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Shannyn Moore

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The Sacrament of Democracy

Shannyn Moore | Posted November 18, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Alaska Election, Don Young, Election Integrity, Election Reaction, Ethan Berkowitz, Ted Stevens, Ted Stevens Mark Begich

If democracy were a religion, voting would be the sacrament.

I grew up in what I call "The First Free-Range Organic Christian Church of Homer." Sundays brought a message, fellowship, and a line of repentant souls taking communion-a remembrance of sacrifice.

The first time I cast my vote, it struck...

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Tom Doctoroff

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Chinese Consumers: On Rocky Shoals but Not Shipwrecked

Tom Doctoroff | Posted November 18, 2008 | Business

Read More: China, Chinese Consumers, Chinese Economy, Chinese Mass Market, Economic Crisis In China, Premium Brands In China, The Chinese Middle Class

This is the first time in history in which a Chinese middle class of broad scale (125-150 million people) has confronted a global economic shock, begging the question of how spending behavior will - or will not - shift across a suddenly-altered economic landscape. Marketers hoping to counteract weakness in...

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Steve Parker

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Five mistakes by DC and Detroit hurt Detroit Three's survival chances

Steve Parker | Posted November 18, 2008 | Business

Read More: American Auto Industry, American Honda, Auto Bailout, Auto Industry, Auto Industry Bailout, Auto Industry Rescue Legislation, Automakers, Bankruptcy, Barack Obama, Car Dealerships, Cars, Chevrolet Cruze, Chevrolet Volt, Chrysler, Congress, Congressional Oversight, Consumers, Continuously Variable Transmission, Daewoo, Detroit, Detroit Auto Industry, Detroit Auto Show, Detroit Three, Dodge, Dodge Viper, Electric Cars, Environmentalists, Europe, Ford, Fuel Economy, Fuel-Efficient Cars, Future Of General Motors, General Motors, Gm, Golden Parachutes, Green Cars, Greensburg Indiana, Harry Reid, Honda, Honda Fit, Hybrid Cars, Jeep, Jeep Commander. Hemi Hybrids, Kirk Kerkorian, Las Vegas, Lordstown, Los Angeles Auto Show, Los Angeles Auto Show Green, Mike Pence, Nissan Motors, Obama Auto Industry, Russia, South Korea, Southern California, St. Petersburg, The Huffington Post, US Auto Industry, US Senate, Washington DC, XTRONIC CVT

Five mistakes Washington and Detroit are making which could kill any help or support for our American car companies:

Mistake #1- Consumers and the environment are no longer considered in Washington's loans to the Detroit Three.

In Sen. Harry Reid's new bill to allow direct and swift loans to the...

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Al Giordano

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Mr. President-Elect: Judge Abner Mikva Is Right About SoS

Al Giordano | Posted November 18, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Conflict Of Interest, Ethics, Hillary Clinton, Judge Abner Mikva, President Obama, President-Elect Barack Obama, Secretary Of State

Crossposted from The Field.

"When we have an announcement about Cabinet appointments, we will make it. There is no doubt that I think people want to know who's going to make up our team, and I want to move with all deliberate haste, but I...

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Brad Listi

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Pray the Devil Back to Hell: An Interview with Director Gini Reticker

Brad Listi | Posted November 18, 2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Africa, Brad Listi, Charles Taylor, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Gini Reticker, Liberia, Liberia Mass Action For Peace, LURD, Movies, Pray The Devil Back To Hell

Gini Reticker is an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker. Her latest effort, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, is a stirring examination of the Liberian civil war and the band of extraordinary women who helped to put an end to it.

The devil in this story is President

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Huff TV

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Arianna Hosts The Rachel Maddow Show with Guests Bill Maher, Lawrence O'Donnell, Nate Silver, Cory Booker and Google's Eric Schmidt

Huff TV | Posted November 17, 2008 | Media

Read More: Video

Monday night, Arianna sat in for Rachel on the Rachel Maddow show.

She asked Google CEO Eric Schmidt about whether Obama will be America's first Internet president and how he can use the Internet to promote a more open and transparent government that will lead to a more engaged electorate....

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Scott Mendelson

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Star Trek Trailer and TV Spot - First contact is a smashing success.

Scott Mendelson | Posted November 17, 2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, Movies, Star Trek, Trailer, Transformers 2, X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Trailer -

TV Spot -

Ok, now that's a trailer. The scope seems to...

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Dan Brown

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"Reinvest, Don't Disinvest" in Education: Randi Weingarten Takes the National Stage

Dan Brown | Posted November 17, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Aft, American Federation Of Teachers, Barack Obama, Dennis Van Roekel, Economy, Education Reform, George Miller, Michael Bloomberg, National Education Association, National Press Club, Nclb, Nea, No Child Left Behind, Performance Pay, Randi Weingarten, Teachers, United Federation Of Teachers

Randi Weingarten took the stage at the National Press Club on Monday to give her first major speech since becoming president of the American Federation of Teachers. The packed room featured a who's who of players in the national education scene, including NEA President Dennis Van Roekel and Rep....

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Art Levine

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While GOP Smears Franken Vote, Will Obama Help Repair Election System?

Art Levine | Posted November 17, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Acorn, Chambliss, Election Reform, Franken, Gop, Obama, Vote Suppression, Voting Machines

The never-ending Republican War on Voting continues apace, with the GOP launching new smears against Democrats and Senate candidate Al Franken for alleged voter fraud in the razor-thin race against incumbent Norm Coleman. The latest bogus rumor supported by the right-wing noise machine is the...

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Al Meyerhoff

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It's Not Over Til It's Over

Al Meyerhoff | Posted November 17, 2008 | Politics

Read More: California, California Prop 8, Civil Rights, Constitution, Prop 8, U.S. Constitution

Out of the courthouse, back to the streets. That seems to be the view of thousands of members of the California gay and lesbian community seeking to secure the right to marriage. They are mistaken. Actually, civil rights history may simply be repeating itself.

As in several...

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Robert Redford

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Americans Rejected 'Drill, Baby, Drill' -- Bush Should Respect Our Choice

Robert Redford | Posted November 17, 2008 | Green

Read More: Barack Obama, Bureau Of Land Management, National Park Service, National Parks, Robert Redford, Utah

Part of the change Americans just voted for in overwhelming numbers was to move away from the failed energy philosophy of "drill, baby, drill" to a more farsighted strategy, emphasized by Barack Obama, based on clean, renewable energy and efficiency. Yet on the very day that we raised our voices...

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David M. Abromowitz

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Homeownership Done Right

David M. Abromowitz | Posted November 17, 2008 | Business

Read More: Affordable Housing, Financial Crisis, Foreclosure, Homeowners, Subprime Mortgages

During the presidential campaign, the housing debate sometimes had more to do with how many homes a candidate owned than about solutions to the nation's housing crisis. At other times, specious claims were made that the current foreclosure crisis was caused by Fannie Mae, or by policies started in the...

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Arianna Huffington and Jay Rosen

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Thanks to the People Who Worked on OffTheBus; Here's What Comes Next

Arianna Huffington and Jay Rosen | Posted November 17, 2008 | Media

Read More: Amanda Michel, Amanda Michel Offthebus, Citizen Journalism, Crowd Sourcing, Distributive Journalism, Marc Cooper Offthebus, New Media, Off The Bus, Offthebus, WeMedia Game Changer Award

We thought the 12,000 people who participated in OffTheBus during campaign 08 would like to know: they're finalists for a Game Changer award given by the WeMedia Project. WeMedia's purpose is saluting innovation. Our purpose today is to thank the people of OffTheBus for opening up the campaign news...

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Bart Motes

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Hillary Clinton Accepts Obama's Offer

Bart Motes | Posted November 17, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Secretary Of State

The Guardian is now reporting that Hillary Clinton will accept President-elect Barack Obama's offer to become Secretary of State. My immediate question was, what would the loons at Hillaryis44.org have to say? And they don't disappoint!

Obama however needs a lifeline. Obama knows he is not experienced enough...

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Stephen Viscusi

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The Ketchup Generation: Entry-Level Jobs Really are There for You, Even During a Recession; Here's the Secret

Stephen Viscusi | Posted November 17, 2008 | Business

Read More: Business School, Careers, Economy, Entry-Level, Generation x, Generation Y, Graduates, Jobs, Law School, Layoffs, Mba, Pink Slip, Unemployment Rate

I want full credit for this ketchup thing. Let me explain. What's the ketchup generation? If you're older, think of your kids. If you're under 30, think of your friends. If you're a girl, think of your boyfriend. You must have noticed that there's something about the under-30 set, especially...

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Nicholas Stephanopoulos

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A Win for Democracy

Nicholas Stephanopoulos | Posted November 17, 2008 | Politics

Read More: California Proposition 11; Redistricting; Gerrymandering

About two months ago, I wrote a column hoping for success but predicting failure for California's Proposition 11, which would make an independent citizen commission (instead of the state legislature) responsible for determining state legislative district lines. Not allowing self-interested politicians to draw their own districts' lines is...

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Rachel Ben-Avi

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Sarah Palin in The Eye of The Beholder

Rachel Ben-Avi | Posted November 17, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin, Values In America

I was puttering around today, going through my late husband's library of books collected during and after his eight years studying at Yale Divinity School, and I had the TV on in the background, Wolf Blitzer interviewing Sarah Palin, and I thought to myself, why don't you try to...

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Chris Weigant

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Memo To Right-Wing: Withdrawal Timetable Now Doubleplusgood

Chris Weigant | Posted November 17, 2008 | Politics

Read More: 1984, Aspirational Goal, Bush, Chris Weigant, Democrat, Democratic, Democrats, Doubleplus, Doubleplusgood, Doubleplusungood, Failure, George Orwell, Hypocrisy, Iraq, Iraqi, Lose a War, Maliki, Memory Hole, Ministry Of Truth, Minitrue, Newspeak, Nineteen Eighty Four, On The Ground, Orwell, Right Wing, Sofa, Status Of Forces, Surrender, Time Horizon, Timetable, Timetable For Withdrawal, War On Terror, War Wire, White Flag, Withdrawal

Immediately after the news broke that George Bush's administration has now agreed to a hard-and-fast timetable for withdrawal of all American troops in Iraq (all troops will be gone -- no matter what the situation on the ground is -- by the end of 2011), I got the following...

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Paula Duffy

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There Might Be a Political Reason for Insider Trading Claims Against Mark Cuban

Paula Duffy | Posted November 17, 2008 | Business

Read More: Chairman Christopher Cox, Dallas Mavericks, Loose Change, Mamma.Com, Mark Cuban, Mark Cuban Insider Trading, Mark Cuban Loose Change, Mark Cuban Mamma.Com, Nba, Sec

In a shot across the bow, Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA team, the Dallas Mavericks lashed out at the SEC after it filed a civil complaint against him today for engaging in insider trading. Read about the charges here.

From Mark Cuban's personal blog: blogmaverick.com:

"I am...

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Katherine Goldstein

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Attention Shoppers (and Economic End Days Predictors): It's Not All Doom and Gloom

Katherine Goldstein | Posted November 17, 2008 | Style

Read More: Consumer Trends, Economy, Food, Food Prices, Green Living, Park Slope, Shopping

I think it's fair to say the general conversation about the economy borders on, well, the hysterical. I'm certainly no economist (not that they know anything about the economy anyway!) but radical changes in spending and behavior may be completely warranted. Even for people like myself whose job has not...

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