Politics

Penny C. Sansevieri: Your 10 Point Website Check Up


The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mar 19, 2010 | 12:39 pm PDT
So you have a website, congratulations! Now let's make sure it's doing what it is supposed to be doing for you. Read: selling your book or product. While websites will differ in color, layout, and tar...

Bill Scher: Take A Hot Tub Time Machine Trip To 2009, When Conservatives Loved The CBO


The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mar 19, 2010 | 12:38 pm PDT
The conservative response to the Congressional Budget Office analysis that health care reform will cut the deficit more than $1 trillion over the next two decades is simply to call the nonpartisan ana...

Rahim Kanani: Counterinsurgency Doctrine Is a Long-Term Strategy: Afghanistan Lacks a Long-Term Commitment


The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mar 19, 2010 | 12:32 pm PDT
In today's Financial Times, author Tyler Moselle explained the limits of and over-reliance on counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine in American military policy and planning. "As its name implies it is app...

Jacqueline Novogratz: Dignity Is More Important Than Wealth -- A Universal Truth


The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mar 19, 2010 | 12:29 pm PDT
I meet Maryam Bibi, one of Pakistan's true heroes, in our office. Maryam is known among those circles of women who fight against all odds in the most challenged communities, sacrificing and risking ev...

Chris Johnson's New Car: Yellow, Green, Amazing (PICTURE)


The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mar 19, 2010 | 12:28 pm PDT
Chris Johnson has a new car. Or as he wrote on Twitter, "My donk on 30inch sliders done talking whoever want it." Johnson has gone with a different vehicle choice than his friend Chad Ochocinco, who b...

Noah Baron: The Fight Against Reality's Bias in Education


The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mar 19, 2010 | 12:27 pm PDT
As I'm sure you're aware, the Texas state school board recently decided to take the Fox News approach to education, and history in particular; in order to counter the supposed "liberal bias" in their...

Dr. Guy Ziv: Latest U.S.-Israel Crisis Can Lead to a Breakthrough


The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mar 19, 2010 | 12:22 pm PDT
It is often said that crises beget opportunities. This statement is nowhere truer than in the realm of U.S.-Israel relations.  Israel's approval of 1,600 new housing units for Jewish settlers in...

Apple Swears iPad Partners To Secrecy


The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mar 19, 2010 | 12:22 pm PDT
Apple makes big demands of software developers who want an early crack at the iPad. Would-be testers of the tablet-style computer, due to be released Apr. 3, must promise to keep it isolated in a room...

Huston Street MRI Shows No Damage To Reliever's Shoulder


The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mar 19, 2010 | 12:17 pm PDT
TUCSON, Ariz. — Colorado Rockies closer Huston Street received encouraging news when the MRI on his ailing right shoulder revealed no structural damage.  The MRI was done Wednesday after S...

Erich Pica: Environmentalists Should Support Health Care Reform -- Here's Why.


The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mar 19, 2010 | 12:17 pm PDT
On March 9, Friends of the Earth staff participated in a march for health care reform. We surrounded the Ritz Carlton hotel in Washington, DC to confront health insurance industry executives, who wer...

Sharon L. Butler: The Art Spirit @ The National Academy Museum


The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mar 19, 2010 | 12:13 pm PDT
 Stardust Atkeson, "Night Watch - Bernie Mac," 2009, 22 x 24"   At Hyperallergic, a new NYC art blogazine, it's Big Show Review Week. Brent Burket is in the process of reviewing the...

Alona Elkayam: Best Worst Dressed Brands of SXSW Interactive (and a Film I Love)


The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mar 19, 2010 | 12:12 pm PDT
We are definitely living in the age of Geek Power.    Walking the halls of the circus-themed Austin Convention Center at SXSW 2010, you would have seen swarms of twenty, thirty and forty som...

Margarita Alarcon: Amistad


The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mar 19, 2010 | 12:12 pm PDT
Under the heading "A symbol of the slave trade joins US and Cuba," the news is out this morning: the schooner Amistad is on its way. The organizers have said that it will first dock in the province of...

Sam Sedaei: Hope for Iranians in the French Torture Game


The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mar 19, 2010 | 12:12 pm PDT
A group of French psychologists recently recruited 80 volunteers for what they claimed was a pilot for a new TV Show. The game involved posing questions to another "player" -- in reality, an actor --a...

Former Bin Laden Hunter Calls Afghanistan Success 'Transitory'


The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mar 19, 2010 | 12:11 pm PDT
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan — In the capital of Afghanistan's Helmand province, Taliban roam the streets freely. Barely a mile (a kilometer) outside Lashkar Gah, they wield more control than the go...

Is Stupak Getting a Deal?


Daily Kos Mar 19, 2010 | 12:26 pm PDT
There's a swirl of reports coming out now that leadership is negotiating with a handful of the Stupak crowd to get their votes. Pelosi says "This bill is about health care and not about abortion. Ther...

On Not Clapping Harder for Insurance Reform


Daily Kos Mar 19, 2010 | 11:38 am PDT
Glenn Greenwald wrote a very good post on whether the Rahm healthcare strategy, "to ignore the demands of progressives on the ground that they would fall into line at the end no matter what," has been...

Michael Arcuri, you're on notice.


Daily Kos Mar 19, 2010 | 10:55 am PDT
The unions are pissed with Democrats who are balking on health insurance reform:   It appears SEIU is dead serious about this business about yanking support for House Dems who vote No on the hea...

KY-Sen: Rand Paul surging


Daily Kos Mar 19, 2010 | 10:16 am PDT
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 3/15-17. Likely voters. MoE 4%, 5% for primary samples. (8/31-9/2/2009 results)  Republican Senate primary  Rand Paul (R)        40 (25) &...

The Vote Counting


Daily Kos Mar 19, 2010 | 9:30 am PDT
It's going to get hairy here the next few days, but with the reconciliation language decided upon, the votes are starting to shake out. As of this morning, John Boccieri from Ohio is a yes.  He...

 

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