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America and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Jobs Numbers

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Megan McArdle - Nov. 07 (Opinion) - So headline unemployment now stands at 10.2%, higher than forecast. Another 10 million or so workers are working "part time for economic reasons", meaning they want to work more hours, but can't get them. And 2.4 million are "marginally attached to the labor force"--they have looked for work in the past 12 months, and say they want a job, but have stopped looking too hard because there doesn't seem to be anything out there.

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10 of the Nuttiest Statements Elected Officials Have Made in the Health Care Battle

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Joshua Holland, AlterNet - Nov. 07 (Opinion) - Wild, over-the-top rhetoric and bizarre conspiracy theories about health reform aren't just coming from the right-wing blogs and talk-radio loudmouths.

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The Republican Party Has Failed–And That’s Not Good For Anyone

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Common Dreams - By Chris Edelson - Nov. 07 (Opinion) - The Republican party's failure has me thinking of a Seinfeld episode, the one where Kramer is upset about a Kenny Rogers Roasters restaurant featuring a bright neon sign that lights up his apartment at night. Jerry has an old college friend who winds up working as an assistant manager at the restaurant, and when Kramer hangs a banner from his restaurant protesting the chicken establishment, Jerry's friend remarks "that's not going to be good for business." Jerry responds "that's nread more

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Israeli and Palestinian youth use video to understand the conflict

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By Juliana Rincón Parra - Nov. 07 (Opinion) - Two different organizations in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories are using video tools to help both Arabic and Jewish youth to understand the conflict and bridge gaps between them, creating spaces for interaction and communication where they can share their dreams, concerns and thoughts regarding the complex situation they live in.

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What would improve the House health-care bill

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - Nov. 07 (Opinion) - MUCH OF the criticism of the health-care measure before the House of Representatives is overwrought. Another part is simply wrong. Unfortunately, that does not mean that this is a good bill. As we have said, it does not do enough to control costs, and

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GOP Gone Wild: Unruly Republicans Silence Women Lawmakers With Screams, Shouts, And Delay Tactics

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Think Progress - By Think Progress - Nov. 07 (Opinion) - This morning, the House began consideration of the rule for debate of the House health care bill. As the Democratic Women’s Caucus took to the microphone on the House floor to offer their arguments for how the bill would benefit women, House Republicans — led by Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) — repeatedly talked over, screamed, [...]

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Liveblogging: The new Imperial Congress votes on Pelosicare

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Michelle Malkin - By Michelle Malkin - Nov. 07 (Opinion) - The House is now in Saturday session for the government health care takeover ram down. [...] Read the rest »

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Obama Faces His Anzio

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Nov. 06 (Opinion) - President Obama chose a cautious approach rather than bold action on the economy, and the decision may haunt Democrats for years to come.

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Is the Tea Party Gang Turning GOP Into a Party of Hate? -

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Politics Daily - By David Corn - Nov. 06 (Opinion) - When John Boehner, the Republican leader of the House, appeared at the Tea Party rally at the Capitol on Thursday afternoon, it was a dramatic signal: The wing-nuts have taken over the GOP.

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Obama's Big Power Play

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Kate Sheppard - Nov. 06 (Interview) - President Barack Obama likes to point out that when President Dwight Eisenhower built the federal highway system in the 1950s, he created a network that fueled postwar America?s economic rise. Now Obama?s administration wants to do the same for the green economy with the smart grid?a system of interlocking technologies that could transform the way we use electricity. By receiving real-time data on their energy use, consumers could save big on their power bills by running appliances when electricity is cheapest, rather than during peak demand periods when it?s most expensive. Power distributors could use the system to transport excess energy from one region to another, instead of simply allowing it to go to waste as they do ...

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Want to Save Our Economy from Almighty Greed? Here Are 10 Crucial Fights and Key Fighters to Watch

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Zach Carter - Nov. 06 (Opinion) - There are no less than four federal regulators responsible for overseeing consumer protection in finance, and all of them are terrible.

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Fort Hood: A First Test for Twitter Lists

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Columbia Journalism Review - Nov. 06 - Journalism and curation—it’s becoming increasingly difficult to determine where the one ends and the other begins. The chicken/egg relationship between the two solidified into conventional wisdom during the aftermath of the Iranian election this summer, when journalists—mostly barred from shoe-leather reporting and other, more traditional methods of newsgathering—were forced to play the role of social-media editors. In the...

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GOP Senators on Environment Committee Hit All-Time Low, Third-Graders Have More Maturity

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Tara Lohan - Nov. 06 (Opinion) - Their apparent gripe is that they want EPA to do more extensive modeling runs on the proposed legislation. But really, what they want is to make sure we never have a viable climate bill and most certainly not before Copenhagen.

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Jamal Dajani: Don't Ask Me About Hasan

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:58:18 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jamal Dajani - Nov. 06 - Seven messages and counting on my voice mail from different Bay Area reporters, all wanting to know the Muslim community's reaction about the recent heinous killings of Nidal Malik Hasan. All wanting to know what had driven a 39-year-old Muslim to go

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Faces of a jobless recovery

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - Nov. 06 - For Lisa Hall, this is what 10.2 percent unemployment looks like: spending all day at shopping malls going from one store to another in search of a $10-an-hour job, but being constantly told that no one is hiring. For M&M Appliance in Northwest

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Life After Death: The View From The Edge

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Dinesh D'Souza - Nov. 06 (Opinion) - The best empirical evidence for life after death comes from people who have had "near death experiences" (NDEs). These are people who have gone to the edge and come back with a report. Certainly they haven't crossed over; in that sense, death remains, as Shakespeare put it, the undiscovered country. But so-called NDEs give us the best chance to make at least an initial map of that unknown territory. Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dinesh-dsouza/life-after-death-the-view_b_347412.html#postComment&cp

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Greg Mitchell: Top Authors, and Editor, in 'NYT Book Review' Ethics Dispute

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Greg Mitchell - Nov. 06 (Review) - It's nothing new for aggrieved authors to write letters to the highly influential New York Times Book Review, protesting a negative review, or one rife with errors. Sometimes the protest relates to the unfair choice of reviewer. What's unusual about

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How to boost fuel efficiency? Raise taxes, executives say

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By Scott Malone - Nov. 06 (Opinion) - While politically unpalatable, gasoline that costs at least $4 a gallon would have a far greater effect on American fuel usage than Washington's $25 billion loan program meant to spark investment in new technologies

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Rick Scott: Unsung Conservative Hero of the Health Care Debate -

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Politics Daily - By Matt Lewis - Nov. 06 (Interview) - ". . .the one man arguably most responsible for stalling the rush toward ObamaCare. Early this past spring, Scott's new organization, Conservatives for Patients' Rights (CPR), began a multimillion-dollar ad campaign designed to defeat government-driven health-care reform.

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Too Big to Fail - Too Big to Exist -

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

senate.gov - By Senator Bernie Sanders - Nov. 06 (Statement) - Senator Bernie Sanders introduced legislation that would break up financial institutions that are too big to fail. "If an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist," Sanders said. "We should break them up so they are no longer in a position to bring down the entire economy. We should end the concentration of ownership that has resulted in just four huge financial institutions holding half the mortgages in America, controlling two-thirds of the credit cards, and amassing 40 percent of all deposits."

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Hark! The Voters Speak!

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Gail Collins - Nov. 05 (Opinion) - Endorsements don’t work if they’re oblique and half-hearted, as if they had been sent via Candygram.

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The Liberty Affair and the Problem with the Truth of History

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

alanhart.net - By Alan Hart - Nov. 05 (Review) - Text of the San Diego Union Tribune’s op-ed Forty years ago this week, I was asked to investigate the heaviest attack on an American ship since World War II. As senior legal counsel to the Navy Court of Inquiry it was my job to help uncover the truth regarding Israel’s June 8th1967 bombing of the USS Liberty.

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Edit This Page: Is it the end of Wikipedia?

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Review - By Evgeny Morozov - Nov. 05 (Review) - Wikipedia owes its existence to the nerdy culture of the first online discussion systems, such as Usenet; the unlikely success of moderated social sites, such as Slashdot, which was so influential in Wikipedia’s early days that the project was briefly known as “the Encyclopedia That Slashdot Built”; and the emergence of a tight community around WikiWikiWeb, the first application to use the wiki style of editing. The dotcom recession also helped by freeing a supply of superbly talented technologists from the burdens of paid employment.

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North and South in the Republican Party

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Megan McArdle - Nov. 05 (Comment) - Rural areas have a farmer's contempt for welfare, and the entire upstate region knows too well that the taxes and regulations imposed by the rich downstate voters are crippling their economy. No, this is not libertarian cant; it's obvious to basically anyone who spends any time there. New York has onerous business taxes, a deeply problematic workman's comp system, and various rules about public sector unions that are slowly destroying the budgets of the local cities. Combine this with a whole lot of cold weather, and there's no way they can attract new businesses to replace the big industrial plants they've lost.

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UN workers fear huge impact of relocation

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Nov. 05 (Interview) - The UN has said that it will temporarily relocate 600 of its international staff based in Afghanistan. Here, UN workers discuss how the measures to tackle growing security challenges will impact on the UN operation in Afghanistan.

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