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Inhofe: Global warming too costly to be real

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:23:00 -0700

Grist - Mar. 16 - Did you see the big smackdown Thursday night between MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.)? The dean of disinformation mostly just repeated his well-worn falseshoods about global warming, which Maddow shot down. But there was one remarkab

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Phoenix rising: Can “the world’s least sustainable city” go green?

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:35:00 -0800

Grist - By Greg Hanscom - Feb. 13 - What was the most surprising thing that came out of Andrew Ross’s two-year research stint in Phoenix, Ariz.? For my money, it’s this: People who live there (weirdly) don’t expect their desert civilization to collapse around them at any moment. “One of Ne

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Jon Stewart Has Some Harsh Words For SOPA And Its Sponsors

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Gawker - By Matt Toder, Jon Stewart - Jan. 18 (Comedy News) - On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart attempted to wrap his head around SOPA and its draconian take on internet piracy. He saved his harshest criticisms for its sponsors in Congress and their inability to truly understand (a) the internet and (b) what their bill will actually do.

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What Makes Somalis So Different?

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Dec. 22 () - You’d expect their children would be — on the whole — relieved to live in a stable Western country where even the president is black. But the Somalis who settled in Minneapolis and other selected corners of the U.S. were war refugees, with little money and not many job skills. A recent U.S. census study said Somali immigrants, statistically, were among the “youngest and poorest” newcomers to the U.S., with 82 percent of the community in Minneapolis living below the poverty line.

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Counterinsurgency Training by 'Virtual Human'

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By John Mecklin - Jun. 19 (Opinion) - Using artificial intelligence and the graphics techniques behind “Avatar,” a USC institute creates “virtual humans” and interactive immersions that train American soldiers to win hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Army’s Sgt. Star is a

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Israel: Hasbara, Lies, and Videotape

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:15:27 -0700

Huffington Post - Jun. 04 (Opinion) - As thousands of outraged demonstrators poured into the streets of Ankara and several capitals across the globe in the aftermath of Israel's bloody attack on an aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip early Monday, an Israeli sergeant stood in front of

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SNL 'Presidents' Reunite For Video Pushing Wall Street Reform (WATCH)

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Ryan Grim - Mar. 03 (Comedy News) - Will Ferrell, Fred Armisen, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Dana Carvey and Darrell Hammond, the Saturday Night Live actors who have played every American president since Gerald Ford -- save Ronald Reagan -- have teamed up on a web video meant to push Congress across the financial regulatory reform finish line and pass a strong, independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

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The New Great American Pastime

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Columbia Journalism Review - By Craig Silverman - Oct. 09 (Opinion) - Fact checking, along with its kissing cousin “calling bullshit,” is becoming one of the great American pastimes of the Internet age. We are in the midst of a blossoming of new forms of fact checking, particularly those that rely on crowdsourcing. This is a crucial addition to the discipline, because the traditional form of fact checking, which was primarily developed...

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Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair Saga Repeat of Brook Sheilds in the 80's?

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Michelle Renee - May. 01 (Opinion) - Yesterday I got into a discussion with a good friend who said he believes Miley's parents are in on the "artistic prostituting" of their daughter. That conversation got me thinking back to the 1980's.

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President Bush Speech At White House Correspondent's Dinner

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Apr. 27 (Opinion) - President Bush poked fun at his potential successors Saturday night, expressing surprise that none of them were in the audience at the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner. "Senator McCain's not here," Bush said of GOP nominee-in-waiting John McCain. "He probably wanted to distance himself from me a little bit. You know, he's not alone. Jenna's moving out.

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Iraq Movies: Why They Fail

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

thehotjoints.com - By Chris Jones - Apr. 14 (Editorial) - In his latest column, NY Times Op-ed writer Frank Rich gets it wrong (as usual) when talking about Iraq. This week in particular Frank misses the mark with his explanation of why movies about the Iraq war do so poorly at the Box Office...

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Karl Rove Gets Thrown Under the Stop Global Warming Bus

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:13:30 -0700

Huffington Post - By Laurie David, Sheryl Crow - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - Last night Thelma and Louise drove the bus off the cliff or at least into the White House Correspondents Dinner. The "highlight" of the evening had to be when we were introduced to Karl Rove. How excited were we to have our first opportunity ever to talk directly to the Bush Administration about global warming. We asked Mr. Rove if he would consider taking a fresh look at the science of global warming. Much to our dismay, he immediately got combative. And it went downhill from there. We reminded the senior White House advisor that the US leads the world in global warming pollution and we are doing the least about it. Anger flaring, Mr. Rove immediately regurgitated the official Administration position on global warming which is that the US spends more on researching the causes than any other country.

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Hollywood gets humble

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:39:33 -0800

Salon - By Cintra Wilson - Feb. 26 (Opinion) - Welcome to the all-new Celebrity 2.0: We're exactly like you (only talented). Seriously: If this is a sea change, it's a good one, because things were starting to get pretty hideola under the old Hollywood sign.

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In H'wood, Candor was Never 'Paramount' - Until Now

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:31:43 -0700

TMZ - By Claude Brodesser-Akner - Aug. 22 (Opinion) - You could actually hear the incredulity in my bosses voice. He wasn't expressing shock that Tom Cruise had been ushered off the Paramount lot. No. Not at all. The move had been expected for weeks. "The Hollywood Reporter" noting in June that the deal would expire on August 31st.. A month later, "Daily Variety" took the temperature of the studios vis-a-vis producer deals. The climate? Chilly.

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