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CBO thrashes Republican Healthcare Plan
Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 3:09 PM EST (The Washington Post)
The headline speaks for itself as well as the first line of the story:
A court decision that reflects what type of country the U.S. is
Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 9:48 AM EST (Salon.com)
It's not often that an appellate court decision reflects so vividly what a country has become, but such is the case with yesterday's ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Arar v. Ashcroft (.pdf).
GOP Senator Tom Coburn using secret hold to block bill on veterans benefits
Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 11:09 PM EST (AMERICAblog)
We always knew "support the troops" didn't really mean anything to Republicans. It was a slogan, nothing more.
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FACT CHECK: GOP math suspect in stimulus debate
Mon Nov 2, 2009 3:42 AM EST
Beware the math. Some Republican lawmakers critical of President Barack Obama's stimulus package are using grade-school arithmetic to size up costs and consequences of all that spending. The math is satisfyingly simple but highly misleading.
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Republican Scozzafava Throws Support to Democrat Owens
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 2:48 PM EST (Watertown Daily Times)
Wow, if you are a political junkie, what's going on in the GOP these days is fascinating: Dede Scozzafava, the former Republican congressional candidate just released a statement explaining her decision:
Toward a General Theory of Democratic Disgruntlement, Part 2
Seeded on Sat Oct 31, 2009 10:13 PM EDT (fivethirtyeight.com)
Pollster Celinda Lake spoke to first, and perhaps most crucial point in her email reply to me. "It's easier to unify Republicans because mostly they want to stop things.
Penny Arcade! - In The Seventh House
Seeded on Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:47 PM EDT (penny-arcade.com)
Seems to pretty much sum up a lot of the reviews I've read.
inessential.com: Vaccines
Seeded on Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:21 PM EDT (inessential.com)
I'm still living with the effects of the chicken pox I had in third grade.
Orly Taitz goes to war against Bill O'Reilly
Seeded on Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:34 PM EDT (Salon.com)
The Birthers have been somewhat disillusioned with O'Reilly and some of his colleagues before -- there's the lack of investigative journalism done by the network that would prove, once and for all, that President Obama was in fact born in Antarctica, for instance.
NY: GOP Falls to the Ultra-con Fundamentalist National Arm of the Paliban – Breaking News
Seeded on Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:37 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Dede Scozzafava, a moderate Republican candidate for an open Congressional seat in upstate New York, unexpectedly withdrew from the race on Saturday — just days before the election. Ms.
BREAKING! Scozzafava drops out of NY-23 special election
Seeded on Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:22 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
From her statement: "It is increasingly clear that pressure is mounting on many of my supporters to shift their support. Consequently, I hereby release those individuals who have endorsed and supported my campaign to transfer their support as they see fit to do so."
Ayn Rand's Revenge
Seeded on Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:04 PM EDT (The New York Times)
A specter is haunting the Republican Party — the specter of John Galt. In Ayn Rand's libertarian epic "Atlas Shrugged," Galt, an inventor disgusted by creeping American collectivism, leads the country's capitalists on a retributive strike.
My Proposal for a Smarter Front Page on Newsvine
Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:02 PM EDT
My belief that the front page is cluttered with nonsense and crap is no secret. It's also no secret that I'm no stranger to publishing my fair share of nonsense and crap over the years.
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Transcripts of Defeat
Seeded on Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:07 AM EDT (The New York Times)
"Our soldiers are not to blame. They've fought incredibly bravely in adverse conditions.
GOP Outfoxed by White House in Pay Czar Scuffle?
Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:04 AM EDT
Pretty much everyone knows the salient points of this story, at this point. Nearly a week ago, the major networks conducted an interview with "pay czar" Ken Feinberg. Various stories exist about the way in which that interview took place.
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Obama honors fallen Americans at Dover
Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:55 PM EDT
Standing in the pre-dawn darkness, President Barack Obama saw the real cost of the war in Afghanistan: The Americans who return in flag-covered cases while much of the nation sleeps in peace.
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What exactly does DROID do that iDon't? Not much, apparently.
Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:35 PM EDT
So, Verizon is poised to release their answer to Apple's iPhone: DROID. In an ingenious marketing blitz, Verizon (in partnership with Google and Motorola) is promising "everything that iDon't ... DROID does."
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Thomas Frank: Obama Is Right About Fox News - WSJ.com
Seeded on Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:59 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)
I love the martyr apporoach from the the Fox conservatives as of late. Even the seletive memory is endearing.
CHART OF THE DAY: Microsoft's Online Operations Keep Burning Cash
Seeded on Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:49 PM EDT (businessinsider.com)
Microsoft keeps burning cash online. Today, for the fifteenth straight quarter, it reported a big operating loss in its Online Services Division.
The problem with iPhone killers?
Seeded on Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:20 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
Here we are again. The hype leading up to a new mobile device is reaching a fever pitch. Motorola's Droid sounds, looks, and by some accounts, is impressive.
Apple skips debate - Commits to health insurance
Seeded on Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:00 PM EDT (ifoAppleStore)
In the midst of a heated national debate over legislation to provide all Americans with affordable health insurance, Apple will skip the controversy entirely and extend full-benefit medical insurance to part-time employees in January 2010.
12 Steps to a Healthy Republican Party
Seeded on Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:01 AM EDT (ordinary-gentlemen.com)
The Republican Party is sick… but this is a sickness brought about by its own actions. If it is to get better, it has to change its life. Not only the party leadership but its lay members who, in many cases, are its best-of-intentioned enablers.
Man accused of being a zombie, punched twice
Seeded on Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:41 AM EDT (press-citizen.com)
Iowa City Police are looking for a man who assaulted another at a restaurant -- claiming the victim was a "zombie."
Podcast: Elinor Ostrom Checks In - Planet Money Blog : NPR
Seeded on Sun Oct 25, 2009 4:29 PM EDT (npr.org)
On today's Planet Money: This month, Indiana University professor Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win the Nobel prize for economics.
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I almost never agree with you on your leftist agenda, but I do respect you as a human bean.
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I may not agree with most of your posts but I see you are a good person. Keep up the good work.
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Highly intelligent, very detailed in his debates. And a wicked sense of humor. And a Texan. ;)
I read somewhere "As it was in Sodom & gomorah, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man" Less and less "humans" are believing that. BUT look at the corruption in our society
OK Spiffie here are some resources to chew on if you got the brain cells to do it
Moreland has authored or co-authored numerous publications, including:* Scaling the Secular City: A Defense of Christianity (1987) * Christianity and the Nature of Science: A Philosophical Examination (1989) * The Life and Death Debate: Moral Issues of Our Time (with Norman Geisler, 1990) * Does God Exist?: The Debate Between Atheists and Theists (with Kai Nielsen, 1990) * The Creation Hypothesis: Scientific Evidence for An Intelligent Designer (1994) * Love Your God With All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul (1997) * Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis of Ethics (with Scott Rae, 2000) * Naturalism: A Critical Analysis (co-editor with William Lane Craig, 2000) * Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview (with William Lane Craig, 2003) * Kingdom Triangle: Recover the Christian Mind, Renovate the Soul, Restore the Spirit's Power (2007)
Spiffie is, well...spiffie. Calm. Even tempered. Smart. He is an anchor at Newsvine. I'm really glad he's here. : )
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Even when Spiffie takes a picture he's a bit too far to the left.
man with the eyes to see what's right before his face. A man of another caliber.
He's like some kind of atheist prophet.
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Alleged Ft. Hood Killer Linked To Obama: Nidal Was Homeland Security Adviser To Obama Transition Team
This is a link to the PDF file put out by the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute that identifies Nidal as one of the contributors to the report that was delivered to the Obama presidential transition team.
Terrorism amendment dies in SenateThe Senate has defeated an amendment that would have kept the plotters of the September 11, 2001 attacks out of ordinary federal courts—leaving military commissions as the only option for trying the terror suspects.
9 Months In-- the Accomplishments of our "Far-Left, Do-Nothing President"
Banned the use of "harsh interrogation" and ordered the closing of Guantanamo.Reversed George W.
- CBO thrashes Republican Healthcare Plan
The headline speaks for itself as well as the first line of the story:
- A court decision that reflects what type of country the U.S. is
It's not often that an appellate court decision reflects so vividly what a country has become, but such is the case with yesterday's ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Arar v. Ashcroft (.pdf).
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