7 hours ago by Hiram Wurf

Kevin does a nice job presenting the issues around contraception concisely. As others have noted, providing contraception has been widely accepted in America for a long time now – most people, including Mitt Romney, have presented it as a non-issue. That doesn’t mean Mitt views it as a non-issue, or ...

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7 hours ago by Colum McCaffery

There’s a lot of talk these days about media diversity. (On Monday last I was at a useful conference on the subject hosted by Nessa Childers, MEP.) A problem is that “media diversity”, like so many terms, is increasingly becoming drained of meaning. Indeed, on media training courses it can mean as l ...

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2 days ago by rmshepard

Roseanne Barr, the former star of the television show Roseanne, announced on Twitter recently that she is running for president as a Green Party candidate, should the party nominate her. Barr announced at the beginning of February 2012, “I am running for Green Party nominee for POTUS. I am an offici ...

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8 days ago by Josh Greenberg

The American propagandist and “father of spin” Edward Bernays famously argued that the propaganda efforts which had been so important to the success of the U.S. wartime effort could be equally applied during times of peace and stable government. If … Continue reading →

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9 days ago by Hiram Wurf

Via Atrios – Charlie Pierce’s sharp commentary on David Brook’s dog Moral Hazard. In this economy even the dogs of the relatively well-off live well under their potential.

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14 days ago by Anna Ebbesen

#savetheintern was one of the most trending topics in all of England yesterday, thanks to a foolish intern at the House of Parliament. In an 2 min state of dumb wit this young intern used the twitter account of her boss, MP Tom Watson, to tweet the following: The fun lasted only a few more minutes u ...

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18 days ago by Steve Aplin

For political reasons, the U.S. president has put the kibosh on TransCanada’s plan to extend the Keystone pipeline from Cushing Oklahoma to Houston. That project would have immediately created 6,500 high-paid, high-skilled construction jobs, along with thousands more spinofff jobs. The employment si ...

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22 days ago by Steve Aplin

If your energy strategy involves somebody else’s real property, don’t be surprised if that somebody’s legal property rights trump your energy strategy. CBC Radio’s The Current recently published a very interesting interview with the Canadian federal natural resources minister, who during the intervi ...

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24 days ago by rmshepard

Long after he resigned from the presidential race, Republican Herman Cain is entering the public light once again. Appearing on Fox News with a “very big announcement” in early January, Cain announced that he would continue his public mission to push for the 999 economic plan. Suggesting that he wou ...

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37 days ago by Laurent François

This morning, the French political party UMP (they run for President Sarkozy) tried to generate a buzz as François Hollande (his main opponent for 2012 – at least we hope it’s not Marine Le Pen- a socialist) was supposed to have declared that Sarkozy is a “dirty guy” (sale mec in French).UMP politic ...

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