After getting over the initial shock of hearing that Sarah Palin is going to resign, it kind of makes sense when you stop to think about it. Running for reelection in 2010 would mean having to spend a lot more time (and contributor's money) in Alaska, and then being a...
David Fiderer | Posted July 3, 2009 | Business
"What is really behind the mushrooming rate of mortgage foreclosures since 2007?" asked Professor Stan Liebowitz of the University of Texas, Dallas on the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal. His answer might have seemed revelatory to someone utterly bereft of common sense. After studying a huge...
John Ridley | Posted July 3, 2009 | Politics
The following was originally posted on Huffington Post for the 4th of July in 2007. With the recent discharge of West Point graduate and Arabic linguist First Lt. Dan Choi from the New York National Guard for the high crime of wanting to serve his country openly, the piece...
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted July 3, 2009 | Politics
As a person of mixed race, I have had many blacks since Obama's election confide in me with comments along these lines, "We finally have a brother in the White House, and that's more than I ever thought would happen."
An African-American friend who manages a local grocery store still...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted July 3, 2009 | Chicago
Let's see, it's been a whopping 22 months since my favorite cyclist, Isai Madriz, mounted his rickety bicycle -- the one with the picture of his girlfriend, Danielle, taped to it -- to pedal from the suburbs of Chicago to Argentina and back up to Venezuela to raise money for...
Alison Rose Levy | Posted July 3, 2009 | Living
The nation looks on in horror at the interminable orgy of true confessions from Governor Sanford -- voluntarily decimating his political career by bogarting a spotlight rightfully passed to recently departed celebrities. Any psychologically aware person must ask: Why?
Were the constraints of being in a suffocatingly correct marriage so...
Tony Guida | Posted July 3, 2009 | New York
Jimmy Breslin once described Rudolph Giuliani as "a small man looking for a balcony."
Breslin's caustic dismissal of "America's mayor" rebounds to memory at the sight of the current unpleasantness in Albany. New Yorkers are reluctant witnesses to an opera buff orchestrated by several democratic state senators on...
Mike Doyle | Posted July 3, 2009 | Chicago
This week, the Chicago Transit Authority is surveying riders on the front page of its Web site. As you might expect (especially in the still-turbulent wake of Ron Huberman's exit), the agency is doing a rotten job of it.
Especially for a transit provider with a historically...
Mike Lux | Posted July 3, 2009 | Business
Check out this sad story in the New York Times: apparently Morgan Stanley has been doing the right thing by taking fewer risks in their trading than their competitors at Goldman Sachs and Citibank. But in the perverse Wall Street system we have allowed to remain in place in...
Brian Whitmore | Posted July 3, 2009 | World
Well, I can't say that I saw this coming.
In an interview with the Associated Press that hit the wires on July 3, U.S. President Barack Obama dropped this little bombshell on the eve of his visit to Moscow:
I have developed a very good relationship with President...
Erik Sean Nelson | Posted July 3, 2009 | Comedy
In Sarah Palin's resignation announcement she complained about the treatment of her son Trig who always teaches her life lessons. She said that the "world needs more Trigs, not fewer." That's a presidential campaign promise we can all get behind. She will be the first politician to actually try to...
Rachel Sklar | Posted July 3, 2009 | Media
"I told you so" moments are pretty sweet — and thanks to Sarah Palin, now I've got one. Ten months to the day after her speech at the Republican National Convention, I would like for this woman to eat her words:
I'm not a member of the permanent political...
Charles H. Green | Posted July 3, 2009 | Business
It is tempting to dwell on the horror of Bernard Madoff. (Thanks to Robert Scheer for teeing up this issue). How could he have done it? What kind of a man does that? Is 150 years in prison enough? And so on.
Tempting--but largely wrong. If we lay all...
Adele Stan | Posted July 3, 2009 | Politics
There's nothing surprising in Sarah Palin's decision not to run for re-election as governor of Alaska. After all, if you've got a shot to become leader of the free world, it helps to have nothing but time to give the people of Iowa and New Hampshire in the year leading...
Paul Slansky | Posted July 3, 2009 | Entertainment
Bay, Michael
• utter lack of talent of is richly rewarded
Boehner, Rep. John
• climate change bill is described as "this pile of sh-t" by
Boone, Pat
• urgent need of to see President Obama's birth certificate
Borowitz, Andy
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Glynnis MacNicol | Posted July 3, 2009 | Media
In the age of Twitter there is no such thing as a (Federal holiday) Friday afternoon news dump! Shortly after Sarah Palin announced from Wasilla, Alaska that she would be resigning as Governor effective July 25 our Twitter feed blew up with...
The first nasty inkling that even the King of Pop can stir the racial divide came with the Mt. Everest size list of postings on blogs, chat rooms, and websites the week after the death of icon Michael Jackson. The comments ranged from mild rebuke to pure venom...
Andy Borowitz | Posted July 3, 2009 | Comedy
ANCHORAGE (The Borowitz Report) -- Moments after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced her resignation from office, comedians from coast to coast held candlelight vigils to mourn what one comic called "a devastating loss."
"To say that we are heartbroken is a massive understatement," said Shecky Sheinbaum, a regular headliner at...
John Wellington Ennis | Posted July 3, 2009 | Media
I love the Fourth of July.
Last year at this time, I was racing against the clock to release my first feature documentary, FREE FOR ALL! One Dude's Quest to Save Democracy, which explores corrupt elections in Ohio and how citizens can fight voter suppression.
The film begins and...
Michelle Haimoff | Posted July 3, 2009 | Media
There has been a heated debate this week about free information, starting with Malcolm Gladwell's review of Chris Anderson's book Free, in which Gladwell argues that free "fuel" plus costly "infrastructure" results in net losses for companies like YouTube, which will lose a half a billion dollars in 2009,...
Naked tweeting: the next frontier in staged celebrity...
UPDATE: Debbie Rowe's lawyer says she IS...
Bar Refaeli stars in a new black and white video floating around the internet. Set to music and with...
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