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Campaign’s over, so start campaigning

David Morgan (Front Row Republican midterm wave could globally (right behind Cuba’s). But Murkowski may not be the
Washington) make him vulnerable to a fiery In an arena where size really does only Republican who holds the
Submitted at 11/4/2010 10:16:41 AM challenge from Howard Dean. matter, political rock star Sarah view she shared with NBC: “I’m
According to the latest Palin has long been the 2012 looking for somebody that has a
Nov 4, 2010 11:16 EDT speculation, a primary challenge Republican prospect with the breadth of experience, not only
Finally get some shut-eye after from the Left could weaken biggest public spotlight. within government but just truly
Tuesday’s election? Well, rise and Obama in 2012 by making it But for the moment, the more a worldly approach. And I
shine. 2012 is just around the much harder for him to galvanize midterms have raised questions don’t think that Sarah Palin has
corner and the presidential his base for the general election. about her judgment in backing that.”
campaign is already getting under Teddy Kennedy did the same Tea Party candidates like Photo Credits: Reuters/Larry
way. favor for Jimmy Carter in 1980. Christine O’Donnell whose Downing (Obama); Reuters/
Folks at the White House may be Enter: Ronald Reagan. combined fortunes may have cost Stringer (Feingold); Reuters/Jason
asking themselves if the humbled, The names of more than a dozen Republicans any chance for Reed (Dean); Reuters/Jim Bourg
chastened President Barack prospective Republican wannabes a s a p o t e n t i a l p r e s i d e n t i a l control of the Senate. Then (Pawlenty); Reuters/Brian Snyder
Obama will face a primary are already floating around. And candidate should, and says there’s her role in the civil war (Palin)
challenge from the Left. some of them have lost no time in reassuringly that there’s nothing that has engulfed the Alaska This entry passed through the
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2012. And it is on to our next compromise between Obama and Blue state. Murkowski’s surname right. Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
adventure — forward!” Republicans would be the reform J u s t r e d u c e c o s t - o f - l i v i n g Otherwise the prize goes to Palin- Catastrophe.
Then the Washington political of entitlement programs like that increases for wealthier Americans endorsed Tea Partier Joe Miller.
journal Politico wondered aloud if longstanding third rail of politics, and index the retirement age to If Palin runs for president,
O b a m a ’ s a l m o s t m e e k - Social Security. reflect U.S. life expectancy, Murkowski won’t be voting for
s o u n d i n g r e s p o n s e t o t h e Pawlenty’s got it all figured out, which happens to rank 38th her. Not exactly big news, right?

Video: Brad Pitt Jokes About George Clooney and His Kids' Love of Spider-Man!
PopSugar (PopSugar) Brad Pitt brings Maddox and Pax Clooney looks like his character it out on PopSugar Rush!
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:15:00 PM Jolie-Pitt to the NY premiere of and also reveals he'd love to play
Megamind, where the famous father cracks a joke that George Spidey on the silver screen. Check
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Intel Invests in Jordan, Lebanon

Neal Ungerleider (Fast The mere fact that Intel is programming, satellite television
Company) exclusively going after internet is wildly popular among all
Submitted at 11/4/2010 1:40:13 PM portals and communication economic classes region-wide.
facilitators will have an effect on ShooFeeTV's twist is to offer
Intel had a major presence at the the shape of the local start-up highly customized television
World Economic Forum. But few scene: Newly minted investors listings for all users--regardless of
noticed their cash infusion to and techies will naturally want to national borders -- along with
three Middle Eastern Internet go where the money is. large doses of online-viewable
firms. According to Intel Capital programming.
At last week's World Economic Middle East and Africa Director Nymgo, a Lebanese-British firm,
F o r u m ( W E F ) m e e t i n g i n Feroz Sanaulla, “We trust in local plans to use Intel's funding to
M a r r a k e c h , o n e i n t e r e s t i n g talent and believe that Arabic accelerate infrastructure
announcement largely flew over p r o v i d e r s s h o u l d b e f u l l y development, enhance
Western heads: Intel Capital has equipped to supply regional functionality and to subsidize
made large-scale investments in content. By investing in such advertising and promotions. A
three Jordanian and Lebanese companies that inspire, create or scrappy newcomer to the VoIP
companies. deliver local content, we are on field, Nymgo has made a name
Lebanese VoIP firm Nymgo the right path toward a positive for themselves recently through
received their first infusion of future in the Middle East.” cut-rate calls to Indian mobile
Intel cash, while Jordanian social While this is Intel Capital's first phones and land lines. In
networking site Jeeran and major Middle East investment comparison to larger competitors
entertainment portal ShooFeeTV push in 2010, an educated guess such as Skype, Nymgo has instead
got their second rounds of Intel on the cash involved can be made opted for a low-functionality
funding in two years. Intel Capital by looking at the firm's two other model that offers cheap calls in
is the microchip giant's investing r e c e n t region-specific exchange for a lack of video and
arm, with a self-proclaimed investments. In October, Intel computer-to-computer dialing.
m i s s i o n o f “ m a k [ i n g ] a n d invested $17 million into Chinese Jeeran is one of the Arab world's
manag[ing] financially attractive e-commerce firm OkBuy.com largest social networking-only
investments in support of Intel's along with $ 23 million in sites. They offered some of the
strategic objectives.” investment in three Indian firms region's first web hosting services
The exact amounts of the i n M a r c h . H o w e v e r , I n t e l and, with their 2000 start-up date,
investments were not disclosed. Capital's India Technology Fund are relative old-timers in the
Local tech site Startup Arabia has over $250 million in funding Middle Eastern internet scene. As
sardonically noticed that this was compared to the $50 million of 2010, they have more than 1.5
“as always for the region,” but allotted for the Middle East. The fund's prior investments in ShooFeeTV's setup is the most million members, 650,000 active
that the investments came out of Intel Capital's Middle East and both Jeeran and ShooFeeTV were interesting out of the three cash websites and 150,000 active
a $50 million Middle East and Turkey Fund currently handles both previously announced at a recipients. They intend to offer blogs. However, their user base is
Turkey fund set up by Intel eight regional startups. Apart WEF conference. Funding for interactive program listings for currently centered on Jordan and
Capital. from the most recent funding both was provided in 2009 at a satellite television throughout the the Persian Gulf with relatively
Intel Capital's interest in the recipients, other interesting conference in Jordan. Intel's entire Arab world, including little penetration elsewhere.
Middle East region coincides with fundees include animation firm World Ahead program is also diaspora communities in North Jeeran has announced their intent
WEF meetings in the area--a 2009 V e r t e x S t u d i o s a n d h o t e l active in Jordan, where they work America and Europe. Due to to launch a series of city portals
conference in Jordan was marked automation service provider on a variety of infrastructure and government censorship in much
by a similar round of investment. Pulse. Both are based in Dubai. training projects. of the Middle East of broadcast INTEL page 5
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ITC Scrutinizes Apple After Motorola Complains

Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 1:27:21 PM
The merry-go-round of lawsuits
about patent infringement in
smartphones has just taken its
latest spin: The ITC is
investigating Apple after
Motorola alleged it was violating
18 Motorola-owned patents in
every iDevice it sells. Is either of
them right, or is the entire patent
law system in the wrong?
Recently Motorola filed suit
against Apple, alleging that the
smartphone maker's iPhone, iPad,
and iPod Touch devices violated
patent-protected Motorola IP
relating to GPRS, Wi-Fi, and
wireless communication tricks as
well as wireless antenna design,
and also that MobileMe infringed
on Motorola cloud-services
patents. And the biggest
accusation is that Apple's wildly
successful app store is also a
patent-thief.
The ITC has just voted to
investigate Apple in the light of
these allegations, and though of
course it hasn't pronounced its
findings yet, the move is an
indication in favor of Motorola,
since the ITC hasn't said it'll
investigate Motorola in response
to Apple's counter-suit alleging
the Droid smartphones violate
Apple's own multitouch IP.
Is the allegation that Apple's
infringing 18 Motorola patents
with merit? We can't say until the
courts have decided many months
hence, and even then we may not
fully know the truth. Is it true to
say Motorola's Droids violate
Apple's patents? Again we can't
say, although there's long been a
question about who can "own"
multitouch. What we can say is
that it looks, from the outside, like
a desperate move from a failing
also suing Apple, and Apple's
retaliating. Meanwhile Apple's
also suing HTC and Microsoft's
suing HTC and HTC is suing
someone else and somebody else
is suing another party and....
Smartphones are very big
business--billions of dollars over
the next several years alone--
which is why all this nonsense is
happening, aided by an aging
patent system that is seemingly at
its limits (even the U.K. is
pushing for patent law reform).
We're all left as powerless
onlookers pondering that if only
all these crazy lawsuits would
evaporate, then Apple, Motorola,
once-giant company which has HTC and everyone could spend
just had a gentle positive change the money developing better
in fortunes to keep its new growth p h o n e s i n s t e a d o f f u n d i n g
on track. Because, let's face it, l a w y e r ' s F e r r a r i h a b i t s .
even if Moto's patents are valid [Image via Picasa user Kristen
without the iPhone, Motorola Taddel]
wouldn't be building Android To keep up with this news, and
phones right now. more like it, follow me, Kit Eaton,
The other thing to note is that on Twitter.
while Apple's suing Motorola and
Motorola's suing Apple, Nokia's

Altria Shoots to New 52-Week High

Brent Archer (BloggingStocks) months, hitting new yearly highs MO opened this morning at Altria Shoots to New 52-Week
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are rising to a new 52-week high However, the company boosted d i v i d e n d r a t e e v e n h i g h e r , and S&P gives MO a positive 5
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4 Business/ E-reader News Edition
Listen-In On A Behind-
And The GOP Procter & Gamble (PG): The-Scenes Interview
With Mark Zuckerberg
Frontrunner For 2012 Is... Growth Stock Becomes Here
Joe Weisenthal (Business Robert Scoble (Business
Insider) Value Buy Insider)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:48:23 PM
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(BloggingStocks)
Mike Huckabee! While at Facebook, a group of us
Michael Brendan Dougherty of Submitted at 11/4/2010 1:10:00 PM got called aside for a private
The American Conservative has interview with Mark Zuckerberg.
some useful thoughts: Filed under: Newsletters, Procter In the interview was MG Siegler
This CNN poll is the first post- and Gamble (PG), Stocks to Buy and Jason Kincaid of Techcrunch
mid term indication of how "Procter & Gamble ( PG), a long- and David Gelles of the Financial
issues he is far from Dick Cheney time growth stock, is now in value
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but far from Ron Paul too. On territory based on its above-
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INTEL Man sentenced to life
Jonah Peretti on Going continued from page 2

across the Middle East. media providers is even more for NJ schoolyard
Viral: The Trick Is Finding The biggest challenge for smaller
regional specialist sites such as
interesting.
[Image: Arvind Sodhani,
killings (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
the Right Networks ShooFeeTV and Jeeran are the
multi-use portals. Middle Eastern
web users largely opt for all-in-
President Intel Capital. Photo by
J o h n C o l e / s t i l l - i m a g e s . n e t , Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:22:02 PM
copyright and courtesy World
Noah Robischon (Fast turned into a pass-around NEWARK, N.J. – A man who
Company) sensation. This led him to a one portals such as Yahoo's Economic Forum]
Maktoob and various local sites in admitted pulling the trigger in the
Submitted at 11/4/2010 1:30:28 PM realization about the power of execution-style killings of three
social networks that still shapes national markets like Egypt and
the United Arab Emirates. Intel's college students in a New Jersey
What you may not realize about his business today. Here's a video schoolyard has been sentenced to
the founder of Buzzfeed, is that of Peretti (one of our New Faces investment in the region is
his viral media expertise is of Social Media) retelling the interesting--and their choice of MAN page 6
somewhat accidental. Before he Nike story at our recent Influence investing exclusively in internet
co-founded Huffington Post, Project Fast Talk event.
Jonah Peretti had an email dialog [video_twistage 1]
with Nike customer service about Special thanks to Xerox for
Miss. warrant prepared for arrest of
a customizable shoe with the sponsoring this event.
word "sweatshop" on the side that Gary Collins (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Peter Thiel's Hedge Fund Submitted at 11/4/2010 10:27:58 AM
with the other driver, but
allegedly said it was taking too
long for police to arrive and left.
to misdemeanor driving under the
influence.
Collins starred in the 1970s series
Clarium Is SLAMMED JACKSON, Miss. – Police in An officer went to his house and
Mississippi were preparing an wrote him a ticket. The warrant
"The Sixth Sense" and has made
appearances on such series as

And Now Down 17% YTD arrest warrant Thursday for actor was being prepared because the
and former TV host Gary Collins other driver pressed charges for
for leaving the scene of a car him allegedly leaving the scene.
"JAG," "Yes, Dear" and "The
Young and the Restless," as well
as on "The New Hollywood
Courtney Comstock (Business
Insider) accident. Royals said Collins "waited for a Squares."
Jackson officer Colendula Green period of time and then left before Collins hosted the talk show
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:42:31 PM
said police were waiting for a police showed up," though he "Hour Magazine" in the 1980s,
Peter Thiel's Clarium has been judge to sign off on the warrant. didn't know how long he waited. for which he won a daytime
slammed with losses this year. She said there's no indication Collins is married to Mary Anne Emmy in 1983.
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unearth 3,400 pharaoh
statue (AP)
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Submitted at 11/4/2010 10:38:05 AM
CAIRO – Egypt's antiquities
Egyptian artisans.
Hawass said in a statement
Thursday the statue was found
during a routine excavation
Melvin Jovel pleaded guilty to
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Zahi Hawass says the statue was
discovered on Thursday at the site
of the funerary temple of
Amenhotep III, one of the largest
on the west bank of the Nile in the
southern temple city of Luxor.
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Nudgemail Turns Email Procrastination Into an Asset

Marshall Kirkpatrick work, or if you're like me and just if it catches on. incoming mail, it is the primary
(ReadWriteWeb) don't care about hundreds of Related or competing services dashboard for many web users - it
Submitted at 11/4/2010 1:28:50 PM thousands of unread messages in include Followup.cc, is how they manage their lives.
your inbox - then Nudgemail built is Legacy Locker, a secure TaskForceApp and IssueBurner. So when looking at email as a
Nudgemail is a newly launched probably isn't for you. But if you service for storing all your online This is clearly not a brand new platform, the opportunities for
service that lets you forward any use your email inbox like a To Do data and account access so that it type of technology, but different making it more useful and
email to the future, without ever list and would like to hit snooze can be passed on to your loved services will serve different productive reach most areas of
creating an account. Forward or on a thread - then you might like ones after you die. people well. There's also the fun online activities.
cc to 2hours@nudgemail.com, the service quite a bit. The email Toeman says that Nudgemail old classic Futureme.org. Does Nudgemail sound like a
tomorrow@nudgemail.com or inbox is a big frontier for software uses SendGrid for secure handling As Yahoo! engineer Eran productivity hack, as a service,
Monday@nudgemail.com and development and this is just the of email and his service never Hammer-Lahav told us this that could be useful to you?
that's when you'll get a follow-up latest example of that. sees the content of your messages. Summer: Discuss
email back in your inbox. Sponsor (Disclosure: SendGrid sponsors It's pretty clear that email
If you try to get rid of every Nudgemail was created by ReadWriteWeb.) The service is provides a huge potential for
email that ever hits your inbox, if Silicon Valley's Jeremy Toeman, free today and may offer group extensibility, given the wide range
you are required to archive every who likes building clever services licensing packages for companies of ways people use it. The inbox
email you send and receive for like this. Another project he's is much more than just a place for
E-reader News Edition
Fed takes bold, risky step to bolster weak economy
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 9:35:58 AM
Traders in the 30-year bond
options pit at the Chicago Board
of Trade signal orders shortly
after the Federal Reserve's
decision to leave short-term
interest rates untouched,
November 3, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Frank Polich
By Pedro da Costa and Mark
Felsenthal
WASHINGTON| Thu Nov 4,
2010 10:35am EDT
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The
Federal Reserve launched a fresh
effort to support a struggling U.S.
economy on Wednesday,
committing to buy $600 billion in
government bonds despite
concerns the program could do
more harm than good.
The decision takes the Fed into
largely uncharted waters and is
aimed at further lowering
borrowing costs for consumers
and businesses still suffering in
the aftermath of the worst
recession since the Great
Depression.
The U.S. central bank said it
would buy about $75 billion in
longer-term Treasury bonds per
month through the end of June
2011 and could adjust purchases
depending on the strength of the
recovery.
"The economy is slowly digging
itself out of a deep hole," said
Brian Bethune, economist at IHS
Global Insight in Lexington,
Massachusetts. "The Fed is
making the right moves here to
nudge the pace up a little," he
said.
Critics within and outside the
central bank fear the Fed's policy
will lead to high inflation and
worry that low interest rates in the
United States risk fueling asset
bubbles in other countries and
destabilizing currencies.
But with the U.S. economy
expanding at only a 2.0 percent
annual pace in the third quarter of
this year and the jobless rate
seemingly stuck around 9.6
percent, the Fed had come under
pressure to do more to stimulate
business activity. HIGH
UNEMPLOYMENT, LOW
INFLATION
In the Fed's post-meeting
statement, policymakers described
the economy as "slow" and said
employers remained reluctant to
create jobs. They also called
inflation "somewhat low."
"Progress toward (our) objectives
has been disappointingly slow,"
the Fed said, referring to its dual
mandate to maintain price
stability and foster maximum
sustainable employment.
Still, these domestic goals
appeared to be creating troubles
abroad. The prospect of ultra-low
returns in the United States have
driven investors into higher-
yielding emerging markets,
pushing those currencies higher
and sparking anxiety over a loss
of export competitiveness.
"We are all under attack by the
relaxed monetary policy of the
United States," Colombian
Finance Minister Juan Carlos
Echeverry told investors on
Tuesday.
With 14.8 million Americans
unemployed, factories operating
well short of capacity, and
inflation well below the range the
Fed would prefer, some officials
at the central bank see the risk of
a vicious deflationary cycle where
consumers hold off on purchases,
choking off economic growth.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, in
an opinion piece posted on the
Washington Post's web site on
Wednesday, said policymakers
could not sit idly by given the
anemic economic backdrop. He
argued that fears that
unconventional monetary policy
would spark a future bout of
inflation were "overstated."
"Inflation that is too low can pose
risks to the economy -- especially
when the economy is struggling.
In the most extreme case, very
low inflation can morph into
deflation, which can contribute to
long periods of economic
stagnation," Bernanke wrote.
MARKET REACTION
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Nov 03, 2010 10:05pm EDT
This move is insane. Interest
rates are already near zero. Taking
hundreds of billions in purchasing
power away from those who have
saved, in an attempt to get people
already buried in debt to borrow
more, is just stupid.
Nov 03, 2010 11:13pm EDT
Their contention that printing
money will somehow help the
economy is either stupidity or a
malicious lie. What it will do is
undermine confidence in the US
paper and steal from those still
unfortunate enough to hold it as a
store of value. The scam
continues – take from the
responsible and solvent and give
to the profligate and bankrupt and
say it is for the good of all.
Americans aren’t like Ghandi – a
French 1789 revolution could
happen here and their heads
would be first on the chopping
block.
Nov 03, 2010 11:18pm EDT
“launched a fresh effort to support
a struggling economy … despite
concerns the program could do
more harm than good.”
wonderful. A it’s not a fresh idea.
And B it’s not a good idea. Here’s
a good idea, ask the new Tea
Party members in congress to ban
The Fed a.s.a.p., as the
Corporations and Banks prepare
to fleece middle-America once
again!
Nov 03, 2010 12:15am EDT
Holly Mother, they’re going to
make the oil $200 a barrel prior
the next summer; at the same
income level, which is a
stagflation. This is totally insane,
unless they target China. It will
shot the Chinese inflation in the
stratosphere.
Nov 04, 2010 3:31am EDT
Nice way to subsidise american
corporations.
Socialism of the rich
Nov 04, 2010 6:39am EDT
Ajrolaf – excellent point! I just
keep thinking that surely they
can’t be this dumb, surely they are
seeing something really ugly that
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they can’t share with us.
Nov 04, 2010 6:46am EDT
Let’s vote – who’d like to see
Dave Ramsey replace Ben
Bernanke.
Nov 04, 2010 8:09am EDT
Now that the GOP shares the
power, they also share the
responsibility for fixing the US
economy.
Let’s see if they’re serious about
it, or if they’re just good at
talking:
Get rid of Bernanke, and stop this
madness, please.
Nov 04, 2010 8:40am EDT
Yeah, sounds just like the thing
to do!!!!
Brace yourselfs America!
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soon, holograms like those in Star
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20, 2010 in Palo Alto, California.
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Electric car maker Tesla Motors
will receive $30 million in
investment from Panasonic
Corporation, the two companies
announced in a joint press release
on Wednesday Nov 3.
Panasonic, the Japanese
consumer electronics company
based in Osaka, Japan, will
purchase $30 million of Tesla
common stock at the price of
$21.15 per share.
Also, under the deal, Panasonic
will become the primary supplier
of lithium-ion battery cells for
Tesla, and the two will jointly
market and sell battery packs for
electric vehicles.
“It is an honor and a powerful
endorsement of our technology
that Panasonic, the world’s
leading battery cell manufacturer,
would choose to invest in and
partner with Tesla,” Tesla CEO
and cofounder Elon Musk said in
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Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 11:59:58 AM
It looks like Twitter has just hired
its first government liaison. New
Twitter employee Katie Jacobs
Stanton just Tweeted that Adam
Sharp will be joining the company
to help the “government better
communicate with constituents.”
Sharp confirmed his employment
as well.
Twitter tells us that Sharp’s global.
official title will be Manager, As we wrote in our initial
Government and Political coverage of the position, it’s not
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pack while reducing cost.” President of Panasonic’s battery executive producer of digital
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builds electric cars such as the the release. “We are proud to oversaw the editorial content on C
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The space shuttle Discovery is
being prepared to launch after
being delayed on November 3, at
Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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The space shuttle launch is 60
percent likely to happen on Nov.
5, NASA said. Possible high
winds are the reason for the 40
percent of uncertainty, as a cold
front is moving through Florida.
The trip will be Discovery's last
trip to the International Space
Station.
It has a unique item aboard.
"Robonaut 2, the first dexterous
humanoid robot in space," is
making its first journey, according
to NASA.
The robot is being developed to
serve as an astronaut assistant,
accomplishing repetitive or
dangerous tasks. This trip is a test
of its performance in
microgravity. The shuttle has
traveled to its launch pad at the
Kennedy Space Center and is
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EDT on Friday. Astronauts will
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Kate Hudson Shows a Little Something Getting Her Caffeine Fix

Lindsay Miller (PopSugar)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:00:00 PM
Kate Hudson made a coffee run
in her flip-flops yesterday
morning in LA. The actress once
again looked laid back after
getting into costume for her big
annual Halloween bash, where
she hosted tons of her famous
friends like Leonardo DiCaprio,
Gwen Stefani, and Nicole Richie.
Kate's boyfriend, Matt Bellamy,
was also around to celebrate the
holiday with her inner circle. His
band, Muse, is on a break from
concert commitments, which
means more chances to hang out
with her son Ryder. She's had the Borrowed, which comes out in
past few months off work while 2011.
she accompanied Matt on tour, View 2 Photos ›
but we just got a first sneak peek
at Kate, John Krasinski, and
Ginnifer Goodwin in Something
14 Technology/
What Zuckerberg Never Said About the iPad
Philip Berne (SlashGear)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:31:26 PM
Facebook held a press conference
about its new mobile strategy on
Wednesday. In a nutshell,
Facebook is updating apps for
Android and iOS, and it is not
building a Facebook phone.
Instead, it’s going to be platform
agnostic and try to treat all
platforms equally.
Ho-hum. Sounds pretty dull,
right? I mean, no hardware
announcement. No shiny phone to
handle and photograph. The big
news is that you’ll be able to log
onto your favorite poker app with
your Facebook ID. Oh, and
Facebook is going to start offering
local coupons, based on
location. You could practically
see the crowd falling asleep.
Jaded tech journalists, they could
hardly believe Facebook had
dragged them out to California for
this apparent non-announcement.
In fact, this was a much bigger
deal for programmers and third-
party app makers who are
involved with Facebook, or with
location-based services. But that
doesn’t make for exciting
headlines.
Know what does make for an
exciting headline? When Mark
Zuckerberg totally dissed the
iPad. When asked about a
Facebook app for iPad,
Zuckerberg curtly replied: “It’s
not mobile.” The person asking
the question interjects: “I think
Apple would disagree with you,”
and, in his famously Zuckerberg
way, the Facebook CEO blows
this off by saying “Sorry.”
Finally, tech blogs had a story.
Zuckerberg disrespects the iPad
and Apple. Zuckerberg attacks
Apple’s tablet. The iPad has been
riding a wave of popularity for so
long, it’s about time for that wave
to crest and come crashing down,
and finally tech journalists had the
quote they needed to tell the story
they had already decided to tell.
The iPad is going down because it
sucks. Zuckerberg said so.
Except, that’s not exactly what
happened. In fact, that’s not even
close. Business Insider has the
exchange on video and you can
see it here. They open this post
with the line: “Is the iPad a
mobile device? Not according to
Mark Zuckerberg.”
They couldn’t have gotten it
more wrong. First of all,
Zuckerberg never says the word
“device.” He just says “mobile.”
Now, are we to believe that Mark
Zuckerberg does not think the
iPad is mobile? Does Zuckerberg
really believe that you can’t take
the iPad with you? You can’t
bring it to a coffeeshop, or take it
on a plane ride? Of course not.
But that’s what Jay Yarow at
Business Insider implies.
First, here’s what I think
Zuckerberg was really saying.
The event was called a Facebook
Mobile event. The company
wanted to talk about the future of
Facebook on mobile phones.
That’s all mobile phones,
including phones with simpler
mobile browsers, not just the big
heavyweight smartphones.
At the end of the long session, a
journalist stands up during the
question and answer period and
E-reader News Edition
asks about a Facebook iPad app.
It’s a legitimate question for sure,
because there has been a lot of
curiosity about how Facebook
might scale to the iPad’s screen.
Currently, if you want to use
Facebook on the iPad, you have to
blow up the iPhone version to
double size, which is not a good
looking solution, or you have to
use Safari to browse to Facebook.
But Zuckerberg didn’t want to
talk about the iPad. He was
focused on mobile, and that’s the
word that came out when he
dismissed the iPad question. “The
iPad is not ‘mobile’” is what he
was saying. He was probably
using the familiar terminology
they’ve been throwing around to
describe this event.
He was not saying that the iPad is
not a mobile device. He was not
saying that Facebook was not
interested in supporting the iPad.
He was not being blunt, as Jason
Kincaid says on TechCrunch. He
was being dismissive. He was
only talking about the iPad
tangentially, not addressing any
real concerns Facebook has about
developing an app for the iPad
and tablet devices.
Second, here’s my problem with
the coverage this has gotten.
Engadget used this line as part of
their ongoing “CE-Oh No He
Didn’t” series. Dozens of blogs
picked up on the line, with
headlines saying “Zuckerberg
Says the iPad Is Not Mobile.”
If you watch the entire exchange,
WHAT page 17
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An end to bad, cranky drivers?

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:32:30 PM

Ford Motor's Active Park Assist

determines angles, then at driver's
prompt steers a car into its space
while driver controls the gas
pedal, braking, and
shifting.(Credit: Ford Motor)
While city drivers may see
parallel parking as just another
urban sport, for many people it's a
"highly avoided and stress-
inducing" situation that raises the
heart rate.
That's according to a nine-month
study of driver habits recently
completed by Ford Motor, the
New England University
Transportation Center (NEUTC),
and the Center for Transportation
and Logistics at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Not surprisingly, results released
Thursday found that parallel acceleration, and distance without using the technology. an oncoming car in a parking lot ranging in age from their 20s to
parking while using a park-assist maintained from the next car, as Ford's Cross-Traffic Alert system when using a warning system. 60s who were instructed on how
system (instead of having to guess well as their heart rate, blood warns drivers in reverse of Only 71 percent of drivers to use the assistant devices prior
your bumper distance based on pressure, brain wave activity, oncoming traffic.(Credit: Ford managed to yield to oncoming to testing.
your limited view) greatly reduces where the driver looks, pupil Motor) traffic when backing out of a The study its part of an ongoing
the stress of parallel parking in dilation, and skin conductance. The experiment also found that space with obstructed views, but project in conjunction with MIT's
drivers. The experiment specifically used even just thinking about having to 100 percent of the drivers in the AgeLab to "understand the
Experiments on drivers were Ford's Active Park Assist, a parallel park makes drivers experiment were able to do it correlation between stressors and
conducted using a 2010 Lincoln system that uses sensors on the stressed. when using Ford's Cross-Traffic driving performance," with the
MKS specially outfitted with tools car to determine its position in The NEUTC study found drivers Alert, a radar-based blind spot end goal of developing
to monitor what researchers call relation to a space and then, at the had a mean heart rate of 75.9 monitoring system. In addition to automotive technology that
driver state. driver's prompt, steers the car into beats per minute when they warning when a car is close to improves driver skills while
Driver state is a combination of a parallel parking space while the anticipated parallel parking approaching one's blind spot reducing stress.
both behavior in using a car and driver maintains control over the manually compared to about 72.5 while in drive, Cross-Traffic Alert While the study was sponsored
the involuntary physical responses shifting, gas, and brake. beats per minute when they also detects distant oncoming by Ford and tested its products
exhibited by a driver. It can When parallel parking with anticipated parking with park- traffic while in reverse in order to exclusively, the U.S. automaker is
include things like monitoring an Ford's Active Park Assist, drivers assisting technology. help drivers avoid backing out certainly not the only brand
individual's driving style with on average had heart rates with 12 When it comes to backing up, and being hit by an oncoming car. applying sensors and automated
regard to lane-changing fewer beats per minute compared drivers were also less likely to This particular set of experiments
frequency, speed, braking, to their heart rate when parking accidentally back out in front of consisted of 42 men and women END page 16
16 Technology/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition
END
Will Facebook’s deals platform drive more location continued from page 15

parking aids to its vehicles. It

based service usage? seems arguable that the results of
the study might be similar using
Ben Bajarin (SlashGear) things like “checking in” are optimistic. Below are some other other brands of automated parking
Submitted at 11/4/2010 11:59:50 AM mostly a younger very tech key findings from the report and a n d b l i n d s p o t t e c h n o l o g y .
centric audience. With 96% of the definition Pew used of a Automated parking technology
Yesterday Facebook launched, people still not using these location based service. can be found on models from
among other things, a new services it is clear it is still a long - 7% of adults who go online with A u d i , L e x u s , T o y o t a , a n d
platform called “Deals.” The way off from the mass market. So their mobile phone use a location- Volkswagen, and several more
goal of this platform and the why are so few people actually based service. automakers offer camera systems
API’s that come along are simply using location based services? - 8% of online adults ages 18-29 for monitoring one's car and
to offer businesses both local and "where the market stands right use location-based services, surroundings while parallel
national a way to offer consumers now there is no real end user significantly more than online parking or backing up.
deals as they check into locations value to check in" adults in any other age group. This entry passed through the
near retail outlets. This has been The problem lies with the fact - 10% of online Hispanics use Full-Text RSS service — if this is
one of the primary over arching that as of where the market stands these services – significantly more your content and you're reading it
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when talking about the promise of value to check in. What is the blacks (5%). our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
location based services. benefit to the end consumer to - 6% of online men use a location- content-only/faq.php
Today the Pew Internet Research checking in currently other than to based service such as Foursquare Five Filters featured article:
Center in their Internet and let people know where you are? or Gowalla, compared with 3% of Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
American Life report stated that The value on top of that could online women. Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
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actually use location based where you are and that you may retailer’s store when they Location-based services such as
services. Their research also be interested in promotions. otherwise may not have had any Foursquare and Gowalla use
found that even though 4% of Facebook’s Deals platform interest. internet-connected mobile
online American’s use location intends to change that by offering Facebook and retailers will need devices’ geolocation capabilities
based services it only makes up a way for people to get incentives to find a healthy balance between to let users notify others of their
1% of their usage on any given for checking into or around a valuable promotion and an locations by “checking in” to that
day. The real question is what certain locations. For Facebook intrusive one. There is certainly a location. Location-based services
will drive more people to use the whole experience centers great deal of work to be done in often run on stand-alone software
location based services and can around their“Places” feature. The this space. This market is still applications, or “apps,” on most
Facebook play a role in it. incentives are completely up to early and working toward major GPS-enabled smartphones
What is apparent about location the retailer and can be anything maturity but with companies like or other devices.
based services so far, as the report from discounts on products, Facebook, Loopt, Foursquare,
points out, is that the 4% of those rewards, and even free items. The Gowalla, Yelp and more pushing Calvin Klein Teams with
using location based services for purpose is to obviously entice their platforms forward I am
Marchon3D to Create 3D
Sunglasses : ck3D
Is Downtime Extinct? [Stress] Chris Burns (SlashGear)
Adam Dachis (Lifehacker) breaks? You know, really take a extinction? More » Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:44:10 PM
Submitted at 11/4/2010 10:30:00 AM break and play with your
smartphone for fifteen minutes to
Remember when you used to take "relax." Where did real downtime go? Did we willingly force it into CALVIN page 17
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CALVIN
continued from page 16
There’s Moshka, Gucci, and
Oakley(tied to Tron:Legacy)
already, now the newest pair of
3D glasses announced by an
international fashion brand is
Calvin Klien. November 4,
Melville, NY, ck Calvin Klien
Eyewear partners with
Marchon3D to create a couple
pairs of glasses with Marchon’s
patent-pending 3D lens
technology – the only curved 3D
lens on the market that is RealD
certified.
The line of glasses will be part of
a larger M3D collection. This
Calvin Klein set will include three
men’s styles and three women’s
styles, each of them RealD
certified. Each pair is also
Photocromic, having the ability to
change from indoor 3D glasses to
outdoor UVA/UVB/UVC
protected sunglasses. And they’ll
have the M3D patent-pending
circular-polarized lens
technology, the coolest 3D in
town. Check out the full press
release below:
ck Calvin Klein Eyewear
Announces 3D Sunglasses
With Marchon3D™ Patent-
pending 3D technology with
RealD certification
MELVILLE, N.Y., Nov. 4, 2010
/PRNewswire/ — ck Calvin Klein
Eyewear has partnered with
Marchon3D™ to infuse its patent-
pending 3D lens technology into
the designer eyewear sector.
The patent-pending M3D lens
technology is the only curved 3D
lens on the market that is RealD
certified. The curved lens,
matching the contour of the eye,
improves and maximizes a
consumer’s 3D viewing
experience, allowing for a greater
image immersion. The
photocromic lens technology
allows consumers to wear their
glasses indoors and outdoors.
“With Marchon3D’s M3D
technology and ck Calvin Klein
Eyewear’s sleek, fashion-forward
design, we are providing
consumers the best 3D-enabled
sunglass on the market,” said
Claudio Gottardi, President of
Marchon and CEO of Marchon
International. “Having infused
technology and fashion only
raises the bar in the 3D eyewear
field and Marchon is excited and
proud to lead the industry.”
The ck3D sunglasses will be
offered in three men’s and three
women’s styles, each providing:
* M3D patent-pending circular-
polarized lens technology to
provide the best possible 3D
viewing experience
* Photocromic capability,
transitioning from indoor 3D
glasses to outdoor UVA/UVB/
UVC protected sunglasses
* RealD certified
The ck Calvin Klein eyewear,
part of the M3D collection, will
be available December 2010 with
the retail price of $180*.
*ck3D sunglasses are not to be
confused with other 3D products
on the market, which are not 3D
sunglasses.
Marchon3D™ was launched in
July 2010, after Marchon
Eyewear acquired patent pending
3D technology assets from
MicroVision Optical. Marchon
also signed a global licensing
agreement with RealD Inc., the
leading provider of 3D technology
for cinema, consumer electronics
and professional applications, to
use the RealD brand for sales of
Marchon3D™ eyewear. Through
the terms of the global licensing
agreement, Marchon3D™ will
distribute its RealD certified 3D
glasses in cinemas, retail
locations, e-commerce sites and
through electronic equipment
manufacturers worldwide.
Contact information:
Trey Ditto / Samantha Wolf
KCSA Strategic Communications
212.896.1248 / 212.896.1220
tditto@kcsa.com / levels of openness and
swolf@kcsa.com
WHAT
continued from page 14
that is not his meaning at all. He’s
not being misquoted, but he is
being taken out of context in a big
way. His little gaffe is being
sensationalized as an important
criticism from the CEO of the
largest Web site in the world.
Erick Tseng, head of Facebook’s
mobile products division, stepped
in to clarify the statement, perhaps
realizing exactly how Zuckerberg
would be misinterpreted. A
couple minutes later, Zuckerberg
himself clarifies what he meant,
and it’s actually fairly interesting.
It really boils down to this: they
are still thinking about it. There is
clearly a new category of machine
hitting the market, and Facebook
is not ready to commit to one
platform, or one interface concept.
Zuckerberg gave the impression
that Facebook is still trying to
decide how to best serve
Facebook’s content on a tablet-
style device. It’s a good question,
considering the two most
interesting consumer tablets on
the market are drastically different
devices. The iPad is almost twice
the size of the Samsung Galaxy
Tab, and both have different
connectivity on board. Clearly the
same app wouldn’t work for both,
but perhaps there is some
common ground to be found in
the tablet space.
But that’s not how the tech media
reported this non-event. The
media likes to tell a story, and will
17
fit events into the round holes of
the story even if they happen to be
square pegs. The story about
Mark Zuckerberg is that he’s rash,
youthful and impulsive. When the
media heard his line about the
iPad, they wanted this to be a
moment of true honesty from a
CEO who is actually relatable and
perhaps open enough to be candid
with the press. This may be the
case, but it doesn’t describe the
Zuckerberg I saw in the press
conference. I saw a guy who was
completely likeable and
thoughtful. Not someone who is
impulsive and ready to do battle.
The second story the media wants
to tell is the fall of the iPad. The
iPad has been incredibly popular,
but in order to tell the story, it
needs a denouement. It’s time for
the iPad to go down. The same
thing happened with the iPhone,
and the same thing happens for
every product that catches fire and
proves remarkably popular. After
a while, it gets boring telling the
same old: “The iPad is great and
everybody loves it” stories,
whether or not those are true in
the first place. It’s time to bring
the iPad down, and the media
stands Zuckerberg up as a straw
man and lights his comments on
fire.
18 Technology/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Vibrant Media May Be Annoying, But It’s A Money

-Printing IPO Candidate
Robin Wauters (TechCrunch) to record over $100 million in
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:18:20 PM revenues. Stevenson says the 250-
person company has been
You know those double- profitable for “a long time”.
underscored links in articles and To date, Vibrant has raised
whatnot that open up advertising
units when you hover over them?
roughly$27 million in funding,
and says it has no plans for an
Top 10 Photo Apps
It’s a form of digital advertising additional venture capital raise. to Make Your
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4 Reasons Enterprise IT Should

Support the iPad
Klint Finley (ReadWriteWeb) company:"There's a difference
Submitted at 11/4/2010 1:00:00 PM Devices Themselves between looking at a laptop
Speaking of the economy, many screen together and looking at an
Gartner is encouraging CEOs to business units remain strapped for iPad screen," he said. "With the
appeal directly to CIOs regarding cash. Workers are willing to shell iPad, it's more like you're doing
the iPad in a new CEO advisory. out for iPads on their own, somethig with the other person --
We've covered the growth of the reducing the financial risk of with a laptop presentation it's
iPad in the enterprise quite a bit, supporting the devices. And if more like you're doing something
b u t w h y s h o u l d Y O U R I t workers are buying the devices to them."
department support the iPad? themselves, you can bet that Gartner cites examples of
Gartner says that unless you can adoption won't be an issue. After
find a compelling reason NOT to years of management and IT
support it, you should at least start r a m m i n g t e c h n o l o g y d o w n
professionals such as architects,
realtors and financial advisors that
can take advantage of such a form
Hulu Plus hits 2010
supporting it for a few users. e m p l o y e e s t h r o a t s , h e r e ' s
Gartner cites a few reasons worth something workers are actually
factor.
The iPad is also good for
BRAVIA HDTVs, coming
considering.
Sponsor
The iPad is About More Than
begging for. It DOES Have
Productivity Benefits
There are actually business
consuming media, like slide decks
and lengthy PDF white papers
that can get quite uncomfortable
to all PS3 users next week
Darren Murph (Engadget) PlayStation Network member (as
Productivity reasons to support the iPad as to read on the screen but seem
Submitted at 11/4/2010 1:13:00 PM opposed to PlayStation Plus, as it
Gartner encourages decision well. The iPad has proven to be a like wastes of paper to print. stands today) will be able to grab
makers to consider the "soft better device for sales meetings or Apple Offers Enterprise Sad, dreary day at your place? it. 'Course, even those freeloaders
benefits" of supporting iPads in other situations where information Management Tools Fret not, as the Boob Tube is just will be forced to pony up $9.99
t h e w o r k p l a c e , s u c h a s sharing is valuable, but a Gartner mentions that some IT about to get even better. Hulu has per month if they're interested in
recruitment and retention. I would notebook can be obtrusive. departments may push back just revealed a movement to get using it, but hey, it's not like
add to this that although the job In September Matthew McKenzie because "Apple does not support Hulu Plus stocked with more Raising Hope is financed with
market is rough, many workers wrote that iPads are passing the the enterprise." That actually not content and onto more devices, pixie dust, right?
are still dissatisfied with their "Bubba test"(his words, not the case. Apple does offer tools STAT. Making sure those words [Thanks, Brian]
jobs. Having tools that are mine). What he means here is that for enterprise management. There aren't empty, we're learning that Continue reading Hulu Plus hits
pleasant to use could contribute to sales reps are finding the iPad an have been iOS security issues, but all 2010 Sony BRAVIA HDTVs 2010 BRAVIA HDTVs, coming
worker satisfaction. (On the other invaluable tool for sales people that's par for the course these will today have access to the to all PS3 users next week
hand, having more tools to even outside of hip or tech savvy days. Discuss s u b s c r i p t i o n p r o g r a m m i n g Hulu Plus hits 2010 BRAVIA
support may contribute to IT industries. McKenzie quotes a service, with it bleeding over to HDTVs, coming to all PS3 users
worker dissatisfaction.) Workers friend who works in outside sales Sony's various Blu-ray players, next week originally appeared on
are Often Willing to Buy These f o r a n i n d u s t r i a l s u p p l y home theater systems, network Engadget on Thu, 04 Nov 2010
media players and even the Dash - 13:13:00 EDT. Please see our
- yeah, that Dash-- in due time. In terms for use of feeds. Permalink
related news, Hulu will be soon Joystiq| PlayStation Blog, Hulu|
yanking the invite requirement to Email this| Comments
get Hulu Plus on the PlayStation
3, and as of next week, any ole
20 Technology/ Culture/ TV/ E-reader News Edition

State of App Industry 2010 (Report) Chic in New York: Cire

Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:45:02 PM
(apparently successful) efforts to
generate developer interest in its
new mobile operating system and
Trudon
Habitually Chic (Habitually
Mobile advertising firm its fairly positive reception among Chic®)
Millennial Media has just released technology reviewers and
its comprehensive report on the enthusiasts. Revenue Trends for Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:47:16 PM

state of the mobile application 2011

industry, which includes a look at After I mentioned that Cire
Publishers were also asked to
growth trends, platform Trudon was opening in New
estimate their 2011 revenue. for
diversification, platform York, I was invited to tour the
the study Based on the answers
popularity, 2011 trends and more. space and learn more about the
given, it's almost universally good
According to the report's historic candle company. The
news. 31% of publishers expect
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Top TV Redheads of All Time

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Ubisoft: Don't count out the Wii just
yet
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 11:59:41 AM
The Wii(Credit: Nintendo)
Sony and Microsoft are now
directly competing in the motion-
gaming arena, but developer
Ubisoft says Nintendo's Wii still
has some fight left in it.
"I think that anybody who makes
assumptions about the Wii going
away quickly, or is over, is taking
a big risk," Tony Key, Ubisoft
senior vice president of sales and
marketing, told Industry Gamers
in an article posted yesterday.
"Certainly, Ubisoft doesn't believe
that."
Key noted that the Wii is still the
"most successful home console
ever." And given that more than 3
million Wiis were sold last
December, Key predicts that
Nintendo could see similar
success this holiday-shopping
season.
Of course, Ubisoft has every
reason to want to see the Wii
perform well. The company will
be launching Michael Jackson:
The Experience later this month.
It also released Just Dance 2 for
Nintendo's console last month.
Admitting that the Wii is on the
decline probably wouldn't be good
for business.
Key did point out that Ubisoft
also sees value in the Microsoft
Kinect motion-gaming peripheral,
which launched today. He said
Ubisoft will be supporting the
platform "in a big way." And he
predicts that the Kinect will "be
sold out a lot this holiday season."
Nintendo, no doubt, is struggling
right now. The company posted a
loss of about $24.6 million during
the six months that ended
September 30. That decline was
partly due to slumping sales of the
Wii. Over the six-month period,
Nintendo shipped 4.97 million
Wii units. During the same period
last year, it shipped 5.75 million
Wiis.
Nintendo hopes to change its luck
with the help of bundled games,
including the upcoming Super
Mario Bros. bundle, which
commemorates the 25th
anniversary of the iconic title.
However, the company has made
it clear that even with its financial
concerns, it will not reduce the
price of the Wii in the "near
future."
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Top 5 Things People Rarely Pass Down, But Should

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Submitted at 11/4/2010 1:00:56 PM
Making a will or a living trust
means confronting mortality, and
that's something most of us prefer
to avoid doing. Maybe that's why
so many of us never get around to
actually writing down our final
wishes. It's an understandable
lapse, but it should be avoided at
all costs.
When people leave no legal plans
for the disbursal of their estate,
lawyers call this dying intestate.
And that's very bad news for your
descendants because it can result
in years of probate court battles
or, at the very least, bitter family
squabbles about who gets what.
For your heirs, everything you
leave behind may be suffused
with meaning, and members of
even the most tightly knit families
can end up not speaking to each
other after they duke it out over
your favorite armchair. So, face
the music: Go see a lawyer, and
draw up a carefully considered
plan for your estate.
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to find out what items you'll
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Pew: 4% Of Americans Use Location

Services (Oh, And There’s That
Facebook Places Thing)
Jason Kincaid (TechCrunch) — Facebook prominently features
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:10:23 PM Places on its ubiquitous mobile
applications, which were recently UsingMiles Organizes Your Smartphone Is a
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given how much attention
services like Foursquare receive
— especially when it’s a drop of
1% from Pew’s last study in May
2010 — but that stat is actually
probably significantly higher now.
You see, Pew had the misfortune
of beginning this study August 9
(it ran through September 13).
And smack dab in the middle of
that was the launch of Facebook
Places. Pew’s survey question
was worded in a way that could
have possibly reflected this launch
— it broadly asks if users have
used a service that lets them share
their location with friends. But it
only mentions Foursquare and
Gowalla by name, which
doubtless had some impact on
responses:
Please tell me if you ever use the
Internet to do any of the following
things. Do you ever use the
Internet to…use a service such as
Foursquare or Gowalla that allows
you to share your location with
friends and to find others who are
near you? (If Yes, ask:) Did you
happen to do this yesterday, or
not?
Expect to see a huge jump in both
awareness and usage next time
Pew runs a similar survey
are concentrated in the 18-29
demographic, and men are twice
as likely to be on these services.
Here are the rest of the report’s
key findings:
• 7% of adults who go online
with their mobile phone use a
location-based service.
• 8% of online adults ages 18-29
use location-based services,
significantly more than online
adults in any other age group.
• 10% of online Hispanics use
these services – significantly more
than online whites (3%) or
onlineb lacks (5%).
• 6% of online men use a location
-based service such as Foursquare
or Gowalla, compared with 3% of
online women.
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HD 101: What is local dimming?

Ben Drawbaugh (Engadget) fantastic contrast, there's a catch, Just getting into HD? Check out
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:44:00 PM it also create an artifact referred to these other HD 101 features:
as a halo around bright objects. Overscan and why all TVs do it
One thing that makes covering Example: the two images above What is ATSC, PSIP, QAM, and
LCD TVs so interesting is that the are of the opening scene of The 8-VSB?
technology is always advancing Matrix(cops shining a flash light) How to use Dolby TrueHD and
and one innovation that might be it's pretty easy to tell which is the DTS-HD with your PS3
the biggest in LCDs yet, is local plasma and which is the LED Why there are black bars on
dimming. But you're probably LCD with local dimming. Of HDTVs
wondering, what is it exactly? course we don't exactly watch IR blasters, HDMI-CEC, RS-232
Well in non-edgelit LED LCDs movies with flash lights or star and IP control
TV, there's an array of LED lights fields every night, so after the Continue reading HD 101: What
behind the liquid crystal pixels, break are more pictures of a is local dimming?
and local dimming is when normal dark scene that also without local dimming, there's minimized. At the same time HD 101: What is local dimming?
sections of the LED array are expose the artifact caused by local still a lot to look forward to in the these advancements should help originally appeared on Engadget
turned off or dimmed to help dimming (we have to point out next generation when the produce more detail in blacks, on Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:44:00
produce the deep blacks -- like that the camera makes it more dimming is sure to become more which is harder to notice at first, EDT. Please see our terms for use
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Skype 5.0 Beta for Mac finally available, includes group video
calling
Joanna Stern (Engadget) mesh more with the look and feel on and on about the new software,
Submitted at 11/4/2010 1:36:00 PM of the OS -- there's even a cover but it's available for download at
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Three Reasons QEII Will "Backfire"; Pavlov's Dogs and the "No
Choice" Argument Yet Again
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 3:16:00 AM
Dr. El-Erian, CEO and co-CIO of
PIMCO states several reasons
why QEII will backfire.
1. The Fed is going it alone,
without meaningful structural
reforms
2. Emerging economies burdened
by capital inflows in the wake of
QEII will react with currency
wars, protectionism, and capital
controls
3. Resultant commodity price
increases will increase input costs
and reduce earnings of American
companies
The position of El-Erian is
interesting given that PIMCO
founder, managing director and co
-CIO endorsed QEII as discussed
in Bill Gross' Arrogant
Endorsement of Fed's QE Policy
he calls History's Most "Brazen
Ponzi Scheme".
Unintended Consequences of
QEII
Mohamed El-Erian addresses the
unintended consequences of Fed
policy actions and the reasons
Quantitative Easing will fail in
QE2 blunderbuss likely to
backfire.
The Fed faces three problems,
with its solo role being the first.
Having warned in late August in
Jackson Hole that “central
bankers alone cannot solve the
world’s economic problems”, Ben
Bernanke, the Fed’s chairman, is
now leading an institution that is
virtually on its own among US
policymakers in meaningfully
trying to counter the sluggishness
of the US economy and the
stubbornly high unemployment.
The rest of the world does not
need this extra liquidity, and this
is where the second problem
emerges. Several emerging
economies, such as Brazil and
China, are already close to
overheating; and the eurozone and
Japan can ill afford further
appreciation in their currencies.
Despite polite rhetoric to the
contrary in the lead up to the
Group of 20 leading economies
summit in Korea this month, other
countries are likely to counter
what they view as an
unnecessarily disruptive surge in
capital flows caused by
inappropriate and short-sighted
American policy. The result will
be renewed currency tensions and
a higher risk of capital controls
and trade protectionism.
The third issue relates to the
gradual erosion of America’s
central role in the global economy
– including as the provider of both
the world’s reserve currency and
its deepest and most predictable
financial markets. No other
country or multilateral institution
can displace the US, but a
combination of alternatives can
serve to erode its influence over
time. No wonder commodity
prices surged higher and the
dollar weakened markedly in
anticipation of QE2, pointing to
increased input costs for
American companies and
unwelcome pressures on their
earnings. Pavlov's Dogs and the
"No Choice" Argument Yet Again
Although I agree with the three
major points above, I certainly do
not concur with El-Erian's
opening gambit " Given the high
market expectations, the US
Federal Reserve had no choice but
to announce a second tranche of
quantitative easing".
Pray tell who set those
expectations if not the Fed?
Moreover, given the market
reacted like Pavlov's Dogs to the
announcement, the Fed could
have and should have toned down
market expectations.
Finally given that the Fed
produced a bubble in junk bonds
and sent commodity prices
soaring the Fed had every reason
to disappoint the market today.
For more on junk bonds please
see ...
• Thanks to Fed, Bubble Builds
in Junk Bonds; We Know How
Bubbles End
• Mad Dash Into Junk Sets
October Record
Intended vs. Unintended
Consequences
Add a junk bond bubble to the
list of consequences (unintended
or otherwise).
Bernanke is clearly misguided
enough and arrogant enough to
purposely blow a junk bond
bubble as an "intended
consequence", even though the
housing bubble bust proves
without a doubt the asininity of
such policies.
Thus, it's hard to say if Bernanke
wants a junk bond bubble or is
merely willing to live with one.
Then again, Bernanke is dense
enough to not have any clues
about what is happening. He did
not see the housing bubble, the
recession, the huge rise in
unemployment, and any number
of other things that happened. In
fact, he even denied there was a
housing bubble.
In the academic wonderland in
which Bernanke lives, it is
perfectly possible he is oblivious
to the bubbles he is creating.
However, looking at things from
every angle, given that Bernanke
Admits Targeting Stock Prices, I
am leaning towards the first
option: Bernanke is misguided
enough and arrogant enough to
purposely blow more asset
bubbles as an "intended
consequence", hoping he can deal
with them later.
Missing the Obvious
I touched on the one obvious
reason QEII will fail in QEII
Announced, Fed Set to Buy $600
Billion in Bonds, Reinvest $250
Billion More; Fed Micromanaged
Economy to Oblivion; No
Miracles Coming
Doubts? What Doubts?
There is little doubt, at least in
E-reader News Edition
this corner, that the plan cannot
possibly work. Corporate
borrowing costs are the lowest in
history and that hasn't spurred
hiring. Will another quarter of a
point lower matter? Will QEII
even lower rates that much?
Simple explanations as to why
QEII will fail are best:"Money’s
Already Quite Cheap"
With mortgage interest rates at all
time lows, is this supposed to help
housing? Why?
It is sad but true economic
thinking these days that the "Fed
had to do Something". Why does
it make sense to do something,
just for the sake of doing, when it
should be crystal clear that doing
just adds to problems down the
road.
Fed Micromanaged Economy to
Oblivion
The Fed has clearly
micromanaged this economy to
oblivion. Greenspan's experiment
short-circuited the 2001 recession
but the expense was the biggest
housing bubble in the history of
the world, not just in the US, but
globally.
A global recession soon
followed.
Now on misguided calls to "do
something" the Fed is blowing a
bubble in commodities that cannot
possibly help margin strapped
small businesses.
An excerpt from$30 Billion
Offer No One Wants - Small
THREE page 27
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33% Tax Hike Will Hit Illinois; Another Stiffed Illinois Vendor
Stops Servicing State; Common Sense in Tucson and Delta
Airlines
noreply@blogger.com (Michael meals to the 3,400 inmates else. Brady generated little looked forward to integrating its movement by voters who are
Shedlock) (Mish's Global because they have been mostly enthusiasm, and none from me, workforce two years after the demanding smaller government.
Economic Trend Analysis) locked in their cells since mid- except for one thing: He was not merger of mostly nonunion Delta Voters are not necessarily
Submitted at 11/4/2010 11:52:00 AM October due to rising violence in Quinn. and heavily unionized Northwest demanding fewer workers, they
Illinois has a $13 billion and the maximum-security facility. For most voters, that was not Airlines simply want more for their
growing deficit. The current The state is facing a $13 billion enough. If the result stands, it means that money. Not a single city worker
backlog of bills approaches $6 deficit that could grow larger by Chicago voted overwhelmingly 7,200 former Northwest flight has to be laid off. All that has to
billion. The state has not paid next year. The current backlog of for Quinn, 86% to 14% or so. His attendants, including 1,900 based happen is for the unions to lower
some suppliers for seven months. bills is listed by Comptroller Dan solution is to the mess is a in Minnesota, will no longer be salaries and pensions to meet the
In response some vendors have Hynes at nearly $5.6 billion. The proposal to raise state taxes by represented by the union or be budget.
stopped doing business with the state owes at least one vendor for 33%. covered by their existing contract. This is not the voters' fault,
state. services dating back to March. Congratulations to Delta Delta said it will announce a 100% of the blame for the layoffs
Please consider Another vendor Earlier this year, a company that The Star Tribune reports Delta transition plan for those workers go to the unions.
quits doing business with Illinois provides ammunition to help train attendants say 'no' to union at a later date. Common Sense in Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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Department of Corrections was bullets because it was owed Lines narrowly rejected union Common sense ruled in Tucson globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.
forced to scramble this week money. Another company that representation in the first of three where voters rejected a tax hike com
when a vendor refused to deliver supplies eyeglass lenses also votes to organize the majority of give away to public union Click Here To Scroll Thru
foam food trays to Menard stopped shipping the stock until it employees at the world's second workers. The Arizona Daily Star My Recent Post List Mike "Mish"
Correctional Center because it was paid. 33% Tax Hike Coming largest airline. reports Tucson City Manager: Shedlock is a registered
hadn’t been paid. Industrial Soap to Illinois The results, announced shortly 400 workers face layoff. investment advisor representative
Co., which holds the master Illinois voters likely returned after the close of voting A day after a city sales tax hike for SitkaPacific Capital
contract for the foam trays, “will Governor Pat Quinn to office. Wednesday, were 9,544 votes was soundly rejected by voters, Management. Sitka Pacific is an
not deliver due to delinquent Their reward will be a 33% tax against the union, and 9,216 in Tucson City Manager Mike asset management firm whose
invoices,” prison officials noted. hike, if Quinn gets his way. favor of the Association of Flight Letcher and Mayor Bob Walkup goal is strong performance and
The St. Louis-based vendor The election is still undecided 2 Attendants (AFA) or other unions. announced an estimated 400 city low volatility, regardless of
wouldn’t discuss the contract days later. Quinn's lead is 16,000 The margin was 328 votes, or 1.7 workers could be laid off. market direction. Visit http://
situation Tuesday, but records or so out of over 3.6 million cast. percent. He said those layoffs will include www.sitkapacific.com/
show the company is owed about Absentee ballots have yet to be AFA President Pat Friend said police officers and firefighters if account_management.html to
$166,000 dating to last year. counted. However, the math looks Delta's management ran "the there is not enough attrition in learn more about wealth
In order to avoid gaps in meal improbable for challenger Bill largest anti-union campaign that those departments. management and capital
service, state officials gave Brady. this country has ever seen" and Both Walkup and Letcher said preservation strategies of Sitka
another company a $36,000 The problem for Brady is he the union would challenge the the public was clear that they Pacific.
emergency contract to keep the barely got 20% of the vote in a fairness of the election and seek a wanted to see more cuts, and
foam trays in stock. packed Republican primary. 80% revote. Delta rejected the union's Letcher blamed the sales tax
The trays are needed to serve of Republicans wanted someone claims as "ridiculous" and said it increase's failure on a national
26 Economy/ Gaming/
Deconstructing QE2: It's Less Than Meets The Eye
Scott Grannis (Money Game)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:29:33 PM
Yesterday the FOMC told us they
are prepared to buy an extra $600
billion of Treasuries over the next
8 months—about $75 billion per
month. They did not commit,
however, to buying this much:
"The Committee will regularly
review the pace of its securities
purchases and the overall size of
the asset-purchase program in
light of incoming information and
will adjust the program as needed
to best foster maximum
employment and price stability."
In other words, the Fed is not
going to make a big monster
purchase of Treasuries that would
flood the system with new money.
They are going to dribble it out a
little at a time, and might even
decide to end the program after a
month or two, should the
economy and/or inflation show
signs of picking up. This is almost
exactly what I was hoping would
happen.
With $75 billion in new
purchases per month coming on
top of the purchases needed to
offset maturing MBS, the Fed will
be buying roughly $110 billion of
Treasuries a month, which,
curiously, happens to be almost
exactly the amount needed to fund
the Federal government's budget
deficit—the federal deficit over
the past 12 months was $1.295
trillion, or $108 billion per month.
Hmm.
If this were Argentina in the
1970s and 80s, such a program
would undoubtedly lead to a huge
increase in inflation—it's debt
monetization, pure and simple.
Back then, Argentina's
government essentially ordered its
central bank to print up enough
money to cover the government's
budget deficit. The government
paid its bills with newly-printed
cash money, and that money
became like a hot potato that
people tried to spend as fast as
possible. (Holding on to currency
that loses a significant portion of
its value every day is equivalent
to paying a tax to the government,
so people naturally try to spend
the money as quickly as possible,
in the process acquiring things
that won't lose their value—such
as dollars or gold or euros or
commodities or real estate.) I
should know, because I lived
there in the 70s and vacationed
there often in the 80s. In the four
years I lived there in the late 70s,
inflation averaged about 7% per
month, or about 125% per year.
During one 3-week stay in the
mid-80s, I got the distinct
privilege (for an economist) of
witnessing a staggering 200% rise
in the price level. That works out
to about 9,000% per year, enough
to qualify as true hyperinflation.
But this isn't Argentina. The Fed
is not going to print up a billion
$100 bills every month and ship
them over to Treasury. Instead,
the Fed is going to buy $75 billion
of Treasury securities each month
on the open market, and it is
going to pay for those purchases
by crediting banks with newly
created reserves. This is the way
the Fed financed its first
quantitative easing, with the
purchase of $1.3 trillion of
Treasuries and MBS—bank
reserves increased by $1.3 trillion.
Note, however, that even if the
Fed buys $75 billion of Treasuries
for the next 8 months, that will
barely add up to 4% of GDP.
Printing an amount of money
equal to 4% of GDP is not going
to greatly upset the inflation
applecart.
Moreover, the reserves the Fed
creates to buy the Treasuries can't
be spent the way $100 bills can;
they only exist at the Fed. They
can only turn into "spendable"
money if the banking system uses
the extra reserves to create new
loans (thus increasing bank
deposits) or turns some of those
extra reserves into currency. And
either way, that process depends
on the system wanting to borrow
more money and/or hold more
currency.
With QE1, we know that the
banking system was content to let
almost all of the $1.3 trillion in
new reserves sit at the Fed, where
they conveniently earn a bit of
interest. Banks were extremely
risk averse, and their demand for
rock-solid cash-like assets was
huge, so they were happy to hold
on to all the new reserves. The
rest of the world was also very
risk averse, and there was a lot of
deleveraging going on. In other
words, the demand for new loans
was very low at a time when
banks were very reluctant to lend
and the demand for money was
very high. Result? The Fed ended
up satisfying almost everyone,
and the financial crisis passed
without any meaningful
inflationary consequences.
With QE2, we may find that the
newly created reserves end up
being more than the banking
system is content to hold. If so,
banks may use some or all of the
new reserves to increase deposits
and further expand the money
supply (note: M2 already has
grown by almost $1 trillion since
mid-September '08, and one dollar
of reserves can support up to $10
in new deposits). Or it may be that
the world decides to exchange
some portion of the new reserves
for currency (note: currency in
circulation already has increased
by $130 billion since mid-Sep.
'08, and one dollar of reserves can
support one dollar of new
currency). So we'll need to watch
M2 and currency in circulation
even more studiously going
forward, in order to gauge how
QE2 is impacting things.
With yesterday's clever
announcement, the FOMC has not
only indicated that it is willing to
undertake a substantial QE2
program if the need arises, but it
is also giving itself some time to
make sure that nothing gets
greatly out of hand. There is no
need to panic—yet.
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New Xbox Dashboard
adds updated piracy
measures
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 1:00:00 PM
The latest Xbox 360 Dashboard
update didn't just make the
Avatars taller and give you the
ability to navigate its menus with
your mind-- it also made the illicit
enterprise of pirates just a little bit
more difficult. According to
Digital Foundry, the hardware
now institutes a series of checks,
which hackers refer to as "AP
2.5," that work in conjunction
with "security sectors" embedded
in the disc. If the checks come
back negative, the player receives
a "dirty disc" error and his or her
console is flagged for permaban.
Pirates can hypothetically avoid
these checks by not updating to
the new firmware, though this will
prevent them from playing on
Xbox Live ... which kind of
defeats the purpose of avoiding
the permaban. Man, it's hard out
there for a buccaneer.
New Xbox Dashboard adds
updated piracy measures
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Businesses Hit by Deflation will
show why. ....
No One Has To Do Anything
It is disappointing to see El-Erian
perpetuate the myth the Fed had
to do something when one of the
biggest reasons we are in this
mess is a activist Fed under both
Greenspan and Bernanke felt the
need to do something about
LTCM, Y2K, the Dot-Com
bubble, housing, motherhood, and
apple pie.
At least El-Erian is not defending
what Gross calls a "Ponzi
Scheme" to the same foolish
extent that Bill Gross did. More
importantly, El-Erian makes it
clear exactly what some of the
consequences are, while the Gross
article sounds like "jumping the
shark".
Structural Reforms
El-Erian said " Without
meaningful structural reforms,
part of the Fed’s liquidity
injection will leak right out of the
US and result in yet another surge
of capital flows to other
countries."
I agree, but I rather doubt we are
talking the same language. This
country needs to ...
• Scrap Davis-Bacon
• End public union collective
bargaining
• End the public union
stranglehold on the cities and
states
• Fix the pension problem
• Even the playing field between
big and small businesses on
corporate income taxes
• Get the hell out of Afghanistan
• Reduce military spending
• Rein in entitlements
• Stop being the world's
policeman
• Balance the budget
• Return to constitutional money
Fed Fights Battle that Cannot be
Won, Should Not be Fought
Given that Congress is unlikely
to do many, if indeed any of those
things, the Fed is fighting a battle
that cannot be won and should not
be fought.
We are in this mess because the
Fed micro-mismanaged the
economy at every critical juncture
while attempting to smooth over
various fiscal insanities, counter
bad Congressional policies, as
well as deal with the
repercussions of its own monetary
insanities, on a delayed chasing-
its-tail basis, in a global economy
that waits for no one.
Is it any wonder the Fed failed in
dual mandate of price stability
and maximum growth?
For more on the silliness of the
Dual Mandate as well as a rebuttal
to the notion "Don't Fight the
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Fed" please see Krugman and the
Inevitable "I Told You So" - Tim
Duy "Bad Things Happen When
You Fight the Fed"; Final End of
Bretton Woods 2?
With that key idea in mind, there
are two more structural reforms
glaringly lacking in the above list:
Abolish the Fed and End
Fractional Reserve Banking.
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Ireland's Bloodbath Budget: Government
Seeks €6 Billion In Adjustments And
Foresees Massive Emigration
Gavan Reilly (Money Game)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:21:42 PM
THE DEPARTMENT OF
FINANCE has confirmed that the
government will seek to
implement budget adjustments of
€6 billion when it announces the
national Budget on December 7.
€4.5bn in the adjustments will be
sought through spending cuts,
while the remaining €1.5bn will
be raised through new taxation,
finance minister Brian Lenihan
said in a statement released this
afternoon.
The amount of adjustments being
sought by the government is
double the €3bn first expected,
and is part of the government’s
plan to cut €15bn from the public
deficit by 2014 in order to bring
the budget deficit back to within
EU targets.
“The Government has decided
that a consolidation package of
€15 billion will be required over
the course of the next four years if
we are to deliver on our deficit
reduction target,” Lenihan said.
A significant frontloading of the
consolidation in 2011 is deemed
necessary and will underline the
strength of our resolve and show
that the country is serious about
tackling our public finance
difficulties.
The initial four-year forecast,
which had suggested €7.5bn in
cuts would have been sufficient,
had had to be adjusted because of
“legacy effects of the bursting of
the property bubble” which were
“weighting on economy-wide
prices and activity to a greater
degree than initially assumed.”
The €6bn budget would reduce
the general government deficit to
between 9.25% and 9.5% of GDP
next year, Lenihan forecasted,
with the Department expecting to
see real GDP growth of 2.75% on
average every year for the next
four years.
The Department also downgraded
its individual growth forecasts for
next year to 1.75% in GDP, with
GNP set to grow by 1%.
Unemployment would remain
broadly unchanged at 13.25% at
the end of the year.
This would fall to 12% by end of
2012, 11% by the end of 2013,
and 9.75% by end of 2014, under
the forecasts. This would be
contributed to by net outward
migration, which would see the
number of people living in Ireland
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would decrease by 100,000 in the
four years to 2014.
Lenihan added that he wanted “to
stress again the strength of the
Government’s resolve to return
the country to a sustainable fiscal
position.
I am well aware that such
measures will impact on the living
standards of everybody. But our
spending and revenues must be
more closely aligned. This is the
only way to ensure the future
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(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 1:00:56 PM
Home> Stuff Mom Never Told
You
This week on Stuff Mom Never
Told You, Molly and I discussed
the history of home economics,
known today as Family and
Consumer Science. We relied
heavily on sources from Cornell
University, which housed one of
the nation’s best home ec
departments complete with
practice apartments and real, live
practice babies for students’ field
research. Cornell began its
practice baby program in 1919
with an infant named Dicky
Domecon.
Tags: child development, cornell
university, dicky domecon, family
and consumer sciences, home ec,
practice apartments, practice
babies
It might sound nice to portray
suffrage as a universal sisterhood
movement in which women
everywhere were battling arm-in-
arm for the vote. But during those
Victorian era years that extolled
female piety and the “cult of
motherhood”, plenty of women
opposed the voting initiative and
even rallied against it through anti
-suffrage groups.
Tags: women in politics, voting,
suffrage, gender equality, anti-
suffrage, national association
opposed to women suffrage,
voting rights
Europe approaches sex a bit
differently than the United States
— probably not a big surprise
there. A Slate slideshow of
American and European public
sex ed and contraceptive ads
demonstrates how countries
abroad treat teen sex, STD
prevention and condom use in a
much more straightforward,
honest and possibly more
effective way.
Tags: condoms, public health,
birth control, sex ed, sexual
health, STDs, teen sex, teen
pregnancy rates
It’s autumn, and the leaves are
changing. What better time to hop
on a motorcycle and get up close
and personal with nature? This
week on Stuff Mom Never Told
You, Cristen and I talked about
motorcycles and the women who
love ‘em. The ranks of those
women are growing — Harley-
Davidson has launched an
extensive marketing effort to get
more women on bikes.
Motorcycles have the reputation
of being more of a boy’s toy, but
in looking back through history,
we found plenty of young ladies
who were crossing the country via
motorcycle.
Tags: halloween costumes,
motorcycles, racy Halloween
costumes, Harley-Davidson
A while ago, Molly and I talked
about “Can you get pregnant on
your period?” on Stuff Mom
Never Told You. And in brief,
yes, you can. Sometimes,
ovulation and menstruation can
overlap just enough to where
sperm hanging around after
intercourse could possibly
fertilize an egg. Oops.
But what about being on birth
control, you ask?
Tags: birth, pregnancy, birth
control, the pill, oral
contraceptives, menstruation,
periods
Cristen and I are preparing a
podcast about why so many girls
like horses, and in the course of
doing some research, I did some
reading about Penny Chenery, the
woman who managed the famous
horse while raising a family.
Chenery is portrayed by actress
Diane Lane in the current film
“Secretariat,” and many reviews
of the movie usually make
mention of the fact that Chenery’s
success with her Triple Crown-
winning horse is all the more
impressive because horse racing
was such a male-dominated field.
That’s why I was interested —
and a little saddened, too — too
see an Associated Press interview
in which both Lane and Chenery
go to great lengths to distance
themselves from the idea of
feminism.
Tags: feminism, Secretariat,
Penny Chenery, Diane Lane
We can thank Mad Men’s
Christina Hendricks for not only
pop culture’s recent warm
embrace of womanly curves, but
also a newfound appreciation for
redheads. A natural blonde,
Hendricks has dyed her hair since
adolescence, notes a New York
Times article chronicling the
fashionable return of the redhead.
Tags: Mad Men, redheads,
gingers, hair color, stereotyping,
christina hendricks, Angela Chase
Having a baby bring about a host
of changes in new moms’ lives —
and their brains. A recent
neuroimaging study suggests that
women experience gray matter
growth in certain brain regions
during the first few months of
motherhood. The added gray
matter volume was concentrated
in the prefrontal cortex, parietal
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lobes and midbrain areas that are
associated with maternal care.
Mothers who openly doted on
their babies the most showed the
greatest amount of gray matter
growth, indicating that the
neurological adjustment is the
body’s way of prepping women to
be good mothers.
Tags: babies, hormones, mothers,
motherhood, pregnancy,
childbirth, moms, neuroimaging,
baby brain, placenta brain
Women, hide your credit cards
when your period is around the
corner! That is, if you buy the
findings of a recent psychology
study out of the UK. With
somewhat predictable findings, a
pair of psychologists surveyed
women about their menstrual
cycles and shopping habits and
found that not only does PMS
bring along delightful mood
swings and cramping, it may also
lower womens’ shopping
restraint.
Tags: hormonal behaviors,
hormones psychology, menstrual
cycle, questionable studies,
sheconomics, shopping, women in
finance
On Thursday, the National
Economic Council (NEC)
released its study on Jobs and
Economic Security for America’s
Women. Its arrival just shy of the
November congressional elections
— in which, ironically, women
politicians are actually poised to
lose seats in the Senate for the
first time roughly 30 years —
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Tech-Aided Parking Lowers Your Heart Rate

Keith Barry (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:20:00 PM

Drivers are less stressed about

parallel parking when they get a
little help from an automatic
parking assist system, and they
aren’t so worried about avoiding
obstacles when they’ve got blind
spot detection technology,
according to a new study.
Ford, which uses the technology
in many models, was curious to
see how it helps drivers. It
embarked on a nine-month
research project with the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology New England
University Transportation Center
to find out. Together the brainiacs
tested 42 Boston-area drivers
equally distributed by age and
sex. They got behind the wheel of
a tricked out Lincoln MKS
straight out of Knight Rider with a
research assistant riding shotgun
to record the data.
The study found the average
heart rate of drivers dropped by
12 beats per minute while using
Ford’s Active Park Assist
technology when parallel parking.
Drivers also reported lower levels
of stress using the technology, last week. Aside from its reserved MIT MKS has a three point EKG change the station when Creed that can be used for multiple tests.
which handles the steering while prime parking spot, magnetic and monitors for skin comes on the radio. It’s all wired Having a physiological
drivers work the brake and gas. decals on the doors and a few conductance, skin temperature, into the vehicle’s CANbus and component to a testbed vehicle is
When pulling into traffic, every wires jutting out of the panel gaps peripheral blood flow, muscle recorded. important to ensure objective
driver using cross-traffic detection at the rear of the car, it’s an tension and heart rate. All the gear Ford and MIT didn’t use all those measurement of driver stress as
tech hit the brakes when ordinary Bordeaux Reserve- is juiced up using an auxiliary technologies for this particular study participants can often
appropriate, compared to 71 colored luxe Lincoln. power source behind the back test, but according to Bryan answer researcher’s questions
percent of drivers who weren’t Pop the trunk, however, and it’s a seat. An eye-tracking camera on Reimer, associate director of with answers they think the
using the tech. different story. the dash tells researchers whether research at NEUTC and Bruce researcher wants to hear, a
We got to check out the mind- In addition to Active Park Assist drivers are using their mirrors, Mehler, a research scientist at the
reading MKS on the MIT campus and cross-traffic detection, the looking at the road, or trying to Center, it’s a universal platform TECH-AIDED page 35
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One Man Builds a BMW For Baja

Sam Smith (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 11:55:00 AM

Meet Bill Caswell, an

unemployed car fanatic who is
Living the Dream.
Nine months ago, while out of
work and living with his mother,
Caswell turned a $500 Craigslist
BMW into a rally car. Then he
entered the WRC Corona Rally
Mexico. He had no crew. He
knew squat about rally racing.
And he kept the car running with
little more than luck and prayers.
Yet despite all odds, Caswell
finished third in his class, beating
cars costing hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
Now he’s at SEMA, single-
handedly turning a 20-year-old
BMW 3-Series into a Baja 1000
racer. To say this is crazy is like
saying Tim Lincecum can throw a
baseball. The SCORE Baja 1000
is a grueling sprint over roughly
1,000 miles of desert. It is not a
race for the weak or the stupid.
And it is just two weeks away.
At this point, Caswell has
installed the roll cage and engine.
Massive 33-inch tires wrapped
around bead-lock wheels lean Motorsport/Miller Electric. fastest guy there,” Caswell says. shop in its booth at SEMA. It hood. It’s bolted to a five-speed
against the car. An off-road For Caswell, the past nine “But it got me out of the house.”) wasn’t offering any money, but it BMW transmission. The rest —
differential the size of a dorm months have been a whirlwind. And sponsors beat a path to his did provide welding gear and comprised largely of a Speedway
room refrigerator lurks in the Hollywood called, asking for the door. some publicity. Engineering differential,
corner. It’s worth mentioning that rights to tell his story. He took the One of those sponsors, welding- The car, if and when it’s finished, halfshafts with Porsche 930
Caswell, who used to be a banker, 1991 BMW 318i he raced in supply company Miller Electric will feature two-foot long output flanges and a whole lot of
is teaching himself how to weld. Mexico to the Pikes Peak Manufacturing, sets up shop at the suspension arms and long-travel, bailing wire and chewing gum —
Did we mention how much we International Hill Climb, where he big SEMA auto trade show in three-foot-long, remote-reservoir is as much a last-minute
love this guy? tore huge holes in the chassis Vegas each year. When Caswell Bilstein shocks. A 3.0-liter hodgepodge targeted at durability
Caswell's planned Baja racer. while flogging the car mentioned he was planning to straight six, producing roughly and low cost as anything else.
Yes, it's big. Yes, it's ridiculous. mercilessly. (“The car’s kind of build a 1988 BMW 325i to tackle 240 horsepower and yanked from
Yes, it's excellent. Image: Caswell falling apart, and I wasn’t the Baja, Miller asked him to set up a 1995 BMW M3, lives under the ONE page 35
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New Super Close-Up Images From Comet Flyby

Lisa Grossman (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:00:00 PM

Five brand new close-ups of

comet 103P/Hartley 2 arrived at
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab amid
cheers and applause at 8:02
Pacific time this morning.
The Deep Impact probe (now on
a mission called EPOXI) passed
by comet Hartley 2 at 7:01 am
PDT, the fifth time in history that
a spacecraft has been close
enough to photograph the heart of
a comet. The probe flew through
the comet’s diffuse corona at
about 27,500 miles per hour and
came within 435 miles of its icy,
dirty core.
Observations leading up to the
flyby showed that Hartley 2 is
small but active. It’s only about
1.36 miles across, a shrimp
compared to other comets that
have been visited by spacecraft.
But it spews several times more
gas and dust than other comets. In
this image from the moment of
closest approach, the comet looks
like a bowling pin or a peanut, seconds. “You can’t predict where it’s EPOXI flight director Rich observing extrasolar planets
with at least two jets streaming off But astronomers had to wait going.” Rieber. before firing its thrusters and
toward the sun. almost an hour after closest So instead of trying to fly the “AutoNav’s prediction for the heading toward Hartley 2.
“It’s hyperactive, small and approach to get the good shots. spacecraft directly, engineers orbit of the comet was dead on,” “This is the third bonus mission
feisty,” said Don Yeomans, a The close-ups were stored on the switched Deep Impact to Rieber said. “Those guys did we’ve gotten out of this,” said
senior research scientist at spacecraft because Deep Impact autopilot, or AutoNav, about 50 magic.” Rick Grammier, director for solar
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. couldn’t point its antenna toward minutes before closest approach. Deep Impact is the first system exploration at JPL, on
Deep Impact locked its Earth and its cameras toward the In AutoNav mode, the spacecraft spacecraft ever to visit two NASA TV this morning.
instruments and began taking comet at the same time. aims for the brightest nearby comets. Its primary mission was The spacecraft still goes by the
pictures of the comet 18 hours Hartley 2’s jets of material act as object, excluding the sun. to make a crater on the surface of name Deep Impact, but its
before nearest approach, when it little rocket thrusters, making the Models predicted that without the comet Tempel 1 in July 2005, mission was renamed EPOXI, a
was 496,000 miles away. By the comet’s orbit hard to pin down. AutoNav, there would be just a which showed scientists what that mishmash of acronyms for an
time of closest approach, it was “It acts like a knuckleball,” said 0.1 percent chance of actually cosmic dirtball was made of.
snapping photos once every four project manager Tim Larson. imaging the nucleus, according to Deep Impact then spent a year NEW page 36
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alice (Featured Blog Posts - My personal style. illustrating, Lee had this to say.
Modern Metropolis) "Depending upon the 'feel of the "Its therapeutic value and its
Submitted at 11/4/2010 4:00:00 AM piece' and where it seems to be ability to communicate thoughts,
taking me, it can take up to 4 feelings, and ideas that words
Though he's been professionally hours to complete an illustration. alone are sometimes unable to
illustrating for only about five The painting process can add an express. I feel the most
years now, California-based web additional 3 to 4 hours. I often comfortable communicating ideas
designer and illustrator Albert Lee paint my hand drawn illustrations and emotions through
has been doodling and scribbling with digital tools because 1) I can illustrations. I am definitely not an
for most of his life. Even at the e x p l o r e a v a r i e t y o f c o l o r articulate/eloquent communicator.
a g e o f t w o , h e k n e w t h a t schemes, textures, and layouts I also love drawing with my 5
illustrating would somehow with the click of a mouse, 2) it is year old son, Joshua. I love
become a part of his future more economical, and 3) I like catching glimpses of how he
because he couldn't seem to put creating pieces that blur the lines interprets the world around him."
his pencils or pens down. Now, he that separate traditional and I asked Lee to share some
states, "Its become an inseparable digital art. designers that inspire him and his
part of who I am." "Personally, I believe that work. "There are too many to list
Such dedication has led him to whatever tools are utilized to here!" he says. "Off the top of my
trying out different tools and depict an idea, it is the essence of head, Sam Weber, James Jean,
m i x i n g d i f f e r e n t m e d i u m s . the idea that transcends the Ronald Kurniawan, Bobby Chiu,
Sometimes he starts by sketching medium and lures the viewer in to David Choong Lee, Frank
with a .5mm pencil and then he speculate, wrestle with, and Stockton, Sam Bosma, Deth P
p a i n t s o v e r h i s p i e c e s i n interact with a piece. To be clear, Sun. Anneka Tran, Honoré
Photoshop. I have tremendous respect for Daumier, Egon Schiele, and
As he tells us, "The process artists that can paint in traditional Hayao Miyazaki are some of my
usually begins with a bit of mediums with seemingly the favorites."
brainstorming and a few utmost ease and fluidity. Finally, which websites does Lee
preliminary sketches. During this F u n d a m e n t a l l y , h o w e v e r , I visit for creative inspiration? "I
p r o c e s s o f d i s c o v e r y a n d believe they are both valid and often feel drawn to characters that things that intrigued the kids in
frequently rely on these sites for
experimentation, I play with a e f f e c t i v e shared the same awkwardness and our neighborhood. I also chose the
forms of inspiration: Blog.Drawn.ca,
variety of ideas and tools c o m m u n i c a t i o n . " otherness that we experienced. Addams Family because I felt as
Sketchoholic.com(run by Bobby
(primarily pencils and pens), and I When asked about his dark and Wednesday Addams' persona though the strength of their
Chiu), Coroflot.com,
do my best to work out any s l i g h t l y g o t h i c v e r s i o n o f seemed to encapsulate some of familial ties was reflective of our
Illustrationmundo.com,
lingering jitters and fears that may Wednesday Addams, Lee tells my memories of growing up in own. Despite each of their distinct
escapefromillustrationisland.com,
impede my progress. At this what motivated him to create this Poughkeepsie, NY. Quiet, eccentricities, each member was
and MyModernMet.com."
stage, my goal is to make an personal piece. withdrawn, and preoccupied with privy to a unique bond that made
Thanks for the interview, Albert,
underlying illustration that "My sisters and I grew up death (a friend of mine passed them an integral part of the
we're big fans of your work!
captures the essence of the idea watching shows like the Addams away at the age of 8), I really whole."
Albert Lee
w i t h o u t c o m p r o m i s i n g m y Family in the 80's," he says. "We didn't seem to be interested in the When asked why he loves
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phenomenon known as response
bias.
In this case, the heart rate data
best supported the study’s
conclusion. “The physiological
statement is even more dramatic,”
Mehler said. In addition to the 12
beat per minute reduction while
parking, drivers also experienced
a heart rate that was on average
3.4 beats per minute lower when
anticipating parallel parking with
Active Park Assist.
As interesting as the car is itself,
Reimer and Mehler say that the
study findings offer powerful
information for designers of new
in-vehicle technology. Previously,
said Mehler, researchers
determined at what point drivers
began to have trouble controlling
a car. “That’s telling when a
person has crossed a threshold,”
Mehler said. “We’re interested in
the incremental steps before that
breakdown.”
What happens to prevent a driver
from becoming dangerously
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First, said Reimer, monitor the
driver’s behavior. “If you can
detect change, then you can do
something about it.”
Longer term, the researchers
envision a vehicle that can
automatically and gradually
reduce driver stress or
distractions, or give a driver some
subtle cues or assistance as stress
levels rise and driver performance
fails.
“Another warning alarm isn’t
necessary,” Mehler said. “The
ability to put information in front
of a driver exceeds their ability to
comprehend it.” Instead of
flashing lights and beeping
alarms, the researchers are hoping
to look at more subtle ways to
calm drivers in stressful
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“I keep calling people for parts,”
Caswell says, “and once I tell
them what I’m doing, there’s a lot
of silence. And then they tell me
it’s impossible and they ask a lot
of questions. And then they admit
that maybe — maybe — it just
might work.”
At this very moment, Caswell is
quietly welding his car together
on the floor of the Las Vegas
Convention Center. He has a little
more than two days left to
complete the car, and then 10
days to test it and drag it to
Mexico for the start of the race. A
lot of people — us included —
aren’t sure he’s going to make it.
Caswell, typically (and
charmingly), is not worried.
“It’s kind of weird,” he says.
“We’re not going to have time to
prerun the [Baja] course, which
everyone does, but I don’t really
care. If I make it across the
starting line and fall apart five feet
later, I’ll be happy. Baja’s one of
those things I’ve dreamed about
since I was little. I just want to go,
to show people that this stuff isn’t
that hard, even if the plan doesn’t
take. I don’t know — what would
you do? It’s better than sitting on
the couch.”
Heck of an approach, isn’t it? But
what would you expect from a
man who raised money selling T-
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shirts showing little but his car
and the words “It’s Going to be
Awesome”?
We’ll check back with Caswell
later this week and let you know
how things turned out. If he
makes it to Baja, we’ll be right
there with him in the chase
vehicle, chronicling what will
undoubtedly be an awesome
adventure. In the meantime, you
can follow his build progress on
Facebook and a webcam Miller
set up.
Photos: Sam Smith / Wired.com
unless otherwise noted.
Bill Caswell’s 1988 BMW 325i
at the Miller Electric
Manufacturing booth at SEMA.
Bill Caswell, rocking Mexico’s
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extrasolar planet observation disappeared without a trace. SidingSpring

mission (EPOCh) and the Deep
Impact Extended Investigation
(DIXI).
Hartley 2 was discovered by
Australian astrophotographer
Malcolm Hartley in 1986, when it
showed up as a smudge on a
photographic plate. Hartley was at
JPL mission headquarters when
the images arrived.
“It’s absolutely awesome,” he
said. “I’m overwhelmed by
everything that’s happened in the
past few weeks.”
Hartley 2 wasn’t actually
NASA’s first choice for the next
comet encounter. The A-list
comet, called 85P/Boethin,
Scientists think it may have
broken up into untraceable
fragments.
NASA will continue to download
new data from the close encounter
until Nov. 6, and Deep Impact
will keep taking images for the
next 3 weeks as it leaves the
comet.
“Despite the smiles and tears that
you see, our job is far from over,”
Rieber said. “After the next 3
weeks, the future life of Deep
Impact is uncertain, but we have
many ideas about how to use our
great spacecraft.”
Image: 1. NASA 2. The first
image of Hartley 2. AAO/
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Republic - All Feed) to win support from the political
Submitted at 11/3/2010 11:00:00 PM center. In fact, Democrats held
moderate voters while losing
WASHINGTON—President independents. What hurt them
Obama allowed Republicans to most was this brute fact: Voters
define the terms of the nation's younger than 30 made up nearly a
political argument for the past two fifth of the electorate in 2008 but
years and permitted them to draw only about a tenth on Tuesday,
battle lines the way they wanted. according to network exit polls.
Neither he nor his party can let This week's verdict was rendered
that happen again. by a much older and more
Democrats would be foolish to conservative electorate. Yes, there
turn on themselves in fruitless was an enthusiasm gap.
bickering over whether their NEED page 37
troubles owe to a failure to

25 Most Beautiful and Inspiring iPhone Photos

alice (Featured Blog Posts - My
Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 2:30:00 AM
As a growing and exciting art
movement, iPhoneography is fast
becoming a way for anyone with
an iPhone to express their creative
side. It's now easy to take photos
and then tweak, enhance or
transform them into works of art
just by using a careful selection of
apps.
It's hard to believe that the
iPhone was only first introduced
to us back in January 2007. In the
past four or so years, we've seen
Apple release four different
generations of the iPhone, each
packed with more features than
the last. The latest generation, the
iPhone 4, now comes equipped
with a 5-megapixel built-in
camera with optional HDR and an
LED flash.
Today, we've collected for you,
some of the most beautiful and
inspiring iPhone photography out
there. These 25 have been chosen
because they show a wide range
of effects. (Can you believe that
all of this can be done with apps?)
Click into them if you'd like to
know exactly which app these
photographers used. (Most of the
time, they'll share that information
with you.)
Finally, if you have an iPhone
and want to know which to
download and spend your money
on, here's our list of Top 10 Apps
to Make Your Photos Pop!
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Dance Central DLC tracks priced at $3, available now

Richard Mitchell (Joystiq)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 1:40:00 PM
We knew that Dance Central
DLC would cost more than the $2
standard charged for Rock Band
tracks, but how much more?
According to Harmonix, tracks
for the game will run at $2.99
(240 MS Points) each. The first
three DLC tracks were announced
during a Dance Central launch
event last night, including Ne-
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The end of this campaign thus
marked the beginning of the next
round, not the end of the contest.
Before the next election—which
will be decided by a broader
electorate—progressives,
including Obama, have to be
wiser about the fights they pick,
more focused on the country's
economic pain, and as shrewd as
their adversaries have been in
promoting debates that rally their
troops and advance their goals.
Obama was not wrong to fight
for health care, to stimulate the
economy when it was in deep
peril or to push for financial
reform. But by failing to defend
these achievements, the president
and his allies opened the way for
partisan critics who shifted the
conversation to airy language
about "big government" and
"bailouts." One result: Only a
third of Tuesday's electorate, exit
polls indicated, thought the
stimulus had made the economy
better.
Now Obama needs to offer
proposals that promote the
common interest and progressive
ideals in ways that force
Republicans to pay a price for
opposing them. The economy still
needs more support, and Obama
should take up the old Republican
idea of revenue-sharing to provide
states large-scale assistance to
prevent layoffs and tax increases.
This would be welcomed by the
many new Republican governors.
Will the party's congressional
wing really want to pick a fight
with them?
Obama should also push forward
with an infrastructure bank, which
has bipartisan support. There is no
better time to rebuild our nation's
crumbling public facilities than
when borrowing is cheap. And he
should address the decline of
American manufacturing, a prime
cause of the discontent that roils
the Midwest.
To prove that their concern about
undisclosed money was not
simply a campaign ploy,
Democrats should make a full-
disclosure law the first order of
business in the lame-duck
congressional session, and come
back to it again and again if the
bill is blocked.
Republicans need to be pressed to
put specifics behind their anti-
spending, anti-deficit rhetoric.
They should be confronted with
budget cuts that force them to face
their constituencies. Farm
subsidies are not sacred, nor is
spending for weapons the
Pentagon says it doesn't need, nor
are hundreds of millions in tax
expenditures and preferences.
And if Republicans continue to
insist on tax cuts for the wealthy,
they should have to identify
spending cuts to cover the costs.
On immigration, the president
should test the GOP by making
plain that no solution is possible
absent bipartisan agreement.
The continuing public mistrust of
government requires Obama to
press on with reforms to the
bureaucracy and to the ways the
federal government hires people,
buys things and responds to
citizens. Government reform
should have been a priority his
first two years. Now, it's an
imperative.
Senate Republican leader Mitch
McConnell declared recently that
"the single most important thing
we want to achieve is for
President Obama to be a one-term
president." What he said was
absolutely true. Republicans and
Obama will have to get things
done together, but there can now
be no expectation of an
impossible level of bipartisanship.
Conservatives believe in freedom
for the corporate sector, in
limiting what the federal
government does and in tax cuts
for the best-off.
Progressives believe in a
government that promotes
modestly more economic equality,
regulates business in the public
interest and sees public action as
promoting American
competitiveness. This election
didn't change that. It is a setback
for progressives, not a permanent
defeat. They took a walloping in
the House but held the Senate.
The real showdown takes place in
two years—and with the
electorate equally disapproving of
both Republicans and Democrats,
that battle is wide open.
E.J. Dionne, Jr. is the author of
the recently published Souled
Out: Reclaiming Faith and
Politics After the Religious Right.
He is a Washington Post
columnist, a senior fellow at the
Brookings Institution, and a
professor at Georgetown
University.
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Writers Group
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Scary good
deal: Alan
Wake for $20
Richard Mitchell (Joystiq)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 1:20:00 PM
We've said it many times and in
many ways: Alan Wake is pretty
great. For a mere $20, Buy.com is
offering new copies of the game,
a positively wonderful deal. Since
they're new, they should have a
free code for the first DLC 'The
Signal.' We'd kinda like a sequel,
so go buy a copy.
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Lil Wayne Released from Prison
Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com:
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Submitted at 11/4/2010 11:24:00 AM
Lil Wayne
Lil Wayne is free.
The rapper was released from
New York's Rikers Island jail
complex Thursday morning after
serving eight months on a
weapons conviction, a Rikers
spokesman told TVGuide.com.
Wayne (real name: Dwayne
Carter) will now head to Miami
for a homecoming party on
Sunday with family and friends at
a strip club, MTV News reports.
Lil Wayne beings one-year jail
term
Wayne pleaded guilty in October
2009 to attempted weapon
possession. The charge stemmed
from a July 2007 arrest. Wayne
had previously pleaded not guilty,
but later admitted to having a
loaded .40-caliber semiautomatic
gun on his tour bus as part of a
plea bargain for a reduced one-
year sentence. He started his
sentence in March, but got out
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Lee Westwood Playing
Like World's Best
Mick Elliott (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:19:00 PM
Filed under: PGA The world's
No. 1 ranked golfer doesn't think
he has anything to prove. At least
that's what Lee Westwood has
been saying.
Of course, he could be wrong.
Rarely is there a downside to
living up to expectations.
After 281 consecutive weeks of
Tiger Woods atop the World Golf
Rankings, the newly anointed
Westwood on Thursday played
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worked on new music. His latest Reporting of Falluja's Cancer spot quickly taken away. result of having good
album, I Am Not a Human Being, Catastrophe. performances. But it's nice to go
One of the two options will out there and show everybody that
was released last month and hit happen Sunday. This week's
No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. there is a particular reason why I
World Golf Championships- got to that stage. I think I did that
HSBC Champions being played in today.
Shanghai, China, has drawn the "But it's only the first round of
world's top four ranked players. tournament and my main focus is
Joining Westwood in the field are on trying to win. So I didn't really
No. 2 Woods, No. 3 Martin go out there with any particular
Kaymer, the PGA Champion from thought to performing like the
Germany, and No. 4 Phil world No. 1 really."
Mickelson. A win by any of the
four can earn next week's No. 1
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Craig Bierko has been cast in the NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- On the
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a psychologist who becomes the moments before the Titans
therapist for a professional officially claimed Moss off
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Best Buy's "Shop Early Sale": How
good are the deals, really?
James Willcox (Consumer
Reports)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 8:48:20 AM
Best Buy's "Shop Early Sale":
How good are the deals, really?
Although the words "Black
Friday" are conspicuously absent
from its ads—unlike those of its
competition—Best Buy is having
its own pre-Thanksgiving sale this
weekend, a two-day " Shop Early
Sale" in-store sales event on
November 5 and 6.
The ad we saw promises some
pretty big savings if you shop
early, but a little bit of digging
reveals that often the amount of
claimed savings is based on the
suggested retail price of an item,
not the amount the store is
currently charging. So in some
cases, you'd only save $10 by
coming into the store during the
sale, compared with shopping
online from the comfort of your
home today.
The store doesn't list the specific
models that will be on sale this
weekend. But by matching the
store SKU ( stock-keeping unit)
numbers, which were included in
the ads, we were able to
determine which models were
being advertised.
For example, among the featured
items is a 32-inch Dynex 720p
LCD TV, which will be priced at
$260, a claimed savings of $40.
But we matched the SKU number
to the Dynex DX-32L150A11,
which is currently on sale for
$280, or only $20 more than the
weekend sale price.
Likewise, a Wi-Fi-ready
Samsung Blu-ray player will be
priced at $120 this weekend, for a
claimed savings of $60. But its
SKU number reveals it to be
Samsung's BDC5500 model,
which sells for $130 online,
making the true savings only $10,
not $60.
But there are some deals that live
up to their claims. For example,
those looking for an HD
camcorder might be interested in
the advertised Insignia-brand
model that will be on sale for
$175, a whopping $125 claimed
discount. That model, the NS-
DV111080F, is selling for $300
right now, so you will save
exactly what Best Buy is
promising. The store also touts
$120 in savings on an AMD-
powered eMachines laptop
computer, which will be sale-
priced at $280 this weekend. That
model, the eME442-V133, is
selling for $400 online, so the
weekend sale lives up to its $120-
off billing.
While in this instance we picked
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LeBron James misses
practice with deep shin
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exclusive to that retailer. The
takeaway from this story is that
bruise
Brian Windhorst (ESPN.com) up," James said. "We're doing
you can't take promised savings at
face value, since sometimes a Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:12:43 PM everything possible to get it back
retailer will base its claimed to 100 percent."
Updated: November 4, 2010, Spoelstra isn't terming James'
savings on the suggested retail
1:12 PM ET situation an injury and said the
value of a product rather than on
MIAMI -- LeBron James sat out plan was to rest him so James
its actual selling price. But if you
t h e M i a m i H e a t ' s p r a c t i c e could play in the back-to-back
do a bit of digging, just like we
Thursday with what he calls a over the weekend. The Heat, who
did, you may be able to ferret out
deep right shin bruise. But coach are on a four-game winning
the great deals from the so-so
Erik Spoelstra plans to start James streak, host the Nets on Saturday
ones and make that trip to the
on Friday night when the Heat night.
store worth your while.
take on the undefeated New Brian Windhorst covers the Heat
We'll continue to look through
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Switching to gas? You may be eligible John Marinatto, Big East

for a rebate
Consumer Reports Shopping
Blog (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 9:23:21 AM
Switching to gas? You may be year by switching,” says Emilio
eligible for a rebate
Commissioner, Discusses
Expansion
to-head comparisons difficult. “If
natural gas is cheaper in your area
than electricity, you will probably
that are offering incentives up to
$100 for converting cooking
appliances and heating systems to
Brett McMurphy (FanHouse
save money over the course of the natural gas. Main)
Alabama. Alagasco is offering
Gonzalez, who oversees $100 to replace an older gas or Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:12:00 PM

A number of utilities and cities, Consumer Reports’ appliance electric range or cooktop with a
mostly in the Southeast, are testing. Filed under: Big East, FanHouse
newer model. Residents of
offering rebates of up to $200 to Below is a short list of the Exclusive TAMPA, Fla. - Since
Trussville can also get $100 for a
consumers who replace older utilities and cities offering the the Big East Conference
replacement or conversion.
cooking appliances with new gas- rebates; in many cases, gas- announced Tuesday it would
Indiana. The Sycamore Gas
powered models. With excellent powered clothes dryers and water expand from eight to 10 football
Company is offering $125 for
g a s r a n g e s f r o m C o n s u m e r heaters are also getting incentives. members, Big East commissioner
switching to gas from other fuels
Reports' latest tests selling for as Call your local utility or check its John Marinatto suddenly
and $50 for replacing an existing
little as $600 and good gas website to see if there are similar discovered he became more
gas cooking appliance.
cooktops starting at $800, it’s a rebates being offered in your popular, especially with university
—Gian Trotta
m o v e w o r t h c o n s i d e r i n g , area—but be prepared for some presidents and athletic directors.
Ratings and reliability. See the also would not disclose the
especially if you can add a bad news. Utilities that provide "Several schools have indeed
results of our tests of gas- and league's process for notifying
manufacturer's or retailer’s both electricity and gas may be reached out to me," said
electric-powered ranges and potential member schools or their
markdown to the deal. Marinatto, who would not identify
less inclined to offer them. cooktops and wall ovens(available conferences, he said "we'll do
Your own energy savings will Florida. Five major utilities in which schools have contacted him
to subscribers). Subscribe now! things the right way."
depend less on the cooking Florida offering rebates via the in the past couple of days.
S u b s c r i b e t o The most likely candidates,
appliance and more on the cost of GetGasFL.com website, while the In an exclusive interview with
ConsumerReports.org for expert sources told FanHouse, to join the
your fuel. Residential cooking c i t i e s o f T a l l a h a s s e e a n d FanHouse Wednesday night at
Ratings, buying advice and Big East as football members
appliances are not part of the Gainesville are also offering Raymond James Stadium during
reliability on hundreds of include Villanova, TCU, Central
federal government’s Energy Star rebates. the Rutgers- South Florida game,
products. Update your feed Florida and Temple. Two months
p r o g r a m , a n d t h e l a c k o f Georgia. The Georgia Cities Marinatto would not comment on
preferences ago, Villanova athletic director
EnergyGuide labels makes head- Natural Gas website lists 22 cities any potential future members, but
Vince Nicastro told the
did provide some insight on the
Philadelphia Daily News the
league's decision to expand.
Wildcats have an offer to join the
Marinatto stressed the league has
Big East in football.
not had any formal contact with
any institutions and has not
established a time line. While he
44 Products/ Politics/
World's Dumbest Editor Incurs The
Wrath Of The Internet
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:00:00 PM
Rejoice, webizens, for today will
forever be remembered in the
annals of crowdsourced Internet
vengeance! When writer Monica
Gaudio discovered that a
magazine she'd never heard of,
Cooks Source, had reprinted an
article from her web site about
medieval apple pies without her
permission, she wrote to the editor
asking for an apology and a $130
donation to the Columbia School
of Journalism. Here's what world-
class bonehead idiot Judith
Griggs, editor of Cooks Source,
had to say in response:
"...honestly Monica, the web is
considered 'public domain' and
you should be happy we just
didn't 'lift' your whole article and
put someone else's name on it!...
If you took offence and are
unhappy, I am sorry, but you as a
professional should know that the
article we used written by you
was in very bad need of editing,
and is much better now than was
originally. Now it will work well
for your portfolio. For that reason,
I have a bit of a difficult time with
your requests for monetary gain...
We put some time into rewrites,
you should compensate me!"
Yes, Griggs actually asked the
writer to pay for the privilege of
being ripped off! And scolded her
for seeking "monetary gain" in the
form of a donation to a college!
Romney, Huckabee Lead
Obama in CNN Poll
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 8:05:09 AM
Thursday, 04 Nov 2010 01:05
PM
By: Jim Meyers
Mitt Romney and Mike
Huckabee, two potential
Republican presidential nominees
in 2012, both lead President
Barack Obama in a new CNN
poll.
The survey of registered voters
— conducted by Opinion
Research Corporation and
completed two days before the
midterm elections — showed
former Arkansas Gov. Huckabee
leading Obama, 52 percent to 44
percent, and former
Massachusetts Gov. Romney with
a 50-to-45-percent lead over the
president.
CNN polls in April showed
Not to mention, the only reason with the torches of an enraged e- Obama leading both Republicans.
the original piece seemed "in need mob. It goes on like this for The new poll released on
of editing" is because it reprinted h u n d r e d s a n d h u n d r e d s o f Thursday also found that nearly
old English recipes with the c o m m e n t s : one quarter of Democrats and
original spellings. And all THAT And of course, in this post-BP Democratic-leaning independents
comes on top of her absolute era, there's already a fake Cooks would prefer that the Democratic
ignorance of copyright law: "the Source Twitter account. Party nominate a candidate other
w e b i s c o n s i d e r e d ' p u b l i c I'd hate to be Judith Griggs today. than Obama in 2012.
domain'"??? This must be what But the unique combination of Asked if the Democrats should
happens when you get drunk on ignorance and arrogance in her renominate Obama as the party’s
the power of running a freebie email makes me think it couldn't candidate in 2012, 73 percent said
giveaway recipe pamphlet. happen to a nicer person. they should choose Obama, 22
It's not hard to see what comes (Thanks for the heads-up, Kevin percent said they should nominate
next. The story quickly hit Reddit, H.!) a different candidate, and 5
was tweeted by superstars like percent had no opinion.
Neil Gaiman, and now the Cooks When Republicans were asked
Source Facebook page flickers who they would prefer as the
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GOP nominee for president in
2012, 21 percent chose Huckabee,
20 percent said Romney, 14
percent named 2008 vice
presidential candidate Sarah Palin,
12 percent opted for former
House Speaker Newt Gingrich,
and 7 percent chose Texas
Congressman Ron Paul.
While the CNN survey showed
Huckabee and Romney leading
Obama, it also found Obama with
an edge over Gingrich, 49 percent
to 47 percent, and over Palin, 52
percent to 44 percent. But
Obama’s leads over Gingrich and
Palin are down significantly from
April.
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HSBC Champions: Lee Westwood shines in Far East

Associated Press (ESPN.com) sent him to a 68. Nor did he feel as though he had of the round.
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:31:51 PM Not to be forgotten is the to live up to any expectations as Two holes stood out for Woods.
defending champion, fourth- the new No. 1. Already 1 over for the
Updated: November 4, 2010, ranked Phil Mickelson, who After knocking in a 15-foot birdie tournament, he drove into a
1:31 PM ET rallied for a 69. PGA champion putt on the 13th, Westwood took cluster of trees and bushes on the
SHANGHAI -- Lee Westwood Martin Kaymer, the No. 3 player, on the 15th with a solid drive and 15th. He figured he had no hope
spent his career trying to be No. 1. opened with a 72. a 6-iron to 15 feet for birdie, then until caddie Steve Williams told
The way he played Thursday in Any of those four could go to No. watched his drive on the 288-yard Woods when he got to his ball, "I
the HSBC Champions, it doesn't 1 t h i s w e e k a t t h e H S B C 16th hole pitch 10 feet from the think we might have a shot."
look as though he wants to give Champions, and it could just be cup before rolling over the back The ball was behind some
up his prized ranking after just getting started. of the green. His chip raced 18 hedges, with sprigs sticking up
one week. "You just basically asked me how feet down the slope, but he holed around his ball. With a 4-iron,
Even as Francesco Molinari of long a piece of string is, I think," the birdie putt. Woods played away from the
Italy made a charge to a 7-under Westwood replied when asked Westwood wasn't trying to send a sprigs, through a gap in the
65 for a one-shot lead, the focus when the crowd near the top of message, although if anyone took hedges, shaping the ball from left
i n t h e f i n a l W o r l d G o l f the ranking might have some it that way, it was fine by him. to right to get it just left of the
Championship of the year quickly c l a r i t y . " I t h i n k t h e w o r l d "I don't think I need to reinforce green. From there, he navigated a
shifted to what could be a rankings are reflective of how why I'm No. 1 in the world," tricky, downhill chip to about 3
prolonged and fascinating battle competitive world golf is at the Westwood said. "I think you get feet for the most unlikely par.
for No. 1. moment." without a bogey on his card. there as a result of having good "I was able to build some
In his debut as golf's top-ranked "Nobody is the out-and-out world "Everything seems in the right performances. But it's nice to go momentum from there," Woods
player, Westwood birdied some of No. 1," he added. "I think that's place at the moment," Molinari out there and show everybody that said.
the toughest holes at Sheshan partly to do with Tiger not having said.[+] Enlarge there is a particular reason why I He birdied the next hole with a
International and showed hardly played quite so well this year, and Scott Halleran/Getty Images got to that stage." sand wedge to 2 feet, then had
any signs of rust from playing in partly to do with Tiger having Tiger Woods, whose streak of at The Asian influence in the three straight birdies on his back
his second stroke-play tournament made everybody else elevate their least one PGA Tour win every tournament regarded as "Asia's nine. The most impressive came
in three months. He finished with games. He's a victim of his own year is in danger, shot a 68 on major" came from Yuta Ikeda of on the par-5 second hole, where
back-to-back birdies for a 66. brilliance. We've all had to work Thursday at the HSBC Japan, who bogeyed his last hole he hit a 5-wood from 247 yards to
HSBC Champions Leaderboard harder, and we've closed the gap." Champions in China. and shot 67, and rising South 18 feet for a two-putt birdie.
1. F. Molinari (-7) There was plenty of brilliance to No one should be surprised for Korean star Seung-Yul Noh, who "I hit a lot of good golf shots,"
2. Westwood (-6) go around on a mostly clear the No. 1 player to open with a 66 also had a 67. They were joined Woods said. "I felt like I was able
T-3. Ikeda (-5) afternoon at Sheshan in such gentle conditions, by Henrik Stenson, coming off his to control my distance well
T-3. Stenson (-5) International, with sunshine although even Westwood wasn't worst season and seeing some coming into the greens, and also
T-3. Seung-yul Noh (-5) fighting through the haze and only sure what kind of form he brought signs of progress. putted really well today."
• Complete scores a mild breeze. That allowed for 51 to Shanghai. Since his runner-up For Woods, the best sign might Copyright 2010 by The
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than the three straight birdies that the start of four successive birdies expect," he said. bogey was his only dropped shot HSBC page 46
46 Sports/ E-reader News Edition

James Harrison of Pittsburgh Steelers fined $20,000

for hit on Drew Brees
ESPN.com news services Goodell to discuss the NFL's the Massaquoi hit, one of two by Polamalu also believes the NFL's
(ESPN.com) stricter policy. Afterward, Harrison that caused concussions stance could lessen the sport's
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:21:21 PM Harrison termed Tuesday's to Browns receivers. popularity in Europe, where the
meeting "semi-productive." His teammate Troy Polamalu, a 49ers and Broncos played on
Updated: November 4, 2010, Goodell requested the meeting five-time Pro Bowl safety, is even Sunday. The NFL is aggressively
1:21 PM ET with Harrison, held Tuesday at more critical of the NFL's policy marketing its game overseas, with
PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh league headquarters in New York than Harrison is. Polamalu talk that London could have a
S t e e l e r s l i n e b a c k e r J a m e s during the Steelers' day off. contends Goodell has too much franchise within 10 years.
Harrison has been fined $20,000 Steelers director of football control, and that players and team "If people want to watch soccer,
for a late hit on New Orleans o p e r a t i o n s K e v i n C o l b e r t executives should have a say in they can watch soccer. The people
Saints quarterback Drew Brees. a c c o m p a n i e d H a r r i s o n . deciding fines. who are attracted to this game,
Harrison has now been fined "It was just for him to hear my "He's got all the power, and that they're going to see the big hits,
three times by the NFL this side of things and for them to help may be part of the problem. There they don't care about
season for a total of $100,000. me understand exactly what the needs to be some type of touchdowns," Polamalu said. "So
The hit on Brees came in Sunday's rules are as far as helmet-to- separation of power, like our you're also taking apart what
loss to the Saints. helmet contact," Harrison said government," Polamalu said attracts people to this game."
He was previously fined $75,000 Wednesday. "So I spoke my Wednesday. "I don't think it Information from The Associated
for his helmet hit Oct. 17 on mind. They said what they had to should be based totally on what Press was used in this report.
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Scripting blocked by McAfee
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 11:05:55 AM
This site, scripting.com, a blog
that has been in continuous
operation since 1997, is blocked
to people whose computers are
controlled by McAfee anti-virus.
Click on the thumb for a full-size
view.
I hope someone can provide me
with a list of the actual URLs of
the files they're concerned with,
but I'm pretty sure they're not
compormised, and cannot harm
your computer.
In the meantime, here's a list of
the files in the screen shot. Some
of them appear twice, not sure
why. I've only listed each file
once.
FrontierPsapiInstaller.zip-- here
are the docs for this download. It's
a DLL for Frontier, released
(probably) in the late 90s, that
allows certain verbs in Frontier's
scripting language to work. I'm
pretty sure the DLL was supplied
to us by Microsoft. Never heard
of a report of it causing problems.
I have installed it many times,
pretty sure it's included in the
release of Frontier now.
snDecade.zip, snOpmlDecade.zip
-- On April 1, 2007, I released a
downloadable archive of the ten
years of Scripting News from
April 1997 to April 2007. The
archive was provided in both
HTML and OPML. These are
those archives. HTML and OPML
are text formats, and don't (can't)
contain any executable code.
OPMLzip-- There is a snapshot
of the OPML Editor release from
April 2007 at this location. Pretty
sure this is the opml.zip they're
concerned about.
opmlArchive.zip-- a snapshot of
the OPML of Scripting News
taken in December 2007.
frontier423.zip-- the download of
a major release of Frontier, which
I provided as a download to show
what blogging software was like
in 1997. This is the software a lot
of the early bloggers used. The
blog post was called A link back
to the beginning. I try to leave a
trail behind, part of a philosophy I
call Narrating Your Work. I'm
glad I still have a copy of this
ancient software, and I'm not
taking it down or modifying it just
because McAfee's software is out
of control.
Rasmussen: Romney,
Palin, Huckabee Nearly
Tied for GOP Nod in 2012
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 8:32:38 AM
Thursday, 04 Nov 2010 01:32
PM
As the midterms fade quickly
toward the status of old news —
albeit good news for many
Republicans — the 2012
presidential candidates will be
appearing from stage right, and
Rasmussen Reports finds three
potential GOP nominees virtually
tied at the top. The trio comprises
a set of former governors: Mitt
Romney of Massachusetts, who
pulls 20 percent, with Sarah Palin
of Alaska and Mike Huckabee of
Arkansas on his heels at 19
percent apiece.
The bottleneck of potential
nominees emerged from a Nov. 1
Rasmussen telephone survey of
1,000 likely GOP primary voters
that asked those polled whom
they would vote for if the
Republican presidential primary
took place today.
Palin and Romney tied among
male GOP voters, while
Huckabee has a slight edge
among female voters.
That is a marked change from a
year ago, when likely Republican
primary voters were given a
choice of five potential
presidential nominees, Huckabee
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led with 29 percent support,
followed by Romney with 24
percent, and Palin, at 18.
Rounding out the list of seven
candidates Rasmussen chose for
the question this year, with their
levels of support, are former
House Speaker Newt Gingrich at
13 percent, Minnesota Gov. Tim
Pawlenty at 6 percent, Texas
Congressman Ron Paul with 5,
and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels at
3 percent. Meanwhile, 7 percent
prefer some other candidate, and 8
percent are undecided.
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Teen Sex: Lessons From Europe (Again)
Delia Lloyd (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 1:18:00 PM
LONDON -- Well, here's
something to pop your eyes open
in case you can't quite shake that
post-election torpor. A county in
the U.K. has just authorized
pharmacies to distribute birth
control pills to girls as young as
13, without parental consent.
It's a pilot project in the Isle of
Wight, best known as a British
tourist destination for its ye olde
worlde charm. Under the project,
teenagers who approach a
pharmacist for the morning-after
pill will also be able to get a
month's supply of the
contraceptive pill without seeing a
doctor or informing their parents.
After that month is up, girls must
make an appointment with their
general practitioner or sexual
health nurse in order to get any
additional supplies.
The campaign is aimed at
reducing unwanted pregnancies,
which have crept up on the island
in recent years. According to
Jennifer Smith of the local branch
of the National Health Service,
which approved the project: "I
would suggest that what we're
doing is being entirely responsible
by providing [contraception to]
these most vulnerable women, for
whom, for the most part,
pregnancy is not a good outcome.
We are linking them with people
most able to support them in
further decision-making and
appropriate behavior in the
future."
The project follows on the heels
of an announcement last month
that the BBC will air an hour-long
documentary on the link between
oral sex and rising occurrence of
mouth and throat cancer among
young Britons. Oral cancer has
gone up by 50 percent in men
since 1989 and is rising by 3
percent a year in women, even as
smoking, once thought to be the
major cause, declines. The main
culprit is the human papilloma
virus, which is spread through
sexual contact, including oral sex.
Meanwhile, in other news, a
prominent British health care
watchdog organization is
advocating that pre-natal clinics
be set up in schools to counsel
teens who are already pregnant
and frequently fail to get proper
advice and treatment.
It's tempting to just write all of
this off as yet another chapter in
the Department of Can You
Imagine This Happening in the
U.S.? ( I write a lot of those
pieces.) Like so many of their
European brethren, the Brits have
a more open, realistic and
pragmatic approach towards
dealing with teen pregnancy than
their cousins on the other side of
the Atlantic.
But, of course, we all know that
teen sex and teen pregnancy are
hardly limited to the European
continent. Although teen birth
rates appear to be dropping in
recent years, the U.S. still boasts
the highest teen pregnancy rate in
the industrialized world.
According to the Centers for
Disease Control, one-third of girls
get pregnant before the age of 20.
American teens also use condoms
and birth control pills
considerably less than their
counterparts in other
industrialized countries, have
more abortions and considerably
higher rates of HIV and STDs.
Oh, yes, you say. But what about
that other kind of sex? You know,
the kind that -- according to The
National Survey of Sexual Health
and Behavior-- shows teenagers
engaging in with quite a bit of
enthusiasm? (Sixty-one percent of
boys and girls have performed
oral sex by the time they graduate
from high school.)
Turns out that oral sex is
intimately linked (so to speak) to
intercourse. A study out earlier
this week tracking the sexual
activity of 600 high school
students in California found that
teens who had oral sex by the end
of ninth grade had a 25 percent
chance of having intercourse by
the end of that same grade level
and a 50 percent chance by the
end of 11th grade. Or as Gawker
put it, oral sex is the "gateway
drug" to vaginal sex. Which
means that oral sex also puts teens
at risk for sexually transmitted
diseases and pregnancy (as the
British data suggest).
So . . . what do we do with all
this information?
In an ideal world, as my
colleague Bonnie Erbé has argued
regarding the controversial new
morning after pill (Ella), we could
start by separating out religious
mores from public policy in the
United States. Then we might be
able to think about combating
teen pregnancy and sexual disease
on a scientific, not moral, basis.
But that doesn't look feasible, at
least in the short run.
For the moment, the Health and
Human Services agency has
decided not to include
contraception in its list of
"essential" preventative health
care services that are exempted
from co-payments or deductibles,
at least until it has given the issue
further study. While it's
impossible to know the rationale
behind this decision, conservative
groups such as the Heritage
Foundation as well as the
National Abstinence Education
Association -- not to mention the
Catholic Church -- lobbied
strongly against including
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contraception in the preventative
health category.
But perhaps we can at least begin
by being more frank and open
with our youngsters about
different kinds of sex and
different kinds of risks, as my
colleague Suzi Parker advocated
recently, echoing former Surgeon
General Joycelyn Elders. That
sort of approach certainly seems
to be working in the Netherlands.
There, particularly with regard to
(gasp) sleepovers with your
boyfriend/girlfriend in your
parents' home -- respect for and
acceptance of teenage sexuality
appears to have produced healthy
attitudes and results, especially
when compared with those in the
U.S.
I don't know about you, but I
think I'd rather take my cues on
this topic from the Dutch than
from the likes of Christine
O'Donnell.
Just sayin'. .
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Living Under a Death Sentence for Adultery: Just
Another Day in Iran
Sarah Wildman (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 1:25:00 PM
Foreign Policy Correspondent
Today, Sakineh Mohammadi-
Ashtiani lived another day.
Whether she'll live the week, let
alone the month, is uncertain.
She's lived this way now for
months, never knowing if or when
she might meet her fate at the
hands of the Iranian penal code.
Sentenced to death by stoning --
the standard punishment for
adultery in Iran, a country that
adheres to strict Sharia law --
Mohammad-Ashtiani's tragic
story has become a cause célèbre
in the human rights world and a
symbol of global revulsion
towards the Iranian regime. An
online petition to save her has
been signed by 275,000 people.
Her image is already ghostly; cast
in sepia-toned black and white,
she hovers over the Web from
London to Madrid, Santiago to
Lima, Jerusalem to Cairo.
Governments the world over have
protested her sentence. "We call
on the Iranian authorities to
respect basic human rights, cease
their policy of repression and
intimidation and release those
who are currently being held
without justification," said
Bernard Kouchner, foreign
minister of France. The White
House protested"the lack of
transparency and due process"
that led to the conviction. Brazil
"clandestine" executions could be
in the hundreds; Amnesty puts the
total for 2009 at 366.
But it is Sakineh Mohammadi-
Ashtiani who's in the news now.
"Let us continue to be insolent,"
wrote Bernard-Henri Lévy, the
French philosopher and writer,
responding to the spokesman for
Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
who complained that Western
"insolence" had made "the case of
Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani . . .
a symbol of the liberty of
women."
We cannot be insolent only for
offered her asylum. has himself been tortured, a
one. We can use that insolence to
I n r e s p o n s e , t h e I r a n i a n punishment for his campaign to
train our eyes on those who don't
government merely commuted her bring world attention to his
have brave sons willing to
sentence to hanging rather than mother's plight. Mohammad-
withstand torture to have their
the more biblical stoning. Ashtiani's daughter has been
story told. Because even if those
By all accounts (except the socially isolated.
who gaze in horror on the story of
o f f i c i a l I r a n i a n s t o r y ) , But Mohammad-Ashtiani is not
a woman condemned to die
Mohammad-Ashtiani, 43, was alone in her predicament. Iran has
brutally are able to free her from
railroaded into a confession in executed 100 men and women
such twisted tyranny, there will be
2006, which led to her conviction this year. Amnesty International
others. The petitions will not be
of murdering her husband and reported that her lawyer and son
successful until there are no more
committing adultery with two were taken into custod y for
of these stories to be told.
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2 Corinthians
3:6 (11-04-
10)
(Verse of the Day)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 2:00:00 AM
He has made us competent as
ministers of a new covenant - not
of the letter but of the Spirit; for
the letter kills, but the Spirit gives
life.
— 2 Corinthians 3:6(NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse... A
new covenant -- God willingly
entered into a new agreement with
us, his creatures, sealed it with the
blood of his Son Jesus, and sent
the Spirit to give us the power to
live the life of this new covenant.
God has made a covenant of love
and grace with us. The Almighty
has then turned around and made
us worthy and competent to share
that covenant with others. No
wonder it is life giving: it brings
life to us and through us! My
Prayer... O holy and majestic
God, thank you for your grace
that has saved me from sin and
has redeemed me from the law of
sin and death. Thank you for
sending the gift of your Son and
the gift of your Spirit so that I can
live with you in a covenant of life,
grace, and love. While I confess
my weaknesses, I also commit to
you that I will live to honor your
sacrifice, love and covenant,
trusting that you will ultimately
empower me to be what you are
calling me to be. In Jesus' name I
pray. Amen.
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Liberal Primary Challenge to Obama in Ed Koch: Christie Would

2012? Feingold, Dean Say 'Not Me' Be Great GOP Presidential
Jill Lawrence (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 1:44:00 PM
Nominee in 2012
financial regulation reform bill,
saying it did not go far enough to
Finney told The Washington Post.
Feingold set off talk when he said
rein in Wall Street. Still, Feingold at the end of his concession (Newsmax - Inside Cover) On the Democratic side, Koch
Senior Correspondent The has generally been an Obama ally. speech, "It's on to the next fight. agrees with some that, if President
Submitted at 11/4/2010 7:58:04 AM
midterm rout of Democrats In his campaign he strongly It's on to the next battle. It's on to Barack Obama faces a challenge
immediately sparked debate over d e f e n d e d h i s v o t e s f o r t h e 2012." But his spokesman, John Thursday, 04 Nov 2010 12:58 from within his own party, it will
whether President Obama will controversial health care reform Kraus, told the Milwaukee PM come from the far left.
face a primary challenge in 2012. and economic stimulus bills. Journal Sentinel that Feingold has New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie But Obama ultimately will be the
Republican pollster Bill McInturff Conservatives may be indulging " no current plans" to run for would be a stellar Republican Democratic nominee, Koch says,
tried to fuel that speculation in wishful thinking. For one thing, anything. Kraus told Politico that candidate for president in 2012, adding this bit of advice, perhaps
Thursday, saying that Obama will the administration has said it will Feingold has "no interest" in says former New York City gleaned from his own days as a
" m o r e t h a n l i k e l y " f a c e start withdrawing some U.S. running against Obama. He Mayor Ed Koch. congressman: “He has a chance of
c o m p e t i t i o n f r o m t h e l e f t . troops from Afghanistan in July dismissed the chatter as "simply Christie, who became the first getting re-elected if he pulls in his
McInturff, speaking at a Christian 2011. Even if that deadline slips, Washington getting wee-wee'd up Republican to win a statewide horns and engages in bona-fide
Science Monitor breakfast, said the war is highly likely to be de- on the first day of new election c o n t e s t i n t h e L i b e r t y a n d negotiations and seeks partnership
his polling shows Obama has a escalating throughout 2012. cycle that is two years away." Prosperity State in 12 years in with Republicans on legislation.”
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Polish Hunters Stew

(Simply Recipes) Enjoy. ~Elise mushrooms. Anyone who knows many domestic meats. Smoked
Submitted at 11/3/2010 7:09:42 PM Also known as bigos, this hearty, anything about Eastern Europe sausage, mostly kielbasa, is a
cabbage and pork-based stew has knows they are mad about given, as is either bacon or a
A stew with sauerkraut, a whole been called the national dish of mushrooms. Apparently the smoked ham hock. Fresh
head of cabbage, and 3 types of Poland. It definitely has an original bigos was made with wild sausages, pork shoulder, veal or
pork? You should have seen my Eastern European feel to it: game, but over the centuries the beef are also used.
dad's eyes when I told him Hank Cabbage and sauerkraut, lots of dish is said to be close to 700 Continue reading "Polish Hunters
was making this recipe for us. different meats many of the them s m o k e d and a variety of years old it has become a stew of Stew" »
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Behind the Judges Table at Casting Call

(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks) Curried Kale and Apples, and Atlanta crowd, who, as she said,
Sarah Taylor made Spicy Sweet “considers macaroni and cheese
Cooking Light chef and 2010 Potato Salmon Cakes with Warm it’s own food group.” She dug her
Casting Call judge, Allison Mango Chutney. We were blown fork into Alia’s preparation and
Fishman away by Sarah’s restaurant-style showed those long strands of
Click to Enlarge presentation and the balance of cheese that made the crowd as
Have you watched Tom, Padma, heat, spice and sweetness in her happy as they’d be watching the
and Gail from Bravo’s Top Chef dish. Alia’s recipe was equally Braves win on a September
and thought: Do they have the impressive; inspired by a local afternoon.
best job in the world or what? restaurant that features Afghani- We gathered on the stage to
I know I have. So when Cooking style home cooking. announce the Healthy Cook of the
Light asked me to fly to the Taste At the judges table, I was joined Year, and recipient of $10,000
of Atlanta and judge the final by Chef Marvin Woods, Good gift of a kitchen makeover and
rounds of their first Healthy Cook Day Atlanta co-anchor Suchita groceries. The winner was: Alia
of the Year competition, I packed Vadlamani, and a guest judge Dalal, with her mac-less mac and
my knives and went. from the audience. After we rated cheese.
Our semi-finalists had already the individual dishes on a variety There were hugs and tears, and I
made it through two rounds. Over of criteria, including flavor, got the distinct sense that there
the summer, Cooking Light appearance and lightness, the will be a lot of terrific recipes
Editors reviewed all the 3-minute numbers were crunched and coming out of Alia’s new kitchen.
c o o k i n g d e m o s t h a t w e r e finalists were named: Alia and As for Tom, Padma and Gail? I
submitted and narrowed them Sarah would face off in the final got a taste of what they get every
down to eight. Next, readers voted competition: a lighter mac and week, but with a bonus. Judging
f o r t h e i r f a v o r i t e s o n cheese. restaurant chefs is a great gig, but
cookinglight.com, and narrowed During the competition, Suchita having the opportunity to taste
those down to the final four. remarked how unusual it was that dishes prepared by some of the
The first set of cooks on the stage three of the four dishes were ingredients that are naturally to bread crumbs for a topping.) healthiest home cooks in America
was Gita Patel and Lindsay inspired by Asian flavors. Sarah’s lower in fat and calories. Both dishes used flavorful stir- is a double privilege.
Rudolph. Gita prepared her Sweet chutney had garam masala and There was one big surprise to ins. Sarah’s dish included Allison Fishman
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baked them. Lindsay’s dish was a recipe “makeovers” of creamy, medium heat. The nutty, popcorn would be, and a perfect partner
classic guilty-pleasure makeover. cheesy classics to naturally lighter smell overtook the crowd. for the sauce.
Next, Alia Dalal prepared recipes. The winning contestants (Remember that next time you’re Suchita performed the ultimate
Afghani-style Squash with w e r e u s i n g v i v i d g l o b a l looking for a crunchy alternative mac and cheese test for the
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Be a Finisher
(Mensfitness.com)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 3:00:00 AM
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You know the guy. He's full of
ideas. Big ideas. Conquering-the-
world-and-make-millions ideas.
He's going to lunch a company
and run a marathon. He's going to
lose 25 pounds and write a book.
He's either going to ask out the
hot girl in marketing or propose to
his longtime girlfriend.
He might actually sketch out
some business ideas and print up
business cards. He might start
working out and going for runs
some mornings. He might change
his eating habits and even lose a
few pounds. He might start a book
treatment. And he might work up
the nerve to say hi to the
marketing babe or to start looking
for rings.
Months later? He's still doing the
same dead-end job. He has
stopped running regularly and is
getting soft around the middle.
The book treatment is still a one-
pager.
And both the hot babe and the
girlfriend have moved on.
The guy is a classic Starter, and
unfortunately there are a lot of
guys like him out there.
Starters are great at the gun, but
they never finish the race.
They're talkers, not doers.
They're creative thinkers who
couldn't turn their thoughts into
anything tangible, workable, or
sellable—in other words, anything
real—even if the prize was a date
with Eva Mendes.
There are plenty of reasons
Starters can't finish. Often their
ideas sound good but fall apart
because they haven't thought
through the realities. I've lost
track of the number of people
who've come to me pitching a
new print or Web-based
magazine. But after I've asked
about their competitors, their
endemic advertisers (and why
they'd advertise with them instead
of their competition), their
business model, and how much
capital they would need before
Next, come up with a bigger idea
("I'm going to reduce my body fat
by 5 percent," or "develop a
business plan or book proposal").
Now make it happen. Finish it.
Soon you'll be able to go all
Usain Bolt—exploding out of the
blocks and powering across the
tape with your Big Idea.
Be a Finisher. Strike a pose. You
win.
Onward,
Roy S. Johnson
Men's Fitness
Editor In Chief
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Dogs get restless when they have
too much energy. So it makes
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could subside when exercise is
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Researchers at Northwestern
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"We predicted that exercise would
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‘Faith-filled’ Carter has his say

Bobby (GetReligion)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 11:02:43 AM
I understand. Really, I do.
Reporters love to share former
President Jimmy Carter’s stories
and opinions. As the nation’s 86-
year-old grandfather-in-chief
tours the nation promoting his
latest book,“White House Diary,”
he’s generating a fair amount of
ink. No surprise there.
A telephone interview by Carter
with the Salt Lake Tribune
resulted in a story with a strong
religion angle. From a
GetReligion perspective, that’s
terrific.
But here’s the problem: The
headline makes it clear
immediately that this will be more
of a puff piece than a meaty news
story:
Religion, politics getting too
cozy, warns a faith-filled Carter
Any idea where this story might
be headed?
OK, I won’t keep you in
suspense. Here’s the top of the
report:
For a man who evangelized
foreign leaders and taught Sunday
school while U.S. president,
Jimmy Carter has some strong
words for what he sees as an
“excessive melding of religion
and politics.”
And it began, he said, with the
denomination he called home for
more than seven decades: the
Southern Baptist Convention.
“It’s now metastasized to other
religions, where an actual
affiliation between the
denomination and the more
conservative elements of the
Republican Party is almost
official,” Carter said during a
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Religious left behind

Mollie (GetReligion) Daniel Burke at Religion News I can’t quote the whole thing, but
Submitted at 11/4/2010 7:35:20 AM Service covers all the ground well I think it covers a lot of different
in his feature “ Have Democrats angles, including funding
At the Rally for Sanity I lost faith in faith-based outreach?” problems, the unsuccessful work
mentioned in my previous post, I After summing up the loss — and that was done by some religious
happened to run into the People of how it compared to 2006 and groups on the left and a bit of a
Faith for Sanity breakfast at a 2008 — we get some analysis: firing squad where folks go ahead
local bar. It was fun chatting with But in 2010, progressive leaders and assign blame.
the group, which was organized say, Democrats largely retreated I liked this analysis, too:
by Faith in Public Life. to the same-old wonky language Part of that loss, some Democrats
In the last couple of weeks, I had to explain their policies, and same say, can be blamed on the success
been researching a story about -old political strategies to drum up in 2006 and 2008: many of the
faith outreach among Democrats voters—with predictable results. people who ran Democratic faith-
and it was shocking. There was “One of the ironies is that we had outreach programs now work in
almost nothing happening. After h u g e s u c c e s s w i t h ( f a i t h the Obama administration,
the highs of 2006 and 2008, when outreach),” said Eric Sapp, a draining an already shallow pool.
the Democrats seemed to, well, partner at Eleison Group, a Just a nice mixture of facts,
get religion. The Washington consulting firm that worked on perspective and analysis, I think.
Post’s Michelle Boorstein was on religious outreach for dozens of It’s the kind of story that spoils
this story in May. Democratic campaigns in 2006 you, though, in that it does such a
But as some of the exit polls were and 2008—but none this year. more thorough job with the issue
showing, Democrats did very “It’s part of why we are in power. than you’re likely to find in most
poorly among many key religious It’s been rough to see us go back outlets. Written by: Mollie on
groups. Like Catholics. And to that pre-2004 strategy that had November 4, 2010.
Protestants. They lost the ground kept us in the minority.” This entry passed through the
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phone interview while he was in
Salt Lake City this week
promoting his new book, White
House Diary.
“There are pastors openly calling
for members to vote a certain
way,” the 86-year-old ex-
president said. “That’s a serious
breakdown in the principle of
separation of church and state.”
Now, if there are any
curmudgeonly old editors out
there, they probably noticed at
least two groups that might
deserve a chance to respond to the
lovable old president. Those
groups would be, of course, the
Southern Baptist Convention and
the Republican Party.
Alas, there are apparently no
such editors at the Tribune. Or at
Religion News Service, which
picked up the story and
distributed it nationally. Now,
RNS prides itself on being “the
only secular news and photo
service devoted to unbiased
coverage of religion and ethics —
exclusively.”
Nancy’s End, Marco’s Rise
Submitted at 11/4/2010 3:00:38 AM
Winners and losers, post-election
edition.
N ational Review Online asked
politicos and commentators a
series of questions about their top
picks and low points from the
midterm elections of 2010.
Who was the biggest winner of
Election Day 2010?
Who was the biggest loser?
Who was your hero of the
Back in March, a compelling
RNS profile of Carter at his
church in Plains, Ga., impressed
me as the kind of personality
feature that didn’t require
traditional he said/she said
treatment.
But in this case, RNS went so far
as to pitch the story this way on
its Tuesday blog roundup of
religion news (you might recall
that Tuesday was, um, Election
Day):
Former President Jimmy Carter
criticized Republicans’ and
Southern Baptists’“excessive
melding of religion and politics.”
Does Journalism 101 no longer
apply? Do those criticized — or
expert sources sympathetic to
their position — no longer
deserve a chance to respond? Or
are the rules different when the
one doing the criticizing is a
“faith-filled” former president?
To be fair, the 400-word RNS
version of the story appeared on
its daily digest of shorter news
items, so maybe space was an
midterm election cycle?
What was the most important
lesson?
Who do you have the highest
hopes for?
Gary Andres
Biggest Winner(s): This has to go
to Boehner/Sessions and the
whole NRCC political team. They
broadened the playing field,
which created an opportunity to
exploit a very positive political
issue. Still, basic journalistic
principles should take precedence
over word counts.
Keep reading, and the story gives
background on how Carter left the
Southern Baptist Convention to
escape its “conservative politics
and new doctrinal statements that
are, in Carter’s view, more creed-
based and anti-woman.” Again,
no need for a response from
anyone who might disagree,
right?
I’m trying to understand. Really,
I am. Written by: Bobby on
November 4, 2010.
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environment. They recruited top-
flight candidates. They raised
money early in a Washington
culture that -- until the last couple
of months -- was pretty hostile to
and skeptical of the minority
party. They also moved the chess
pieces around pretty well at the
end, effectively exploiting
opportunities and taking away
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resources in areas that didn’t
make sense politically.
Biggest Loser: Nancy Pelosi. She
sacrificed her colleagues on the
altar of her extreme liberal
agenda. It was more important for
her to expand government and
take over the health-care system
than to honor the political
vulnerabilities of some in her
caucus. By indulging her extreme
instincts, she lost her majority and
she will lose her leadership
position.
#ad#Hero: Marco Rubio. He was
in a tough three-way race. He
didn’t sacrifice principle. He ran
as a solid conservative. Now as a
newly elected senator from a large
swing state, he can help the GOP
grow its appeal to Hispanic voters
nationally. He is the future of the
Republican party.
Most Important Lesson: Two
lessons. America is a center-right
country. Talk of a lurch toward
liberalism following the 2008
election was the progressives’
pipe dream. Second, Americans
reacted more against this
misunderstanding on the part of
the Democrats than they
embraced the Republican brand.
As Rubio said, Republicans now
have a second chance to brand
themselves as the party that
embraces and best represents this
center-right coalition.
My highest hopes are for John
Boehner. He says he wants to run
the House differently from the
way both the Democrats and the
Republicans have done in the
past. I believe him. He can do it.
He has the experience and
commitment to deliver on this
promise. And if he succeeds, it
will represent real Hope and
Change in Washington.
— Gary Andres is vice chairman
of research for Dutko Worldwide.
Brian Brown
Winner: I’ll go out on a limb and
guess that no one else will pick
this one: Paul LePage, the new
governor of Maine. Great life
story of overcoming adversity,
great conservative. Who would
have thought a year ago that a pro
-traditional-marriage, pro-life
Republican would win the
governorship in Maine and
Republicans would take both
houses? Last time Republicans
had the governorship and
legislature in Maine: 1962.
Losers: Iowa supreme court
judges Ternus, Baker, and Streit.
Historic and unprecedented
victory for judicial accountability.
Big loss for activist judges.
Highlights how wrong the Left is
when it claims that voters don’t
care about same-sex marriage.
Hero: Marco Rubio. Young, bold,
and inspiring.
Lesson: Social issues matter. Not
only were the supreme court
judges in Iowa defeated, but in
key races throughout the country
social conservatives won. The
notion that Tea Partiers don’t care
about social issues is just wrong,
but we’ll hear a lot about it today
as the progressives try to “frame”
this election. The simple fact is
that the newly elected Congress
will be the most socially
conservative Congress in decades.
Highest hopes: It’s important that
state candidate after state
candidate supporting traditional
marriage won, and won big. In
New Hampshire, Maine,
Minnesota, and Iowa, the state
legislatures have dramatically
been reshaped with new batches
of conservatives. This is the
untold story of this election. And
Marco Rubio again.
— Brian Brown is president of the
National Organization for
Marriage.
#page#
Kenneth Blackwell
1. Constitutional conservatives
were the big winners. The framers
of the Constitution erected it as a
wall to stop any president from
fundamentally transforming our
country. The message of Tuesday
from a free people was music to
our ears. Let’s hope President
Obama is not politically hard of
hearing.
2. President Obama is
ontologically incapable of saying
that the voters have rejected his
agenda and collectivist
worldview. He is too much the
liberal ideologue to pull off a
Clinton-like triangulation. Like
Jimmy Carter, he will be a one-
term president.
3. Sen. Jim DeMint. He is a
principled warrior!
4. The conservative movement is
back to fighting form and ready
for the next round: 2012.
5. Marco Rubio.
— Ken Blackwell is a senior
fellow at the American Civil
Rights Union.
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Teri Christoph
Who was the biggest winner of
Election Day 2010? Marco Rubio,
for rising above the fray in
Florida.
Who was the biggest loser?
Nancy Pelosi, hands down. (And
hand over the gavel!)
Who was your hero of the
midterm election cycle? Renee
Ellmers, who beat Bob Etheridge
in North Carolina’s 2nd
congressional district. A true
grassroots success story.
What was the most important
lesson? The grassroots, when
pushed, can successfully work
around the traditional party
structure.
Who do you have the highest
hopes for? The conservative
women of the freshman class,
who are keenly aware of what’s at
stake if they don’t succeed in
reining in the federal government.
— Teri Christoph is co-founder of
Smart Girl Politics.
David Kahane
Biggest Winner: the Midwest.
Now we know where your
patriots are. The grownups, too:
Mitch Daniels is suddenly looking
very good for 2012. Imagine what
he would do to BO2 in the
debates without Barry’s
teleprompter.
Biggest Loser: California. The
fast-tarnishing Golden State now
gets to call the diminutive Babs
Boxer “senator” for six more long
years, and has raced headlong
back to the future to re-install
Jerry Brown as governor, in order
to party like it’s 1974. Woo-hoo!
Watch for another recall election
in the next two years, right after
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Hollywood decides to relocate en
masse to Deadwood, S.D. First
runner-up: Connecticut.
Hero: Does Michael Steele get
any credit for this? Time to stop
slapping him around, if results
count, and it’s hard to argue they
don’t. Show the man some
respect.
Lesson: A unified front, and a
willingness to just say no to us,
can work wonders.
Next Lesson: Stop accepting any
of our ridiculous premises,
especially those that have a
“moral” component. Make
“Principles, not Programs” your
rallying cry. Show us lefties the
same respect we’ve shown you,
which is none. And stop being
afraid of a bunch of pot-bellied
schoolyard bullies who wear bow
ties, for crying out loud . . .
High Hopes For: America. The
“bonds of illusion,” as Mephisto
calls them in Faust, have finally
fallen from the eyes of at least
half the country, and we stalwarts
of the Left are on the run back to
our coastal hidey holes. Now
we’ll commence our usual
whining about “bipartisanship”
and “working together,” but don’t
believe us for a moment. Now is
not the time for negotiation — it’s
time to demand and get our
unconditional surrender by
Election Day 2012. Otherwise,
we’ll be back at your throats
before you know it. We are
nothing if not relentless.
— David Kahane is the author of
Rules for Radical Conservatives.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez
The biggest winner Tuesday
night was human dignity. The
health-care debate and legislation
were an affront to human life and
dignity, individual responsibility,
and truth — a manipulative mess
of a debate and dangerous reality.
Republicans took the House
Tuesday night having promised to
pass a universal, permanent Hyde
Amendment — an across-the-
board prohibition on taxpayer
funding of abortion. (This is a
plan you don’t have to want to
overturn Roe v. Wade to get
behind.) Thank John Boehner for
that. Thank co-sponsors Chris
Smith and Democrat Dan Lipinski
for that. It was a big win for life,
and one that defies the idea that
social issues are irrelevant.
Congratulations, too, to groups
like the Susan B. Anthony List,
Americans United for Life, and
the National Right to Life
Committee for holding “pro-life”
congressmen who voted for the
health-care legislation
accountable.
The biggest loser was the old
nonsense female politics. Not all
women are liberal -- and
increasingly we see that in how
women vote, and in what
motivates them to be civically
engaged.
My heroes are all of the people
— those who won, those who lost,
those whose names were on
ballots, and those who were
working for the ones whose
names were on ballots — who
made sacrifices, who were
maligned and mistreated, who
invested time and energy and
money and heart and soul, in truth
and justice and the future of the
United States our Founders
envisioned. The most important
lesson may be that truth finds a
way to the surface. I think of John
Boehner being the only one
mentioning abortion funding at
the White House health-care
summit at Blair House. I think of
those who were concerned about
the betrayal of conscience, but
were drowned out by some liberal
women religious and a trade
association. And now I look at
“pro-life Democrats” like Steve
Driehaus of Ohio -- who went so
far as to make the Susan B.
Anthony List go to court to put up
a political billboard -- and Kathy
Dahlkemper and Paul Kanjorski
of Pennsylvania, all now being
forced into retirement, and, well, I
see hope and change!
My highest political hopes are for
everyone faced with new
challenges post-election day, in
statehouses and on Capitol Hill.
My highest hope is for those
newly engaged this cycle -- that
they stay civically aware and
active. And that they pray for
Speaker Boehner and the rest, that
they may stay true to their
principles and be prudent and
humble as they serve in a
profession that isn’t always
known to be a cradle of integrity.
-- Kathryn Jean Lopez is editor-at
-large of NRO.
#page#
Henry Olsen
Biggest winner: Haley Barbour.
As head of the Republican
Governors Association, he
spearheaded an unprecedented
election effort that raised tens of
millions of dollars and gained at
least eight seats. With fundraising
and political contacts in every
state, he is well positioned to test
the waters for a 2012 presidential
bid.
Biggest loser: In political terms,
Nancy Pelosi. She could have
pulled her caucus back from the
electoral precipice many times,
but instead chose to rally them
“once more, unto the breach.” She
may be proud of her policy
accomplishments, but politically
she is a dead parrot.
My hero: Paul Ryan. Paul did
what no other conservative was
willing to do: start to define the
contours of a governing platform
for a new majority. He’ll need
many more to come on board, but
necessity is the mother of
invention, and the Republicans
need a set of palatable yet
aggressive ideas if they want to
compete for leadership.
#ad#Most important lesson:
Principle kills, and absolute
principle kills absolutely. The
Republicans would not have won
such a majority had they not
resisted the Beltway siren songs
of bipartisanship; principle killed
the Pelosi speakership. But
conservatives who stood out for
their unswerving, and often
impolitic, devotion to principle,
like Christine O’Donnell, Sharron
Angle, and Jesse Kelly in
Arizona’s 8th district, showed that
even in wave years independents
are willing to follow
conservatives only so far in one
leap. Paul Ryan is an example of
how you can be true to yourself
and true to politics
simultaneously.
Highest hopes for: A tie between
Nikki Haley, Allen West, and
Susana Martinez. Non-whites in
America are rapidly growing as a
share of the electorate, yet
conservatives have trouble
reaching these voters, who, as
people desirous of moving up into
the mainstream of American life,
should be most supportive of a
robust, free-enterprise system.
Each person has the opportunity
to prove him- or herself on the
national stage and, if successful,
can dispel many of the stereotypes
about conservatives that hinder
our support among non-white
voters.
— Henry Olsen is vice president
of the American Enterprise
Institute and director of its
National Research Initiative.
James Pethokoukis
Who was the biggest winner of
Election Day 2010? Sarah Louise
Palin. She bestrode the political
stage and backed winners in key
primary states like Iowa, New
Hampshire, and South Carolina.
Who was the biggest loser? Scott
Rasmussen, whose automated
polling will be under renewed fire
from liberals. Oh, and Pres.
Barack Obama, since the electoral
shellacking compelled him to do a
post-election press conference
where he again displayed his
mistaken belief that his troubles
stem mostly from poor messaging
and optics.
E-reader News Edition
Who was your hero of the
midterm election cycle?
Candidates like Marco Rubio,
Rand Paul, and Pat Toomey, who
should all be persuasive voices for
pro-growth economics and
entitlement restructuring.
Hopefully, there will be more
awakened Democrats joining
them.
What was the most important
lesson? The 2008 financial crisis
only momentarily turned
Americans into Frenchmen. Two
years later, they are more
distrustful of government power
than ever. It’s still a center-right
nation, people.
Who do you have the highest
hopes for? Ron Johnson of
Wisconsin has tremendous natural
political skills and real-world
experience sorely lacking in
Washington, D.C.
— James Pethokoukis is Money
& Politics Columnist for Reuters
Breakingviews.
James P. Pinkerton
Biggest winner: John Boehner.
Biggest loser: Nancy Pelosi.
Hero of the cycle: The tea
partiers, as a group.
Unsung heroes: Pete Sessions,
chairman of the NRCC, and Haley
Barbour, chairman of the RGA.
Most important lesson: It’s a
center-right country, so one can’t
govern from the left.
Highest hopes for: Tim Scott,
Allen West, two black
Republicans in Congress; Nikki
Haley and Susana Martinez, two
new faces for the GOP.
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Sharia Deceptions
Robert Spencer (FrontPage — but is clear enough.) isn’t talked about enough, and it’s
Magazine » FrontPage) The program, predictably Barak [sic] Obama. One-fifth of
Submitted at 11/3/2010 11:30:16 PM enough, is focused not on the Americans, 20% believe that
manifest increase in jihad activity, Barak [sic] Obama is, himself, a
As Oklahoma has now voted to but on the alleged increase of Muslim and in fact – amongst
ban Sharia, and an openly pro- “anti-Islamic sentiment”: Republicans that number is almost
Sharia Imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, Anti-Islamic sentiment is on the 40%. Polls show in this country,
is going ahead with plans to build rise across Europe and the United that the more you disagree with
a triumphal mega-mosque at S t a t e s . I n t h e N e t h e r l a n d s , Barak [sic] Obama’s domestic
Ground Zero, Sharia is more in Sweden, France, Britain and policies, the more likely you are
the public consciousness than ever Germany debate is raging about to think that he is a Muslim.
— and so Islamic supremacists immigration and the compatibility I don’t know by what method of
such as Reza Aslan are working of Islam with Western values – calculation Aslan determined that
harder than ever to confuse the the latest foiled terror plot 31% (which is the actual number
American people about what originating in Yemen has done of surveyed Republicans saying
S h a r i a i s , s o a s t o d e f u s e nothing to quell people’s fears. they thought Obama was a
opposition to it. No kidding, really? Muslim) was “almost 40%,” but
Aslan, although considered to be In the United States anti-Islamic hey, they invented algebra.
a moderate exponent of a modern sentiment is higher now than after Anyway, Aslan here is apparently
Islam, is actually a Board member the September 11 terror attacks. saying that “anti-Islamic
of the National Iranian American Recent polls show nearly half of sentiment” is rising because
Council, a group that is widely Americans hold unfavourable people think Obama is a Muslim,
distress, it’s only natural for divert attention away from the
regarded as an apologetic vehicle views of Islam. So, what is and they don’t like Obama’s
people – and Americans have sole and obvious cause of any
for the Islamic Republic of Iran. driving this increased hostility, policies, and so they blame Islam
done this for many years – to look actual suspicion of Muslims or
H e h a s c a l l e d o n t h e U . S . that’s what we are talking about for them. Once again, he is
for a scapegoat. Depending on Islam in the U.S.: the ever-
Government to negotiate not only tonight and you can join us via insulting the intelligence of the
where you live in this country, the increasing number of terrorist
with Ahmadinejad but with Facebook and Twitter as well. American people. If large
scapegoats are either, frankly, attacks carried out by Muslims
Hamas— that is, with some of the JENNY BROCKIE: Welcome numbers of people believe Obama
Mexicans or Muslims. So, you who explain and justify their
most barbaric and genocidally- everybody, good to have you all is a Muslim, it is because of his
know, God save you if you actions by reference to Islamic
inclined adherents of Sharia. And here. I’d like to start by going to hostility (unprecedented in a
happened to be a Mexican texts and teachings. That Aslan
so it should come as no surprise the United States, and to you Reza president of the United States)
Muslim in America right now. did not lead with that as his
that on this Australian television Aslan in Los Angeles, you were toward Israel, his unwillingness to
There are many things Reza answer to the question about why
show, “Fear of Islam,” from SBS an American Muslim, you were do anything effective about Iran’s
Aslan is not, and one of them is “anti-Islamic sentiment” is
Insight, November 2, he retails born in Iran. Why do you think nuclear program, and his
an original thinker. He is in this supposedly rising is the clearest
some of the most common talking anti-Islamic sentiment is higher indefatigable dedication to
retailing talking points that we indication that he is not intending
points that Islamic supremacists now than immediately after coddling and appeasing the Dar al
saw just recently coming from to clarify matters or deal with this
are circulating these days in order September 11 – is it related to -Islam, even to the point of
Rashad Hussain, Obama’s Special problem honestly.
to deceive people as to the nature these foiled terror plots or is it absurdity, as when he told
Envoy to the Organization of the Aslan continues:
of Sharia and belittle resistance to deeper than that? NASA’s chief that one of his
Islamic Conference: that the bad Also part of it has to do with a
the spread of elements of it in the REZA ASLAN, RELIGIOUS primary responsibilities would be
economy has people looking for a sense of war weariness in the
United States and in Western SCHOLAR: Well I think there are — not space exploration! —
scapegoat, and that they’ve United States – we have been
c o u n t r i e s i n g e n e r a l . ( T h e a number of reasons for it, making Muslims feel good about
fastened upon Muslims. involved in wars in the region for
transcript is full of errors, some certainly the economy plays a role
I don’t know who originated this about 10 years and I think there’s SHARIA page 64
slightly amusing — “idea logs” in all of this, in times of economic
theme, but it is a brazen attempt to something important here that
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The Midterms: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward

Submitted at 11/4/2010 10:10:39 AM
too difficult to tell the story of the GOP going the way of the Whigs. packages. If you think such a GOTV efforts if we wish to win
election: It was about stopping an No, the American people are candidate will be with us when it in 2012. Sending donations isn’t
Have an intelligent message, and out-of-control Congress and an expecting us to be bold and big in comes time to vote down an enough when push comes to
fight for your right to be heard. out-of-touch White House. In our economic reform to allow the Obama Supreme Court nominee, shove. Millions of boots on the
N ow that the dust has settled on r a c e s a c r o s s t h e c o u n t r y , private sector to create jobs and you’re living on a unicorn ranch ground are needed, and voter-
the 2010 midterm elections, it’s Republican candidates ran on the soar! in fantasy land. fraud prevention must be
slowly becoming clear just how m e s s a g e t h a t t h e L e f t w a s In the coming weeks, there will #page# addressed before election eve.
monumental the results really are. bankrupting America with budget be those who lament that some of In the coming weeks there will The last, and possibly most
We saw an extreme left-wing -busting spending bills that us endorsed conservative also be a debate about the important, lesson is that a winning
agenda suffer a crushing defeat. mortgage our children’s future, Republicans over liberal ones in viability of particular candidates. conservative message must
At the ballot box, voters took burden the private sector with blue-state races. It’s a good Anyone with the courage to throw always be carefully crafted. If
Obamacare and the stimulus and uncertainty, and cripple our much debate, and one I’m willing to his or her hat in the ring and stand candidates are going to talk boldly
wrapped them right around the -needed job growth. have. First, we must keep in mind up and be counted always has my on the campaign trail about
necks of those same House The story of the next cycle, that there is no guarantee that any respect. Some of them were entitlement reform and reducing
members and senators who had though, remains to be written. Its Republican will win in a deep- stronger candidates than others, the size of government, they must
arrogantly dismissed the concerns c o n t e n t d e p e n d s o n w h a t blue state (as evidenced by the but they all had the courage to be be prepared to word it in such a
voiced in countless town halls and Republicans do next. Just as in the exit polls in Delaware showing “in the arena.” The second lesson way as to minimize the inevitable
Tea Party rallies up and down the 1980s, there are today millions of that the liberal Republican would of this election is one a number of fear-mongering accusations of
c o u n t r y . V o t e r s s e n t conservative-leaning Democrats have lost too). But even more to the candidates had to learn to their “extremism.” We are quickly
commonsense conservatives a and independents who are ready the point, we saw in the last cost: Fight back the lies approaching a fiscal turning point
clear mandate to hold the line to join our cause. They gave us decade what happens when immediately and consistently. where these crucial reform
against the Obama agenda. their votes, now we must earn conservatives hold their noses and Some candidates assumed that, discussions will be mandatory.
Does that mean Republican their trust. And we do that by elect liberals who have an “R” once they received their party’s We need to speak about them in a
candidates can look forward with showing them that a vote for us after their names. Our party’s nomination, the conservative way that the public will embrace.
greater confidence to the 2012 will not be a vote for the big- message of freedom and fiscal message would automatically During his first run for the
elections? Yes and no. Yes, spending, over-regulating status responsibility became diluted. In carry the day. Unfortunately, presidency in 1976, Ronald
objectively speaking the next quo. The 2012 story should be 2008, it was difficult to claim on political contests aren’t always Reagan found out that election
electoral cycle should be even about conservatives in Congress the one hand that we were the about truth and justice. Powerful campaigns aren’t necessarily the
more favorable than the one that cutting government down to size party of fiscal responsibility and vested interests will combine to best settings for quasi-academic
just ended. A large number of red- and rolling back the spending, and on the other hand that our fiscal keep bad candidates in place and discussions about issues like
state Democratic senators will the Left doing everything in its policies work. It was clear to the good candidates out of office. Social Security reform. So for his
have to defend their seats; and power to prevent these necessary electorate that the GOP had not Once they let themselves be next campaign, he resolved to
since Obama will be at the top of reforms from happening. In the adhered to fiscally conservative defined as “unfit” (decorated war build his platform out of tried and
the ballot that year, they won’t be next two years, if all we end up positions, and that the liberal hero Joe Miller) or “heartless” tested policies like tax cuts.
able to hide from the fact that doing is adopting some tax hikes positions they did adhere to didn’t (pro-life, international women’s Successful candidates in the next
their party leader is a detached h e r e , s o m e O b a m a - a g e n d a work. If we go on in that direction rights champion Carly Fiorina), election cycle will have to test and
liberal with a destructive tax-and- c o m p r o m i s e s t h e r e , a n d a again, we won’t have a base, let good candidates often find it develop similar policy platforms
s p e n d a g e n d a . W h e t h e r thousand little measures that do alone a majority. Certainly we can virtually impossible to get their that address the crucial issues of
Republicans will do as well as nothing to get us out of the and should back sensible center- message across. The moral of entitlement reform and shrinking
they did in this cycle depends on economic mess we’re in, the same right candidates in bluer states, their stories: You must be government in a way that the
whether they learn the lessons voters that put the GOP in office but I see no point in backing prepared to fight for your right to voters will find pragmatic and
from the 2010 election. will vote them out in the next someone who supports cap-and- be heard. even attractive.
#ad#The first lesson is simple: Set election. If that happens, the story tax, Obamacare, bailouts, taxes, #ad#Another important lesson is
the narrative. This year it wasn’t of 2012 may well be that of the and more useless stimulus that we will need the mother of all MIDTERMS: page 67
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The Return of the Right

Frontpagemag.com (FrontPage newly bolstered ranks is that the Sarah Palin and other Tea Party
Magazine » FrontPage) party won political converts in the supporters for having the reverse
Submitted at 11/3/2010 11:45:00 PM country’s disaffected independent Midas touch – that is, backing
voters. After helping Obama candidates who are ideologically
It was just months ago that liberal capture the White House just two simpatico but politically flawed.
w r i t e r s , f l u s h w i t h B a r a c k years ago, independents have beat The argument has been repeatedly
Obama’s presidential victory and a hasty retreat from Democrats, refuted – witness the success of
Democratic control of Congress, defecting to the GOP in record Tea Party candidates like Paul and
were writing gleeful obituaries for numbers. That backlash swept Rubio – but on occasion it has hit
the conservative movement and aside even those Democrats who the mark. In Nevada, Sharon
its Republican Party adjunct. In o n c e r e l i a b l y c o u n t e d o n Angle lost a close election to
this triumphalist narrative, the independent support. Wisconsin’s Senate Majority Leader Harry
Right had been repudiated in Russ Feingold, whose support Reid, helping Democrats keep
successive elections and the era of among independents dropped by control of the Senate. A perennial
Democratic rule had begun. If this almost 20 points since 2004, was survivor, Reid’s political demise
w e e k ’ s m i d t e r m e l e c t i o n s the most prominent casualty. In was nevertheless suggested by
d e m o n s t r a t e d a n y t h i n g addition to strengthening the party several pre-election polls. And it
conclusively, it is that both the ahead of the 2012 election, the still may have come to pass, some
Right’s decline and the Left’s injection of new blood could help have argued, had Republicans put
resurgence have been greatly Republicans make good on their forth a more astute and less
exaggerated. pledge to cut federal spending and polarizing candidate. In Delaware,
Republicans were the obvious shrink the deficit, both issues that Democrats gave them credit for, was made of up of Tea Party Christine O’Donnell, written off
winners in this year’s “political resonated with independent with 11 percent supporting members. from the beginning as a sure loser,
tsunami.” Their Election Day voters. Democratic candidates.) The big losers on the night were, proved to be just that as she lost
rally – including a net gain of In a complimentary development Tea Parties also justified much of of course, President Obama and by 17 points to Democrat Chris
over 60 formerly Democratic for the GOP, this week’s election t h e h y p e s u r r o u n d i n g t h e i r Democrats. Their collective defeat Coons. Likewise, in New York,
seats – represents the largest has established the Tea Party as a political clout. Tea Party favorites w a s m a d e a l l t h e m o r e Tea Party-aligned Republican
single gain by a political party genuinely popular movement. like Rand Paul in Kentucky and embarrassing by the denial that gubernatorial challenger Carl
since the election of 1948. That Democrats, including Obama, Marco Rubio in Florida won their greeted their final moments in Paladino suffered a heavy and
sweep, as analyst Michael Barone spent the weeks leading up to the respective races after pushing control of Congress. As comedian much-publicized defeat. And
puts out, leaves Republicans with election dismissing the Tea aside establishment Republican Jon Stewart pointed out, this while the New York race was
a larger majority than they P a r t i e r s a s a n “ a s t r o t u r f ” challengers in the primaries. In year’s pre-election forecasts never Republicans’ to win, many
enjoyed even in their 12 years in campaign, manufactured by Wisconsin’s Senate race, Ron depended greatly whether the one GOP strategists and pundits had
charge of the House between wealthy foreign sponsors and Johnson, an Oshkosh plastics predicting “was a Democrat or argued that Delaware was very
1 9 9 4 a n d 2 0 0 6 . M o r e lacking mainstream support from manufacturer with Tea Party ties, anybody else in the world other m u c h w i t h i n r e a c h h a d
significantly, regaining control of the electorate. The attacks could scored an upset over incumbent than a Democrat.” It was left to Republicans followed the so-
one branch of Congress will make h a r d l y h a v e b e e n m o r e a n d l e f t - w i n g i c o n R u s s e l l the polls to restore sanity, as called Buckley rule by choosing a
it easier for Republicans to wrongheaded. According to exit Feingold. Tea Partiers also proved incumbent after incumbent was more electable standard bearer –
c h a l l e n g e t h e O b a m a polls from Tuesday’s election, 41 k i n g m a k e r s i n c l o s e r a c e s . handed the electoral version of a in Delaware’s case, Tea Party
administration’s agenda and percent of those voting in House Republican Pat Toomey’s victory pink slip. nemesis Mike Castle. Whatever
restore the fiscal responsibility races said they support the Tea over Democrat Joe Sestak in To be sure, it was not all glory the reality, it’s fair to say that this
that was at the heart of their Party. (If exit polls are to be Pennsylvania’s tightly contested for Republicans and their Tea election will not have convinced
campaign. believed, Tea Partiers also ended Senate race owed much to the fact Party allies. Left-wing pundits
Just as important as the GOP’s up being more bipartisan than that 39 percent of the electorate have made a habit of mocking RETURN page 67
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A Big Win for Immigration Control and Hispanic Outreach

Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:00:00 PM
Quayle, Paul Gosar, David freshman Blue Dog Walt note. None of these encouraging such benefits. On top of that,
Schweikert, Joe Heck, and others. Minnick, who’d earned a results changes the fact that Hispanic immigrants, and even
Let’s not squander this Contrary to Harry Reid’s respectable B from Numbers USA continued mass immigration more their children, are more
opportunity. notorious comment that “I don’t but unsuccessfully ran for even guarantees the doom of likely to have children out of
T he president of the League of know how anyone of Hispanic more cover by promising to back conservatism (as I spell out in wedlock than native-born
United Latin American Citizens heritage could be a Republican,” restrictionists on almost all issues. detail in my Encounter Broadside Americans, another factor
issued a statement in the wake of the most notable Hispanic winners Ordinary Hispanic voters didn’t on the subject). The cause of drawing them away from the
T u e s d a y ’ s e l e c t i o n s : “ T h e Tuesday were Republicans -- and seem any more wedded to the limited government cannot Right and toward the Left.
elections of 2010 are further proof immigration hawks. Senator-elect immigration issue, reflecting the succeed in the long term, even if Nor is it just a matter of voting
of the power of the Latino vote.” Marco Rubio of Florida and recent Pew Hispanic Center the GOP does somewhat better power. Mass immigration actually
In fact, though, the elections are Governors-elect Susana Martinez finding that immigration ranked among Hispanic voters, so long as creates the political and economic
further proof that Hispanic o f N e w M e x i c o a n d B r i a n fifth in importance out of seven the federal immigration program conditions the Left needs to
Americans are Americans, and Sandoval of Nevada all support issues among Hispanic registered continues to admit a million-plus thrive. Not only does it provide
that amnesty isn’t a winning Arizona’s SB1070 and other voters. Exit polling shows that in newcomers a year. And the extra House and state-legislative
political issue even among them. measures to clamp down on House races nationwide, Hispanic overwhelming Hispanic seats for left-wing politicians
The 112th Congress is going to illegal immigration. support for Republicans increased preference for Democrats is not through the reapportionment and
be a lot more hawkish on Likewise in the House of to 34 percent of the vote, up from something that can be addressed redistricting that take place after
immigration than its predecessors Representatives. Bill Flores, also 29 percent in 2008 and 30 percent with tweaks to immigration policy each census, but it also
were. Numbers USA figures that listed by Numbers USA as a “ in 2006. Between one-quarter and -- even if such tweaks would do exacerbates such problems as
the new House of Representatives true reformer,” wiped out 20-year one-third of the Hispanic vote is any good, which evidence poverty and the lack of health
will have at least 50 fewer incumbent and amnesty supporter the normal range for Republicans, suggests they wouldn’t. insurance, which lead non-
s u p p o r t e r s o f i n c r e a s e d Chet Edwards, who’d earned a and this election followed the #ad#The fact is that mass immigrant voters, not even
immigration than the current one. grade of D-minus on immigration, same pattern, with Meg Whitman immigration is inevitably made up thinking about immigration, to be
The current House has 206 in a district that stretches between getting 30 percent, Carly Fiorina of the relatively poor, who in a more receptive to statist solutions.
members that the organization Dallas and Houston. getting 28 percent, and Sharron modern society will make For example, about three-fourths
considers to support higher In Texas’s 23rd district, which Angle getting 30 percent. Even disproportionate use of taxpayer- of the increase in the size of the
immigration most or all of the includes the western half of the Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona, a funded services (the majority of uninsured population in the last
time, compared with 155 higher- state’s border with Mexico, Quico hate figure for the open-borders families headed by a Mexican decade was among newly arrived
immigration members in races so Conseco -- who hasn’t filled out crowd, got 28 percent of the immigrant, for instance, use at immigrants and their U.S.-born
far decided. Numbers USA’s survey but is Hispanic vote -- which is actually least one welfare program, even children; does anyone doubt that
#ad#Those pro-amnesty, mass- pretty hawkish on immigration two points more than Janet though the overwhelming this immigration-driven growth in
immigration congressmen were and border issues -- defeated Ciro Napolitano's Republican opponent majority have at least one worker the number of the uninsured helps
replaced with the likes of Lou Rodriguez, who’d earned a D-plus got in 2006. in them). Therefore, the further the Democrats’ agenda to
Barletta of Pennsylvania, who grade on immigration this past In fact, for all of Harry Reid’s conservative message of smaller socialize health care?
rose to national prominence as the Congress. demagoguery, he got almost government is simply not going to Tuesday’s results were hugely
mayor of Hazleton, Pa., where he In southwest Washington State, exactly the same percentage of the resonate with a large share of encouraging for the cause of
tried to enact a local ordinance to Republican immigration hawk Hispanic vote this time (68 immigrant voters, and may, in immigration control and national
limit the settlement of illegal Jaime Herrera beat Democrat percent) as he did in 2004(67 fact, repel them. What’s more, the sovereignty. But unless the new
aliens. Joining him in the House Denny Heck, who was apparently percent). And Barbara Boxer got huge majority of immigrants, not Republican House (with, we can
will be “true reformers” (as so wary of the issue he didn’t only 65 percent of the Hispanic just Hispanics, are eligible for hope, a GOP Senate after 2012)
defined by responses to Numbers even mention border security or vote this time, compared with 73 affirmative-action quotas as soon uses its power to reduce future
USA’s candidate survey) Allen i l l e g a l i m m i g r a t i o n o n h i s percent in 2004. as they set foot in the United immigration levels -- through both
West, Steve Southerland, Daniel website. Likewise with Raul #page# States, making it harder for them
Webster, Scott DesJarlais, Ben Labrador in Idaho, who beat But let me end on a cautionary to embrace the party opposed to BIG page 64
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California Climate Vote More about Protecting Investments

Nicolas Loris (The Foundry: growth and innovation,” said Tom be able to compete economically
Conservative Policy News.) Werner, chief executive of with more conventional ones and
Submitted at 11/4/2010 11:00:16 AM California-based solar panel eventually replace them, but that
maker SunPower Corporation. process should be driven by the
Posted November 4th, 2010 at Perhaps for his industry, but not market. As Kreutzer notes, “Just
1 2 : 0 0 p m i n E n e r g y a n d for the rest of the state. Heritage as cars replaced horse-drawn
Environment Print This Post research fellow David Kreutzer carriages and electric lights
California voters overwhelmingly points out: replaced kerosene lamps (which
rejected Proposition 23, the ballot In addition to the standard replaced whale-oil lamps) and
i n i t i a t i v e t h a t w o u l d h a v e environmental groups, those jetliners replaced passenger steam
suspended the 2006 Global financing the opposition to ships, it is likely that some new
Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) P r o p o s i t i o n 2 3 a r e m a i n l y forms of energy will out-compete
until the state’s unemployment financiers who stand to gain from the old forms. If so, the
level dropped below 5.5 percent restrictions on conventional developers won’t need mandates
for four consecutive quarters. energy and billionaires who are to get consumers to use them.”
AB 32 aims to return greenhouse far removed from worries over Profits and losses are a much
gas emissions in California to monthly energy bills and losing a better indicator of what producers
1990 levels by 2020. Many job. The problem for the other 37 The tradeoff for less greenhouse government spends money to should supply than what the
Californians saw Proposition 23 million Californians is that they gas emissions is higher energy subsidize green jobs. government tells us we need.
as a battle between out-of-state oil do worry about how they can pay prices and thus lost income and Venture capitalists should bear The rejection of Proposition 23
p r o d u c e r s v e r s u s higher energy bills and about higher unemployment, which is the risk and, therefore, reap the may seem like a victory for
environmentalists and in-state getting and keeping a job. why Proposition 23 was offered in rewards or suffer the environmentalists hoping to
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the alleged scientific
achievements of the Islamic
world.
And if there is any actual rise in
“anti-Islamic sentiment,” it is not
because befuddled American
yahoos think that nationalizing
health care and the banking and
auto industries are Muslim
policies implemented by a
Muslim president, but because
Islamic jihadists just in the last
few days sent bombs via UPS to
synagogues in Chicago and
stormed a church in Baghdad,
murdering 58 people. Then there
was the Fort Hood jihad shooting,
the Arkansas recruiting center
jihad shooting, the Christmas
underwear bomb jihad attempt,
the Times Square jihad car bomb
attempt, the Fort Dix jihad plot,
the North Carolina jihad plot, the
Seattle jihad shooting, the JFK
Airport jihad plot, and on and on.
But Reza Aslan, not surprisingly,
doesn’t mention any of that.
The reason I bring this up is
because what’s happened in the
United States is something that
has already happened in Europe
and that is that Islam is become
‘otherised’, it has become a kind
of receptacle into which fears and
anxieties about the political or
economic situation, about the
changing racial landscape of this
country are being thrown.
This is something common to the
United States – Make no mistake
– In fact, every single thing that
has been said about Muslims, that
they are un-American, that they
are foreign, that they are exotic
has been said in this country about
Jews in the 20th century, was said
about Catholics in this country, in
the latter part of the 19th century,
so it’s a common occurrence in
the United States.
I think by all accounts in the
same way we look back on the
anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish
sentiments of our history with
shame and derision and with a
healthy dose of mockery, that’s
how we will very likely look back
on this sort of anti-Muslim
sentiment as well in the next
generation.
Here again, Aslan is not engaging
in any real analysis or actual
thought; he is just repeating
talking points that we have heard
before from the likes of Muslim
Brotherhood-linked Congressman
Keith Ellison and Nicholas
Kristof, among many others.
Christopher Hitchens ably took
apart the central claim being made
here: “‘Some of what people are
saying in this mosque controversy
is very similar to what German
media was saying about Jews in
the 1920s and 1930s,’ Imam
Abdullah Antepli, Muslim
chaplain at Duke University, told
the New York Times. Yes, we all
recall the Jewish suicide bombers
of that period, as we recall the
Jewish yells for holy war, the
Jewish demands for the veiling of
women and the stoning of
homosexuals, and the Jewish
burning of newspapers that
published cartoons they did not
like.”
And as for Aslan’s assertion that
“in the next generation”
Americans will “very likely look
back on this sort of anti-Muslim
sentiment” with “shame and
derision and with a healthy dose
of mockery,” that’s all he has
besides borrowed talking points
originated by others. Aslan, as I
will eventually demonstrate
definitively when I publish his
emails to me, cannot and will not
deal on the level of facts and
discuss matters rationally, but
instead works consistently from
the gutter. It is the only refuge he
has given his manifest and abject
intellectual vacuity.
Anyway, then the Australian TV
show goes on to Nonie Darwish,
who states some truths about the
Qur’an, which are then
contradicted by Muslim
spokesmen. The problem with
such discussions is that they deal
in generalities; there is no time in
such a setting for any extended
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examination of the contents of the better enforcement and changes to
Qur’an, and so the discussion legal-immigration rules such as
amounts essentially to one ending family chain migration --
person’s word against another’s. this week’s joyous news will
And so to Reza Aslan’s response: simply be a rest stop on the road
REZA ASLAN: First of all, I to serfdom.
have to say that it’s a weird -- Mark Krikorian is executive
feeling to have to respond to a director of the Center for
Christian leader of an anti- Immigration Studies, an NRO
Muslims organisation – it would contributor, and author of The
be like having to respond to a New Case Against Immigration,
Muslim leader of an anti-Jewish Both Legal and Illegal and How
organisation about Judaism so the Obama Is Transforming America
whole thing is kind of weird. Let Through Immigration. Mark
me just say it’s kind of convenient Krikorian
to simply pick and choose
whatever violent bits and pieces
one finds in the Koran and ignore
the equally important versus that
talk about compassion and peace.
There’s nothing strange or
unusual about the Koran, the same
Tora [sic] that gives us the 10
commandments commands the
Jews to enact genocide upon
every non-believer of Yaway
[sic]. The same gospel telling us
to turn the other cheek, also says
“Jesus says I’ve come to bring the
sword and not peace, and that he
who doesn’t have a cloak should
sell the cloak and buy a sword”.
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— James P. Pinkerton, a former
domestic-policy aide in the
Ronald Reagan and George W.
Bush administrations, is a Fox
News contributor.
#page#
John J. Pitney Jr.
The biggest winner is the late
Paula Nowakowski, chief of staff
to John Boehner until her
untimely death earlier this year.
Chad Pergram recalls Boehner’s
words at her funeral: “‘Our team
this year is going to dedicate our
year to Paula,’ Boehner said,
choking back tears. ‘You all know
how badly she likes to win. And
she wants us to win this year.’”
She got her wish.
The biggest loser is Rep. Alan
Grayson (D., Fla.). His brief
tenure in the House was a war on
civility: Among other things, he
accused Republicans of wanting
old people to die. He’s a capital-L
Loser whose disgraceful behavior
cost him his seat, undercut his
party, and damaged the House.
Good riddance.
A GOP hero of the cycle is
Mississippi governor Haley
Barbour, who chaired the
Republican National Committee
during the 1994 Republican surge
and chaired the Republican
Governors Association this time.
Both times, he supplied his party
with logistical support, wise
advice, and good humor.
#ad#An obvious choice for the
“high hopes” trophy is Marco
Rubio. Unless he turns out to have
a secret life as a cat burglar, he’s
on the short list for the vice-
presidential nomination in 2012.
And the most important lesson
comes from California’s GOP
senatorial primary: Beware
demon sheep!
-- John J. Pitney Jr. is Roy P.
Crocker Professor of American
Politics at Claremont McKenna
College.
Doug Schoen
Winner is John Boehner.
Loser is a tie between President
Obama and former Speaker
Nancy Pelosi.
My hero is Joe Manchin.
Lesson is that big government is
dead -- once again and with
feeling!
I have highest hopes for
bipartisan cooperation of the type
President Obama outlined during
his Wednesday press conference.
And my great fear is that it will
simply not happen given the anger
in our society and the polarization
in our politics.
— Doug Schoen is co-author of
Mad As Hell: How the Tea Party
Movement Is Fundamentally
Remaking Our Two-Party
System.
Kristen Soltis
Who was the biggest winner?
John Boehner. The strength of the
GOP’s performance in House
races compared with the Senate
underscored how the message
being driven by Boehner for over
a year -- “where are the jobs?” --
was the key, driving question. It
was very clear what House
Republican candidates wanted to
do -- stop spending, stop
government expansion, and, most
important, get America working
again. Not only will Boehner get
the speaker’s gavel, but I believe
this election makes a solid case
for viewing him as de facto leader
of the GOP until a 2012 nominee
emerges.
Who was the biggest loser?
Charlie Crist. If you look at the
exit polls, he badly
underperformed even among
independent voters. Other folks
who lost last night may live to
fight another day or will retire
into the sunset, but last night I
believe marked an end to Crist’s
political career in Florida.
Who was your hero of the
midterm election cycle? Marco
Rubio. He proved that
“electability” and principled
conservatism are not mutually
exclusive in a purple state like
Florida if you can run on a
positive message and articulate a
message that unites the right with
the middle.
What was the most important
lesson? This isn’t a mandate or
even a strong vote of confidence -
- it’s a second chance. I believe
that you’ve seen leadership folks
like Boehner and Cantor clearly
acknowledge that the GOP’s
brand is not great and that we
need to re-earn the trust of voters.
Who do you have the highest
hopes for? Nikki Haley in South
Carolina. I have a soft spot in my
heart for strong conservative
women who take on the
establishment, who win on the
ability to stick to their convictions
and convince voters to agree. I
can only hope we see a lot more
of her in the coming years.
– Kristen Soltis is the director of
policy research at the Winston
Group, a strategy and polling firm
in Washington, D.C. NRO
Symposium
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Islamist
“Dead
Zones”
Stephen Brown (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 11/3/2010 11:40:15 PM
Ear-splitting explosions; bloody,
whimpering and lifeless bodies
strewn across the floor; demented
terrorists killing with an insane
cruelty; and a building held sacred
now ruined and profaned.
It was a scene fit for Dante’s
Inferno or a medieval painting of
hell, but only the victims weren’t
sinners. The people who came to
Baghdad’s Our Lady of the Holy
Salvation Church last Sunday
evening had wanted to get closer
to God, but instead were struck
by the “hand of the devil.” And
once more it was the followers of
the Islamist death cult who
formed the devil’s fist, their
satanic blow costing this time
more than 50 of the assembled
worshipers their lives.
“They came to kill, kill, kill,”
massacre survivor Bassam Sami
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Misguided Children’s Advocates Make Mischief at
the UN
Grace Melton (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 11/4/2010 12:00:03 PM
Posted November 4th, 2010 at
1:00pm in American Leadership
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As American children spent last
weekend trick-or-treating, many
bringing home donations for the
United Nations Children’s Fund
(UNICEF) along with their hauls
of candy, U.N. Ambassador Susan
Rice congratulated the
organization’s 60-year Halloween
fundraising campaign.
Parents who were worried about
how much sugar their little ones
consumed would surely be even
more concerned if they were
aware of the mischief and
nonsense that has become run of
the mill at UNICEF and its sister
U.N. entities. The past several
decades have brought a transition
away from UNICEF’s founding
focus on children’s health and
survival to that of the radical
feminists, usually under the guise
of children’s rights. Now,
UNICEF programs and policies
tend to emphasize the rights of
“the girl-child” and advocate for
children’s sexual and reproductive
rights. Unfortunately, this trend
creates an artificial tension
between children and their
parents, and the importance of the
family is relegated to the
sidelines.
For example, a recent UNICEF
panel called for a closer
examination of disciplinary
practices of children in their own
homes and in a new report sought
“to promote positive disciplinary
practices and participatory forms
of child-rearing.” Such regulation
of parents’ authority in their
homes is a far cry from
of patriarchy and control of
sexuality” and “explains the
interdependence of sexuality,
health and education and the
relationship of this right to other
rights from a gender and diversity
perspective.” The General
Assembly is expected to revisit
the report later this year.
The United States has a good
track record when it comes to
protecting children—at home and
abroad—from the legitimate
threats of disease, famine,
abduction, and war. U.S.
policymakers should stick to such
real child protection efforts and
UNICEF’s image of promoting steer clear of attempts, especially
immunization programs and by the gender advocates and U.N.
bureaucrats, to turn children into
campaigns against hunger.
Similar intrusions into family life pawns in their greater liberal
are pervasive at the U.N. Causing agenda.
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told the New York Times after his
narrow escape from death.
According to survivors, the
Islamists stormed the church,
firing their weapons, killing many
of the 80 to 100 congregation
members gathered there for the
evening service. According to the
Times report, one of the priests
pleaded for his parishioners’ lives
as he was pushed to the ground,
grasping a crucifix, and
murdered.
Some worshippers managed to
make it to a room at the back of
the church where they barricaded
the door and prayed. But upon
discovering their hiding place, the
terrorists threw four grenades
through a window into the room,
killing several of the trapped and
terrified victims.
“They seemed insane,” reported
another survivor.
Part of their insanity is
demonstrated by the fact the
terrorists themselves wanted to
die. Two of them were reported to
have worn suicide vests, one of
which was detonated when
security forces attacked the
church. When it was over, a
further eight security personnel
lay dead in and around the church
along with all six Islamists.
The group that claimed
responsibility for the savage
violence, The Islamic State of
Iraq, is an al Qaeda affiliate. The
affiliation is the tragedy’s least
surprising aspect, since wherever
there is the smell of innocent,
murdered corpses, al Qaeda can’t
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all critics of the viability of Tea
Party candidates.
But if Republicans sometimes got
the strategy wrong, the real
comeuppance came to Democrats
for passing the wrong policies.
Most notably repudiated was
ObamaCare. Although Democrats
have argued, rightly, that
individual elements of the
legislation are popular with the
public, the inescapable lesson of
the election is that as a whole the
legislation was a failure with
voters. The Wall Street Journal
points out that 33 of the 219
House Democrats who voted for
ObamaCare lost their jobs this
week, a mass eviction consistent
with the attitudes of 48 percent of
voters who favored the
legislation’s repeal, according to
exit polls. Those Democrats who
believed that the merits of
ObamaCare would convince the
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public in the end were pointedly
disabused. In Virginia,
Democratic Congressman Tom
Perriello defied many of the
constituents in his Republican-
leaning district by voting to pass
the legislation. The Left hailed
Perriello as a true “conviction
politician,” but those he actually
represents disagreed. He went
down to defeat on Tuesday.
The outstanding question of this
election is whether the biggest
loser not to actually lose his job
understands the new political
reality. On the evidence of his
press conference this week,
President Obama does not.
Formally, at least, the president
has struck a note of contrition,
acknowledging the “shellacking”
his party received and offering to
work with Republicans. Yet there
is no evidence that he is changing
course. He hasn’t seemed to
recognize the extent to which his
policies – especially the $800
billion economic stimulus
package and ObamaCare – have
fueled the voter discontent that
was on display this week. Instead,
Obama insisted that the
“American people” don’t want to
see Republicans and Democrats
refight the “arguments that we
had over the past two years.”
In fact, the election results
suggest the opposite lesson. If
President Obama seems uneager
to rehash the debates of his first
two years in office, it’s because
he recognizes that Americans
have increasingly chosen sides.
And they have not sided with him.
be far away.
In their statement issued after the
attack, the terrorist group blamed
their act of mass murder and
destruction on Egypt’s Coptic
Church for allegedly holding two
women who had converted to
Islam. Their other spurious
excuse concerned the martyred
Baghdad church itself. In the
statement, it was called “…one of
the filthy dens of idolatry that was
always used by the Christians of
Iraq to fight the religion of Islam
and to support those who fight
that religion.”
But the real reason for Sunday’s
hellish bloodletting is that Islamist
terrorists, as has often been
noted, are death worshippers.
Several have been quoted as
saying that while we (in the West)
love life, they love death. Former
President George Bush even
referred to one of these nihilistic
messages in a speech he made in
2004, calling Islamist thinking “a
mindset that rejoices in suicide,
incites murder and celebrates
every death we mourn.” Bush
could have been speaking of the
Iraqi church massacre.
Some believe this love of death
was present even in Islam’s
earliest days, such as in the
message Caliph Abu Bakr sent to
a Persian commander before a
battle in 636 bears. It read: You
should convert to Islam, and then
you will be safe, for if you don’t,
you should know that I have come
to you with an army of men that
love death as you love life.”

If we manage to do these things,
there is no reason why we can’t
look forward with confidence to
winning in 2012. I have said all
along that this election must be
seen in conjunction with the next.
Ultimately 2010 must be viewed
as just the first battle in a much
longer fight that leads to
November 6, 2012, and beyond.
We cannot fully restore and
revive America until we replace
Obama. The meaning of the 2010
election was rebuke, reject, and
repeal. We rebuked Washington’s
power grab, rejected this
unwanted “fundamental
transformation of America,” and
began the process to repeal the
dangerous policies inflicted on us.
But this theme will only
complement the theme of 2012,
which is renew, revive, and
restore. In 2012, we need to renew
our optimistic, pioneering spirit,
revive our free-market system,
and restore constitutional limits
and our standing in the world as
the abiding beacon of freedom.
Till then, I hope that
commonsense patriots will join
me in applauding the real heroes
of this election year: the Tea Party
Americans. In 2008, we were told
that we had to “move beyond
Reagan.” Well, some of us
refused to believe that America
chose big-government European-
style socialism. American voters
elected a politician who cloaked
his agenda in the language of
moderation. Once the mask was
removed, Americans rejected his
“fundamental transformation.”
The Tea Party reminded us that
Reaganism is still our foundation.
I think the Gipper is smiling down
on us today waving the Gadsden
Flag.
— Sarah Palin, the former
governor of Alaska, was the 2008
Republican nominee for vice
president. Sarah Palin