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• Obama White House served acorn cookies at Mondays annual Christmas party

  
  Hyscience — Authority: 531
  IA Rep Steve King said in an e-mail , "I didnt expect to see such stark symbolism," and makes a point: "Bill Clinton redefined a two and a three-letter word," King said, a reference to Clintons denial of the Lewinsky scandal . "But from the man who wrote The Audacity of Hope, we were served the very redefinition of ...
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• The president, where is she?

  
  Going against the current — Authority: 122
  The president, according to her aides cannot attend the joint session of the House of Representatives and the Senate that hears the legality of the Martial Law declared in Maguindanao. To quote her minions, she cannot personally defend the declaration because  “she’s busy”.Plain and simple.Now let us try to ...
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• Docs arent buyn what Reids selln

  
  Hyscience — Authority: 531
  Well, its not like they hadnt been warned. And this is their well-deserved reward for playing footsy with the White House and participating in those dog-and-pony shows on the White House lawn. USA Today reports that hospital and doctor groups that have generally supported Obamacare are pushing back against the ...
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• Times Up

  
  /Message — Authority: 134
  In the last quarter, Time Inc.’s operating income declined 40 percent amid an advertising recession and the movement of readers away from print toward the Web. Mr. Bewkes, speaking in April about the future of Time Warner during a conference call with Wall Street analysts, said it “may well include publishing, ...
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• Reid bill a fiscal train wreck thinly disguised by every budget gimmick in the Democratic repertoire

  
  Hyscience — Authority: 531
  Thats the take-home message of an op-ed in the Boston Globe by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, in which he writes that the healthcare reform bills are "unimaginably unfair" : [...] The taxes start in 2010, but the entitlement in 2014. Doctors Medicare fees are presumed to ...
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• Bump Phones To Discover Mutual Friends

  
  /Message — Authority: 134
  Bump is cool. I cant wait to try this discover mutual friends with someone.  
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• Facebook Wants To Be Twitter

  
  /Message — Authority: 134
  Facebook wants you to make the status messages you post visible to the entire internet. [...] A substantial backlash has already begun in comments on the Facebook blog post about the announcement. Previous moves by the company, like theintroduction of the news feed, have seen user resistance as well - butthis move ...
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• AT&T Eyes The Data Hogs As A New Revenue Source

  
  /Message — Authority: 134
  With about 3% of smart-phone customers driving 40% of data traffic, AT&T is considering incentives to keep those subscribers from hampering the experience for everyone else, he [Ralph de la Vega, CEO of AT&T Mobility] said. “You can rest assured that we’re very sure we can address it in a way that’s ...
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• ‘Driftwood’: One Man Leaves It All Behind

  
  eReleases Press Release Headlines — Authority: 551
  
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• The S&P and DX 2009-12-10

  
  Blog for Trading Success — Authority: 125
  BarroMetrics Views: The S&P and DX 2009-12-10 Yesterday’s price action shows we are in a possible critical juncture in the DX (US$ Index) and the S&P. Yesterday, both formed neutral days at critical levels and with patterns that raise the probability that their counter trend moves may come to an end. If ...
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• The Backchannel Eats Its Young: danah boyd and Web 2.0 Expo

  
  /Message — Authority: 134
  I wasnt in attendance at the recent Web 2.0 Expo when danah boyd and the Twittosphere collided in the perfect backchannel meltdown . However, I will just say what I have said for years (like after the famous Mena Trott Meltdown in 2005 at Les Blogs): Only project the backchannel on the wall in groups with high ...
  22 hours ago

• Cost of Healthcare – Nobody Will Get This Right as Technology Throws you a New Left Curve Every Day

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 548
  Well let’s take the budget and pad it by about 50% and we might be talking here.   Ask any hospital CEO that has to budget, they are used to including things that don’t exist today but might show up tomorrow. I went to a grand opening yesterday of a Children’s hospital in Long Beach, which was great and will ...
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• Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- December 9, 2009

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 162
  Fang Xinwu / Color China Photos-ZUMA Press Why China Wont Rule the World -- Minxin Pei, Newsweek Conventional wisdom can be devilishly hard to dispute. For example, most pundits agree that the Great Recession helped China more than any other state. At first glance, this claim seems obviously true. ...
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• WSJ: Has Anyone Read the Copenhagen Agreement?

  
  Hyscience — Authority: 531
  Going by Janet Albrechtsens opinion piece in the WSJ , to say that the UN plans for "a new government" are scary, is to understate the seriousness of what we face if the world leaders come to agreement based on the draft text of the Copenhagen climate-change treaty. We can only hope that world leaders will do ...
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• More On Kevin Jennings, Obamas Safe School Czar

  
  Hyscience — Authority: 531
  You may have thought youd heard it all, but it just keeps getting more disgusting - as in really really sick . What politician would be so outrageously radical and care so little about children, so as to dare appoint such a pervert to "Safe Schools Czar"? Foolish question!
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• Five Missing American Muslims Found

  
  Hyscience — Authority: 531
  Those missing wanna-be American jihadis have been "found" - theyre in Pakistan, under arrest : ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistani police on Wednesday arrested five American men believed to have gone missing from the Washington, D.C. area last month, officials from both countries said. U.S. officials say one of the missing ...
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• News By Topics

  
  /Message — Authority: 504
  via emberapp.com Google announced a new project they have been working on with the New York Times and the Washington Post, called News by Topics. Displayed above is an example topic, The War In Afghanistan. I like the timeline feature, with various stories arrayed by date, and displayed in a stream. The topmost ...
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• Quinnipiac poll: Obama approval now at 46%

  
  Hyscience — Authority: 531
  46% is the lowest ever in Quinnipiac polls, and he has an upside down rating for his handling of health care: The new survey (Dec. 1-6, 2313 RV, MoE +/- 2%), released this morning, finds 44% disapproving of the job Obamas doing. More than half (51%) of independents now disapprove of Obamas job performance, while ...
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• Democrats ditch public option?

  
  Hyscience — Authority: 531
  Well, sorta kinda : WASHINGTON -- After days of secret talks, Senate Democrats tentatively agreed last night to drop a full-blown government-run insurance option from sweeping health-care legislation -- a concession to party moderates whose votes are critical to passage of President Obamas top domestic priority. In ...
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• Who isn’t?

  
  Going against the current — Authority: 122
  Finally I am convinced by the bigotry and lack of utter sense of some people in the upper echelon of power in the Philippines. Not that I was too naive to realize this very late, but because I gave them a little benefit of the doubt.They cannot be stupid, I thought, but my subconscious was [...]
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