46 per …
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