April 2011
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Managing Editor of Fox News admits he lied about... →
Wow, I’m SO not surprised!
March 2011
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The bond vigilante speaks →
Chrystia Freeland at Reuters
Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon has previously written that “if you wanted to put a face to the famous bond vigilantes, it would probably feature that famous moustache” of PIMCO CEO Mohamed El-Erian. Well, this morning Chrystia sat down with this famous bond vigilante for an hour-long Thomson Reuters Newsmaker interview and asked him why PIMCO decided to dump...
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“Mr. El-Erian is not particularly optimistic about any of the world’s three...”
– Andrew Osterland
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Revealed: Gaddafi envoy in Britain for secret... →
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Romney disowns health care plan he developed that... →
For the federal law, “Massachusetts absolutely was the model,” Gruber said. “It would have been much harder if we didn’t have a working example to show that it worked.”
Live Video : Press Conference On Re-Capture of... →
Starting now
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“I was happy to see that Newt Gingrich has staked out a position on the war, a...”
– Rand Paul (via jeffmiller)
Quite possibly the only time I ever felt like giving Rand Paul a fist bump.
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Watchpopculturebrain:
Colbert Pulls a Kanye on Jon Stewart at The Comedy Awards | Comedy Central Insider (NSFW)
Spoiler alert.
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Millennials want their news from major nat'l... →
Reports of the demise of newspapers may be greatly exaggerated.
According to a new Harvard study, the denizens of the digital age — 18-to-29-year-olds — would prefer to get most of their political news about the next presidential campaign from — believe it or not — major national newspapers.
In the survey from the Harvard University Institute of Politics, 49 percent of...
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Biden: Republicans and Democrats nearing deal in...
shortformblog:
$33 billion in cuts in the latest, tentative budget proposal source
» Still not a sure thing: Joe Biden, who has been negotiating a budget with the Republicans, says that he and Republicans are now “working off the same number” in their talks. However, John Boehner’s spokesman made it clear that “there is no deal until everything is settled.” If this budget passes, the cuts will...
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Former New Orleans police officer Greg McRae... →
Former police officer Greg McRae was sentenced this morning to more than 17 years in federal prison for burning Henry Glover’s body after he was shot by a fellow police officer in the days after Hurricane Katrina.
U.S. District Judge Lance Africk immediately remanded McRae to federal authorities.
The sentence of 207 months was imposed by Africk, shortly after heordered former officer David...
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Baseball's Back! Your 2011 Opening Day Viewing... →
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“This is a major defection and a significant blow to the Gaddafi regime. Moussa...”
– Statement on Moussa Koussa by Tommy Vietor, National Security Council Spokesman (via neighborhoodr-tripoli)
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Two Reuters Journalists Missing in Syria →
neighborhoodr-damascus:
“Thomson Reuters is deeply concerned about the whereabouts of our colleagues Khaled al-Hariri and Suleiman al-Khalidi,” Reuters Editor-in-Chief Stephen Adler said.
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Obama Authorized Covert Support For Libyan Rebels →
theatlantic:
Reuters is reporting that President Obama has already signed off on a presidential “finding”—i.e. an order—authorizing covert U.S. support for Libyan rebels. The order, which Reuters says was given “within the last two to three weeks” is described by the news service as the “principal form of presidential directive used to authorize secret operations by the Central Intelligence...
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Mediaite spotlights Tumblr's Short Form Blog →
producermatthew:
Some nice attention for everyone’s favorite short form news reader: Check out Jaclyn Schiff’s interview with Ernie Smith, editor of the Short Form Blog on Tumblr. Nice shout out to SFB writers Seth and Chris on Page 2 (and a couple of other shoutouts for Pantsless Progressive, Kateoplis, Newsflick, Soupsoup and a couple of other great news and political Tumblrs).
Thanks Ernie!...
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WatchI’ll be covering Reuters Newsmaker event tomorrow at 3 Times Square.
Chrystia Freeland will talk with Mohamed El-Erian, CEO of PIMCO
A great interview with Mohamed above and also here, with Charlie Rose
Mohamed is widely regarded as among the leading global thinkers on the recent financial crisis, debt crisis in Europe, the transformative changes in the Middle East and how they relate to...
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“We can confirm that Musa Kusa arrived at Farnborough Airport on 30 March from...”
– Statement from the British Foreign Office confirming that Musa Kusa has left Libya. (via abcworldnews)
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“Responding to a situation with humor, as opposed to, say, dead-serious...”
– Tina Fey
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“It is absurd to think that the reasons for bombing Tripoli or for the turkey...”
– Libya is another case of selective vigilantism by the west says Tariq Ali. Bombing Tripoli while shoring up other despots in the Arab world shows the UN-backed strikes to oust Gaddafi are purely cynical. Read more at The Guardian. (via newsflick)
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“News Corp has named Rupert Murdoch’s son James as the company’s new...”
– Hamilton Nolan
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“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the...”
– Fmr. MLB commissioner Bart Giamatti, “Green Fields of the Mind”.
One. More. Day.
(via langer)
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