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$500K Salary Cap For Bailout Firms
Joe. My. God. (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Politics
The Obama administration is planning to impose a $500K annual salary limit for the executives of companies receiving federal bailout money. Executives would also be prohibited from receiving any bonuses above their base pay, except for normal stock dividends. President Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner plan to announce the executive compensation plan on Wednesday morning at the White... -
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Vatican Revises Stance On Holocaust Denier
Bloodthirsty Liberal (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | World
The Pope didn’t know… The Vatican has demanded that a bishop who denied the Holocaust must recant his position before being fully readmitted into the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican also said in a statement Wednesday that Pope Benedict XVI didn’t know about Bishop Richard Williamson’s views when he agreed to lift his excommunication and that of [...] -
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Would Paul Wellstone Have Cashed In Like Daschle?
Where's the Outrage? (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Politics
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has withdrawn as nominee for the post of Secretary of Health & Human Services after it was revealed he did not pay all his taxes. I hope the car and driver Mr. Daschle was provided with by a wealthy business person, and the taxes he did not pay on that service, were worth the chance to [...] ShareThis -
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MySpace Removes 90,000 Sex Offenders From Its Site
Red Orbit (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Technology
The popular social networking site MySpace has found and removed some 90,000 registered sex offenders from its site over the last two years, Reuters reported.Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Attorney General Roy Cooper of North Carolina said that was 40,000 more than the site had acknowledged in the past.Both Cooper and Blumenthal have led efforts to make social networking Web... -
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How To Throw a Basketball Game by Gregg Popovich
SimonOnSports (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Sports
Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili all were sidelined for the San Antonio Spurs' game at Denver on Tuesday night. Ginobili has a bruised hip, and coach Gregg Popovich said he decided to give Duncan and Parker the night off in Denver following the Spurs' 110-105 overtime win at Golden State Monday night. "Ginobili has a left hip contusion among other bumps and bruises. For a different variety... -
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Kyrgyzstan to close key U.S. base
Pakistan Times! (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | World
MOSCOW: The Kyrgyz government is planning to close a strategically important U.S. military base that Washington uses as a route for troops and supplies heading into Afghanistan, Russian media reported Tuesday. Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev said at a news conference in Moscow that “all due procedures” were being initiated to close Manas Air Base, the [...]
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Pentagon urges Obama to target Pak safe havens
allvoices (subscribe) | 23 minutes ago | World
Pentagon urges Obama to target Pak safe havens Wednesday, February 04, 2009 WASHINGTON: A classified Pentagon report urges President Barack Obama to shift the US military strategy in Afghanistan by de-emphasising democracy-building and concentrating more on targeting Taliban and al-Qaeda sanctuaries inside Pakistan with the aid of the Pakistani military forces. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has... -
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Bonnie Newman to be New Senator from New Hampshire
News On Women (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Politics
Bonnie Newman has been chosen by the Governor of New Hampshire to fill the U.S. senate seat of New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg. Senator Gregg has been nominated to be Obama's Secretary of Commerce. Bonnie had been an Assistant Commerce... -
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Black S.C. Lawmaker Asks For Confederate Holiday
ChattahBox (subscribe) | 46 minutes ago | US
South Carolina (ChattahBox) – In a state that still feels a deal of racial tension, an African American lawmaker has requested that a Confederate holiday be honored as a paid day off. The bill, which has passed initial hearings, is hoped to work in tandem with other holidays, such as Martin Luther King Jr. Day (which [...] -
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The 'Day the Music Died'
Media News (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Entertainment
"The music didn't really die on Feb. 3, 1959, the day a four-seat airplane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson) crashed into a cornfield eight miles north of Clear Lake, Iowa. Five years and six days later, the Beatles, who learned their craft from Buddy Holly records and whose name is a shoutout to Holly's Crickets, played the Ed Sullivan show. No, the music lived.... -
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Joe Francis placed on house release
San Fransisco Chronicle (subscribe) | yesterday | Celebrity
A federal judge has ordered Joe Francis to serve house arrest until his next hearing on tax evasion charges in Los Angeles. The "Girls Gone Wild" founder was arrested Monday after showing up to a scheduled court hearing several hours late. U.S. District Court... -
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UNM men defeat Wyoming 86-57
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See where your friends are with Google Latitude
The Official Google Blog (subscribe) | 9 hours ago | Technology
How often do you find yourself wondering where your friends are and what they're up to? It's a pretty central question to our daily social lives, and it's precisely the question you can now answer using Google Latitude. Latitude is a new feature for Google Maps on your mobile device. It's also an iGoogle gadget on your computer. Once you've opted in to Latitude, you can see the approximate location... -
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India's $10 laptop is not a laptop
Engadget (subscribe) | 8 hours ago | Technology
You know what was missing from the so-call " unveiling " of India's $10 laptop yesterday? Photos. Now we think we know why. The $10 laptop is not a laptop at all, the display-less and keyboard-less prototype device demonstrated is just a 10 x 5-inch wide slab that stores (and apparently prints) distributed learning materials which can later be retrieved by an impoverished child... using a laptop and... -
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Obama Justice Department Re-Hires Attorney Fired By Goodling Because Of Lesbian Rumor
Think Progress (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
In October 2006, Leslie Hagen, who was working as the liaison between the Justice Department and the U.S. attorneys’ committee on Native American issues, was informed that despite her “outstanding” job performance reviews, her contract would not be renewed. In April 2008, NPR reported that the Justice Department was investigating whether Hagen was fired after [...] -
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What the sidewalk is to you, a limousine and chauffeur is to Tom Daschle.
Althouse (subscribe) | 02/02/2009 | Politics
You need to understand that if you want to know why it never occurred to him that he needed to report it as taxable income: As a legal tax matter, this isn't even a close call. Mr. Daschle says he used the car service about 80% for personal use, and 20% for business. But his spokeswoman says it only dawned on the Senator last June that this might be taxable income. Mr. Daschle's excuse? According to... -
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Mysterious twink rends worlds
WOW Insider (subscribe) | 02/02/2009 | Video Games
Filed under: Warrior , Analysis / Opinion , Bugs , Humor Our inbox has been absolutely flooded with reports of this mysterious twink , Aigni of Ner'zhul , that appeared on the official forums in the last 24 hours. If you look closely at his Armory, you'll notice some pretty big oddities. For one, the character is wielding a weapon he really shouldn't be able to have. Two, the character has some other... -
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eSATA HDD Extender may / may not expand PS3 storage
BitBlogger (subscribe) | 9 hours ago | Video Games
We're not saying the mildly brilliant eSATA HDD Extender wouldn't work in theory, but we're a bit skeptical about the, um, realness of this here product. Unlike Team Xecuter's Hard Drive Xtender , which is definitely shipping to buyers, this device supposedly gives Sony's PlayStation 3 the ability to recognize an external eSATA drive. Furthermore, the device also adds four USB ports for even more...
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Garmin, ASUS form partnership for phones, nuvifone G60 first model
Engadget (subscribe) | 10 hours ago | Technology
We knew the nuvifone was an ASUS-sourced piece , but who knew the partnership was going to run so deep? Garmin and ASUS have joined hands to create the Garmin-Asus strategic alliance with the goal of designing and producing a whole line of co-branded handsets. The first model will be what we've come to know so well over the past year simply as "the nuvifone," but it'll be branded as the nuvifone G60... -
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Elton John's Swarovski-encrusted charity iPod nano
Engadget (subscribe) | 02/02/2009 | Entertainment
Out to give the rumored MySpace MP3 player a run for its money, Elton John has launched his own iPod nano lineup, raising money for a charity close to his hearts and our own -- the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Taking his cue from the classy 'n' sassy Swarovski crowd, the players are bedazzled in the aforementioned crystals, and are available in black, green, orange, pink, purple, red, silver, or yellow.... -
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WWGD: The video book
BuzzMachine (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
HarperCollins, my publisher for What Would Google Do?, just released a video version of the book, a 23-minute synopsis delivered by me, sans script, on camera. It’s for sale on Amazon here. And here’s a Wall Street Journal story about it and here’s PaidContent. The point of this is that the publisher is trying [...] -
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PROFESSOR DARREN HUTCHINSON ON OBAMA, LIBERALS AND RENDITION: Yes, it was a flipflop....
Instapundit.com (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
PROFESSOR DARREN HUTCHINSON ON OBAMA, LIBERALS AND RENDITION: Yes, it was a flipflop. Responses to Glenn Greenwald, Hilzoy, and Scott Horton, among others. -
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The Bad Bank Assets Proposal: Worse Than You Imagined
naked capitalism (subscribe) | 12 hours ago | Business
Dear God, let's just kiss the US economy goodbye. It may take a few years before the loyalists and permabulls throw in the towel, but the handwriting is on the wall. The Obama Administration, if the Washington Post's latest report is accurate, is about to embark on a hugely costly "save the banking industry at all costs" experiment that: 1. Has nothing substantive in common with any of the "deemed... -
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Today's GOP: Hoping for the Worst
Talking Points Memo (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Politics
It occurred to me while reading Politico's interview with Dick Cheney, that the GOP's plan to regain political viability in the short term rests on two disaster scenarios: the failure of the financial rescue efforts (stimulus, TARP, and other bailouts)... - see all discussions
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