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America's New Face of Terrorism

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 01.04.2010 | World

Read More: Profiling, News, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan, World, Civil Rights, America, Politics News, Uniteds States of America, 7/7, London 7/7, Arabs, Civil Liberties, Saudi Arabia, El Al, United States. U.S., Black Men, Richard Reid, Nigeria, Senator Joe Liberman, Discrimination, Thurgood Marshall, Newsweek, Islam, American Muslim, Usama Bin Laden, Politics, U.S. Government, Transportation Safety Administration, John Muhammad, Blacks, Newt Gingrich, Tsa, Muslim Public Affairs Council, General McInerney, U.S. Pysche, Arab, Racial Profiling, Muslims, African American, Nigerian, Justice Thurgood Marshall, Israel, New York Times, Fox News, Joe Lieberman, Terrorism, Dc Sniper, Shoe Bomber, European Allies, The West, Alejandro Beutal, World News

Thanks to a 23-year-old black man who deceptively looks like an innocent boy, African-Americans, Arabs and the Muslim Diaspora all have something in common. They are more easily viewed as terrorists, and there's no escaping it.

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Ten Things That Totally Sucked About The Media In 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.01.2010 | Media

Earlier, I offered up the Ten Things That Did Not Suck About The Media in 2009. You know what's coming now! The stuff in 2009 that straight up sucked canal water! Let's hit it and quit it.

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Exclusive: TSA Seizes Computer from Travel Blogger

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 12.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Time, Steven Frischling, No Fly Lists, Life, New York Times, Tsa, Newsweek, Klm, Politics News

Two black sedans with TSA special agents came to the Connecticut home of blogger Steven Frischling and walked out with his laptop computer, looking for the anonymous source who leaked a directive.

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Why Science Needs To Bring Sexy Back

Jason Silva | Posted 12.07.2009 | Technology

Read More: Newsweek, John Maeda, SpaceCollective.Org, Science, Transcendental Media, Current TV, Al Gore, Jeremy McCarter, Richard Holmes, Jason Silva, Technology News

I have found that there is very little excitement about the scientific breakthroughs that are occurring every day. Science seems to have lost its "art direction," and it needs to bring sexy back.

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Greenpeace Asks For Senate Investigation Into Newsweek's Big Oil Forum

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Newsweek, Senate, Lobbying, American Petroleum Institute, Lobbyblog, Green News

On Tuesday, Newsweek hosted a climate and energy policy forum on Capitol Hill with the American Petroleum Institute. Now Greenpeace, which has been he...

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The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 12.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Hilary Clinton, Newsweek, Michael Isikoff, White House Gate Crasher, Barack Obama Racism, Secret Service, Racism, Hate Speech, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Right Wing Conspiracy, Right-Wing Extremism, Obama Transition, Living News

When I and others suggested that the Birthers, the Tea Baggers, the Limbaughs and Becks of the world were motivated at least in part by racism, the President himself said he did not believe that to be the case.

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Jon Meacham's Cheney 2012 Proposal: Pretending To Care About 'Adjudicating' The Bush Years

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Newsweek, Jon Meacham, Media Criticism, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, Media News

While I was enjoying life outside the Beltway for Thanksgiving, the entire world was captivated by Tiger Woods, a pair of reality-show fameball wannabes and a Jon Meacham column touting Dick Cheney as the GOP nominee for 2012.

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Newsweek Reporter Just Freed From Iranian Prison: Why The U.S. Should Still Talk

washingtonpost.com | Maziar Bahari | Posted 11.26.2009 | World

Read More: u.s. Foreign Policy, Newsweek, Iranian Prison, Iran Prison, Iran, Maziar Bahari Washington Post, Maziar Bahari Freed, Newsweek Reporter, Iran u.s., Maziar Bahari, World News

Since I was released from Tehran's notorious Evin Prison last month, the questions have come again and again: Can we still talk to these people? Shoul...

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12 Comics Who Aren't Funny? Or, Let Us Now Bash Robin Williams Part. 1

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 11.28.2009 | Comedy

Who is Sarah Ball and why is she saying awful things about Emo Phillips? And, why is she not saying awful things about Robin Williams?

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Sarah Palin's Lady Gaga Tour of Michigan

Susan J. Demas | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barbara Walters Sarah Palin, Dave Agema, John McCain, Sarah Palin Vice President, Oprah Winfrey Sarah Palin, Newsweek, Republicans Michigan, Oprah Winfrey, Sean Hannity Sarah Palin, Kevin Elsenheimer, Sean Hannity, Barbara Walters, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Michigan, Fox News, Sarah Palin Memoir, Lady GaGa, Sarah Palin Grand Rapids, Politics News

Sarah Palin blew into Grand Rapids with all the stagecraft (and subtlety) of Lady Gaga, pulling up in a bus ensconced with the cover photo from her book, down to her glossy lips and heavenward gaze.

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Newsweek Taps Bush Aide For Obama Reporting

Ari Melber | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama Press Bias, Obama Press Coverage, Newsweek, Obama Media, Jon Meacham, Media Disclosure, Obama Stimulus, Obama Jon Meacham, Yuval Levin, Bush Jon Meacham, Msm, Media Bias, Obama Tax Cut, Media News

Political journalism is often imaginative, but a Newsweek article about tax cuts by a former aide to George W. Bush verges on delusion.

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Sarah Palin: Newsweek Cover Showing My Legs "Sexist" (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Newsweek Sarah Palin, Newsweek, Sarah Palin Newsweek Cover, Sarah Palin Newsweek, Sarah Palin, Magazines, Poll, Media News

Sarah Palin took to Facebook Monday night to declare the Newsweek cover depicting her in runner's shorts as "sexist." In a Facebook note to her almos...

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From Randy To Rand: The New Political Fiction(s)

John Jeter | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Politics, Mark Sanford, Reinhold Niebuhr, Ayn Rand, Fiction, Memoir, Jenny Sanford, Non-Fiction, Sarah Palin, Newsweek, Books News

Governor Mark Sanford -- the man who has confused the Appalachian Trail with Argentina and still holds public office writes about the Objectivist Philosopher.

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Innovation in the 21st Century: Keeping the US Competitive

Justin R. Rattner | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology

Read More: Newsweek, Innovation, Survey, Technology, US Economy, Economy, Intel, Technology Innovation, Technology News

Despite one of the deepest recessions in history, Americans have an undiminished faith in technology and innovation as the primary engines of economic growth.

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Newsweek Ed's Poem Skewers Lou Dobbs

John Lundberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Media Criticism, Glenn Beck, Immigration, Right Wing, Media, Criticism, Poetry, Lou Dobbs, Newsweek, Immigration Reform, Scott Whitlock, Cnn, Jerry Adler, Fox News, Poem, John Lundberg, Living News

Lou Dobbs resigned from CNN on Wednesday night. Newsweek's longtime senior editor Jerry Adler published a poem in honor of the occasion entitled "Goodbye, Mr. Dobbs."

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A Challenge to Magazine Publishers -- Especially Jon Meacham

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Magazine, Al Gore, Magazine Publishers, Jon Meacham, Vanity Fair, Co2, Deforestation, Newsweek, Blow-in Inserts, Guideposts, Climate Change, Green News

If all the print publications in the U.S. alone were to eliminate inserts, how much would that reduce carbon emissions? Think of the deforestation it could prevent.

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By the People, Poliwood: Bittersweet look at 2008 election

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Barry Levinson, Anna Quindlen, Susan Sarandon, Josh Lucas, Poliwood, Creative Coalition, Frank Luntz, Anne Hathaway, Newsweek, Marshall Fine Blog, Barack Obama, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, Tim Daly, Entertainment News

A year later, it's a bittersweet experience watching Amy Rice and Alicia Sams' documentary, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, which premieres on Tuesday on HBO.

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The Public Necessity

Tom Sullivan | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Newsweek, Ofa, David-Dayen, Anna Quindlen, Firedoglake, George W. Bush, Harry Reid, Fdr, Thomas-Pm-Barnett, Campaign for America's Future, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Organizing for America, Politics News

If America believes it needs not just a public option, but a public necessity, more Americans will have to get up off the couch and go get it.

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Jon Meacham: Fox News Attack Makes Obama Seem More Progressive Than He Really Is

Newsweek | Jon Meacham | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Propaganda, Obama, Media, #Newsweek, Roger Ailes, Tv, Television, Politics, White House, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Meacham, TV News, Fox, John McCain, Media News

To the base, the White House looks tough, willing to hit back--all while the base is getting few of the substantive reforms it has fought for. I am no...

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Just Say "No" to Adult Children Wanting Money

Don McNay | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Iphone, Kentucky Guardianship Administrators, Children, Cspan, Addictions, Big Money, Roger Ailes, Bad Luck, Parenthood, Reagan, Cnbc, Injury Settlements, Lexington KY, 401k, Richmond Ky, Morning in America, Ncaa Basketball, Strippers, McNay Settlement Group, Inheritances, Rumeal Robinson, Tough Love, Bankruptcy, Retirement, Retired and Broke, Medical Expenses, Fox Business News, Clu, Just Say No, Soldiers, Enabling, The American College, Million Dollar Round Table, College Tuition, Foreclosures, Ambition, Helen Ford, Frontline, Special Needs Children, John Prine, Miami News Times, Ohio University, Budgeting, Msnbc, Failure to Launch, Financial Crisis, Aarp, Senior Citizen Bankruptcy, Personal Finance, Newsweek, Balanced Life, Msfs, Borrowing Money, Lotteries, Chfc, Foster Children, Kentucky, Don McNay, NBA Basketball, www.mcnay.com, Structured Settlements, www.donmcnay.com, Mortgage, Vanderbilt University, Eastern Kentucky University, Fox News, University of Michigan, Afghanistan, Mooching, Cssc, Caddilac, Business News

You are not doing your children any favors by not allowing them to grow up. I'm OK with parents helping children through college (in four years, not forty), but after that they are on their own.

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MAZIAR BAHARI RELEASED: Iran Frees Newsweek Reporter On Bail

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Mass Trial, Election Fraud, Vote Rigging, Iran Election, Iran, Media, Khatami, Ahmadinejad, Mousavi, Newsweek, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Velvet Revolution, Saeed Hajjarian, Bahari Released, Bail, Maziar Bahari, Tehran, Iraq, Bahari, World News

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran released a foreign Newsweek reporter on bail Saturday almost four months after he was arrested following the country's dispu...

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Positively Stinking Thinking

Jim Selman | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Denial, Newsweek, Obsession, Serene Ambition, Creative Thinking, Positive Thinking, The Secret, Julia Baird, Reality, Jim Selman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Truth, Happiness, Living News

Positive thinking tends to tranquilize us into a 'good feeling' about the future and blinds us to the facts of a given situation. We think our points-of-view are true -- that our 'will' can determine what happens.

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Memo To The Media: Fox News Is Now the Opposition Party

Eric Boehlert | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Politico, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Washington Post, Roger Ailes, Newsweek, Glenn Greenwald, Media News

The press needs to drop its longstanding gentleman's agreement not to write about other news outlets as news players -- not to criticize the competition -- because those rules no longer apply.

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