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I'm in South Jersey and on Comcast, but for customers of Cablevision their channel lineup is short today:Channel 7 went dark in parts of New Jersey this morning as Disney and Cablevision remained mired in a distribution stalemate. The midnight blackout occurred just hours before ABC's telecast of the Academy Awards...
Health Care Reform: Adler on Fox News Sunday sounds like a no vote
John Adler has posted his appearance on Fox News Sunday to discuss health care reform. He appeared today with another "no" vote on the House bill, Jason Altmire (D-PA), who despite representing a district McCain won by 11 points, sounded considerably more positive about the possibility of voting "yes" this...
On the Record has a conversation with Senator Donald Norcross, Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt, Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande and Assemblyman John Amodeo. Michael Aron hosts the conversation and they will cover the NJ Transit fare hikes, Gov. Christie preparing to propose major budget cuts, and possible cuts to unemployment benefits. Over on Reporter's...
Weekend News Roundup & Open Thread for March 6-7, 2010
Doesn't he look great? Lautenberg at Hoboken's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade parade, the first big public appearance since his 10-day hospital stay that began with his fainting at home and ended with a diagnosis of treatable stomach lymphoma. He's been back at work on the Hill since last week. Photo...
Scott Garrett tops himself, votes for child abuse in school
If outrage described the right reaction to Scott Garrett's vote this week against school lunches, what's left for this "no" vote on a bill to stop child abuse by school officials: In a move to provide the first comprehensive protections for children against abusive disciplinary actions by schools, the House on...
Evesham Mayor jumps ship to the team that's been attacking him for 3 years
So my Mayor has switched teams again. Evesham Mayor Randy Brown initially managed the campaign of the former Republican Mayor, Gus Tamburro in 2003, but then ran against Tamburro as a Democrat in 2007 and won. It was a big pickup for the Democrats at the time to win...
The Carpetbagger Report
Effective Friday, August 22, I’m blogging exclusively at the Washington Monthly’s Political Animal. See you there. Carpetbagger archives and this site’s search feature will remain active indefinitely, as will my email address. My most sincere thanks to everyone for all the support and encouragement. I hope to see all of you at...
Guest Post by Morbo Well, the cat is out of the carpetbag: Steve is off to The Washington Monthly to become a real political animal. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy. I’ve known Steve before there was a Carpetbagger Report. I used to joke about him being the biggest...
Just a reminder, as of this morning, I’m blogging exclusively at the Washington Monthly’s Political Animal. See you there. As for Carpetbagger content, be sure to swing by Saturday morning for a sign-off post from my friend “Morbo.” And now, back to the news…....
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Confirming earlier reports: “Iraq and the U.S. have reached preliminary agreement to withdraw American forces from Iraqi cities by next June, six years into the increasingly unpopular war, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Thursday after meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.” * Russia...
Just a reminder, as we discussed earlier in the week, today is the last day I’ll be posting content to The Carpetbagger Report. Starting first thing in the morning, I’ll be writing exclusively for the Washington Monthly’s Political Animal blog. It’s right here. A couple of other quick notes. First, my...
The ‘birds of prey’ have landed at McCain campaign headquarters
Oddly enough, when I started going through the news this morning, I noticed a story about John McCain criticizing lobbyists, and thought that would have to be the big political story the day. That, of course, was before I noticed that McCain couldn’t keep track of all the houses he...
The Progressive
Alaskan Peace Activists Decry Pentagon Spying
By Matthew Rothschild, March 6, 2010 ...
Hillary Clinton’s Honduran Disgrace
By Matthew Rothschild, March 5, 2010 ...
One year after stimulus, blacks and Latinos still struggling
By C. Nicole Mason, March 4, 2010 ...
Obama’s Reprehensible Rhetoric Against Single-Payer
By Matthew Rothschild, March 3, 2010 ...
Toyota Disaster Demands Greater Regulation
By Matthew Rothschild, March 3, 2010 ...
Mixed feelings about impact of Obama’s health plan on the disabled
By Mike Ervin, March 3, 2010 ...
Hullabaloo
Saturday Night At The MoviesPre-Oscar marathon: Top 10 Best Pictures…evahBy Dennis Hartley I’m sure you are aware that the Academy Awards are coming up this Sunday (can’t avoid the hype). As an alleged “movie critic”, I’m ashamed to admit that I have only seen 5 out of the...
Dirty Workby digbyI've been meaning to discuss this post over at Angry Bear for a while, but just couldn't get it together. So, I'll just link it and let you read it for yourself. I think it makes a good case for something I've felt instinctively since this event....
The Political Utility Of Force
The Political Utility Of Forceby digbyIt looks as though the mainstream media have finally decided to take a look at tasers. CNNs report yesterday focused on the possibility of heart attack from tasering, which is obviously a problem --- since people are having heart attacks when they are tasered.It's...
Slick Playby digbyWill pro-choice women finally be forced to accept the Stupak Amendment in order to get health care reform passed? I've been saying for a while that they probably would, not because I had any insight on how it would happen, but because I've known that the permanent...
Conservatives vs Humansby digbyHowie Says:Yesterday's D v R showdown in the House wasn't about healthcare reform or even about the dirty filthy banksters stealing the national wealth. It wasn't about Afghanistan or about taking the ability of corporations to purchase the services of wily politicians. But it was a showdown...
More On Toxic Sludgeby tristeroJill Richardson of La Vida Locavore, easily one of the most important food movement blogs on the net, has been writing about the toxic sludge being passed off as organic compost by San Francisco. I blogged about it once already, and now Jill has some more...
DavidMixner.com
MSNBC: Wicked Winter? We Are Not Alone!
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy...
Hell's Kitchen Journal: Hooray for Hollywood
Along with Halloween, the Academy Awards are as close to a national LGBT holiday that you can find in this nation. Always will have fond memories of my days in Los Angeles on Oscar weekend when you could actually feel......
Jonathan Stoller's Picture of the Week: Orchids
As we are beginning to see the first hints of Spring after a brutal winter, Jonathan sends us a tease to make us yearn for the new season even more! "The Orchids have started blooming in Southern California," he writes......
Hard to believe the Academy Awards telecast is upon us so soon. The show's producers are boasting that there will be scores of young stars, especially young men. Wouldn't count on too many surprises and think we could have a......
Only Known Video Footage of Tsunami From Chile's Earthquake!
In an age where there is video of almost every disaster from every angle, there is a shortage of actual videos of the violent tsumanis that hit the coasts after the earthquake. In good part because the earthquake shut down......
According to numerous reports, former Presidential candidate John Edwards is about to be indicted for his hush fund to cover-up his sex scandal. Generally I don't mean anyone any harm but in this case I say throw the book at......
AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)
Deaths as Taliban and allies clash
At least 50 fighters killed after Taliban battles Hezb-e-Islami in province of Baghlan....
Chile mourns earthquake victims
Flags to fly at at half mast for three days as country recovers from devastating quake....
US envoy begins 'proximity' talks
Mitchell relaunches negotiations amid Middle East peace process fears....
Thousands march in Jerusalem rally
Demonstrators protest eviction of Palestinians from their homes in favour of Jewish settlers....
Afghans die in attack on Nato force
Suicide car bomber targets Nato convoy crossing a bridge outside Kandahar city....
Canada celebrates as Olympics ends
Street parties and fireworks mark close of Vancouver's Winter Olympics....
Why Tuesday?
In Iraq, Weekend Voting Approaches
YouTube head of News & Politics (and Why Tuesday? advisory board member) Steve Grove shares this video of a citizen report from Iraq as their Election Day approaches. Note: their Election Day is on Sunday. Just saying....
And The Oscar Goes To… Election Reform
As you know if you’re familiar with our work at Why Tuesday?, the United States ranks near the bottom of all countries in the world in voter participation. Yet our politicians time and again have failed to implement election reforms that help insure that voting is a democratic imperative, not...
That Short Walk To The Voting Booth
Nearly half a century has passed since the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Despite enthusiasm for the 2008 campaign, USA voter turnout in 2009 was anemic, worse than most nations. In the spirit of Dr. King, we’re working to spark a national discussion about voting. Our nation is again in...
Our group was founded by personal acquaintances of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to honor the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, for which Dr. King fought for and won for all Americans. Today, January 15th, is Dr. King’s birthday. But “Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,” a national holiday in...
We’re a non-partisan, nonprofit group working to increase participation in elections. Despite the excitement of the 2008 campaign, predictions of record voter turnout were too optimistic. In 2009, turnout was anemic. This video sums up who we are and what we do. It was produced for Current TV by...
In May, we brought you the story of how New York State was atwitter - in reality and online - about how best to ditch a vestigial organ of elections past: the lever voting machine. Today New York City is finally doing it, and not without further debate, David W....
All Spin Zone
It would be nice if local TV news would spend as much time as it does delivering semi-accurate weather reports to discuss significant governmental and social issues along with its diet of car crashes, fires, and the latest Pickle Festival....
by Walter Brasch Sarah Palin stood before an audience of 600 at the first Tea Party convention and in her twinkly home-spun rhetoric, declared we don’t need a professor of law but a commander-in-chief. As expected, she received roaring applause. And, as expected, she was wrong. After Dick Cheney and George W....
Air America died not because of the conservative talk radio shows, but because it committed journalistic suicide....
Violence and noise have become a driving force in TV and movies. Poet Mark Soifer offers an interesting look at the media--and Americans...
Stories We Prefer Not to Write–But Will
SUMMARY: The hope we and this nation had for change we could believe in, and which we still hope will not die, has been diminished by the reality of petty politics, with the "Party of No" and its raucous Teabagger mutation blocking social change for America's improvement...
Pennsylvania Borough Gives Homeless the ‘Cold Shoulder’
By Walter Brasch Spectrum Features Syndicate SUGAR NOTCH, Pa.–A regional advocate for the rights of the homeless says actions by Sugar Notch officials to deny shelter to homeless men may be based upon fear and a lack of knowledge. About 40 homeless men were scheduled to receive temporary shelter at the Holy Family...
Barcelona & Catalonia blog | thebadrash.com
Is TV3 the anti-Catalanista channel?
At least three people think so. Personally, I'm not sure whether the event in Sabadell merited much more coverage or not. But it probably could have replaced '1,000 march in Mallorca against corruption'. 3Cat24 is, after all, supposed to be about news in Catalonia. Related Posts:Mysterious cloud of smoke over SabadellIniciativa close...
thebadPoll: The worst place in Spain
This is a slightly different way of running a poll. I'm not going to offer any choices. Instead, I'd like you, gentle reader, to nominate the municipality, region, village or other place which you consider to be the worst place in Spain*. Maybe it's hideously ugly… maybe it's just utterly...
Never mind. Related Posts:Bush: Bathroom Break?CLEVELANDCiU's man and the Mafia bossHappy birthday, United KingdomThings I love: A Confederacy Of Dunces...
Why are PP members so effin' rude?
The other day, our esteemed former Presidente del Gobierno – and honorary president of the PP, José María Aznar, visited the university of Oviedo in order to sell some of his FAES stuff. The students of said academy responded to the man's visit by waving banners and calling him a...
Bruce Anderson is a stupid man
I wouldn't normally post a link to the Independent, mainly because of Bruce Anderson. A few years ago, I liked that newspaper's international and environmental coverage, the columns by Robert Fisk and even its silly covers. But it was Bruce Anderson's bilious opinion pieces that made me turn away for...
Primavera Sound 2010 Festival Line Up
It's that time of year again! As Barcelona's winter continues to fling a surprising array of nastiness at us, we're already getting the occasional day that lets us dream of spring. And spring in Barcelona means one thing: the Primavera Sound festival. This year's festival takes place from the 27th...
Michelle Malkin
Lindsey Grahamnesty rides again
What a busy little “bipartisan” bee Lindsey Grahamnesty has been lately. He’s holding hands with John Kerry to push carbon caps and unrepentant global warming cultism. He’s collaborating with the White House to close down Gitmo. And he’s schmoozing with Chuckie Schumer on another illegal alien amnesty campaign — an effort that has...
How do you spell “tone-deaf?”; Update: Obama joins the cheerleading squad
H-A-R-R-Y-R-E-I-D. “Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good.” *** Commenter jsr: “With any luck November 3 we will be able to say: ‘Today is a big day in America. Over 300 congressmen lost their jobs today, which is really good.’” *** Update: Obama says...
The Obama way: Bluster, bully, bribe
My syndicated column looks at the White House bribe-a-thon. On a related business-as-usual note: Campaign Donors Working On Policy At The White House. On another business-as-usual note: Cashing out of the Obama administration. *** The Obama Way: Bluster, bully, bribe by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010 The White House took great offense this week when...
Scroll down for update debunking MSM “right-wing” spin… A nutball shot two security guards at a Pentagon-area Metro station in D.C. yesterday. As Patterico reports, he hated Bush and littered the Internet with 9/11 Truther rants. But just as I passed on playing the blame game with the global warmicides earlier this week,...
National security flip-flop: Obama to retreat on KSM/Gitmo detainee civilian trials…for now
Scroll down for updates, warnings… I want to take you back to November 13, 2009, less than four short months ago. That was the day corruptocrat Attorney General Eric Holder announced he was bringing 9/11 jihadi mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohamed and other Gitmo detainees to NYC for civilian trials. As I noted...
Grievance zoo....
millennial makeover
Democrats Rock, the Vote on Campus
More than twice as many 18-29 year olds voted for President Barack Obama as for John McCain in 2008, and one year later the party preferences of college students remain similarly lopsided in favor of the Democratic Party and its political point of view.The most recent data from communication research...
Democrats Should Act Like the Majority They Are
As the first article in this series, pointed out, the two chief demographic components of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition that enabled the Democratic Party to dominate American national politics from the early 1930s to the mid-1960s—the white South and the northern white working class—have been drifting away from...
Time to Reward and Reform Education in America
America has always recognized the link between education and economic success--from the mandate for free public education in the Northwest Ordinance through Lincoln's support for the Morrill Land Grant College Act to the GI Bill of Rights legislation after World War II. In each of these previous civic eras, governments...
Millennials Need to Stand Up and be Counted
As the campaign to ensure a complete and accurate count of every American in this year's census gets off the ground, a new survey of American attitudes toward participating in the census shows that young Americans, members of the Millennial Generation, born 1982-2003, may prove least likely to stand up...
Millennials Will Take Over American Music Next
The first Grammy Awards of the new decade are just around the corner. On Jan. 31, the voting committee may crown a new queen of pop music, crossover country star Taylor Swift, and with it signal the musical coming-of-age of the Millennial Generation.Nominated for eight 2010 Grammy Awards, including record...
A Millennial State of the Union
President Obama's focus on the economy is exactly what Millennials (Americans born between 1982-2003) want to hear. Their generation is experiencing Depression levels of unemployment, higher than any other generation. They deeply believe that the path to a better job leads through a better education. That’s why any Millennial jobs...
Sherryx's Weblog
Written by John Pickard Wednesday, 23 December 2009 with thanks: International Marxist website Many of us know that the origins of Christianity have nothing to do with silent nights or wise men. So what are its true origins? John Pickard looks at the reality of how this religion came about...
Problems of democracy in Pakistan: A Class Analysis
Written by Lal Khan in Lahore Tuesday, 22 December 2009 With thanks: International Marxist Website After years of military dictatorships followed by sham democracy, the situation in Pakistan has reached such a point that the masses are yearning for radical change. Their suffering is immense as the people at the...
Supreme Court Exceeded its Mandate: Asma Jahingir
’عدلیہ دائرہ کار سے تجاوز کر گئی ہے‘ علی سلمان بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، لاہور عدلیہ کا کام ارکانِ پارلیمان کی اخلاقیات کی جانچ پڑتال نہیں پاکستان انسانی حقوق کمشن کی چیئرپرسن عاصمہ جہانگیر نے این آر او کے بارے میں سپریم کورٹ کے فیصلے پر تبصرہ کرتے ہوئے کہا ہے ’عدلیہ...
Hossein Ali Montazeri Passes away!
His honourable eminence Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri passed away in the city of Qom in Iran. H.E Montazeri was one of the “grand Maraja” of Shia Islam. He was one the leaders of Iranian Revolution and was appointed as the successor to supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini. He developed serious differences...
فوج حق کو کچل نہیں سکتی فوج چاہے کسی یزید کی ہو لاش اٹھتی ہے پھر عَلم بن کر لاش چاہے کسی شہید کی ہو ...
The Temple of Justice and veneration of Capital: Supreme Court’s Decision on NRO
A Comment by Lal Khan of IMT (translated by AA from Tabqatti Jiddojehd) The recent Supreme Court’s recent decision declaring the NRO (National Reconciliation Ordinance) null and void has emerged as latest explosion in the series of tremulous events which have been arising from the severe political, economic and social crisis...
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Martha Stewart to Rebrand Body + Soul as Whole Living
NEW YORK—To further align the magazine with its Web site and satellite radio show, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia will change the name of its health and lifestyle title Body + Soul to Whole Living, the company announced Thursday at a cross-platform upfront e...
Court Confirms Penton’s Reorganization Plan
A U.S. Bankruptcy Court has approved Penton Media’s pre-packaged debt restructuring plan. The trade publisher said the confirmation clears the way for it to emerge from bankruptcy protection “within the next few days.”...
UBM Shut Down 31 Magazines, Cut 479 Jobs in 2009
London-based United Business Media last year continued to reshape its business by shrinking its print magazine operations while concentrating more on higher revenue generating businesses, including data and events. Print magazines, the company said, accounted for 5 percent of its overall adjusted profits....
Penton Media Could Emerge from Bankruptcy Within Days
UPDATE: Court Approves Penton's Reorg Plan...
UBM and RBI to Coproduce U.K. Event
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Editorial, Advertising Censorship a ‘Non-Issue’ for U.S. Magazines
A pair of U.K. groups are taking issue with consumer magazine content—both visual and written—on their side of the Atlantic....
Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog
The need for Core-wide financial reform
COMMENT: "Nations must think globally on finance reform," by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Financial Times, 18 February 2010. Key argument: Until we come close to a global charter of the kind that applies to shipping accidents, countries will inevitably try to......
America's current bout of self-doubt a bit much
COMMENT: "America is in need of a pep talk," by Robert Shiller, Financial Times, 18 February 2010. Shiller's piece inspired me to write my last WPR column: the dangers of underconfidence can be much worse than the previous bout......
A mix of global and local succeeds in media content
MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP: "At Time Warner, Local Content, Global Profits: CEO Jeff Bewkes is doing production deals abroad to boost revenues. His rivals already have a head start," by Tom Lowry, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 15 February 2010. Time Warner learns......
What Japan taught us about the "superiority" of authoritarian capitalism
WEEKEND JOURNAL: "A Crisis Made in Japan: Toyota's botched response to its escalating problems has deep roots in Japan's legal system and corporate tradition," by Jeff Kingston, Wall Street Journal, 6-7 February 2010. Remember when Japan's single-party-state and its......
WORLD NEWS: "China Complains to WTO About EU Tariffs: Petition Against Antidumping Duties on Shoes Extends Fight Against What Beijing Says Is Unfair Protectionism," by John W. Miller, Wall Street Journal, 5 February 2010. WORLD NEWS: "Beijing feels the......
Iraq was not the first democracy to hold an election during significant civil strife
The first democracy that ever held an election during civil war was the United States--with a few states "abstaining." 1864.......
Fast Forward - FORTUNE Magazine
This is my farewell column. Fast Forward has been a weekly labor of love, mostly, since early 2002. Now I'm taking an extended leave from Fortune to write my book, The Facebook Effect....
From Brainstorm: Our new $1 million prize, and more
Fortune this week announced the Legatum Fortune Technology Prize, an annual $1 million award intended to reward for-profit efforts to provide products and services to the poor through the use of technology....
HP's grand vision: measure everything
Imagine walking down the supermarket aisle with a cheap device you could hold up to a tomato. If the sensor detects a pesticide residue, you'd know the "organic" label is a lie. Similar tools could track the chemical content of water in a stream, telling you if there was lead...
Brainstorm survey: What tech leaders want
As the iPhone 3G emerges, Apple's mobile device has captivated the leaders of the tech industry. That's the most certain conclusion Fortune reached after surveying 325 industry leaders who will be attending our Brainstorm Tech conference July 21-23....
In the end, Microsoft is almost surely going to end up owning Yahoo's search business. That's the only conclusion I can come up with, having spent months talking to Microsoft's senior leadership for a recent story on the company. And even what does seem like erratic behavior on the part...
We want Brainstorm Tech to rock!
In just three short weeks, we launch the next phase in Fortune's Brainstorm conference series, Brainstorm Tech. The original Brainstorm ran in Aspen from 2001 until 2006, and this one will retain the unique spirit of multidisciplinary inquiry that won it so many plaudits and fans, while digging even deeper...