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The Top 1000 Websites -> msn.comVirtual Twilight Tour on MSN Virtual Twilight Tour on MSN. For you Twilight fans, MSN is offering a Virtual "Twilight tour, complete with an interactive map .. all built in Silverlight. Film clips complete with a tour guide get you closer all the main ... The American Spectator : American Buffoon The Obama Watch American Buffoon. By Andrew Cline on 11.18.09 @ 6:09AM. Barack Obama was supposed to be America's answer to the suave, European head of state. A debonair gentleman of the world, he would charm even the most ... Monday Miscellany Recruitment efforts are becoming seriously problematic for the Democrats. Take North Carolina, for instance, where former State Senator Cal Cunningham now says he won't run to challenge Richard Burr, the latest in a long line of ... Palestinians Consider Going to the UNO for a State; Israeli Right ... The Palestinian leadership is making medium term preparations to go to the United Nations to ask for a declaration of a Palestinian state within 1967 borders (ie in the West Bank and Gaza). The move comes because the Obama ... Morning Bell: Obama Dithers While Our AfPak Credibility Burns Last month, The Washington Post reported that President Barack Obama had asked senior officials for a province by province analysis of Afghanistan to help determine which regions are being managed effectively by local leaders and which ... Thursday links: Why don't you just sit down over here edition Yes, I went with the played out "To Catch A Predator" reference. You try being witty at 1 am. Blues news. Blues vs. Nashville Predators tonight. [CBSSports]; Going to the game tonight? Don't forget to buy the paper version of this site. ... Now's your chance to spy on Google If you only have time to visit one new Web site this week, make it the new Google dashboard. Last week, the search engine behemoth announced the new feature, which helps Web users keep track of all the ways Google keeps track of them. ... Europeans complain about US travel fees Filed under: Business, North America, United States, News. Extra fees charged by airlines, the "new normal," are so popular that the US Department of Homeland Security has gotten into the game. And, bitching about these fees is equally ... Rachel Maddow: Those Who Vote Against Healthcare Reform Will Regret It On NBC's Meet The Press today MSNBC's Rachel Maddow refuted the GOP talking point that passing healthcare reform is fiscally irresponsible. Maddow also made a political prediction about the fates of those who oppose healthcare reform, ... In Pelosi's House, 64 Democrats Sell Women Out expanded from cross post at Huffington Post. The first female Speaker of the House makes history by passing a health care bill that not only doesn't have a robust public option, but also sells out women's civil rights. ... After the Wall Remains of the Berlin Wall (my photo, available under cc license). The wall was built to bottle up an incipient revolta mass emigration that threatened to expose the Soviet system as inferior to the West, as an oppressive dungeon that ... Sunday Talk Shows Open Thread A slew of politicos and a couple military types are on the shows today. The military personnel will talk about the tragedy at Fort Hood and the ongoing wars. No doubt, we'll get a recap of the House vote and another analysis of last ... And the winner is....one gigantic meatball South Florida recently claimed the largest ball of twine. So we're not happy that folks from Concord, NH, stole our stardom so fast. They've got the biggest meatball. It weighs in at 222.5 pounds, reports www.wsnbc.msn.com. meatball.jpg ... The New Normal The Roll Call reporter this morning on CSPAN with Rep. Jan Schakowsky D IL, Steven Dennis, called the silent filibuster that we have seen this session the new normal. This completely dismissed the idea that the majority should rule. ... Taylor Marsh: In Pelosi's House, 64 Democrats Sell Women Out The first female Speaker of the House makes history by passing a health care bill that not only doesn't have a robust public option, but also sells out women's civil rights. The Republicans acted reprehensibly today, heckling women ... House Abortion Debate Streaming Live All Day Not as cute as puppies. The House of Representatives is currently debating whether to include coverage for abortions in the health care bill, and MSNBC is streaming it live all day. [MSNBC]. Read more posts by Lindsay Robertson ... How Priceline Got Its Mojo Working Again Of all the dot com superstars that appeared in the '90s, shone brightly and then disappeared from sight, few have been granted a second act. One exception is Priceline, which 11 years after it was founded and 10 years after its stock ... -48 48. ... Selling Out Women's Civil Rights Pres. Obama opened the door to sell us out when he decided to put the Hyde Amendment in the budget, something Bill Clinton never did. But Mr. Obama didn't stop there. During the stimulus fight, at the first sign of displeasure, ... Weekly Wrapup: Mega Content Sites, Gen Y on Twitter, iPhone App ... In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week we analyze a new breed of content site that is rapidly gaining momentum, look into recent statistics showing that Gen Y is using Twitter ... Heroines Kimberly Munley and Amber Bahr Save Lives During Terror ... The mother who brought down the Fort Hood killer from Times of London reports on Officer Kimberly Munley who prevented the terror attack at Fort Hood for being an even greater bloodbath by her heroics in taking down the gutless whining ... Department of Book Reports: 1959: The Year Everything Changed Fred Kaplan's 1959: The Year Everything Changed (John Wiley and Sons $27.95) chronicles an extraordinary year. On January 1st, Fidel Castro's revolutionaries took power in Cuba. On January 4th Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan ... MSN changes the butterfly MSN Butterfly Logo MSN's new home page, which you can see at preview.msn.com, is the first one that doesn't look like it was designed by Microsoft. The new page has the same cheery look and feel as the Bing search box that perches at ... Thank You, Markos Moulitsas On MSNBC's Ed Show just now, substitute host David Shuster's guests were Markos Kos Moulitsas, the founder of Daily Kos, and Tom Tancredo, the former Colorado congressman and 2008 Republican Presidential hopeful. ... Lapham's Quarterly: Perfecting the Paranoid Style in 500 BC and 2009 Peter Struck is an associate professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of their Texts. Professor Stuck is a member of the Lapham's Quarterly ... Happy Hour Links "Unpleasant as it may be for the president to hear, his policy is objectively aiding the Tehran regime and harming the opposition in their ongoing struggle." Strategic Reassurance, we hardly knew ye. ... From Ft. Hood to Florida: Lots of Questions, Few Answers on the ... by Rabeika Messina. We don't know much about suspected Ft. Hood killer Nidal Malik Hasan: there are reports he gave away his possessions. There are reports he was terrified of being deployed. And there's the fact that prior to his ... Update (On The Media: Friday, 06 November 2009) The photos depicting the mistreatment of Abu Ghraib prisoners shocked the world. New photos of detainee abuse are known to exist, and the Obama Administration initially said they would share them with the public. ... John McCain vs. Baby Sea Turtles vs. Rachel Maddow John McCain does not love baby sea turtles. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow does. I'm gonna side with the @maddows on this one. John McCain vs. Baby Sea Turtles vs. Rachel Maddow John McCain does not love baby sea turtles. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow does. I'm gonna side with the @maddows on this one. Jon Soltz: Many Issues With Tragedy at Ft. Hood -- A "Muslim ... Yesterday was one of the most tragic days in the military, in the midst of a slew of tragic days as we continue to see casualties in Afghanistan. Innocent soldiers lost their lives, and many more were injured, at the hands of a very ... A Broken Criminal Justice System in Florida. Next week the Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments about two cases in which juveniles were sentenced to life without parole for non homicides. The most disturbing thing about these cases that is that both sentences seem ... A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CAN NOT GRANDSTAND: Hoyer: House vote may be pushed back (AP, 11/06/09). House Democrats acknowledged they don't yet have the votes to pass a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system, and signaled they may push back the vote until Sunday or ... LA Times, Pop. Sci, more: People who don't have feet don't run so ... SprinterSpringBlades Judging by two news spurts this week, sprinters who worry that some lower leg amputee, maybe even a double amputee, will sproing past on strapped on hardware at the next meet and have the Americans with Disabilities ... Cheney Now Remembers CIA-Related Information!! I'm not so much surprised that Cheney, once again, used a public speaking opportunity to bitch and moan that Eric Holder is nodding briefly (but very ambivalently) toward the requirement to investigate the use of torture. ... Juvenile Sentencing and the Eighth Amendment Lithwick does a good job of summarizing the issues surrounding upcoming oral arguments about whether the 8th Amendment proscribes life without parole sentences for juveniles, but one set of facts under consideration raises another set ... Better Angels. Soon after news of the Ft. Hood shooting had reached the airwaves, the Council on American Islamic Relations released a statement saying, "We condemn this cowardly attack in the strongest terms possible. ... "This Is a Betrayal": A Chaplain Discusses the Long Recovery From ... An ordained Baptist chaplain and army captain, Roger Benimoff spent two tours of duty in Iraq and months between deployments counseling soldiers in the US During his career, he provided spiritual guidance to American soldiers through ... Review of the week With baby Rooney finally entering the world, there was only one name on everyone's lips the sportsdirect.com@St James' Park Stadium. As snappy titles go, it's right up there with Monty Python's Johann Gambolputty de von Austfern...of ... The Daily Digest There was a mass shooting at Fort Hood that killed 13. The Austin American Statesman is all over this story. President Obama spoke about the tragedy. Under the Dome It seems like the state of Minnesota is running short of cash. ... Flotsam and Jetsam Max Baucus votes against cap and trade. Will Harry Reid force his caucus to vote on a bill that doesn't have 60 votes? Well, he's done it before. Robert Gibbs may have done in Charlie Crist in the GOP primary: I think he was very ... Shhh! Census Worker May Have Committed Suicide Remember the case of the Census worker who was found hanging from a tree with the word 'fed' scrawled across his chest? You remember he died at the hands of right wing commentators and anti government tea partiers. ... Fort Hood: Speculation vs. facts Yesterday a US Army major opened fire on a military processing center at Fort Hood in Texas, killing 12 people and wounding 30, according to various media reports. Whenever major news breaks, information flies around fast and much of it ... 1989: moment, legacy, future , David Hayes openDemocracy Ivan Krastev: A political exhaustion; Adam Szostkiewicz: The iron rule of history; Vladimir Tismaneanu: The end and the beginning; Krzysztof Bobinski: On the move; Alexander Rahr: A great reversal; Rein Mllerson: Old walls, new fences ... Miami Dolphins In Depth On Sept. 21, 2008 the Dolphins unveiled a newfangled offense that helped David defeat Goliath and has affected the thinking of NFL offenses and defenses ever since. The Dolphins pulled back the curtain on Wildcat and six plays and... Jackson Williams: Hollywood Actor Matthew Marsden Hides Right-Wing ... Americans take it on faith that movie stars are politically liberal. Whether the celebrity lives in LA or New York, from Streisand to Sarandon, we know how they see the world because they're honest about it. ... ... (PDF). 1156 7 ... I Love Lunch! The Musical (View it larger on YouTube) Song by Anthony King and Scott Brown (Gutenberg! The Musical!) For our latest mission, seven undercover agents staged a spontaneous musical during lunch at the Trump Tower atrium. The mission was filmed for a ... Massacre at Fort Hood The question, obviously, is whether it was a terrorist attack, or just a disgruntled soldier who snapped. The gunman who murdered at least eleven people has been identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a psychiatrist who has been working ... Shocked into supporting health reform? By now you're probably accustomed to your health care costs climbing each year. But brace yourself: 2010 is shaping up to be a doozie a year that could shake up your opinion about how attractive the current employer provided health ... Travel Tip: 3 Steps to Take If Your Flight Is Cut You think you've done a good job, booking a flight months in advance of your planned travel. But with airlines cutting costs and thus flights all the time, there's a chance you will see that foresight going right down the drain. ... How Did the Polls Do in 2009? by Mark Blumenthal. I had intended to post a "quick" summary of what Tuesday night's results say about how the polls did, but like a thread pulled on a sweater, my outline kept getting longer. So apologies for the delay in getting this ... Fort Hood Shootings Update: RedCross.org has a safe list when they are getting info on who is okay on Fort Hood. Update: FBI Counter Terror Unit now looking into it. Gee, thanks, fellas. Update: Shooter was muslim convert in the Medical Corps. ... The Big 2010 Question Just attended a morning long presentation by the team over at the Cook Political Report namesake Charlie Cook, affiliated pollster Tom Riehle, gubernatorial/Senate specialist Jennifer Duffy, and House specialist David Wasserman. ... The changing composition of the electorate, 2006-2009, in New ... The complete exit polls for the 2009 elections in New Jersey and Virginia are now available. Compared to the 2006 and 2008 exit polls for those states, the percentage of the electorate under the age of 45 is most striking: ... Mass shooting Updates as I get them at bottom. At Fort Hood: At least seven people are dead and 12 wounded in a shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, the base's public affairs office told NBC News on Thursday. The official would not give his name nor ... Breaking News -- By: Jonah Goldberg Shootings at Fort Hood. Seven Dead. At least seven people are dead and 12 wounded in a shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, the base's public affairs office told NBC News on Thursday. The official would not give his name nor additional ... The Republican Party Is a Party of 'NO' The Republicans in Congress are at it again, stonewalling everything. Last time we called it block and blame. Stop everything, then blame the Democrats for getting nothing done. Republicans last year in the 110th Congress filibustered ... Today in Outrage: Goldman Sachs Is Taking Swine-Flu Vaccine From ... Among the corporations that have along with schools, hospitals, and community health centers requested and received limited amounts of the H1N1 flu vaccine for their high risk employees (pregnant women, etc. ... Key Reform Pols Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy. Toyota Apologizes For Using Flickr Photos In SUV Ad Toyotasite. Toyota USA has removed a photo feature from one of its Web sites and apologized to Flickr photographers whose images appeared on the site without their permission. Flickr users recently noticed that a Toyota 4Runner site was ... In Letter, CDC Head Thomas Frieden Tries to Head off the Looming ... by Claudia Kalb. The H1N1 vaccine shortage isn't just frustrating. It's unleashing an ethical and emotionally charged debate about people's shot worthiness. Back in August, the CDC announced recommendations on who should be first in ... Your Point Being? You may remember, in one of the worst slippery slope arguments ever, school district lawyers objecting to the Supreme Court's salutary decision in Safford School District v. Redding because it might inhibit school administrators from ... Democratic Turn Out I've argued many times that the Republicans have a short term advantage in off year elections due to being far more motivated to turn out. Larry Sabato points out how the Republicans were more energized to turn out than Democrats: ... Thursday Round-Up Princeton University's Program in Law and Public Affairs is hosting a panel discussion next Wednesday titled Full Court Press: The Supreme Court, the Media and Public Understanding. The program will focus on issues of public ... Cuomo guns for Intel on antitrust Filed under: Law, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Dell (DELL), Hewlett Packard (HPQ), Intel (INTC), Technology. The latest litigation has Intel Inside. The State of New York is going after Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) over antitrust ... Al Gore Defends Joe Lieberman: "Right And Forceful On Many Of The ... Al Gore sat down for an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, and the first segments aired on her eponymous show last night. One interesting exchange was about whether Gore, a progressive icon, had had any changes of heart regarding his ... Health Care's Prayer Provision: How Complimentary and Alternative ... Should health care reform require insurers to cover chiropractors? Accupuncturists? Yoga? Spiritual healers? These are the questions raised by a recently noticed health care amendment, requiring insurers to consider covering "religious ... Paging Mark Twain Brazilian man shows up at his own funeral. Inmates Save Guard's Life From Attack By Another Prisoner (VIDEO) A Florida prison guard has some unlikely heroes to thank for saving his life the very inmates he guards. The man was attacked by a prisoner while sitting at his desk and would have been killed had it not been for two other inmates ... Critiquing Matthew Hindman's "The Myth of Digital Democracy" Micah L. Sifry [Micah Sifry from the Personal Democracy Forum spoke at the Yale Information Society Project Tuesday night on digital democracy discussing Matthew Hindman's new book, The Myth of Digital Democracy. ... Thursday links: Where we hope the Blues can touch a Flame even if ... What a shitty Wednesday. Arrived an hour early for a football game I was covering. The team I cover lost making kids and grown men cry. I had to drive to freaking Iowa to get WiFi and, oh, I got pulled over for doing 35 in a 30 even ... Lawrence O'Donnell, Anthony Weiner Rip Joe Wilson For "Idiotic ... Congressman Joe Wilson (R SC) had an epiphany about health care legislation while he attended a "luncheon" at "Enchilada's Mexican restaurant" with some senior citizens on Hilton Head island. They helped him come to the conclusion that ... Huff TV: Roy Sekoff On The Election Wake Up Call (VIDEO) HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff was a guest on The Ed Show Wednesday to discuss what Tuesday's election results mean for Democrats and President Obama. Sekoff said that pundits are reading too much into the outcome and that the dire ... Remains of the Day: MSN.com: Extreme Makeover Edition MSN.com gets its first serious makeover in years (and you can preview it), the iTunes App Store officially gives you over 100000 apps to choose from, and another update for Mozilla Weave. The Madeover MSN.com Preview ... Mo Money Mo Problems: Rothstein Is Latest Crist Fundraiser Under Cloud Something is rotten in the state of Florida? With the accusations this week that Scott Rothstein, fast living Fort Lauderdale attorney and friend and donor to Gov. Charlie Crist, orchestrated a massive fraud out of his law firm, ... Dylan Ratigan: Four-Step Bank Fix I spoke today on the Morning Meeting about the four steps the government could take to fix the US banking system and stop the ongoing and expanding corruption of our country. These simple solutions come from the litany of people that I ... Rahm Emanuel 2005: Our gubernatorial wins in NJ and Virginia are huge Heh. No doubt the RNC response was to insist that they were merely local races signifying nothing about the national mood. [...] Read the rest The Independent Vote Yesterday Discussions of the Republicans winning independent votes yesterday by the media are showing misconceptions about independent voters. First Read concludes it's about the middle, it's about independents. Their error is in assuming that ... Tech: Evernote's app lets you search for text in photos Updated this summer with powerful new features, Evernote's free mobile application lets you record memories while you're on the go, using your iPhone, Blackberry, or Palm Pre. Jot down a note about a funny anecdote or a bit of ... Three out of four ain't bad by von. Orin Kerr, tongue planted firmly in cheek, posts four "obvious lessons" from last night's near sweep by Republicans: 1. For Conservative Republicans: The America people reject Barack Obama and obviously want true conservative ... A Tale of Community Banking MSNBC runs a fantastic little story on the small businesses of Westwood, NJ and how they have come to rely on the local, publicly owned community bank to get them through the months and years. (The community bank in question, ... 4 Steps to Fix the Banks. Dylan Outlines the 4 Steps to Fix the Banks. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy. The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: Problems for the Public Option By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium Blogger. The House released a final version of the health reform bill. It has a public option all right, but not the robust version progressives were hoping for. The public plan would only cover ... Knowledge is Power Why baseball players chew tobacco. The Morning After: What Did Tuesday's Elections Mean? Susan Davis reports on politics. Republicans found new optimism Tuesday with high profile victories against Obama backed Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races, but an unexpected Democratic win in an upstate New York ... A Storyline for Robert Gibbs & MSNBC to Run With! -- By: Kathryn ... From "First Read": Ideological Civil Wars Don't Help You Win Elections: In NY 23, Republicans snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in a district they've controlled since the 19th century after prominent conservatives Sarah Palin, ... 'Fakeosphere' latest Web trap for consumers WebAnswers1. This blog like service is really an ad for a Web sales company. Click on a weight loss, work at home or acai berry ad and you're likely to land on what looks like a blog or discussion board. Regular folks appear to be ... ... MSN Redesign Relies on Structured Data from Bing After looking pretty much the same for almost a decade, one of the top three trafficked sites is finally getting a facelift. MSN is debuting its new look, which you can preview here, and Bing is playing a central role in the overhaul ... MSN Home-Page Overhaul Includes Big Push On Local MSN Home Page Redesign. On the heels of big redesigns at rival portals Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and AOL (NYSE: TWX), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is unveiling what it is calling the most significant overhaul of MSN.com in more than a decade. ... 'Green News Report' - November 3, 2009 IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: The clock is running out on the road to Copenhagen; Oil company slapped with record fine; Another toxic Chinese import? ... PLUS: Republicans offer a ruse to stall climate legislation . ... Video: What travel experts don't tell you This morning, Budget Travel's Editor in Chief Nina Willdorf spoke on NBC's The Today Show. As part of the show's special series "Things They Don't Want You to Know, Nina talked about what the travel industry doesn't want you to ... Skimming: Breaking Up Britain breaks up its big banks; will America do the same? Three big mistakes America made with the swine flu vaccine. There is newly released footage of Nazi sympathizers frog marching through London in 1936. It is terrifying. ... <Diet Advice That Can Make You Fat With all the diet advice out there, it's sometimes hard to know what to do. I'm doing a great Today segment this morning with Hoda and Kathy Lee (watch the video below) on diet advice gone wrong...... In a nutshell. ... Extra Extra, Screaming Toddler Thrown Off Plane Picture1 I have not yet tuned in to the CNN debate, but it seems everyone's talking about the woman who was taken off the plane when her cranky toddler would not stop crying. It's front page news, the columnists are taking sides, ... Boehner's Health Care Bill At Odds With Pre-Existing GOP Positions The health legislation authored by House Republicans and set to be unveiled in the next few days reportedly would not prevent health insurance companies from discriminating against patients with pre existing conditions. ... Afternoon Reads Most linkfests involve me discussing what I have read. Today, I am posting a list of what I would be reading, if I was doing my normal commute, time in the office, etc. Jittery Companies Stash Cash (WSJ) ... Apparitions (1993-Ongoing) - Mathieu Laurette "YOUR NAME HERE: MARC ATLAN", THE EARLY SHOW, CBS, OCTOBER 31, 2009. Since his first Apparition on Tournez Manege (1993), Matthieu Laurette has been developing an ongoing series of what he calls 'Apparitions' on TV and in the media. ... Friday Round-up Coverage of Monday's oral argument in Jones v. Harris Associates continues. Conglomerate has three articles on the case: a piece by William Birdthistle assesses the case's implications for the executive branch, highlighting the ... |
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