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Rep. Chris Lee (R-N.Y.) announced early Wednesday evening that he will resign his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Buffalo-based station YNN relays a statement from Lee, who has signaled he will vacate his post immediately:
"It has been a tremendous honor to serve the people of Western New York. I regret the harm that my actions have caused my family, my staff and my constituents. I deeply and sincerely apologize to them all. I have made profound mistakes and I promise to work as hard as I can to seek their forgiveness.
"The challenges we face in Western New York and across the country are too serious for me to allow this distraction to continue, and so I am announcing that I have resigned my seat in Congress effective immediately."
This is a developing story... More information to come...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/09/chris-lee-resigns-after-c_n_821080.htmlRep. Chris Lee (R-N.Y.) announced early Wednesday evening that he will resign his seat... more
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I know we have a lot of new current member reporters because of this move by the Huffington Post! So just thought I would post this story for those who wish to vent!
With the Huffington Post abandoning all left-ish pretenses and selling out to AOL, many of its former supporters are feeling used and peeved. Charging that Arianna Huffington cashed in after "building a blog-empire on the backs of thousands of citizen journalists," Adbusters has begun a campaign to use social media to promote truly progressive alternatives.
"As long as I live and breathe, this online newspaper - Narco News and its pages - will never be sold to a profit-making venture. Somebody has to set a higher standard around this water cooler called the Internet." - Narco News publisher Al GiordanoI know we have a lot of new current member reporters because of this move by the... more
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This is a collection of nine new videos of the war in Afghanistan that have not been shown on the mainstream media in the U.S.
http://corksphere.blogspot.com/This is a collection of nine new videos of the war in Afghanistan that have not been... more
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This is the story of how the parents of a U.S. Marine killed in Afghanistan adopted the Marine's bomb-sniffing Labrador dog.
http://tiny.cc/i76smThis is the story of how the parents of a U.S. Marine killed in Afghanistan adopted... more
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The blockbuster announcement that the once-dominant Internet company AOL is acquiring The Huffington Post online newspaper for $315 million sent shockwaves rippling through both the business and online communities Monday. Although Arianna Huffington, the HuffPost's co-founder and editor-in-chief, will be the boss of all of the enlarged company's editorial functions, AOL has a well-documented history of making bad business deals -- which could put the wildly successful HuffPost at serious risk.
http://www.skeeterbitesreport.com/2011/02/aols-purchase-of-huffpost-could-be.htmlThe blockbuster announcement that the once-dominant Internet company AOL is acquiring... more
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Sen. John Kerry has told the Boston Globe he doesn't agree with President Obama's Afghanistan strategy.
http://tiny.cc/hphtvSen. John Kerry has told the Boston Globe he doesn't agree with President... more
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Miss Rand, famously a believer in rugged individualism and personal responsibility, was a strong defender of self-interest. She was a staunch opponent of government programs from the New Deal and Social Security to the Great Society and Medicare.
A Library of Congress survey of the most influential books on American readers, "Atlas Shrugged" ranked second only to the Bible. Rand's influence is encyclopedic ranging from Alan Greenspan to Paul "I grew up on Ayn Rand" Ryan (R-Wis), a "Young Gun" who aims to cut or privatize Medicare and Social Security.
The Right should be commended politically for their ability to develop and stick to a unified message. But close inspection of this unified message reveals a disappointing secret identified by a student of the Godfather of Neo-conservatism, --- the University of Chicago's Leo Strauss. The student, Anne Norton ("Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire") identified what she called VIP-DIP meaning Venerated in Public, Disdained in Private. "Do as I say, not as I do." The list of vip-dipers on the Right runs from Harold Bloom to Newt Gingrich, but certainly not Ayn Rand. Right?
Say it ain't so Alisa Zinovievna Rosenbaum.
A heavy smoker who refused to believe that smoking causes cancer brings to mind those today who are equally certain there is no such thing as global warming. Unfortunately, Miss Rand was a fatal victim of lung cancer.
However, it was revealed in the recent "Oral History of Ayn Rand" by Scott McConnell (founder of the media department at the Ayn Rand Institute) that in the end Ayn was a vip-dipper as well. An interview with Evva Pryror, a social worker and consultant to Miss Rand's law firm of Ernst, Cane, Gitlin and Winick verified that on Miss Rand's behalf she secured Rand's Social Security and Medicare payments which Ayn received under the name of Ann O'Connor (husband Frank O'Connor).
As Pryor said, "Doctors cost a lot more money than books earn and she could be totally wiped out" without the aid of these two government programs. Ayn took the bail out even though Ayn "despised government interference and felt that people should and could live independently... She didn't feel that an individual should take help."
But alas she did and said it was wrong for everyone else to do so. Apart from the strong implication that those who take the help are morally weak, it is also a philosophic point that such help dulls the will to work, to save and government assistance is said to dull the entrepreneurial spirit.
In the end, Miss Rand was a hypocrite but she could never be faulted for failing to act in her own self-interest.Miss Rand, famously a believer in rugged individualism and personal responsibility,... more
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This article shows Keith for the person I always thought he was.
First of all: A necessary disclosure that most long-time readers of my Philadelphia Daily News blog Attytood already know, which is that more than three decades ago, I went to high school with Keith Olbermann; in fact he was the first editor, on our school newspaper, that I ever worked for (I'm about 10 days older than Olbermann, but he had skipped two grades ahead of me -- even his enemies have never said the guy isn't smart!). So we knew each other somewhat, way back when, and then about seven or eight years ago we became occasional email buddies; I've also been a guest on Countdown twice. So when I watched Olbermann on MSNBC, there's always been an element of "I knew him when" pride, and when people talked about his foibles like his mercurial disposition, I was never that outraged as some folks were, because it was pretty much just the same guy I remembered as a teenager... Keith being Keith.
Today, and at least for the near future, Keith being Keith means being unemployed. I was just as shocked as everyone else when I flicked on CNN Friday night and saw the large breaking news chyron that Olbermann was suddenly "out" after eight years at MSNBC in which he went from moderately well-known ex-sportscaster to icon of a new liberal media that might not have existed were it not for him. Both the supersized breaking news coverage on rival (and thus not so disinterested) CNN on Friday and the inevitable discussion panel yesterday on that network's Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz occasionally touched on a "talking point" certain to drive progressives crazy -- which is that Olbermann has been the perfect left side of a mirror image with angry conservative Fox hosts like Bill O'Reilly or Glenn Beck.
Well, they all can be loud and take strong points of view, but otherwise the comparison is more than a tad ridiculous. Olbermann's list of worst transgressions would be headlined by an over-the-top rant about Sen. Scott Brown -- which he quickly apologized for! -- and violating a policy he said he didn't know existed by giving money to three Democratic candidates. Compare that to the unapologized-for sins of Beck -- using explicitly violent rhetoric like last summer's "shoot them in the head" comments or claiming that President Obama has "a deep-seated hatred of white people" -- or O'Reilly's frequent harangues against "Dr. Tiller the baby killer," who was later murdered by a right-wing zealot.
Beck's words have not only inspired death threats against an elderly female professor but actual gunmen like Pittsburgh's Richard Poplawski, who bought into the host's conspiracy theories before killing three cops. I challenge anyone to find an act of Olbermann-inspired violence or threats (and while you're searching, check out his record as host of Countdown in supporting charitable causes).
The irony here -- and it's a big one -- is that one of Olbermann's best contributions to our political dialogue was going after the bogus idea of false equivalency, that people on the left and the right are always equally bad in equal proportions while only centrists are the possessors of beauty and light and truth. Ironic because no one has been a bigger victim of false equivalency than Keith Olbermann himself.
Continues with comment below.........This article shows Keith for the person I always thought he was.
First of all: A... more
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This video contains strong language and images of a US soldier who has been wounded during a firefight in Kunar Province Afghanistan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lECGRDmekAThis video contains strong language and images of a US soldier who has been wounded... more
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Palin Charge of About The’Blood Libel’ Latest News Updates BLOOD LIBEL If the goal of Sarah Palin’s speechwriters was to get lots of attention, it worked.If Sarah Palin’s seven-minute video blaming the media was meant to tamp down the rhetoric in the aftermath of the assassination attempt against Rep.Palin Charge of About The’Blood Libel’ Latest News Updates BLOOD LIBEL If... more
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This video is a report from a Fox News affiliate where they claim the U.S. military is creating gang-bangers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gqShQTSDCMThis video is a report from a Fox News affiliate where they claim the U.S. military is... more
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Recently Complete News Updates Congresswoman Mrs. Mary Bono Mack has been caught on camera in a lurid scandal where another woman is apparently licking her breast.Recently Complete News Updates Congresswoman Mrs. Mary Bono Mack has been caught on... more
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Betsy Morgan, who has run The Huffington Post for two years, has taken a job running the super conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck's website The Blaze. It is both odd and disturbing that an individual can leap from one ideological organisation to another at the other side of the spectrum so quickly. Morgan's excuse for defecting was equally as dubious: "I am a very apolitical person. I’m a business person, who is absolutely fascinated by brands,” she said. She acknowledged that some of his views have been seen as inflammatory and have led to some difficulty in selling to national advertisers. But she said, “Glenn has built for himself quite an enormous brand,” and the purpose of The Blaze is to “leverage the huge loyalty of that audience.”
Below are some of Glenn Beck's "best bits" to keep you all satisfied.
Betsy Morgan, who has run The Huffington Post for two years, has taken a job running... more
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Latest Complete Movie Updates “Things Fall Apart”, where is plays the role of a football player who has been diagnosed with cancer. 50 Cent set the internet abuzz when he posted astonishingly thin photos of himself online as he starts filming a role as a cancer patient for 'Things Fall Apart.Latest Complete Movie Updates “Things Fall Apart”, where is plays the role... more
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