Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Lawmakers Question Salaries at Nonprofits

Seeded on Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:41 PM EDT (The New York Times)

State and federal officials are starting to take their knives to the pay of leaders of nonprofit groups they do business with to help share the pain of tighter budgets.

business, christie, next-page, finance-committee, girls-clubs, salary-caps, nonprofit-leaders, new-jerseyrsquo-s, revenue-service, for-profits

Piers Morgan to replace Larry King in CNN deal

Seeded on Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:48 PM EDT (Telegraph)

The Britain's Got Talent judge and former newspaper editor is on the verge of signing a four-year contract to take over King's primetime show in the autumn.

entertainment, cnn, larry-king, got-talent, piers-morgan, king-show

Saving Chevrolet Means Sending 'Chevy' to the Dump

Seeded on Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:11 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Bye-bye, indeed, Miss American Pie. If General Motors has its way, you won't be driving your Chevy to the levee ever again.

business, autos, cars, general-motors, detroit, chevy, chevrolet, david-zalubowskiassociated, mouml-tley-cruuml-e

Counting on Medicaid Money, States Face Shortfalls

Seeded on Tue Jun 8, 2010 1:09 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Having counted on Washington for money that may not be delivered, at least 30 states will have to close larger-than-anticipated shortfalls in the coming fiscal year unless Congress passes a six-month extension of increased federal spending on Medicaid.

medicare, governors, medicaid, new-york-city, national-association, us-news, national-conference, blue-dog, obama-stimulus, times-topic

Clinton and Geithner Face Hurdles in China Talks

Seeded on Mon May 24, 2010 2:27 PM EDT (The New York Times)

China and the United States opened three days of high-level meetings here on Monday meant to broaden and deepen the ties between the world's largest developed and developing economies.

china, iran, north-korea, u-s, world-news, chinese-currency, chinese-talks

Calderon visit marred by poor translation

Seeded on Thu May 20, 2010 10:48 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

A halting and grammatically incoherent English translation marred Mexican President Felipe Calderon's arrival ceremony at the White House Wednesday, rendering his remarks difficult to understand at times. The Mexican delegation blamed its own translator.

obama, world-news, calderon, mexican-state-visit, calderon-visit

Separate truths

Seeded on Wed May 5, 2010 4:34 PM EDT (The Boston Globe)

It is misleading — and dangerous — to think that religions are different paths to the same wisdom

ideas, religion, islam, buddhism, christianity, hinduism, judaism, multiculturalism, confucianism, daoism

What Do Philosophers Believe?

Seeded on Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:56 PM EDT (Intelligent Life Magazine - The Economist)

The great philosophers of old are remembered largely by their posthumous contributions to dictionaries of quotations. How is an ordinary person to know what today's professional philosophers think?

issues, ideas, philosophy, philosophers, issues-ideas

Where Have All the Lefties Gone?

Seeded on Tue Jan 5, 2010 4:29 PM EST (FIRST THINGS: On the Square)

During the 1950s and 1960s, when Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds coaxed classrooms full of kids to join them in the singing of folk songs, no one paid much attention—not even those who, in the middle of the Cold War, saw America's "singing left" as a threat to the republ …

politics, guthrie, dylan, communism, folk-music, seeger, weavers, labor-movement, red-scare, lomax

Why Obama's New Definition of Terrorists Is a Lot Like the Old One

Seeded on Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:31 PM EST (ProPublica: Articles and Investigations)

Government lawyers booted the term "enemy combatants" from the Washington vernacular last week. Now, the Justice Department is calling them "persons" whom the president "has the authority to detain."

politics, obama, terrorists, detention, national-security, enemy-combatants, doj, gitmo-detainees, eric-holder, detention-policy

Copenhagen climate summit: 'most important paper in the world' is a glorified UN press release

Seeded on Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:44 PM EST (Telegraph)

When your attempt at recreating the Congress of Vienna with a third-rate cast of extras turns into a shambles, when the data with which you have tried to terrify the world is daily exposed as ever more phoney, when the blatant greed and self-interest of the participants has becom …

un, science, climate-control, climate-summit, cop-15, copenhagen-conference

Obama Presses China for Accountability on Climate

Seeded on Fri Dec 18, 2009 10:04 AM EST (The New York Times)

President Obama called on world leaders to come to an agreement on climate change, no matter how imperfect, and pressed for an accord that would monitor whether countries — primarily China — are complying with promised emissions cuts.

china, science, climate, u-s, obama, copenhagen-conference, copenhagen-treaty

Surf's up as biggest waves in five years come to Hawaii after North Pacific storm

Seeded on Wed Dec 9, 2009 12:14 PM EST (the Mail online)

Thousands of spectators and surfers are flocking to Hawaii's beaches to see the biggest waves in years crash ashore.

weather, pacific, hawaii, storms, waves, surfing, surf, quicksilver

Climategate: it's all unravelling now (Delingpole Blog)

Seeded on Wed Dec 2, 2009 10:44 AM EST (Telegraph)

So many new developments: which story do we pick? Maybe best to summarise, instead. After all, it's not like you're going to find much of this reported in the MSM.

fraud, global-warming, science, climate-change, cap-and-trade, climategate

Too many people? No, too many Malthusians | spiked

Seeded on Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:47 PM EST (spiked)

Since 200 AD, scaremongers have been describing human beings as 'burdensome to the world'. They were wrong then, and they're still wrong today.

world-news, population-control, malthusianism, scaremongers, neo-malthusianism, population-trust

You Say Potato, I'll Say Potato by Laura Vanderkam

Seeded on Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:31 PM EST (City Journal)

Before Facebook, few of us asked others, explicitly, to be our friends. We didn't monitor how many friends we had as an indication of our status or scroll through listings of friends of friends to pad our own list.

technology, social-networking, facebook, social-networks, connected, nicholas-a-christakis, james-h-fowler

December 2009: James Wolcott on Reality Television

Seeded on Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:01 PM EST (The Latest From VanityFair.com)

Amid the smoldering wreckage of the popular culture, the author blames Reality TV, which has not only ruined network values, destroyed the classic documentary, and debased the art of bad acting, but also fomented class warfare, antisocial behavior, and murder.

entertainment, tv, reality-tv, network-television, cable-television

ClimateGate - Climate center's server hacked revealing documents and emails

Seeded on Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:09 AM EST (Examiner)

Britain's Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia, suffered a data breach in recent days when a hacker apparently broke into their system and made away with thousands of emails and documents.

science, climate-change, copenhagen, michael-mann, east-anglia, climate-data, phil-jones

Healthcare Privileges Abound for America's Political Royalty

Fri Nov 6, 2009 2:39 PM EST

Throughout this entire health care debate, and to my knowledge, conspicuously missing in either a Democratic or Republican version of the bill, is any reference to, or discussion of, dismantling, revising or eliminating the health care coverage available to our Congressional lead …

Continue reading this entry ...

congress, senate, politics, healthcare, house, coverage, pelosi, coburn, kagen, federal-employees-health-benefits-program

High and Low Finance - Goodbye to the Accounting Reforms of 2002

Seeded on Fri Nov 6, 2009 9:47 AM EST (The New York Times)

It took just five weeks after the WorldCom accounting scandal erupted in 2002 for Congress to pass, and President George W. Bush to sign, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. That law required public companies to make sure their internal controls against fraud were not full of holes.

business, congress, democrats, finance, republicans, banking, obama, house-financial-services-committee, sarbanes-oxley, finacial-crisis

Many Schools Are Setting Restrictions on Halloween Costumes

Seeded on Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:48 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Little Bo Peep would make the cut at the Halloween parade at Riverside Drive Elementary School here on Friday, but the staff she used to menace her sheep would probably have to go.

schools, education, halloween, regulation, costumes, school-children, appropriateness, prohibited-costumes

U.S. Considers Reining In Too Big To Fail Institutions

Seeded on Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:38 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Congress and the Obama administration are about to take up one of the most fundamental issues stemming from the near collapse of the financial system last year — how to deal with institutions that are so big that the government has no choice but to rescue them when they get in …

business, wall-street, obama, bailout, compensation, government-control, financial-institutions, financial-crisis, geithner, govenment-control

Administration Said to Order Deep Cuts in Pay at Bailed-Out Companies

Seeded on Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:00 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Responding to the growing furor over the paychecks of executives at companies that received billions of dollars in federal bailouts, the Obama administration will order the companies that received the most aid to deeply slash the compensation to their highest paid executives, an …

business, treasury, bank-of-america, citigroup, chrysler, finance, general-motors, bonuses, aig, bailout

Britain Warns of Climate Catastrophe

Seeded on Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:48 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Failure to strike a new global deal on reducing greenhouse emissions would be catastrophic, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday, urging other national leaders to attend this year's climate summit in Denmark.

britain, global-warming, climate-change, copenhagen, world-news, kyoto, climate-summit, international-accords

Kennedy funeral cost city $431,000 - The Boston Globe

Seeded on Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:14 PM EDT (The Boston Globe)

The city of Boston spent $431,000 on overtime costs to deploy 629 police officers, 48 firefighters, and a raft of other workers for the funeral of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, according to information released to the Globe yesterday under a public records request.

fraud, money, funeral, waste, boston, kennedy, federal-grants, city-costs

– Show More