Would someone please explain something to me: When did liberals get so utterly intolerant? To me, tolerance of opposing views, almost a kind of patient sympathy for those unenlightened individuals who just don’t get it yet, always had been a hallmark of liberalism: Live and let live. But in the Obama era, it’s Live and […]
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This cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan in the January 20, 2014 issue of The New Yorker says it all. Never before in the history of mankind and communication have so many little people been granted so large a platform to air and share their views. The Internet revolution should have spawned a Renaissance of insight
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We read ZeroHedge so you don’t have to! Now and then, you get some funny exchanges, albeit ever so rarely. Profanity alert. Goatboy Rule #11: Kill yourself! World will be so much better without another neurotic, super-ambitious, job-obsessed careerist. Kaiser Sousa i cant stand that bitch made mother fucking banker/wall st. presstitute… Hey Dennis,
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Senator Dianne Feinstein of California must be suffering from whiplash. For months she has defended the NSA’s mass surveillance of billions of phone calls, e-mails, video chats and more, saying it safeguards the nation. “What keeps me up at night, candidly, is another attack against the United States. And I see enough of the threat
Hello guys. Today starts Week 5 of my first-ever stint in the ranks of The Unemployed. So this pretty much makes me an expert, right? Journos are like that. A month of furious outreach has yielded a passel of no’s and a foreboding sense that this could take longer than expected.
That rascally Russian Vladimir Putin–Pooty, as George W. had nicknamed him–is at it again. He isn’t stopping in Crimea, it now is clear, as he sends masked thugs into police stations across eastern Ukraine. Passivity by the U.S.–the only superpower left–invites aggression by a diminutive despot with a chip on his shoulder and something to
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Oh now isn’t this rich: The SEC, stung by its failures in the biggest scam of all time (the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme), is hellbent on a search-and-destroy mission to mete out and vanquish all insider trading. Now a new report shows SEC staffers themselves are extremely effective insider traders. Researchers looked at 56 enforcement
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A lot more is at stake than mere money in Comcast’s bold $45 billion bear hug of Time Warner Cable. It is a bid to amass the largest collection of cable systems in the world; a battle for clout against the broadcast networks and other content-makers; and a test of efforts to restrict cable with
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Let’s admit it: No one reads “all” of anything anymore, nor wants to do so. It isn’t that we don’t have the time, it’s that we don’t make the time. So here are a few fast, quick thoughts on Comcast’s $45B bid for Time Warner Cable, one of the biggest media deals in years. In fewer than 600 words.
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Sounding off on the minimum-wage debate. view
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