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Al Gore Urges Activists To Keep Up Pressure: "Moral Duty To Pass Health Care Reform" (VIDEO)

Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore Health Care Reform, Video, Bill Clinton, Health Care Reform, Al Gore, Democrats, Health Care, Al Gore Video, Politics News

Pressure is increasing on the Democrats to pass health care reform, and Democratic heavyweight Al Gore voiced support Sunday for the activists to cont...

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Corporate Boards, Conflict of Interest and Copyright

Alex Green | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Al Gore, Copyright, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google Books, Open Book Alliance, Justice Department, Craigslist, Ebay, Amazon, Google, Media News
Alex Green

Much about the world we know can be delegated to the barons of tech, but the governance of copyright cannot or we endanger our access to open information and the ownership of our own words.

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Now is the Time, Al Gore: Coalfield Uprising and Heroes Need National Defense, Green Jobs

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Al Gore, Dirty Coal, Made in America Tour, Civil Disobedience, Green Jobs, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, Blue Green Alliance, Coal, Van Jones, Epa, Appalachia, Protests, Mountaintop Removal, Repower America, Disney World, Climate Change, Lisa Jackson, Nancy Sutley, Martha's Vineyard, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Now is the time for all good greens, rednecks, social entrepreneurs, hellraisers, Repower America and Al Gore to come to the aid of their fellow citizens in the Appalachian coalfields.

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Stop the Teabaggers, Give Them Green Jobs: Lessons From the Coalfields of West Virginia

Mike Elk | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: George Bush, Al Gore, Green Jobs, Teabagging, Unemployment, Mountaintop Removal, New Deal, West Virginia, Town Halls, Clean Energy, Racism, Fdr, Progresive-Movement, Appalachia Coal, Appalachia, Appalachia Poverty, Business News
Mike Elk

To know the story of West Virginia is to know why the progressive movement is failing to win over white working class voters. Because of their primary concern: jobs.

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It Might Get Loud with Davis Guggeinheim

Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 09.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Academy Awards, Al Gore, Davis Guggenheim, Jack White, U2, An Incovenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, Music, Barack Obama, White Stripes, Jimmy Page, Edge, Entertainment News
Matthew-Lee Erlbach

"Most documentaries about music are about dumb things like car wrecks and drug overdoses," said Guggenheim, "and I wanted to make a movie about [...] how they became great musicians."

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Do the People Really Understand Health Care Reform?

Lance Simmens | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Keep It Simple Stupid, KISS Health Care, Al Gore Climate Change, Health Care Message, Health Care Language, Al Gore, Town Hall Meetings, Heath Care System, Politics News
Lance Simmens

The opposition forces are strong, but the forces for change are stronger. We must arm these forces for change with arguments and rationales that are understandable and persuasive.

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Do Progressives Have What It Takes To Win?

Tom Sullivan | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Darcy Burner, Karl Rove, Netroots Nation, H.L. Mencken, Dick Polman, John Kerry, Rick Perlstein, P.T. Barnum, Dick Durbin, Progressives, Al Gore, Health Care, Dukakis, Town Hall Debate, Obama Healthcare, Healthcare System, Universal Healthcare, Mencken, Healthcare Reform, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News
Tom Sullivan

Conservatives believe -- with justification -- that if they get angry enough and loud enough, liberals will back down from fights like this one.

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Why the Right is Winning Its War Against Obama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Kerry, Obama Health Care Town Hall, Conservatives, Progressives, Racism, Gop, Al Gore, Talk Radio Hosts, Democrats, Rush Limbaugh, Radical Right, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The Obama White House has given the right-wing counterinsurgency a generous boost with its fits and starts, including conciliation on health care and waffling on a total rollback of Bush policies.

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Harry Reid's Clean Energy Summit

T. Boone Pickens | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Roy Willis, Bill Clinton, T. Boone Pickens, Jon Huntsman, Janet Napolitano, President Obama, Harry Reid, Al Gore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Ritter, Green News
T. Boone Pickens

Using clean energy to reduce America's dependency on imported oil isn't common ground. It's common sense. That's why I joined Pres. Clinton at a summit about the clean energy economy.

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.Eco Domain Name War

thedailygreen.com | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green

Read More: .Eco Domain, Dot Eco, Al Gore, Technology, Environmental-Technology, Environmental Domain, Big Boom, .Eco, Green News

The green blogosphere has been buzzing about competing plans to launch a new "top level domain" called .eco. Some boldfaced green names are lining up,...

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Renegade and Dreams of My Absent Father

Don McNay | Posted 09.08.2009 | Media

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Al Gore, Dreams of My Father, Obama, Sarah Palin, Reagan, Gambling, Unwed Mothers, Politics, 2008, Richmond Ky, John Edwards, Richard Wolffe, The Making of the President 1960, The Daily Beast, Lexington KY, Bookmaking, Obama Haters, Covington Catholic High School, Richard Wolffe Renegade, Barack Obama, Adoption, Clu, Playboy Magazine, Playboy Mansion, Born Again, Louisville, Million Dollar Round Table, Son of a Son of a Gambler, Obama's Dreams of My Father, Hillary Clinton, Nixon, Sports Betting, George Bush, 2008 Elections, Playboy, Keith Olbermann, Msnbc, President of the United States, George H.W. Bush, Single Parents, Gerald Ford, Cincinnati, Betting, American College, Newsweek, Playboy Bunnies, Covington Kentucky, Bill Clinton, Structured Settlement, Msfs, John McCain, Michelle Obama, Annuities, Chfc, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Father's Expectations, Don McNay, 2008 Election, Barack Obama 2008, Structured Settlements, Vanderbilt University, Renegade Obama, Playboy Bunny, 2008 Presidential Race, Eastern Kentucky University, George W Bush, Fatherhood, Certified Structured Settlement Consultant, Cssc, Hugh Heffner, Renegade, Media News
Don McNay

Obama's election was not only a door opener for people of color. It also showed that people with absent dads, or no dad at all, can grow up and live in the White House.

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And Today's Headlines for Bill Clinton's Heroic Rescue Go to...Hollywood Billionaire Steve Bing

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Laura Ling, Stephen Bing, American Journalists North Korea, 737, Al Gore, North Korea, Politics News
Carol Felsenthal

Stephen Bing, owner of the 737 that brought the two American journalists home from North Korea, is all over news stories.

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The Rescue of Ling, Lee, and the National Mood

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Euna Lee, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Laura Ling, Health Care, North Korea Journalists, Current TV, North Korea, North-Korea-Journalists-Arrested, Politics News
Madeleine M. Kunin

When the two women disembarked, after tears, hugs and kisses, Bill Clinton chose not to speak. This said more about the former president than any of his words could have conveyed.

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The (Sing-Along) Sound of Musing: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Korea?

Rick Horowitz | Posted 09.06.2009 | World

Read More: North Korea and Diplomacy, Eura Lee, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Kim Jong-Il, Clinton Korea Visit, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, North Korea and Six-Party Talks, Bill Clinton and Korea, South Korea, North Korea Nuclear Program, Laura Ling, Korea, Hillary Clinton, Obama Administration and Korea, Kim Jung Il, North Korea, World News
Rick Horowitz

How do you solve a problem like Korea?

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Dear Huffington Post, About That Headline

Taylor Marsh | Posted 09.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Euna Lee, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Laura Ling, Barack Obama, North Korea, Media News
Taylor Marsh

Instead of blasting a headline of jubilation, someone inside Huffington Post decided to take the road down Clinton Derangement Highway.

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Stephen Bing, Wealthy Hollywood Producer, Paid For Clinton N Korea Flight (SLIDESHOW)

AP | PAMELA HESS and SHARON THEIMER | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

Read More: North Korea, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Bill Clinton, Laura Ling, Euna Lee, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, Kim Jong Il, Al Gore, Stephen Bing, Steve Bing, Bill Clinton Korea, Stephen Bing Airplane, Slidepoll, Steve Bing Airplane, Steve Bing Photo, Steve Bing's Airplane, Steve Bing Plane, Stephen Bing Wiki, Steve Bing and North Korea Flight, Bill Clinton Went to Korea, Bing, Bing Search, Steve Bing's Corporate Jet, World News

WASHINGTON (AP) — A wealthy Hollywood producer and a major corporation paid for the flight that carried former President Bill Clinton and two Am...

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Yikes! Bill Did NOT Upstage Hillary Again

Michelle Kraus | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Bill Clinton, President Obama, John Bolton, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Obama's Teachable Moments, Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State Clinton, Foreign Relations Committee, North Korea, Politics News
Michelle Kraus

Can't we all take a moment and rejoice in the return of these two young women without throwing rotten tomatoes at our own Madam Secretary of State?

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Old Home Week: Bill and Al, Together Again

Jackson Williams | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Cnn, President Obama, Maureen Down, Florida 2000, James Carville, New York Times, Current TV, Hillary Clinton, Freed Journalists, Bill Richardson, North Korea, George Bush, Clinton Impeachment, Politics News
Jackson Williams

After Bush put the kibosh on direct dealings with North Korea, leading to eight long years of failure to stop its nuclear ambitions, it's good to see the art of realpolitik take center stage again.

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An Exceedingly Good Day for Both Bill Clinton and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Euna Lee, Laura Ling, Kim Jong Il, North Korea, Politics News
Carol Felsenthal

The North Koreans in charge got what they wanted -- all that video, stills, pumped-up domestic "news," propaganda -- their leader engaging with the former president of the United States.

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The Future of Netroots: GOP Disruptions, DailyKos, and the Role of OfA

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 09.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Will Rockafellow, Bill Clinton, Congress, Laura Ling, Blaise Nutter, President Obama, Ted Johnson, Organizing for America, Dailykos, Netroots Nation, Wilshire and Washington, Euna Lee, Current TV, Al Gore, Teresa Valdez Klein, Maegan Carberry, Health Care, North Korea, Media News
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

With Netroots Nation coming up next week, we have joining us DailyKos General Manager Will Rockafellow for today's Wilshire & Washington podcast.

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Al Gore Welcomes Euna Lee, Lisa Ling Home (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

Read More: Video, Al Gore North Korea, Current TV, Lisa Ling, Euna Lee, Bill Clinton North Korea, North Korea Bill Clinton, Al Gore, North Korea, Slideshow, Al Gore North Korea Photo, Pictures of Euna Lee and Lisa Ling, Lisa Ling Returns Home, Huffington Post Video of Euna Lee, Euna Lee and Lisa Ling Reunion, Lisa Ling Laura Reunion Pictures, Lisa Ling Photos, Ling in Korea, Ling Home, Lisa Ling Euna Lee Video, What Will the Journalist Do Now That They Return Home, Euna Lee Video, World News

Former Vice President Al Gore welcomed home the two American journalists who had been detained in North Korea. The journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Lin...

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Laura Ling Offers "Deepest Gratitude" To Clinton, Team For Release From North Korea (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 09.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Laura Ling, Us Journalists Return Home Video, Laura Ling Video, North Korea, Bill Clinton, Euna Lee, Laura Ling and Euna Lee Video, Al Gore, Euna Lee Video, Media News

U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were tearfully welcomed home today by their families after Bill Clinton's successful mission to free them fro...

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On The Streets: The Truth About 'Global Warming' (VIDEO)

Jonathan Kesselman | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore, Global Warming, Jonathan Kesselman, Global Cooling, Green News
Jonathan Kesselman

Don't believe 'Al Gore.' Here are the real facts...

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Flipper Agonists: Louie Psihoyos on The Cove

Dan Persons | Posted 08.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Oceanic Preservation Society, Aquariums, Sea Parks, Ric O'Barry, Flipper, An Inconvenient Truth, Mercury Poisoning, Whaling, Whales, Japan, Movies, Interview, Activism, Mercury, Louie Psihoyos, Sea World, Al Gore, Dolphins, The Cove, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

In Taiji, Japan, dolphins are herded into an isolated cove. The best get sold to sea parks and aquariums, the rest are killed for their meat. The Cove exposes the atrocity to the world.

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Bait and Switch Business Relationships

Don McNay | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Al Gore, Img, Lawyers, Small Business, Toronto, Bait and Switch, Zagat, Trial Attorneys, Inc. Magazine, Strategic Coach, Marriage, Claims, Richmond Ky, Tiger Woods, American Bar Association, Cincinnati, Injured People, Kentucky Association for Justice, Lottery Winners, Personal Finance, McNay Settlement Group, Business-Relationships, Trial Lawyers, Structured Settlement, Msfs, Relationships, Chfc, Mark McCormick, Twitter, Kentucky, Don McNay, Malcolm Gladwell, Facebook, Structured Settlements, Clu, American Association for Justice, Vanderbilt University, Jack Nicklaus, Claims Adjusters, Dan Sullivan, Eastern Kentucky University, Million Dollar Round Table, Arnold Palmer, Certified Structured Settlement Consultant, The Tipping Point, Cssc, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, Gary Player, Business News
Don McNay

Sometimes entrepreneurs are so focused on a higher goal that they forget about the people who help get them there.

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