“After all the revelations about predatory lenders, bankers who bet against their clients and speculative booms and busts, it should be clear that weak regulation is a recipe for disaster. And open and transparent markets, with clear roles for regulators, are essential to the nation’s financial health. So it was good news that, despite all the bank lobbying and all the Republican posturing, the Senate finally passed a financial reform bill on Thursday.” New York Times Editorial
New York Times Editorial: Financial Reform. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 21, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/opinion/22sat1.html?th&emc=th
Bill Passed in Senate Broadly Expands Oversight of Wall St. By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 20, 2010. The Senate on Thursday approved a far-reaching financial regulatory bill, putting Congress on the brink of approving a broad expansion of government oversight of the increasingly complex banking system and financial markets. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/business/21regulate.html?th&emc=th
How the Finance Bill Affects Consumers By RON LIEBER. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 21, 2010. For consumers trying to figure out what the financial overhaul bill means for them, the legislation the Senate passed Thursday offers some tantalizing possibilities. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/your-money/22money.html?hp
Reconciliation for 2 Financial Overhaul Bills By SEWELL CHAN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 21, 2010. Fresh off Senate approval of the overhaul of the nation’s financial regulations, the Obama administration quickly moved on Friday to shape the final version of the bill. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/business/22regulate.html?th&emc=th
Whistle-Blowers Become Investment Option for Hedge Funds By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI. Copyright by Bloomberg News. Published: May 19, 2010... Informants who turn in tax cheats have to wait years to get their share of any reward from the I.R.S.’s recently expanded whistle-blower program. So hedge funds, private equity groups and other big investors are offering an alternative. They are essentially agreeing to buy a percentage of those future payouts in exchange for a smaller amount upfront to the whistle-blowers. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/business/20whistleblower.html?th&emc=th
A Nightmare on Wall Street http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-may-10-2010/a-nightmare-on-wall-street
S.E.C. Enforcement Unit Investigating May 6 Crash By EDWARD WYATT. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 20, 2010. The enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission has begun looking into the sharp stock market drop of May 6, the chairwoman of the agency said Thursday. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/business/21crash.html?hpw
International
Lawmakers in Germany Back Rescue for European Debt By JUDY DEMPSEY. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 21, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/world/europe/22germany.html?hp
EU ministers back new hedge fund rules By Nikki Tait in Brussels. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2010. Published: May 18 2010 12:47 | Last updated: May 18 2010 13:32. Controversial new rules for hedge funds and private equity funds were on Tuesday backed by European Union finance ministers in Brussels. http://news-summary.blogspot.com/2010/05/eu-ministers-back-new-hedge-fund-rules.html
Backlash builds against German ban By Ben Hall in Paris. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2010. Published: May 19 2010 11:09 | Last updated: May 19 2010 11:30. The French government on Wednesday led European reaction against the German government’s move to ban the naked short selling of eurozone sovereign debt instruments. Christine Lagarde, French finance minister, ruled out a similar move by France and called for an urgent meeting of European securities regulators to discuss the implications of Germany’s unilateral ban. Sweden and The Netherlands also dismissed the German move, as European equity markets tumbled and the euro hit a fresh four-year low against the dollar overnight before rallying. Yields on US Treasuries approached the lowest levels of the year as investors shunned risky assets. http://news-summary.blogspot.com/2010/05/backlash-builds-against-german-ban.html
The death of the European dream By Gideon Rachman. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2010. . Published: May 17 2010 20:43 | Last updated: May 17 2010 20:43... In the past few weeks, Europe has certainly got the world’s attention – but not in the way that it had hoped. Rather than admiring the EU for its dynamism and power, the rest of the world is watching the unfolding economic crisis in Europe with fascination and horror. Observing the struggle to save the euro from Washington or Beijing is a bit like watching a car crash on the other side of the road. It is bad enough being a spectator – but there is the added fear that you will be hit by flying debris. http://news-summary.blogspot.com/2010/05/death-of-european-dream.html
EU ministers thrash out eurozone loan By Tony Barber in Brussels. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2010. Published: May 18 2010 02:04 | Last updated: May 18 2010 08:28. European finance ministers on Tuesday praised Greece, Portugal and Spain for adopting rigorous measures to restore order to their public finances and overcome Europe’s sovereign debt crisis. http://news-summary.blogspot.com/2010/05/eu-ministers-thrash-out-eurozone-loan.html
Fears Intensify That Euro Crisis Could Snowball By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ and ERIC DASH. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 16, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/business/global/17fear.html?th&emc=th
Euro Hits Four-Year Low; Asian Stocks Continue Their Slide By BETTINA WASSENER. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 16, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/business/18markets.html?th&emc=th
UK Government looks at splitting up banks By Kiran Stacey. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2010. Published: May 20 2010 11:54 | Last updated: May 20 2010 11:54. The government will set up a commission to look at splitting up retail and investment banking, ministers announced on Thursday, as they published the full details of the coalition agreement between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. http://news-summary.blogspot.com/2010/05/uk-government-looks-at-splitting-up.html
Thai growth set to fall by a third By Mure Dickie in Tokyo and Tim Johnston in Bangkok. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2010. Published: May 21 2010 08:24 | Last updated: May 21 2010 21:38. Thailand’s political turmoil could slice nearly a third off economic growth this year, according to Korn Chatikavanij, finance minister, in a sombre assessment of the deep damage caused by nine weeks of protests. http://news-summary.blogspot.com/2010/05/thai-growth-set-to-fall-by-third.html
Violence Spreads in Thailand After Crackdown By THOMAS FULLER, SETH MYDANS and KIRK SEMPLE. Copyright by Reuters. Published: May 19, 2010. A bloody crackdown in Bangkok by the Thai military set off rioting and arson attacks on Wednesday in several places across Thailand, threatening to expand unrest and further aggravate the deep rifts that have hobbled Thai society for the past four years. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/world/asia/20thai.html?th&emc=th
Thai soldiers overrun protesters' camp; 'red shirt' leaders surrender By Andrew Higgins. Copyright by The Washington Post. Wednesday, May 19, 2010; 9:44 AM http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/19/AR2010051900369.html?hpid=topnews
Thai Government Rejects Cease-Fire Talks By THOMAS FULLER and KIRK SEMPLE. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 18, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/world/asia/19thai.html?hp
Heavy Fighting Breaks Out Anew in Bangkok By SETH MYDANS and THOMAS FULLER. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 16, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/world/asia/17thai.html?th&emc=th
Diplomatic Storm Brewing Over Korean Peninsula By MARK LANDLER. Copyright by Reuters. Published: May 19, 2010. South Korea’s formal accusation that a North Korean torpedo sank one of its warships, killing 46 sailors, will set off a diplomatic drumbeat to punish North Korea, backed by the United States and other nations, which could end up in the United Nations Security Council. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/world/asia/20diplo.html?hp
Clinton Condemns Attack on South Korean Ship By MARK LANDLER. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 21, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/world/asia/22diplo.html?hp
China
With Solar Valley project, China embarks on bold green technology mission By Andrew Higgins. Copyright by The Washington Post. Monday, May 17, 2010. Uprooting the last traces of rural life on the edge of this northern Chinese city, laborers with chain saws spent a recent morning cutting down trees to make way for a hulking factory. A big red banner trumpeted the future for what used to be farmland: "The Biggest Solar Energy Production Base in the Whole World." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/16/AR2010051603482.html?hpid=topnews
Mess-o-potamia
“The election commission said on Sunday that after a manual examination of the ballots cast in Baghdad in the March 7 elections, it found no widespread fraud. It affirmed that the cross-sectarian coalition led by Ayad Allawi, a former interim prime minister, had, indeed, bested the mainly Shiite coalition of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki by a mere two seats — 91 to 89. Candidates still have time to appeal to Iraq’s Supreme Court, but the recount was considered a main stumbling block to the formation of a new government.” New York Times Editorial
New York Times Editorial: The Long Road to a Government Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 17, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/opinion/18tue2.html?th&emc=th
Recount in Iraq Preserves Victory for Maliki Rival By ANTHONY SHADID. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 16, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/world/middleeast/17iraq.html?hpw
Grim Milestone: 1,000 Americans Dead By JAMES DAO and ANDREW W. LEHREN. Copyright by The Associated Press. Published: May 18, 2010... On Tuesday, the toll of American dead in Afghanistan passed 1,000, after a suicide bomb in Kabul killed at least five United States service members. Having taken nearly seven years to reach the first 500 dead, the war killed the second 500 in fewer than two. A resurgent Taliban active in almost every province, a weak central government incapable of protecting its people and a larger number of American troops in harm’s way all contributed to the accelerating pace of death. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/us/19dead.html?th&emc=th
In Ambush, a Glimpse of a Long Afghan Summer By C. J. CHIVERS. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 19, 2010... A new fighting season has begun around Marja, a richly irrigated zone of farming villages in Helmand Province that was both the center of Afghanistan’s opium production and a haven for its insurgency. Three months ago, thousands of Marines and Afghan soldiers swept into this area. The goal was to chase away the Taliban, disrupt the drug trade and usher in a government presence that might bring Marja under national control. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/world/asia/20marja.html?th&emc=th
Sign of Afghan Addiction May Also Be Its Remedy By ROD NORDLAND and ABDUL WAHEED WAFA. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 16, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/world/asia/17afghan.html?th&emc=th
Major Powers Have Deal on Sanctions for Iran By DAVID E. SANGER and MARK LANDLER. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 18, 2010. The Obama administration announced an agreement on Tuesday with other major powers, including Russia and China, to impose a fourth set of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, setting the stage for an intense tug of war with Tehran as it tries to avoid passage of the penalties by the full United Nations Security Council. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/world/19sanctions.html?th&emc=th
New York Times Editorial: Iran, the Deal and the Council. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 18, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/opinion/19wed1.html?th&emc=th
Turkey and Brazil reach tentative Iran deal © Reuters Limited. May 17, 2010 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ae96105e-6146-11df-9bf0-00144feab49a.html
U.S. Is Skeptical on Iranian Deal for Nuclear Fuel By DAVID E. SANGER and MICHAEL SLACKMAN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 17, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/world/middleeast/18iran.html?th&emc=th
Pakistan expands Internet clampdown on 'Everybody draw Mohammad Day!' By Karin Brulliard. Copyright by The Washington Post. Thursday, May 20, 2010; 10:02 AM. An Internet clampdown in Pakistan widened Thursday as the government blocked access to the YouTube Web site, citing its "growing sacrilegious content." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/20/AR2010052002023.html
National
Obama Outlines National Security Strategy By PETER BAKER. Copyright by The New York Times. May 22, 2010, 10:20 AM. President Obama outlined a new national security strategy rooted in diplomatic engagement and international alliances on Saturday as he repudiated his predecessor’s emphasis on unilateral American power and the right to wage preemptive war. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/president-obama-at-west-point/?hp
Review Cites Flaws in U.S. Antimissile Program By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 17, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/world/18missile.html?th&emc=th
Facing a Rift, U.S. Spy Chief to Step Down By MARK MAZZETTI. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 20, 2010. Dennis C. Blair, whose often tumultuous tenure as director of national intelligence was marked by frequent clashes with White House officials and other spy chiefs in America’s still fractured intelligence apparatus, announced Thursday that he was resigning. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/us/politics/21intel.html?th&emc=th
Cuomo Announces Campaign for Governor By DANNY HAKIM. Copyright by Bloomberg News. Published: May 22, 2010. Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced his campaign for governor with a video released early Saturday morning, finally making official his entrance into the race for governor this fall. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/nyregion/23cuomo.html?hp
All the Single Ladies By MAUREEN DOWD. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 18, 2010. When does a woman go from being single to unmarried? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/opinion/19dowd.html?th&emc=th
Bob Shrum: Is It A Smear For Kagan To Be Called Gay? Copyright by David Mixner. May 17 2010 http://www.davidmixner.com/2010/05/bob-shrum-is-it-a-smear-for-kagan-to-be-called-gay.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DavidMixnerCom+%28DavidMixner.com%29
Arizona Backs Sales Tax Increase By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD. Copyright by the New York Times. Published: May 19, 2010. Arizona voters on Tuesday approved a temporary sales tax increase championed by a Republican governor who, despite angering conservative supporters, embraced it as the only way to avert sharp cuts in education and other services. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/us/20arizona.html?th&emc=th
May 17, 2010: On Topic: In the News - Race in America http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-may-17-2010/on-topic--in-the-news---race-in-america
Student Protests Tie Up Campuses in Puerto Rico By OMAYA SOSA-PASCUAL and EMMA GRAVES FITZSIMMONS. Copyright by the Associated Press. Published: May 20, 2010. The seven entry gates on the largest campus of the University of Puerto Rico system remained chained shut on Thursday. Beyond improvised barricades were hundreds of students in makeshift camps, some with portable showers and stoves, hardly engaged in the typical college springtime routine of studying for final exams and preparing for graduation. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/us/21students.html?hpw
Chicagoland
“Jason Plummer, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of Illinois, is not legally required to release his income tax returns. So he was perfectly within his rights Tuesday when he said he won't do so. But voters aren't required to accept his explanation that releasing tax data is just a "political distraction." Presumably, it wouldn't be much of a distraction if there is little of interest in those tax records. So voters can fairly wonder if Plummer has decided it is better to risk the criticism he'll receive for not releasing his returns than the stream of news stories if he does.” Chicago Sun Times Editorial
Chicago Sun Times Editorial: Why not release tax returns? Copyright by The Chicago Sun Times. May 20, 2010 http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/2294580,CST-EDT-edit20b.article
Chicago Tribune Editorial: Springfield's lost boys Copyright © 2010, Chicago Tribune. May 17, 2010. The real Illinois fiasco isn't that legislators have failed to pass a budget. The real fiasco is that they've even considered Gov. Pat Quinn's latest pipe dream for this state to borrow its way to solvency. Quinn keeps demanding a budget that puts children first. That's fine — although burying our kids beneath still more billions of dollars in Illinois debt obligations seems a cruel way to do it. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-budget-0517-20100517,0,114914.story
Inside Brady's business deals - Governor hopeful has been through economic ups and downs By David Heinzmann and Rick Pearson. Copyright © 2010, Chicago Tribune. May 23, 2010 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/elections/ct-met-brady-business-20100523,0,1606406,full.story
Wrigleyville project is no mall invasion; foes' worst fears are unfounded, but planned complex across from Wrigley Field still needs tweaks By Blair Kamin. Copyright © 2010, Chicago Tribune. May 22, 2010 http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2010/05/thousands-of-people-are-getting-all-steamed-up-about-a-controversial-plan-for-an-eight-story-hotel-apartment-and-retail-comp.html
GOP Bashing
“By denigrating several of the signal achievements of modern American society, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act, Rand Paul has performed a useful service for voters who are angry at their elected officials. He has helped to illuminate the limits and the hazards of antigovernment sentiment. Many Americans are sputtering mad, believing that government has let them down in abetting a ruinous recession, bailing out bankers and spending wildly. But is Rand Paul really the remedy they had in mind? His views and those of other Tea Party candidates are unintentional reminders of the importance of enlightened government.” New York Times Editorial
New York Times Editorial: Limits of Libertarianism. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 21, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/opinion/22sat4.html?th&emc=th
Paul’s Victory Poses Test for Tea Party on Defining Principles By KATE ZERNIKE. Copyright by Reuters. Published: May 19, 2010. Rand Paul’s win in the Republican Senate primary here is the first authentic Tea Party victory — a candidate from the movement, powered by it. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/us/politics/20teaparty.html?th&emc=th
Tea Party Pick Causes Uproar on Civil Rights By ADAM NAGOURNEY and CARL HULSE. Copyright by The Associated Press. Published: May 20, 2010. Rand Paul, the Tea Party candidate who challenged the Republican establishment to win the party’s Senate nomination in Kentucky two days ago, criticized a landmark civil rights law on Thursday, landing himself in a potentially damaging dispute over civil rights and race. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/us/politics/21paul.html?th&emc=th
After Explaining a Provocative Remark, Paul Makes Another By KATE PHILLIPS. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 21, 2010. Rand Paul, the newly nominated Republican candidate for Senate from Kentucky, touched off more controversy on Friday by calling the Obama administration “un-American” for taking a tough stance with BP over the company’s handling of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/us/politics/22paul.html?th&emc=th
Explaining the Rand Paul Disaster By Joshua Green. Copyright by the Atlantic. May 21 2010, 5:51 PM ET. After getting himself into trouble on Rachel Maddow's show on MSNBC, and everywhere else, Rand Paul has decided to cancel an interview on Sunday's "Meet the Press" rather than risk further damage. It's pretty amazing that a guy who embraced the role of national face of the Tea Party movement with such enthusiasm is crashing and burning so spectacularly. Two points to raise from my reporting trip to Kentucky earlier this week that I think are pertinent. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/05/explaining-the-rand-paul-disaster/57118/
Going to Extreme By PAUL KRUGMAN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 16, 2010. Utah Republicans have denied Robert Bennett, a very conservative three-term senator, a place on the ballot, because he’s not conservative enough. In Maine, party activists have pushed through a platform calling for, among other things, abolishing both the Federal Reserve and the Department of Education. And it’s becoming ever more apparent that real power within the G.O.P. rests with the ranting talk-show hosts. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/opinion/17krugman.html?th&emc=th
Democrats See Hope for Fall in Victory in House Race By CARL HULSE. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 19, 2010. Congressional Democrats on Wednesday seized on their special election victory in a Pennsylvania House district and other primary results as evidence that they can stem Republican political momentum, as both parties sifted through Tuesday night’s returns for lessons to learn and mistakes to avoid heading to November. After hearing for months that they were on the verge of losing control of the House, Democrats said the decisive victory by Mark Critz, a Democrat, in the blue-collar district formerly represented by the late John P. Murtha, showed they remain competitive in the kinds of hotly contested regions Republicans need to win to have a real chance of capturing the House. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/us/politics/20elect.html?th&emc=th
Eight Lessons from Tuesday’s Primaries by Robert CreamerPolitical . Copyright by the Huffington Post. May 19, 2010 11:03 AM. Lesson #1. Bad news for Republican leaders. First and foremost, the results from Tuesday night were very bad news for the Republican leadership. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/eight-lessons-from-tuesda_b_581675.html
Sen. Arlen Specter loses Pennsylvania primary; Rand Paul wins in Kentucky By Dan Balz and Chris Cillizza. Copyright by The Washington Post . Wednesday, May 19, 2010 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/18/AR2010051805561.html?hpid=topnews
May 17, 2010: On Topic: In the News - The Real America http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-may-17-2010/on-topic--in-the-news---the-real-america?xrs=eml_tds
Arizona Law Reveals Split Within G.O.P. By JENNIFER STEINHAUER. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 21, 2010. Republican lawmakers and candidates are increasingly divided over illegal immigration — torn between the need to attract Latino support, especially at the ballot box, and rallying party members who support tougher action. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/us/politics/22immig.html?th&emc=th
Americans Losing Faith In Two Party System By David Mixner. Copyright by David Mixner. May 13 2010 http://www.davidmixner.com/2010/05/americans-losing-faith-in-two-party-system.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DavidMixnerCom+%28DavidMixner.com%29
A Heaven-Sent Rent Boy By FRANK RICH. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 14, 2010. OF all wars, only culture wars offer the hope of sheer, unadulterated hilarity. Sex and hypocrisy were staples of farce long before America became a nation, and they never go out of style. Just listen to the roaring audience at the new hit Broadway revival of the perennial “La Cage aux Folles,” where a family-values politician gets his comeuppance in drag. Or check out the real-life closet case of George Rekers, who has been fodder for late-night television comics all month. Rekers is in a class by himself even in the era of Larry Craig and Ted Haggard. A Baptist minister and clinical psychologist with a bent for “curing” homosexuality, the married, 61-year-old Rekers was caught by Miami New Times last month in the company of a 20-year-old male escort at Miami International Airport. The couple was returning from a 10-day trip to London and Madrid. New Times, which published its exposé in early May, got an explanation from Rekers: “I had surgery, and I can’t lift luggage. That’s why I hired him.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/opinion/16rich.html?th&emc=th
Scandals in the House Republican Class of 1994 By Dana Milbank. Copyright by The Washington Post. Wednesday, May 19, 2010. When was it, exactly, that the Republican revolution merged with the sexual revolution? With each passing year, the class notes for the famous House Republicans Class of '94 get more lurid. The latest entry was submitted Tuesday morning by Rep. Mark Souder (Ind.). http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/18/AR2010051803985.html
Mark Souder to resign after affair By Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake. Copyright by The Washington Post. May 18, 2010. Indiana congressman Mark Souder (R) will resign his seat after an affair with a staffer came to light, he said in a statement this morning. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/house/mark-souder-to-resign.html?hpid=topnews
Rep. Mark Souder (R - Ind) being interviewed about abstinence by Tracy Jackson, the woman he was having an affair with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSoFg_ShS0U
Ethnic studies can unite us By Clarence Page. Copyright © 2010, Chicago Tribune. May 16, 2010... Of course, there would be no need for ethnic studies if, as Horne recommends, history classes offered a balanced account of everyone's history. Unfortunately, I learned in my well-integrated southern Ohio district many decades ago that balance is in the eye of often-unbalanced beholders. In short, I was in college before I learned about any notable historic pioneers-of-color besides George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-clarence-page-100316-column,0,6783724.column
More Palin Hypocrisy: Tripp Has Government Provided Health Insurance By Shannyn Moore. Copyright by The Hoffington Post. February 20, 2010 05:28 PM. The dangers of "death panels" were explained to Americans on Sarah Palin's Facebook page. Oh, sweet Lord, she must not sleep at night...her grandson could be the next victim of "socialized medicine". Recently released documents from the custody battle show clearly Tripp Palin Johnston has socialized health care through Indian Health Services and the Alaska Native Medical Center. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/granny-palin-overcomes-he_b_470297.html
Health Care
Questions About Cellphones and Brain Tumors By TARA PARKER-POPE. Copyright by The New York Times. May 18, 2010, 7:03 AM. A long-awaited study of cellphone use and brain health has finally been released, but the data are raising more questions than answers. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/questions-about-cellphones-and-brain-tumors/?hp
Health Care Reform
“The number of states jointly suing to overturn the new health care reform law on constitutional grounds swelled to 20 last week. It is the latest example of conservatives’ determination to thwart reforms that will do enormous good — and the latest reminder that politicians will continue to posture and demagogue the issue through the November elections and beyond. The lawsuit, filed by state attorneys general and governors, all but one a Republican, seeks to overturn two central elements of the law: a mandate that virtually everyone obtain insurance or pay a penalty; and a big expansion of Medicaid, the state-federal insurance program that covers the poorest Americans. The suit contends Congress has no constitutional power to compel people to make purchases from a private company and that the required expansion of Medicaid is an “unprecedented encroachment” on the sovereignty of states.” New York Times Editorial
New York Times Editorial: Health Care Reform and the Courts. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 19, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/opinion/20thu1.html?th&emc=th
Health Insurance Companies Try to Shape Rules By ROBERT PEAR. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 15, 2010. Health insurance companies are lobbying federal and state officials in an effort to ward off strict regulation of premiums and profits under the new health care law. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/health/policy/16health.html?th&emc=th
The Economy
Stocks plunge: There's just too much going on By Frank Ahrens. Copyright by The Washington Post. May 20, 2010... So, the takeaway is: Until at least a couple of these variables start to simmer down and show some stability, it could be a bad summer for stocks. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/economy-watch/2010/05/stocks_plunge_theres_just_too.html?hpid=topnews
U.S. Inflation at 44-Year Low as Retail Prices Fall By CHRISTINE HAUSER. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 19, 2010. Consumer prices fell in April for the first time since early last year, and inflation rose at its slowest rate since the 1960s, a new government report said. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/business/economy/20econ.html?hp
Teachers Facing Weakest Market in Years By WINNIE HU. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 19, 2010. In the month since Pelham Memorial High School in Westchester County advertised seven teaching jobs, it has been flooded with 3,010 applications from candidates as far away as California. The Port Washington District on Long Island is sorting through 3,620 applications for eight positions — the largest pool the superintendent has seen in his 41-year career. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/nyregion/20teachers.html?th&emc=th
Dell Posts a 52% Increase in Profit, but Still Awaits a Wave of Corporate PC Buying By ASHLEE VANCE. Copyright by Bloomberg News. Published: May 20, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/technology/21dell.html?hpw
G.M. Posts Its First Profit in 3 Years as Sales Rise 40 Percent By NICK BUNKLEY. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 17, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/business/18auto.html?hp
Sears profit falls 38% amid higher costs Copyright by The Associated Press. Published on May 20, 2010 5:32 AM http://www.chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2010/05/sears-profit-falls-38-amid-higher-costs.html
Your Money
Poll: 80% oppose Reagan on $50 bill. Copyright © 2010, Chicago Tribune. 7:13 p.m. CDT, May 17, 2010. Rep. Patrick McHenry, a North Carolina Republican, wants Ronald Reagan to replace Ulysses Grant on the $50 bill. Almost 8 in 10 Americans oppose the idea, a new poll shows. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-talk-reagan-50-dollar-bill-0518-20100517,0,5716388.story
Housing
Building Is Booming in a City of Empty Houses By DAVID STREITFELD. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 15, 2010... Home prices in Las Vegas are down by 60 percent from 2006 in one of the steepest descents in modern times. There are 9,517 spanking new houses sitting empty. An additional 5,600 homes were repossessed by lenders in the first three months of this year and could soon be for sale. Yet builders here are putting up 1,100 homes, and they are frantically buying lots for even more. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/business/16builder.html?th&emc=th
Renting what you can't sell - Becoming unintentional landlord has risks, rewards By Sharon Stangenes. Copyright © 2010, Chicago Tribune. May 16, 2010 http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/apartments/ct-mre-0516-unintentional-landlords-20100516,0,5302050.story
Prices nationwide expected to continue slipping By Mary Umberger. Copyright © 2010, Chicago Tribune. May 23, 2010. For those of you who are betting that our housing headache ain't nearly over (I'm afraid that would include me), consider this little-reported prognostication from Freddie Mac: When the mortgage giant recently made an official request for more money from Congress because it's wrestling with a gigantic shortfall, it said it expects home prices nationwide will decline still further in the coming months. http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/ct-mre-0523-mary-umberger-housing-20100523,0,4404568.column
Energy
Obama Sketches Energy Plan in Oil By JOHN M. BRODER. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 21, 2010... But on Friday — a full month after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon — he made clear that he also was not going to let the moment go to waste, announcing plans to impose stricter fuel-efficiency and emissions standards on cars and, for the first time, on medium- and heavy-duty trucks. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/science/earth/22assess.html?th&emc=th
Obama Mandates Rules to Raise Fuel Standards By PETER BAKER. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 21, 2010. President Obama ordered the government on Friday to develop tougher fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks, advancing the fight against climate change without waiting for Congress. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/business/energy-environment/22fuel.html?hpw
Environment
“Just about everything we know about the disastrous gulf oil spill we could have learned from Google Earth: thousands of miles of the Gulf of Mexico covered in oil slick or sheen, some of it headed for the Florida coast; almost 46,000 square miles, an area about the size of Pennsylvania, closed to fishing; miles of Louisiana marshland under siege from heavy oil. But there is far more that we don’t know, either because the government has not extracted the information from BP or is not sharing it with the public.” New York Times Editorial
New York Times Editorial: Murky Waters. Copyright by The New York Times Editorial: Murky Waters. Published: May 20, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/opinion/21fri1.html?th&emc=th
Obama and the Oil Spill By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 18, 2010.....President Bush’s greatest failure was not Iraq, Afghanistan or Katrina. It was his failure of imagination after 9/11 to mobilize the country to get behind a really big initiative for nation-building in America. I suggested a $1-a-gallon “Patriot Tax” on gasoline that could have simultaneously reduced our deficit, funded basic science research, diminished our dependence on oil imported from the very countries whose citizens carried out 9/11, strengthened the dollar, stimulated energy efficiency and renewable power and slowed climate change. It was the Texas oilman’s Nixon-to-China moment — and Bush blew it. Had we done that on the morning of 9/12 — when gasoline averaged $1.66 a gallon — the majority of Americans would have signed on. They wanted to do something to strengthen the country they love. Instead, Bush told a few of us to go to war and the rest of us to go shopping. So today, gasoline costs twice as much at the pump, with most of that increase going to countries hostile to our values, while China is rapidly becoming the world’s leader in wind, solar, electric cars and high-speed rail. Heck of a job. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/opinion/19friedman.html?th&emc=th
Officials Ask BP to Assure It Will Cover Spill Claims By SHAILA DEWAN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 15, 2010. As BP’s experimental efforts to reduce the flow of oil spewing from disabled well in the Gulf of Mexico met another obstacle, the Obama administration sought assurances from BP that it would not attempt to limit its liability to the $75 million prescribed by law. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/us/16spill.html?th&emc=th
More Than Just an Oil Spill - The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is threatening an ecosystem the same way that big corporations like BP threaten our political system By BOB HERBERT. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 21, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/opinion/22herbert.html?th&emc=th
BP Reports Some Success in Capturing Leaking Oil By SHAILA DEWAN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 16, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/us/17spill.html?th&emc=th
Agency Orders Use of a Less Toxic Chemical in Gulf By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON and ELISABETH ROSENTHAL. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 20, 2010... In Washington, the Environmental Protection Agency said it had told the oil company to immediately select a less toxic dispersant than the one it is now using to break up crude oil gushing from a ruined well in the Gulf of Mexico. Once the agency has signed off on a different product, it said, the company would then have 72 hours to start using it. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/science/earth/21disperse.html?th&emc=th
Experts Express Doubts on Sand-Berm Proposal By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF. Copyright by The Associated Press. Published: May 21, 2010. State officials here are imploring the federal government and BP to build 80 miles of sand berms and plug holes in barrier islands in a desperate effort to stop oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill from destroying marshes, sounds and bayous. But many experts say it is not at all clear whether dredging companies could build up the barrier islands quickly enough to save the marshes. They are also concerned that the kind of sand berms envisioned in the plan might wash away quickly after a couple of storms, wasting scarce sand in the region. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/us/22berms.html?th&emc=th
Puerto Rico earthquake 2010 shakes country this morning - damage minimal By Kate James. Copyright by News Gather.com. May 16, 2010 10:04 AM EDT http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978239749
Travel
When Two Airlines Tie the Knot By SUSAN STELLIN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 23, 2010. AS soon as Continental and United announced their proposed merger, news media outlets began reporting on how the union might affect travelers — less competition and higher fares being the primary concerns. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/travel/23prac.html?hpw
Scores Feared Dead in Plane Crash in India By LYDIA POLGREEN. Copyright by The Associated Press. Published: May 21, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/world/asia/22india.html?th&emc=th
36 Hours in Santa Fe By FRED A. BERNSTEIN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 23, 2010. http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/travel/23hours.html?th&emc=th
Religion
Bill Maher - New Rules! 14 May 2010 http://vimeo.com/11767072
“The Catholic Church is working against the interests of child abuse victims in state legislatures around the country. In recent weeks, lobbying by the church has blocked measures in Wisconsin, Arizona and Connecticut intended to widen the legal window for victims to file lawsuits against hidden predators. We urge the New York State Legislature to rise above intense lobbying by the New York State Catholic Conference and Orthodox Jewish officials and pass the overdue Child Victims Act. Like a similar measure enacted in 2003 by California, it would create a one-time, one-year suspension of the statute of limitations for bringing civil lawsuits over the sexual abuse of children.” New York Times Editorial
New York Times Editorial: Justice for Child Abuse Victims Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 14, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/opinion/16sun2.html?th&emc=th
Legal
“Monday’s welcome Supreme Court decision, banning sentences of life without parole for juvenile criminals who do not commit murder, recognizes that children mature and should not be irrevocably punished for a childhood act short of killing. But it also recognizes that nations mature — that standards of justice and constitutional principles change over the centuries and should be reinterpreted by new generations.” New York Times Editorial
New York Times Editorial: A New Standard of Decency Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 17, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/opinion/18tue1.html?th&emc=th
Extended Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders Is Upheld By ADAM LIPTAK. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 17, 2010. In a broad endorsement of federal power, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Congress has the authority under the Constitution to allow the continued civil commitment of sex offenders after they have completed their criminal sentences. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/us/politics/18offenders.html?th&emc=th
Judges Rule Against Detainees Held at Afghan Air Base By CHARLIE SAVAGE. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 21, 2010. A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that prisoners being held without trial in Afghanistan by the military have no right to challenge their imprisonment in American civilian courts. The decision, overturning a lower court ruling in the detainees’ favor, was a victory for the Obama administration’s efforts to hold terrorism suspects overseas for extended periods without judicial oversight. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/world/asia/22detain.html?hp
Lawyers lining up for class-action suits over oil spill By Steven Mufson and Juliet Eilperin. Copyright by The Washington Post . Monday, May 17, 2010 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/16/AR2010051603254.html?hpid=topnews
Immigration
“Four young immigrant students risked everything on Monday when they sat down in Senator John McCain’s office in Tucson and refused to leave. They were urging passage of the Dream Act, a bill offering a citizenship path to illegal immigrants who, like them, were brought to the United States as children, too young to have willfully broken the law. For the undocumented, any encounter with law enforcement is perilous — especially in Arizona, where a new law pushes the hunt for illegal immigrants beyond the limits of reason, proportion and the Constitution. Three of the student protesters were arrested for misdemeanor trespassing. Though later freed, they faced the risk of prison and deportation to press for a bill.” New York Times Editorial
New York Times Editorial: Courage in Arizona. Copyright by The New York Times . Published: May 19, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/opinion/20thu2.html?th&emc=th
Janet Napolitano Urged To Cut Homeland Security Department Ties With Arizona Law Enforcement By Sam Stein. Copyright by The Huffington Post. 05-14-10 09:28 AM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/14/janet-napolitano-urged-to_n_576143.html
Illegal Immigrant Students Protest at McCain Office By JULIA PRESTON. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 17, 2010. In an escalation of protest tactics, five immigrants dressed in caps and gowns held a sit-in on Monday at the Tucson offices of Senator John McCain, calling on him to sponsor legislation to open a path to legal status for young illegal immigrants. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/us/18dream.html?th&emc=th
Gay immigrants savor freedom - Growing number win asylum in U.S. based on sexual orientation By Georgia Garvey. Copyright © 2010, Chicago Tribune. 11:04 p.m. CDT, May 17, 2010 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-red-lgbt-asylum-20100517,0,487502.story
A Generation Gap Over Immigration By DAMIEN CAVE. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 17, 2010. “Many older Americans feel threatened by the change that immigration presents,” Ms. McCarthy said. “Young people today have simply been exposed to a more accepting worldview.” Forget sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll; immigration is a new generational fault line. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/us/18divide.html?th&emc=th
Illinois native fights for LGBT-immigrant rights by Sam Worley. Copyright by The Windy City times. 2010-05-19 . As Congress prepares to take up the contentious issue of immigration reform, leaders of LGBT organizations are working to make sure that their constituents aren't left out of the debate. Gay-rights activists scored a significant victory last month when a legislative framework for comprehensive immigration reform—introduced by Sens. Charles Schumer and Robert Menendez as well as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, all Democrats—included a highly sought provision: It would allow for LGBT citizens and legal permanent residents to sponsor their foreign national partners for U.S. residency http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=26601
Highwood keeps a low profile - North Shore Latinos fear controversy could bring attention to quiet community By Antonio Olivo. Copyright © 2010, Chicago Tribune. May 16, 2010 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-highland-park-hispanics-20100515,0,984242.story
Marchers protest suburbs' immigration initiative By Dan Simmons. Copyright © 2010, Chicago Tribune. May 22, 2010 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/northnorthwest/ct-met-mchenry-immigration-march-052220100522,0,2545131.story
In Trenton, Issuing IDs for Illegal Immigrants By KIRK SEMPLE. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 16, 2010. Since moving to this city from her native Guatemala a decade ago, Herlinda, an illegal immigrant, has supported her family with restaurant work, but has had no way of proving that she lives here. Without government-issued photo identification, like a driver’s license or a passport, she said, she could not get treatment at most medical clinics, borrow a book from the library, pick up a package from a mail center or cash a check. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/nyregion/17idcard.html?hpw
GLBT
Who Can The LGBT Community Support in 2010! by David Mixner. Copyright by David Mixner. May 10 2010... There is simply no longer any benefit in giving to the national Democratic entities such as the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Fund. Because of their apparent love affair with Blue Dog Democrats, most who oppose LGBT rights, we would only be freeing up money for candidates who will hurt us instead of help us. Even 'special funds' set up inside those committees only help create money for those who oppose us. Second, we don't have to support those committees to be good citizens and to help our community. There are now enough candidates who support full equality, including marriage equality, that we no longer have to accept second best. We can raise money, awareness and support for candidates who believe in us. We don't need to go through Committees to support them, we can write checks directly. http://www.davidmixner.com/2010/05/who-can-the-lgbt-community-support-in-2010.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DavidMixnerCom+%28DavidMixner.com%29
May 17, 2010: On Topic: In the News - Gay Marriage http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-may-17-2010/on-topic--in-the-news---gay-marriage?xrs=eml_tds
Dr Laura Schlesinger and homosexuality - an oldy but a good one. http://news-summary.blogspot.com/2010/05/dr-laura-schlesinger-and-homosexuality.html
SLDN: Letters From The Frontline. Copyright by David Mixner. May 14 2010... Dear Mr. President, I am writing to you from a kitchen in the state of Washington. The love of my life is in the other room. It has been eight months since I saw him last and I cherish every moment we spend together. Next week, my mid-tour leave will be over and I will return to Iraq and finish my second deployment. I don’t know when I’ll see my partner again. http://www.davidmixner.com/2010/05/sldn-letters-from-the-frontline-2.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DavidMixnerCom+%28DavidMixner.com%29
Alan Cumming's Take On "Newsweek" Disaster By David Mixner. Copyright By David Mixner. May 14 2010.. One of the world's greatest actors, who happens to be out, Alan Cumming blogged on this issue with a column called "The Hate of Gays" His thoughts are well worth reading in full but here are a few excerpts. http://www.davidmixner.com/2010/05/alan-cummings-take-on-newsweek-disaster.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DavidMixnerCom+%28DavidMixner.com%29
Technology
Germany Investigates Google’s Data Collecting By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 19, 2010. Prosecutors in Hamburg opened a criminal investigation of Google on Wednesday over its collecting of private Internet data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks in Germany. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/business/global/20google.html?th&emc=th
Wider European Scrutiny of Google on Privacy By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 21, 2010...The growing number of requests by the European countries, and Hong Kong, raised the possibility that Google might be required to disclose for the first time exactly what its employees collected in 33 countries while compiling Street View. And that in turn increased the likelihood that Google, the world’s largest search engine company, could face fines or other penalties. The company said Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland had asked it to retain the data collected from their citizens. Google has described the data as fragments of Web pages and e-mail messages recorded by its roving fleet of specially equipped vehicles. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/technology/22streetview.html?th&emc=th
Facebook caught sending user info to advertisers. Copyright © 2010, Chicago Tribune. Published on May 21, 2010 5:40 AM. Dow Jones Newswires-Wall Street Journal | Facebook, MySpace and several other social-networking sites have been sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers' names and other personal details, despite promises they don't share such information without consent. http://www.chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2010/05/facebook-myspace-send-user-info-to-advertisers.html
Education
Researchers Say They Created a ‘Synthetic Cell’ By NICHOLAS WADE. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 20, 2010. The genome pioneer J. Craig Venter has taken another step in his quest to create synthetic life, by synthesizing an entire bacterial genome and using it to take over a cell. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/science/21cell.html?hpw
New York Times Editorial: The Being of Being. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 20, 2010. Why is there something instead of nothing? That is a child’s question, but it also haunts the imaginations of physicists and mathematicians. What they know is that the matter and antimatter created in the Big Bang should have canceled each other out, leaving nothing instead of the something we call the universe. Why that didn’t happen may have been partially revealed in a recent experiment in the Tevatron — a particle accelerator — at Fermilab, in Batavia, Ill. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/opinion/21fri4.html?ref=opinion
Texas School Board Set to Vote Textbook Revisions By MICHAEL BRICK. Copyright by The Associated Press. Published: May 20, 2010. fter facing months of protest, conservative members of the Texas Board of Education were expected Thursday night to vote to teach schoolchildren a version of American history that emphasizes the roles of capitalist enterprise, the military, Christianity and modern Republican political figures. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/education/21textbooks.html?hpw
Other
May 17, 2010: On Topic: In the News – Sex http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-may-17-2010/on-topic--in-the-news---sex
New York Times Editorial: Prurience and Politics. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: May 19, 2010. A show of hands for lawmakers favoring pornography was requested in the House last week. “C’mon, raise your hand!” cried Representative Bart Gordon, furious that a major $85 billion measure to renew national science research financing had run afoul of a mischievous Republican amendment against federal bureaucrats watching pornography on the job. “Nobody? Nobody is for pornography? Well, I’m shocked,” said Mr. Gordon. He was crestfallen at having to pull back the bill when fellow Democrats dared not risk a “no” vote on an antipornography motion, however extraneous, that could be used as a cheap shot against them in the coming elections. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/opinion/20thu4.html?th&emc=th
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