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Arianna On "The Ed Show": It Is Absurd To Cede Control Of Health Care Reform To Joe Lieberman

Huff TV | Posted December 15, 2009 | Media

Read More: #Hcr, Arianna, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Care Reform Bill, Joe Lieberman, Lieberman, Senate Health Care Bill, White House

Senator Joe Lieberman has pushed the health care debate to a level of absurdity that can't be ignored, Arianna argued on Tuesday evening. During her appearance on The Ed Show with Ed Schultz, Arianna took issue with the power bestowed upon the Independent Democratic senator from Connecticut and she blamed...

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Are Bank Executives Really Stuck in the Fog?

Rep. Edolphus Towns | Posted December 15, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Bailout, Banks, Barack Obama, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Lending Crisis, President Obama, Tarp, Wall Street

President Obama held an important meeting yesterday with the top executives of the nation's largest banks. The president convened that meeting to urge these top bankers to increase lending which is an important part of our economic recovery. After being bailed out by American tax dollars last fall, the bankers,...

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A U.S. Commitment to Developing Nations: The Key to Unlocking Copenhagen

Frances Beinecke | Posted December 15, 2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Emissions, China, Climate Change, cop15, Copenhagen 2009, Developing Countries, Obama

We are nearing the end of two weeks of climate negotiations and heads of state are starting to arrive, but we are leagues away from an agreement that will bring the developing and developed world together.

On Monday, dozens of developing nations walked out...

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Pennsylvania Burning: Feds Levy Charges In Immigrant Killing and Police Cover-Up

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted December 15, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Civil Rights, Immigration, Mexican Immigrants, Pennsylvania, Undocumented Immigrants

Charges Announced
The United States Department of Justice announced a sweeping set of indictments levied
by a federal grand jury connected to a racially motivated killing and alleged police corruption in Shenandoah, PA. The indictments handed down December 10 were released today. Among those charged are two former...

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As Anchors Change at ABC and MSNBC, Will Executives Ignore Diversity Again?

Eric Deggans | Posted December 15, 2009 | Media

Read More: ABC News, Chuck Todd, Diane Sawyer, Diversity, George Stephanopoulos, Good Morning America, Gwen Ifill, Msnbc, NBC News, Savannah Guthrie, This Week, TV News, Tv News Anchors

When NBC needed a new anchor for Meet the Press, I hoped.

After Lou Dobbs finally jumped off CNN, I wondered.

And now, with major anchor changes underway at ABC News and MSNBC, I'm certain.

The TV industry has a fresh chance to build anchor lineups which look more like...

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HuffPost Premiere: "Christmas Is for Lovers" Music Video

Dave Stewart | Posted December 15, 2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Christmas Is For Lovers, Christmas Is For Lovers Video, Dave Stewart, Dave Stewart Christmas Song

You don't have to look very far to see the romance of the holidays is losing out to greed, consumerism and great deals on flat-screen TVs. I say we romantics of the world unite and take the holiday back.

In the meantime, here's a little number to remind us...

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The Price of Pushing Our Troops Too Far

William Astore | Posted December 15, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Armed Forces, US Military, US Military Afghanistan, US Military Iraq

When I was on active duty in the military, an Army friend used to remind me: “Any day you’re not being shot at is a good Army day.” Today’s troops, especially if they’re “boots on the ground” in Iraq and Afghanistan, don’t have enough good Army days. Many of them...

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The Anti-Development Crisis: Who's Really to Blame for Lost Jobs This Christmas

Jo Guldi | Posted December 15, 2009 | Business

Read More: Anti-Development, Anti-Development Crisis, Jobs, Rust Belt, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate

The depression didn't start on Wall Street; it started in Flint, Michigan several decades ago. Thirty years ago, city elders in the Rust Belt announced their plan to rescue economic elites from the sinking ship of car manufacture. Ominously dubbed "Shrinking Cities," the plan evicted tax-delinquent working-class people from their...

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Menopause: Marketing Fear

Susan Kim | Posted December 15, 2009 | Living

Read More: Advertising, Flow-The-Cultural-Story-Of-Menstruation, Health, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Menopause, Susan Kim

Years ago, I spoke with a retired advertising executive of the Mad Men school, who confided that the key to a good pitch lay in the skillful manipulation of two emotions: fear and desire. Having just co-written a book on the cultural story of menstruation, I know that this...

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Where to Find an Enemy If There Is None?

Matvey Ganapolskiy | Posted December 15, 2009 | World

Read More: Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Obama Foreign Policy, Propaganda, Vladimir Putin

It's clear by now that Barack Obama is a president whose public persona provokes wide-ranging and contradictory feelings among Americans. That much was made clear by the encomium and blame-slinging aired across America in honor of the President's first 100 days in office. For Americans, the most important criterion for...

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Disabled Veteran Homeless In Detroit: Meet Leon

Mark Horvath | Posted December 15, 2009 | Impact

Read More: Detroit, Homeless, Homelessness, Invisible People, Invisiblepeople.Tv, Veterans, Vietnam

Leon is a Vietnam veteran who has been homeless for six years. After serving "the greatest country in the world," he is lost somewhere in the pile of Veteran's Administration disability claims. While he waits for assistance from the VA, he is not receiving veterans benefits or assistance. He is...

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Green Jobs Arriving Slowly

David Adkins | Posted December 15, 2009 | Business

Read More: Barack Obama, Copenhagen 2009, Economic Stimulus Package, Green Jobs

As President Obama departs for Copenhagen, the public debate over climate change appears to hinge as much on green jobs as on greenhouse gases. Far away from the negotiations, and the partisan divisions surrounding them, American states have been hard at work implementing an unprecedented series of investments in energy...

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Time for 'Housecleaning' in Copenhagen

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | Posted December 15, 2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2009, Copenhagen Climate Talks, Environment, Environmentalism

COPENHAGEN -- Just over two months ago in Copenhagen, I enjoyed one of the happiest days of my life when the International Olympic Committee chose Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. I am now returning to the Danish capital for the United Nations Climate Change Conference...

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Top Ten PR Blunders of 2009

Rich Robinson | Posted December 15, 2009 | Media

For some this was, as Queen Elizabeth might say, "annus horribilis" - a horrible year. For the rest of us, it was another lesson in public relations crisis management. Here are the Top 10 PR blunders of 2009:

10. Fox News Caught Using Fake Footage. To make it seem like...

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Can Science Resurrect God? New Scenario Says 'Yes'

Robert Lanza, M.D. | Posted December 15, 2009 | Living

Read More: Atheism, Biocentrism, Cloning, Death, God, Hair Cloning, Living News, Mind.Body.Soul, Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Religion, Robert Lanza, Science, Science God, Stem Cell Research, Time

According to Nicholas Wade, veteran New York Times science reporter, and author of the new book The Faith Instinct, religious fervor has dwindled of late because religions have failed to keep pace with human knowledge. For faith to thrive, our concepts of God must adapt to our evolving scientific knowledge....

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Meryl in the Sack With Alec

Erica Abeel | Posted December 15, 2009 | Entertainment

Read More: " Nancy Meyers, "It's Complicated, Alec Baldwin, Breaking Taboos, Comedy For Adults, Meryl Streep, Middle-Aged Sex, Sexual Politics, Steve Martin

"Why can't we see Meryl Streep naked the way we see Alec Baldwin naked?"

"I guess you can blame me for that," answers Nancy Meyers. "I never saw it that way in my mind."

Meyers and I are at the Ritz Carlton, where she has touched down on a...

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Peaceful Revolution: Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater?

Donna Norton | Posted December 15, 2009 | Living

Read More: Children Health Care, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care Reform

With one out of four U.S. children on the brink of hunger, more than 1.5 million children homeless, and the children's share of the federal budget diminished by a quarter since 1960 , I wouldn't be surprised if the next time a member of Congress goes to...

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The Obama Team is Taking Credit for a Bush Policy in North Korea

Richard Grenell | Posted December 15, 2009 | World

The White House this week leaked intelligence information to the New York Times to suggest that their North Korea policy is working. And although David Sanger from the Times was all too quick to buy the administration's line, an honest assessment of the Obama team's claims shows that the successful...

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Chuck Norris Says Obama Wants Mary to Abort Jesus

Chris Kelly | Posted December 15, 2009 | Comedy

Read More: Chuck Norris, Chuck-Norris-Obama, Health Care Reform, Obamacare

It's a well-known fact that Chuck Norris could kick the shit out of the Council of Ephesus, so when he has something to say about the Blessed Virgin Mary, I, for one, listen:

Lastly, as we near the eve of another Christmas, I wonder: What...

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StimCity: What America's Mayors Think of the Stimulus

Harry Moroz | Posted December 15, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Charlotte, Cities, Congress, Dannel Malloy, Douglas Palmer, Economic Recovery, House, Jobs, Mayors, Mick Cornett, Oklahoma City, Pat McCrory, Senate, Stamford, Steny Hoyer, Trenton

Despite the President's job summit last week and the appearance of momentum for a "jobs bill," the prospects for congressional action in the near future are dim. The House will try to pass a scaled-down bill before retiring for the Christmas holiday, but Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is not

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