Daily Kos:
The Department of Defense told the watchdog Project on Government Oversight Thursday that it won't let the public see a congressionally mandated revolving-door database of Pentagon employees. POGO wonders what the harm is in seeing a list of former government officials who are now working for defense contractors. We have (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Like a gift from God, Sarah Palin's Rouge-A-Palooza tour (w/special guest) descended on America this week. Over the next few months, hundreds of millions of Palin's Facebook friends will visit book stores – many for the first time – to meet their idol. And a sexy time will be had by all. Meanwhile, the Jews will be flock (Read More)
Daily Kos:
There's no way this complex issue can be covered in one post, but thankfully there have been some really thoughtful pieces written by others that we can pull from. For example, my own comments led to this headline on the AtlanticWire: Politics Beats Science in Cancer Screening Debate, featuring a terrific piece by Kevin Sac (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
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Daily Kos:
As both Kevin K. and Dave Weigel noted earlier today, Sarah Palin angered and disappointed fans in Noblesville, Indiana yesterday when she abruptly left a book signing promotion even though there were many fans still waiting in line to receive her signature on their newly purchased copies of Going Rogue. Here’s a video com (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
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Daily Kos:
Thursday has been a day of great intrigue in the Empire State as it relates to 2010 electoral politics. First, fairly early in the day, came this bit of breaking news, courtesy of Danny Hakim at the New York Times: Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has decided not to run for governor of New York next year after months of m (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Another day, another: ... literal manifestation of what we feel is the metaphorical methodology of the entire Fox network. Which of course is the subtle altering of reality to sell a preconceived narrative. That was how Jon Stewart described the "inadvertent mistake" Sean Hannity made when he had footage from Glenn Bec (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Two pieces of great news for John McCain: In her book, Sarah Palin left what seems to be a strong hint that she is going to run for President. Sarah Palin is open to a Palin-Beck ticket in 2012. On the first item: ABC News' Teddy Davis connected the dots between a passage in Palin's book and comments by Mary Matalin whic (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Last month, Twitter CEO and co-founder Evan Williams stated that the he "desperately" wanted to retire the company's suggested user list - the list of Twitter accounts shown to new users of the service to help them find interesting people to follow. At the time, he hinted that it might evolve into something more "Twittery a (Read More)
: Good. I understand why Twitter set it up in the first place, but I've never used it, always found it irrelevant. I follow people on Twitter based on two things, their content, and, sometimes, their location.
Daily Kos:
Warning: Do not be eating or drinking when you read the following, from John Ziegler's review of Sarah Palin's new high school slam book: "For many reasons, this is by far the best book and greatest literary achievement by a political figure in my lifetime." "I strongly believe that if every Republican primary voter read (Read More)
Daily Kos:
On Twitter, the AP was bragging about the 11 reporters it assigned to fact check Sarah Palin's new book. That's fine and dandy. But would it have killed them to assign 11 reporters to fact check Bush and Cheney's Iraq WMD claims?
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Daily Kos:
We aren't quite done with this particular flu outbreak. The 2009 H1N1 pandemic (aka swine flu) is declining in most places in the US (not in New England yet, but that will come) and we have no idea whether there will be a third wave in spring (maybe), or whether lower amounts of H1N1 illness will hang out like it did all su (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Come December, months after it should have happened, the White House will convene a jobs summit. That’s a good thing if we’re really going to talk about all options. Because important ones are missing right now. To that end, I’d like to suggest a few names for the summit’s guest list: Bob Borosage and other people at the In (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Come December, months after it should have happened, the White House will convene a jobs summit. That’s a good thing if we’re really going to talk about all options. Because important ones are missing right now. To that end, I’d like to suggest a few names for the summit’s guest list: Bob Borosage and other people at the In (Read More)