DN Speak: 5/12/13

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Previously, On Arrested Development : NPR
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According to a leaked email, Fox News journalists were ordered to cast doubt on climate change

According to a leaked email, Fox News journalists were ordered to cast doubt on climate change
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Until we restore Glass-Steagall, more big bank bailouts are inevitable -- Not restoring Glass-Steagall after the financial crisis is like sending the Space Shuttle up with the same flawed O-rings the Challenger had.

Until we restore Glass-Steagall, more big bank bailouts are inevitable -- Not restoring Glass-Steagall after the financial crisis is like sending the Space Shuttle up with the same flawed O-rings the Challenger had.
REDDIT TOP NEWS | MAY 18, 2013
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Ohio Republicans Push Law To Penalize Colleges For Helping Students Vote

Ohio Republicans Push Law To Penalize Colleges For Helping Students Vote
TPMDC | MAY 17, 2013
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Republicans in the Ohio Legislature are pushing for a plan that would cost the state's public universities tens of millions of ... Read more

Fox News Faults Obama For Not Saying What They Edited Out?

Week In The News: IRS And AP, Military Sex Abuse, Angelina Jolie (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2013/05/17/week-in-the-news-irs-ap

Wall-to-wall scandal talk in Washington this week. Fury over the IRS and Tea Party targets. Fury over the Associated Press and its ransacked records. And a suddenly embattled president scrambling to get on top of the uproar.

There was no help from the Pentagon, where more sex abuse issues have surfaced. Pimping. Not much help from the Benghazi e-mails. A little help from the deficit, of all things. It’s down! We’ve got fierce Texas tornadoes. And a bold Angelina Jolie.

This hour, On Point: our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

- Tom Ashbrook

Friday News Roundup - Domestic (Diane Rehm Show)

Interview:
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-05-17/friday-news-roundup-domestic

The acting chief of the Internal Revenue Service is forced to resign. President Barack Obama goes on the offensive over political scandals. And the federal budget deficit is shrinking. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top national news stories.

Friday News Roundup - International (Diane REhm Show)

Interview:
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-05-17/friday-news-roundup-domestic

The U.N. passes a resolution for a transitional government in Syria. Russia expels a suspected U.S. spy. And Nawaz Sharif is elected prime minister of Pakistan again. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top international news stories.

Why Benghazi Is A Big GOP Smear

Why Benghazi Is A Big GOP Smear
THE HUFFINGTON POST - MAGHREB FEATURED NEWS | MAY 17, 2013
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For some Republicans, 2016 is 1992: Hating Hillary Clinton is chic again. Only more so, since the former secretary of state is ... Read more

Report Details How Obama Plan Could Trim Deficit

Report Details How Obama Plan Could Trim Deficit
THE HUFFINGTON POST - MAGHREB FEATURED NEWS | MAY 17, 2013
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's budget would trim projected federal deficits by $1.1 trillion over the ... Read more

What Republicans Already Knew About The White House Benghazi Emails

What Republicans Already Knew About The White House Benghazi Emails
TPMDC | MAY 17, 2013
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Sources at key classified Congressional briefings about Obama administration Benghazi emails say it's hard to fathom how ... Read more

NOW YOU TELL US: Two Justices Involved In Bush Vs. Gore Decision Admit It Was Flawed

NOW YOU TELL US: Two Justices Involved In Bush Vs. Gore Decision Admit It Was Flawed
REDDIT TOP NEWS | MAY 17, 2013
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Surprise Voice Supports Ending 'Too Big To Fail'

Surprise Voice Supports Ending 'Too Big To Fail'
THE HUFFINGTON POST - MAGHREB FEATURED NEWS | MAY 16, 2013
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A senior Bank of England official influential in global policy debates has praised proposed U.S. legislation that would forever ... Read more

Memo to GOP: Don’t Pretend You Care - The Daily Beast

Memo to GOP: Don't Pretend You Care - The Daily Beast
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Study: Marijuana Buffers Pain of Social Exclusion. New research suggests one reason for the popularity of pot may be that it helps people cope with the pain of loneliness.

Study: Marijuana Buffers Pain of Social Exclusion. New research suggests one reason for the popularity of pot may be that it helps people cope with the pain of loneliness.
REDDIT TOP NEWS | MAY 17, 2013
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5 Major Scandals The Media Isn’t Obsessing About

5 Major Scandals The Media Isn't Obsessing About
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 17, 2013
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This week, the national media has focused on the three different scandals surrounding the White House, devoting hours of ... Read more

Pro-Life activists threaten to slit throat of Irish member of Parliament over proposed abortion legislation. They have also threatened to burn down her house.

Pro-Life activists threaten to slit throat of Irish member of Parliament over proposed abortion legislation. They have also threatened to burn down her house.
REDDIT TOP NEWS | MAY 16, 2013
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Elizabeth Warren Wants Big Banks To Face The Same Prosecution And Jail As Citizens

Elizabeth Warren Wants Big Banks To Face The Same Prosecution And Jail As Citizens
REDDIT TOP NEWS | MAY 16, 2013
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If Young Earth Creationists got it exactly right...

If Young Earth Creationists got it exactly right...
REDDIT TOP NEWS | MAY 16, 2013
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Common Obamacare Criticism Debunked

Common Obamacare Criticism Debunked
THE HUFFINGTON POST - MAGHREB FEATURED NEWS | MAY 16, 2013
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Employers are concerned about increased health benefit costs arising from President Barack Obama's health care reform law ... Read more

Warren Vows To Fight 'Aggressive' Rollback

Warren Vows To Fight 'Aggressive' Rollback
THE HUFFINGTON POST - MAGHREB FEATURED NEWS | MAY 16, 2013
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Thursday that she will fight legislation in the Senate that would roll back key parts of ... Read more

Why Criminalizing Teen Sexuality Isn’t The Best Way To Keep Our Youth Safe

Why Criminalizing Teen Sexuality Isn't The Best Way To Keep Our Youth Safe
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 16, 2013
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This month, West Virginia became the latest state to ban teen sexting. Under the state's new law, minors are barred from ... Read more

84 Percent Of New York Fast Food Workers Report Being Victims Of Wage Theft

84 Percent Of New York Fast Food Workers Report Being Victims Of Wage Theft
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 16, 2013
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More than four-in-five of fast food workers in New York City say they have been victims of wage theft or work hour abuse at ... Read more

Over 100 ‘Clean Air Ambassadors’ Call On Congress To Clean Up Its Act

Over 100 'Clean Air Ambassadors' Call On Congress To Clean Up Its Act
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 16, 2013
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A coalition of over 100 "clean air ambassadors" — including nurses, physicians, clergy members, labor ... Read more

EPA Is Required To Regulate Carbon Pollution From Existing Power Plants

EPA Is Required To Regulate Carbon Pollution From Existing Power Plants
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 16, 2013
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EPA is legally obligated to issue rules regulating CO2 from existing power plants. Dave Roberts at Grist is (eternally) puzzled ... Read more

Congressman Justifies Huge Food Stamp Cuts: Recipients Are ‘Dependency Class’

Congressman Justifies Huge Food Stamp Cuts: Recipients Are 'Dependency Class'
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 16, 2013
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The House Agriculture Committee approved a farm bill late Wednesday night that would cut federal food stamps more steeply than ... Read more

Corporate Spending In State Court Elections Fuels Dramatic Losses For Injured Individuals

Corporate Spending In State Court Elections Fuels Dramatic Losses For Injured Individuals
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 16, 2013
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In the nation's highest court, corporations are winning immunity from lawsuits at a higher rate than ever, in part ... Read more

May 16 News: Fish Are Fleeing Climate-Warmed Waters And Heading For The Earth’s Poles

May 16 News: Fish Are Fleeing Climate-Warmed Waters And Heading For The Earth's Poles
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 16, 2013
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For more than 30 years, ocean fish and mammals have migrated away from warming equatorial waters and toward the poles, ... Read more

Two GOP Judges Just Voted To Eliminate Union Rights, Here’s How The Senate Can Stop Them

Two GOP Judges Just Voted To Eliminate Union Rights, Here's How The Senate Can Stop Them
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 16, 2013
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Two events this morning strike at the heart of whether workers have the right to organize. The first is a brand new decision by ... Read more

TIL The Church of Satan does not worship or even believe in the existence of Satan

TIL The Church of Satan does not worship or even believe in the existence of Satan
REDDIT TOP NEWS | MAY 15, 2013
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It's in the bible

It's in the bible
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"Ninety-seven percent of scientific papers that take a position on anthropogenic climate change say it exists, and of authors of those papers, 97 percent endorse the idea of human-caused warming. That suggests both a consensus, and an overwhelming one."

"Ninety-seven percent of scientific papers that take a position on anthropogenic climate change say it exists, and of authors of those papers, 97 percent endorse the idea of human-caused warming. That suggests both a consensus, and an overwhelming one."
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Food supply under assault as climate heats up

Food supply under assault as climate heats up
TOP NBCNEWS HEADLINES | MAY 16, 2013
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American eaters, let's talk about the birds and the bees: The U.S. food supply – from chickens injected with arsenic to dying bee colonies – is under ... Read more

Palestinians mark their 1948 displacement - World - The Boston Globe

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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Dem Claims Tea Party Targeting Not The Only Big Scandal

Dem Claims Tea Party Targeting Not The Only Big Scandal
THE HUFFINGTON POST - MAGHREB FEATURED NEWS | MAY 15, 2013
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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) took to the Senate floor Wednesday to remind Americans that the Internal Revenue ... Read more

Bill Nye Booed In Texas For Saying The Moon Reflects The Sun

Bill Nye Booed In Texas For Saying The Moon Reflects The Sun
REDDIT TOP NEWS | MAY 15, 2013
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When a worker is on food stamps, that's an employer that is relying on taxpayers to augment wages, to bring workers up to the bare minimum they need to survive.

When a worker is on food stamps, that's an employer that is relying on taxpayers to augment wages, to bring workers up to the bare minimum they need to survive.
REDDIT TOP NEWS | MAY 15, 2013
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Michele Bachmann: The IRS Will Kill People Through Obamacare

Michele Bachmann: The IRS Will Kill People Through Obamacare
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 15, 2013
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During an interview with World Net Daily, former Republican presidential aspirant Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) raised the ... Read more

Fox News Gives Karl Rove’s Crossroads Groups Millions In Free Airtime

Fox News Gives Karl Rove's Crossroads Groups Millions In Free Airtime
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 15, 2013
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Though Karl Rove receives a salary from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp for his work as a Fox News Channel "political ... Read more

How New York Times, NPR And Wall Street Journal Print Fossil Fuel Talking Points Without Full Disclosure

How New York Times, NPR And Wall Street Journal Print Fossil Fuel Talking Points Without Full Disclosure
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 15, 2013
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Major news outlets often mislead readers by failing to report the fossil fuel funding of the conservative think tanks they cite ... Read more

At Least 4,099 People Have Been Killed By Guns Since Newtown

At Least 4,099 People Have Been Killed By Guns Since Newtown
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 15, 2013
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A crowdsourced effort to count every person killed by a gun in the United States since the Newtown tragedy is currently being ... Read more

Budget Cuts Have Left Massachusetts Unable To Inspect Food Plants, Hospitals, And Air Quality

Budget Cuts Have Left Massachusetts Unable To Inspect Food Plants, Hospitals, And Air Quality
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 15, 2013
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A half-decade of budget cuts has left Massachusetts' public health department so understaffed that it cannot keep pace ... Read more

How The Full Benghazi Emails Undermine The GOP’s Cover-Up Claims

How The Full Benghazi Emails Undermine The GOP's Cover-Up Claims
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 15, 2013
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On Wednesday, just days after Congress held hearings claiming that the Obama administration misled the public in the aftermath ... Read more

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Brits are now poorer than the French, Swiss, Belgians, Swedes, Austrians, Aussies and Canadians

Brits are now poorer than the French, Swiss, Belgians, Swedes, Austrians, Aussies and Canadians
REDDIT TOP NEWS | MAY 15, 2013
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Elizabeth Warren to Obama Administration: Take the Banks to Court, Already!

Elizabeth Warren to Obama Administration: Take the Banks to Court, Already!
REDDIT TOP NEWS | MAY 15, 2013
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Amid New Data About The (Shrinking) Deficit, Will Washington Finally Focus On Jobs?

Amid New Data About The (Shrinking) Deficit, Will Washington Finally Focus On Jobs?
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 15, 2013
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The budget deficit will shrink to its smallest level since before the Great Recession in 2013, and it will continue shrinking ... Read more

POLLS: Majorities In Virginia And Michigan Support Marriage Equality

POLLS: Majorities In Virginia And Michigan Support Marriage Equality
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 15, 2013
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Two new polls show continued momentum for marriage equality in the states of Michigan and Virginia. According to results from ... Read more

GOP Congressman Defends DOJ Surveillance: ‘They Are Doing What We Asked Them To Do’

GOP Congressman Defends DOJ Surveillance: 'They Are Doing What We Asked Them To Do'
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 15, 2013
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In an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren last night, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) threw cold water on hopes that the ... Read more

AP Scandal Finally Wakes Up an Aggressive Press Corps

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Reporters Regurgitate Republicans' Twisted Truths

Since 2011, House Republicans Have Wasted 15 Percent Of Their Time Trying To Repeal Obamacare

Since 2011, House Republicans Have Wasted 15 Percent Of Their Time Trying To Repeal Obamacare
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 15, 2013
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Last week, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) promised to schedule the first full Obamacare repeal vote for this ... Read more

Elizabeth Warren Pushes Feds For Answers on Big Banks

Up Is Down: Foes Of Gun Background Checks Claim To Support Them

Up Is Down: Foes Of Gun Background Checks Claim To Support Them
TPMDC | MAY 14, 2013
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Having found themselves on the wrong side of a cause supported by the vast majority of Americans, opponents of expanded ... Read more

WikiLeaks: Monsanto lobbied on taxpayers’ dime - UD diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show that Department of State lobbied across the globe on behalf of Monsanto and other biotech corporations that peddle genetically-modified crops

WikiLeaks: Monsanto lobbied on taxpayers' dime - UD diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show that Department of State lobbied across the globe on behalf of Monsanto and other biotech corporations that peddle genetically-modified crops
REDDIT TOP NEWS | MAY 14, 2013
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I don't understand.

I don't understand.
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Tobacco Front-Group Chairman And Climate Science Denier Named President Of New Mexico State University

Tobacco Front-Group Chairman And Climate Science Denier Named President Of New Mexico State University
THINKPROGRESS | MAY 14, 2013
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