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• Creepy: Justice Department Went After News Sites Visitor List

  
  BNET Intercom — Authority: 125
  The Justice Department leaves the impression, even if its unintended, that they can continue to snoop on online news operations.
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• Pacific Wave International Exchange to Showcase Ocean-Observatories and Sustainability Innovations at SC09 Conference

  
  Your Story — Authority: 158
  LA MIRADA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- From November 16-19, the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR will host cutting-edge network-based experiments and demonstrations as part o
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• Poll: Maine Republicans Would Back ‘Conservative’ Challenger to Snowe

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  This Public Policy Polling survey of Maine isn’t all that surprising: She has a 46/40 disapproval/approval rating from state Republicans. By a whopping 27 points, those same Republicans say they’d back a “conservative challenger” to Snowe in the 2012 GOP primary. Voters who picked the McCain-Palin ticket in ...
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• My Visit to the US Treasury, Part 7 (Final)

  
  The Aleph Blog — Authority: 583
  Things have been busy for me, so this final part should be short.  What did I learn that I did not already know?  Not much, except: The Treasury wants to convince  the public that it is doing its best, but that Congress is a slave to the Financial Services industries. When asked about the latest bailout of GMAC, ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  Cold Spring Shops — Authority: 483
  HEAR! HEAR! The Chronicle of Higher Education offers a forum: Are Too Many Students Going to College? (Hie thee hence before it goes behind the pay wall.) Best observation: Berkeley education professor W. Norton Grubb. We do have a moral obligation, emerging from several centuries of concern with equity in a highly ...
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• QotD, Stupak amendment edition

  
  Signifying Nothing — Authority: 502
  From TigerHawk’s reaction to the furor surrounding the Stupak anti-abortion amendment to the House version of the health care bill: The real problem, of course, is that this fight reveals the ugly truth of statist health care: That personal medical decisions are no longer a matter of private bargaining, but of ...
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• Eva Longoria Parker to Be Honored at MALDEF 35th Annual Los Angeles Awards Gala

  
  Your Story — Authority: 158
  LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- On Thursday, November 12, 2009, at The Westin Bonaventure Hotel, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) will host the 35th
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• Chaos, Complexity, and Public Policy: Excellent interview of Irene Sanders

  
  idealawg — Authority: 431
  This very informative and interesting interview was done by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars . Click to watch " Chaos, Complexity, and Public Policy ." (For those of you tuning in after November, the Sanders interview is Episode #2206.) Click to read my interview of Irene Sanders from 2006.
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• No Alternative - That Is If You Want Affordable Health Care

  
  Change the Wind — Authority: 425
  So the U.S. House finally came up with a health care bill ! "After a daylong clash with Republicans over what has been a Democratic goal for decades, lawmakers voted 220 to 215 to approve a plan that would cost $1.1 trillion over 10 years. Democrats said the legislation would provide overdue relief to ...
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• U.S. economy 2009

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 133
  NYT  Financial crisis one year later ;  Joseph Cassano, former head of A.I.G.’s Financial Products unit: The Man Who Crashed the World ; Reuters special coverage Wall Street pay Bank Lending Down Despite Massive Bailouts And Increasing Regulations While financial institutions including Citigroup Inc. and ...
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• Could the US learn from Europe how to tackle unemployment?

  
  shareholdersunite.com — Authority: 138
  What alternate universe would that be…Well, Europe as a whole is a rather diverse mix, but some countries do indeed provide useful lessons..Has Europe got the answer?Nov 5th 2009From The Economist print editionNot entirely. But America could still learn from some of the continent’s ideas for tackling unemployment. ...
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• Judge rules Tennessee Voter Confidence Act does not restrict Secretary of State

  
  Nashville Is Talking — Authority: 521
  A Davidson County Judge has ruled TN Sec. of State Tre Hargett can use paper ballot machines as required by the state’s Tennessee Voter Confidence Act (TVCA). Sec. Hargett has spent most of 2009 claiming he cannot abide by a new 2008 state law requiring paper ballots in the November 2010 elections because no ...
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• Failures in Public Administration

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 129
  This post outlines the second change in my approach to writing including blogging that I discussed in Saturday Morning Musings - a change in writing direction . Over recent years I have written a fair bit about what I see as problems in current Australian public policy and administration. The problem in all ...
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• Let’s Turn up the heat on Rex Murphy’s flawed logic

  
  eaves.ca — Authority: 417
  In his regular column the other week Rex Murphy published a piece entitled Dont turn up the heat on the West , which also had the great sub title: By making Western provinces pay for adventures in global warming policy we will be playing with Confederation. For a man that regularly rails against the lack of ...
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• Rothenberg: the Most Accurate Pollster is SurveyUSA

  
  RedState — Authority: 801
  Rothenberg has done a great service by documenting the most accurate pollsters which most accurately predicted the results of last Tuesday’s elections. In the heat of predictable arguments about which polls are the most accurate leading up to the 2010 mid-term elections, Rothenberg’s list of the most accurate ...
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• James Hansen speaks

  
  The Cost of Energy — Authority: 424
  James Hansen has posted a couple of very interesting items, albeit interesting for different reasons, on his web site. The first is his letter, I Just Had a Baby, at Age 68 [PDF] , which details his recent experience with prostate cancer surgery, and talks about his participation in a “sleep out” event outside ...
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• Changing Behavior

  
  11D — Authority: 132
  The New York Times article on vodka consumption in Russia was great. I even loved this picture that accompanied the article. Check out that nurse. Something about her hair just screams fetish. Some stats from the article: Russians consume roughly 4.75 gallons of pure alcohol a person annually.  Life ...
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• Clearwire is big winner in FCC WiMAX auction

  
  MuniWireless — Authority: 491
  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced the winners of Auction 86 (the “WiMAX Band auction”). The auction began on 27 October 2009 . Most of the spectrum  in the WiMAX Band (2.5 GHz) was won by Clearwire Spectrum Holdings. Other winning bidders include DigitalBridge, the Vermont Telephone ...
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• Our Endangered Planet: How to Protect and Promote Sustainable Development

  
  Knowledge@Wharton — Authority: 128
  The title of an upcoming Festival of Thinkers panel, "Future Resources: Envisioning Sustainable Development," only begins to hint at the broad range of interconnected subjects that go into any discussion of sustainability -- ranging from ecological concerns and population control to economic disparity and social ...
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• Reasonable Accommodation

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 133
  Spreading intolerance, one fatwa at a time Tarek Fatah, founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress. For some time now, I have been following the questions posed by Muslim youth and the responses (fatwas) issued by such Saudi-based clerics. It is fascinating to see how medieval-minded scholars serving a dictatorial ...
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