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Could Obama’s re-election plan be to devalue the American, Gold or
dollar? Something Else
Sheldon Liber (BloggingStocks)
James Pethokoukis (Front Row percent or so — with 1. Gross domestic product would interesting bit from a recent
Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:00:00 PM
Washington) unemployment still over 8 percent rise 1.1 percentage points more Reuters story:
Submitted at 10/28/2010 10:02:25 AM by the end of 2012. At best, those than the St. Louis-based firm’s While U.S. Treasury Secretary Filed under: Rants and Raves,
numbers suggest a very close baseline forecast for next year, to Timothy Geithner reiterated that Market Matters, Chasing
Will President Obama get re- presidential contest. And current 4.8 percent. the United States supports a Value[TM], Anglo American
elected in 2012 if his party suffers polls show the president will have 2. In 2012, growth of 5.7 percent strong dollar at the G20 meeting, (AAUKY) In recent discussions
a crushing midterm defeat? His a tough time again winning such would exceed the baseline there were few takers for that.“It with some friends, one had bought
political team likes to point to the electoral-vote rich states as Ohio, forecast by 1.3 percentage points. is one thing for the Treasury to Anglo American ADR ( AAUKY)
example of Ronald Reagan. Michigan, Florida, Indiana, 3. Unemployment would fall to 7 say that, but then the Fed holds all when I recommended it years ago,
Congressional Republicans were Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and percent by the end of 2012, 1.4 the ammunition and when it is set and the other thinking about what
crushed in the 1982 midterms, but North Carolina. points lower than the firm’s to print more money, the dollar the current opportunity might be.
the Gipper cruised to victory two Obama could try to emulate baseline forecast. will remain a weakened It seemed time for an update.
years later. Reagan by proposing a massive There you go, Morning in currency,” said Jane Foley, senior I'm into Anglo for $9.80 a share
Of course, the “Morning in tax cut, but that seems unlikely America II, thanks to the weak currency strategist at Rabobank. and a spot check has it trading at
America II” scenario depends on given the administration’s belief dollar — unless of course the This entry passed through the $23.00 per share in morning
a f a s t e c o n o m i c r e c o v e r y . that America is under-taxed right dollar starts plunging out of Full-Text RSS service — if this is trading; a nice 135% return. It
Unemployment fell from 10.8 now. control, boosting inflation and your content and you're reading it was much easier to recommend
percent in November 1982 to 7.2 But there is another way, creating a panic. on someone else's site, please read the stock before. Now that
percent in November 1984. GDP although it is amazingly risky. A Treasury Secretary Timothy our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ AAUKY is hovering around it's
growth was 4.5 percent in 1983 B l o o m b e r g s t o r y , u s i n g a Geithner says he supports a strong content-only/faq.php 52-week high of $23.55, it's a
and 7.2 percent in 1984. simulation run by Macroeconomic dollar — although he wants it to Five Filters featured article: tough call. It certainly is not a
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Palin for President? Someone’s gotta do it
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 10:42:46 AM
It’s a tough job, but someone’s
got to do it. And if no one else
wants to do it, Sarah Palin says
she would step in.
The former Republican vice
presidential candidate, who has
been stirring the pot this year with
her backing for Tea Party
candidates for the midterm
elections, has been hard to pin
down on whether she plans to run
for president in 2012. Well, until
now.
In an exclusive interview with
Entertainment Tonight, to air
tonight, Palin let the moose out of
the bag.
ET’s Mary Hart asked her
bluntly: “Are you going to run for
president?”
Palin began her response with
what would be expected at this
stage of the political cycle: “You
know I have not decided what I’m
going to do in 2012. I don’t think
any of the potential candidates
have. I think that still it is too
early for anybody to get out there
declaring what their intentions
are.”
Then she added some caveats and
conditions to provide a glimpse of
her thought process on THE
Gold!
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:48:36 PM
QUESTION, saying her decision
would entail a family discussion
and “a real close look at the lay of
the land and to consider whether
there are those with that common
sense, conservative, pro-
Constitution passion, whether
there are already candidates out
there who can do the job, and
I”ll get to be their biggest
supporter, and their biggest
helpmate, if they will have me. Or
whether there is nobody willing to
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the next presidential race vying to
take on Democrat Barack Obama.
And some Republicans will
have reservations about Palin’s
suitability for the White House.
For instance, Karl Rove, a former
adviser to President George W.
Bush and Republican strategist,
said the public had high standards
for the presidency and required
“a certain level of gravitas,”
according to an interview with
The Daily Telegraph.
“With all due candour, appearing
on your own reality show on the
Discovery Channel, I am not
certain how that fits in the
American calculus of ‘that helps
me see you in the Oval
Office’,” Rove told the British
newspaper.
Photo credit: Reuters/Scott
Audette (Palin at a fundraising
rally in Florida, Oct. 23)
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Twitter Used to
Gather Questions for
White House Briefing
Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:10:44 PM
White House Press Secretary
Robert Gibbs took questions from
Twitter users this morning and
answered a select few in a video
on YouTube.
"Something new," Gibbs
Tweeted,"You take first crack.
Use#1q in a q & I'll answer 1 on
vid before today's briefing. What
do you want to know?" Given
that this is a public forum, users
can see all the questions asked of
Gibbs, in addition to the ones he
chose to answer. His video reply
below.
Sponsor
As transparent public
engagement goes, this looks
pretty good. If such a campaign
were to spread far and wide, some
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Schwarzenegger sours on politics; eyes memoirs,
movies?
JoAnne Allen (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:19:37 PM
Memoirs, maybe movies, but no
political office.
That’s what the immediate future
holds for California Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger, who’s
leaving office in January.
After seven years running the
most populous state the in
country, Schwarzenegger seems
to have soured on politics and
partisanship.
“Politics destroys everybody,” he
said in an “ABC World News”
interview on Wednesday. “The
more you can take the politics out
of things, the more you can
accomplish. Because otherwise, it
becomes kind of like, ‘I’m
representing my party. My party
is not happy with this. We’re
doing it this way.’”
Schwarzenegger called
politicians in Washington
“wimps” for not tackling energy
and environment policy and he
spoke against Proposition 23.
Here’s a video clip from the
interview.
If approved, the measure on next
Tuesday’s California ballot would
scuttle many of the governor’s
clean energy and environmental
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In the ABC interview,
Schwarzenegger laid out what
could entice him to go Hollywood
again.
“If James Cameron or Ivan
Reitman or someone that I trust
… they come with a great script,
great idea where I look at things
and say, ‘That’s me. I can play
that,’ it could be something like
that,” the governor said. “But it’s
not like I’m out there saying I’m
looking for an acting job because
I have plenty of money. I never
have to work again.”
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Anzuoni (Schwarzenegger at The
Women’s Conference in Long
Beach, Calif.) Reuters/Robert
Galbraith (Schwarzenegger, in
front of a poster for “Terminator
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President Obama took the trusted newscaster." Among my
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questions from "America's most people we were waiting for?"
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"Officer and a
Gentleman" actress Lisa
Blount dies (Reuters)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 3:44:59 AM
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood
Reporter) – Lisa Blount, an
actress and Oscar-winning
filmmaker, was found dead in her
home in Little Rock, Ark., on
Wednesday by her mother. She
was 53.
According to Pulaski County
Coroner Garland Camper, Blount
likely died Monday. He said there
were no signs of foul play.
Blount, as producer, and her
husband Roy McKinnon, as
director and star, won Academy
Awards in 2002 when "The
Accountant" was named best live-
action short film.
Blount received a Golden Globe
nomination for her supporting
turn as the best friend of Debra
Winger's character in "An Officer
and a Gentleman." Her other
credits included "Prince of
Darkness" and "Great Balls of
Fire!"
Blount recently filmed the pilot
for FX's "Outlaw Country." A
native of Arkansas, she and
McKinnon moved to Little Rock
in 2005.
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How Social Media Powerhouse Digital Royalty Helps Shaq Win
Endorsement Deals
Austin Carr (Fast Company)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:00:40 PM
Shaquille O'Neal posed as a
statue in Harvard Square for
almost an hour last week, mobbed
by adoring fans amazed the
basketball superstar would pull
such a stunt. Soon, the news went
viral, shooting across the
blogosphere and landing on
ESPN, Yahoo, and in The Boston
Globe. How did it all begin? With
a simple tweet.
The stunt was part of a project
called "Random Acts of
Shaqness," developed in
partnership with social media
strategy firm Digital Royalty.
Started in 2009, the Phoenix-
based company has aimed to
make an art of going viral,
working with sports teams and
brands such as Double Tree, the
UFC, and the Cleveland
Cavaliers.
"Whether they be individuals or
corporate brands, we help them
build their influence online,
measure it, and monetize it," says
Amy Martin, CEO of Digital
Royalty. "We don't build
websites, we don't build mobile
apps--it's building a universe
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is to make them feel like
exclusive clubs, where fans have
direct access to news, deals, or
insight from brands or celebrities.
The value is obvious for fans--but
is it actually valuable to engage
them through social media? For
the UFC, Martin says, measuring
social media chatter helps predict
Pay-Per-View orders. For other
sports, tweeting and putting
videos on YouTube may act as a
"tipping point" for potential ticket
sales. And Shaq?
"There is value--with
endorsement deals--it's made his
brand much more attractive,"
explains Martin, ticking off major
corporations like Oreo that have
signed on in the past few months.
"Every endorsement deal for Shaq
around their brand through social [youtube sajz_WWorWs] showdown. The teams donated $1 is now asking for social media to
media." Or for the Indianapolis Pacers, for each hashtag tweeted to be a part of the deal."
For example, to promote a UFC Digital Royalty sent out messages Children's Hospital Los Angeles. For now, it appears Martin's
match, president Dana White and to fans offering free tickets to the By the game's end, the NHL had strategy and knack for going viral
Digital Royalty decided to tweet first to arrive at a certain location. raised over $43,000. is paying off. One day last week,
his phone number to some 4 Within three minutes, more than "It's all about providing value," f o r i n s t a n c e , 9 o f t h e 1 0
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that event's winners. Soon, the implemented a "Hashtag Battle," value when, where, and how fans Royalty.
cell was ringing off the hook with w h e r e f a n s o f L A a n d t h e want to receive it." Though
rabid fans from around the Colorado Avalanche could tweet various social media platforms
country eager to talk shop with #GoKings or #GoAvs during the from Twitter to Facebook are
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The Facebook Election: Can the Social Network Predict Winners

in the 2010 Midterms?
E.B. Boyd (Fast Company)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:22:22 PM
In some races, there are large
gaps in the number of friends
various competitors have. Is that
an indicator of how they'll do at
the polls?
In Nevada, Republican
challenger Sharron Angle is not
only leading Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid in the polls,
she’s also far ahead on the social
nets. When we started writing this
story, Angle’s Facebook page had
104,059 fans vs. a mere 14,348
for Reid. Angle is also leading
when it comes to voter sentiment-
-by four points, according to the
latest Rasmussen poll. And
Facebook's public policy team
says that Angle is piling on new
supporters at a faster rate than
Reid. In the last two weeks,
Angle’s Facebook fan base grew
by 10,500, vs. just 921 for Reid.
So does that mean Angle will
knock Reid out of the Senate on
election day next Tuesday? It’s
anyone’s guess. We asked
Facebook, and as far as they
know, no one’s taken a hard look
at the correlation between activity
on Facebook and victory at the
polls. But based on some of the
primary races they looked at, Reid
might want to start harvesting
rival. And in New York,
Republican gubernatorial
candidate Carl Paladino had 20%
more fans when he beat his better
known opponent Rick Lazio.
A more rigorous analysis of the
correlation between Facebook
activity and political outcomes
needs to be undertaken before any
definitive conclusions can be
drawn. But for any candidate
who’s trailing their competitor on
the social network, it probably
wouldn’t hurt to try to recruit
some new fans. (And yes, we’re
looking at you Florida Governor
Charlie Crist(101,127 fewer fans
Farmville for friends. “Many this election season: Delaware. than his Republican rival Marco
candidates who won their primary On the primary day, not-a-witch Rubio), Kentucky congressional
races had more Facebook fans Republican Senate contender contender Jack Conway(74,285
than their opponents and actively Christine O’Donnell’s Facebook fewer fans than Republican Rand
posted campaign updates on their page had four times as many fans P a u l ) , a n d C a l i f o r n i a
Facebook Pages,” Facebook’s as opponent Rep. Mike Castle. On congressional challenger Carly
m a n a g e r o f p u b l i c p o l i c y the day of Washington, D.C.'s Fiorina(half as many fans as
communications Andrew Noyes p r i m a r y , V i n c e G r a y , w h o Democratic incumbent Rep.
tells Fast Company in an email. unseated Mayor Adrian Fenty, Barbara Boxer).
Take everyone’s favorite state had twice as many fans as his

OfficeMax Not Dead Yet

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A Look At How The Housing Crisis Is Still Crushing Labor

Mobility And The Job Recovery
Calculated Risk (Business “Continued weakness in the million households will be
Insider) housing market is undoubtedly the saddled with negative equity by
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:50:00 PM biggest factor suppressing 2009. Even if most of these
relocation. Job seekers who own a homeowners don't "walk away",
From Source: Challenger, Gray home – even if they are open to there might still be a negative
& C h r i s t m a s : J o b S e e k e r relocating for a new job – are impact on the economy due to less
Relocation Drops to Record Low basically stuck where they are if worker mobility.
The percentage of unemployed they are unable or unwilling to One of the strengths of the U.S.
m a n a g e r s a n d e x e c u t i v e s sell their homes without incurring labor market has been the
relocating for a new position fell a significant loss,” said John A. flexibility associated with labor
to a record low in the third quarter Challenger, chief executive mobility at all levels of
of 2010, as a slightly improved officer of Challenger, Gray & employment - households could
j o b m a r k e t a n d g r e a t l y Christmas. easily move from one region to
d e p r e c i a t e d h o m e v a l u e s Click through for a larger version another for better employment.
combined to eliminate this option > The sharp decline in house prices,
for most job seekers. Here is the quarterly data from leaving homeowners with
the new employer will pick up the Less worker mobility [due to
Just 6.9 percent of job seekers Challenger, Gray. Mobility has significant negative equity,
short fall for key executives and negative equity] is kind of like
who found employment in the been trending down for some appears to be limiting this
managers, but it is probably too arteriosclerosis of the economy. It
third quarter relocated for the new time, but really declined over the flexibility.
expensive in many cases now. lowers the overall growth
position. That was down from a last year. Join the conversation about this
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Official Spill Investigation: Halliburton Ignored Well Flaws Too

Austin Carr (Fast Company) cement mixture, Halliburton officials said in a recent news
Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:44:31 PM determined it fell short of industry release. “Contractors do not
standards. One test which was specify well design or make
BP isn't the only culprit in the shared with BP on March 8--more decisions regarding testing
G u l f o i l s p i l l - - H a l l i b u r t o n than a month before the spill-- procedures, as that responsibility
deserves much of the blame too, revealed the mixture to be lies with the well owner.” The
according to the first official unstable. Two subsequent tests company plans to respond to the
investigation into the matter. The showed similar results, but were official investigation's findings
presidential commission probing not delivered to BP. today. We'll see what excuses
the spill said Thursday that both While the commission did not they come up with this time.
BP and Halliburton knew the explicitly name the mixture as the [Photo by the California
cement mixture sealing the well central cause of the blowout, cement's instability as a leading Halliburton denied wrongdoing Department Fish and Game]
might not hold, but disregarded its which killed 11 workers and factor of the accident. But there's after BP's report. “The well owner
flaws. caused one of the largest oil spills an obvious bias to that story: BP is responsible for designing the
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after three laboratory tests of the investigation by BP identified the cement job. related to the well,” Halliburton
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Spiderweb Gowns - The
Why Oakley Is Getting Into the 3-D Game DSquared Back Skeleton
Dress Puts a Glamorous
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:19:07 PM Spin on a Scary Look
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now has been decidedly unsexy?
Think of the 3-D glasses you've
seen passed out in movie theaters
and advertised for use with 3-D
TV's. The movie theater glasses
are flimsy and disposable; the
liquid crystal shutter glasses(aka
"active shutter glasses") sold by
electronics makers are clunky and
need to be charged to work. Even
worse, they are only compatible
with specific devices--a pair of
Sony active glasses will only
work with Sony TVs, and so on.
Oakley aims to change all of the
above by offering attractive, high-
quality, passive 3-D glasses that
work in theaters, with 3-D video
games, and with any passive 3-D
TV set (regardless of brand).
When the company decided to
get involved in the 3-D market
two years ago, it chose passive
glasses for one simple reason:
flexibility. "In most cases, active
glasses are slaves to [brands like]
JVC, Sony, Pioneer," explains
Oakley CEO Colin Baden.
"They're specific to a set, and it
doesn't get you into a theater.
There's an open platform in
passive glasses."
Of course, Oakley has tweaked
its glasses to near optical
perfection--the company claims
that it has developed the first
optically correct 3-D eyewear in
the world, as well as the first 3-D
lenses ever made with high-wrap
curvature (that means a larger
field of vision).
First up for Oakley's 3-D
technology: special edition Tron-
themed glasses, which will retail
With Halloween just around the
corner, the DSquared Back
Skeleton Dress is the perfect fit
for the upcoming festivities.
Even without this haunted holiday
coming up, this spider-webbed
gown is elegant…
for $150 when they debut in
November. Baden is confident
that consumers will be impressed
with the glasses. "We like it better
than anything out there," he says.
At the very least, Oakley's glasses
look a lot less dorky than other
products we've seen pop up in
recent months.
Ariel Schwartz can be reached on
Twitter or by email.

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Submitted at 10/28/2010 11:29:52 AM
People fill out job application
forms at a job fair in Los Angeles,
California, October 13, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Lucy Nicholson
By Lucia Mutikani
WASHINGTON| Thu Oct 28,
2010 12:29pm EDT
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - New
claims for unemployment benefits
unexpectedly fell last week to a
three-month low but the
underlying trend still points to
labor market stagnation.
Initial claims for state
unemployment aid dropped
21,000 to a seasonally adjusted
434,000, the Labor Department
said.
Economists had forecast they
would edge up to 453,000. The
prior week's figure was revised up
to 455,000 from 452,000.
Thursday's data, however, will
likely carry little weight at the
Federal Reserve's policy meeting
on Tuesday and Wednesday,
where further monetary stimulus
for the sluggish economy is
expected to be announced.
The weak recovery is hanging
over congressional Democrats,
who appear likely to lose their
majority in the U.S. House of
Representatives in elections on
Tuesday. Their Senate majority is
also seen at risk. For more see.
Some analysts said difficulties
adjusting the data, which followed
the Columbus Day holiday, for
seasonal factors may have skewed
the numbers but others disagreed.
Claims tend to rise in the week
after a public holiday and a
department official noted that the
rise in applications had not been
as large as the model used to
smooth the data had expected,
leading to a decline.
"My sense is today's number was
organic, there weren't any weird
quirks in it," said Neil Dutta, an
economist at Bank of America
Merrill Lynch in New York.
The four-week average of new
jobless claims, considered a better
measure of underlying labor
market trends, fell 5,500 to
453,250, but remained in the
range seen for much of this year.
"That's consistent with a labor
market that is fundamentally
stagnant. Anecdotally there is
huge uncertainty hanging in the
market right now, there really is
no impetus for a leg up in job
growth," said Dutta.
U.S. financial markets remained
focused on the Fed's November 2-
3 meeting, with traders on Wall
Street shying away from taking
big bets. Stocks were also hurt by
diversified manufacturer 3M Co,
which trimmed its full-year
forecast, citing costs related to a
recent buying spree.
Prices for U.S. government debt
traded higher, while the dollar fell
against the euro and yen.
The U.S. economy's painfully
slow recovery from the worst
recession since the Great
Depression has left the labor
market subdued and the
unemployment rate at 9.6 percent.
TARGET INTEREST RATES
The U.S. central bank cut
overnight interest rates to near
zero in December 2008 and has
bought about $1.7 trillion worth
of Treasury and mortgage-related
debt since then in an effort to
stimulate the sluggish economy
by making money cheaper.
Oct 28, 2010 9:07am EDT
Over my many years toiling in
the capital markets, I’ve found
jobless claims to be an excellent
indicator of labour market health.
Timely, to the point and easy to
understand, it is much better than
the monthly employment stats
which confuse more than
enlighten.
Today’s lower-than-expected
number is reaching the low end of
the recent range (425K – 475K)
and if, next week, it can break
through that lower end and hold it
into mid-November, then the
game may have changed, and for
the better!
Oct 28, 2010 9:35am EDT
Does anybody else think that
maybe this might just be people
who have run out of
unemployment benefits? If you
consider that the big crash was
around this time in 2008, with
normal and then extended benefits
running out. If I am out of
benefits, I can no longer make a
claim (in RI at least). As a small
business owner, I am certainly
don’t see any light at the end of
the tunnel.
Oct 28, 2010 9:50am EDT
Gott – I hope you are right, but
where will all of the new jobs
come from? What industries do
you see booming and providing
millions of jobs? Technology,
construction, manufacturing,
professional services, retail?
Tell me where these jobs will
come from so I can be as
confident as you. I keep reading
about the consumer being tapped
out, falling housing prices, falling
consumer demand for Christmas
spending, and so on and so forth,
and wonder where the demand for
this growth will come from.
Oct 28, 2010 9:50am EDT
does these figures count all the
people that who ran out of
unemployment???/
Oct 28, 2010 9:56am EDT
Good grief! Can’t anyone come
up with a simple spin proof
reporting system???
How many people were laid
off…how many people were
hired…how may people
exhausted benefits…how many
people exhausted hope and pulled
the trigger.
Oct 28, 2010 9:57am EDT
Trends are never smooth lines.
Upward trends have down tics
and downward trends have up
tics. The rolloing four-week
average has remained above
450,000 per WEEK since the
beginning of the year. Before that,
it was higher.
To try to squeeze something
positive out of this latest number
is naive (lipstick on a pig comes
quickly to mind)
The reason people file first-time
claims for unemployment benefits
is almost always because 450,000
people got LAID OFF. That’s an
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average of just under 2,000,000
people per MONTH.
Thre are significant num,bers of
people who have been
unemployed for well over a year
and many are beginning to roll off
of unemployment after their 99
weeks are up. Those people are
left with nothing.
When you have a situation where
450,000 people are rolling OFF of
unemployment every week, you
will have a really serious problem.
Watch 450,000 homes get
foreclosed on EVERY WEEK.
Watch 450,000 families become
homeless EVERY WEEK.
If republicans (always known to
support unemployment benefits
for the masses) gain control of the
House and or the senate, watch
the situation grow even worse
when they try to dismantle Social
Security and Medicare and
Medicaid.
There are 37,000,000
unemployed people in America
but, only half of them collect
unemployment. Almost ALL of
them are VOTERS. Many of them
USED TO BE republicans. They
KNOW who created this situation
and they have an axe to grind.
Oct 28, 2010 10:17am EDT
MadMyk & pjgatorjg: This is
jobless claims, not unemployment
stats. The claims number is
simply the total of workers who
have been recently laid off and, in
the reporting week, are making
their initial claim for benefits.
garrisongold: My view is based
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A Reading of 'Of Old Sat Freedom' by Tennyson

(Epoch Times | All headlines) part of human existence, she It is also impossible to picture her
Submitted at 10/28/2010 11:20:47 AM cannot become obsolete or be without thinking of the Statue of
reinvented. She is beyond being Liberty standing on her “isle-
Liza Voronin/The Epoch Times e i t h e r “ r e a c t i o n a r y ” o r altar”—an uncanny prophecy, for
Of Old Sat Freedom “progressive.” Lady Liberty’s lamp would not be
Of old sat Freedom on the Her confident, reclining posture lit for 50 years.
heights, “on the heights” combines power In the final stanzas, the tense
The thunders breaking at her feet: with majestic calm. She is exalted shifts from the past to the present,
Above her shook the starry lights: and glorious—yet she is not and then to the future. For
She heard the torrents meet. proud. She is the best within us. Freedom to remain on earth, her
There in her place she did rejoice, Below her the “thunders” break, secret must be unveiled. This is
Self-gathered in her prophet- and above, the stars shake in their “the falsehood of extremes.”
mind, tracks as if universal chaos were Notice how this message is
But fragments of her mighty about to triumph over all. Yet she reinforced throughout the poem
voice hears the two “torrents meet.” In by the yoking together of
Came rolling on the wind. that reconciliation, there is a sense opposites: age and youth, town
Then stepped she down thro’ of peace, and behind that peace, and field, mother and king.
town and field an essential order. What does it mean to scorn “the
To mingle with the human race, Outside the storm may rage but falsehood of extremes”?
And part by part to men revealed s h e i s u n t o u c h e d i n h e r Tennyson can’t be saying that
The fullness of her face— sanctuary—untouched and good and evil are the same, or that
Grave mother of majestic works, triumphant. Freedom is nothing if there is no distinction between
From her isle-altar gazing down, not joyful. “Self-gathered in her freedom and slavery. I take his
Who, God-like, grasps the triple prophet-mind” she combines faith words as a warning against
forks, and reason in one burning instant. arrogance, the absence of
And, King-like, wears the crown: She is one against the many, the philosophic doubt that would
Her open eyes desire the truth. brave soul who stands against recognize the worth of a different
The wisdom of a thousand years tyranny, the breath that topples view. For instance, while
Is in them. May perpetual youth prisons and palaces. skepticism and optimism are
Keep dry their light from tears; Freedom reveals herself slowly in opposites, they do not cancel each
That her fair form may stand and h i s t o r y , “ p a r t b y p a r t , ” a s other out. Both, in their way, are
shine theocracy and monarchy give noble virtues. Take them further,
Make bright our days and light away to the plural, scrappy however, and they become
our dreams, present. Born only two decades deadly, in the form of cynicism
Turning to scorn with lips divine after the French Revolution, that believes the worst of anyone
The falsehood of extremes! Tennyson was aware of how the and Utopianism that sacrifices
How should we picture freedom? rush to create a better society “King-like” she rules the ideal experience, not theory. people to a rigid system of
How should we embody, put a could lead to bloodshed. He state. T h e p o e m e v o k e s m a n y imposed perfection. Both are
face, to this most inspirational and expresses a more pragmatic view With her “open eyes,” Freedom formidable female archetypes. happy to dehumanize and destroy.
yet blurry of ideas? of change: grave, gradual, lasting. has democratic vision. Her mind Freedom combines the wisdom of I will leave the last words to G K
In this poem, Tennyson imagines Not that Freedom lacks teeth. She is open too, because she knows Socrates’ teacher Diotima, who Chesterton, who sums up the
freedom as a goddess. The first grips a trident, its “triple forks” nothing and no one should be taught him the nature of love, poem brilliantly. He says that
thing to note is her age. She is old, like lightning wrought in iron. judged before the facts are known. with the force of Athena, goddess
ancient—timeless even. As a vital “God-like” she rules over nature. She knows that truth derives from of art and technology. READING page 12
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Man arrested in DC plot trained for Afghanistan continued from page 11

Tennyson gives “poetic character

(Reuters: Top News) able-bodied Muslims that Ahmed of the Arlington Cemetery, the Islamist militant network. to the conception of Liberal
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:34:14 PM expected to undertake next month. Courthouse, Crystal City and "Ahmed stated that he wanted to Conservatism, of splendid
FBI officials declined to Pentagon City Metrorail stations kill as many military personnel as compromise. … Tennyson felt
By David Morgan comment on the contents of the and offered suggestions about possible," the affidavit said. that lyrical enthusiasm could be
WASHINGTON| Thu Oct 28, a f f i d a v i t . A u t h o r i t i e s h a v e where to place explosives to kill FBI officials sought the search devoted to established customs, to
2010 2:34pm EDT emphasized the public was never people in simultaneous attacks warrant to seize Ahmed's bank indefensible and ineradicable
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - A in danger because the suspect was planned for 2011, the indictment records and 2005 Honda Accord national constitutions, to the
Pakistani-born man, who believed being closely monitored. said. sedan. dignity of time and the empire of
he was part of an al Qaeda plot to Ahmed's arrest came amid He allegedly told an agent posing (Editing by Eric Walsh) unutterable common sense…”
bomb the Washington subway heightened concern about attacks as an al Qaeda operative that an *We welcome comments that These are words to heed at a time
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Shares of Halliburton fell sharply
after the report's release. The
stock tumbled as much as much as
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By Chris Baltimore 2010 people, but it’s a time traveler,”
cement experts show that "the frequently to ensure they meet our
HOUSTON| Thu Oct 28, 2010 foam cement used at Macondo Chaplin time traveler video. he said.“A woman ... on a mobile
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Mortgage Rates Inch Up for Second
Week in a Row
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A sold sign is posted in front of a
home in a new housing
development May 4, 2009 in
South San Francisco, California.
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Mortgage rates for 15-year and 30
-year fixed-rate loans edged up
for the second straight week, but
were still low enough to prompt
an uptick in refinancing,
according to reports released by
Freddie Mac and the Mortgage
Bankers Association this week.
Conventional 30-year fixed-rate
mortgages rose from 4.21 percent
last week to 4.23 percent, and 15-
year fixed-rate loans climbed to
3.66 percent, up from last week’s
3.64 percent, Freddie Mac said on
Wednesday.
But rates are still hovering near
record lows set weeks ago, and
homeowners pounced on the
opportunity to refinance. For the
week ending Oct. 22, the
Mortgage Bankers Association’s
Refinance Index, measuring
mortgage refinancing activity,
increased three percent from the
week before, while the Purchase
Index, measuring mortgage
applications for single-family
Is Candy Evil or Are We Just Too Obsessed with Sugar? [Video]
Adam Dachis (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 11:30:00 AM
homes, rose 3.9 percent.
As the housing market prepares
to rebound, low mortgage rates
have done their part to entice
potential homeowners into buying
new homes, but they have stayed
away due to low consumer
confidence and poor labor
conditions.“Consumer
confidence, while slightly
improved from September levels,
is still hovering at historically low
levels,” Lynn Franco, Director of
The Conference Board Consumer
Research Center said in a
statement. “Consumers’
assessment of the current state of
the economy is relatively
unchanged, primarily because
It's hard to vilify something so
sweet and wonderful as candy, but
it certainly has its dark side. Is
labor market conditions have yet
to significantly improve.”
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on a technical interpretation of a
chart showing Jobless Claims
over the past several months.
Where the jobs will emerge I
haven’t a clue – nobody does –
but I will say one thing: don’t
believe everything you read or
hear in the mass media, especially
one as leftish as Reuters. The
media is heavily invested in the
gloom and doom trade and won’t
let go without a fight. Scepticism,
especially of ‘experts’, is a useful
tool. And have faith too: the
economy has always recovered in
the past, usually when least-
expected, and this time will be no
different.
Oct 28, 2010 10:31am EDT
This information changes all the
time. Now following this, we will
see an article with dire
unemployment numbers soon..it
can no longer be trusted
Oct 28, 2010 10:32am EDT
These stats are bunk – adjusted
and manipulated.
The real results will occur when
we see new job markets open up
and the laid off workers actually
are rehired.
Looking at a lower number of
or are we just unable to control
our desire for sugar? More »
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damn has a leak but it’s a slow
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Lisa Blount, Actress and Oscar-
Winning Producer, Dies at 53
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2010
Actress Lisa Blount at the 25th
Film Independent Spirit Awards
held at the Nokia Theatre on
March 5, 2010 in Los Angeles.
Blount died Wednesday at the age
of 53. (Jordan Strauss/Getty
Images) Lisa Blount, an actress
and Academy Award-winning
producer who most famously
starred in the film An Officer and
a Gentleman, was found dead on
Wednesday in her Little Rock,
Arkansas home, according to the
Arkansas Democrat Gazette. She
was 53.
The New York Daily News
reports that Blount died on
Monday after spending the past
Demi Joins Gentlemen Ashton, Chace,
and Nick For GQ's Ball
Lauren Turner (PopSugar)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:30:00 PM
Demi Moore was in Balmain yet
again to attend GQ's Gentleman's
Ball in NYC yesterday with her
husband Ashton Kutcher, who
was one of the event's cohosts.
The couple apparently indulged in
plenty of PDA for the cameras,
though earlier in the week it was
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in The Blind Side, was away from power (CHP) system in which one
their home. Blount was nominated The picturesque Cotswolds of 260-kilowatt CHP unit can
for a Golden Globe for Best England will soon be using those p e r f o r m a t a 4 2 . 9 p e r c e n t
Supporting Actress in An Officer lovely animals dotting its hillsides electrical efficiency, according to
and a Gentleman. In 2001, she to provide power to some of its Alfagy.
won an Oscar for Best Live homes. The station is expected to
Action Shot as a producer for The A turnkey biogas station made by produce about 1 megawatt of
Accountant. Blount and her A l f a g y p l a n s t o c o n v e r t electricity per year, enough to
husband co-starred in the movie. agricultural waste, including both power about 350 Cotswolds
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Facebook Launching Friendship Pages; You'll Love

It, Except for When You Don't
Marshall Kirkpatrick centralized in one convenient other close relationships that are
(ReadWriteWeb) place? visible but not emphasized will be
Sponsor made very explicit using this new
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:20:23 PM
Friendship Pages will probably feature? Similarly, how many Custom Lego
F a c e b o o k a n n o u n c e d t h i s be rolled out throughout the day, covert romantic relationships, Creations for Charity
morning that it is launching a new not all users are able to see them secret workplace alliances and
feature, the Friendship Page. The yet. They will be linked-to under other close relationships that are 2010 Starts NOW!
Friendship Page will display the main profile photo on a visible but not emphasized will be Chris Burns (SlashGear)
public Wall posts and comments friend's profile pages and in the made very explicit using this new
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:55:40 PM
between two friends, photos in n e w s f e e d n e x t t o i t e m s feature?
which both are tagged, Events announcing new connections and himself as the main PowerPoint Maybe that's not a big concern, Today opens the gates of
they RSVP'd for together and activities shared by friends you coder on PowerPoint 2007 at but the unconsidered degree of Creations for Charity 2010, a sale
other information. You'll be able know both of. The Man Behind Microsoft, a co-developer of the closeness between many mutual of custom LEGO creations made
to see Friendship pages between the Feature World Atlas at Encarta.com and friends is about to be splashed up and donated by people around the
yourself and a friend, or between Friendship Pages is a very smart the man who brought the world on its own Facebook page for world, all of the proceeds going to
any two other people in which feature, something many of Dawsons.Creek.com, a 3 year millions of people. underprivileged children in the
you have permission to view both F a c e b o o k ' s u s e r s w i l l f i n d long high-profile fan site of If you aren't doing anything form of – you guessed it – more
peoples' profiles. In other words: pleasing in a viscerally social t e e n a g e s c h l o c k T V s h o w wrong, of course, perhaps your LEGO! This sale goes until
you'll now have a special page way. The feature was developed Dawson's Creek. social life has nothing to hide. December, but each of these
that displays all the things you've under the leadership of Facebook N o w K a o ' s b u i l t t h e n e w Meanwhile, the rest of us are creations is one of a kind, so get
done with each particular friend. engineer Wayne Kao, who made Facebook Friendship pages. It going to have trips down memory the good ones now, for cripes
This feature is a great example of t h e a n n o u n c e m e n t o n t h e sounds like the coolest thing on lane made all the easier. If you're sakes! Or, if you’re a LEGO
the kinds of things that are F a c e b o o k b l o g t o d a y . his resume. The Downside of someone who uses Facebook to enthusiast and would like to
possible when rich social graph Kao is an interesting character Friendship Pages? keep up with old college friends, participate by donating your own
and user activity data is cross ("devastating and spiffy" is how Every time Facebook creates a friends you knew before there was creation, you can do that too!
referenced and analyzed for he describes himself on his new feature that surfaces already Facebook, imagine how much If you are the sort of person who
patterns. There are countless p r i v a t e T w i t t e r p r o f i l e ) . public information, but in a newly more fun this will be for today's rocks at creating LEGO sculptures
different ways this could be done According to LinkedIn, he was convenient way - some people college kids. If they don't delete and want to donate, or if you’d
- but Friendship Pages aim right at the lead engineer at people search don't like it. When the very first their profiles and start over upon just like to donate to this cause
the heart of why people use engine Spock.com for three years Facebook Newsfeed took changes graduation, these Friendship without purchasing something,
Facebook, for the connections it through the Summer of 2009. to already-visible profiles and pages could prove to be one of the that’s alright too. For either form
facilitates between family and Spock was an ambitious search centralized them in one highly most emotionally meaningful of donation over $50 USD, you
friends. As with other changes engine for people that burned visible place, people called it a parts of the site. And a whole lot get an engraved Creations for
made to Facebook, though, it's through millions of dollars and privacy violation. (It's now the of fun. Charity 2010 assembled and glued
logical to ask: will this surface then sold itself to the legally- foundation of the site.) How many What cross-sections of the data by LEGO celebrity Sean
friends' activities that were always challenged paid-search firm covert romantic relationships, on Facebook will be exposed Kenney(certified professional),
publicly available but become Intelius a month before Kao left. secret workplace alliances and next? Discuss topped with a really real gold-
controversial once they are Prior to that, Kao describes plated brick from ChromeBricks.
Weird! Awesome! Get over to the
store and buy up a bag o bricks!
[ Via The Brothers Brick]
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Sprint Mobile Wallet Offers Developers New Way to Monetize

Apps
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) screenshots of the application
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:00:00 PM itself here.
When integrated into a mobile
At this week's developer application, the Mobile Wallet
conference, Sprint CEO Dan promises to offer a "friendlier user
Hesse announced a new service experience" than redirecting users
for Sprint customers: a mobile to a WAP site or Web purchase
payment solution called Sprint page. Instead, the experience is
Mobile Wallet. The system will that of a "one-click" payment
come pre-loaded on new Sprint option on the mobile phone.
handsets and will be made The sample application provided
available for download from by Cardinal gives you an idea of
"Sprint Zone," a pre-installed app how this will look to the end user.
featuring news, tips, tricks and a Not only can standalone mobile
curated collection of Sprint's apps be monetized in this way,
favorite apps. Sprint's ID Packs can be as well.
What's unique about the Mobile ID Packs, which are
Wallet solution is that it will downloadable collections of
allow customers to pay for both themed or branded content for
digital and physical goods using Android phones, allow users to
their phones. And for developers, easily customize their device with
noted Hesse, the app provides a apps, ringtones, wallpaper and
new way to monetize mobile other content, without having to
applications. download applications
Sponsor individually from the Android
Details on Sprint Mobile Wallet
their financial instruments and m e r c h a n t . T h o u s a n d s o f monetizing apps outside of the Market. In addition to current
To use Sprint Mobile Wallet,
prepaid account capabilities in m e r c h a n t s a l r e a d y s u p p o r t "controlled walls of an app store," partners like E!, Disney, ESPN,
customers will create a universal Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, EA and
there..." In researching this CardinalCommerce, said Hesse, says Sprint.
PIN which will be associated with
further, it appears that PayPal and including SkyMall, Gameloft and The company has now published MTV, Sprint also announced new
their existing Visa, MasterCard or
Google Wallet are supported, as Namco, the big-name merchants a n u m b e r o f t o o l s o n i t s partners AOL, UPS, Canvas, IHG
Amazon Payments accounts.
are eBillMe, Bill Me Later, who have announced they are on Developers Center for SMW, and BodyMedia at this week's
There was mention of "other event.
MyECheck, NACHA Secure board with Sprint Mobile Wallet including the following:
payment methods" as well in
Vault Payments (SVP), Ukash, at launch. • Merchant Integration Guide for The company is now enabling
Sprint's press release, but no
eLayaway, Ebates and S p r i n t c u s t o m e r s o n i t s Sprint Mobile Payment Services publishers to create paid version
names were given beyond these of these ID packs, as a way to
RevolutionCard. Everything Data Plan can use the (SMW)
three. However, in an earlier
When making a purchase, the mobile wallet at no additional • Sample SMW Transaction charge for premium content.
i n t e r v i e w w i t h Discuss
customer's encrypted PIN is sent charge. How to Get Started Sequence Chart
FierceMobileContent, Sprint's
to Sprint partner For developers and mobile • Sample Client Wallet App
Director of Open Enablement
CardinalCommerce, which will application publishers, the Sprint • Sample Merchant App
Kevin McGinnis said that "...the
host the secure transactions Mobile Wallet (SWM) is also
PayPals, Google Checkouts and
between the customer and the meant to provide a means of It has also posted some
Amazons of the world will have
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FCC settles with Verizon over mystery charges "Extreme

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Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:57:58 PM
customers. It also promised to
make sure that consumers are no
overcharged for data usage over
the course of three years, from
"We know the billing relationship
we have with our customers is a Engineering"
longer charged the mystery fees. November 2007 to the present. sacred trust. And we put a lot of
The Federal Communications "Today's consent decree sends a
Commission scored a major clear message to American
According to the settlement, these
fees were caused by unauthorized
resources into making sure we get
the bills out to customers
Videos
political win Thursday as it consumers: The FCC has got your data transfers initated by accurately," McAdam said in an (HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
a n n o u n c e d a $ 2 5 m i l l i o n back," FCC Chairman Julius applications that automatically interview with CNET. "We've Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:00:56 PM

settlement with Verizon Wireless Genachowski said in a statement. accessed the Internet as well as been working on this since we
over so called mystery charges. "People shouldn't find mystery people accidentally clicking on started offering BREW apps on You're Watching: Playlist |
While critics complain that the fees when they open their phone something that initiated a Web phones. It's always been an Extreme Engineering Videos
FCC has been dragging its feet on b i l l s - - a n d t h e y c e r t a i n l y connection. ongoing process. It has nothing to Playlist | Extreme Engineering
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Kindle for Windows Phone 7 revealed, due 'in the coming months'
Ross Miller (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:40:00 PM
As sure as the sun, Amazon's just
announced it'll be bringing Kindle
to the Windows Phone 7 platform
sometime "in the coming
months." The app was shown
briefly today at Microsoft's
Professional Developers istartedsomething's Long Zheng 'in the coming months'
Conference (PDC 2010) and, and his Flickr account). And Kindle for Windows Phone 7
based both on that and the official while you wait for its inevitable revealed, due 'in the coming
screenshot from Amazon's teaser release, we have full confidence months' originally appeared on
page (above), it's definitely you'll be able to find another Engadget on Thu, 28 Oct 2010
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Facebook launches quirky 'friendship
pages'
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:25:11 PM
On Thursday, Facebook launched
a feature called "Friendship
Pages," which lets users load up
the interactions between
themselves and individual friends,
or between any two friends, on
the social network. You'll see
their posts on one another's walls,
events to which both RSVP'd,
photos in which both are tagged,
and other interactions that you
would otherwise be able to access
on either friend's profile (i.e.
nothing that wouldn't otherwise be
public).
Friendship Pages are live as of
Thursday but are not yet
accessible to all members.
It's another feature, like the
redesigned Facebook Groups, that
highlights the intimacy of real-
world connections projected
through Facebook, something that
has been obscured as the massive
social network has grown far
beyond 500 million users around
the world and has become a hub
for everything from FarmVille
crop-tending to "Which Hogwarts
House Do You Belong In?" quiz
results. I'm a Ravenclaw, by the
way.
Video: Matt Damon Breaks From Baby Stella Dad Duty
Molly Goodson (PopSugar)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:15:00 PM
Matt Damon takes a night off
This is the brainchild of a single
Facebook engineer, Wayne Kao,
who built the feature at one of the
company's all-night "hackathons"
along with a designer. "One of my
favorite Facebook moments is
browsing photos from friends in
the News Feed after they've begun
a new relationship, gotten
engaged or gotten married," Kao
wrote in a blog post. "It gives me
a fun and meaningful glimpse of
the friendship between two people
I know. I realized that a similarly
magical experience was possible
if all of the photos and posts
between two friends were brought
together."
It's cute, if a little creepy that I
can now dive into the digital
(albeit public) interactions
between two individuals to find
out when they started dating,
whose Halloween keggers they
attended together, or whether
there is a chance that their
Facebook posts to one another
hint that they are in cahoots in a
nefarious plan to gang up on me.
Then there's the fact that, well,
ideally our most meaningful
friendships will at least have some
memorable moments that happen
outside of Facebook's reach,
however eye-of-Sauron its scope
from caring for newborn baby
Stella to rally celebrities at a
ONEXONE fundraiser in New
York. Check it out on PopSugar
may be at this point.
The real utility of Facebook
friendship pages for me, rather,
will be to chart and catalog the
long history of insults and snark
that my younger brother and I
fling at one another on our
Facebook walls. This week he
pointed me to the results of a
survey that suggest being a
younger sibling may make you
shorter than you would be
otherwise, and used my Facebook
wall to sarcastically thank me for
shaving inches off his height. Me:
"You're already tall enough. If
you got those extra 3-4 inches
you'd have trouble buying pants
and a significantly more
embarrassing portfolio of
nicknames."
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3D body scanner can identify your fat zones
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Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:13:37 PM
Stripped down to the
undergarments, the patient steps
into a 7-foot booth to be scanned
by 16 sensors and 32 cameras
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3D is finally getting some love in
the health segment--specifically
the love handle segment. A 3D
body scanner in development for
10 years and out this month from
U.K. company Select Research,
can not only tell how obese you
are in relation to what's
recommended, but exactly where
those numerous high-tea buffets
have distributed themselves.
Ouch.
Say hello to BVI, or body volume
index, and goodbye to BMI, or
body mass index, which uses a
standard international formula to
calculate body weight.
The more detailed BVI system is
a 7-foot-tall booth that scans a
patient, stripped down to his or
her undergarments, using 16
sensors and 32 cameras. In a
whopping six seconds, more than
200 linear data measurements of
the patient's body are gathered
and sent to a secure server to be
accessed and analyzed by
authorized doctors. An exact
"virtual" image of a person's
shape is also created. The BVI
scanner uses white light but no
radiation.
The system, developed in
conjunction with Aston
University in Birmingham,
England; Heartlands NHS
Hospital, also in Birmingham; and
the Mayo Clinic, scanned over
2,000 test subjects across the
United Kingdom, United States,
and Europe to fine-tune the norms
for fat deposition in various parts
of the body according to age,
gender, body shape, and body
composition. As developed
countries face increasingly obese
populations, it's hoped that the
device will be able to alert doctors
to the potential for heart disease,
stroke, or diabetes.
"Most people in the world realize
that carrying extra weight around
the stomach means that they do
have a greater health risk,
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First Wind Retreats, Shelves IPO Plans Vermont Energy Co. Raises
Evelyn Rusli (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 11:52:36 AM
Facing a dubious IPO and
downward pricing pressure, First
Wind announced on Thursday that
it will put its plans to go public on
hold.
The wind energy company,
which first signaled its intention
to go public way back in 2008,
was expected to IPO this week but
several analysts and media reports
questioned investor demand,
citing a heavy debt load, a lack of
profitability and broader
challenges in the sector.
Amid growing concern, the
company dropped its pricing
forecast to $18 to $20 on
Wednesday— a 25% cut from its
previous range of $24 to $26.
Now, after shaving its
expectations, First Wind is
pressing pause on the entire IPO
and has not indicated when it will
resume plans to go public.
“The terms that the IPO market
was seeking at this time were not
attractive to the company,” the
company’s CEO Paul Gaynor said
in a statement, according to
reports.
The cleantech IPO market has
been pretty choppy this year,
especially for companies that are
seen as heavily dependent on
government subsidies. On
Thursday, Enel, a major European
utility company, lowered its price
range for the upcoming IPO of its
green unit (Enel Green Power) in
a bid to attract larger, institutional
investors. The new range is now
at €1.60 to €2.10 euros from
€1.80 to €2.20. This is Enel’s
second price drop.
First Wind, which owns and
operates wind farms in the U.S.,
was hoping to raise cash in the
IPO to ease its large debt load. As
outlined in a recent S-1 filing, the
company still has $582.2 million
in outstanding debt. Moreover,
since its inception the company
has racked up $233.0 million in
losses. Cognizant of its debt and
ongoing losses, the company
warned investors that “our
substantial indebtedness [could]
make it difficult for us to satisfy
our obligations with respect to our
indebtedness, and failure to
comply with these obligations
could result in an event of default
under those agreements, which
could be difficult to cure, or result
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$260,000 For Sustainable
Gas-And-Convenience Stores
Lora Kolodny (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:12:24 PM
The Vermont Energy Company
attracted a $260,000 seed
investment a new SEC filing
revealed to grow their
environmental-minded gas station
and convenience store business.
Currently, the company operates
a flagship store and four-pump
gas station in Burlington,
Vermont. According to a
company spokesperson, they hope
to become a leading supplier of
alternative fuels over time, and
stock their shelves with
sustainable items alongside select,
traditional packaged goods.
The concept is simple— offer a
sustainable alternative to 7-eleven
or Mobil and other leading gas
currently offers drivers of fuel-
station and coveninece stores. The efficient cars a discount on plain
gas and convenience store
old gasoline. Run under the name
industry in the U.S. is highly The Good Carma program, the
fragmented, but according to
discount is based on the miles-per
Hoovers research, reaches $200 -gallon ratings of customers’
billion in annual sales mainly
vehciles. Such programs, if they
selling gasoline. became available nationally,
The Vermont Energy Company,
could help encourage consumers
if it takes off massively, could to upgrade their rides to more fuel
become the go-to, roadside brand
-efficient, if not zero emissions,
for drivers seeking grease diesel, electric vehicles.
or other advanced and clean fuels.
The Vermont Energy Company
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Report: iPad infiltrating enterprise IT
Matt Tinsley (TUAW)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:00:00 PM
By now, we all know that the
iPad has been a runaway success
story, but it seems the iPad is also
making waves in the business
world, too. According to the
Apple Blog, Ted Schadler, from
Forrester, has written a report on
the impact of the iPad (primarily
on the enterprise market, since
January 2010). Speaking with
more than 200 companies,
Schadler's report points out three
major ways that the iPad is
changing IT in the enterprise.
Firstly, the iPad is reportedly
displacing the traditional laptop,
especially in the case of those
who would use their laptop
primarily for email and other
types of Web-based
communication, though, at this
stage, only in scenarios where it is
more appropriate.
Secondly, the iPad is replacing
paper. Wherever people would
usually carry around stacks of
Diane Kruger Heads Off on Her Next
Adventure
Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:00:00 PM
Diane Kruger kept her Chanel on
a short leash as she caught a flight
out of LAX yesterday. The star
was on the go again after a recent
stint shooting in Tajikistan, but
she spent the last week in
paper or files, particularly in
medical and pharmaceutical
industries, the iPad is now the
preferred choice. Clearly, the iPad
has more functionality than a wad
of paper, and it's a lot easier to
carry around, too.
Finally, Schadler says that the
iPad is allowing companies to do
things more efficiently by
providing immediate connection
to further resources and data.
California making appearances
for her gritty drama, Inhale, and
attending special events as the
face of Calvin Klein's Beauty
fragrance. She's also front and
center in the just-released trailer
for Unknown, in which Diane
stars opposite Liam Neeson and
January Jones. That movie doesn't
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Schadler uses the example of a
salesman being able to customize
an order for a customer on the
spot by using the iPad.
However, Schadler says there are
still some pretty significant
hurdles for the iPad to jump
through. For one, the iPad has
minimal support for Microsoft
Office, and the Redmond based
company doesn't have any official
solutions in the near future to
rectify this. This, in part, limits
where you can and can't use an
iPad in a Microsoft Office Gucci 3D Glasses
dominated enterprise world.
The Apple Blog has further
details on Schadler's report here,
Unveiled, Due This
or if your a Forrester subscriber,
you can read the full story here.
Report: iPad infiltrating
Holiday Season
Evan Selleck (SlashGear) enjoyable as possible. The glasses
enterprise IT originally appeared are also optimized for the use in
Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:23:13 PM
on TUAW on Thu, 28 Oct 2010 Real D 3D theaters, which is used
13:00:00 EST. Please see our It looks like Oakley isn’t the only in over half the theaters across the
terms for use of feeds. glasses manufacturer in the world United States. Interestingly
Source| Permalink| Email this| that want to take a stab at the 3D enough, the glasses also feature a
Comments market. Of course, with the brand “multi-layer mirrored coating” on
name tagged along the side, the the lenses, which means you’ll be
prices are sure to follow, and able to look at yourself in the
there’s no exception for the brand mirror, without seeing any
new Gucci 3D glasses that the distortion.
company has just unveiled. Much The glasses will be made
like the Oakley-branded version available exclusively at Gucci
of 3D glasses we showed you, the boutiques by this holiday season.
glasses offer plenty of technology The price? $225. Considering the
hit theaters until February, and features, hoping to make the
price for the standard Gucci
meaning Diane has plenty of time price tag make sense.
glasses out there, perhaps this
to spend with her hardworking The Gucci 3D glasses feature
isn’t all that expensive. That
boyfriend Josh Jackson before her “optically-correct” 6-base curved
would be up to you, and whether
next round of promotional duties. lenses, which should decrease or
or not you’re ready to make such
View 5 Photos › “virtually eliminate” the crosstalk a commitment to 3D.
from the screen to your eyes, [ via Luxist]
making your movie as clear and
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Kellan Breaks From

His Twilight Duties
For a Trip Back Home
Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:30:00 PM

Kellan Lutz smiled for the

cameras yesterday when he
arrived back at LAX. He's home
again following a stint in
Louisiana, where he and his
Breaking Dawn cast mates have
been hard at work. His costars
Kristen Stewart and Robert
Pattinson were among those
spotted relaxing on set in Baton
White iPhone 4 Removed From Apple Website Rouge, but others from the film,
like the werewolves, apparently
Evan Selleck (SlashGear) reasons why: manufacturers can’t right now, but also the white That’s the million dollar question will be based in Vancouver. The
Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:48:38 PM get the shades of white to match. version. While you could stare at at this point, and it doesn’t look next installment of the Twilight
Or, the white color causes crazy it all day long, Apple was quick to like anyone but those embedded series promises to be the raciest
The white iPhone 4 is a sneaky things to happen when taking a note that you couldn’t order it in the Cupertino-based offices yet, but Kellan finds himself
device. Apple, having shown it picture. Either way, Apple’s online, nor could you pick it up in knows the real answer. With involved in lots of drama in his
off at the beginning of the year suggestion that the white model of any store locations. But, at least it rumors still flying around that the other new project Meskada. That
and making a countless number of t h e i P h o n e 4 i s h a r d t o was there, working as a small white iPhone 4 will be the official film, which screened at Tribeca
people excited for its release, has manufacture looks to be true. And glimmer of hope that the iDevice device for Verizon when the this year, has a just-released
repeatedly delayed the iDevice now, sadly, the white device is would pop up sooner than later. handset launches next year, the trailer out in which Kellan stars as
since its announcement. And, with missing from Apple’s online store But, all hope has been apparently speculation is still keeping the a rural guy caught up in the midst
t h i s l a t e s t d e l a y u n d e r t h e altogether. lost, as the company has pulled device alive and well — eve if of a murder mystery.
c o m p a n y ’ s w i n g s , t h e r e ’ s As you probably already knew, the white iPhone 4 from the Apple seems to be trying to make View 3 Photos ›
speculation that the device not be Apple’s online iPhone shop website. everyone forget about it.
making it to the market at all. previously showcased not only the Is the white iPhone 4 cancelled? [ via Macworld]
Ever. Of course, there’s plenty of black version, which you can buy Or is it just delayed until 2011?
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The Scoop on Microsoft’s 2010 Professional Developer

Conference
Chris Burns (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:35:41 PM
Welcome to the 2010
Professional Developer
Conference, aka PDC, from
whens we’ve got a few bits of
info on Windows Phone 7 for
you. PDC2010 was kicked off
with a keynote speech by Steve
Ballmer and Scott Guthrie that
said some very nice things about
Windows Phone 7s investment in
the WP7 development
community. They know that these
developers can make or break the
whole project, so they’ve done a
few things to help them finish up
their first round of WP7 apps:
hint: free stuff.
First, all paid PDC conference
attendees will get a free Windows
Phone 7 device (because it’s
always good to have the device
you’re designing for lying around
to test with.) Then, they gave a
few notes on how big the
Windows Phone Developer
community currently is: 12,000
developers registered with
Marketplace, up 40% from last
month, with more than 100 adding
every day.
Then noted that on November
3rd, developers may submit their
applications “with the self serve
capabilities of Marketplace for
developers.” A tiny but important
note to add to this is that there’ve
been som revisions to
Marketplace policies which
everyone should check out here.
Then, presenters! A giant list
(which you can see here) of PDC
presenters share tips on
optimization and testing and all
that fun stuff developers love to
hear for hours on end. To see the
presentations as they happen, yes
LIVE STREAMS, take a peek
over at the Microsoft PDC site
and get out your popcorn and pens
and pads and peel your eyeball
skins up for great talks.
[ Via Microsoft]

Apple exploring new scratch-proof coating

Steven Sande (TUAW) stainless steel to provide scratch amorphous metal technology in
Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:30:00 PM and impact resistance. Nitride future scratch-proof Apple
coatings are unique in that they products. Liquidmetal materials
If a new patent application from allow the natural feel and look of are twice as strong as titanium,
Apple is any indication, the the stainless steel to show but as easy as plastic to process.
company is getting obsessive through, while creating a tough [via AppleInsider] RealVNC adds "iPod
about making sure that future scratch-proof surface. Apple exploring new scratch-
products are highly scratch- In the patent filing, Apple notes proof coating originally appeared Out" so cars can display
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RealVNC, the company behind
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the original VNC remote
outlining methods for depositing a However, as some iPhone 4 agreement with Liquidmetal
very thin layer (just over 15 owners have noticed, the material Technologies earlier in 2010 to REALVNC page 26
microns thick) of nitride to is relatively easy to scratch. explore using the company's

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computing protocol, has added
iOS to the list of devices that are
supported by its VNC Mobile
Solution for Automotive. In
general, VNC (virtual network
computing) allows users to see the
display output from another
computer over a network. It's
commonly used to manage servers
that are running without an
attached monitor.
While a number of automakers
have integrated iPod/iPhone
control functionality, many of
them have implemented rather
clunky user interfaces. VNC
Mobile will allow the actual iOS
interface, including Cover Flow
or even Google Maps, to be
displayed directly on the larger in-
dash touchscreen in the car. This
way, a user could just use the
larger display to manage what
they are listening to without
Dell Venue hits the FCC: is this the Thunder's new name?
Chris Ziegler (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:27:00 PM
Yes, that's right, just "Venue,"
not Venue Pro-- and from a
glance, it looks to us like this
might be the new name for the
Thunder Android phone we
played with a little while ago
fumbling with the iPod or iPhone.
The new version uses the "iPod
Out" feature that Apple has built
into the latest versions of iOS to
provide this capability. Check out
the video in the second half of the
post.
[Via Macnn]
Continue reading RealVNC adds
"iPod Out" so cars can display
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judging by this FCC filing that
just crossed the wires. As far as
we can tell, this thing is basically
a carbon copy of the Venue Pro,
except it's running Android
instead of Windows Phone 7 and
drops the sliding portrait keyboard
in favor of a full-touch setup. AMOLED display carries over, so
Notably, the curved glass 4.1-inch
Former Yahoo SVP David Ku 9 Fictional
Joins Microsoft As Corporate Bands with Hit
VP Of New Initiatives Songs
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Jason Kincaid (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:55:46 PM
Last month, Yahoo SVP David
Ku, who headed the company’s
advertising products group, left
the company. Yahoo has been
hemorrhaging talent lately —
including some high ranking
executives — and Ku was an
especially big loss because he’s
been with the company since
2002. Now we’ve confirmed
Ku’s next move: he’s joining
Microsoft as Corporate Vice
President, Online Services
Division New Initiatives, effective
October 29th, 2010.
We initially heard that Ku would
be working directly on Bing
(which is part of Microsoft’s’
Online Services Division) but a
Microsoft spokesperson tell us
that he’ll be involved with a range
of initiatives across the division.
In addition to advertising
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Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:00:56 PM
Reaching the top ten or even the
top 40 on the music charts is
something that most bands only
dream of achieving after years of
hard work. But the bands on this
list didn't have to agonize over
that because they weren't real
bands in the first place. Check out
these fictional hit makers, but be
prepared to get at least one song
experience, Ku has quite a bit of stuck in your head.
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in the audience swoon a bit. terribly long for an announce.
Additionally, turns out there's a Dell Venue hits the FCC: is this
Bluetooth SIG certification under the Thunder's new name?
the same model name -- V03B -- originally appeared on Engadget
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TSA: 11.6-inch MacBook

Air is checkpoint-safe
Dave Caolo (TUAW)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:45:00 PM

The US Transportation Security

Administration, or TSA, has
officially stated that travelers Comment Blocker Helps
passing through US airport De-Troll the Internet for
security with the 11.6-inch
MacBook Air will not have to
Chrome Users
remove the little laptop from their [Downloads]
bags for inspection. Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Unfortunately, that's not the case Submitted at 10/28/2010 11:00:00 AM
with the 13-inch model.
stowed away during screening.
Size is the differentiating factor. Chrome: We've shown you many
As if travelers needed another
According to the TSA blog, any ways to avoid the less appealing
reason to lust after the thing.
electronic device considered to be folk on the internet, but if you
Nook Color processor of a "standard laptop" size or
larger must go through the x-ray
[Via The Mac Observer]
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checkpoint-safe originally
find some communities are just
too troll-infested, Comment

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cutoff point is at or very near
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Donald Melanson (Engadget) considering that the processor and MacBook Air, may remain
Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:03:00 PM platform support a few features
that the Nook Color does not, not
Barnes & Noble provided most of t h e l e a s t o f w h i c h i s 3 G The Charming Mr. Blahnik
the specs for the Nook Color connectivity. Of course, that Habitually Chic (Habitually the classic English colors of the
when it launched the device on doesn't necessarily mean we'll see Chic®) rooms and the slightly cluttered
Tuesday, but notably absent was a future Nook Color that takes look that is quintessentially
Submitted at 10/28/2010 10:46:40 AM
any word on the processor that advantage of those features, but at English. Most of the woman who
powers the e-reader. Thankfully, least we know it's not too much of I love when I'm looking for one buy his shoes tell him that they
Texas Instruments has now come a stretch for Barnes & Noble to thing and I find something even make them happy but I have a
out confirmed that the Nook add them. better in the process. In this case, feeling that Mr. Blahnik would
Color uses its ARM Cortex A8- Nook Color processor revealed: it was photographs of Manolo say that his home is what makes
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"Straight Talk" with Economic Bloggers
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 11:12:00 AM
Chris Martenson asked his
readers which bloggers they
would like to learn more about,
and what questions the readers
had for those bloggers. I was one
of the bloggers on Martenson's
list.
The questions (in red below)
range from who I learned from
(the answer is a mile long), to
peak oil, risk management, gold,
China, hyperinflation, and pretty
much all the hot topics of the day.
I would like to share the Q&A
with my readers as well.
Here is a repeat of Straight Talk
with Mike Shedlock (aka "Mish")
a s a p p e a r s o n
ChrisMartenson.com, with slight
differences in formatting but
otherwise the exact content.
1. You’ve gone from mainframe
computer programming analyst
(in 2005) to being one of the
most widely-read econobloggers
in the world today. To what
extent do you attribute your
competitive advantage to holding
a non-traditional background vs.
the more ‘classically’ trained
analysts and commentators?
Mish: It certainly helps not
having a background in
economics as taught by academia
today. Nearly everyone in
academia is a Keynesian or
Monetarist.
It is safe to say that Krugman is
the high priest of the Keynesians.
In current academia, Greg
Mankiw is arguably the high
priest of the Monetarists. If we
include the Fed, then the
Monetarist high priest is without
a doubt Ben Bernanke, whose
background just happens to be
academia, as opposed to any real
world experience.
I find it amusing to see the battles
between the two camps when they
are both wrong about their
proposed solutions. The only
thing they are ever right about is
when they attack each other.
In contrast, I had some very good
teachers with non-academic
backgrounds in self-taught
Austrian economics. One of them
is a friend for going on 10 years.
I refer to him on my blog by his
initials "HB". He has done a
couple guest blogs on my site
under the name "Trotsky".
Those posts are Misconceptions
about Gold and Why does fiat
money seemingly work?
"HB" now has his own blog under
yet another pen name, Pater
Tenebrarum. The Blog is called
Acting Man, with a perspective
of Austrian economics.
I also need to thank Barry
Ritholtz at the Big Picture Blog
for early on promoting my work,
Todd Harrison at Minyanville,
and of course Calculated Risk
who actually created the first
template for my blog.
Interestingly, Barry, CR, and I
have been 1-2-3 (in various
orders) in terms of page counts
according to Traffic Rankings for
individual, non-corporate
sponsored blogs.
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Marc Faber has influenced me a scientists, and technology observation, not a prediction.
lot and I consider his book wizards, most of whom operate in Something has to give, perhaps
Tomorrow's Gold to be required the real world, and thus have many things, but all of the people
reading. Marc is also a friend more street smarts and common who think China will soon be the
even though we disagree on the sense than anyone on the Fed. number one economy in the world
inflation/deflation debate. Looking at my answer now that I and that China's growth is
There are two other must-read have typed it out, my competitive sustainable, better start thinking
books and the electronic versions edge is to do one hell of a lot of about the implications of what I
come at the great deflationary reading, thinking, and typing, day just typed above.
price of zero. in and day out, even weekends. I 3. You’re a vocal deflationist.
• The Case Against the Fed entertain all points of view, even What do you see as the most
• What Has Government Done to if it seems like I don't in my convincing data points (the top 1-
Our Money? finished posts. 3) for your position and why?
2. Many of our readers have Mish: Before we can discuss
Both of those are by Murray subscribed to Chris' position that inflation and deflation it is
Rothbard, with thanks also to the the economy must be increasingly imperative to define the terms.
Mises Institute for making them interpreted through two other Not everyone will agree with my
available at no cost. lenses; energy and other definitions, not even those who
In addition, I have certainly environmental resources. Can claim to be followers of Austrian
learned a lot from John Hussman you comment on the Three E's? economic theory. Yet my
who writes a great column every Mish: I am a firm believer in definitions have a solid theoretical
week, and more recently from peak oil. I don't know how and practical foundation.
David Rosenberg who writes a anyone can deny it. Given peak Inflation and Deflation
great column nearly every day. oil, and given the demand from Definitions
Certainly Bloomberg is a great C h i n a f o r o i l a n d o t h e r Inflation is an expansion of
source of information and to pick commodities, the world is on a money and credit, with credit
a single Bloomberg author it crash course of demand that marked to market. Deflation is a
would be Caroline Baum. Baum's cannot be filled. contraction of money supply and
mentor happens to be economist China is growing at 8-10% a year credit with credit marked to
Paul Kasriel who also has taught (assuming you believe the stats). market.
me a lot. So has Australian Can China keep growing at that The "marked to market" bit is my
economist Steve Keen. rate forever? For even 10 more own addition. I use it because it
Thanks go to an Austrian-minded years? What about India? Brazil? explains a lot of things that are
friend who simply prefers to be Either we get some serious happening. Indeed, the entire
known as "BC". energy breakthroughs, China definition is predictive of things
I also need to thank Krugman and slows, or the standard of living that will happen. For example, if
others I violently disagree with. It drops in the US, UK, and Europe. credit contracts and there is
helps clarify my thinking debating Well China does not want to demand to hold money, treasury
those I disagree with, even if they slow, and the US and Europe are rates are going to drop.
never respond. fighting hard to maintain a Contrast that with a definition
Finally, I get a lot of interesting standard of living that is not that says rising prices constitute
stories and commentary from my sustainable. inflation. What will treasury rates
readers. Those readers are real Historically these situations end
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do?
It was easy to see the housing
bubble would collapse and in turn
credit would plunge and writeoffs
would soar. That was the basis for
my prediction that interest rates
across the entire yield curve
would make all-time lows.
When I made that call, oil was
near $140, and nearly everyone
thought I was nuts. But it
happened. Recently we made new
lows in 2- and 5-year treasuries
and credit continues to contract.
Bernanke and various Fed
members talk about preventing
deflation, but that talk is always
in terms of the CPI.
However, it is impossible to
measure prices of consumer goods
accurately enough, housing
prices are not in the CPI (I think
they should be), but most
importantly, we are in a fiat credit
-based economy.
In a credit-based system, where
credit dwarfs money supply, it is
foolish to look at inflation through
the myopic eyes of either prices or
monetary inflation alone. Sure,
the Fed can print, but if there is no
demand for credit, what does $1T
or even $10T of excess reserves
do? The answer is nothing other
than to make the Fed's exit
problem down the road a
nightmare.
Money Multiplier Theory is
Wrong
It is important to understand that
widely believed money multiplier
theory (the Fed prints and the
money makes its way into the
economy 10 times over) is
wrong.
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The reality is credit expansion corporate bond market freed up, unneeded junk), but that could 5. In your own or in others’
comes first, reserves come which in turn gave a new lease on conceivably happen. By the way, forecasts of how the future will
second. I discussed this at length,
life to hundreds of corporation because energy and food prices play out, do you think that the
using some charts from Steve otherwise headed for bankruptcy. have been sticky compared to difficult-to-predict Human Crowd
Keen, in Fiat World In response, value of debt housing, we hear the statement Psychology factor is
Mathematical Model "marked to market" on the all the time, "we have inflation in underrepresented? If so, what
Yet, talk is all the rage "just wait
balance sheets of banks went things we need and deflation in could be done to better
till all those reserves come from pennies on the dollar to full things we want." incorporate it.
pouring into the economy, it will value. Credit did not expand but No we don't. The statement is Mish: Few understand the
cause hyperinflation". I have to credit marked-to-market sure did, inaccurate because it defines deflationary impacts of the entire
laugh because the thinking is ass even if it is impossible to say inflation in terms of prices. With gamut of trends that is playing
backwards. precisely how much. a proper definition one does not out, or the stress those trends
What Really Happened? Thus my model suggests 2007 to have inflation and deflation at the place on families.
• Greenspan lowered interest February 2009 were periods of same time. It is futile to fight changing social
rates fueling housing speculation deflation, March 2009 to May Critical Player is Congress, Not trends, but that has not stopped
and a credit bubble. 2010 were periods of inflation, the Fed the Fed with reckless proposals on
• The housing/credit bubble burst.and now we are likely back in The longer the Fed and Congress top of reckless proposals. Please
• Credit plunged as did credit deflation but it is hard to say fight deflation, the longer it will see Inflation Targeting Proposal
marked to market. given institutions do not mark take to play out. It could take 2 an Exercise in Blazing Stupidity;
• In the wake of plunging credit assets to market. Extend and years or 10. The attitude of the Fed Fools Itself for details.
the Fed stepped in to provide pretend is massive. next Congress, and the Congress Demographic Pendulum in
reserves for banks. Looking ahead, my model and President after that will be Motion
• Consumer psychology changed suggests we go in and out of crucial. As I stated in June of 2008, we
and there is no demand for credit deflation for a number of years, I believe the next congress will are now on the back side of peak
so it sits there as so called just as Japan did, without the throw around fewer stimuli than consumption and Peak Credit.
"excess reserves", earning slight economy ever picking up any the current one. I could be wrong. Regardless of what Bernanke of
interest for banks to help them steam. But 2 years will not seal the fate. the Fed does, the demographic
cover losses still to come from 4. Your position has called for a There will be a presidential pendulum is in motion. There is
foreclosures, credit card losses, deflation first but then a probable election in another two years. no going back.
and commercial real estate losses.transition over to inflation at some Will we get a Chris Christie or That the Fed cannot change
point. We won’t hold you to this, another Obama? That is an attitudes is at the very heart of the
Looked at in this fashion there but what triggers do you see for undecided factor very much in deflation argument. Japan
are not really excess reserves at this shift and, again with great play. certainly tried and failed,
all. latitude, when might this happen? The critical point of this Bernanke will fail as well.
Please see Fictional Reserve Mish: With fiat currencies, the discussion is everyone's The Fed can provide liquidity but
Lending And The Myth Of p r o b a b i l i t y o f inflation misguided focus on the Fed. The it cannot not determine where it
Excess Reserves for further approaches 100% given a long Fed arguably has a role, but goes, or if it goes anywhere at all.
rebuttal to the notion that enough timeframe. However, we Congress is a far bigger player The important point here is the
monetary printing will soon have need to fix numerous structural than the Fed in determining the pendulum has just barely moved
the inflation genie flying out of issues, write off enough bad length of the path we take. from peak risk taking to risk
the bottle. debts, and get to the bottom in Interestingly, Bernanke, a aversions. With that in mind, and
2009 Recovery housing before there is a serious Monetarist, recently chastised given the Fed and Congressional
Credit continued to contract in chance of sustained inflation. Congress over budget issues. propensity to fight a battle that
2009 but the stock market soared. I am not calling for consumer This likely has Krugman going "STRAIGHT page 31
This happened because the prices to collapse (except in bananas.
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cannot be won, it will be years
before the pendulum gets to the
other side.
Asymmetric Pendulum
I have not mentioned this before
but the pendulum is actually
asymmetric, at least in terms of
time, not necessarily price or
attitude.
We spend far more time in
inflation and risk taking than
deflation and risk avoidance.
Moreover the cycle swing takes
so long time wise from one end
to the other, that by the time we
get to peak risk taking, most do
not even think deflation is
possible.
Everyone thinks deflation is
impossible, much the same way
everyone thought housing prices
would rise forever. There were
wrong about housing and they are
wrong about deflation.
6. How the heck do you find the
time to write so much? Our
members are amazed by the
output on your blog and by the
fact that they’ve received
personal answers to questions
they’ve emailed you.
Mish: I certainly love what I am
doing. I also believe I am helping
people. I have stacks of emails to
prove that point, mainly in
regards to getting people out of
housing, out of the stock market
on time, into gold, and not
betting against treasuries.
To be sure, I get some hate mail,
mostly in regards to my stance on
public unions, but that volume is
small compared to everything
else. I can get as many as 300
emails a day, and I try to answer
any pleas for help. I have spent as
long as 2 hours answering calls
for help, even when I cannot
possibly get anything out of it.
If someone sends me a link to an
article I use, they may only get a
one word response of "thanks". If
I get a question, I try to answer. I
certainly appreciate when some
thoughtful people send me a link
or a comment and say "no
response needed".
Many days I am reading and
writing for 15 hours. I can spend 3
hours just answering emails from
readers and clients. On weekends,
in the summer, I can spend as
little as 2-4 hours, but 3 minimum
is more like it.
I am often laughing my head off
over things I write. So I am
having fun.
Bear in mind my role at Sitka
Pacific is advisory, client services,
and general manager type
functions. Those are part of the
15 hours mentioned. I do not
trade. Fortunately I have a
fantastic partner who shares the
same risk management and
customer first attitudes. We have
grown from about $15 million
assets under management to
about $75 million under
management in the last few years.
That is small by Wall Street
standards, but I expect to double
or triple that in a few years, the
right way, by putting client
interests first.
7. Which assets do you see as
being the being the ‘most hated by
the most people’? Which are
‘most beloved’? In your opinion,
are these perceptions well-
deserved and if not, what
opportunities do they represent?
Mish: Certainly US treasuries are
universally despised. People were
shorting 10 year notes at 4%.
Yikes!
However, after this rally it is hard
to be super-bullish on them now.
Bullish yes, super-bullish, no. I
would advise not shorting them.
I do not think the gold story is
fully understood yet. It may not
be hated, but it is not loved like
technology or housing was. Thus I
think more will come from gold
but it will not necessarily be from
here. We can easily have a sharp
correction first.
The one thing not despised but
universally ignored is Japanese
equities. For a long-term hold
perspective, I like Japan. Apathy
is a great setup. Otherwise, there
is precious little to like about
anything.
This market, including corporate
bonds, is way over-loved.
Sentiment is extreme, and
earnings expectations will not
happen. The market can keep
going up, but the risk-reward
setup is horrendous.
8. If you knew that the
purchasing power of your existing
assets and income would
disappear one year from today,
what would you invest in during
the coming year to prepare?
Mish: The question left out a
critical aspect of "how" assets
would "disappear". For example,
equity and housing assets might
crash because of deflation, or
theoretically the dollar could fall
to zero in hyperinflation. How
one would best profit would be
quite different.
In regards to hyperinflation, the
odds are minuscule. First we need
to define the term.
Hyperinflation is a complete loss
of faith in currency. Some think
this will happen out of the blue,
others think the Fed will print and
print and print. Let's look at a few
examples.
Zimbabwe Hyperinflation
In the case of Zimbabwe, a loss
of faith in currency occurred
before the printing occurred. The
Weimar Republic is a different
story.
In Zimbabwe, the Mugabe
government initiated a "land
reform" program intended to
correct the inequitable land
distribution created by colonial
rule. Ultimately, Mugabe's
attempt to bail out the poor at the
expense of the wealthy is what
triggered capital flight and loss of
faith of the currency.
His reforms not only caused a
flight of capital and human capital
(the wealthy), they also led to
sanctions by the US and Europe.
In response, Mugabe turned on
the printing presses but the loss of
faith in the currency had already
occurred.
Weimar Hyperinflation
In Weimar Germany, printing for
war reparations kicked off
hyperinflation.
War reparations were a political
event. So was the invasion of
Germany to enforce payment of
those reparations.
Argentina Hyperinflation
Argentina based its currency on
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the US dollar, a political mistake.
When Argentina could no longer
hold the peg, its currency
collapsed.
Hyperinflation is a Political
Event
The commonality between
Zimbabwe, Weimar, and
Argentina is they are both
political events. In Zimbabwe a
political event triggered capital
flight, in Weimar a political event
started massive printing, and in
Argentina everything collapsed
when a foolish peg could not be
sustained.
In each case, a collapse of faith in
currency (hyperinflation) led
governments to massive printing
campaigns, not the other way
around.
US Comparison
The US compares to Zimbabwe
how?
The US compares to Argentina
how?
Is anyone going to force the US
into war reparations?
The idea that we are going to
wake up one day and suddenly out
of the blue face hyperinflation
may be theoretically possible but
it is extremely unlikely in
practice.
Moreover, and it is important to
keep coming back to this point,
we are in credit-based system.
The Fed is not going to cause
hyperinflation by printing.
Besides, the Fed cannot give
money away. And as I have
pointed out, Bernanke is even
chastising Congress about fiscal
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How Not To Vote
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 4:30:00 AM
All you need to know to
determine your vote in November
is that a vote for any candidate
endorsed by unions is a vote for
higher taxes.
I am pleased to report that UAW
2865 Los Angeles has provided a
perfect list of who NOT to vote
for with this endorsement Dear
UAW 2865 members,
The November 2nd election is
just around the corner. This
election will decide the future of
our state for many years to come.
As educators, students, and public
employees, we have a lot at stake
in the election of Jerry Brown as
Governor. Brown has been a
champion of both higher
education and labor rights,
signing the first legislation that
allowed public employees,
teachers, and farm workers to
organize and bargain collectively.
Brown oversaw the expansion of
the UC and CSU systems. These
are difficult times for our state
and for the University of
California. Much of this difficulty
is from a lack of leadership in
Sacramento and the refusal of
Republican lawmakers to vote for
fair tax policies that reinvest in
the public sector.
We need to make our voices
heard at the ballot box. Below
you’ll find the candidates
endorsed by UAW as well as our
local’s recommendations on the
propositions.
STATEWIDE
Governor: Jerry Brown(D)
United States Senator: Barbara
Boxer(D)
Lieutenant Governor: Gavin
Newsom(D)
Attorney General: Kamala
Harris(D)
Secretary of State: Debra
Bowen(D)
Treasurer: Bill Lockyer(D)
Controller: John Chiang(D)
Superintendent of Public
Instruction: Tom Torlakson(D)
Insurance Commissioner: Dave
Jones(D)
Board of Equalization
District 1: Betty Yee(D)
District 2: Chris Parker(D)
District 3: No Endorsement
District 4: Jerome Horton(D)
Proposition 19: YES
Legalizes, taxes Marijuana: Prop
19 would generate millions of
dollars in tax revenue, while
addressing many of the core
causes of the explosive growth of
California's prison population.
Proposition 20: NO
Expands Unelected Redistricting
Commission: Backed by big
business, this initiative would
extend the expensive and
unwieldy new system of drawing
state legislative boundaries to the
US Congressional districts. It
would require that lines be drawn
along "economic interest",
dividing the state into "rich" and
"poor" districts. Opposed by labor
and environmental organizations.
Proposition 21: YES
Keeps State Parks Open: Prop 21
establishes a modest vehicle
licensing fee to fund state parks,
making them independent of the
general fund and insuring they
stay open even during budget
crises.
Proposition 22: NO
Ballot Box Budgeting: This
initiative prohibits use of local
redevelopment agencies and
transportation funding by the
State. While we support adequate
funding for both these sectors, the
California budget process is
already overburdened by complex
restrictions and protections. We
need more, not less, flexibility in
our budget process. Opposed by
education unions, health care
providers and firefighters.
Proposition 23: NO
Suspends Air Pollution Control
Laws (AB 32): Proposition 23 is a
very dangerous initiative, funded
by out of state Oil and
Petrochemical corporations that
would overturn landmark climate
change legislation. In addition, if
passed, many environmental
protections would be suspended if
state unemployment dips below
5.5% for four consecutive
quarters. Opposed by
environmentalists, labor, and
politicians, including Jerry
Brown, Meg Whitman, and
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Proposition 24: YES
Repeals Corporate Tax
Loopholes: Sponsored by the
California Teachers Association,
Proposition 24 would repeal a
series of tax loopholes for
multistate corporations that were
crafted behind closed doors as
part of recent budget negotiations.
Supported by labor, education
advocates and the California
League of Women Voters.
Proposition 25: YES
Majority Vote Budget: Simply
put, this is the most important
initiative on the ballot for state
employees and higher education.
Proposition 24 would establish a
simple majority threshold for
enacting a budget in California,
eliminating the 2/3 requirement
for budgets and the tyranny of the
minority which has rendered the
state dysfunctional over the past
several decades.
Proposition 26: NO
More 2/3 Restrictions: Another
corporate-sponsored initiative,
Prop 26 would actually -extend-
the 2/3ds requirement for raising
fees or levies at both the state and
local levels. Currently, extending
existing fees, if they are overall
revenue neutral, require only a
simple majority. This would end
even this small bit of majority-
rule from our broken budget
system. Opposed by health care
advocates, labor,
environmentalists and the
California League of Cities.
Proposition 27: YES
Restores Democratic Control of
Redistricting: In 2008,
Californians adopted a new
system that took control over
redistricting from elected
representatives and created an
unelected "independent"
commission to draw new
boundaries. Proposition 27 would
bring this process back to elected
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officials who can be held
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final say on the map created by
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U.S. Representatives in Congress
District 25: Jacquese
Conaway(D)
District 26: Russ Warner(D)
District 27: Brad Sherman(D)
District 28: Howard Berman(D)
District 29: Adam Schiff(D)
District 30: Henry Waxman(D)
District 31: Xavier Becerra(D)
District 32: Judy Chu(D)
District 33: Karen Bass(D)
District 34: Lucille Roybal-
Allard(D)
District 35: Maxine Waters(D)
District 36: Jane Harmon(D)
District 37: Laura Richardson(D)
District 38: Grace Napolitano(D)
District 39: Linda Sanchez(D)
California State Senate
District 20: Alex Padilla(D)
District 22: Kevin De Leon(D)
District 24: Ed Hernandez(D)
District 26: Curren Price(D)
District 28: Jenny Oropeza(D)
District 30: Ron Calderon(D)
California Assembly
District 36: Dual Endorsement
Shawntrice Watkins (D) and
Linda Jones(D)
District 38: Diana Shaw(D)
District 39: Felipe Fuentes(D)
District 40: Bob Blumenfield(D)
District 41: Julia Brownley(D)
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Doug Short (Money Game)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:23:02 PM
Guest contribution by Ilargi
October 28, 2010
This is a guest post by Ilargi,
editor-in-chief for The Automatic
Earth.
In anticipation of tomorrow's
announcement of Q3 GDP by the
BEA, here's a comparison of the
BEA numbers with a series of
other data.
Let's start with a bit of "history".
I first published on the Consumer
Metrics Institute's CMI growth
Indices in August '10, after seeing
Doug Short's graphs in which he
combined the CMI 91-day index
with BEA's GDP numbers and the
S&P 500.
While the comparison is inviting,
as is obvious to anyone who sees
it, it's not perfect. So I began to
tinker with Doug's work. The first
step was to move the CMI 91-day
data forward vs GDP by roughly
one quarter. Not only does this
line up peaks and troughs with
remarkable accuracy, it also
addresses the fact that the 91-day
index is a leading indicator,
something that's easy to see when
you realize that it's updated daily,
while this week's Q3 GDP
numbers are published a full 4
months after Q3 began. It looks
like this:
I then also shifted the S&P data,
something that's a bit harder to
explain as both an act in itself and
as a phenomenon. What I can say
is that the S&P is highly volatile
and follows the GDP numbers
Economy/ 33
bit too much attention compared
to the others. Which are the 183-
day and the 365-day index. Since
I had never seen these in a graph,
I contacted RIck Davis at CMI in
September, and he provided one,
saying that they'd never done this
graph before, and that it does
indeed look interesting. Here's the
graph that Doug made which
adds these two indices, both with
the same one-quarter shift as the
91-day:
I first contacted Doug last week,
and I think that was the first time
he saw my versions of his own
graphs. He called them
"fascinating" and asked me for
the post you're reading. The
reason I wrote to him, as well as
to Rick Davis at CMI, was a
question Doug fielded from a
dhort.com reader, who wondered
how it was possible that the US
Census Bureau reported a +7.3%
y-o-y rise in retail sales in
September '10, while the CMI 91-
day index is tumbling.
Earlier, I had seen a Gallup
with, again, remarkable accuracy, 4 weeks until 3 months from now. won't be known until well after report on consumer spending that
only it does so with about a one At least not by the BEA. t h e N o v e m b e r 3 m i d - t e r m showed a drop of -10.6% over
quarter delay. Now, most of us However, if we can build a e l e c t i o n s , w h e n t h e B E A that same period.
will feel that the markets have a sufficiently solid case for CMI publishes its first revision. Note These are the kinds of things that
leading role in the economy, and data as a leading indicator for that the Q2 numbers only recently make me itchy. All parties
they do, but it's not the only role "official" GDP numbers, perhaps went through a second revision, involved, Gallup, Census Bureau,
they play. They are very much we won't have to wait that long. which was down 33% from the B E A a n d C M I , m a y h a v e
followers too, something I'm We won't be able to offer 100% first one, lowering GDP growth different survey methods, and
convinced we'll see confirmed certainty, since we have no from 2.4% to 1.6%. That is, more they may measure somewhat
when in Q4, our present point in crystal ball, but we might yet be than 5 months after the start of different areas of spending. But
time, economic numbers will able to make you give this some Q2, the BEA still needed to revise an 18% difference in findings is
deteriorate. The result is: serious thought. its data by a third. simply too much, it lacks
The problem of course remains Friday's Q3 GDP numbers are not Back to CMI. The 91-day growth c r e d i b i l i t y .
the same: we won't be allowed to all that important. As Doug has index is not the only index they
know what happened in the past previously noted, the "real" data publish, and in fact I find it gets a SOME page 35
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spending. The Fed would not
give away money even if it could!
Sure, the Fed can provide
liquidity, but it cannot force
businesses or consumers to
borrow. Yet people tell me the
Fed will cause hyperinflation. It
does not add up.
Congress can give money away,
but the next Congress will look a
lot different than this Congress. I
discussed the political and some
economic consequences of that
reality in Obamacare Career
Ending Votes; Republican Chance
to Win Senate; Expect House
Blowout; Stimulus Appetite
Greatly Diminished
Here is one more point about
hyperinflation. If the US dollar
goes, every fiat currency on the
planet will follow. The idea that
hyperinflation will hit the US
alone is preposterous. The Euro,
the Yen, the Pound would all go
up in flames at the same time.
The way to protect against that
situation is to have gold. Holding
gold also works against the other
extreme, deflation, on the basis
that gold is money.
Gold does not do well in all
circumstances, however. Gold did
very poorly from 1980 to 2000, a
period of ordinary inflation. There
is no guaranteed play anywhere.
9. What's the question we should
have asked, but didn't? What's
your answer?
Mish: I guess it would be: "Does
your crystal ball have a forecast
for the stock market? For Gold?
The US Dollar?"
Let's start with gold. I see articles
everyday by some prominent
people saying things like "I know
gold is going to ... whatever".
The thing is, they don't know and
neither do I. Only a charlatan or a
fool can make such a claim. Of
course the fools and charlatans
may be right, but it is not because
they "know" anything.
One thing I do know is that I
don't know things of that nature.
That puts me ahead of all those
who claim to know the
unknowable.
Probabilities
I prefer to look at things in terms
of probabilities. It is highly likely
the Fed embarks on Quantitative
Easing. That should be good for
gold, but short term that QE may
easily be priced in.
Moreover, the Fed may go slower
than what the market thinks.
Thus, there could be a huge "sell
the news" event in both gold and
the stock market on the QE
announcement, no matter what
that announcement is.
Should that happen, given that
gold is in a long-term bull market,
and given that Bernanke will
likely go back to the QE well, I
expect buying the next big dip in
gold would be a higher
probability event than buying a
10% correction in the stock
market.
There is a lot going for gold, but
it is by no means a "sure thing".
Is the Equities Bottom In?
Many people claim the "Bottom
is In"?
Is it? How can they know? I am
not even sure if the bottom is
likely in. Look at the half-dozen
50% or greater rallies in the
Nikkei over the course of two
decades, all taken back and then
some.
How many "knew" that would
not happen. How many in the US
"knew" that housing prices could
not possibly collapse.
I am quite sure that stocks are
richly priced, but that sure does
not mean stocks cannot rally
further from here.
We are in a credit bust scenario
with enormous deflationary
pressures, even if outright
deflation is not sustained. As
such, the risk in equities is a lot
higher than most think.
Faith Bubble
There is a lot of confidence in the
Fed's ability to produce inflation.
Indeed, I think there is a bubble of
confidence in the Fed's ability to
produce inflation.
Should that bubble burst, equities
can collapse far faster than most
think possible.
Risk Management
Hyperinflation is theoretically
possible, but highly unlikely in
practice for reasons stated above.
But what if Prechter is right?
Actually I think the grand-
supercycle collapse he is calling
for is also highly unlikely,
although it too is certainly
possible.
Is worry over such extremes or
attempts to profit from such
extremes at this stage a waste of
energy? I think so.
Unless you are a day-trader, it is
important to be aware of such
possibilities, while focusing on
the more likely probabilities.
The bottom may be in, but a test
of 850 or even the 700-800 area
of the S&P sure seems likely
enough. How many are prepared
for that?
Anti-dollar sentiment is once
again extreme. It is quite similar
to the extreme anti-Euro
sentiment a few months back.
Look at what happened. Are we
setup for another reversal?
How many are prepared for the
market to go sideways for 5 years
or longer, as earnings catch up
with valuations. This happened in
the 70's and there is absolutely no
reason it cannot happen again.
Sadly, most aren't prepared for
those scenarios, just as they were
unprepared for the collapse we
saw in housing and the collapse
we saw in global equities.
Some questions to ponder are: Do
you really want to be long after
this runup? How long? What are
appropriate hedges? What
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happens if the dollar rises? Is it
possible, if not likely to get a
reasonably strong move up in the
US dollar here?
The important point is not
whether or not you agree with my
probabilities; the key point is to
be thinking about risk
management and opportunities. It
is far easier to make up for lost
opportunities than lost cash. Mike
"Mish" Shedlock
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So who's right? At a certain point
it comes down to one's own trust
in the various methods. I did ask
Gallup for their thoughts on the
gap between their data and the
government's, but they've
unfortunately failed to respond to
date. Which is a shame, since
even with a bucketful of caveats,
the Census Bureau seems to make
Gallup look grossly incompetent.
And not only Gallup, CMI too.
It would be interesting if Doug
can, for a future post, obtain the
complete Gallup and Census
Bureau files, and incorporate
them in a graph. For now,
though, we still have to interpret
the possible CMI indices. This is
no easy matter. As I said, we
have no crystal ball. However, we
can't deny that the CMI 91-day
index, when shifted, has that eery
compliance with the BEA GDP
numbers. Still, when we look at
the 183 and 365-day graphs, we
see a much smoother "motion".
They take away much of the
volatility that's inherent in the 91-
day.
We need to recognize that this
also means that the 365-day can
shift us away, whether up or
down, from more recent events,
in that it averages out an entire
year. And there lies a big clue as
to why it is much smoother than
the BEA GDP numbers, which
measure only 91-day increments.
This means that the 365-day then
becomes a very solid and reliable
index, potentially much more so
than the GDP, even if, as I said, it
can miss out on very real, more
extreme moves.
The expectation among "experts"
is that the initial report on Q3
GDP will come in around +2%.
Remember, this can undergo
strong revisions later on. If we
look at the 365-day index in the
graph above, we can make a
preliminary "prediction"
(remember, no crystal ball) for
GDP going forward.
As the graph is right now, that is
with the 3-month shift forward,
Q3 GDP according to the CMI
365-day index comes at around
+1.25%. And if I can be bold for a
moment, I would say chances are
that no matter what number is
published tomorrow, the BEA Q3
GDP will be very close to that
after all revisions have been
done. Sadly, we won't know until
say, Christmas. If we look at what
the 365-day would appear to say
about Q4, I would say we come to
about -0.5% (average the graph
over the 3-month window).
While it's still all too close to
crystal ball territory for (my)
complete comfort, I am convinced
that this is a far more solid way of
interpretation of the data then the
"bare" comparison of BEA and
the CMI 91-day index, because
both, on account of their limited
timeframes, are subject to high
volatility.
NOTE: it is for instance entirely
possible that we will decide at
some point that the 365-day needs
to be shifted forward a little
more, which would move the fall
in GDP also further into the
future. But that is not the most
important thing here: we're not
aiming for details, but for
trendlines. And the CMI 365-day
index, which as of this morning
stands at -2.86% (even as the 91-
day shows signs of "recovery"),
looks like a solid indicator for
such a trendline, far too solid to
ignore. Also, seeing that in the
most pronounced part of the last
downturn, Q4 2008, the 365-day
never went below -2%, while
BEA GDP scraped -7%, we may
well have something worse than -
2.86% ahead of us.
Lastly, I remain curious about the
discrepancy found in the Gallup
and CMI vs the "official" data.
And I'm not ashamed to state that
I, like many others, have strong Unfriend Finder Helps
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Terry O’Day The above Email
was sent to me by reader "Chris
who writes ...
Dear Mish
UAW Local 2865 is a public
employees union. It represents
teaching assistants at UCLA. I
was a member last year, and still
get their emails. Funny to begin
with that grad students are
represented by the auto workers
union, but I was blown away by
the last sentence of the intro
paragraph to the "voting guide,"
which warns us to vote the
straight Democratic ticket
because of "the refusal of
Republican lawmakers to vote for
fair tax policiesthat reinvest in
the public sector."
We pay 9.75 percent sales tax in
Los Angeles County, and the 9.55
percent state income tax bracket
starts somewhere around $48,000.
We pay the highest gasoline tax
in the nation. Add property taxes,
ten percent transient occupancy
taxes on hotel rooms, vehicle
licensing fees, business license
fees, and on and on -- and our
union concludes that the problem
is not enough taxes.
How much would be enough?
There's no such thing. I'm
absolutely certain that at 20
percent sales tax, AFSCME and
ATLA and the UAW Local 2865
would still be blasting out
messages condemning the state's
failure to levy sufficient taxes.
Oh, if only we had politicians
who were willing to tax us!
Chris Prop 25
Note that the one thing most
wanted by UAW 2865 was a vote
for Proposition 25. That means
the very last thing you want to see
happen is a vote for Proposition
25.
It is very nice of UAW 2865 to
provide this valuable service.
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Moreover, they have made it easy
by endorsing only Democrats.
That means all you really need to
know in the upcoming election if
you live in California is to vote
straight Republican with a "NO"
vote on proposition 25.
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Cash-In Closings: 33% Of

Homeowners Who Refinanced In 3Q
Cut Principal
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A Look At How The Housing Crisis Is Still Crushing Labor

Mobility And The Job Recovery
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Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:50:00 PM biggest factor suppressing 2009. Even if most of these
relocation. Job seekers who own a homeowners don't "walk away",
From Source: Challenger, Gray home – even if they are open to there might still be a negative
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Relocation Drops to Record Low basically stuck where they are if worker mobility.
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m a n a g e r s a n d e x e c u t i v e s sell their homes without incurring labor market has been the
relocating for a new position fell a significant loss,” said John A. flexibility associated with labor
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of 2010, as a slightly improved officer of Challenger, Gray & employment - households could
j o b m a r k e t a n d g r e a t l y Christmas. easily move from one region to
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combined to eliminate this option > The sharp decline in house prices,
for most job seekers. Here is the quarterly data from leaving homeowners with
Just 6.9 percent of job seekers Challenger, Gray. Mobility has short fall for key executives and negative equity] is kind of like significant negative equity,
who found employment in the been trending down for some managers, but it is probably too arteriosclerosis of the economy. It appears to be limiting this
third quarter relocated for the new time, but really declined over the expensive in many cases now. lowers the overall growth flexibility.
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Adobe Shows Off Flash-to-HTML5 Conversion Tool

Scott Gilbertson (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:00:00 PM
Even though its Flash technology
is used as a punching bag by web-
standards fans, Adobe has been
building tools that embrace
HTML5. The company recently
released its own HTML5 video
player, and Adobe Illustrator and
Dreamweaver CS5 now contain a
number of new HTML5 export
tools.
Now it seems Flash might be
joining the party. At Adobe’s
MAX conference this week,
Adobe engineer Rik Cabanier
showed of a demo of tool that
converts Flash animations to
HTML5. (Well, technically it
looks like a combination of
HTML5, CSS and images.)
The video below, while not the
best quality, shows the tool in
action:
Adobe Flash has taken a beating
the last couple of years. First
Apple attacked Flash for poor
performance, then open tools like
HTML5, CSS 3 and JavaScript
began stealing much of its
thunder, offering video, audio and
animation — traditional Flash
strongholds — without the need
for the free plug-in.
While rumors of Flash’s demise
have been greatly exaggerated,
there’s no question that, were
Flash to remain what it is today, it
would eventually be replaced by
HTML5 tools.
Keep in mind this is just a demo,
not something that’s scheduled for
release any time soon. It’s also
worth noting that, despite the
claims of “HTML5,” the page
generated appears to be using the
XHTML 1.0 doctype. Clearly this
is a work in progress.
Still, even if the final project
generated the kind of messy
markup you see in the video, just
the ability to export your
animations out of Flash, even if
the final code needs some
cleanup, would be godsend for
developers who want to move
their complicated Flash
animations to web standards that
play on devices where Flash can’t
run.
[Via Adobe's John Nack]
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Electric Airplanes, Coming Soon to a Flight School Near You

Jason Paur (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 8:00:00 AM

Range. It seems to be the word

that is in the middle of any debate
about electric vehicles. As we
discovered in our short flight in
the E-Spyder, electric airplanes
won’t be crossing the country any
time soon on battery power. But
there is already plenty of interest
from pilots who look forward to
the quiet, smooth flight, even if
the early electric aircraft won’t
provide anything close to the
range of traditional small
airplanes.
But flight schools are showing a
strong interest, liking the low cost
and simplicity of electric flight.
Flight times for two-seat electric
aircraft in development already
exceed 90 minutes. That might
not be enough for a long cross-
country flight, but it’s longer than it was far from commonplace. hang glider and unveiled it to the Airplanes closer to production unveiling the E430 in Oshkosh
the typical flight lesson lasts. And Many of those early electric world at Airventure Oshkosh. include the E-Spyder ultralight we last year, they received a lot of
this is what has caught the airplanes flew on solar power, Randall Fishman's ElectraFlyer- described yesterday and its big interest from pilots and flight
attention of flight schools. such as Larry Mauro’s Solar X brother, Yuneec’s E430. schools. The company listened to
The commercial side of electric Riser, Paul MacReady’s Solar Since 2007, Fishman has gone on With a serious commitment of the feedback and made several
airplanes may be less about going Challenger and Eric Raymond’s to build and fly an single-seat funds, China’s Yuneec appears changes to the design.
places, and more about teaching Sunseeker, which he flew across electric airplane based on a motor poised to be the first company to The updated E430 includes easily
student pilots how to fly. And the the United States in a series of glider design and is currently sell an electric powered airplane removable wing tips that allow it
first electric student pilot has 121 flights during the summer of finishing the design and to the public. Five of the two-seat to be stored in standard aircraft
already flown solo, learning the 1990. construction of a two-place E430s undergoing flight testing hangars, and the batteries can
basics entirely in a battery- But these aircraft were composite airplane he believes already include a pair here in the easily be swapped in less than
powered airplane. pioneering, experimental will compete with similarly sized United States. four minutes. Coote says several
The history of electric aircraft is airplanes, not the kind of airplane light sport aircraft. The company recently opened a flight schools were impressed by
a relatively short one. At least the an average pilot could hop into And Fishman isn’t alone. EADS, 270,000-square-foot factory near the design and, perhaps more
list of aircraft is short. Sure, the and take off for an easy flight. the parent company of Airbus, has Shanghai dedicated to electric importantly, the operating costs
Tissandier brothers flew an The short history of electric converted the tiny Cri-Cri to aircraft manufacturing and will he says will be less than $10/hour.
airship flying under electric power aircraft aimed at pilots who could electric power. And an Italian add another 200,000 square feet “I think the flight school side in
in the 1880s. But it wasn’t until buy one and fly only started in team flew the electric SkySpark at this spring. the states is going to be very, very
the late 1970s that electric 2007 when Randall Fishman first more than 150 miles per hour in Yuneec’s managing director
airplanes started to take flight, and ELECTRIC page 41
flew his battery-powered trike 2009. Clive Coote says after first
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big for electric.”
Coote says the two-seat E430
will sell for just under $90,000,
tens of thousands of dollars less
than many traditional gas-
powered light sport aircraft. He
says Yuneec is set to begin
production next year and deliver
the first models to customers in
early 2012. With the swappable
battery, Coote believes a flight
school can operate the airplane all
day with just two batteries. A
boost charger can refill the
electrons in less than 90 minutes
and he adds the batteries can be
balance-charged every night to
increase longevity.
With more than 1500 cycles per
battery, each battery pack should
last between 2,000 to 3,000 flight
hours, more than the typical
gasoline engine the electric-power
system replaces. An additional
battery pack isn’t cheap though,
they cost around $20,000 each.
The Federal Aviation
Administration currently does not
have any rules in place for electric
aircraft. The FAA says before
regulators could recognize electric
propulsion systems for
certification, several standards
including performance,
installation and maintenance
would have to be developed in
order to certify an electric
airplane.
ASTM International, the
standards organization that
oversees the light-sport-aircraft
industry is in the process of
drafting documents for electric
light-sport aircraft that it will
present to the FAA. These
standards could cover aircraft
such as Randall Fishman’s
ElectraFlyer-X and Yuneec’s
E430.
The E-Spyder is able to fly under
the regulations outlined for
ultralight aircraft weighing less
than 254 pounds empty that have
been in place since the ultralight
boom of the 1980s. And the small
airplane has already served as the
learning platform for the first
student pilot flying electric.
Tom Peghiny who has been
flying ultralights for more than 25
years began carefully instructing
one of his employees in the E-
Spyder during the past month.
Mathew Fortin is an experienced
pilot of remote-controlled aircraft
and competes at the national level
in r/c aerobatics.
Before his first taxiing lessons
down the runway in the E-Spyder,
Fortin had only flown a few times
in small aircraft with no formal
instruction.
“This is my first real experience
with takeoffs and landings,” he
said of flying the E-Spyder.
Student pilot Mathew Fortin
learning to fly in the E-Spyder
With Peghiny’s instruction and
supervision, Fortin made several
trips up and down the runway
before making his first small hops
off the ground. In the end, he
estimates he made around 25 trips
up and down the runway without
flying more than just a few feet
above the runway.
With this experience under his
belt, Fortin made his first flight to
altitude last Thursday and says it
was an incredible feeling to pilot
an aircraft for the first time. And
he does think the electric motor
makes learning to fly more
enjoyable.
“It was less intimidating having
the electric motor, not some loud
clanky gas engine” Fortin says. “It
really makes it easy to focus on
flying.”
There are still no electric airliners
on the drawing boards, or even an
airplane capable of a long cross-
country flight. So, until the much
dreamed of super batteries are
developed, student pilots learning
to fly in an electric airplane will
of course need some transition
training to fly normal gas-
powered aircraft.
But in the near term, there could
be a generation of pilots who not
only learn to fly, but learn to
enjoy the pleasure, and
challenges, of flying with only the
flow of electrons powering their
flight.
Photos: Yuneec International,
Electric Aircraft Corporation,
Mathew Fortin
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Entrepreneurs and
Pirates: NBA Agents
Lament State of Industry
Sam Amick (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:00:00 PM
Filed under: Kings, Sports
Business and Media In the New
Jersey office of longtime NBA
agent Keith Glass, there is a sign
that says everything about the dog
-eat-dog world in which he works.
"It's from Mark Twain, and it
(reads), 'I'll always do right,
which will surprise some people
and astonish the rest,' " Glass said,
"It's as simple as that."
If only he were right.
The agent business has never
been a simple one, and some of
the league's longest-tenured
professionals say it has become
increasingly more complicated in
recent years.
And even dirtier than usual.

HBO Says 'Big Love' Will End After Season 5

Jean Bentley (TV Squad) which is set to premiere on Jan. over the course of the series, of that story."
16, will be the show's last.
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Intel Gets Into the 'News' Business

Jon Stokes (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:52:00 PM

Intel has launched what looks to

be the semiconductor industry’s
answer to the venerable in-flight
magazine: Free Press, a “news”
site hosted and published by Intel.
It’s sort of like Delta Sky
magazine, but with a more direct
and pervasive focus on Intel. The
new site hosts byline-less articles
on topics that range from Moore’s
Law, to the retirement of a recent
top Intel engineer, to a spa near
Intel’s Ireland fab.
But lest you think that Intel won’t
use Free Press as a platform for
aggressively pushing (and
pushing back against) specific
stories, the lead story on the site
Wednesday gives a solid
indication of the kind of heavy PR
lifting that the company will do Intel went beyond dressing up a doing work that looks and smells current tech topics, it raises the Follow us for disruptive tech
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Magical Webs Found in the Forest (12 pics)
alice (Featured Blog Posts - My
Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:30:00 PM
What would you do if you came
across these beautiful webs in the
forest? Would you wonder who
could have left you such a sweet
surprise...these magical webs
placed where there's no one in
sight?
Based on the idea of lines, Seb
Preschoux has created this
incredible string art. What began
as paintings and then drawings
soon turned into amazing art
installations. Preschoux wanted to
make something in a natural
environment so he chose forests
in Paris as his setting. Easy to
reach and a perfect place with lots
of space, Preschoux liked "the
contrast between nature and the
geometrical shapes produced by
the installations and their light
Poll: How Long Should CBS Continue to Stand Behind Charlie
Sheen?
Robyn Ross (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:03:00 PM
Charlie Sheen
The recent — and continued —
reports of Charlie Sheen's erratic
behavior made us wonder: How
long should CBS stand behind the
Two and a Half Men star?
Earlier this week, Sheen landed
in the hospital for what his rep
says was an "adverse allergic
and colors."
Called 9 Colors, the rainbow
installation took a half a day to
prepare and more than 20 hours to
weave. As he tells us, "you need
to go fast, because the forest is a
live environment, trees move with
the wind and the string can be
broken." Surprisingly, 9 Colors
was still one of the simplest and
fastest to realize as some of his
installations can take him several
days to create. It can found in the
Auvers sur Oise forest in the north
of Paris.
My other favorite of his is called
Nocturnes. I asked Preschoux to
tell us the background story to this
installation and here's what he
shared.
"The Nocturne series is the next
step in these installations, they are
more complex, more difficult to
realize, they take me more time.
The fixation points are strong and
reaction to some medication." He
reportedly caused more than
$7,000 in damages to his hotel
suite before police intervened.
Photos: Charlie Sheen's Trashed
Plaza Hotel Room
In August, the 45-year-old
avoided jail time after pleading
guilty to third-degree domestic
violence stemming from a dispute
in Aspen, Colo., with his wife
Brooke Mueller.
Who are TV's top earners?
very fragile. If a point breaks all
the installation must be redone. I
came up with it when I was
talking with Ludovic Le Couster
(my friend photographer who is
shooting all the installations). We
thought, together, that it could be
Sheen is currently the highest
paid actor on television, receiving
a reported $1.25 million per
episode. According to Forbes, the
very interesting to shoot the
installations by night, it was a real
challenge for us. Because Ludovic
works with a traditional camera
(not digital or numeric), that
means he had to place the camera
during the day. Then, when the
show, currently in its eight
season, netted the network $155.1
million in ad revenue last season
and is the most watched comedy
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installation was done, we gave it
some light, used long exposure,
and he shot twenty pictures. We
got back home and several days
later we had the results. It was
really exciting!"
Finally, just how much work
goes into these before-hand?
"There is no pre-work," he says.
"All the work is made directly in
the natural environment. I try to
prepare them, but nature changes,
you have to compose with it, and
that's what I like about these
installations. When I draw, I'm
used to doing some pre-work, but
in nature I'm like a kid in a school
yard...I play!"
Thanks for the interview,
Preschoux! Your artwork is
stunning.
Seb Preschoux
in prime time.
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Big Love's Fifth Season Will Be Its Last

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Big Love has been picked up for
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Four Myths About the Tea Parties

John B. Judis (The New lack one or more of these features. second term, conservatives were internal cleansing and external Tea Parties in this study, but the
Republic - All Feed) In their first years, the Populists feuding again. In other words, expansion. basic thrust of it is to stigmatize
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:00:00 PM (aka Farmers Alliance, etc.) American politics has almost “Sound familiar?” she asks. Not the movement as incurably racist
lacked all these of these features. always had disorganized, to me. The Tea Party isn’t a party, by associating it with people like
On the eve of the November In 1892, they came together decentralized movements like the has not yet abandoned democratic David Duke. Now, I am not
elections, we are suddenly awash a r o u n d a c a n d i d a t e a n d a Tea Parties—and they have had a liberties, and has not pursued denying that there are “anti-
i n b o o k s , a r t i c l e s , a n d platform, but that didn’t last. The significant impact. “redemptive violence.” A few Semites, racists, and bigots” in the
m o n o g r a p h s a b o u t t h e T e a populist movement of the 1880s I don’t want to read too much fights here or there, maybe, but Tea Party movement. Nor would I
Parties. Some of these—I would and 1890s was basically a highly into Gardner’s analysis, but what I not Brown Shirt violence. deny that there were people in the
s i n g l e o u t S e a n W i l e n t z ’ s decentralized and fractious suspect in these cases is that the The problem here is very similar anti-Iraq War left who thought
historical piece in The New movement. Or consider the New writer is imposing a continental to that of denying that the Tea that the U.S. had it coming on
Yorker—deepen o u r Left of the 1960s, of which I can European model of a political Party is a “movement.” In both September 11. But it is a mistake
understanding, but most of them speak personally. There was a movement onto American cases, the author is imposing to reduce the Tea Party to a racist
don’t get it right. They are too multiplicity of organizations: politics. In Europe’s multiparty abstract definitions that are rooted movement—the way one could
quick either to dismiss or to student, black, Chicano, feminist. systems, movements cohere more in European, not American, justifiably reduce something like
stigmatize the Tea Parties. And And some of the organizations easily into parties, but in America, history. What I would say about the White Citizens’ Councils of
the mistakes they make are not that claimed to have thousands the two-party system discourages the Tea Party is that like the the 1950s (which claimed only to
just academic; they contribute to a and thousands of members were the transition from movement to European fascism between the be for “states’ rights”) to a racist
misunderstanding of what it will themselves disorganized and party except when the movement world wars, it is a deeply movement.
take for liberals and the left—not decentralized. I belonged to an takes over one of the two parties. reactionary movement. People The Tea Party is an accretion of
t o m e n t i o n t h e O b a m a SDS chapter in California, but we 2) “The Tea Party is a fascist often look backwards for various movements of the past
administration—to turn around n e v e r — a n d I mean movement.” Several authors have solutions when faced with decades, including the Christian
A m e r i c a n p o l i t i c s a f t e r never—consulted the national claimed that the Tea Party, far adversity. In continental Europe, right and, as Wilentz shows, the
November. office in Chicago. When some from being incoherent in its that meant looking back to an older anti-Communist Right. But
Here are some of the most would-be Leninists tried to views, is really an American authoritarian past—in the case of it fits above all into the
common misconceptions: consolidate SDS into a cadre “fascist” movement. Sara Italy, all the way to the days of framework of American
1) “The Tea Party is not a organization in 1969, it splintered Robinson from the Campaign for the Roman Empire. In the U.S. it populism, which has always had
movement.” In a front page story and eventually dissolved. America’s Future cites the has meant looking back to an anti- right-wing and left-wing variants,
in last Sunday’s Washington Post, The conservative movement that definition of fascism from a book, statist past, when liberty was and which is rooted in a middle
Amy Gardner wrote that the Tea began in the mid-’50s also lacked The Anatomy of Fascism: defined in opposition to class cri de coeur—that we who
Parties are “not so much a a common platform and dominant ...a form of political behavior government. That’s how the Tea do the work and play by the rules
movement as a disparate band of n a t i o n a l o r g a n i z a t i o n . T h e marked by obsessive Party movement sees it. It’s our are being exploited by parasitic
vaguely connected gatherings that American Conservative Union preoccupation with community American version of political bankers and speculators and/or by
do surprisingly little to engage in w a s a n d r e m a i n s a p a p e r decline, humiliation or backwardness, not of fascism. shiftless, idle white trash, negroes,
the political process.” As organization that puts on victimhood and by compensatory 3)“The Tea Party is racist.” I illegal immigrants, fill in the
evidence, Gardner cites the lack c o n f e r e n c e s . C o n s e r v a t i v e s cults of unity, energy and purity, dealt with this argument at some blank here. What’s important is
of a common platform, the lack of coalesced around national leaders in which a mass-based party of length before, and I am not going that these movements, which
a common national candidate, and in 1964 and 1980, but in between committed nationalist militants, to repeat what I wrote. But an gather strength in the face of
the absence of a single dominant these times, they were not working in uneasy but effective extensive new study put out by adversity, can go either right or
national organization. The Tea committed to a single leader. It is collaboration with traditional the NAACP and the Institute for left. During the 1930s, they
Parties, the author suggests, are a easy to forget that in the 1980 elites, abandons democratic Research and Education on tended left rather than right.
m u c h w e a k e r b r e w t h a n election, some new right leaders liberties and pursues with Human Rights has appeared, and During Obama’s first term, they
commonly thought. backed John Connally against redemptive violence and without it requires a response. There is
But many powerful movements Ronald Reagan! And by Reagan’s ethical or legal restraints goals of some new information about the FOUR page 48
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The Female Factor

Neera Tanden (The New provisions and Head Start. The candidates—including women graduates favor Democratic over the rising right.
Republic - All Feed) health care bill contained over $1 like Sharron Angle and Christine Republican control (56 percent to Perhaps a Governor Sink—if she
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:00:00 PM billion to support nurses visiting O’Donnell—who want to get rid 36 percent), women with only wins—in Florida could be among
new and expectant mothers at of policies that help women the some college or a vocational a new class of strong female
Last week, as Democratic home, a program that women’s most. If the health care bill gets education are running almost even Democrats. The Obama
candidates across the country groups and economists alike have repealed, for instance, the new (45 percent to 44 percent). administration would also do well
reached out to female voters in the c h a m p i o n e d a s a s m a r t provisions for long-term care Perhaps, in their growing to elevate women in the executive
final swing before Election Day, investment. An even bigger would go out the window, making economic anxiety, this group of branch and turn public attention to
the White House released a report victory is the CLASS Act, also decades worth of advocacy work women wants to throw out those who are already there.
on how the president’s economic part of the health care bill, which moot. incumbents they perceive have In addition to presenting women
agenda helps women. The report provides a basic cash benefit to But the Tea Parties threaten not sufficiently focused on their as the face of the party,
h i g h l i g h t s t h e O b a m a ’ s people (often women) who are women in other ways, too. If the economic progress. But, of Democrats must focus on issues
administration’s efforts and taking care of the elderly at home. Republicans take back the House, course, if the media paid more like long-term care, child care,
accomplishments on behalf of Yet I can probably count on my the Democratic Party will lose attention to Obama’s pro-woman and equal pay, all of which could
women’s e c o n o m i c hand the number of people, one of its most powerful women: agenda—and both advocates and rise to the legislative fore in the
s u c c e s s — s m a l l b u s i n e s s including women, who actually Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who policymakers did more to coming months. Republicans will
expansion that helps female know about these new laws. Amid currently has more clout than any broadcast it—these key voters likely directly attack or cut back
business owners, jobs tax credits the din of bad news about the woman on the other side of the would know that the Democrats, investments in these initiatives.
that will help women (and men) economy and misinformation aisle. Meanwhile, Republicans not Republicans, are the When this happens, the White
find jobs, and laws to enforce about health care reform, these like Sarah Palin and Nikki Haley politicians who have their House (and Democrats more
equal pay for equal work, among policies don’t stand a chance, will only gain political interests in mind. broadly) would be wise to explain
other initiatives. Yet the report sadly, of getting much media power—and, with that power, Democrats can’t let this what it will mean for women if
passed with little fanfare and even coverage. It doesn’t help that the attract more attention to their continue—they can’t allow these initiatives are gutted or
less media attention—like so Democrats haven’t done enough extreme views. If these Republicans to brand themselves lost—and to fight tooth and nail to
m a n y o t h e r a s p e c t s o f t h e to shine a public spotlight on Republicans become the nation’s as the party of strong female make sure that doesn’t happen.
president’s remarkably pro- them. loudest voices of seemingly leaders, or allow women to If it doesn’t take these steps, the
woman policy agenda. But they could soon be lost in an strong women, that could portend gradually become a constituency Democratic Party could lose its
It’s almost tragic how this agenda even deeper abyss: The rampant for a shift among younger of the right. That’s why it’s grasp on a critical, even central
has fallen under the radar during individualism and free-market women’s allegiances toward the critical to have standout women in part of its coalition. And women,
Obama’s first two years in office. fundamentalism supported by the Republican Party and its platform. the party. If Pelosi loses, is there a in the long run, would suffer
W e h e a r t o o o f t e n a b o u t Republican Party, which seems on Already, despite the stark powerful enough Democratic under conservative laws that
abortion’s controversial role in the the precipice of controlling the realities about what Republicans woman to compete with these parrot family values, but do
y e a r - l o n g h e a l t h c a r e House and possibly the Senate, will likely take away from women Republicans in the national nothing to value families.
negotiations—but not enough could undo these initiatives once they are in power, we are spotlight? There’s Hillary Clinton Neera Tanden is the chief
about other women-centered entirely. What’s more, the new seeing rumbling of such a change: who, as Secretary of State, has operating officer of the Center for
issues that, after being promoted Republican wave could mute the After forming the backbone of sent a powerful signal to the American Progress. She served in
by activists for years, have finally voice of women and their most Democratic majorities for years, country and the world about the the Obama and Clinton
made it into legislation. These go important advocates on the working-class women are importance of female leadership administrations.
beyond the Lilly Ledbetter Fair national stage. wobbling in their support for the in the Obama administration. But,
Pay Act. The American The Tea Parties, fueled by Obama administration. According as a technically non-partisan
Reinvestment and Recovery Act wealthy multimillionaires, are to a Wall Street Journal poll from international figure, Hillary won’t
dramatically expanded child care r u n n i n g e x t r e m e last week, while female college be able to do public battle with
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Sock It Toomey
E.J. Dionne Jr. (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:00:00 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- If there is
one candidate who truly wishes
that Christine O'Donnell had not
won the Republican senatorial
nomination in Delaware, it is the
Republican Senate candidate in
Pennsylvania, Pat Toomey.
Toomey, a former congressman,
became a hero to the right for
pushing Sen. Arlen Specter out of
the GOP. For much of the
summer, Toomey ran safely ahead
of the man who went on to knock
out Specter in the Democratic
Senate primary, Rep. Joe Sestak.
Then came O'Donnell's defeat of
Rep. Mike Castle in one of the tea
party's most celebrated victories.
Northern Delaware happens to be
part of the Philadelphia media
market and the attention lavished
on O'Donnell, her sometimes
exotic views and her "I'm not a
witch" TV spot spilled over state
lines.
Sestak, who won his primary in
the face of President Obama's
support for Specter, has taken full
advantage, arguing that Toomey
may be stylistically different from
the colorful candidate across the
river, but is substantively quite
similar. Toomey was president of
the conservative Club for Growth,
a group that targeted moderate
Republicans in primaries, and
Sestak says his opponent and
O'Donnell both want to drive
middle-of-the-roaders out of the
GOP.
You might also imagine, from all
the times he cites it, that Sestak's
favorite book is Toomey's 2009
supply-side manifesto, "The Road
to Prosperity," which endorses
private accounts for Social
Security and a moratorium on all
corporate taxes.
"Congressman Toomey is not a
witch," Sestak loves to say, "but
his book is very scary."
All this has allowed Sestak to
close the gap with Toomey and
move momentum to his side.
Toomey's campaign argues that
Sestak has simply brought some
Democrats home and can point to
some recent polling favorable to
the Republican. But Toomey
tacitly acknowledges the damage
O'Donnell has done him because
he now carefully delineates his
differences with her.
And the O'Donnell effect has
larger implications. Republican
gains next week are inevitable.
But if Senate candidates on the
right end of Republican politics
lose here and in most of the other
states they are contesting
(Colorado, Wisconsin, Alaska,
Kentucky, and Nevada),
conservatives will have trouble
claiming this election as an
ideological mandate and a sign
that the country had moved well
to the right of where it was two
years ago.
So far, being righter-than-right
has been anything but helpful.
O'Donnell's nomination virtually
sealed a victory for Democrat
Chris Coons. In Colorado,
Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet,
after spending the summer under
assault from anonymously funded
conservative groups, has been
closing in on tea party favorite
Ken Buck. In Wisconsin, Sen.
Russ Feingold has narrowed
Republican Ron Johnson's once
substantial lead.
In Alaska, the tea party's Joe
Miller faces a formidable write-in
challenge from Sen. Lisa
Murkowski, whom he defeated in
the Republican primary, even as
Democrat Scott McAdams battles
to sneak through on the GOP
split.
Republican Rand Paul has clung
to a lead over Democrat Jack
Conway in Kentucky, a very red
state where a Republican should
not be having so much trouble. As
for Nevada, nobody knows if
Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid will prevail over marquee
tea party candidate Sharron
Angle, but Angle's bizarre brand
of conservatism is the one thing
giving Reid a fighting chance.
A Sestak victory would be an
especially powerful tonic for
progressives because the former
admiral has been brave in
supporting trials for the
Guantanamo detainees and a ban
on assault weapons.
He has also been
unabashed—and far more
entertaining than most
Democrats—in defending his
votes for the stimulus, health care
reform and the Wall Street rescue.
In one ad, he likens voting for the
financial bailout to cleaning up
after his adorable puppy Belle.
The analogy is between the
puppy's mess and the one created
by the economic policies of
Toomey and former President
George W. Bush.
What comes across when you
talk with Sestak is an utter lack of
defensiveness. Democrats, he
says, "should be proud of what
they've done." But he's impatient
that leaders of his party (he
doesn't mention names) have
failed to convince voters that
Washington fully understands
their struggles and their
aspirations.
Naturally, he makes the point
with a Navy idiom. "You don't
run a ship from the bridge," he
says. "You run it from the boiler
room." Leaders, he says, need to
persuade voters "that we know
who they are."
A Sestak victory would certainly
be a major defeat for tea party-
style conservatism. But it would
also offer progressives lessons in
how to develop a down-to-earth
outside game of their own.
E.J. Dionne, Jr. is the author of
the recently published Souled
Out: Reclaiming Faith and
Politics After the Religious Right.
He is a Washington Post
columnist, a senior fellow at the
Brookings Institution, and a
professor at Georgetown
University.
(c) 2010, Washington Post
Writers Group
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Nike's 'Rise' Ad: LeBron
James Plays Tubbs to
Don Johnson's Crockett
Jane Murphy (TV Squad)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 8:35:00 AM
Filed under: TV News"What
should I do?" asks basketball
superstar LeBron James, in a new
Nike ad that reviews the last few
months of his turbulent move
from the Cleveland Cavaliers to
the Miami Heat. The 90-second
ad, 'Rise', came to light Monday
via Twitter, when King James
directed his followers to
YouTube.
Arguably, the highlight of the ad,
which had its TV premiere
Tuesday during TNT's broadcast
of the Heat vs. Celtics game, is
the appearance of Miami's former
king. Decked out in his baby blue
v-neck and white linen suit, it's
none other than Don Johnson.
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have gone primarily to the right.
There are many reasons for this,
but at least one has to do with
how the White House has blamed
Main Street and Wall Street
equally for the financial crisis.
4) “The Tea Party is a
conventional Republican group
funded by big business.” My
former colleague Michael Lind
argues that the Tea Party is really
a Republican offshoot. “Its
adherents are angry for the same
reason that Democrats were angry
between 2001 and 2007: their
party is out of power,” he writes.
But I think that is too simple, as
are the assertions that the Tea
Party is a tool of big business.
There are groups like Tea Party
Express that were founded by
Republican consultants and that
have the apparent purpose of
getting the Republicans back in
power—but as The Washington
Paula Abdul's New Dance Show and
'American Idol' to Face Off: Who Will
Win?
Jean Bentley (TV Squad)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 9:45:00 AM
Filed under: TV News
When'American Idol' returns in
January for its tenth season, it'll
have some major time slot
competition from a very familiar
face.
Paula Abdul's new CBS reality
Post study shows, many of those
who identify with and are active
in the Tea Party are new to
politics and are moved by specific
grievances rather than by an
allegiance to the Republican
Party. That was also true of Perot
voters, from whom the Tea
Partiers partly descend. They
leaned Democratic in 1992 and
Republican in 1994, but overall
their primary allegiance was not
to party.
There are also Tea Party
sponsoring organizations like
Americans for Prosperity that are
funded primarily by big business.
But again, as The Washington
Post survey shows, most of the
local groups are improvident;
they’re not George W. Bush and
his “pioneers.” What’s
undeniable, though, is that those
most likely to benefit from right-
wing middle class insurgencies
series 'Live to Dance' will go
directly against the newly
revamped 'Idol' on Wednesdays
are not the embattled middle
classes, but the business interests
and the wealthy associated with
the Republican Party. That was
certainly true of the “Reagan
Revolution,” which put an end to
the movement toward income
equality that had begun in the
1930s. So who benefits from these
movements is not the same as
who controls them on a day-to-
day basis. That is likely to
become apparent after this
November’s election.
John B. Judis is a senior editor of
The New Republic.
For more TNR, become a fan on
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Tue., Jan 4 from 8 to 10PM
before settling into its regular
Wednesday time slot, filling the
gap between cycles of 'Survivor.'
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Nissan announces third-largest
recall in company history--
2.14 million SUVs and trucks
Consumer Reports Shopping
Blog (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 9:18:40 AM
Nissan announces third-largest
recall in company history--2.14
million SUVs and trucks
Nissan has announced its third
largest recall in company history,
affecting 2.14 million light trucks between August 2003 and July
and SUVs worldwide, according 2006. A company spokesperson
to Automotive News. The recall cited by Automotive News did not
involves a potentilly faulty give the name of the supplier
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engine problems on Nissan that company made all the parts
Pathfinder, Armada and Xterra involved in the recall worldwide.
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AMC Brings Zombies to Primetime with the Harrowing and
Grisly The Walking Dead
Steve Gutierrez (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:15:00 PM
The Walking Dead
With its putrid zombie hoard,
The Walking Dead is the ultimate
Halloween gift for fans of gore:
There are splattered heads,
swarming flies and enough
tattered, rotting flesh to make
most watch through splayed
fingers. But peel back just a thin
layer of the decaying skin and
you'll find the heart of AMC's
newest drama is entirely human
— racing 90 beats a minute,
pumping furiously to stay alive.
"There's us and the dead. We
survive this by pulling together,
not apart," says deputy sheriff
Rick Grimes ( Andrew Lincoln).
"It's a story that anyone can relate
to," explains Robert Kirkman,
author of the acclaimed comic-
book series on which the show is
based. "The zombies are
representative of disaster, but the
focus is on the people —
everything they go through."
Rick Grimes is an Everyman with
everything: a wife, a son and best
friend Shane ( Jon Bernthal), who
gives him marital advice over
burgers. Just a normal guy in a
normal world — until a shootout
lands him in a coma. When he
wakes, it's all gone, and only
empty buildings and rows of
bodies remain. "We enter this
world through his eyes and follow
him as he realizes what's
happened," says executive
producer Gale Ann Hurd( The
Terminator, Aliens). Slashing and
shooting his way through the
carnivorous corpses, Rick
searches for his loved ones. "The
only thing I am now is a man
looking for his family," he says.
"Anyone who gets in the way of
that is gonna lose." "This is the
story of human survival — in any
kind of apocalypse," Hurd says.
"What is human nature when
everything's been stripped away
and there's nothing left?"
Except, of course, for the undead
— slowly shambling, disturbing
collections of gray flesh and rags
designed by makeup guru and
consulting producer Greg
Nicotero, whose credits include
the 2005 remake of The
Amityville Horror, The Hills
Have Eyes and HBO's The
Pacific, for which he recently won
an Emmy.
After castings in Atlanta, where
the show is filmed, Nicotero and
his crew applied contact lenses,
dentures, prosthetics and dried
dark blood — using as many as
150 extras in a day. The zombies
even got their own backstories.
"We decided how that person
died. Were they bitten and turned?
Or did they get shot and come
back?" Nicotero says. They even
trained the extras at "zombie
school." "It was a blast!" Hurd
says. "'Professor' Nicotero put
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including Rick's wife, Lori ( Sarah
Wayne Callies). Thinking her
husband is dead, Mrs. Grimes
clings to his best friend. "There's a
need to affirm humanity, and then
there's the fallout," says Callies —
as if the end of the world wasn't
enough drama without a love
triangle.
It's not all bleak, however, even
with a brutal body count. There's
Rick's courage, Andrea's passion
and Morgan's paternal love. "This
isn't a successful survival story,
but it is an impassioned survival
story," Callies says. Even Lori
and Shane's adultery makes
perfect sense in the show's
together footage and we showed was expecting something facile, apocalyptic context — it's a
what we were looking for: not and instead I got something natural yearning, that irresistible
sprinters and not funny. We take deep." need for warmth and comfort and
it seriously." And he's bringing all the depth sex. What could be more human
A s d o e s A M C , w h i c h i s and complexity to the screen. than that?
becoming the home for intense "You get an unflinching look at The Walking Dead premieres
dramas with Breaking Bad and all that is good and all that is bad Sunday at 10/9c, on AMC.
Mad Men. "AMC hasn't ever said, in humanity," says Lincoln. The Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine
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director Frank Darabont( The James), who, to protect his son, Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
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source material. "I walked into the die rather than risk a rescue. It's
comic-book store and saw the e v e r y m a n f o r h i m s e l f i n
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seem like Doctor Who’s Tardis by
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add a $1,070 automatic
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54 Sports/
Mathias Kiwanuka of New York Giants out for rest of season
Ohm Youngmisuk (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:33:55 PM
Updated: October 28, 2010, 2:33
PM ET By Ohm Youngmisuk
ESPNNewYork.com
Archive
NEW YORK -- The Giants will
place defensive end Mathias
Kiwanuka on injured reserve with
a herniated disk in his neck, the
team announced on Thursday.
Not only is Kiwanuka's season
over, his Giants' career could be
finished. The team's most
versatile defensive player is in the
final year of his contract and it
remains to be seen whether
Kiwanuka will be able to continue
playing and if he will return to the
Giants.
The defensive end was optimistic
that his injury would subside with
time and that he could resume
playing again this season, but
Kiwanuka will now be placed on
the IR for the second time in four
seasons. Kiwanuka, who has 23.5
sacks in five seasons, did not play
in the Super Bowl after he broke
his leg after playing in 10 games
that 2007 season. Mike & Mike in
the Morning
ESPN NFL analyst Mark
Schlereth talks about why the
New York Giants are playing so
well. Plus, Schlereth discusses the
issues with the Minnesota Vikings
and plays a round of "True/False"
with Mike Golic.
"We held out hope as long as we
could," coach Tom Coughlin said
in a statement. "Finally, by
consensus, the doctors came to
this decision. You have to make
the right choice and the decision
was made that he could not play
again this season. My concern is
for Mathias. He loves the game,
he loves to play, he's proven his
versatility this year beyond any
question. He's given great effort
and he has proven that he is a
team player. I feel badly for
Mathias because I know how
important playing the game of
football is to him. Let's get him
healthy, back on the field, playing
for the New York Giants."
Though he thought he could
return this season, Kiwanuka
understood the move.
"Like I said before, I felt like,
given enough time, I could've
made it back this season, but it's
the nature of the business,"
Kiwanuka said. "The Giants had
to move on, and I had to be OK
with it. Regardless of what
happens to me as an individual,
I'm definitely still going to work
with the Giants organization
throughout the term of my
contract [which expires after this
season]. I know this team is going
be successful, so I'm excited to
watch it."
The Kiwanuka move, which was
first reported by the Newark Star
Ledger, allowed the Giants to sign
kick returner Will Blackmon.
"Blackmon had a very good
workout for us and showed that he
has recovered nicely from a
serious knee injury [2009],"
Giants general manager Jerry
Reese said. "We expect him to get
into the mix quickly on special
teams. He has experience and
production as a return specialist
and cover specialist. He also has
played both safety and corner,
which gives us some flexibility
there as well."
It seemed inevitable that
Kiwanuka's season would
eventually end on IR. Kiwanuka
hasn't played since the team's loss
to Tennessee in the third week of
the season.
"We had some major injuries
because Kiwi is a ... whew ...
that's a big loss," safety Deon
Grant said on Wednesday before
he knew of the Kiwanuka
decision when asked about
overcoming injuries this season.
"But we got the depth this year,
with the injuries that we have had,
to continue to move forward."
Kiwanuka led the team in sacks
through the first three games with
four while thriving in Perry
Fewell's new system at both
defensive end and linebacker. But
days before the Giants' win over
Chicago, he was initially
diagnosed with a bulging disk in
his neck, a similar injury that
ended Antonio Pierce's season and
ultimately his career.
Kiwanuka spent much of this past
month seeing various doctors and
he said his injury wasn't as serious
as Pierce's. It was after a recent
visit to spine specialist Robert
Watkins that Kiwanuka was
diagnosed with a herniated disk,
instead of a bulging disk, meaning
that it had ruptured.
"It's a very important part of my
body and I wanted to make sure
that I covered all of my bases,"
Kiwanuka said of seeing
specialists. "If somebody says that
this person is the best in this area,
by all means I'm going to go in
there and see them. That was my
approach, and the Giants were
behind me 100 percent with that.
That's why I went and saw
everybody."
But Kiwanuka said doctors told
him his disk will heal on its own
without surgery due to the slight
degree of the herniation and the
alignment of his spine. It just
requires time.
"I want to avoid surgery," he said.
"The consensus is that if I take the
proper amount of time off, there is
a very good chance that it'll heal
on its own. That's what the goal is
right now. If it doesn't happen,
we'll cross that bridge when we
get to it. Regardless of whether or
not it requires surgery, I'll still be
back by the opening of training
camp." Giants blog
Looking for more information on
Big Blue? ESPNNewYork.com
has you covered. Blog
Now the Giants move on without
their 2006 first-round pick, who
was a valuable chess piece in
Fewell's schemes. Osi Umenyiora
will have to continue his torrid
pace. Since Kiwanuka has been
out, Umenyiora has seven sacks
and six forced fumbles.
"We had to change a little bit
when Kiwi went out," Fewell said
on Wednesday when asked about
how much he had to change
schematically without Kiwanuka.
"Kiwi is a special kind of guy, so
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we looked around and we
searched for some guys to take
over those roles, and we have
some guys that can assume that
role, but not play it like Kiwi
plays it, so that's a special little
deal."
The Giants have used three
safeties on the field quite a bit,
and Grant sometimes lines up at
linebacker. Keith Bulluck's recent
return from a toe injury helps, and
Fewell will need first-round pick
Jason Pierre-Paul, who was
drafted as a luxury, to continue
his progress. Pierre-Paul doesn't
have a sack yet but he has
impressed coaches with his play
on defense and special teams. "He
is making progress for us, and we
want to get him more involved
and he will become more
involved," Fewell said. "It just
depends on how much more he
can handle and execute. So the
more he can take on and execute,
the more we'll give him. It's up to
him."
Blackmon, who played the past
four seasons for the Packers, will
come in and immediately compete
for the kick and punt-returning
duties. Darius Reynaud, who was
acquired in the Sage Rosenfels
preseason trade from Minnesota,
has been a disappointment.
Reynaud is averaging 18.4 yards
per kick return and just 5.9 yards
per punt return.
"He has return experience and
secondary experience," Coughlin
said. "He's a veteran coming back
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Indiana workplace safety agency investigating Notre Dame
student videographer death
ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:48:30 PM
Updated: October 28, 2010, 1:48
PM ET
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Indiana's
workplace safety agency is
investigating the death of a Notre
Dame student after the tower from
which he was filming football
practice fell over. Mike & Mike in
the Morning
Mike Golic shares his thoughts
on the tragedy at Notre Dame,
where a 20-year-old student died
filming football practice when the
tower he was on collapsed.
Declan Sullivan of Long Grove,
Ill., died at a hospital on
Wednesday after the scissor lift
the 20-year-old student was in
toppled amid winds gusting over
50 mph.
Indiana Occupational Safety and
Health Administration spokesman
Marc Lotter said Thursday the
agency had an investigator on the
scene in South Bend. He said it
was too early to say when the
agency, which has the authority to
levee fines, might release a report.
The university did not return calls
seeking comment on Wednesday,
and it was not clear who
authorized Sullivan to go up in the
scissor lift to videotape
Wednesday's practice. It also was
not clear who made the scissor
lift. But one manufacturer of
scissor lifts, HHS Wire, said on its
website that the device should not
be used in winds above 25 mph.
Notre Dame planned to hold a
media briefing on the accident at
2 p.m. ET on Thursday, with
university president Rev. John
Jenkins and athletic director Jack
Swarbrick expected to attend.
Sullivan's parents were meeting
with Notre Dame officials on
Thursday, and the family had
many questions about his death,
his uncle Mike Miley told the
Chicago Tribune.
"We're still digesting the news
ourselves," Miley told the
Tribune.
The student, who also wrote for
the student newspaper, reportedly
posted messages on his Facebook
page just before the tower fell,
expressing his concerns with
being on the lift with high winds.
His uncle told the newspaper that
the family has decided to keep his
Facebook page open so friends
can post messages.
"I was satisfied to learn that he
was going into a media-related
field. I could just see that he was
having so much fun taking
pictures and filming," Miley told
the Tribune.
Matt Gamber, editor in chief of
The Observer, the independent
student newspaper for the
University of Notre Dame and
Saint Mary's College, said
Sullivan was majoring in
marketing and film and had
written about arts and
entertainment events for the
newspaper over two years.
Sports/ 55
Sullivan posted the following
tweet at 3:22 p.m. ET, just as
practice was beginning: "Gusts of
wind up to 60 mph. Well today
will be fun at work. I guess I've
lived long enough."
Then, at 4:06 p.m. according to
the station, Sullivan posted
another tweet: "Holy [blank].
Holy [blank]. This is terrifying."
The accident occured at 4:50 p.m.
ET, according to media reports.
The lift, which was positioned in
the north end zone of one of three
fields at the LaBar practice
complex, broke through the
practice facility fence when it fell
"He was an extremely enthusiastic to the death of student Declan and came to rest in the middle of a
and a really driven kid, and that Sullivan. street.
really showed through for us in "Our thoughts and prayers go out Sullivan was taken to Memorial
his writing. He had a lot of to Declan's family and friends," Hospital in South Bend, where he
excitement and energy for the coach Brian Kelly said in a later died, according to reports.
events and subjects he covered," release. "Declan was a diligent Notre Dame was making grief
Gamber said. student worker in our video counselors available for students,
"Those who know him the best department and had a tremendous and Jenkins will preside over a
describe him as an enthusiastic, personality and great sense of s p e c i a l M a s s i n S u l l i v a n ' s
really fun guy to be around," humor. He brightened the days for memory on Thursday at 10 p.m.
Gamber said. all that had the privilege to work ET at Basilica of the Sacred
The newspaper reported about with him, and the Notre Dame Heart.
200 people attended a memorial football family will dearly miss "We are deeply saddened by this
Mass for Sullivan on Wednesday him." tragic loss," Jenkins said. "Our
n i g h t i n t h e c h a p e l o f h i s Winds in the area were gusting to hearts go out to the student's
dormitory. Afterward, attendees 51 mph at the time, according to family and friends and our prayers
processed to a campus shrine, the National Weather Service, and and profound sympathies are with
where about 150 students recited t h e t e a m p r a c t i c e d i n d o o r s them during this incredibly
part of the rosary.[+] Enlarge Tuesday because of the blustery d i f f i c u l t t i m e . T h e l o s s o f
AP Photo/Joe Raymond Notre conditions. someone so young is a terrible
Dame emergency personnel Sullivan indicated via his Twitter shock and a great sadness. Our
examine the location where a a c c o u n t t h a t h e w a s i n a entire community shares in the
tower used to tape the team's d a n g e r o u s p r e d i c a m e n t . family's grief."
football practice fell over, leading According to a media reports, INDIANA page 56
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Sources: Joe Girardi, New York continued from page 54

off a [knee] injury. He's been an the locker room. Man, he's a great
Yankees agree on new contract outstanding returner in this
league, and he's been a contributor
player. I told everybody he's
definitely the most talented and
Wallace Matthews (ESPN.com) to come back. It was a pretty cut- dispute with ownership. on special teams as well as on gifted athlete that I ever played
Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:45:58 PM and-dried thing." Earlier this season, rumors defense." football with, hands down. He
According to both sources, abounded that the Chicago Cubs Blackmon is excited to join the made the switch from DB to wide
Updated: October 28, 2010, 1:45 Girardi's deal calls for $3 million would pursue Girardi to replace team. receiver [in college] and didn't
PM ET By Wallace Matthews in salary per year, a figure that the retiring Lou Piniella, a belief "It's awesome," Blackmon said. "I miss a beat, and obviously he is a
ESPNNewYork.com puts him among the top five t h a t s e e m e d t o h a v e s o m e was hoping I could finally get very talented return guy, too. He
Archive highest-paid managers in the legitimacy since Girardi is a back on the field and make things can do it all."
The New York Yankees and game. Also included is a bonus native of the area and played happen. This opportunity opened Ohm Youngmisuk covers the
manager Joe Girardi have reached clause that escalates with each seven seasons in two stints with up and I'm excited and my wife is Giants for ESPNNewYork.com.
agreement on a three-year, $9 level of achievement, from the Cubs. excited. My knee is doing very Follow him on Twitter.
million contract with incentives winning the AL East to winning But that story died when the well. I wouldn't be out there if I This entry passed through the
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continued from page 55

The Fighting Irish, who host
Tulsa on Saturday, canceled post-
practice interviews after the
accident.
"In the midst of a season where
you are disappointed with the
outcomes ... you can lose sight of
what's most important. Sad day at
practice," senior linebacker Brian
Smith posted on his Twitter page.
"I will never forget today."
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Favre sheds walking boot, Rules Responsible for 'My Favorites
hasn't ruled out playing Least Productive Game'
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Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:35:43 PM
Updated: October 28, 2010, 2:35
PM ET
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Brett
Favre is walking around the
Minnesota Vikings practice
facility without the oversized boot
that has been protecting his
injured left ankle.
Favre limped through the locker
room Thursday before practice
with just a wrap on his ankle. He
suffered two fractures around the
ankle in the game against Green
Bay on Sunday night, putting his
league-record 291-straight starts
streak in jeopardy.
The 41-year-old quarterback was
not on the practice field during the
portion open to the media
Angle Sends Flowers to 'The View's' Behar
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 8:17:48 AM
Thursday, 28 Oct 2010 01:17 PM
Senate candidate Sharron Angle
has sent flowers and a thank-you
note to “The View” host Joy
Behar after Behar launched into a
Slow Cooker
Thursday. When asked if he
thought he could play, Favre said,
"I wouldn't put anything past me,
to be honest with you."
The Vikings (2-4) play at New
England (5-1) on Sunday. If Favre
cannot play, Tarvaris Jackson
would step in.
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nasty diatribe against the Nevada
Republican that even co-host
Barbara Walters called
“offensive.” The note read: “Joy,
raised $150,000 online yesterday.
Thanks for your help.”
Behar on Tuesday called Angle a
“moron” and a “bitch” for running
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Filed under: Steelers James
Harrison has been at the forefront
of one of the NFL illegal hit saga.
Even though the story has died
down with a clean week of games
played immediately after an
increased emphasis was put on
illegal hits, Harrison has brought
it back into headlines.
"That was my least productive
game this year," Harrison said in
an interview with "Inside the
NFL." "We can still play the
game, but it's not the same."
When discussing instances during
the Steelers' most recent game
against the Dolphins in which it
seemed Harrison laid off on
certain hits, Harrison again
referred to the new rules.
"If I shot in there I would have
probably hit helmet to helmet, and
I've already got one offense, so I
could probably be looking at a
an ad slamming her Democratic
opponent, Majority Leader Harry
Reid, over his immigration
policies. The ad juxtaposes
images of thug-like men crossing
the border with white children
sitting in a classroom, Fox News
reports.
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possible suspension."
Harrison was originally fined
$75,000 for a hit on Browns
receiver Mohamed Massaquoi,
one of the initial hits that sparked
the rule changes. After the game,
he explained that he tries to hurt
players, not injure them,
explaining the difference. When
the league approved suspensions
as discipline for illegal hits,
Harrison threatened retirement
and missed practice, only to
return.
Walters told Behar on
Wednesday, “You were so
offensive to many people.”
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A Chinese version of barbecue,
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well with rice and stir-fried
vegetables such as snow peas,
baby corn, and water chestnuts.
It's made with a Boston butt pork
roast and a flavorful marinade that
reduces into a rich sauce.
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New GOP
Generation Younger,
More Conservative
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Submitted at 10/28/2010 8:30:23 AM

Thursday, 28 Oct 2010 01:30 PM

If Republicans win back control
of the House next Tuesday, as
expected, a new generation of
leaders will assert themselves. An
overwhelming majority of the 24
committee chairmen would
occupy that position for the first
Fan-made Twisted Metal Power Gig: Rise of the time, Politico reports.
This new, younger generation is
trailer makes a slasher out SixString review: God generally more conservative.
“In broad terms, the Republican
chairmen will be policy
of Sweet Tooth took rock 'n' roll from you conservatives but not bomb-
throwing ideologues,” Politico
Ludwig Kietzmann (Joystiq) obligatory, oblivious young
people one by one and driving his
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) it's built upon a fragment of a writes. “Many of them are
Submitted at 10/28/2010 3:00:00 PM
decidedly unsavory ice cream Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:20:00 PM concept, as if, while pitching the legislators who know how to cut a
Back in June, Twisted Metal truck. title, Seven 45 Studios was cut off deal. And above all, the new
designer David Jaffe shared the If the violence makes you feel There's something you need to mid-sentence, and forced to create chairmen will be loyalists to
idea of a movie based partially on uncomfortable, just remind know up front about Power Gig: an entire game based on a fraction Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner
Rise of the SixString-- something of a clause: of Ohio. In a bid to reform
his game's automotive carnage, yourself that Sweet Tooth's
but focused on one of its most victims are probably those people I wish I had known before I first "So, you play the game with a real Congress, Boehner has promised
got my hands on it: It will not, guitar, and --" to devolve power back to these
iconic characters, Sweet Tooth who think it's still cute and quirky
(real name: Needles Kane). "I to tell everyone how scared they cannot teach you to play guitar. Gallery: Power Gig: Rise of the chairmen to give them more
At its heart, it is a Guitar Hero or SixString freedom and more legislative
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The Sly Collection drops Enslaved DLC adds 3D,
into retail November 9 has Pigsy looking for
Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq)
love
Submitted at 10/28/2010 2:40:00 PM
The Sly Collection will be
available for five-finger discount
beginning November 9. If you're
in the mood to actually pay for the
thievius raccoonus bundle, which
includes Sly Cooper, Sly 2: Band
of Thieves and Sly 3: Honor
Among Thieves, that'll cost you
$40.
The bundle will also include four
new minigames for use with the
PlayStation Move controller (or
DualShock controller), each
focusing on Sly, Bentley, Murray
or Carmelita. According to Glen
Egan of Sanzaru Games, which
handled the port of the PS2
classics, each minigame captures
"an aspect of the character and
presents it in a way that's great
fun to play."
Beyond all that, the games are
presented in widescreen with
stereoscopic threeeeeeeee-
deeeeeeee. We would have typed
"3D" there, but then it just looks
like our keyboard broke. See:
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 -
D D D D D D D D D D D D .
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Bars
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Spreading a little peanut butter on
apple slices may be a healthier
way to snack, but nothing beats an
energy or protein bar for
convenience. Trouble is, there are
too many choices. So we
munched and crunched numbers
to find the best bars, ones that
delivered on both taste and
nutrition. It's a tricky business
since a bar might offer lots of
fiber (really good) and then
negate things with trans fats
(really bad). And sugars, even
dried fruit, do add up. Here are
Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) there are no long stairways or our top picks for when you’re
narrow columns, we figure he'll ready to grab-and-go.
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The critically well-received involve Pigsy assembling parts to criteria for healthy bars: Protein:
action adventure Enslaved's first create the "perfect woman." more than 3 grams; Fiber: more
piece of premium DLC will The DLC will add 3D to both the than 3 grams; Fat: mostly heart-
include "Pigsy's Perfect 10," a new side story and the original healthy fats; Carbs: mostly whole
playable side-story, and add game. So, be sure to save up your grains with 10-20 grams sugar
TriOviz 3D support to the game. dirty clothes, because once Watch the Video: Our Favorite
Namco Bandai announced today Monkey's in 3D you'll be able to Energy Bars Next Most Versatile:
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hour) later I'm back, staring at the
1-click button at the top of the
router I'm thinking about its name.
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races updates California,
Colorado, Florida, Maine,
Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio.
Right now, most of the new polls
have a focus on the governorships
in play. Republicans are looking
to make big pick-ups this year,
something that would be of extra
importance given the impending
battles over redistricting that will
shape the landscape for the 2012
elections.
The latest forecast by polling
analyst Nate Silver of
FiveThirtyEight.com is for
Republicans to emerge from the
elections with about 30 seats,
leaving Democrats with about 19.
Currently, Democrats have the
advantage with 26 seats to the
GOP's 23, with one held by an
independent.
One governor's contest where
trends are running against the
GOP tide is in Minnesota, where
Democrats have a good chance to
win the seat for the first time in
more than two decades.
Mark Dayton, who served one
term as senator between 2001 and
2007, has a 12 point lead over
Republican Tom Emmer,
according to the latest poll.
(Dayton did not seek a second
term in the Senate. Time
Magazine, in a 2006 issue rating
the best and worst senators,
named him as one of the five
worst).
But, the forces at work in
Minnesota seem to favor him. The
Minnesota Public Radio/
Humphrey Institute poll says:
Although Republicans around the
country appear far more inclined
to vote in the 2010 elections than
dispirited Democrats, the story is
quite different in Minnesota.
Among those who are extremely
or very enthusiastic about the
election, Democrats are matching
Republicans, (50 percent of those
who say they are extremely or
very enthusiastic about the
election are Democrats and 46
percent are Republicans). It also
looks like Democrat Jerry Brown
is poised to take back the
California's governorship now
held by Republican Arnold
Schwarzenegger. The latest poll
indicating that is the prestigious
Field Poll.
But two other polls issued
Thursday point to Republican
pickups of governorships now
held by Democrats: Paul LePage
in Maine and newcomer Rick
Snyder in Michigan are sitting
atop of formidable leads.
Two other governor races
surveyed in polls today may come
down to the finish line. The
tightest one is between Democrat
Alex Sink and Republican Rick
Scott in Florida, and Democratic
incumbent Ted Strickland still
appears to be in the contest in
Ohio against Republican John
Kasich.
You can find all the details and
links to the polls under the state
headings below.
Check back here for more
updates throughout the day.
Alaska
POLLS FROM LAST WEEK:
Incumbent Lisa Murkowski is
tied with Joe Miller, who beat her
for the GOP senate nomination, at
37 percent each with Democrat
Scott McAdams at 23 percent,
with 2 percent undecided. ( CNN/
Time/Opinion Research, Oct. 15-
19).
Arizona
Republican incumbent Jan
Brewer is leading Democrat Terry
Goddard, the state's attorney
general, in the governor's race by
52 percent to 44 percent,
according to a Daily Kos/Public
Policy Polling survey conducted
Oct. 23-24.
The same poll shows Sen. John
McCain leading Democrat
Rodney Glassman by 56 percent
to 38 percent, with 6 percent
undecided.
Arkansas
POLLS RELEASED
WEDNESDAY:
Republican John Boozman is
leading Democratic incumbent
Blanche Lincoln in the Senate
race by 48 percent to 36 percent
with 16 percent undecided,
according to a University of
Arkansas poll conducted Oct. 8-
20. Poll director Janine Parry said,
"This election, as always in
Arkansas, lies in the hands of
people not closely aligned with
either major party. Both parties
are losing loyalists in a rough
economy, meaning the percentage
of unaffiliated respondents has
swelled to the largest proportion
we've recorded."
Forty-four percent of those
identifying themselves as
independents felt closer to the
Republican party and, when it
comes to those who are likely
voters, the number rises to 50
percent. Only 21 percent of
independents and 16 percent of
very likely independent voters
favored the Democratic Party,
according to the poll.
California
POLLS FROM THURSDAY:
Democrat Jerry Brown leads
Republican Meg Whitman by 49
percent to 39 percent with 12
percent undecided or preferring
other candidates, according to a
Field Poll conducted Oct. 14-26.
The margin of error is 3.2 points.
Field says Brown is shoring up his
support among women, non-
partisans and Latinos.
POLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:
Brown leads Whitman in the
governor's race by 51 percent to
44 percent with 2 percent liking
neither and 2 percent undecided,
according to a CNN/Time/
Opinion Research poll conducted
Oct. 20-26. The margin of error is
3.5 points.
Brown leads Whitman by 46
percent to 38 percent with 8
percent preferring another
candidate and 8 percent
undecided, according to a
SurveyUSA poll conducted Oct.
21-25. The margin of error is 4.1
points. Brown is leading Whitman
among woman voters by 12 points
and among Latino voters by 23
points.
In the Senate race, SurveyUSA
has Boxer ahead of Fiorina by 45
percent to 40 percent with 7
percent preferring another
candidate and 8 percent
undecided. The margin of error
for this race is also 4.1 points.
The CNN/Time/Opinion
61
Research poll has Boxer leading
Fiorina by 50 percent to 45
percent with 4 percent in the
"neither/other" category and 3
percent undecided.
POLLS FROM TUESDAY:
A Public Policy Polling survey
conducted Oct. 21-23 has Brown
running ahead of Whitman in the
governor's race by 53 percent to
42 percent with 5 percent
undecided, and Boxer ahead of
Fiorina in the Senate race by 52
percent to 43 percent, with 5
percent undecided. The margin of
error is 3.9 points. PPP says, "The
biggest reason Boxer is
maintaining her margin and
Brown is expanding his is that
both have now unified their party
more than the Republicans have
theirs...Meg Whitman and Carly
Fiorina never showed the kind of
appeal to Democrats they would
have needed to win in California."
A Suffolk University poll
conducted Oct. 21-24 shows
Brown holding a 50 percent to 42
percent lead over Whitman, with
5 percent supporting other
candidates and 3 percent
undecided.
The same poll shows Boxer
leading Fiorina by 52 percent to
43 percent with 4 percent for
other candidates and 2 percent
undecided. The margin of error
for both polls is 4 points.
A Fox News/Pulse Opinion
Research poll conducted Oct. 23
had Brown leading Whitman by
50 percent to 41 percent in the
governor's race with 6 percent
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preferring some other candidate
and 3 percent undecided. The
margin of error is 3 points. Last
week, Brown's lead was 48
percent to 43 percent. Most voters
in the survey see both Brown and
Whitman negatively, but
Whitman more so. Fifty-four
percent have an unfavorably view
of her compared to 39 percent
who view her favorably with the
rest undecided or saying they
never heard of her. Fifty-percent
see Brown unfavorably while 46
percent see him favorably with 5
percent not sure.
In the Senate race, Fox has Boxer
ahead of Fiorina by 48 percent to
44 percent with 5 percent
preferring someone else and 3
percent undecided. The margin of
error is 3 points. Last week, Boxer
led by 48 percent to 44 percent.
Seven percent of Boxer supporters
say they could change their minds
compared to 4 percent for Fiorina.
Fifty percent disapprove of the
job Boxer is doing as senator
compared to 41 percent who
approve, with 9 percent
undecided.
Colorado
POLLS FROM THURSDAY:
Republican Ken Buck leads
Democratic incumbent Michael
Bennet in the Senate race by 48
percent to 44 percent with 3
percent preferring some other
candidate and 6 percent
undecided. The margin of error is
4 points. In an Oct. 14 poll, Buck
had led 47 percent to 45 percent. (
Rasmussen Reports, Oct. 25).
POLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:
Buck and Bennet are in a
statistical tie with Buck leading
47 percent to 46 percent with 4
percent in the "other/neither"
category and 3 percent undecided.
The margin of error is 3.5 points.
In a September poll, Buck had led
by 49 percent to 44 percent. (
CNN/Time/Opinion Research,
Oct. 20-26).
Unlike some other recent polls,
CNN/Time has Democrat John
Hickenlooper still with a big lead
over American Constitution Party
candidate Tom Tancredo running
ahead of him by 51 percent to 37
percent, with 10 percent for
Republican Dan Maes and 3
percent undecided or in the "other
/neither" category.
POLLS FROM MONDAY:
Hickenlooper is hanging on to a
47 percent to 44 percent lead over
Tancredo, with Maes at 5 percent
and 4 percent undecided. The
collapse of party support for the
GOP nominee has meant that
Tancredo, a former Republican
congressman, has been able to
garner 73 percent of the
Republican vote, effectively
turning what started as a three-
way race into a two-way match-
up that is more competitive. (
Public Policy Polling, Oct. 21-
23).
Democrat Michael Bennet and
Republican Ken Buck are tied at
47 percent each in the Senate
race, with 6 percent undecided.
The margin of error is 3.4 points.
( Public Policy Polling, Oct. 21-
23).
POLLS FROM SUNDAY:
Bennet and Buck are tied at 47
percent each in the Senate race.
Five percent support another
candidate and 1 percent is
undecided. In the last poll, Buck
had led 48 percent to 43 percent. (
SurveyUSA poll conducted Oct.
19-21).
In the governor's race,
Hickenlooper leads Tancredo by
49 percent to 39 percent with
Republican Dan Maes at 9
percent. He is taking 65 percent of
the Republican vote in this poll. (
SurveyUSA poll conducted Oct.
19-21).
Connecticut
POLLS FROM TUESDAY:
Democrat Richard Blumenthal is
holding on to a comfortable lead
over Republican Linda McMahon
in their race to fill the Senate seat
left open by the retirement of
Christopher Dodd, but Democrat
Dan Malloy is in a much closer
contest in his gubernatorial bid
against Republican Tom Foley,
according to a Quinnipiac
University poll conducted Oct. 18
-24. Blumenthal, the state's
attorney general, leads McMahon,
the former head of World
Wrestling Entertainment, by 54
percent to 42 percent with 3
percent undecided. The margin of
error is 3.7 points. That's about
the same margin Blumenthal had
two weeks ago. Only 6 percent of
voters in each camp say they may
yet change their minds. As has
been the case in most every poll
on this race, Blumenthal is seen
favorably by a wide margin, while
McMahon is viewed unfavorably
by a majority of voters -- which
some have seen as a backlash
against her well-funded campaign
of negative TV ads and direct
mail.
"Linda McMahon has tried to
raise Attorney General Richard
Blumenthal's negatives over the
last several weeks, but she hasn't
been successful," said
Quinnipiac's Douglas Schwartz.
"He remains popular, but
McMahon's own negatives have
risen above 50 percent. One has to
wonder if over the last few weeks
McMahon would have been better
off spending more of her millions
on positive ads."
In the governor's race, Malloy,
the mayor of Stamford, leads
Foley, a businessman and former
ambassador to Ireland, by 48
percent to 43 percent with 7
percent undecided in the
Quinnipiac poll. The margin of
error is 3.7 points. In mid-
October, Malloy had led by 49
percent to 42 percent, and in late
September by 45 percent to 42
percent. There's room for a shift
in this race because 12 percent of
Malloy voters say they could
change their minds and the same
is the case for 10 percent of Foley
backers.
A Fox News/Pulse Opinion
Research poll conducted Oct. 23
has Blumenthal out in front by 53
percent to 42 percent with 2
percent for some other candidate
and 3 percent undecided.
A Rasmussen Reports poll
conducted Oct. 24 has Malloy
leading by a smaller margin, 49
percent to 46 percent with 2
percent preferring some other
candidate and 4 percent
undecided. The margin of error is
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4 points.
The Oct. 23 Fox News poll put
Malloy ahead of Foley by a
statistically insignificant 47
percent to 43 percent with 3
percent preferring some other
candidate and 6 percent
undecided. The margin of error is
3 points.
POLLS FROM MONDAY:
Blumenthal leads McMahon by
56 percent to 43 percent in the
Senate race with 2 percent
undecided or preferring some
other candidate. ( Rasmussen
Reports, Oct. 24)
Florida
POLLS FROM THURSDAY:
Democrat Alex Sink has a slight
lead over Republican Rick Scott
in Florida's close contest for
governor, while independent
Charlie Crist has cut into
Republican Marco Rubio's lead in
the state's Senate race but not
enough challenge Rubio's status
as the favorite, according to a
Quinnipiac University poll
conducted Oct. 18-24. Sink, the
state's chief financial officer,
leads Scott, the wealthy former
health care executive, by 45
percent to 41 percent with 11
percent undecided. Rubio leads
Crist by 42 percent to 35 percent
with 15 percent for Democrat
Kendrick Meek and 7 percent
undecided. The margin of error is
3.5 points. ( See full article).
Rasmussen Reports, in a poll
conducted Oct. 27, has Scott
ahead by 48 percent to 45 percent
with 3 percent for some other
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candidate and 4 percent
undecided. The margin of error is
4 points. Scott had led by 50
percent to 44 percent in
Rasmussen's Oct. 18 poll.
POLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:
POLLS FROM SUNDAY:
Rubio appears to be steaming
towards victory in the Florida
Senate race, leading Crist by 41
percent to 26 percent with 20
percent for Meek. Julia Clark, a
pollster for Ipsos which conducted
the survey, said "There doesn't
seem to be much doubt in our
minds that Rubio will take the
election." ( St. Petersburg Times/
Miami Herald/Bay News 9
poll,Oct. 15-19).
Georgia
POLLS FROM TUESDAY:
Republican Nathan Deal leads
Democrat Roy Barnes 49 percent
to 39 percent with 5 percent for
Libertarian John Monds, 5 percent
for some other candidate and 1
percent undecided, according to a
Rasmussen Reports poll
conducted Oct. 24. The margin of
error is 4 points. Deal slipped
backed from the 50 percent mark
he had hit in an Oct. 6 poll. If the
winner doesn't notch 50 percent, it
forces a run-off. Deal is seen
unfavorably by 49 percent and
favorably by 48 percent, with 6
percent undecided. Barnes is seen
unfavorably 53 percent compared
to 40 percent who see him
favorably, with 6 percent not sure.
Deal has a double-digit lead
among unaffiliated voters.
A WSB-TV/InsiderAdvantage
poll conducted Oct. 24 has Deal
leading Barnes by 47 percent to
41 percent with 5 percent for
Monds and 7 percent undecided.
The margin of error is 2 points.
POLLS FROM MONDAY:
Deal leads Barnes in the
governor's race by 49 percent to
39 percent with 8 percent for
Monds, with 3 percent undecided.
Both Deal, until recently a
congressman, and Barnes, a
former one-term governor, get the
same high level of support from
their respective parties
(Republicans are weighted at 42
percent of the sample and
Democrats at 34 percent), but
Deal leads among independents
(20 percent of the sample) by 44
percent to 27 percent with Monds
getting 25 percent with 4 percent
undecided. Deal needs to hit 50
percent to avoid a runoff. The
margin of error is 4.1 points. (
SurveyUSA, Oct. 21-24).
Hawaii
POLLS FROM MONDAY:
Democrat Neil Abercrombie is
leading Republican James "Duke"
Aiona in the governor's race by 51
percent to 43 percent. The margin
of error is 4 points. The outgoing
governor is Republican Linda
Lingle. ( Honolulu Star
Advertiser, Oct. 12-19).
Illinois
POLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:
Republican Mark Kirk leads
Democrat Alexi Giannoulias by
46 percent to 42 percent with 5
percent for Green Party candidate
LeAlan Jones, 5 percent for some
other candidate and 2 percent
undecided. The margin of error is
4 points. A week ago, Kirk led by
44 percent to 40 percent. The two
haven't been separated by more
than 4 points since the Labor Day
start of the campaign season.
Voters view both candidates
unfavorably. ( Rasmussen
Reports, Oct. 26).
POLLS FROM TUESDAY:
Republican Bill Brady leads
Democratic incumbent Pat Quinn
in the race for governor by 43
percent to 39 percent with 5
percent for independent Scott Lee
Cohen, 4 percent for Green Party
candidate Rich Whitney, 2
percent for Libertarian Lex Green
and 6 percent undecided,
according to a Chicago Tribune/
WGN poll conducted Oct. 18-22.
The margin of error is 3.7 points.
In the last poll about a month ago,
Quinn had 39 percent to Brady's
38 percent.
The Tribune reports, "Much of
Brady's advance may be due to a
heavy dose of negative TV
advertising against Quinn, largely
funded through donations by the
Republican Governors
Association. Quinn has also aired
his share of attack ads at Brady,
but is outmatched in the money
game."
One question is the impact of
Cohen's small but noticeable
amount of support in the race.
Cohen had won the nomination to
run as the Democrat's lieutenant
governor candidate but dropped
out after a series of damaging
disclosures. He has spent almost
$6 million of his own money on
the race, the Tribune reports.
Almost a third of voters don't
know enough about Brady to have
an opinion of him. But if that's a
disadvantage, Quinn suffers from
the fact that 41 percent see him
unfavorably compared to 34
percent who see him favorably.
Quinn, of course, is the man who
took over the governorship 21
months ago after the ignominious
exist of Rod Blagojevich, who
was impeached.
A Fox News/Pulse Opinion
Research poll conducted Oct. 23
has Brady ahead by 43 percent to
39 percent with Cohen at 6
percent, Whitney at 4 percent and
6 percent undecided. The margin
of error is 3 points. In last week's
poll, Brady led by 46 percent to
36 percent. Quinn's unfavorable
number is high in this poll as well
-- 52 percent view him negatively.
In the equally close Senate race,
Republican Mark Kirk leads
Democrat Alexi Giannoulias by
43 percent to 41 percent with
Green Party candidate LeAlan
Jones at 7 percent and 9 percent
undecided, according to The Fox
poll. The margin of error is 3
points. Kirk led last week by two
points. Both Kirk and
Giannoulias, each of whom has
had to deal with damaging stories
about their backgrounds, are
regarded negatively by voters.
POLLS FROM SUNDAY:
Kirk leads Giannoulias in the
Senate race by 44 percent to 41
percent with 7 percent undecided.
The margin of error is 3.7 points.
The poll said that while the race is
still within the margin of error,
the trend seems favorable to Kirk
as independents, suburban voters
and Republicans are all moving
toward him. Four weeks ago,
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Giannoulias led in this poll by 38
percent to 36 percent with 17
percent undecided. One in five
voters say they trust neither
candidate, both of whom have had
to contend with damaging
disclosures about them during the
campaign. ( Chicago Tribune/
WGN, Oct. 18-22).
Indiana
POLLS FROM MONDAY:
Former Republican Sen. Dan
Coats looks like a cinch to return
to the Senate from Indiana, with a
new poll showing him ahead of
Democrat Brad Ellsworth by 53
percent to 35 percent, with
Libertarian Rebecca Sink Burris
at 5 percent and the remainder
undecided. This is the seat being
given up by Democrat Evan Bayh.
( EPIC-MRA, Oct. 19-21).
A Rasmussen Reports poll
conducted Oct. 20 had Coats
ahead by 52 percent to 34 percent
with 5 percent for some other
candidate and 9 percent
undecided.
Kentucky
POLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:
Republican Rand Paul has hit the
50 percent mark in his race
against Democrat Jack Conway
who is attracting 43 percent of the
vote, with 3 percent liking neither
and 4 percent undecided. The
margin of error is 3.5 points. Paul
is leading among independents by
63 percent to 26 percent. ( CNN/
Time/Opinion Research, Oct. 20-
26).
POLLS FROM TUESDAY: Paul
has opened a 53 percent to 40
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percent lead over Conway in the
Senate race, with 7 percent
undecided, according to a Public
Policy Polling survey conducted
Oct. 21-24. PPP is now calling
Paul the "likely victor" in the race
and says the reason is the
backlash from Conway's
campaign ad saying that Paul,
during his college days,
worshipped a false god named
"Aqua Buddha." Politics Daily
correspondent Walter Shapiro
wrote about same trend during his
reporting travels in Kentucky. (
See the full story on this poll).
Paul leads Conway 50 percent to
43 percent with 2 percent
preferring some other candidate
and 5 percent undecided,
according to a Fox News/Pulse
Opinion Research poll conducted
Oct. 23. The margin of error is 3
points. Ten percent of voters in
each candidate's camps say they
could yet changed their minds.
Paul is seen favorably by a 48
percent to 41 percent margin, with
11 percent undecided or saying
they haven't heard of him. Fifty-
one percent see Conway
unfavorably, while 38 percent
regard him favorably, with 11
percent undecided or saying they
haven't heard of him.
Maine
POLLS FROM THURSDAY:
Republican Paul LePage now is
ahead in the three-way race for
governor with 40 percent, while
Democrat Libby Mitchell and
independent Eliot Cutler are tied
at 26 percent each, with 4 percent
preferring some other candidate
and 5 percent undecided. In an
Oct. 12 poll, LePage had led
Mitchell by only 35 percent to 32
percent, with 21 percent for
Cutler. While LePage gets 81
percent support from fellow
Republicans, Mitchell is down to
48 percent backing from
Democrats, with Cutler taking 37
percent of the Democratic votes.
In the last poll, Mitchell still had
65 percent of the Democrats
compared to 18 percent for Cutler.
Cutler's background is as a
Democrat, having served in the
Carter administration and as an
aide to the late Sen. Edmund
Muskie. A LePage victory would
mean a Republican pickup since
the job is currently held by
Democrat John Baldacci. (
Rasmussen Reports, Oct. 26).
Maryland
POLLS FROM MONDAY
Democrat Martin O'Malley leads
Republican Bob Ehrlich by 54
percent to 40 percent with 3
percent preferring another choice
and 4 percent undecided. The
margin of error is 2.5 points. In a
Sept. 26 poll, O'Malley had led by
49 percent to 35 percent. Seven
percent of Ehrlich supports and 6
percent of O'Malley backers say
there is a good chance they might
change their minds. O'Malley
beats Ehrlich on the question of
who "understands the problems of
people like you" by 51 percent to
36 percent with the remainder
undecided or in the "both/neither"
column. ( Washington Post, Oct.
19-22).
Rasmussen Reports, in a poll
conducted Oct. 24, has O'Malley
ahead 52 percent to 42 percent
with 2 percent for some other
candidate and 5 percent
undecided. The margin of error is
4 points.
Massachusetts
POLLS FROM SUNDAY:
Democratic incumbent Deval
Patrick leads Republican Charlie
Baker in the governor's race by a
slim 43 percent to 39 percent with
independent Tim Cahill at 8
percent and Green Party candidate
Jill Stein at 2 percent. The margin
of error is 4.3 points. Although
that lead is within the margin of
error, the poll called it "an
encouraging sign for the
incumbent heading into the final
full week of campaigning" given
that its survey last month showed
Patrick ahead of Baker by only 35
percent to 34 percent. ( Boston
Globe poll conducted Oct. 17-22).
Michigan
POLLS FROM THURSDAY:
Republican newcomer Rick
Snyder leads Democrat Virg
Bernero in the governor's race by
53 percent to 38 percent with 8
percent undecided. Pollster
Richard Czuba said, "There is a
Republican tide in Michigan" that
is also extending to down-ticket
races. A Snyder victory would
represent a GOP pickup of a
governor's seat since the job is
now held by Democrat Jennifer
Granholm. ( Detroit News/WDIV,
Oct. 25-26).
Minnesota
POLLS FROM THURSDAY:
Democrat Mark Dayton, a former
one-term senator, is leading
Republic Tom Emmer, a member
of the state House, by 41 percent
to 29 percent with 11 percent for
independent Tom Horner and 20
percent undecided, according to a
Minnesota Public Radio/
Humphrey Institute poll
conducted Oct. 21-25. In its
September poll, Dayton had led
Emmer by 38 percent to 27
percent, with Horner getting 16
percent.
MPR/Humphrey says one reason
for Dayton's success compared to
other states where there is a rising
GOP tide is that when it comes to
the engagement of voters, "the
story is quite different in
Minnesota" where Democrats are
matching Republicans as far as
enthusiasm in this election. This is
a chance for Democrats to make a
gubernatorial pickup since the job
is currently help by the GOP's
Tim Pawlenty. Democrats have
been shut out of the job since
Rudy Perpich finished his two
terms in 1991.
POLLS FROM SUNDAY:
Dayton leads Emmer by 41
percent to 34 percent followed by
Horner, with 13 percent
undecided. The margin of error is
3.9 points. ( Star Tribune
Minnesota Poll, Oct. 18-21).
Missouri
POLLS FROM LAST WEEK:
Republican Roy Blunt is leading
Democrat Robin Carnahan in the
Senate race by 49 percent to 40
percent with 3 percent for other
candidates and 8 percent
undecided. The margin of error is
4 points. ( St. Louis Post-
Dispatch, KMOV, Oct. 18-20).
Blunt leads Carnahan by 52
percent to 43 percent, with 2
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percent for some other candidate
and 3 percent undecided. Last
week, Blunt led by about the same
margin. The margin of error is 4
points. ( Rasmussen Reports, Oct.
19).
Blunt leads Carnahan 49 percent
to 43 percent with 3 percent
preferring some other candidate
and 5 percent undecided. Seven
percent of those supporting each
candidate say they could change
their minds. The margin of error
is 3 points. ( Fox News/Pulse
Opinion Research, Oct. 16).
Nevada
POLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:
It's been clear for months now
that Republican Brian Sandoval, a
former state attorney general and
federal judge, had the race for
governor well in hand, and the
latest poll is just another
confirmation of that. Sandoval
leads Rory Reid, son of Harry, by
58 percent to 35 percent with 5
percent for some other candidate
and 2 percent undecided,
according to a Rasmussen Reports
poll conducted Oct. 25. Sandoval
has held double-digit leads over
Reid in 16 matchups done by
Rasmussen dating back to
February.
Republican Sharron Angle leads
Democrat Harry Reid by 49
percent to 45 percent in the Senate
race with 2 percent for Scott
Ashjian, who is running as a Tea
Party candidate and 3 percent who
don't like any of the choices. With
Ashjian out of the race, Angle
would be leading by 51 percent to
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45 percent. The margin of error is
3.5 points. ( CNN/Time/Opinion
Research, Oct. 20-26).
POLLS FROM TUESDAY:
Angle leads Reid by 49 percent to
45 percent with 4 percent
preferring some other candidate
and 2 percent undecided,
according to a Rasmussen Reports
poll conducted Oct. 25. The
margin of error is 4 points. A
week ago, Angle had led by 3
points and, the week before that
by 1 point. Both have high
negatives with the voters. Reid is
seen unfavorably by 56 percent
(with 51 percent saying they see
him "very" unfavorably") while
43 percent see him favorably.
Angle is seen unfavorably by 52
percent (with 43 percent seeing
her "very" unfavorably) compared
to 46 percent who see her
favorably.
New Hampshire
POLLS FROM LAST WEEK:
Democratic incumbent John
Lynch leads Republican John
Stephen in the governor's race 51
percent to 38 percent with 3
percent for other candidates and 9
percent undecided. Last month,
Lynch had led 51 percent to 34
percent with 14 percent
undecided. ( WMUR/University
of New Hampshire, Oct. 7-12).
New Mexico Republican Susan
Martinez leads Democrat Diane
Denish by 52 percent to 42
percent with 2 percent preferring
some other candidate and 4
percent undecided, according to a
Rasmussen Reports poll
conducted Oct. 24. The margin of
error is 4 points. The gap between
Martinez and Denish was about
the same in two previous
Rasmussen polls, putting the
Republicans in a position to
retake a governorship that is now
held by Democrat Bill
Richardson. Martinez is a district
attorney and the first Hispanic
woman to win a major party
nomination for governor. Denish
is lieutenant government, and
Richardson's current unpopularity
in the state -- 57 percent
disapprove of the job he is doing
as governor -- has been a drag on
her.
New York
POLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:
There's never been much doubt
that, barring surprises, the
Democrats in blue New York
were going to withstand the
Republican tide, and a Quinnipiac
University poll conducted Oct. 18
-24 underlines the point, showing
Democrat Andrew Cuomo ahead
of Republican Carl Paladino by
55 percent to 34 percent with 7
percent undecided in the
governor's race, and first-term
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand leading
Republican Joe DioGuardi by 57
percent to 34 percent with 7
percent undecided in her bid for re
-election.
North Carolina
Democrat Elaine Marshall just
hasn't been able to gain any
traction in her challenge to first
term Republican Sen. Richard
Burr, even though several polls
have shown him with lackluster
job approval and favorability
numbers with voters. The latest
poll, conducted Oct. 22-25 by
SurveyUSA, demonstrates that
again, showing Burr ahead of her
by 43 percent to 38 percent with 5
percent for Libertarian Michael
Beitler and 3 percent undecided.
Ohio
POLLS FROM THURSDAY:
Republican John Kasich leads
Democratic incumbent Ted
Strickland in the governor's race
by 48 percent to 44 percent with 3
percent for some other candidate
and 4 percent undecided. The
margin of error is 4 points. In the
previous poll, Kasich led by 48
percent to 45 percent. (
Rasmussen Reports, Oct.26).
A SurveyUSA poll, conducted
Oct. 22-26, has Kasich ahead by
49 percent to 44 percent with 4
percent for other candidates and 4
percent undecided. The margin of
error is 4 points. Kasich is leading
among independents (22 percent
of the sample) by 17 points.
In the Senate race, SurveyUSA
says Republican Rob Portman
leads Democrat Lee Fisher by 52
percent to 37 percent with 6
percent for other candidates and 4
percent undecided.
POLLS FROM TUESDAY:
While Fisher appears hopelessly
behind Portman in the race to fill
the Senate seat of the GOP's
George Voinovich, Strickland still
has a fighting chance against
former Kasich in his bid to win re
-election as governor, although
time may be running out on him.
Kasich leads Strickland by 49
percent to 43 percent with 7
percent undecided, according to a
Quinnipiac University poll
conducted Oct. 18-24. The margin
of error is 3.7 points. Kasich had
led by 10 points in mid-October
and by as many as 17 in mid-
September. Nine percent of those
backing each candidate say they
still could change their minds by
election day, not leaving a lot of
room for Strickland to pick up
more ground.
A Fox News/Pulse Opinion
Research poll conducted Oct. 23
has Kasich ahead by 47 percent to
43 percent with 4 percent for
some other candidate and 6
percent undecided. The margin of
error is 3 points. Last week, this
poll had Kasich leading by 49
percent to 43 percent. Eight
percent of Kasich supporters and
9 percent of Strickland backers
say they could changer their
minds.
In the Senate race, Fox says
Portman leads Fisher by 53
percent to 36 percent with 9
percent undecided.
POLLS FROM SUNDAY:
Kasich leads Strickland by 49
percent to 47 percent in the
governor's race with 5 percent
undecided or backing another
candidate. The margin of error is
3.3 points. Kasich had led by 4
points the last time this poll was
conducted in late September. The
outcome is likely to be all about
which party does a better job
turning out its voters. Eric
Rademacher of the University of
Cincinnati's Institute for Policy
research, which conducted the
poll, told Ohio news
organizations, "It's a close race,
but the dynamics, especially the
advantage the Republicans have
65
in turnout, still favor Kasich." (
Ohio Newspaper poll, Oct. 14-
18).
Portman leads Fisher in the
Senate race by 58 percent to 39
percent. ( Ohio Newspaper
poll,Oct. 14-18).
Oregon
POLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:
Two new polls show the
governor's race between
Republican newcomer Chris
Dudley and Democrat John
Kitzhaber to be a dead heat.
A poll by Davis, Hibbits &
Migdall reported by the Portland
Tribune conducted Oct. 24-25 has
Dudley ahead of Kitzhaber by 46
percent to 43 percent with 2
percent for other candidates and
10 percent undecided. The margin
of error is 4.4 points. The Tribune
said, "In effect, Oregon voters
haven't budged much since the
May primary, despite more than
$12 million in campaign spending
by both sides."
A Rasmussen Reports poll
conducted Oct. 25 has Dudley
leading Kitzhaber by 49 percent
to 46 percent with 3 percent
preferring some other candidate
and 3 percent undecided. The
margin of error is 4 points. In an
Oct. 10 poll, Kitzhaber had led by
48 percent to 46 percent. Voters
are divided at 42 percent each
about whether they favor a
candidate with political
experience (Kitzhaber is a former
two-term governor) or a candidate
who has never held office,
(Dudley is a former pro basketball
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player who went into financial
consulting). Both candidates are
seen favorably by voters. Dudley
is doing better than Kitzhaber as
far as the level of support from
their respective parties, and has a
modest lead among unaffiliated
voters.
Pennsylvania
POLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:
Republican Pat Toomey is
leading Democrat Joe Sestak in
the Senate race by 48 percent to
40 percent with 12 percent
undecided among likely voters,
with "leaners" for each candidate
included, according to a Franklin
& Marshall College poll
conducted Oct. 18-24. In the
governor's race, Republican Tom
Corbett leads Democrat Dan
Onorato by 51 percent to 35
percent with 11 percent
undecided. The margin of error
for both polls is 4.4 points.
Franklin & Marshall says,
"Democrats are at a decided
disadvantage when it comes to
voter motivation. Only 36 percent
of Democrats fall into the most
likely to vote category compared
to 49 percent of Republicans ...
Another example of the gap in
partisan enthusiasm is that only
one in three (33 percent) of those
who voted for Obama in 2008 are
in the most likely to vote category
versus half (52 percent) of
McCain voters."
A CNN/Time/Opinion Research
poll conducted Oct. 20-26 has
Toomey leading Sestak by 49
percent to 45 percent with 3
percent in the "other/neither"
column and 3 percent undecided.
The margin of error is 3.5 points.
The poll has Corbett leading
Onorato in the governor's race by
52 percent to 45 percent with 1
percent described as "other/
neither" and 2 percent undecided.
Both these sets of results were not
much different than this poll
showed in mid-September.
The latest Muhlenberg College/
Allentown Morning Call tracking
poll has Toomey ahead by a
smaller 46 percent to 41 percent
margin with 12 percent undecided
and Corbett leading in the
governor's race by 52 percent to
38 percent with 10 percent
undecided. The margin of error is
5 points. Muhlenberg's totals also
include leaners.
POLLS FROM TUESDAY:
Toomey is tied with Sestak in the
Senate race at 46 percent each
with 2 percent preferring someone
else and 6 percent undecided,
according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll
conducted Oct. 22-24. The margin
of error is 4.9 points.
The same poll says Corbett leads
Onorato in the governor's race by
49 percent to 43 percent with 8
percent undecided.
Rhode Island
POLLS FROM LAST WEEK:
Republican-turned-independent
Lincoln Chafee leads Democrat
Frank Caprio 35 percent to 28
percent in the race for governor
with 25 percent for Republican
John Robitaille. Six percent back
Moderate Party candidate Ken
Block and 6 percent are
undecided. The margin of error is
4 points. In an Oct. 4 poll, Chafee
had led Caprio by only 33 percent
to 30 percent, with 22 percent for
Robitaille. ( Rasmussen Reports,
Oct. 21).
South Carolina
POLLS FROM LAST WEEK:
Republican Nikki Haley leads
Democrat Vincent Sheheen by 51
percent to 37 percent with 3
percent for some other candidate
and 9 percent undecided. (
InsiderAdvantage, Oct. 19)
Haley is leading Sheheen by 47
percent to 38 percent in the race
to succeed GOP Gov. Mark
Sanford, with 4 percent preferring
some other candidate and 11
percent undecided. The margin of
error is 4.5 points. In a Sept. 22
poll, Haley had held a 50 percent
to 33 percent margin. (
Rasmussen Reports, Oct. 19). See
related story.
Texas
POLLS FROM MONDAY:
Republican incumbent Rick Perry
leads Democrat Bill White in the
governor's race by 50 percent to
40 percent with 8 percent for
Libertarian Kathie Glass and 2
percent for Green Party candidate
Deb Shafto. Perry is in the lead
even though he does not have
great job approval numbers, with
45 percent approving of his
performance, 37 percent
disapproving, 13 percent neither
approving or disapproving and 5
percent undecided. That's
reflected in the fact that a modest
53 percent of Perry backers
describe their support as "strong."
Seventy-two percent of White
backers say they are strong
supporters. ( University of Texas/
Texas Tribune, Oct. 11-18).
POLLS FROM LAST WEEK:
Republican incumbent Rick Perry
leads Democrat Bill White in the
governor's race by 51 percent to
43 percent with 2 percent
preferring some other candidate
and 5 percent undecided. Perry
had led 53 percent to 42 percent
in an Oct. 6 poll. ( Rasmussen
Reports, Oct. 21).
Washington
POLLS FROM LAST WEEK:
Democratic incumbent Patty
Murray is leading Republican
Dino Rossi by 49 percent to 47
percent with 4 percent undecided.
The margin of error is 2.3 points.
( Public Policy Polling, Oct. 14-
16).
West Virginia
POLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:
Democrat Joe Manchin leads
Republican John Raese by 49
percent to 46 percent with 2
percent favoring some other
candidate and 4 percent
undecided. The margin of error is
4 points. Last week, Raese led by
50 percent to 43 percent. (
Rasmussen Reports, Oct. 26).
POLLS FROM TUESDAY:
Republican John Raese has a
statistically insignificant 48
percent to 46 percent lead over
Democrat Joe Manchin in their
race to fill the Senate seat of the
late Robert Byrd, according to a
Fox News/Pulse Opinion
Research poll conducted Oct. 23.
The margin of error is 3 points.
This outcome is at odds with a
Public Policy Polling survey from
Monday indicating that Manchin
was getting traction in the race.
Nine percent of Raese supports
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and 7 percent of Manchin backers
say they could yet change their
minds. As close as the race is,
Manchin remains hugely popular
with 69 percent approving of the
job he is doing as governor. But
asked whether a desire to keep
him in that job was a factor in
deciding their Senate vote, 62
percent said it was not.
There is a strong anti-Democrat
and anti-President Obama tide
running in the state, and 54
percent say that Manchin sides
too often with Obama on policy
issues -- an impression he has
been trying to dispel, even
declining the other day to say
whether he would support Obama
for a second term, or, if elected to
the Senate, support Harry Reid for
majority leader.
Raese's baggage is that 50
percent of voters believe he is out
of touch with West Virginia
families, while 39 percent
disagree, with 11 percent
undecided. Raese's wife and two
children live in Palm Beach, Fla.
Democrats have been trying to
portray him as a rich, out-of-state
opportunist and have run an ad
saying "John Raese thinks we're
hicks" and notes that Raese's wife
is registered to vote in Florida.
POLLS FROM MONDAY:
Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin
has notched up his lead over
Republican John Raese in the
Senate race, running ahead of him
by 50 percent to 44 percent, with
6 percent undecided. The margin
of error is 2.8 points. Two weeks
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Cardinal-Designate Burke Says Catholics Cannot Vote for Pro-
Choice Candidates
David Gibson (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:22:00 PM
Just ahead of Election Day, one
of the most influential American
churchmen in the Vatican,
Cardinal-designate Raymond L.
Burke, has warned Catholic voters
in the United States that they may
never vote for politicians who
support abortion rights or same-
sex marriage, position usually
associated with Democratic
candidates.
Burke, an outspoken conservative
and the former archbishop of St.
Louis who will be made a cardinal
by Pope Benedict XVI next
month, made his remarks in a
videotaped interview in Rome
with Thomas J. McKenna, head of
Catholic Action for Faith and
Family, a conservative lobbying
group based in San Diego.
In the interview, which Catholic
Action taped on Oct. 20 and
started promoting Thursday on
YouTube, McKenna asks Burke,
"Is it ever licit for a Catholic to
vote for a pro-abortion candidate,
a candidate who either in a
platform or who has voted, has
shown himself to support that. Is
it ever valid?"
"No," Burke answers. "You can
never vote for someone who
favors absolutely the right to
choice of a woman to destroy a
human life in her womb or the
right to a procured abortion."
He adds that voters "may in some
circumstances, where you don't
have any candidate who is
proposing to eliminate all
abortion, choose the candidate
who will most limit this grave evil
in our country. But you could
never justify voting for a
candidate who not only does not
want to limit abortion but believes
that it should be available to
everyone."
Burke also cited same-sex
marriage as the other great threat
to American society that Catholic
voters, like Catholic politicians,
are bound by their faith to oppose.
And he rejected the charge that
such a position discriminates
against gays and lesbians just as
laws once discriminated against
African-Americans.
"Where there is unjust
discrimination -- for instance,
where you say that a fellow
human being, because of the color
of his skin, is not a part of the
same race as someone, say, who is
a Caucasian -- that is a kind of
discrimination which is unjust and
immoral," Burke said.
"But there is a discrimination
which is perfectly just and good,
and that is the discrimination
between what is right and what is
wrong -- between what is
according to our human nature
and what is contrary to our human
nature. So the Catholic Church, in
teaching that sexual acts between
persons of the same sex are
intrinsically evil, are against
nature itself, is simply announcing
the truth, helping people to
discriminate right from wrong in
terms of their own activities."
Since 2008, Burke has been the
top judge on the Vatican's
supreme court and serves on the
powerful Vatican committee that
makes recommendations on the
appointment of bishops to the
pope. When he is formally made a
cardinal in November, the 62-year
-old Burke will also have a vote in
the conclave that will eventually
elect a successor to the 83-year-
old Benedict.
Burke's interview comes at a
politically volatile moment and at
a time when conservative Catholic
lobbies and bloggers in the United
States are more active than ever in
trying to make their voices and
views the dominant ones within
the church and in Catholic
political circles.
Burke has often been at odds
with some of his brother bishops
in the United States, whom he
sees as too lenient in speaking out
against abortion rights and same-
sex marriage and in denying
communion to Catholic
politicians who take positions
contrary to those of the bishops.
The cardinal-designate's latest
comments on Catholic voters also
seem to diverge somewhat from
the current policy of the U.S.
hierarchy, as developed in 2004,
and based in part on advice from
then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,
the Vatican's chief doctrinal
officer who a year later was
elected pope on the death of John
Paul II.
In a letter to the American
bishops meeting in 2004 to
formulate their policy of Catholics
in public life, Ratzinger noted that
a Catholic voter would be unfit to
receive communion "if he were to
deliberately vote for a candidate
precisely because of the
candidate's permissive stand on
abortion and/or euthanasia."
Ratzinger added: "When a
Catholic does not share a
candidate's stand in favor of
abortion and/or euthanasia, but
votes for that candidate for other
reasons, it is considered remote
material cooperation, which can
be permitted in the presence of
proportionate reasons."
Burke's latest statements,
however, seemed to take a harder
line on Catholic voters.
"No matter what good I'm trying
to achieve by voting for a
candidate who favors that good,
but at the same time favors the
intrinsic evil, the grave evil of
abortion, they can never justify
that, voting for that candidate," he
told McKenna.
McKenna said he thinks the
statements by Burke -- one of two
bishops advising his organization
-- are not partisan but make the
electoral choices crystal clear for
Catholic voters.
"Millions of Catholics have no
idea it's a sin to vote for
candidates who favor these grave
evils, which attack the very
foundations of society," he said.
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"This matter-of-fact, pointed
interview granted to me by
Archbishop Raymond Burke in
Rome last week makes it very
clear what the responsibility of
every American Catholic will be
next Tuesday."
In the interview, Burke said he
also rejects the common criticism
that highlighting opposition to
abortion rights and gay marriage
effectively endorses Republican
candidates.
"Sadly, in the society in which we
live, it is oftentimes difficult for
bishops to carry out their office
because they are accused of being
partisan or other accusations are
made against them," Burke said.
"But what a bishop should simply
do is say to himself, 'What does
the Catholic faith teach about this
matter and how can I best
announce it to the people, to alert
them so that they do what in their
consciences they are obliged to
do?'"
Burke's arguments may be moot,
as Catholic voters already seemed
to be swinging -- along with many
other blocs -- away from
Democrats and toward
Republicans, though not always
because of the moral issues Burke
highlighted.
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Wisconsin's Feingold Battles Mood for Change
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 8:48:36 AM
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — Rural
Marathon County has only 2
percent of Wisconsin's population,
but it provides a glimpse of why
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, one of
the Senate's most prominent
liberal Democrats, still finds
himself in an uphill battle to win
re-election next week.
The county, the state's largest at
just under 1 million acres, is home
to dairy farmers who help make
Wisconsin the nation's No. 2 milk
producer and ginseng farmers
who lead the world in production
of the bitter root. Many residents
work at factories producing paper
products.
Conservative voters here might
not be the likeliest allies for a
Harvard-educated lawyer from
near the state capital, but they
have backed Feingold even while
supporting Republican George W.
Bush for president.
This year, however, a darker
mood has settled in, and the latest
polls show Feingold either trailing
his Republican opponent,
businessman Ron Johnson, or
with the race too close to call.
The race provides a vivid
illustration of two key factors
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shaping the midterm election as it
enters its final days — disgruntled
voters eager to shake up
government as the nation's
economic woes drag on, and
extraordinary saturation
advertising by independent
political groups attempting to
sway public opinion.
A recent study found that more
advertising, much of it negative,
had been broadcast about the
Senate race in Wisconsin during
one recent period than in any
other Senate campaign in the
country.
Marathon County has been a
prime target because it's also the
site of a fierce House campaign.
Outside interest groups have
poured $2.8 million into the race
between Democratic state Sen.
Julie Lassa and Republican Sean
Duffy, a former district attorney,
as they vie to replace longtime
Democratic U.S. Rep. David
Obey.
But the primary focus is
Feingold. Every day a broadcast
barrage portrays him either as a
career politician embedded in an
oversize government or a feisty
maverick who can fix what's
broken.
Feingold and Johnson are
hammering away at their
messages in the campaign's final
week. "What I'm telling people is,
I have been very devoted to the
top issues: jobs, the economy and
the deficit," Feingold said
Monday. Says Johnson in a new
TV ad released Tuesday, "We
have to stop Washington's
overtaxing and overspending. It's
killing our jobs."
Some voters are reevaluating
their longtime senator, who was
first elected in 1992.
Gloria Nelson of Wausau said
she previously supported him but
won't this time because of the
federal bailout of Wall Street.
When told that Feingold actually
voted against the bailout, the
grocery-store worker in her mid-
50s hesitated and said, "Well, I'm
still not voting for him. He spends
too much."
Like unhappy voters elsewhere
this year, many here have
concluded that government isn't
working well and something must
be done.
Johnson, a first-time candidate
and tea party favorite who owns a
plastics company, has based his
campaign on scaling back. He
says he'll repeal the health care
reform law and work to create
jobs, and offers no apologies for
having no plan for either. The
Oshkosh manufacturer says he's
running on "who I am, what my
background is."
That Johnson has been running
ahead even though he was
unknown before the race began
speaks volumes about Feingold's
challenge.
In Marathon County, Johnson
doesn't have to convince people
that life could be better.
The state's economic woes have
hit hard in a place where dairy
cows outnumbered people as
recently as a few decades ago.
Local companies that make
windows and prefabricated homes
have struggled in the housing
downturn.
Feingold has responded by
calling upon his greatest political
strength — his face to face
campaigning. He has been
holding his trademark listening
sessions and touting his maverick
credentials — for example, he
was the only Democrat to oppose
Wall Street reform because it
wasn't tough enough, and a
bipartisan negotiator on campaign
-finance reform.
But it's not hard to find one-time
Feingold supporters who are
having second thoughts. Wausau
dairy farmer Don Voelker, 64,
says he thinks Feingold's OK.
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But, "I think it's just time for a
change."
Some voters say Feingold is
getting an unfair rap for problems
that aren't his fault. Brad Karger,
Marathon County's administrator,
said Feingold has a certain magic
when he's dealing with people one
on one. However, "He might not
have that magic this year," Karger
said. "There's a lot of fear out
there."
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Online:
Russ Feingold: http://
www.russfeingold.org
Ron Johnson: http://
www.ronjohnsonforsenate.com
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Heath Shuler May Challenge Pelosi for Karl Rove Not Keen on
Speaker
Patricia Murphy (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:15:00 PM
Capitol Hill Bureau Chief Rep.
Heath Shuler, a conservative
Democrat from North Carolina,
said Wednesday that he would run
against Nancy Pelosi to be
speaker of the House if no other
Democrat steps forward --
presuming, of course, that his
party retains control of the House
in the midterm elections.
His comments came in a WWNC
radio debate with his Republican
opponent, Jeff Miller, and were
first reported by the Asheville
Citizen-Times.
During the debate, Shuler said,
"If there is no viable alternative
[to Pelosi], I will be running for
speaker of the house."
Later, Miller pressed the
congressman for details. "You're
saying you would not vote for
Nancy Pelosi for speaker?" Miller
said.
"If that's the alternative, I will be
voting for myself," Shuler
answered.
"If she's there, you wouldn't vote
for her? You'd vote for yourself?"
Miller clarified. Shuler replied, "I
don't know how I can be any
clearer. I can do as good a job as
anybody in the U.S. Congress,
because I can actually bring
people together."
Despite Shuler's best efforts,
Politics/ 69
Palin Reality Show:
Where's the 'Gravitas'?
Tom Diemer (Politics Daily) promotional clip for the new show
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:45:00 PM -- " Sarah Palin's Alaska." In it,
the mother of five, enjoying the
Correspondent Karl Rove, the great outdoors, says "I would
Republican guru who is helping to rather be doing this than in some
raise tens of millions dollars for stuffy old political office. I'd
Republican candidates this year, rather be out here, being free."
questioned Thursday whether Palin did a "terrific job" as John
Sarah Palin's new reality show on McCain's running mate two years
Discovery will help or hurt her ago, Rove told the Telegraph. But
political ambitions in 2012. "being the vice-presidential
"With all due candor, appearing nominee on the ticket is different
on your own reality show on the from saying, 'I want to be the
Pelosi has been a central theme of speculation is rampant about Discovery Channel, I am not person on the top of the ticket:' "
his campaign to defend his House Pelosi's fate atop the Democratic certain how that fits in the Palin has not said whether she
seat. Miller, along with the caucus should her party lose the American calculus of 'that helps will seek the presidency in two
NRCC, ran an ad against Shuler House or maintain a narrow edge me see you in the Oval Office,' " years. But she is the darling of the
tying him to Pelosi and accusing over the Republicans. House Rove said in an interview with the GOP's right wing and is widely
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ago, this poll had him ahead by
only 3 points. Manchin's personal
popularity remains high, but he
has been struggling against a tide
of anti-Democratic feeling
reflected by the 65 percent of
voters who disapprove of the job
that President Obama is doing. (
Public Policy Polling, Oct. 23-24)
Wisconsin
POLLS FROM WEDNESDAY:
Republican Scott Walker, the
Milwaukee county executive, is
leading Democrat Tom Barrett,
the Milwaukee mayor, by 52
percent to 42 percent in the race
for governor, with 2 percent
preferring some other candidate
and 3 percent undecided. The
margin of error is 4 points. This is
the third poll since Sept. 29 where
Walker has been at the crucial 50
percent mark or above. Walker
benefits by getting 96 percent
support from fellow Republicans
while Barrett has 83 percent
support from Democrats. Walker
has a big advantage among
unaffiliated voters. ( Rasmussen
Reports, Oct. 25)
POLLS FROM TUESDAY:
Republican newcomer Ron
Johnson leads Democratic
incumbent Russ Feingold in the
Senate race by 53 percent to 46
percent with 1 percent undecided,
according to a Rasmussen Reports
poll conducted Oct. 25. The
margin of error is 4 points. That's
not much change from two weeks
ago, when Johnson led by 52
percent to 45 percent. Johnson has
now been above 50 percent in
four straight Rasmussen polls.
Johnson is seen favorably by 58
percent and unfavorably by 41
percent, with 2 percent not sure.
Feingold is seen favorably by 49
percent and unfavorably by 48
percent, with 3 percent not sure.
Johnson is leading among
unaffiliated voters.
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Can Exercise Help Curb Your
Appetite?
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Pharmaceutical companies and
scientists have been working for
decades to find a magic pill to
make us feel more satisfied and
eat less. Fortunately, researchers
at the University of Campinas in
Brazil may have found a link to
making us feel full—without the
use of drugs.
Some of our eating
habits—particularly if they
involve a lot of fatty foods like
fries and pizza—may cause us to
lose the ability to know when
we're full. Some research suggests
that eating excessive amount of
fat creates failures in the brain's
signals that control satiety in the
hypothalamus (the area of the
brain that manages hunger). These
failures can lead to uncontrollable
food intake and, thus, obesity.
Brazilian researchers, led by Jose
Barreto C. Carvalheira, set out to
determine if exercising obese
rodents could restore satiety and
decreased food intake.
The set-up: The researchers
studied a group of rats—half of
which were of normal weight,
while the other half were
considered obese. Both groups
were put under physical exercises
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Voices of faith: Beck, Colbert & Leibowitz

tmatt (GetReligion) and zaydes at the 92nd Street Y. Jewish Standard in New Jersey.
Submitted at 10/28/2010 11:31:02 AMYoung Jews identify with One critique, from Andrew Silow-
Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz (his Carroll, expressed a wish “that
This morning, I received my given name) and admired his tact journalists would move beyond
annual email from The Jewish after former CNN anchor Rick their serial habit of assessing the
Daily Forward, announcing the S a n c h e z m a d e a n t i - S e m i t i c ‘Jewishness’ of various public
“Forward 50,” the newspaper’s comments about him and then figures.”
list of the year’s 50 women and was fired. Stewart recently came However, in this case, journalists
m e n w h o h a v e m a d e a out with a new book, “Earth: A really do not need to pull back
“significant impact on the Jewish Visitor’s Guide to the Human from asking some variation on
story in the past year.” Race,” which is filled with that question as they trek to the
Sure enough, there was the squishy science and funny one- National Mall to cover our
smiling face of the man of the liners. … nation’s latest festival of semi-
hour here in the desperate city of The problem, of course, can we political hero worship.
Washington, D.C., a city in which stated in a simple, yet eternal, However, that is exactly what the
the ruling Democrats are crying question: What does the word principalities and powers at the
out for a symbol of sanity, humor, “Jewish” mean? Washington Post did the other day
hope and chutzpah, a man who is This is an important, yet in the massive Style section look
brave enough to serve as a voice ultimately almost meaningless at Stewart and that thing that he
of moderation, which, of course, question, in this postmodern age. keeps doing. This is the opening
means criticizing President As the Hollywood Jew weblog salvo of “ Just who does Jon
Barack Obama from the cultural puts it: Stewart think he is?”, which
and political left. For some Jews it’s perplexing captures the spirit of the whole:
That man, of course, is Jonathan that Jon Stewart, an American These days, he can claim to be
Stewart Leibowitz. Jewish icon, isn’t religious. How many things: political satirist,
To tell you the truth, I was could the Jew who makes Jewish pseudo-anchorman, media critic,
stunned that he was not listed in “cool” be so indifferent to author, successful businessman,
the Forward Top 5, overall. His Judaism? philanthropist, Emmy Award
Forward 50 biography states the Buried beneath the laughter from magnet. On Monday he arrives in
case this way: his jokes — that he ritually Washington in a new, self-
A Democrat in the White House delights in Big Macs with bacon anointed role: as our national
has hardly tempered the irreverent on Yom Kippur or mocks Israel’s voice of reason, moderation and
and distinctly Jewish voice of the leaders for skipping a U.N. rationality — a uniter, you might
liberal-leaning fake news anchor meeting on Sukkot “you mean, say, not a divider.
Jon Stewart. The 47-year-old the holiday with the huts?” — is a Jon Stewart’s Saturday afternoon
funnyman has entered his 11th deep and hidden disappointment “Rally to Restore Sanity” (merged
year as host of Comedy Central’s that he isn’t really doing what with partner-in-satire Stephen
“The Daily Show,” which has we’re doing. Colbert’s concurrent “March to
grown into a popular nightly Earlier this week, The Berman Keep Fear Alive”) may become
platform to skewer politics and Jewish Policy Archive, a research the largest “nonpartisan” event to
government. … and analysis outfit at NYU, hit the national Mall since …
Stewart is quick to play the offered their findings on the state well, since a couple of months
Jewish card, drop a Zabar’s of Jewish journalism in the
reference or cozy up to bubbes aftermath of a controversy at The VOICES page 75
74 Religion/
Bullying gays in God’s name?
Bobby (GetReligion)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 10:31:56 AM
Just after 7 a.m. today, I found
myself driving a minivan full of
middle-school students. This still-
dark-outside carpool duty
frustrated me for two reasons.
First, I was up late last night
watching my suddenly vintage
Texas Rangers throw batting
practice to the San Francisco
Giants. Second, a school bus that
my children could ride for free
stops just down the street from my
house.
“Why not let your kids ride the
bus?” a logical person might ask.
In fact, a logical person (at least I
consider myself logical) asked his
wife that very question. The
logical person’s wife assured him
that the carpool is the best
solution to the foul-mouthed
bullies who were harassing our 13
-year-old son on the bus. She’d
tried calling the bus driver and
transportation director. That
didn’t really fix the problem. I
proposed that I might make a
single visit to the bus and employ
a baseball bat. For some reason,
the logical person’s wife didn’t
think that was the best idea,
either.
So here we are.
So, if you ask me, “Are bullies a
problem at school?” I’d answer
yes. If you ask me, “Are schools
doing all they can to prevent this
problem?” I’d answer no. I’m not
at all surprised to see this CNN
report this week:
Half of all high school students
say they have bullied someone in
the past year, with nearly as many
saying they have been the victims
of bullying, according to a new
study released this week.
But if you ask me to tie school
bullying to religion, I’d be more
hard-pressed to answer
definitively. My son’s bullies
certainly don’t use any kind of
language that I’ve ever heard
from the pulpit.
Yet the national media narrative
on bullying keeps focusing on
what NPR this week described as
“growing concern that there may
be a religious undercurrent to the
harassment of teens who are seen
as gay.” Surely the flood of
headlines making that case has
nothing to do with the “growing
concern.”
Actually, NPR religion reporter
Barbara Bradley Hagerty’s report
is pretty good — much better than
most that I have read on this
subject.
For one thing, she uses real-life
examples rather than vague
generalities:
Consider Justin Anderson, who
graduated from Blaine High
School outside Minneapolis last
year. He says his teenage years
were a living hell. From sixth
grade on, he heard the same
taunts.
“People say things like, ‘Fags
should just disappear so we don’t
have to deal with them anymore’;
and, ‘Fags are disgusting and
sinful,’ ” he told the Anoka-
Hennepin School Board. “And
still, there was no one intervening.
I began to feel so worthless and
ashamed and unloved that I began
to think about taking my life.”
Anderson told his story at a
public hearing last month — a
hearing convened because in the
past year, the district has seen a
spate of student suicides. Four of
those suicides have been linked to
anti-gay bullying.
Justin Anderson survived. Justin
Aaberg did not. Aaberg, 15, loved
the cello, both playing and
composing numbers like
“Incinerate,” which he posted on
YouTube. Justin was openly gay.
He had plenty of friends, but he
was repeatedly bullied in his
school. In July, his mother,
Tammy, found her teenage son
hanging from his bed frame.
“They were calling him, ‘Faggot,
you’re gay,’ ” she recalls. ” ‘The
Bible says that you’re going to
burn hell.’ ‘God doesn’t love
you.’ Things like that.”
“Fags are disgusting and sinful.”
“God doesn’t love you.” Such
taunts certainly legitimize the
question of religion’s role.
But the anonymous they nature of
the bullies makes it impossible to
really know what role religion
played in these specific cases.
Therein lies the rub. If you see
any media reports that interview
actual bullies, I’d love to hear
their perspective on how their
faith influences them to call
classmates “faggots” and tell them
to burn in hell. I am only half-
joking.
Concerning the “spate of
suicides”: How many is a spate?
What is the overall student
population? How do suicides in
this district compare with national
averages? Are suicides up in this
district? If so, why?
More from the NPR report:
Tammy Aaberg says the school
never called her, even after her
son was physically assaulted. She
was furious at first, but then
began to understand why.
“A lot of teachers do care and do
want to do something, but they’re
afraid to lose their job if they step
in and they’re not neutral,” she
says.
Aaberg says teachers felt they
couldn’t get involved — even
when her son was bullied —
because of the school district’s
“neutrality policy,” which
prohibits employees from taking
sides on matters regarding sexual
orientation. The district says the
policy is meant to apply to the
curriculum. But teachers say it’s
so broadly written that they’re
loath to intervene even when they
hear anti-gay slurs.
Look up cop-out in your
dictionary. That’s my reaction to
any teacher or school official who
would refuse to deal with a
physical assault because of a
“neutrality policy.” Give me a
break.
Of course, the story relies
entirely on the mother’s version
of events. There’s no response
from a teacher or school official.
I’d love to hear firsthand from a
teacher, “Yes, we knew that this
child had been attacked on the
playground, but the neutrality
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policy kept us from doing
anything. Hopefully, we can
change school policy to allow us
to keep bullies from beating up
students at our school.”
The report quotes officials from
the Minnesota Family Council,
“an evangelical group,” as well as
the Family Research Council, also
identified as “evangelical.” In
both cases, more detailed
descriptions of the groups
involved would be helpful, as
evangelical can mean so many
different things.
Likewise, the story features the
“Christian” mother of an 11-year-
old boy who committed suicide.
Again, more detailed information
on the family’s religious
background — and their specific
faith group’s teachings on
homosexuality — would be
helpful.
Hagerty ends her piece this way:
And yet, despite the shifting
views and alliances, there is an
ongoing dilemma: How do
parents and schools protect
vulnerable kids without turning
schools into a battleground for the
culture wars?
Good question. Written by:
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Mollie (GetReligion) occasion of this same Day message, which, admittedly, may began: Catastrophe.
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:00:41 PM celebrated in 2001, emphasized be a new emphasis, hasn’t been Pope Benedict has called on
that “[the universal common well covered. The Pope thinks immigrants to respect the laws
W e ’ v e h a d a n i n t e r e s t i n g good] includes the whole family that countries have the right to and national identity of their host
discussion in a post yesterday o f p e o p l e s , b e y o n d e v e r y regulate their borders and that countries.
about an article on a group that nationalistic egoism. The right to migrants need to integrate into He said that every country had VOICES
monitors Muslim extremism. One emigrate must be considered in their host country? That’s the right to regulate the flow of continued from page 73
of the last commenters, Irenicum, t h i s c o n t e x t . T h e C h u r c h interesting stuff. migration and immigrants had a ago, when another basic-cable TV
had a few interesting parts, such recognizes this right in every I figured that in this election year duty to integrate. star, Glenn Beck, hosted his
as noting how often “we’re stuck human person, in its dual aspect when border regulation is having The Pope’s comments are likely “Restoring Honor” rally on the
in a false dichotomy of ‘every of the possibility to leave one’s a serious impact, this would get to add to the Europe-wide debate steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Muslim is a potential terrorist’ to country and the possibility to some noteworthy coverage. But it about integration of foreigners. Beck claimed his event was
‘there is no radical Islam.’” His enter another country to look for appears that it hasn’t, at least yet. The Vatican traditionally nonpartisan, too.
last line, though, made me think better conditions of life.” The Associated Press issued a identifies with migrants and With less than a week to go, it’s
of another news story: At the same time, States have the four paragraph piece. Reuters had refugees and recently criticised still not exactly clear how Stewart
As an aside, at what point does a right to regulate migration flows seven graphs. The Lubbock France for deporting 1,000 Roma will be using this new platform.
legitimate concern for preserving and to defend their own frontiers, Avalanche-Journal mention was (gypsies) to Romania and No guests or musical acts have
a cultural “tradition/norm” as always guaranteeing the respect only a few dozen words. The Bulgaria. been announced, Stewart has done
many non-Muslim Americans due to the dignity of each and Catholic press did more thorough This is a hot-button topic in only a couple media interviews,
want to do become a xenophobic every human person. Immigrants, coverage. Here’s Catholic News Europe. It is here, too. I really and he’s offered few details about
i m p u l s e t h a t i s p o t e n t i a l l y moreover, have the duty to Service’s piece and here’s wish that more reporters would the rally on his nightly program.
dangerous? A good deal of the integrate into the host Country, Catholic Culture, which said that avail themselves the opportunity Nevertheless, the similarities to
controversy I see seems to come respecting its laws and its national the message sounded several to discuss the topic with more Beck’s rally are just the sort of
about from this very dividing line. identity. “The challenge is to familiar themes about treating all light than heat. Does it have an thing Stewart himself would
A n d s i n c e t h i s i s a b o u t combine the welcome due to refugees with dignity while being effect on policy and discourse satirize on his show if, of course,
journalism, who is writing in a every human being, especially more explicit about the right to when the only times we discuss it weren’t his rally and his TV
public venue about this in a when in need, with a reckoning of defend borders and the need for issues is when more extreme news show in the first place. In his few
nuanced way? what is necessary for both the migrants to assimilate. events provoke it? Written by: pre-rally comments, Stewart has
I thought it was interesting local inhabitants and the new But in general, this nuanced Mollie on October 28, 2010. reached for some of the broad
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Thus, I think it is very strange
that if one reads the rest of the
Style piece, one finds absolutely
zero references to how the
religious or not-so religious
worldview of this Leibowitz
fellow — OK, Stewart — affects
his work or how he views words
such as “reason,” “civility,”
“moderation” and even
“patriotism.” On this front the
article is completely silent or, one
might even say, haunted.
Yet do the following equation in
your mind.
Beck equals, what? The
mainstream media coverage
stressed that he is a Mormon, yet
with a large (and most journalists
incorrectly assume united)
conservative Christian base. That
was part of the story, no way
around it.
Colbert equals, what? The media
is beginning to catch on ( RNS
here, my Scripps piece here) that
he is a Catholic who is quite
progressive on basic political
issues, yet has done a good job of
offering a mixture of statements
on social issues that take the
doctrines of his church quite
seriously. He tries to show respect
for Catholicism, in other words.
It’s his faith and it is the faith that
he is teaching to his children and
to others. That is part of the
Colbert story, no way around it.
Leibowitz (that would be
Stewart) equals, what? Is he a
cultural-secular Jew, a worldview
that would shape how he views a
wide variety of religious
traditionalists, from Orthodox
Jews to orthodox (small “o”)
Christians to who knows who? A
cultural-vaguely religious Jew,
not secular, but with dashes of
postmodern “spirituality” that
blends with all of those snickers
and smirks? A secret religious
Jew who is pretending to be a
secular Jew?
None of this matters, as long as
he’s funny?
Yet, that Style piece accurately
noted that, “Stewart has reached
for some of the broad values and
high-minded themes that Beck’s
did — civility, decency, making
America better — though
admittedly with fewer religious
allusions and more comic
panache.”
The key word? That would be
“fewer.” After all, his worldview
— whatever it is — is shaping his
humor on issues that are clearly
touched by debates about religion,
culture, ethics and morality.
The faith element should be in
the story, since it is in Stewart’s
humor and his public image. On
top of that, religion was a major
part of the Beck rally that Stewart
will be dissecting, if not mocking.
That is part of the Leibowitz (that
would be Stewart) story, no way
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Twitter Debuts Official
App for Windows Phone
Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:54:27 PM
Twitter has just announced an
official mobile app for Windows
Phone. It’s available immediately
for all Windows Phone 7 devices.
Ever since Twitter’s acquisition
of Tweetie earlier this year, the
company has been hard at work
on developing official mobile
apps for various platforms.
Twitter for iPhone came to the
move from your timeline to
App Store in May, and Twitter for
mentions to direct messages,” he
Android rolled out in April, as did
says.
Twitter for BlackBerry.
In developing this app, Twitter’s
While some of the apps aren’t as
engineers and their partners made
full-featured as their third-party
some improvements to an open
competitors, they do feature
source REST API library, Tweet
excellent graphics and the Twitter
Sharp; those improvements will
seal of approval, of course.
also be released as open source
Twitter also says this app is
software.
particularly fast and brings users
Have you tried Twitter for
“all of the features that you’d
Windows Phone yet? Let us know
expect from Twitter.”
what you think in the comments.
Twitter mobile product manager
More About: Mobile 2.0, twitter,
Leland Rechis wrote on the
twitter app, windows phone,
Twitter blog that the UI for this
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The Politics of Public Television
David Horowitz (FrontPage 70’s. Having helped orchestrate
Magazine » FrontPage) the Vietnam crusade for both John
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:43:39 PM F. Kennedy and Lyndon B.
Johnson, Bundy became one of a
Visit Commentary Magazine. large crowd of liberals to leave
E d i t o r ’ s n o t e : W r i t i n g i n the sinking ship of the policy they
C o m m e n t a r y m a g a z i n e i n had charted. In 1966 he found
December 1991, David Horowitz refuge in the presidency of the
penned a detailed critique of PBS, Ford Foundation. Upon taking
in which he showed how public this new job, Bundy told intimates
television promoted left-wing that he intended to make public
politics under the guise of television one of the special
b a l a n c e d j o u r n a l i s m w h i l e objects of his attention, and he
escaping accountability from the then went on to do so.
taxpayers who subsidized its To be sure, he had something to
politically skewed programming. build on. Before his arrival, Ford
The piece, reprinted below, had already funded many of the
remains timely today, as the hundred or more educational
recent firing of Juan Williams stations around the country, to the
o v e r s e e m i n g l y i n n o c u o u s tune of $150 million-a prodigious
remarks has once has again sum for that period-and had done
revealed the gulf between the much to establish the rudiments of
politics of public broadcasting and a fourth national network.
the public it allegedly represents. Before Ford entered the picture,
C r e a t e d b y t h e P u b l i c educational stations had been
Broadcasting Act of 1967, the distinctly homegrown, do-it-
p r e s e n t s y s t e m o f p u b l i c yourself, garden variety in
television is by now one of the character. Operating on an
last E1l Dorados of the Great average of only eight hours a day
Society. From relatively modest and mainly associated with
beginnings it has grown into a universities and schools, they
$1.2-billion leviathan which is devoted themselves to no-frills
virtually free of accountability to instructional fare, tailored to their
the taxpayers who shell out an respective locales. Shakespeare
annual $250 million to pay for the in the Classroom, Today’s Farm,
system while also enabling it to Parents and Dr. Spock, Industry
get matching grants from private on Parade, were typical titles of
individuals, foundations, and the programs that were often
corporations. “bicycled” from one station to the
Of these private benefactors, the next, because there was no
most important historically was “interconnection” link at the
the Ford Foundation, especially time. The unifying factor in all
under the leadership of McGeorge these educational productions, and
Bundy in the late 60’s and early the one that distinguished them
Politics-Right/ 77
across the nation, fully half the
total-$22 million-goes to just
two: WGBH in Boston and
WNET in New York. (Another
$10 million goes to a group of
producers affiliated with WNET,
to three other stations, and to PBS
itself, which brings the
centralized total to 77 percent of
the funds.) This money is then
leveraged against grants from
private foundations and other
sources by a factor as great as
two, three, or even five times the
original amount.
The result is that most major
public-television series-MacNeil/
most clearly from commercial Broadcasting Service (PBS) still Lehrer, American Playhouse,
TV, was their low budgets. It was portray their network as if it were Frontline, NOVA, Sesame Street,
this factor that Ford’s intervention a decentralized service to diverse Great Performances, Masterpiece
transformed. publics, the very incarnation of Theater, and Bill Moyers’s
So great was the change that America’s democratic spirit. A ubiquitous offerings-are produced
there is no organic relation typical statement reads: or “presented” by WNET and
between the high-tech PBS is owned and directed by its WGBH. Others are produced by
p r o f e s s i o n a l i s m o f p u b l i c m e m b e r p u b l i c t e l e v i s i o n a group of stations known as the
television as we now know it and stations, which in turn are “G-7 (after the tag given to the
t h e m o d e s t e f f o r t s o f t h e a c c o u n t a b l e t o t h e i r l o c a l major industrial powers), often
pioneers in the field. An hour of communities. This grassroots with WNET and WGBH as the
MacNeil/Lehrer (perhaps the best network is comprised of stations dominant partners. *
product of the post-Bundy operated by colleges, universities, In creating the new system in
system) costs $96,000, while a state and municipal authorities, the late 60’s, its architects
similar segment of a series like school boards, and community attempted to square the circle
Cosmos or Masterpiece Theater organizations across the nation. o f a g o v e r n m e n t - f u n d e d
might cost three or four times that Y e t n o t w i t h s t a n d i n g institution that would be
much. These figures are certainly organizational complexities of i n d e p e n d e n t o f p o l i t i c a l
much lower than those for Rube Goldberg dimensions, and influence. The result was a
comparable commercial shows the lack of a single programming solution in the form of a
(partly because of special discount a u t h o r i t y , t h e t r u t h i s t h a t problem: a private body-the
arrangements with unions and centralized power dominates C o r p o r a t i o n f o r P u b l i c
talent), but they are still out of the public television and creates its Broadcasting (CPB)-that would
r e a c h o f a n y u n i v e r s i t y o r characteristic voice. Of the 44 distribute the government funds.
community group. ESPITE this million taxpayer dollars annually Compromise was the order of the
change from the early Days, available for programs to the 341
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day. The Carnegie Commission
(whose report had led to the
1967 Act) wanted the
governing board of CPB to be
composed of eminent cultural
figures; Lyndon Johnson wanted
(and got) political appointees.
Carnegie wanted a permanent
funding base in the form of an
excise tax on television sets;
Congress said no. But as a sop
to the broadcasters, emphasis
was placed on the private nature
of CPB as a “heat shield” to
insulate the system from
governmental influence.
Congress also limited CPB’s
mandate, insisting that it be
established on the “bedrock of
localism.” (The idea of an elite
network financed by the taxpayer
would have been political
anathema.) To prevent CPB
from creating a centralized
“fourth network,” Congress
barred it from producing
programs, operating stations, or
managing the “interconnection”
between them. In addition to
insisting on the safeguards of a
decentralized system, Congress
inserted a clause requiring
“fairness, objectivity, and
balance” in all programming of
a controversial nature.
Such was the plan; the product
proved otherwise. With
Congress having agreed to
provide a fund to finance the
stations, Bundy recruited David
Davis of WGBH for the task of
connecting them into a national
voice. Together with Ward
Chamberlin of CPB, Davis
engineered the new
interconnection, which began
operations in 1970 as the Public
Broadcasting Service.
To meet congressional
concerns about preserving
localism, the new Public
Broadcasting Service was to be
controlled by a board of
directors elected by the
“grassroots” subscribing
stations. But Ford ensured that
they, in turn, would be
dominated by the powerful
inner circle of metropolitan
stations it favored. The new PBS
president was Hartford Gunn, the
manager of WGBH.
While this process was working
itself out, political events were
moving in ways that would
fatefully shape its future. Until
1968, the disaffected liberals
who had a share in creating
public television had been
engaged in a family quarrel
with their fellow Democrats.
The Vietnam war had cast
them unexpectedly in an
adversarial posture toward the
anti-Communist liberals who
remained committed to the
Vietnam policy they themselves
had once supported. But in
1968, the presidency fell into
unfriendly Republican hands
and, worse still, into the hands
of the man who, since the trial
of Alger Hiss, had been their
most hated political antagonist.
Now, with Richard Nixon in
the White House, the Vietnam
nightmare no longer belonged
mainly to the liberals.
It was in this period that Bill
Moyers joined WNET to begin
his intellectual odyssey to the
Left. It was in this period,
too, that the Ford Foundation
announced the creation of a
news center in Washington,
which would be staffed by
prominent luminaries from the
media fraternity, several of
whom the Nixon White House
had identified as political
enemies. Among them were
Elizabeth Drew, Robert MacNeil,
and Sander Vanocur.
The loading of these cannons
was duly noted by the White
House, and in June 1972,
Nixon retaliated by vetoing the
CPB funding bill. CPB’s
president and several Johnson-
appointed board members
resigned, and were immediately
replaced with Nixon nominees.
For all the good it did him, Nixon
might have saved himself the
trouble. Two weeks earlier, five
men had been arrested while
breaking into the Watergate
apartment complex in
Washington. By the end of the
year, the most watched show on
public-television stations was
the congressional hearing to
decide whether to impeach the
President. True to its promise to
offer fare that the commercial
channels would not or could
not provide, PBS featured the
hearings on prime time when the
networks had turned to other
entertainments. The result was
a groundswell of support from
new members and contributors.
Even the more conservative
stations, which had been at
loggerheads with PBS, joined
hands with the center to fight
the common foe.
Having humbled the President,
the Democratic Congress now
rushed eagerly to aid its ally in
the Watergate travails. A
significant increase in funds for
public television was authorized
and, more importantly, committed
three years in advance. Congress
also acted to tie CPB’s unreliable
hands. Fifty percent of its non-
discretionary program grants
were now earmarked for the
stations as “general support”-a
percentage that would rise even
higher in the following decade.
The stations, in turn, kicked back
a portion of their grants into a
newly created program fund,
further depriving CPB of
influence over the system
product.
When the dust had settled,
CPB, which Nixon had tried to
make a conservative redoubt,
was discredited and crippled,
while the Ford Foundation’s
protege, PBS, emerged as the
newly dominant power at the
center of the system.
Vietnam and Watergate: public
television’s birth by fire in the
crucible of
these events created its political
culture, which today often seems
frozen in 60’s amber. The one
area of its current-affairs
programming which managed to
escape this fate, ironically, is the
one where the battle with the
Nixon White House was
most directly joined.
Robert MacNeil, as noted, was
among the liberal journalists
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singled out by the Nixon
administration as political
antagonists. But the program he
launched on WNET in 1975, in
collaboration with Jim Lehrer,
turned out to be reasonably fair
and balanced. Originally
devoted to a single subject per
evening, The MacNeil/Lehrer
Report provided in-depth
analysis that network sound-
bites could not duplicate, and
it went on to prosper more
than any other public-television
show besides Sesame Street.
But MacNeil/Lehrer-along with
a few other “talking heads”
shows, most notably Tony
Brown’s Journal and William F.
Buckley’s Firing Line-proved to
be the exception. In other crucial
areas of current-affairs
programming, a different standard
was set. Especially in film
documentaries, where subjects
were treated in a magazine-like
setting that made it possible to
tell a story whole and with an
editorial thrust, the political
personality of the system soon
showed another, more radical
face.
In fact, the protest culture,
which everywhere else had
withered at the end of the
60’s when its fantasies of
revolution collapsed, discovered
a new base of operations in
public television. A cottage
industry of activist
documentarians had sprung up
during the 60’s to make
promotional films for the Black
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A Blue Dog and a Republican
fight for a region that’s fed up
with Washington.
Glenshaw, Pa.-- Joe Laus wants
to win a gun. A job would be
better, but for now, one of the
shiny rifles lying on a plastic table
at the front of Moose Lodge #46
is within reach, and he’s prepared
to sit here all afternoon, hoping.
As the minutes pass, Laus,
huddled in the back with his
friend Len Gebert, tufts of gray
hair poking out from under an
orange hunting cap, thumps his
knee as the raffle numbers of
others are called.
“I’ve been unemployed for over a
year and a half,” Laus tells me as
fellow lodgers, most clad in
Steelers jerseys, line up for
sausage and beer. “Nobody wants
to hire anybody over the age of
61. Most of my friends who are
over 50 can’t find a job.”
#ad#Laus, who worked for years
in the maintenance business,
blames both parties for the
recession. “They’re all a bunch of
crooks,” he says.
Gebert nods. “Nancy Pelosi
passes these bills without reading
them,” he sighs. “It’s sad.”
Two years ago, President Obama,
speaking at a Democratic
fundraiser, famously complained
about the frustrations of such
men. “You go into some of these
small towns in Pennsylvania, and
like a lot of small towns in the
Midwest, the jobs have been gone
now for 25 years and nothing’s
replaced them,” he said. “It’s not
surprising, then, that they get
bitter, they cling to guns or
religion or antipathy to people
who aren’t like them.”
Laus scowls at the mention of
Obama. The stimulus and the
health-care bill, he says, have
done little for Pennsylvania’s steel
country. “I don’t like the GOP,
but I really don’t like what the
Democrats are doing,” he
explains, his rough hands clasped.
Even though his congressman,
two-term Democrat Jason
Altmire, voted against Obamacare
and has voiced his opposition to
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
Laus wants to “throw him out.”
He wants to elect somebody,
anybody, who’s going to “repeal
that bill” and cut taxes.
That’s music to the ears of Keith
Rothfus, Altmire’s Republican
challenger, who hopes to ride the
region’s simmering discontent to
an upset victory on Tuesday. As
he sits on a supporter’s patio a
few miles away, stink bugs and
fireflies dancing under the
overhead lights, Rothfus
acknowledges that he faces an
uphill climb. A Susquehanna poll
released last week shows Altmire
up by twelve points, 47 percent to
35 percent. Rothfus shrugs off the
numbers. The poll, he notes, also
shows that 18 percent of likely
voters remain undecided.
Altmire’s congressional district,
Pennsylvania’s 4th, stretches from
Pittsburgh’s affluent suburbs, with
towns such as Fox Chapel, dotted
with McMansions, to Mercer
County in the north, toward Erie.
In between are narrow highways,
shadowed by the Allegheny
Mountains -- and also by battered
wheat silos and shuttered mills,
the dusty relics of glories past.
John McCain won the district
with 55 percent of the vote in
2008, President Bush with 54
percent in 2004.
Thanks to Altmire’s maneuvering
on the health-care vote, most
pundits predict that he will hold
onto his seat. Charlie Cook and
Stuart Rothenberg rate the contest
as leaning toward the Democrat.
Altmire, a former health-care
lobbyist, has weathered tough
races before: He narrowly toppled
three-term Republican Melissa
Hart in 2006, and kept her from
retaking the seat in 2008.
Rothfus, an attorney who’s
running his first political
campaign, knows that Altmire’s
nay vote on Obamacare may be
the sandbag that stop the GOP
wave from carrying him to
victory. But he says that his
closing strategy could upend
Altmire’s tack to the right. In ads
hitting the airwaves this week,
Rothfus highlights a video in
which Altmire says that repealing
Obamacare is “not a viable
option.” Pointing out that Altmire
is less than committed to repeal,
he says, “swings votes,”
according to his internal polls.
#page#“Altmire has painted a
picture that’s simply not true,”
Rothfus says. “When you vote
with Nancy Pelosi almost 90
percent of the time, you’re a true
liberal.” According to the
Washington Post, Altmire has
voted with a majority of his
Democratic colleagues 88.8
percent of the time during the
current Congress. “Cash for
Clunkers, bailing out the auto
companies, bailing out Fannie and
Freddie, sponsoring card check:
Altmire is more liberal than
George McGovern.”
It’s unclear whether Rothfus’s
charges will stick. Even beyond
Obamacare, Altmire has
positioned himself as a moderate,
Blue Dog Midwestern Democrat.
He voted against the Wall Street
bailout and against cap-and-trade.
“He’s not doing a horrible job,”
says Joe Wall, a “middle-of-the-
road Republican” who is leaning
against the back wall of Moose
Lodge #46. “But he’s a Democrat
in a largely Republican district.
That he continues to survive kind
of shocks me.”
#ad#“He’s had an election-year
conversion,” Rothfus says,
swatting away my mention of
Altmire’s position on the Bush tax
cuts. I had pointed out that at a
recent debate, Altmire argued that
he was “one of only 31 Democrats
to urge the speaker not to hold a
vote unless it included all of the
tax cuts,” and that “this is the
wrong time to be raising taxes on
any individuals or on small
businesses.” Altmire also picked
up the endorsement of the
National Rifle Association and
describes himself as pro-life.
In recent weeks, House GOP
leader John Boehner, House GOP
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whip Eric Cantor, House
Republican Conference chairman
Mike Pence, Steve Forbes, and
others have traveled to western
Pennsylvania to stump for
Rothfus, who has struggled to
raise coin. According to Stephanie
Miller, Rothfus’s campaign
manager, Altmire has over
$500,000 cash on hand, while
there’s only about $135,000 in
Rothfus’s coffers.
Nevertheless, Rothfus believes
his ground game could win him
the seat. Earlier this year, he won
a contested primary by a two-to-
one margin, thanks to Tea Party
support, against Mary Beth
Buchanan, a prominent former
U.S. attorney who is well liked by
Washington Republicans. Since
then, he tells me, his ranks have
swelled, and he now has over 700
volunteers working on his behalf.
His campaign has made over
100,000 calls to voters.
Rothfus, who has struggled to
generate name recognition, may
also be boosted by the candidates
at the top of the ticket. Tom
Corbett, the state’s Republican
attorney general, who is now the
frontrunner in the gubernatorial
race, hails from the district and
has galloped to a large lead in the
polls. Pat Toomey, the GOP
candidate for U.S. Senate, also
polls well in the region.
But it’s the national mood that
Rothfus is counting on. “This is a
district that swings late and fast,”
Rothfus says. “That’s what
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Marrakech Journal, Part IV

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young American woman is when there are tornado-like gales. soirées -- a big Moroccan bash, given what has come before?
speaking. She is saying that, when #*#I meet a Frenchman whose with all the bells and whistles. We #page##*#The next morning,
F riends, welcome to the fourth 9/11 occurred, she had to know name is Patrick. There are many walk down a long, long red carpet there is a session on Iraq, and it
installment of these jottings from what “led to the violence.” She French Patricks -- an Irish name, -- I don’t know about you, but I features Barham Salih, the prime
Morocco, where I’m attending had to get to the “root of these bestowed on many French boys. I don’t do that every day. At minister of Kurdistan, a famously
“Davos in the Desert” -- more tragedies.” The tone is clear, at bring up Jack Lang, the notorious National Review, we just come urbane and capable man. I have
formally, the World Economic least as I perceive it: What did French culture minister from the through the door. On either side long wished that Americans from
Forum on the Middle East and America do to deserve it? (You 1980s (I think). He was the one of the red carpet, there are scores - coast to coast could hear him. I
North Africa. Here are links to the remember that man, that San who made war on the introduction - more like hundreds -- of candles. think they, we, would understand
preceding parts: I, II, and III. Francisco politician, who spoke at of English words into French. A Candles in glasses. And there is a things a lot better. I will get to
T h e r e i s a s e s s i o n c a l l e d a ceremony in that city, a few lot of people thought it was funny hell of a spectacle, with a hell of a Salih in the next installment of
“Meeting Expectations in U.S.- days after 9/11? “Oh, America, that his name was Jack -- not racket. this journal.
Muslim Relations.” Hard to know what did you do?”) “Jacques,” but “Jack.” Dancers are dancing, singers are Here, I would like to tell you
what that means. The panelists are Repeated mention is made of that The Frenchman here in singing, blowers are blowing, something about a young Iranian-
mainly American, and they one kooky pastor who threatened Marrakech says, “Oh, yes. And he flame-throwers are throwing -- are American man, who is also a
include two representatives of the to burn the Koran. Obama did a pronounced his name in the they also swallowing? I don’t speaker in this session. He is
Obama administration. It quickly great and glorious thing, we are English way” -- with the English think I see that. Men sit erect on billed as an expert on Iran, and on
becomes clear that there are told, by making clear that this was “J,” not a “zh” sound. white horses. It is sheer Arabian Iranian-American relations. He is
certain assumptions in this unacceptable. Does anyone say The man says to me, “Does the fantasy, all Disneyesque. with the Carnegie Endowment.
session: that, in free countries, people United States have a ministry of I feel we have been invited to Say no more? (Oh, the uses of that
The burden is on the United sometimes do reprehensible culture?” He says this with a bit Malcolm Forbes’s 70th birthday great man’s money!) No, say a
States to prove that it is not things, but that freedom is good of a twinkle -- a bit of mischief -- or something. Where is Elizabeth little more.
hostile to Muslims. American for all, and that the Muslim world if I have read him right. I say, “No Taylor? #ad#He says, “Iran is to the
society is teeming with racism could definitely use a stronger -- there is a National Endowment Inside the vast tent, a bona fide Middle East what the Tea Party is
and intolerance. Opposition to the dose of freedom? Not that I hear, for the Arts. But Americans feast is served. There is a fish to the United States.” The
“Ground Zero Mosque” is simply no. generally think that culture should bastilla -- or p’stilla, if you prefer audience thinks this is terribly
hateful, bigoted, and wrong. I do hear something I have never be left to people and their various that transliteration -- to die for. clever and true. It is beyond
There could be no good reason to heard before: America must do organizations, not to the And then comes a lamb -- it looks disgusting, of course -- a moral
oppose the construction of that m o r e t h a n “ s e c u r i t i z e t h e government.” practically like a whole one, obscenity. But perfectly par for
mosque. It is simply anti-Muslim relationship” -- “securitize” the An American interjects that this served on a very large silver the course.
b i a s . T h e o n g o i n g w a r s i n relationship between the United is not true: that this is merely a platter. You know the cliché Bear in mind that, apart from
Afghanistan and Iraq are an States and Muslims around the Republican view, not the view of “succulent lamb”? (“Arrant everything else, the Iranian
affront to Muslims everywhere. world. We have to “get away” liberals and Democrats. I guess pedantry,” “grievous error,” regime is one that stones girls to
Does anyone say that the f r o m “ s e c u r i t i z i n g ” t h i s so. But would Americans really “voracious reader,” “succulent death for the crime of having been
overthrow of the Taliban and the r e l a t i o n s h i p , y o u s e e ? go for a ministry of culture? lamb”?) This was one -- a gang-raped.
overthrow of Saddam Hussein “ S e c u r i t i z i n g ” ? Y o u m e a n , Would they stand for a culture succulent lamb to end all Our Carnegie guy also refers to
were righteous acts? Does anyone preventing people from being minister? Wouldn’t most people succulent lambs. the time, a few years ago, “when
say that we are in Afghanistan and blown to bits? You know, people think of a culture minister and a Before dessert, the belly dancers Israel was bombing Lebanon.”
Iraq in order to prevent the return who are threatened with physical ministry of culture as . . . not very come out, shimmying like mad. When Israel was bombing
of monstrous rulers -- and that this v i o l e n c e c a n u s e a l i t t l e American? You don’t have to dream of Lebanon. Is that the way you
is of some benefit to many “ s e c u r i t i z a t i o n . ” Anyway, perhaps Gallup or Jeannie, she is right here. The would put it, my friends? How
Muslim people? Not that I hear, I think you have heard enough someone could give us the dessert is not so good -- not as about “when Israel was pursuing
no. about this particular session. You answer. good as the belly dancers. But
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Panther party, the Weather
Underground, and other
domestic radical groups, and for
Communist countries like Cuba
and Vietnam. This group now
began its own “long march
through the institutions” by
taking its political enthusiasms,
its film-making skills, and its
network of sympathetic left-
wing foundations into the PBS
orbit.
The integration of these
radicals into the liberal PBS
community was made easier
by the convergence of political
agendas at the end of the
Vietnam war, when supporters
of the Communist conquerors
were able to celebrate victory
over a common domestic foe
with liberals who had only
desired an American withdrawal.
Another convergence occurred
around the post-60’s romance
between New Left survivors
and the “Old Left”
Communists, whom cold
warriors like Richard Nixon had
made their targets. Most liberals
shared the radicals’ antipathy
for the anti-Communist Right,
along with their sense that any
political target of the anti-
Communists was by definition
an innocent victim of
persecution.
A Prime Expression of this
liberal-Left convergence was The
Unquiet Death of Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg (1974), a two-hour
special which attempted to
exonerate the most famous
“martyrs” of the anti-
Communist 50’s, and which
PBS described as “the kind of
programming that we enjoy
presenting [and] hope to
continue to present.”
What was striking about the
film was not just that it cast
doubt on the verdict of the
Rosenbergs’ trial; or that it did
so even as massive FBI files
released under the new
Freedom of Information Act
were confirming their guilt; or
even that it went beyond the
airing of questions about the case
to imply that there had been a
government frame-up and that
the verdict represented an
indictment of American justice.
What was most disturbing (and
prophetic in terms of future
PBS productions) was that the
film also amounted to a
political brief for the
Communist Left to which the
Rosenbergs had belonged.
Thus, the narration introduced
the Rosenbergs:
With millions of others they
question an economic and
political system that lays waste
to human lives. Capitalism has
failed. A new system might be
better. Socialism is its name. For
many the vehicle for change is the
Communist party.
The film then cut to an
authority explaining that
Communists were people who
“believed that you couldn’t
have political democracy
without economic democracy….
Being a Communist meant simply
to fight for the rights of the
people….” The authority was
the longtime Stalinist Carl
Marzani, a fact that the
program neglected to mention.
In 1978, to mark the 25th
anniversary of the execution of
the Rosenbergs, PBS ran the
four-year-old documentary
again, adding a half-hour
update. The update confirmed
just how determinedly
ideological some regions of
PBS had become.
The original two-hour program
had been based on the standard
argument for the Rosenbergs’
innocence developed in a well-
known book by Walter and
Miriam Schneir. In the interim,
The Rosenberg File by Ronald
Radosh and Joyce Milton had
appeared, based on the new FBI
materials and on original
interviews with principals in
the case. While concluding that
Julius Rosenberg had been guilty
as charged, the authors-one of
them a former member of the
Rosenberg Defense Committee-
were critical of the death
penalty and of the prosecution
of Ethel Rosenberg, against
whom they believed no
credible case had been made.
Because The Rosenberg File had
been so widely praised as a
“definitive” account, PBS
executives asked the producer
of the documentary, Alvin
Goldstein, to interview Radosh
as part of the “update.” Said
Radosh later:
I couldn’t believe the final
product when I saw it. He cut out
everything I said that
contradicted his film, and left
only the parts that supported
his claims: the failure of the
government to make its case
against Ethel, the injustice of
the sentence. Whereas our book
totally demolished the argument
of his film, viewers watching it
would think I endorsed his
claims. Moscow television
couldn’t have done better. It was
outrageous.
Far from being an isolated
example, the PBS treatment of
the Rosenbergs proved typical.
Individual Communists who
were later admiringly profiled
on PBS specials included Paul
Robeson, Angela Davis,
Dashiell Hammett, Bertolt
Brecht, and Anna Louise
Strong. These were amplified
by the collective portrait Seeing
Red (1986), a 90-minute
celebration of American
Communists as progressive
idealists, and The Good Fight
(1988), a nostalgic tribute to
the Communists who
volunteered to fight in the
Spanish Civil War.
In a clear violation of PBS’s
enabling legislation, this
opening to the discredited pro-
Soviet Left was never balanced
by any reasonably truthful
portrait of American
Communism; nor was it
matched by any provision of
equal time to anti-Communists,
whether of the Left or Right.
Thus, although there were
specials on the personal trials of
American radicals who had
devoted their lives to a political
illusion and enemy power, there
was nothing on the tribulations
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of those former radicals who
had changed their minds in
order to defend their country
and its freedom-Max Eastman,
Jay Lovestone, James
Burnham, Whittaker Chambers,
Bayard Rustin, Sidney Hook.
While PBS searched for silver
linings in the dark clouds of the
Communist Left, it found
mainly negative forces at work
in those American institutions
charged with fighting the
Communist threat, in particular
the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA), which became a PBS
symbol of American evil. In
1980, PBS aired a three-hour
series called On Company
Business, which its producers
described as “the story of 30
years of CIA subversion,
murder, bribery, and torture as
told by an insider and
documented with newsreel film
of actual events.”
The CIA “insider” on whom the
PBS film relied for editorial
guidance was Philip Agee,
who in a 1975 Esquire article
had written: “I aspire to be a
Communist and a
revolutionary.” The same year a
Swiss magazine asked Agee’s
opinion of U.S. and Soviet
intelligence agencies. He replied:
The CIA is plainly on the
wrong side, that is the
capitalistic side. I approve
KGB activities, Communist
activities in general, when they
are to the advantage of the
oppressed. In fact, the KGB is
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The Drug-War Failure
Submitted at 10/28/2010 3:00:32 AM
A metaphorical war has imposed
some very real costs.
I t is indicative of the failure of
the current election to deal with
real issues, apart from unease
about deficits and curiosity about
the endless military effort in the
Near East, that, once again,
almost nothing is asked or uttered
about the proverbial War on
Drugs, even as the virtual civil
war it has caused in Mexico is
amply publicized. Almost
everyone agrees that hard drugs
are a criminal problem, even if
there is disagreement about how
to fight them and dissatisfaction
with the progress to date in doing
so. But marijuana, cannabis, is an
astonishing story of the hideously
expensive and protracted failure
of official policy.
There was an increase of 600
percent in the federal drug-control
budget, from $1.5 billion to $18
billion, between 1981 and 2002,
and it is almost certainly now over
$25 billion, and yet cannabis as an
industry is an almost perfect
illustration of the unstoppable
force of supply-side economics.
Between 1990 and 2007, there
was a 420 percent increase in
cannabis seizures by drug-control
authorities, to about 140,000 tons;
a 150 percent increase in annual
cannabis-related arrests, to about
900,000 people; a 145 percent
increase in average potency of
seized cannabis (delta-9-
tetrahydrocannabinol content);
and a 58 percent decline, inflation
-adjusted, in the retail price of
cannabis throughout the United
States.
#ad#The laws governing cannabis
growth, sale, and use, though
under review in California, where
it is the state’s largest cash crop,
have not been proposed for
serious amendment, although 42
percent of Americans
acknowledge that they have used
cannabis at one time or another.
Despite the drug war’s official
costs of over $2.5 trillion over
about 40 years, comprehensive
research by the authoritative
International Centre for Science in
Drug Policy (ICSDP), a Canadian
organization, but with wide
international expertise and
collaboration, reveals that
cannabis is almost universally
accessible to twelfth-graders in all
parts of the U.S., and that
cannabis use by American twelfth
-graders has increased from 27
percent to 32 percent between
1990 and 2008; and, furthermore,
that among all Americans
between the ages of 19 and 28,
use increased in the same period
from 26 percent to 29 percent.
The argument has been made that
growth of cannabis use would
have been greater without the
drug-war assault on it. But it is
hard to credit that official
discouragement is very closely
related to drug use at all, since
900,000 annual arrests, about half
leading to custodial sentences,
and with very heavy sentences, of
up to 40 years for large-scale
production and sale, have failed to
discourage cannabis use and
traffic.
Extensive U.S. federal-
government research indicates
that the $1.4 billion National
Youth Anti-Drug Media
Campaign has been completely
ineffective and may even have
incited increased drug use by
needlessly publicizing it. Given
the abundant evidence of the
ineffectuality of efforts to restrict
and reduce cannabis use, it is
astonishing that there has been so
little public discussion in the U.S.
of alternative policy courses. The
Netherlands, which has
effectively legalized cannabis use,
has roughly half the incidence of
per capita use as the U.S. And the
U.S. has approximately four times
the per capita level of cocaine use
of a broad selection of countries,
including France, Germany, Italy,
Ukraine, Spain, Israel, Lebanon,
South Africa, China, Japan,
Mexico, and Colombia. Differing
regimes of cannabis
decriminalization have been
instituted by Mexico, Peru, Brazil,
Paraguay, Argentina, and
Portugal, which latter country,
even nine years after
decriminalization, has among the
lowest cannabis-use levels in the
European Union. There is a great
range of policy options available,
and observable in other countries,
including restricting places of use,
registering and rationing,
increasing emphasis on treatment
methods, and separating medical
(use) from criminal (distribution
outside official channels) aspects.
#page#
The argument that marijuana is
“the gateway drug” that leads to
more dangerous drugs and must
therefore be evaluated for its
consequences as well as its direct
effects may have some validity.
But the ICSDP judges that from
76 to 83 percent of the world’s
155 million to 250 million annual
drug users use cannabis, which
may make it a gateway, but also
makes it by far the greatest
enforcement problem, even
though two-thirds to four-fifths of
cannabis users do not use it as a
gateway into hard drugs. A United
Kingdom medical and scientific
panel, using a nine-category
measurement of social and
physical harm, rates cannabis less
damaging and dangerous to
society than alcohol or tobacco.
Those who start on cannabis early
and continue intensive use over
long periods can suffer a range of
psychological problems and
motor impairment, become
vulnerable to respiratory ailments,
and become accident-prone,
especially if driving motor
vehicles or other sophisticated
machinery. But this does not
make up as great a risk of societal
damage, or as high a challenge to
individual health, as legal but
controlled substances.
#ad#There are also profound
social and foreign-policy
questions involved. It is
fundamentally inconceivable that
if the U.S. were absolutely
determined to reduce drug use
substantially, it could not do a
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much more thorough job of
suppressing use within, and of
preventing the entry of foreign-
originated drugs into, the U.S.
The greatest military power in the
world, with, by most
measurements, greater military
strength than all other countries in
the world combined, could seal its
own borders to drugs (as to illegal
immigration), without disturbing
legitimate commerce and tourism.
And the public-policy decision
has been informally concerted to
leave middle-class, prosperous
American secondary-school and
university youth alone with at
least their soft drugs, while
trolling relentlessly through poor
African-American areas rounding
up dealers and users, and
imprisoning them en masse.
For blacks, the chances of being
arrested and charged and
convicted for cannabis offenses
are 300 percent greater than for
whites. Sending nearly half a
million cannabis offenders to
prison each year inflicts a $40,000
annual charge per prisoner, not
counting the processing costs of
the mass-convict-production U.S.
law-enforcement system.
Domestic consumption of
cannabis is an approximately
$140 billion industry in the U.S.,
which, despite large domestic
production, requires large
imports, especially from Mexico,
Canada, and Colombia. In
Mexico, 20,000 metric tons of
cannabis are shipped annually to
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The Rogue Race of Rhode Island
Submitted at 10/28/2010 3:00:46 AM
Republican John Loughlin just
might take another seat from the
Kennedys.
Lincoln, R.I. -- It’s the week
before a momentous election, and
John Loughlin is shaking hands at
a strip mall. He’s feeling better
about his prospects than you’d
expect the Republican candidate
in Rhode Island’s 1st
congressional district to be. Last
Friday, the National Republican
Congressional Committee
released a poll in which Loughlin
tied his Democratic adversary,
David Cicilline, at 41 percent
among likely voters. Among the
most likely voters, Loughlin led,
albeit barely: 45 to 41 percent,
which is within the margin of
error.
Every shaken hand could be the
deciding vote, but Loughlin is
calmness incarnate. He strolls
through the Lincoln Shopping
Center in his burgundy loafers,
seemingly unperturbed -- just like
the man walking next to him, Sen.
Scott Brown (R., Mass.). “This
race reminds me a lot of my race,”
Brown tells a pack of reporters.
Loughlin and Brown do have
much in common -- both are
unassuming Republicans who
have harnessed the current
political climate to give
themselves a chance to win in
liberal northeastern states. Brown
trailed his opponent by 15 points
nine days before he won an
unexpected victory in January of
this year; Loughlin may be a
surprise champ for the GOP on
November 2.
#ad#Extending across Rhode
Island’s northeastern arc, the 1st
congressional district has been
represented by Rep. Patrick
Kennedy since 1995. The son of
the late Sen. Edward Kennedy,
the incumbent won 69 percent of
the vote in 2008, outperforming
President Obama by four points.
Democrats outnumber
Republicans in the Ocean State by
four to one. This district is so blue
that the Cook Partisan Voting
Index gives Democrats a 13-point
advantage here.
But two factors attenuate the
Democrats’ advantage this year.
First, Kennedy isn’t running. In
February, the incumbent
announced that his life was
“taking a new direction” and that
he would retire from Congress.
Second, Cicilline, the mayor of
Providence, is not particularly
popular. In an August poll, the
Democrat posted an approval
rating of only 40 percent. His
support of Providence’s status as
a sanctuary city -- a city that
refuses to enforce laws related to
illegal immigration -- is out of
sync with the 70 percent of Rhode
Islanders who support
government sanctions on
employers of illegal immigrants.
And last month, Cicilline
admitted to mistakenly
taking$20,000 in extra pay over
four years. Loughlin’s campaign
says Cicilline is paying back the
money only because he got
caught.
The warning signs for Cicilline
have been appearing for many
months. In March 2009, the
Feldman Group conducted focus
groups for the mayor in
anticipation of a run for higher
office. The summary memo,
obtained by Loughlin’s advisers
and shared with National Review
Online, reads like Cicilline’s
political obituary. “Voters no
longer view Cicilline as a
reformer,” it says. “They believe
his brother’s writing of a bad
check and the firing of the city’s
tax collector shows that he is no
different than other politicians
who give their family and friends
favors at taxpayer expense.”
In other words, Republicans have
an opening, and Loughlin is ready
to take advantage of it.
A 51-year-old state representative
from Tiverton, Loughlin spent ten
years as a helicopter pilot in the
Rhode Island National Guard. He
later joined NASA as a public-
affairs officer. He served in
Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1995–96
and helped train soldiers headed
to Iraq at Fort Bragg, N.C., in
2003. In December 2004, he
retired as a lieutenant colonel in
the U.S. Army reserve -- ending a
26-year career in the military --
and opened Media-Rite LLC, a
film- and television-production
agency.
On the campaign trail, Loughlin
wears his green U.S. Army jacket
to remind voters of his service.
But when he speaks, he’s all
issues, no biography. “We want to
keep promoting our message of
fiscal conservatism,” he tells
NRO. “We need to repeal and
replace the health-care bill and
send any unused stimulus funds to
the Treasury. The CBO puts out a
list of budget options each year.
In 2009, it identified $140 billion
in savings. I think we should take
a look at that.”
#page#He’s not afraid to throw a
punch. “My opponent’s first vote
would be for Nancy Pelosi as
speaker of the House,” he says.
“And his second vote would be to
raise taxes.” Loughlin warns of
Cicilline, “He thinks we are one
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government program away from
salvation. He’s already come out
with his own $2 billion stimulus
plan.”
Loughlin says “there’s a lot to
like” about the GOP’s “Pledge to
America,” but he warns,
“Whenever I’m asked about the
pledge or the Contract with
America, I say we already have a
contract with America,” pulling a
pocket Constitution of his coat. “I
do support the pledge’s goal to
put an enumerated-powers clause
in all legislation,” he adds.
#ad#And he’s happy to be
compared to Scott Brown, whose
come-from-behind victory he
hopes to repeat. With virtually no
assistance from the national party,
Loughlin is marching his way --
slowly, deliberately -- closer to
victory. For his part, Brown is
happy to oblige, reminding
reporters that the 1st district is not
the Kennedys’ seat but the
people’s seat.
But when a reporter asks
Loughlin if he sees himself as the
next Scott Brown, the candidate,
steady as ever, replies: “I see
myself as the first John
Loughlin.”
-- Brian Bolduc is a William F.
Buckley Jr. Fellow at the National
Review Institute. Brian Bolduc
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WikiLeaks’ Inconvenient Truth about Iraqi Chemical Weapons

James Phillips (The Foundry: conveniently overlook the fact Operation Desert Fox, four days
Conservative Policy News.) that the presence of chemical of air strikes against Iraqi targets,
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:00:16 PM weapons is concrete proof that in December 1998. Many critics
Saddam’s regime failed to comply who charge that the Bush
B u r i e d i n t h e W i k i L e a k s with its legal obligations to Administration conjured up Iraqi
avalanche of documents related to destroy all weapons of mass WMD as a false justification for
the war in Iraq are various reports destruction, as required by the war against Iraq conveniently
about the discovery of chemical cease-fire agreement that ended ignore the fact that the Clinton
w e a p o n s c a c h e s i n s i d e the 1991 Gulf War and more than Administration based its military
Iraq—reports which contradict the a dozen subsequent U.N. Security attacks on the same premise.
revisionist narrative about the C o u n c i l r e s o l u t i o n s . T h i s The WikiLeaks document dump
genesis of the war. Scattered additional evidence of Iraqi is a disturbing and reckless
throughout the roughly 392,000 n o n c o m p l i a n c e f u r n i s h e s politically motivated attack that
documents illegally published by convincing proof, if any is still has passed potentially valuable
WikiLeaks are accounts of U.S., needed, that refutes the revisionist information to hostile forces and
coalition and Iraqi forces n a r r a t i v e t h a t t h e B u s h increased the risks to U.S.,
recovering chemical munitions Administration fought an “illegal” coalition and Iraqi troops and
left behind by Saddam Hussein’s war in Iraq. civilians who continue to fight to
overthrown regime. The revisionist narrative holds against Iraqi Kurds who had • (b) All ballistic missiles with a build a stable democracy in Iraq.
While the chemical munitions that the failure to find massive rebelled against the regime. range greater than 150 kilometres The selective morality and self-
r e c o v e r e d a p p e a r e d t o b e quantities of weapons of mass The burden of proof was on and related major parts, and repair righteous arrogance of the
manufactured before the 1991 destruction (WMD) after the war Iraq’s non-compliant regime, not and production facilities; WikiLeaks crew is breathtaking.
Gulf War, after which Iraqi forces d i s c r e d i t e d t h e B u s h on the “coalition of the willing,” But if anything positive comes out
were required to surrender and Administration’s decision to go to which was enforcing U.N. Not only was Iraq not of their dangerous and misguided
destroy their illegal chemical war in the first place. But in fact, Security Council resolutions. U.N. cooperating with inspectors in actions, it is a reminder that,
weapons, the leaked documents the real rationale for going to war Security Council Resolution 687, destroying its WMD stockpiles contrary to popular wisdom, Iraq
are a reminder that Saddam was that Saddam’s regime was which set the terms of the cease- and facilities, but it also was did in fact possess illegal
Hussein’s regime could not be n o t c o o p e r a t i n g w i t h U . N . fire that ended the 1991 war that found to have missiles that chemical weapons that it failed to
trusted to fulfill its disarmament weapons inspectors and therefore expelled Iraqi forces that had exceeded the 150-kilometer range destroy before the 2003 war.
obligations and fully cooperate the United States and its allies invaded Kuwait, required that: limits. These are clear violations This entry passed through the
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S o m e c o m m e n t a t o r s h a v e stockpiles and the programs to international supervision, of: States. The Bush Administration our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
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these were not the massive confirmed that it had. Iraq already and all related subsystems and merited a military response. The Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
quantities for which the Bush had used prohibited chemical components and all research, Clinton Administration also cited Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Administration claimed it was weapons against Iran in the development, support and Iraq’s noncompliance as Catastrophe.
looking. But these commentators 1980–1988 Iran-Iraq war and manufacturing facilities; justification for launching
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Obamacare Subsidies Are Not a Free Lunch continued from page 79

happened to Melissa Hart in 2006,

Brian Blase (The Foundry: of the tax credit paid by federal becomes ineligible for any
Conservative Policy News.) and it’s happening to Altmire
taxpayers (all else being equal). subsidies. The high marginal tax now. He was able to tie Hart to
Submitted at 10/28/2010 11:00:40 AM According to the Families USA rate at 400 percent of FPL will Bush, and we’ve been able to
report, the total cost of the tax discourage work as income show how Altmire is tied to
Posted October 28th, 2010 at credits will be $110 billion in approaches the upper limit as one President Obama and Nancy
12:00pm in Health Care Print 2014 alone. All else is not equal, grows older, incentivizing Pelosi.”
This Post however. The tax credits will be individuals to retire early or to Rothfus, who began his career as
Families USA is out with a new financed not only by higher taxes change the way they report a systems programmer at IBM
report, Lower Taxes, Lower p a i d b y m a n y m i l l i o n s o f income. This particular subsidy before heading off to Notre Dame
Premiums: The New Health households but also through structure further penalizes upward Law School, is not your typical
Insurance Tax Credit, which lauds substantial Medicare cuts and net income mobility for middle-class mad-as-hell tea-party candidate.
the health insurance tax credits revenue from the CLASS Act individuals. His voice is quiet, and his
(subsidies) in Obamacare. But the scheme. The tax treatment of health care bespectacled, low-key look is the
report tells only half of the story. Second, the tax credits can be and health insurance is opposite of that of Altmire, a
It is true that the tax credits will used only to purchase government complicated, but the new law does strapping former college-football
reduce the effective premium that -approved health plans. Since the disadvantage relative to otherwise not get it right. The Obamacare player. But behind Rothfus’s
many households will face for insurance packages offered identical individuals who would subsidies increase taxes for those polite demeanor, he promises, is a
h e a l t h i n s u r a n c e c o v e r a g e . through the state exchanges have qualify for subsidies through the not receiving the subsidies, tough, conservative spine.
However, the key question from a significant limits on cost-sharing, exchange. This is because an r e q u i r e t h e p u r c h a s e o f #page#In 2006, Rothfus was
policy perspective is whether the the demand for health care employer who does not offer government-approved plans, diagnosed with cancer of the
benefits of the Obamacare tax services will increase. The health coverage will be able to create new inequities in the tax appendix. “December 1, 2006,”
credits outweigh their costs. Since increased demand will put upward i n c r e a s e t h e w a g e s o f h i s code, and penalize work. he recalls, just one month before
the Families USA report failed to pressure on prices, and as a result workforce with his employees This entry passed through the his sixth child was due. At the
list any of the costs or concerns of health insurance premiums will receiving favorable tax treatment Full-Text RSS service — if this is time, his family was living in
t h e O b a m a c a r e t a x c r e d i t s , probably rise. to purchase insurance in the your content and you're reading it Washington, D.C., where Rothfus,
Heritage will fill the void. Third, the tax credits produce exchanges. On net, therefore, on someone else's site, please read a Catholic who cites Pope John
First, the tax credits are going to e n o r m o u s i n e q u i t i e s i n individuals below 250 percent of our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ Paul II as one of his heroes, was
be enormously expensive. The compensation depending on FPL will receive greater net content-only/faq.php working for the Department of
Congressional Budget Office whether the worker has employer- compensation if not offered ESI Five Filters featured article: Homeland Security, coordinating
(CBO) estimated that the average s p o n s o r e d i n s u r a n c e ( E S I ) . and instead purchase heavily Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- faith-based groups in the
subsidy per subsidized enrollee Former CBO Director Douglas s u b s i d i z e d c o v e r a g e i n t h e Reporting of Falluja's Cancer aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
will be between $5,200 and Holtz-Eakin has shown that exchange. Catastrophe. After 18 months filled with
$6,000. Subsidies have to be paid individuals under 250 percent of Fourth, the tax credits create an chemotherapy, surgery, and
for with revenue generated the federal poverty level (FPL) enormous “cliff” effect at 400 worrying about whether he’d beat
through taxes. So the gross benefit who receive health insurance percent of FPL. Once a household the cancer -- which was advanced
is exactly offset by the gross cost through work are at a substantial earns above 400 percent FPL, it -- Rothfus recovered. Soon after,
he ran his first marathon.
Rothfus says his “work hard,
keep your head down” style is
winning votes. In this economy,
he says, no one wants to elect a
posturing politician. Growing up
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The Pakistan Conundrum

Rick Moran (FrontPage horse they are backing. For
Magazine » FrontPage) example, the Pakistani
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:40:12 PM intelligence service, the ISI,
apparently not only knew about
Pakistan is a country that appears the Mumbai attack before it
to echo Winston Churchill’s happened, but was also in on
description of Russia: a riddle, some of the planning according to
wrapped in a mystery, inside an this article in the British
enigma. Even though it acts like
an enemy at times, strategic
Guardian. So the ISI is our
enemy, right?
The Divider-in-
necessity dictates that it must be
treated as an ally. And despite the
Not exactly. The intelligence
agency has also been very
Chief
animus directed toward the United generous in sharing information Rich Trzupek (FrontPage
States by the majority of the Magazine » FrontPage)
on the location of Taliban and al-
populace and several factions in Qaeda leaders hiding in the Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:45:24 PM

the government, both nations mountainous regions of Pakistan

must pretend that all is peaches which has facilitated drone strikes “I don’t want to pit Red America
and cream and that the nearly $7 that have killed many terrorists. against Blue America; I want to
billion in aid the US is doling out And if that doesn’t confuse you, be the President of the United
Pakistan as “making love to a those rational elements — led in a
over the next 5 years has a chance the fact that this same ISI assists States of America.” That was of
cactus.” He writes: practical sense more by [Army
to alter the fact that much of the the Afghanistan Taliban in course one of Barack Obama’s
The contrast between the CIC General] Kayani than civilian
country wants to see the US planning operations that kill signature lines when he was on
meetings and the report reveal the officials — and collaborate with
defeated in Afghanistan. Americans will almost surely the campaign trail in 2008. Those
core conundrum the Obama them in addressing the threats that
A delegation headed up by have your head spinning. words succinctly expressed a
administration faces with regard President Obama himself has
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah This is a conundrum without an dream that has always appealed to
to Pakistan. No country is home famously likened to a “cancer.”
Mahmood Qureshi visited easy solution. Pakistan is vital to the electorate: finding a leader
to more urgent risks. While near But in so doing, the United States
Washington last week to hob nob our efforts in Afghanistan. It is a who would put an end to partisan
the top of the list of those risks are must embrace a government that
with American officials on aid nuclear power at loggerheads with bickering and political
the presence and day-to-day is fractured — divided in and
packages, military cooperation in another ally and nuclear power propaganda. Americans
violent agenda of al Qaeda, against itself (within every sub-
the war on terror, and other bi- India. It is on the frontline of the desperately wanted to believe that
Lashkar-e-Taiba and other such unit it seems, you find another
lateral concerns. But in many battle against terrorists, while Barack Obama was just such a
militant organizations, at the very split).
respects, it is what wasn’t engaging those terrorists at times man, but of course he never was.
top is that the rational elements in The catch is to figure out who’s
discussed that reveals more about to serve its own interests. Soon after he took the oath of
the Pakistani government might on our side and who isn’t — a
the current state of our relations office, it became apparent that the
lose control of some or all of the task made all the more difficult
with Pakistan than anything else. Great Uniter was going to be as
country’s nuclear arsenal. The because for some of the players in
Foreign Policy’s David Rothkopf polarizing a president as the
United States seeks to shore up Pakistan, it depends on which
describes our relations with nation has seen for quite some
time. Indeed, another couple of
sentences from the president’s
2008 stump speech come to mind.
Obama used them to attack the
Bush administration, but they

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The GOP’s Real Challenge
Frank Crimi (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/27/2010 11:32:03 PM
Despite the Republican Party’s
current optimism over its political
chances in the upcoming midterm
election, the recent release by the
Treasury Department of the latest
national debt figures may portend
unforeseen problems for the
party’s future electoral prospects.
While Democrats may be held
accountable by voters in
November for our fiscal
nightmare, Republicans may
actually be the ones to suffer the
longer-term effects.
The Treasury Department’s
report shows the national debt has
increased by $3 trillion over the
two years of the Obama
presidency, raising the nation’s
new overall debt total to $13.655
trillion. At the current rate of
spending, the total debt
accumulated by the end of
Obama’s first term will be $5.9
trillion, compared to the $4.9
trillion accumulated over the
entire eight years of the Bush
administration.
While it can certainly be argued
that both political parties share a
degree of blame in this economic
calamity, their level of complicity
is highly different. The Bush
administration and its
congressional Republican
counterparts were certainly
profligate spenders, greatly
increasing expenditures on such
things as education and anti-
poverty programs, as well as
enacting a huge Medicare drug
entitlement, with nary a nod
toward balancing a budget.
Republicans, of course, paid a
heavy political price for these
reckless spending habits, losing
control of both the House and
Senate in 2006.
However, the collapse of the
financial markets at the end of
2008 saw the Bush administration
and a Democratically-controlled
Congress join hands and produce
both a series of bailouts and a
stimulus package that totaled in
excess of $1.25 trillion, exploding
the federal deficit from $565
billion in fiscal year 2008 to $1.41
trillion in 2009. In the process, the
national debt rose to $10 trillion.
While the debt issue was no
doubt severe, the entrance of
Barack Obama onto the scene,
coupled with unchecked
Democratic power, inflamed the
situation with a mix of tax and
spend policies, beginning with a
second $700 billion stimulus
program in early 2009 and ending
with a $1 trillion healthcare
reform entitlement in 2010. The
result of these and other measures
brought budget deficits of $1.56
trillion in 2010; $1.27 trillion in
2011; and a projected 2012
national debt of $16.5 trillion.
The problem for Democrats is
that until 2008, concerns over
budget deficits and the national
debt were generally reserved for
fiscal hawks, not for the general
populace. These were issues
whose consequences could be
masked in good economic times
and easily kicked down the road
for future generations to handle.
Concerns about runaway federal
spending, however, now have the
rapt attention of the public
because the tab for these policies
has come due amidst a severe
economic downturn, heightening
voter unease about the effects that
massive public debt will have on
both their immediate and future
financial prospects.
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Needs Affordable
Energy
David Kreutzer (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 12:00:14 PM
Posted October 28th, 2010 at
1:00pm in Energy and
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Proposition 23 seeks to put some
of California’s more egregious
energy regulations on hold—at
least until the California economy
recovers. Current law will force
consumers to switch to energy
sources that can be four or more
times as expensive as
conventional energy, driving
energy prices up, employers out,
and consumers crazy. The current
rules make especially little sense
in the current economic
environment.
In addition to the standard
environmental groups, those
financing the opposition to
Proposition 23 are mainly
financiers who stand to gain from
restrictions on conventional
energy and billionaires who are
far removed from worries over
monthly energy bills and losing a
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Hezbollah, which would not stop
killing innocents”? That is not
something you would be likely to
hear, in this setting.
But this fellow does say a couple
of things that make me smile. He
says, “In the Middle East, there
are too many rulers and too few
leaders.” A tad trite, maybe, but
nice: and true. He also says (and I
paraphrase), “They have a saying
in the State Department: There are
only two countries in which you
don’t get clientitis. Only two
countries in which an American
diplomat doesn’t become overly
sympathetic to the government.
Only two countries in which, the
more you are exposed to the
government, the less sympathetic
you become to it. And those
countries are Russia and Iran.”
I’m going to give you a lot of
Salih in the next installment, but
let me relate just one thing now.
He is asked about the impending
execution of Tariq Aziz. He says,
“I’m personally opposed to capital
punishment, and Iraq does not
need more executions. It needs to
move on.” But these matters are
properly dealt with by the courts,
and politicians should stay out of
them.
I wonder whether he opposed the
execution of Saddam Hussein. For
consistency’s sake and all . . .
#*#When I was a kid, and first
went to Buckingham Palace, I
wondered how the guards could
stand it: How could they just
stand there and stare for all that
time, until finally relieved by a
changing of the guard? What did
they think about? I knew that I
couldn’t handle it for one minute.
I have a similar thought here.
Along the main road, outside the
compound where our conference
is being held, there are soldiers
standing sentry, keeping a watch:
a lone soldier every 125 yards or
so. What do they think about?
What would I think about? (I
shudder to think.) A real
discipline must be involved.
#*#There are lots of camels about,
and plenty of people riding them.
Not me, though. I swore never
again. Of course, I have broken
that pledge. After the camel at the
Pyramids, I said, No, never again.
And I went and did it again: in
India, because friends were going
for a ride, and because of the
principle “When in Rome . . .”
There was that terrible moment
when, atop that Indian camel, I
checked my BlackBerry: Then I
knew I had a problem: a problem
with my BlackBerry. But my
rationalization and consolation is
this: I was just trying to distract
myself from the ordeal of the
camel and the pestiferous,
conniving young man leading it.
The object of a camel ride, for the
driver, is to extract from you as
much money as possible.
Is that capitalism? I don’t think
so, but it is something. Anyway,
gotta go -- though not on a camel.
See you for Part V? I’ve got stuff.
#JAYBOOK# Jay Nordlinger
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resonate all the more strongly
today: “We were promised a
uniter, and we got a president who
could not even lead the half of the
country that voted for him,”
Obama said. “We were promised
a more ethical and more efficient
government, and instead we have
a town called Washington that is
more corrupt and more wasteful
than it was before.”
Today, the president’s centrist
façade – one that fooled even
some erstwhile conservatives –
has been completely stripped
away. We don’t have a post-
racial, post-partisan president who
is going to nurture compromise
and understanding. We rather
have a president who highlights
and exploits racial and ideological
divisions for political purposes.
We have a president whose idea
of compromise is that anyone who
disagrees with his policies ought
to change their mind or shut up.
All of these unseemly tactics – the
very tactics that Obama
condemned two short years ago –
are on full display as Election Day
2010 draws near. Desperate to
salvage a Democratic majority in
at least one house of Congress,
the president is using the politics
of fear and division like a
sledgehammer, hoping to carve
out just enough voting blocs to
save the day.
Channeling Harry Reid, Obama
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recently implied that the
Republican Party is the enemy of
the Latino community in
America. The president said: “If
Latinos sit out the election instead
of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish
our enemies and we’re gonna
reward our friends who stand with
us on issues that are important to
us’ … then I think it’s gonna be
harder.” He’s not even bothering
to try to be subtle anymore. The
idea that politicians of either party
should do what’s best for all
Americans, regardless of race, has
been tossed out the window in
name of political expediency.
Campaigning in Rhode Island,
the president once again dragged
out his tired “car in the ditch”
metaphor, but with an unfortunate
twist. Describing his
administration’s soon to be
successful (any day now – just
you wait and see) efforts to get
the economy back on track,
Obama said the car would soon be
moving again. However: “We
can’t have special interests sitting
shotgun,” he declared. “We gotta
have middle class families up in
front. We don’t mind the
Republicans joining us. They can
come for the ride, but they gotta
sit in back.”
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Thirty-Second Terror Plot Is a continued from page 81

not doing enough in this regard subverting American policy.

Reminder of What Works because the USSR depends
upon the people to free
The wilder shores of this kind
of conspiracy thesis were
Jena McNeill (The Foundry: themselves. Between the subsequently explored in two
Conservative Policy News.) overdone activities that the CIA Frontline programs, Murder on
Submitted at 10/28/2010 10:00:49 AM
initiates and the more modest the Rio San Juan (1988) and
activities of the KGB there is Guns, Drugs, and the CIA
Posted October 28th, 2010 at absolutely no comparison. (1988), which leaned heavily
11:00am in Protect America Print Agee had been expelled from on the fantasies of the far-Left
This Post the Netherlands, France, and Christic Institute. The Secret
Yesterday, the FBI announced England because of his contacts Government was followed by a
the arrest of a Virginia man, with Soviet and Cuban four-part series called Secret
Farooque Ahmed, on charges of intelligence agents, but the PBS Intelligence (1988), which, like
“providing material support to special identified him only by all three of its predecessors,
terrorists and collecting the caption “CIA: 1959-1969.” rehearsed the standard litany of
information for a terrorist attack.” When Reed Irvine of left-wing complaints-Iran,
Ahmed is suspected of plotting to Accuracy in Media (AIM) and Guatemala, the Bay of Pigs,
bomb several locations around the other critics objected to the Chile-and culminated in a one-
D.C. area, including several program’s “disinformation,” sided view of the Iran-contra
stations in the Metro rail system. they were dismissed out of hand affair as an anti-constitutional
This arrest will have quite a few by Barry Chase, the PBS vice plot.
commuters on edge. Yet, this is a president for News and Public All these programs judged the
good example of the right way to Affairs. Chase even sent a CIA to be more of a threat to
this threat at the top of its centers in order to make them less memo to all PBS stations American institutions than a
stop terrorist plots against the
domestic security priorities. o f a t a r g e t f o r t e r r o r i s t s . describing On Company Business guardian of American security.
United States—early on and
Millions in taxpayer dollars were Attempting to child proof the a s “ a h i g h l y r e s p o n s i b l e And while PBS officials
before a plan of attack can ever
shoved into the stimulus bill for Washington D.C. transportation overview of the CIA’s history continued to pay lip service to
get off the ground. In fact, the FBI
rail/subway (ex. $6.6 million for system by throwing more dollars and a major contribution to the the idea of “balance,” no
has emphasized that they
Chicago alone for subway and at physical security measures or ongoing debate on the CIA’s sympathetic portrait of the
infiltrated the plot so early in the
commuter rail security). silly regulations is the wrong way past, present, and future.” CIA’s cold war activities was
process that the public was never
However, this plot demonstrates to stop terrorism—making it more PBS’s next summary view of ever aired, no equally partisan
in any danger.
that rail threats are not unique and difficult for everyone to get to American intelligence was a Bill account of its role in
Too often, rail security rhetoric
can be prevented in the same work, wasting more taxpayer Moyers special called The supporting the anti-Communist
from Congress and the White
e x a c t w a y a s o t h e r t e r r o r dollars, and simply not making Secret Government (1987), rebels in Afghanistan or Angola.
House has focused on
plots—through robust information Americans any safer. which insinuated what no
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in a middle-class home in Buffalo,
N.Y., Rothfus saw firsthand how
former industrial towns struggle
with a changing economy, and
what kind of person is needed to
help lead them out of the dark.
One such hero was his local
congressman, the late Jack Kemp.
Same with Ronald Reagan: “I
turned 18 in 1980,” he laughs.
“The die was cast.”
#ad#Rothfus moved to the district
in 1997 with his wife, who grew
up a few streets away from where
we sit. “It’s the same people up
there, the same types of
businesses,” he says. “Buffalo, I
think, fell harder than Pittsburgh.
Both are fighting to come back.”
As the campaign hurtles toward
its final weekend, Rothfus
remains upbeat. Conservative
Democrats, Altmire’s base, can be
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job. The problem for the other 37
million Californians is that they
do worry about how they can pay
higher energy bills and about
getting and keeping a job.
The notion that restricting access
to affordable energy will make us
world leaders in the production of
alternative technology doesn’t
jibe with past experience. We are
world leaders in the consumption
of televisions, cell phones, and
virtually all other consumer
electronics, yet we import the
overwhelming majority of these
goods. Mandating consumption is
different from stimulating
won over, he says. In
Westmoreland and Beaver
counties, Rothfus sees ample
opportunity to peel off “Reagan
Democrats,” who, like Joe Laus,
remain angry about the Obama
agenda. “I am staying focused,”
Rothfus says. “It’s about jobs, the
debt, and stopping the big-
government agenda. We’ve been
very effective in trying to bring
that message home, talking about
those three points.”
“We’re up in no-man’s land right
now,” Rothfus continues, as his
supporters munch on homemade
casserole and brownies inside.
“We climbed up out of the
trenches last week, and I figured
that two weeks out, we’re going
for the machine-gunner’s nest on
the other side of the fence. They’ll
fire bullets at me, but we’re
domestic production.
As Californians contemplate the
energy-regulations-create-jobs
theory, they might want to talk to
workers in a Winchester, Virginia,
light-bulb factory. In anticipation
of the regulatory phase-out of
conventional light bulbs, GE shut
down the factory down.
Retrofitting the factory to make
the new bulbs was too expensive,
so the replacements will come
mostly from China.
Of course, there may be some
alternative sources of energy that
will be cost effective in the future.
Just as cars replaced horse-drawn
fighting to save the country.
We’re giving it all we’ve got. It’ll
be a nail-biter.”
If Republicans hope to gain an
ample majority in the House,
Pennsylvania’s 4th is a district
they’ll need to win. Rothfus, for
his part, knows the stakes, but
he’s not letting the pressure show.
“If we win the election, great,”
Rothfus tells me as he heads home
after a long day on the trail. “If
we don’t, I’ll be at home reading
books to my kids. But I see what’s
unfolding across the country, and
I think we’re going to win this.”
-- Robert Costa is a political
reporter for National Review.
Robert Costa
carriages and electric lights
replaced kerosene lamps (which
replaced whale-oil lamps) and
jetliners replaced passenger steam
ships, it is likely that some new
forms of energy will out-compete
the old forms. If so, the
developers won’t need mandates
to get consumers to use them.
Legislation outlawing ships, oil
lamps, and buggies wasn’t
required to develop the
replacements. It certainly
wouldn’t have helped to outlaw
those goods before their
replacements were ready.
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the U.S., and the U.S. is in the
position of telling foreign nations
to cease production, while it will
not impose the same solution on
itself nor even make an all-out
effort to discourage imports. The
result is a virtual civil war in
Mexico, where 28,000 people
have died in drug-related violence
in the last four years, five times
the number of Americans who
have died in Iraq and Afghanistan
in the last nine years. The
beneficiaries of official American
policy are the drug cartels, who
make billions on it annually, and
maintain private paramilitary
forces including armored vehicles,
submersible drug-transport ships,
and a range of aircraft.
There is room for legitimate
argument about what course the
U.S. should follow in drug-control
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policy, but there is no possible
dispute that the present course has
been such an unmitigated failure
that it has aggravated the societal
problem, strained relations with
friendly foreign countries and
destabilized some, and, as Milton
Friedman said in 1991,
constituted a protectionist
bonanza for the most virulent and
sociopathic elements of organized
crime. In comparison, Prohibition,
which handed the liquor business
to Al Capone and his analogues,
was a howling success, and it was
repealed after 14 years. Surely,
we can do better than this. But as
with most other urgent issues, we
are completing a pyrotechnic
midterm-election campaign with
scarcely a peep being raised on a
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subject that affects almost half the
population of the United States.
– Conrad Black is the author of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
Champion of Freedom and
Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full.
He can be reached at
cbletters@gmail.com. Conrad
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Box.net Ups Its Cloud Storage Offerings

Christina Warren (Mashable!) Levie said that just as this growth free and now have a data limit of
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:03:44 PM in storage capacities has had an 5GB. The maximum file size is
impact on consumers, it has also 25MB unless you upgrade to one
Cloud storage and collaboration had an impact on data centers. It’s of the greater storage plans for
p l a t f o r m B o x . n e t h a s j u s t now possible for data centers to $10 or $20 a month.
announced some major storage offer more storage for the same • Business accounts— This starts
upgrades for its business and price. That’s why Box.net decided at $15 a month per user (three- What the Future
personal plans. that now would be a good time to user minimum) and offers 500GB
In the past, Box.net offered its upgrade its offerings. of total storage and file sizes of up Holds for B2B Social
free personal account users 1GB Box.net was originally started as to 2GB. Media Marketing
of storage. That cap has now been a cloud storage platform — • Enterprise accounts— These
moved up to 5GB, which is one of similar in some ways to what Ben Parr (Mashable!)
plans are $35 per user per month
the most generous free offerings Dropbox is today. However, over (call Box.net to set this up) and Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:17:59 PM
achieved SAS 70 II certification,
from any cloud-based sharing the past five years, the platform there is an unlimited amount of
offers 256-bit encryption and now The B2B Social Media
service. Business accounts, which has evolved significantly. It’s less storage space. Like the business
has dual-data centers with 99.98% Marketing Series is supported by
previously had incremental sizes about indiscriminate storage and plan, maximum file sizes are 2GB
uptime. IDG Enterprise. Understand how
on a per-user basis will now start more about becoming a content per file.
Box has also been working on IT decision-makers are accessing
out at 500GB for the shared management and collaboration
making its search faster, adding to information and how you can
workspace. platform. It’s more similar to Do you use something like
its mobile offerings and updating engage them with successful multi
For Box.net enterprise customers, s o m e t h i n g l i k e M i c r o s o f t Box.net or SharePoint to share
some of its workflow tools. -channel programs. Learn more.
Box.net will also now offer SharePoint both in its featureset documents in your business? Let
Box.net wants to be a location- Promoting a brand through social
unlimited cloud storage for and its scope. us know. Reviews: Dropbox,
agnostic cloud server so that media is no longer unique or
documents and files. Box.net shared this comparison Google Docs
businesses large and small can novel — it’s simply the norm.
We spoke to Box.net co-founder between its new cloud offerings, More About: box.net, cloud
access their documents from From Starbucks to taco trucks, the
and CEO Aaron Levie about the as compared to those of its collaboration, cloud computing,
anywhere. After all, that is the use of social tools like Facebook
new storage tiers and Box’s c o m p e t i t o r s i n t h e c o n t e n t cloud storage, sharepoint
promise of the cloud; rather than and Twitter to spread awareness
overreaching goals for making the management and collaboration For more Tech coverage:
needing your own servers and about a business to customers is
cloud more infinite. space: • Follow Mashable Tech on
intranets for document storage widespread because that’s where
Box.net started in 2005 and at We should point out that you can Twitter
and collaboration, the data can be brands find prospective customers
that time, Levie pointed out, actually hook Box.net up to • Become a Fan on Facebook
stored in the cloud, making it and engage with existing patrons.
400GB was the size of your Salesforce.com and Google Docs • Subscribe to the Tech channel
possible to access from more But what about the use of social
typical, large capacity hard drive. and Google Apps. Other Cloud • Download our free apps for
types of devices and from more media between businesses?
Five years later, for the same Upgrades iPhone and iPad
locations. Pricing Business-to-business (B2B)
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Box.net’s pricing is as follows: social media is a different animal.
in 2005, you can get a 2TB drive storage offerings, Box.net has also
• Personal accounts— These are B2B and enterprise companies
today. upgraded its cloud. Box.net just
aren’t trying to convert millions
of individual consumers into
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customers — they’re trying to
convince a smaller group of
companies with bigger budgets to
buy their products or services.
Social media’s power to spread a
message across the web isn’t as
relevant.
That doesn’t mean social media
doesn’t have a place in the B2B
world, though. On the contrary, a
lot of these companies have found
social media to be extremely
useful in generating leads,
performing market research and
establishing themselves as
thought leaders.
We’ve already written about
ways to use social media for the
enterprise, but now we want to
explore a different topic: how
B2B companies will use social
media in the future. To do that
though, we need to explore the
current state of social media in the
enterprise. What B2B Marketers
Use Social Media For
While you might assume that
B2B companies are less engaged
in social media than their B2C
counterparts, you’d actually be
wrong. In a study of social media
use conducted by Business.com
last year, it was revealed that
North American B2B companies
are more likely to be using social
media tools when compared to
B2C companies.
Here are some examples:
• 81% of B2B companies were
likely to maintain company-
related profiles on social
networks, compared to 67% of
B2C companies.
• That gap stayed true for a wide
range of social media activities;
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75% of B2B companies that Twitter is often their tool of mobile and engagement. She social media accounts to
participated in Twitter (compared choice. seemed especially excited by communicate with developers,
to 49% for B2C), 74% hosted a Still, as social media strategist of video’s potential to tell a story which has resulted in innovations
blog (compared to 55% for B2C), the PayPal X Platform Sudha and spur new engagement. We such as PayPal Apps and its
and 66% engaged in online Jamthe told me in an interview, wouldn’t expect anything less Micropayments for Digital Goods
discussions (compared to 43% of thought leadership and customer from her, though; Cisco is the product.
B2C companies). service are “low-hanging fruit” owner of the Flip camcorder, after Jamthe believes that the future of
• B2C and B2B companies were for B2B marketers. Social media all. Social Media Shaping the B2B social media marketing is in
just as likely to be monitoring is capable of so much more. What Product companies’ ability to use social
user reviews (B2B: 49%, B2C: Tools Will B2B Marketers Use? PayPal’s Sudha Jamthe believes feedback to adapt their products
51%) and manage a community B2B social media marketing is we’ve only seen the tip of the based off criticism and comments.
dedicated to customers (B2B: still very much in its infancy. iceberg when it comes to B2B She also stresses though that
49%, B2C: 51%). Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and social media. While social media social is going to become more
• One of the only areas where most of the social tools we use may be used for thought integrated in not only B2B
B2C was more active than B2B in today are just a few years old. leadership and customer service marketing campaigns, but in
social media was advertising on Companies are just starting to today, she thinks its real power is actual products. This will provide
social networks (B2B: 42%, B2C: really discover the power of social in real-time feedback. an even more direct way to solicit
54%). and what it can do for a PayPal is utilized by millions of feedback and innovate based off
• In terms of the tools B2B company’s bottom line. consumers worldwide, but it also of that.
companies use, 77% used In other words, there’s a lot of has countless merchants as “In B2C, there are a lot of tools
Facebook (compared to 83% for room for growth. So what’s next customers and developers and that measure the conversation,”
B2C) and 73% utilized Twitter for B2B social media marketing? small businesses as partners, all of she said. “How many
(compared to a shockingly smaller To find out, I consulted some of which it wants to reach via social conversations, what was the reach
45% for B2C companies). the best minds in the B2B social media. Sudha believes that a lot of my campaign? It doesn’t mean
marketing space. of B2B marketers are using it anything in a B2B setting.
Why are so many B2B marketers Autumn Truong, manager of simply as a broadcast platform, Talking to vendors, so what? It
using social media, though? social media and corporate when its real value is in making should be different for B2B, and it
According to a study analyzed by communications at Cisco, says customers your partner. needs to be about real ROI. It
eMarketer, the majority of B2B that she sees social as one of the Her example was the PayPal translates to cost saving.”
marketers (60%) said they use k e y c h a n n e l s t o r e a c h i n g Developer platform. She says that The ROI of B2B social media
social media to provide “thought i n f l u e n c e r s a n d b u i l d i n g PayPal simply can’t know all of depends not only on tracking
leadership” for their brand. awareness about B2B initiatives. the potential APIs and feature engagement, but on figuring out
Another 49% said they used She specifically pointed to the requests its developer community where it saves a company money.
social networks to generate leads, social media efforts of Cisco’s wants and needs in order for them Jamthe argues that social media’s
46% for customer feedback, 35% executives (a big example: CTO to build applications and products cost savings come in its ability to
for advertising and 29% for Padmasree Warrior, who has on its platform. The company has get market feedback and even
market research. nearly 1.4 million followers). two primary options for getting new product ideas at a fraction of
The inescapable conclusion is Really though, it boils down to feedback from them: market the cost. Three Takeaways
that the use of social media in a one thing Truong said during our research or social media. The There’s a lot to be excited about
B2B setting is more popular than interview: “How can we mobilize problem with market research if you’re a B2B social media
m o s t p e o p l e w o u l d e x p e c t . a captivated audience to do though is its drastically high costs. marketer, because we’re just
Businesses are mostly using it to something on our behalf?” Social media, on the other hand, starting to realize how powerful
develop thought leadership and Truong believes the future of can be a direct channel for social media can really be for
customer service. Because of B2B social media marketing will customers to express what they WHAT page 93
that, we’re not surprised to find focus on three key areas: video, really want. PayPal has used its
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enterprise organizations. While
today it may be about the social
tools we use to spread our
message, tomorrow it will be
about the platforms utilized to
engage in constructive and
effective conversations.
With that said, here are my three
key points to remember about the
future of social media for B2B
companies:
• B2B social media will be less
about marketing and more about
thought leadership and
crowdsourced feedback.
• Twitter and Facebook may be
huge now, but video and mobile
are the new frontiers.
• The true ROI of social media in
B2B doesn’t come from
broadcasting your message, but
the engagement companies get in
return.
How do you think B2B social
media will evolve? What tools
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you ask to leave it wet, your
stylist will usually bump down the
cost.
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click share — and have friends
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Charlie Chaplin Clip
Contains Footage of “Time
Traveler”? [Randomly Viral]
Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/28/2010 1:42:48 PM
Here’s something spooky just in
time for Halloween: a YouTube
video created by Irish filmmaker
George Clarke has gone viral this
week, as it purports to show a
cellphone-toting “time traveler”
attending the 1928 premiere of
Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus.
Take a look at the video above to
hear Clarke wax philosophical
about the clip — and to see it
replayed over and over and over
again — which comes from a
DVD extra from the film and
shows a woman ambling by
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, hand
to ear, chattering away.
For some reason, Clarke seems
convinced that the figure is a man.
Maybe he knows something we
supermarket, skip things like
sliced veggies and precut fruit,
and opt for unpackaged produce.
DIY slicing and dicing takes a bit
more time, but you'll save a ton.
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Can Make You Fat
Save $55 to $60: Take your old
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cobblers do their thing. Resoling
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Save $20 to $25: Many health-
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don’t about the predilection of
different genders for time travel?
Oh man, this is just like the time
Amy Smart foretold the coming
of the iPad on an episode of
Felicity… You know, a
coincidence. Reviews: YouTube
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They figure shelling out $250 or
$300 a year will save them from
having to pay the bills you'd rack
up while you're sick.
Save $60: Take turns hosting
dinner parties once a week with
friends. The cost of ingredients is
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your turn to host, executive chef
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NYC, recommends serving a stir-
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fry with vegetables and pork
tenderloin (it's cost-friendly!).
Sauté the pork in a wok with oil,
adding the veggies when the meat
is cooked. Drizzle on teriyaki
sauce, and serve over rice.
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pendant. Have an old necklace?
Use a ribbon to turn it into
something new.
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