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• NEA wraps its website in virtual red tape

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 709
  The National Endowment for the Arts has found a way to cover its online posterior while, in time-honored federal bureaucratic fashion, strewing some extra red tape along the information super highway. Culture Monster had its first encounter with this innovation this week while checking some old e-mail, which ...
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• Images: Ground Zero On the Battlefield of Ideas

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 749
  Images have power. Propaganda and marketing are based on the power of the image and the thoughts and feelings that the image conveys. A photo op pulled off well can make a politician’s career. A photo op done badly will torpedo it. Michael Dukakis riding around in a tank destroyed his presidential run. So is the ...
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• Puces Pop / Rusty Plum

  
  Creativadoration — Authority: 116
  * I still have 2 Gift Guides to publish, For Her, and for DIY Peeps! They are coming! :D Just been busy with 2 Holiday events and Holidays sales in the shops. Everything’s colliding at the same time! :) Venez me voir au cette fin de semaine PucesPop/RustyPlum pour votre magasinage des Fêtes! Come see me ...
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• Rebel Music: A Celebration for the People, Fri. 12/4

  
  DJ Stylus - The Vibe Conductor — Authority: 119
  Lil SoSo Productions presents the closing event for the Smithsonian’s 381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Story . The night will include performances by area artists paying tribute to the music and legacy of protest as displayed during the Montgomery Bus Boycott highlighted in the 381 Days exhibition. Using ...
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• Lets Make a Deal! Groupon Nabs $30 Million in Funding

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 693
  Groupon, a group-buying social e-commerce service, has nabbed $30 million in its second round of funding, led by Accel Partners. The innovative Chicago-based service, which launched only a year ago, had previously gotten $4.8 million in funding from New Enterprise Associates, as well as $1 million from an angel ...
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• Bess Lomax Hawes, 88; folklorist, performer, NEA official

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 960
  Bess Lomax Hawes, who sang with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, co-wrote the Kingston Trios hit "M.T.A." and helped preserve American folk arts as an official of the National Endowment for the Arts, died Nov. 27 at a hospital in Portland, Ore., after a stroke. She was 88.
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• Anatomy of a Beat-Down Part 2: Why Kenneth Gladney Was Beaten And by Whom

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  Yesterday we discussed the events leading up to the August 6 th health care town hall meeting featuring Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-MO).  The event was hosted by Health Care For American Now (HCAN) and Organizing for America (OFA), the former a front group for Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the ...
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• Tech Start-Up Envy: Why Does the Capital Region Come Up Short?

  
  Strategic Guy — Authority: 115
  Driptech, Scribd, SolarCity, Zynga, Fitbit…they are all interesting technology start-ups recently included on BusinessWeek’s list of the “Most Intriguing New Businesses.” There’s a problem with the list though: not a single company based in the Washington, DC region made the cut. How can that be? Where ...
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• NEW DOCUMENTS REVEAL: White House, NEA Had Big Plans In Motion Before Being Exposed

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 749
  Inciting is usually a telegraphed endeavor, with rhetoric yelled to an audience through a megaphone held by a coarse, weathered hand. But it can also be delivered subtly, with a soft voice and a wink, in the name of doing good . Subtlety is necessary if a federal agency intends to incite activists to take action on ...
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• Kunzman on Regulating Homeschooling

  
  Homeschooling Research Notes — Authority: 107
  This post reviews Robert Kunzman, “Understanding Homeschooling: A Better Approach to Regulation” in Theory and Research in Education 7, no. 3 (November 2009): 311-330 Kunzman, well known on this blog as the author of the excellent study Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative ...
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• Peter Jones’ National Enterprise Academy launches fast-track course

  
  notgoingtouni.co.uk — Authority: 122
  The National Enterprise Academy (NEA) is giving enterprising young people the opportunity to apply for its first intensive, fast-track course in enterprise and entrepreneurship. Starting in January 2010 and with only a limited number of 30 places on offer per campus, the successful students will be amongst the first ...
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• Teachers union-dues and fees misused

  
  The Union News. — Authority: 449
  Ties to union thugs trigger Corzine Electile DysfunctionAn interesting document found its way to my inbox over the weekend. It was a PowerPoint presentation of an analysis done by the New Jersey Education Association, regarding its efforts to re-elect Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine. The document can be found at ...
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• Peak Uranium Debate

  
  Uranium Investing News — Authority: 141
  Nuclear power is quickly becoming a viable option and hundreds of new nuclear facilities are planned for construction in countries around the world. Much like the debate over peak oil, questions concerning the ability of the earth’s uranium reserves to meet the expected demand of a world gone nuclear are beginning ...
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• Interviews: "John Steinbecks The Pastures of Heaven", The Final Development Milestone

  
  NEA New Play Development Program hosted by Arena Stage — Authority: 407
  Cal Shakes / Octavio Solis / Word for Words "John Steinbecks The Pastures of Heaven" is a Distinguished New Play Development Project that has just completed its fifth development workshop. The world premiere will be opening CalShakes 2010 mainstage season June 2 - June 27. Click here for the Cal Shakes blog posts ...
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• Socialized Ed: Too high a price to pay

  
  The Union News. — Authority: 449
  Jumbo stakeholder puts union-dues firstBack to the video. It shows the top lawyer of the National Education Association, Bob Chanin, speaking at the NEAs annual meeting in July. Chanin was retiring. This was his swan song.Chanin makes unmistakably clear what the highest priority is for the union. Hint: Its not the ...
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• NEA Puts Power Ahead of Kids

  
  SpunkyHomeSchool — Authority: 452
  If anyone ever thought the NEA was or ever will be about educating children, think again. Its about protecting their power. Heres the NEAs General Counsel admitting as much in his retirement speech this past summer. "Despite what some among us would like to believe it is not because of our creative ideas. It is ...
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• NEA’s Kittu Kolluri Part-2

  
  The Kamla Show - India's premier podcast about India and the Global Indian — Authority: 112
  NEA ’s Managing Partner, Kittu Kolluri is an engineer-turned-entrepreneur-turned-investor. I met with Kittu at NEA’s Sand Hill Road office in Menlo Park, Calif., to find out how he made this transition from being an engineer to an investor. In Part 2 of our conversation Kittu talks about one of his favorite ...
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• NEA’s Kittu Kolluri: Part-1

  
  The Kamla Show - India's premier podcast about India and the Global Indian — Authority: 112
  Kittu Kolluri of NEA This is a 2-part candid interview with venture capitalist Kittu Kolluri of NEA. Earlier today, Teracent, one of Kittu’s portfolio company was acquired by Google for an undisclosed amount. I met with Kittu at NEA’s Sand Hill Road Office in Menlo Park to find out how he made this ...
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• Your blog headline of the day! From the Blog of the Day!

  
  The Daley Gator — Authority: 605
  Goes to Carol, of the Closet for this beauty! And check out the rest of the things in Carol’s Closet, it is the DaleyGator’s Blog of the Day
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• The National Education Associations Top Priority Is Not Education

  
  Carol's Closet — Authority: 560
  Michelle Malkin brings news from the education front: Last week, I showed you how the SEIU and other union thugs have routinely engaged in brass-knuckle tactics to intimidate volunteers who threaten their power. Here’s another example to add to the Big Labor Bully file — straight outta Chicago : We ...
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