Public Opinion

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• People Think Congressional Republicans’ Policies Are Bad for America

  
  Matthew Yglesias — Authority: 791
  Neither Nancy Pelosi nor Harry Reid nor Congress polls well, but elections are zero-sum and this strikes me as an important result : A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday indicates that a bare majority of Americans, 51 percent, believe that the Democrats’ policies are good for the ...
  8 hours ago

• Joe Lieberman Does Unpopular Stuff, Unpopularity Ensues, The Hill is Confused

  
  Matthew Yglesias — Authority: 791
  As we all recall, it was just a short time ago that Joe Lieberman held the health reform process hostage to some idiosyncratic demands. Expanding coverage and curbing the deficit were important, said Lieberman, but not so important that he would vote to do those things. Unless, that is, some popular ideas like a ...
  11 hours ago

• Call Him Governor, Not David

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  Gov. David A. Paterson meets with legislative leaders in Albany earlier this year.
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• Twas the night before Christmas, the Senate version

  
  Top of the Ticket — Authority: 790
  Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the House Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Pelosi & Hoyer & Boehner & Cantor had long since left D.C. The better to tell their constituents to be merry. But the U.S. Senate was a different story. There early lights ...
  13 hours ago

• US Senate approves historic healthcare bill

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 723
  Washington, Dec 24 (IANS) The US Senate Thursday passed 60-39 a historic legislation for giving millions of Americans access to healthcare.The legislation cleared a major hurdle in the US Senate earlier in the week, putting it on course for a final vote Thursday.The scheme is now projected to cost some $1 trillion, ...
  15 hours ago

• Market Responds To Copenhagen

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 549
  By Nick Loris Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who made the trip to Copenhagen to tell delegates the American public is rejecting a national energy tax, opined that the UN climate change conference was a failure in USA Today . The market agrees with him. As expectations for a legally binding treaty to reduce ...
  17 hours ago

• Two Thirds of Imams in France on Welfare, says Author

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 595
  Two-thirds of all Muslim Imams in France are on welfare which means that the French taxpayers are effectively subsidising the propagation of Islam in that country, author Christopher Caldwell has said. In an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel, Mr Caldwell, a Financial Times journalist and author of the ...
  17 hours ago

• America’s Christmas Wars

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 549
  By Alan Caruba It’s become the new Christmas tradition; a handful of people who demand that everyone else stop celebrating Christmas by displaying manger scenes in public places or stop singing Christmas carols in school, or stop saying “Merry Christmas.” These people are annoying twits, but they too often ...
  23 hours ago

• Gov. Heineman Unloads Both Barrels

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  Last night on OTR, Greta asked a simple question of Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman about the now-infamous Nebraska Kickback. To his credit, Gov. Heineman gave a straightforward reply . Here’s the relevant portion of the interview: VAN SUSTEREN: All right, now, you talk about “all these” special deals, and I ...
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• It’s December So Bring on the Kwanzaa Haterism

  
  JasmyneCannick.com — Authority: 140
  With Dr. Maulana Karenga and Tiamoyo Karenga I’d be happy if we went from October 31st to January 1 and skipped both Thanksgiving and Christmas…except for Kwanzaa. That feeling is even stronger when I listen to shock jocks like KFI 640 AM’s Bill Handel inaccurately try to explain and articulate what the ...
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• Christians: Embattled in the Middle East

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 442
  Nina Shea at National Review Online reports that the Vatican is planning a special synod of Roman Catholic bishops next October to discuss the problem of Christian flight from the region and to promote greater ecumenical unity in the Middle East.  She argues that many Christian communities in the region are forced ...
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• Sarah Palins death panel charge voted biggest lie of 2009

  
  Top of the Ticket — Authority: 790
  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin got a lot of mileage out of her allegation last summer that the healthcare reform bill touted by President Obama and moving through a Democratic Congress sanctioned "death panels" that would choke the life out of the nations seniors. In one of her Facebook posts on the issue in ...
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• Price of Ben Nelsons vote: City guy Chuck Schumer hunts

  
  Top of the Ticket — Authority: 790
  No doubt youve heard about what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had to pay to win Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson s vote on the healthcare bill. It was an exemption from Nebraskas share of Medicaid expansion, amounting to about $100 million over the next 10 years. As columnist Michael Gerson noted, " Sometimes there ...
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• First Dog Bo grabs spotlight at Obama girls Christmas

  
  Top of the Ticket — Authority: 790
  It was perhaps their first press conference -- or anyway, their first public words since they helped rescue the Thanksgiving turkey from his customary fate as centerpiece of the familys dinner table. Tuesday, President Obama s two daughters -- 11-year-old Malia and 8-year-old Sasha -- joined First Lady Michelle ...
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• Shenandoah Teens Federal Arraignment

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 549
  I have said before that “Emperor” Ed Rendell used his political clout to run these boys into the ground by way of his close relationship with the Usurper-in-Chief Obama. I was informed that the Allentown, PA federal office had declined to pursue indictments against the teenagers due to lack of evidence. I was ...
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• Essential Report – Christmas Edition

  
  Pollytics — Authority: 528
  This week’s Essential Report (delayed on my end by a bit of Christmas travel – apols about that) has the primaries running 47 (up 2) / 37 (up 2) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 57/43 the same way – a one point gain to the Coalition since the last Essential. The Greens are 8 ...
  2 days ago

• Does Habermas Understand the Internet? The Algorithmic Construction of the Blogo/Public Sphere

  
  gnovis - Georgetown University's Journal of Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT) — Authority: 122
  From its unusual beginning as a data-sharing network designed by the U.S. military to remain operational in the event of a nuclear attack (Abbate, 2000), the Internet has quickly become one first universities and then households began to link up to this global communications network at an exponential rate, one of the ...
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• Washington Post washes its hands with passive voice re climate change confusion

  
  Get Energy Smart! NOW!!! — Authority: 619
  The Washington Post / ABC News 13 Dec 09 poll had both some gloomy and some bright news when it comes to Americans’ perspectives about climate change and how/whether we should act in response to them.The Post/ABC poll and The Post’s 18 Dec 09 reporting of it in On environment, Obama and scientists take hit [...]
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• Yemen: The Need for a Broader Perspective?

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 442
  Time Magazine explores the  potential fallout  from U.S. assistance in strikes and raids against Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen. The article quotes Gregory Johnsen who warns “you can’t just go kill a few individuals and the al-Qaeda problem will go away,” especially when such attacks result in civilian ...
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• Syria-Lebanon: The Return of the Strong Horse

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 442
  The meeting between Saad Hariri and Bashar Asaad (see out post ) is being viewed by many as a turning point in Lebanon-Syria ties.  AFP reports on several reactions to the visit. Paul Salem , head of the Beirut-based Carnegie Middle East Center, contends “through his visit, [Hariri] has announced the end ...
  2 days ago

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