Saturday 30 April 2011

University backs professor in video flap

University of Missouri-Kansas City officials say they're standing behind a labor studies professor whose lecture comments about union agitation tactics have created an Internet stir among conservative commentators.

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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker officially cuts collective bargaining

MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Friday signed into law the proposal that eliminates most union rights for public employees, saying he had "no doubt" that support for the measure would grow over time.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031101016.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Santorum: Planned Parenthood In Poor Areas? It Likes Killing Minorities

Rick Santorum needs some attention! Say something ridiculous and offensive, Rick! “Well, look at — and I know they dispute this — certainly a lot of evidence that the location of their clinics happen to be in places, historically places, where there are high concentrations of minorities, for example.” Sure, that will work! Just say [...]

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Obama in Ala.: 'I've never seen devastation like this'

Expressing amazement at the destruction all around him, President Barack Obama on Friday stepped through the wreckage left by rampaging tornadoes and pledged help to those who survived but lost their homes in a terrifying flash.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42819564/ns/politics-white_house/

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Polar Bear Cub Rescued At Alaska Oil Field

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/30/polar-bear-cub-rescued-at_n_855868.html

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Jennifer Connelly With Big Baby Bump, 2 Sons (PHOTOS)

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Clock ticks on Huckabee run

Does the former Arkansas governor have the fire in the belly for a grueling second presidential campaign?

Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53963.html

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Schmaltz Artist Pulls American Jesus Prints From ?Liberal? BYU Shop

Did you hear about liberal hate site “Groupon” sponsoring the racist Donald Trump’s racism? Groupon, you’re fired! What’s next? How about those liberals at the Mormon university? Yeah, how about them? A guy who makes prints of Jesus and the GOP Presidents and the Troops has pulled his precious artworks from the Mormon Church-owned Brigham [...]

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Friday 29 April 2011

Open thread for night owls: Mission (still not) Accomplished, 16,000 staff to stay at U.S. embassy

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Greg Mitchell reminds us of a big anniversary coming up on Sunday, the 8th birthday of George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech from the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln.

Mitchell dredges up some of the media's breathless coverage of that dreadful day in 2003. Here's Chris Matthews giving Bush a gurgling blow-job:

"He won the war. He was an effective commander. Everybody recognizes that, I believe, except a few critics. ...Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple."

And here are some others:

PBS' Gwen Ifill said Bush was "part Tom Cruise, part Ronald Reagan." On NBC, Brian Williams gushed, "The pictures were beautiful. It was quite something to see the first-ever American president on a?on a carrier landing."

Bob Schieffer on CBS said: "As far as I'm concerned, that was one of the great pictures of all time." His guest, Joe Klein, responded: "Well, that was probably the coolest presidential image since Bill Pullman played the jet fighter pilot in the movie Independence Day. That was the first thing that came to mind for me."

Everyone agreed the Democrats and antiwar critics were now on the run. The New York Times observed, "The Bush administration is planning to withdraw most United States combat forces from Iraq over the next several months and wants to shrink the American military presence to less than two divisions by the fall, senior allied officials said today."

Riiiiiiiight. The Iraq war Bush declared to be essentially over that day had not yet taken 150 American lives. This week, two more?1st Lt. Omar J. Vazquez and Pvt. 1st Class Antonio G. Stiggins?were killed by hostile fire in Numaniyah, bringing the total U.S. military deaths in Iraq to 4451. Another 318 coalition soldiers have died in the conflict. And hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, a total that will never be known with any certainty.

Meanwhile, U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division Commander Major General Bernard Champoux affirmed in a press conference Wednesday that, after the U.S. troop withdrawal is completed at year's end, some 16,000 employees, including "military and security advisers," will remain at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad:

?Most of the employees at the Embassy have significant authorities and are highly informed about the course of developments in Iraq including the conclusion of contracts with neighbouring countries, the evacuation of some officers and the supervision on Iraqis? training,? he added.

It was unclear how many of the 16,000 would be Iraqis and how many would be from whoever replaced Xe/Blackwater in Iraq.

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At Daily Kos on this date in 2009:

Sean Hanny-teabag tells us that teabaggers furious at Janeane Garofalo for calling them racist are plotting their revenge ? by purchasing tickets to her upcoming comedy show in Boston.

That?s right: the teabaggers are paying Garofalo for the right to protest her. Oooh...scary.

Just for the record, while Garofalo was wrong to call all teabaggers racists, it?s not like Fox doesn?t say the same exact thing about those of us on the left. But you?ll never hear Hannity talking about that, because IOKIYOF ? It?s Okay If You?re On Fox.


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Obama meets with Gabrielle Giffords

President spends ten minutes meeting in Cape Canaveral with Democratic representative recovering from shooting attack

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Rep. Peter King's Muslim hearings: A key moment in an angry conversation

Thursday's hearing could mark a key moment in the way America talks about Muslims as the conversation shifts from the fringes to the center of American politics.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/09/AR2011030902061.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Hard Out There for a Quran

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Unions Take the Fight to the States

Unions may change strategy for 2012 elections, shift resources from federal candidates to battles in states.


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In states, parties clash over voting laws that would affect college students, others

In one example, New Hampshire House Republicans are pushing for new laws that would prohibit many college students from voting in the state.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/06/AR2011030602662.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Thursday 28 April 2011

Conservative Congressman?s Star Power Extends Beyond Florida District

An African-American Tea Party-activist Republican is becoming a leading spokesman for the right.

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Republicans target state health insurance exchange funds

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress are launching a fresh attack on the healthcare law by targeting grants to states for creating insurance exchanges, just as congressional budget analysts said on Thursday setting up the marketplaces may be delayed.

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Pickup Truck Warns of Impending ?Muslim Attack?

WHY WON’T AMERICA LISTEN TO THE PICKUP TRUCKS? Our nation’s pickup trucks are always alerting citizens to new threats, but nobody seems to listen, even though we do our part to bring them to the people. Things are getting so bad that it’s no longer enough to post messages on your truck; you now have [...]

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