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• Where is Your Loyalty, Sarah Palin?

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 149
  As more bits from Sarah Palins memoir trickle out, The Huffington Post reports : In the acknowledgments section of her book "Going Rogue", obtained by the Huffington Post on Friday, Sarah Palin thanks her friends in the media--by first name only: To some media professionals whom I admire because you dont let ...
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• LHC Watch: Physicist Otto Rossler Thinks the Large Hadron Collider Could Destroy the Earth

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  In an interview with Alan Gillis here, Otto Rossler, a Max Plank Institute physicist with 300 scientific papers to his credit, thinks the Large Hadron Collider could destroy the Earth. Here he describes his visit to CERN this summer: Alan Gillis: You mentioned Dr Rolf Landua earlier. You had an interview with him ...
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• Today At TNR (November 14, 2009)

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 138
  What I Learned While Watching the Berlin Wall Come Down 20 Years Ago , by Chris Matthews Can the Courts Save Us From the Stupak Amendment? by Jeffrey Rosen ‘2012’ Is Like Every Other Roland Emmerich Film. This Is Not a Compliment. by Christopher Orr Want to Reduce Greenhouse Gases? Start With How We Build ...
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• Slideshow: "Ive Discovered Our Next President!"

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 149
  Ahh, the pundit-driven presidential boomlet. Every so often, a Washington prognosticator like David Brooks will latch on to an obscure figure-- someone like the attractive, socially-conservative neophyte Senator John Thune --and extol his (or her) virtues to the heavens, explaining why only this person can redeem ...
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• Would Obama Have Nuked Japan?

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 149
  At a press conference in Tokyo today, a Japanese reporter asked Obama whether Harry Truman made "the right decision" to drop nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Obama dodged the question (easy to do because it was a multi-parter. Note to reporters: Multi-part questions usually ensure non-answers to the ...
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• Bombs Away

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 138
  The Hill reported yesterday that the Employment Policies Institute , a “non-profit research organization” that’s been around since the mid-90s, is planning a $10 million media campaign over the next two months to defeat health care reform. The ads , featuring a former CBO director talking about how much the ...
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• Weekend Reading, November 13-15

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 138
  -- Philip Caputo on Mexicos drug wars -- Tim Garton Ash and Anne Applebaum on 1989 --Gina Kolata on cancer drugs (really, its fascinating!) -- Hanna Rosin on Christianity and the housing bust -- Elizabeth Kolbert on Freakonomics --( TNR s own) Brad Plumer on Michael Specters new book --And The Onion on ...
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• A Decade of Bad Movies?

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 149
  A.O. Scotts piece on a decades worth of movies is, as usual, worth reading. However, I do think this passage deserves further comment: Perhaps the easiest and most satisfying way to make sense of the unruly cinematic abundance of the past 10 years is to sift through it for masters and masterpieces, kicking the ...
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• Getting to Know Thune

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 149
  Wednesday, CNN.com posted a Sen.-John-Thune-on-the-rise piece by Dana Bash. Today, we are presented with David Brookss even more glowing " Meet John Thune " column in the NYT. Hmmm. Smells like somebody has a new PR push underway.
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• Our Lady of Alaska

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 149
  In the Palinpalooza revival were seeing in the run-up to next weeks release of "Going Rogue," one line from todays WaPo piece caught my eye: "Her volume already sits near the top of online bestseller lists, based on pre-sales alone, and HarperColinss religious imprint Zondervan will publish another edition of ...
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• As Feared: Iran vs. Saudi Arabia

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 149
  If youll recall one of the big foreign policy nightmares circa 2005-2006 was the possibility that U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would lead to a destabilizing proxy war between Sunni-led Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran. We stuck around and that didnt happen. But we may now be getting it anyway... in Yemen .
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• Exit Greg Craig

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 149
  ABCs Tapper on the White House counsels departure : "There is a firm belief from the President on down that Greg is taking more blame than he deserves for Gitmo," a senior administration official told ABC News. "This was a decision made by the President and supported by many officials." This seems eminently fair to ...
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• Who Leaked the Eikenberry Cable?

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 149
  From whence came the leak of a cable from the US Ambassador to Kabul, Karl Eikenberry, warning against an escalation in Afghanistan? Its not clear, though most of the speculation assumes that Eikenberry himself publicized it to shift the public debate away from how many more troops to send to whether to send more ...
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• The Mini-Review: 2012

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 149
  At this point, I’m not sure which has become more tiresome: Roland Emmerich’s penchant for emotionally overwrought end-of-the-world pictures or his penchant for giving said pictures time-specific titles. With the exception of Godzilla , which advertised its subject with forthright specificity, his titles have ...
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• Paging Maureen Dowd

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 138
  By my count, its been six months since your last Obama-Spock comparison , so heres some material to inspire you, from a Boston Phoenix interview with Leonard Nimoy : I’ve met Obama a couple of times. The first time, my wife and I went to a very modest luncheon, very early, when he was just starting to put ...
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• Red Arrows Display Team Unveils Historic 2010 Line-up Including the First-ever Female Pilot

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows, has unveiled its historic 2010 line-up at Royal Air Force Scampton, its home base near Lincoln. The 2010 team includes the first-ever female pilot, Flight Lieutenant Kirsty Moore (Red 3), as well as new Officer Commanding and Team Leader, Squadron Leader Ben Murphy ...
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• Today at TNR (November 13, 2009)

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 138
  Can the Courts Save Us From the Stupak Amendment? by Jeffrey Rosen Frenemies: The Testy Relationship Between Obama and the EU by Roland Flamini ‘Precious’ Is Groundbreaking and Deserves to Be Seen. But It’s Also the Apotheosis of Oprah-ism by Christopher Orr The Right Way to Tame the Fed. PLUS, Khimm ...
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• Can We Win Two Straight?

  
  FanSided — Authority: 581
  While I want to have high hopes for this Sundays road game in Miami, my naysayer side keeps popping up on shoulder and slapping me in the face.  I want to think we can win multiple games in a row, I want to think that Josh Freeman is the answer (shit, I even picked him [...]
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• Connecting the Dots

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 138
  In the process of trying to figure out who leaked the Eikenberry memos and why (her sources best guess: the White House political operation which is trying to push back against a pushy Pentagon), Laura Rozen makes a point that hadnt occurred to me: Obama may have additional leverage to assert his continued ...
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• Malcolm Gladwells Secret Of Success

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 138
  Last night, Charlie Rose featured a powerful one-two punch of glib thinking ( the powerful one-two punch of glib thinking): The Freakonomics guys and Malcolm Gladwell (in separate segments). Steven Levitt and Steven Dubner were about what you would expect... CHARLIE ROSE : And [global warmings] s man created? ...
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