VentureBeat:
Nobel Prize winner and former vice president Al Gore gave a wide-ranging, passionate talk at VentureBeat’s GreenBeat 2009 conference yesterday in San Mateo about combating global warming. We already liveblogged Gore’s talk, b (Read More)
Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Roland Burris, saying he had been less than candid about his gubernatorial appointment to the Senate seat previously held by President Barack Obama. (Read More)
The Daily Dish:
David Feige worries about the consequences:In an idealized view, our judicial system is insulated from theribald passions of politics. In reality, those passions suffuse thecriminal justice system, and no matter how compellin (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
If the past is another country, Ed Balls has just confiscated the passports of our schoolchildrenEd Balls has announced that primary school history is to be subsumed into an "area of learning" called "historical, geographical (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
The verse-writing of the new president of the European Council is good in parts, says the former poet laureateFirst let me say this: on balance, I would far rather that people in politics were writing poetry than not. Where a (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) argued last Sunday that Republicans deserve at least six additional weeks to consider health care reform before letting the bill come to a vote. By Friday, his top lieutenant said (Read More)
USATODAY.com - On Politics:
Good government groups are blasting the Federal Election Commission today for approving a new rule that allows U.S. senators to fly on corporate and private jets at deeply discounted prices. Watchdogs, such as Democracy 21's (Read More)
Worldfocus:
The former U.S. embassy in Tehran. Photo: Flickr user John In the international chess game over Iran’s nuclear program, it was six world powers that made a move today.Delegates from the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia (Read More)
Worldfocus:
A banner promoting North Korea’s 150-day economic production campaign in August. Photo: Ben PivenPart 6 of 6 in our Inside the Hermit Kingdom series on the people and culture of North Korea. Worldfocus multimedia producer Ben (Read More)
Worldfocus:
Angry football fans converge on the Algerian embassy in Cairo. Photo: madmonkHoda Osman, a special correspondent for Worldfocus and an Egyptian-American, writes about the diplomatic crisis that followed a World Cup match bet (Read More)
Worldfocus:
Click on map to enlarge. Courtesy of Ir Amim.Worldfocus spoke with Hussein Ibish, a senior fellow at the American Task Force for Palestine, a non-profit dedicated to a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The appointments of Herman Van Rompuy and Cathy Ashton lay bare the rot at the core of the Lisbon projectIt's not often that the front pages of the Daily Mail and the Guardian have identical headlines. Still, both newspapers (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Feminist blogger Kate Harding often takes issue with how cynical the progressives on Daily Kos write about abortion politics, but on Nov. 10, they found some common ground. Two days after the House voted to approve health ca (Read More)
RedState:
HOE-HOE-HOE, oh, it’s not Christmas — yet. But Harry Reid is playing the sit-on-my-lap-Santa to lap-dog Senator Mary Landrieu, with a $100 million surprise. (They look so cute.)Why not buy Senator Landrieu for $100 million, (Read More)
GretaWire:
Two women may be the most important United States Senators right now! Senator Blanche Lincoln (Dem/Ark) and Senator Mary Landrieu (Dem/La). These are the two women whoe Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are trying to schmooz (Read More)
GretaWire:
Below is a quote from an article (and the link to the complete article) that shows how the sausage is made in the US Senate. It is not pretty. Both political parties do it this way when they are in the majority.Senator Harry (Read More)
SF Gate:
The United States will do its part to reduce corruption in Afghanistan by examining its own contracts and projects, even as it is demanding the same from the Afghan government, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday. He s (Read More)
Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Other than President Barack Obama, perhaps no one's political future is riding more on the Senate battle to revamp the healthcare system than the chamber's Democratic majority leader, Harry Reid.
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