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If Terry Jones burns the Koran, he'll also set fire to America's identity (The Christian Science Monitor)
September 10, 2010The Christian Science Monitor - America's 300 million citizens represent just about every walk of life on our planet. We lead the world in technology, business, and innovation. We lead the world in creating and preserving every type of freedom possible, and we live our daily lives under the most stable form of government ever devised by man.
Evaluating John Boehner's Republican Economic Plan (The Atlantic Wire)
September 10, 2010The Atlantic Wire - Republicans are countering President Obama's new economic proposals--$50 billion on infrastructure spending and $100 billion in business tax credits--with economic plans of their own. House Minority Leader John Boehner, who looks increasingly likely to become Speaker of the House in November, has offered a two-part economic proposal. Boehner wants to limit the federal budget to cost no more than the 2008 budget and to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for everyone. (President Obama wants to extend them for everyone except the wealthiest 2 percent of households.) Here's what people have to say about the GOP plan, including the proposals by "Indiana governor, former Bush budget director and rumored dark-horse Republican presidential candidate Mitch Daniels."
Why There's No 'Classical' Music at Rosh Hashana (The Atlantic Wire)
September 10, 2010The Atlantic Wire - Jews heading to synagogue this Rosh Hashana will chant ancient prayers, writes violist Miles Hoffman in The New York Times. "Some of the melodies will be simple and some complex, and some will be particularly beautiful. What almost none of them will be is 'classical.'" Why is that? Classical music has provided plenty of material for the Christian church, and "given the extraordinary Jewish classical composers over the last two centuries," you would think a comparable set of of Jewish sacred music would have appeared. Why hasn't it? Here are three reasons Hoffman offers.
Top Tweets: Tom Brady Fender Bender Edition (The Atlantic Wire)
September 10, 2010The Atlantic Wire - New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was involved in a car crash on his way to practice this morning. After confirming Brady was uninjured, Twitter users got down to the serious business of mocking the mop-topped signal caller. What emerged was a snapshot of the social networking site at its happiest: poking gentle fun at things where nobody gets hurt."Parks and Recreation" creator Michael Shur, for one, failed to see the humor in the situation... .bbpBox24015512185 {background:url(http://s.twimg.com/a/1283555538/images/themes/theme1/bg.png) #C0DEED;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 7px 0 0px;width:38px;height:38px} p.bbpTweet a:hover{text-decoration:underline}p.bbpTweet span.timestamp{font-size:12px;display:block} Dear Universe: please stop making scary things happen to Tom Brady. He is very handsome and I love him and his football team. Love, Ken T.less than a minute ago via webKen TremendousKenTremendous
Happy Hour Vid: Chris Christie vs. the Teachers' Union (The Atlantic Wire)
September 10, 2010The Atlantic Wire - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie seems to have mastered the gruff and pithy televised remark. Today, during a town hall meeting in New Jersey, Christie strikes again. After fielding a question from a displeased area teacher, he begins addressing her question and she shakes her head disparagingly. That's all encouragement Christie needed to unleash a vindictive anti-union tirade:
Debating Fidel Castro's Surprising Turn (The Atlantic Wire)
September 10, 2010The Atlantic Wire - As The Atlantic's own Jeffrey Goldberg publishes a multi-part report of his recent discussions with Fidel Castro, bloggers are slowly processing some rather surprising revelations. Castro, for example, says the Cuban Missile Crisis "wasn't worth it at all." Also, he thinks Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should ditch the anti-Semitism. Then there was his admission that "the Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore." (To which Goldberg wonders: "Did the leader of the Revolution just say, in essence, 'Never mind'?") Here's how this attention-getting, "totally surreal" series is being digested out there:
Islam critic Geller calls Quran burning a ‘stupid idea’ (The Upshot)
September 10, 2010The Upshot - Conservative blogger Pamela Geller, who's been at the forefront of opposition to a proposed Islamic center and mosque in Lower Manhattan, called a Florida pastor's plan to burn Qurans a "stupid idea," but one that's still "protected under the laws of free speech." In that respect, Geller appears to be on the same page as [...]
BONFIRE OF THE INSANITIES (Ann Coulter)
September 10, 2010Ann Coulter - In response to Gen David Petraeus' denunciation of Florida pastor Terry Jones' right to engage in a symbolic protest of the 9/11 attacks by burning copies of the Quran this Sept. 11, President Obama said: "Let me be clear: As a citizen, and as president, I believe that members of the Dove World Outreach Center have the same right to freedom of speech and religion as anyone else in this country."
REVOLUTION B GON (Ted Rall)
September 10, 2010Ted Rall - America Faces Permanent Unemployment
It's the Mortgages, Stupid (The Nation)
September 10, 2010The Nation - The Nation -- This story originally appeared at Truthdig. This week's proposals by the Obama administration to deal with the persistent economic crisis will be, as with previous plans that involved trillions of taxpayer dollars, little more than salt in the wounds.
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