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Microsoft and Yahoo! Internet Search Pact

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As expected, Microsoft and Yahoo! have announced an internet search deal: Microsoft and Yahoo, whose talks about a merger failed last year, on Wednesday announced a 10-year collaboration in Web search and advertising. Under the agreement, which both companies hope will allow them to compete better with Google, Microsoft will power Yahoo’s Web search while Yahoo will become … [Read more...] about Microsoft and Yahoo! Internet Search Pact

The Great Performers: Harpo Marx and the Harp

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If you're literally a lifelong student of comedy as I am, you have to constantly watch and study the comedy greats. The era is unimportant: you study the work of great film and TV comedians of the 20th and early 21st century. And any student of comedy has to view at least some of the classic Marx Brothers movies, where they'll be amazed at the antics of all of the brothers -- … [Read more...] about The Great Performers: Harpo Marx and the Harp

Race Matters in America (Guest Voice)

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Race Matters in America by Martha Randolph Carr Often when there is a question of race in America people lose a certain amount of common sense. On Thursday, July 16th at 12:44 p.m. Harvard scholar, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested by Cambridge police for attempting to unstick his own front door at the upscale Ware Street home near Harvard Square. There was a mild … [Read more...] about Race Matters in America (Guest Voice)

The words of Sarah Palin as interpreted by William Shatner

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On The Tonight Show, William Shatner did a "reading" of the poetry inherent in Sarah Palin's farewell address as governor of Alaska: I'm speechless... --- Cross-posted between Random Fate and The Moderate Voice. --- Technorati : Sarah Palin, William Shatner Del.icio.us : Sarah Palin, William Shatner Zooomr : Sarah Palin, William Shatner Flickr : Sarah Palin, William … [Read more...] about The words of Sarah Palin as interpreted by William Shatner

Deported By U.S., Accused Nazi Gets Royal Treatment in Austria: Neues Deutschland, Germany

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Would the United States government deport a confirmed Nazi murderer to Austria, only to see him live out his life in a luxury apartment with 24-hour a day care? Those of you who answered yes win the prize. Hot on the heels of the case of John Demjanjuk, a former Nazi collaborator and naturalized American from Cleveland now standing trial as an accomplice to 27,900 murders, … [Read more...] about Deported By U.S., Accused Nazi Gets Royal Treatment in Austria: Neues Deutschland, Germany

Covering the Really Important Stuff

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How can six senators who all come from overwhelmngly rural states -- Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Iowa, and Maine -- come up with health care reform legislation that addresses the needs of Americans living in large metropolitan areas? You will not even see that question asked -- much less answered -- in this New York Times article, titled "Health Policy Is Carved Out at Table … [Read more...] about Covering the Really Important Stuff

Christian Converts in Iran Face Increasing Hostility from Regime: Rheinischer Merkur, Germany

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Unfortunately for Iran's Christians, post-election protesting and riots over vote fraud have resulted in increased suspicion and persecution. According to this article by Dr. Wahied Wahdat-Hagh, writing for Germany's Rheinischer Merkur newspaper, efforts are afoot in Iran's parliament to alter the nation's legal code to impose the death penalty on people who convert to … [Read more...] about Christian Converts in Iran Face Increasing Hostility from Regime: Rheinischer Merkur, Germany

Don’t Let Kerlikowske’s Comments Send Your Analysis to Pot

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Politics, perhaps depressingly at its best, is about strategic compromise, the "art of the possible," as was once so famously put by German-Prussian politician Otto Von Bismarck. A goodly proportion of that art, then, is the fine skill of knowing what is and what is not possible at any given time. Because, to borrow from another socio-political prophet: you can achieve some … [Read more...] about Don’t Let Kerlikowske’s Comments Send Your Analysis to Pot

THE EPHEMERAL REVENGE OF THE RICH OLD WHITE GUYS

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We may have recently elected a President who is a young, mixed-race natural-born U.S. citizen, but the political and economic power of this country still rests with a few thousand rich old white guys (ROWGs) born well before 1960. If one looks at the U.S. Senate, less than a dozen of these guys are making most of the decisions on how to run the U.S. – all the while principally … [Read more...] about THE EPHEMERAL REVENGE OF THE RICH OLD WHITE GUYS

A Feisty Texas Horse Comes out of the Barn: Kay Bailey Hutchison

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Yesterday, I wrote on Texas Governor Rick Perry's follies, including his secession nonsense, his refusal to accept federal funds to help the Texas unemployed, his phony anti-Washington rhetoric, and his sheer hypocrisy when it comes to rejecting and then accepting---begging for---federal stimulus funds and federal loans. I also quoted an Austin American-Statesman editorial … [Read more...] about A Feisty Texas Horse Comes out of the Barn: Kay Bailey Hutchison

Mumbai Attacks: Pakistan Army, ISI & Musharraf

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While the Pakistan's former president/military dictator Pervez Musharraf is now in a virtual exile in London, the country's Supreme Court has asked Musharraf to return and "explain his action of imposing Emergency in 2007 and sacking of 60 judges, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhary," who has now been reinstated. (See here...) Meanwhile a British Muslim … [Read more...] about Mumbai Attacks: Pakistan Army, ISI & Musharraf

Keep Abortion Funding Out Of Health Reform

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I will come right out and say it. No federal funding for abortion procedures should be stipulated in the healthcare legislation now being deliberated in Congress. It pains me to say that because on principle I am pro-choice. The decision should rest with the doctor and the woman, the father, perhaps the pastor and definitely not the government. I realize this position is … [Read more...] about Keep Abortion Funding Out Of Health Reform

This Recession Has An Artist Upside

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There are many problems with writing for a living, the most obvious being that it's a lousy way to make a living. You not only have an endless need to justify to others why you are not only caging a free meal from them as a prelude ot asking for a loan, you have the equally difficult task of explaining why you think the projects you are currently working on have a good chance … [Read more...] about This Recession Has An Artist Upside