DN Speak: 9/9/12

Saturday, September 15, 2012

The National Memo » Romney’s Character Comes To Light, And It’s Dark Indeed

The National Memo » Romney's Character Comes To Light, And It's Dark Indeed
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Born of a virgin...

Born of a virgin...
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Penn Jillette: Reading the Bible (Or the Koran, Or the Torah) Will Make You an Atheist

Week In The News: Mideast Unrest, Ambassador Killed, Romney’s Charge

Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/09/14/week-in-the-news-213

Shocking anger at the U.S. out of the Arab world this week. An unsettling autumn to the high spirits of the Arab spring. Embassies attacked. A consulate in Libya, overrun. A U.S. ambassador, dead.

Angry politics and big questions at home. And the outburst isn’t over. On the economy, the Fed promises to pump $40 billion a month into housing finance. Mortgage rates headed for new lows. In Chicago, teachers still out on strike. Big stakes and a whole lot of kids and families left wondering how long.

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

-Tom Ashbrook

Friday News Roundup - International

Interview:
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-09-14/friday-news-roundup-international

The United States and Libya agreed to cooperate to find out who was responsible for the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. Protests over an American-made video mocking Islam spread to Yemen. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the U.S. to draw clearer "red lines" for a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. And in China, speculation grew over the absence of Vice President and expected next President Xi Jinping. Thom Shanker of The New York Times, Courtney Kube of NBC News and Jonathan Landay of McClatchy Newspapers.

Friday News Roundup - Domestic

Interview:
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-09-14/friday-news-roundup-domestic

The Federal Reserve announced a new, open-ended round of bond buying to stimulate economic growth. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney sparred over the Obama administration's handling of the attacks in Libya and Egypt. And vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan returned to the House to vote on a six-month, stopgap spending bill to keep the government operating. Jonathan Allen of Politico, Jackie Calmes of The New York Times and Michael Scherer of TIME magazine join Diane for analysis of the week's top national news stories.

Strapped Europe's New Idea: Tax the Vatican - Church's long-held government breaks might be in danger

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Former Wall Street Executive: Complexity Of Today’s Banks ‘Makes You Weep Blood Out Of Your Eyes’

Former Wall Street Executive: Complexity Of Today's Banks 'Makes You Weep Blood Out Of Your Eyes'
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
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Back in July, former Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill — who is largely credited with convincing lawmakers in Washington to ... Read more

McCain Fights With Sean Hannity On Foreign Policy: ‘You Were Wrong About Libya’

McCain Fights With Sean Hannity On Foreign Policy: 'You Were Wrong About Libya'
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
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Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Fox News host Sean Hannity got into a bit of a spat last night after Hannity pushed a set of ... Read more

Republican Threats To Women’s Access To Contraception Could Affect Millions

Republican Threats To Women's Access To Contraception Could Affect Millions
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
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With renewed attacks on Sandra Fluke's activism in support of access to affordable birth control, an increasing number of ... Read more

Fox Hosts Iraq War Architect To Discuss The Alleged ‘Failure Of The Obama Doctrine In The Middle East’

Fox Hosts Iraq War Architect To Discuss The Alleged 'Failure Of The Obama Doctrine In The Middle East'
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
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Fox News on Friday hosted Paul Wolfowitz, a key architect of the war in Iraq, to discuss an alleged "failure of the Obama ... Read more

Conservative Group Ignores Court Order Requiring It To Disclose Donors Behind TV Ad

Conservative Group Ignores Court Order Requiring It To Disclose Donors Behind TV Ad
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia District heard arguments Friday on an appeal in the Van Hollen v. ... Read more

Friday, September 14, 2012

House Republicans Voted Against The Environment More Than 300 Times Since 2011

House Republicans Voted Against The Environment More Than 300 Times Since 2011
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
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The House of Representatives added to its historic tally of anti-environment votes with a 245 to 161 vote on Friday approving ... Read more

Republican Leader Finally Admits That Federal Spending Cuts Kill Jobs

Republican Leader Finally Admits That Federal Spending Cuts Kill Jobs
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
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It's an article of faith amongst Republicans that government can't create jobs, and that cutting government ... Read more

Bishop Harry Jackson Backs Out Of Same-Sex Marriage Debate

Bishop Harry Jackson Backs Out Of Same-Sex Marriage Debate
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
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Bishop Harry Jackson, a staunch opponent of marriage equality in the Maryland and DC area, was scheduled to debate Rep. ... Read more

House GOP Budget Would Cost States Ten Times More Than Expanding Medicaid

House GOP Budget Would Cost States Ten Times More Than Expanding Medicaid
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
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One aspect of the Affordable Care Act still in contention is the law's expansion of Medicaid — the health care ... Read more

Coming back to England after 2 years in the North Carolina

Coming back to England after 2 years in the North Carolina
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"Imagine if Romney had called President Obama, asked how he could be of assistance in this time of crisis, offered to appear at his side at a press conference to demonstrate that, when American lives are at risk, politics stop at the water’s edge." -Fred Kaplan

"Imagine if Romney had called President Obama, asked how he could be of assistance in this time of crisis, offered to appear at his side at a press conference to demonstrate that, when American lives are at risk, politics stop at the water's edge." -Fred Kaplan
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The world produces enough food to feed everyone. World agriculture produces 17 percent more calories per person today than it did 30 years ago, despite a 70 percent population increase. This is enough to provide everyone in the world with at least 2,720 kilocalories (kcal) per person per day

Today I Learned: The world produces enough food to feed everyone. World agriculture produces 17 percent more calories per person today than it did 30 years ago, despite a 70 percent population increase. This is enough to provide everyone in the world with at least 2,720 kilocalories (kcal) per person per day
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Welfare Recipients Are Actually Mostly White And Less Likely Than The Average American To Use Drugs

Welfare Recipients Are Actually Mostly White And Less Likely Than The Average American To Use Drugs
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Embassy Protests in Libya and Egypt Explained

al-Qaeda Gave Up bin Laden To Help Obama?

Military "Expert" Calls For War In Libya on Fox News

Conservatives Defending Romney's Libya Comments (Compilation)

Jimmy Kimmel went to the street with an iPhone 4S and told current iPhone 4S users it was an iPhone 5. Here are their thoughts on the "new" iPhone.

Jimmy Kimmel went to the street with an iPhone 4S and told current iPhone 4S users it was an iPhone 5. Here are their thoughts on the "new" iPhone.
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Obama's health-care law saved Americans $2.1 billion: Is it working?

Obama's health-care law saved Americans $2.1 billion: Is it working?
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR | POLITICS | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
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A government report shows that rules in Obama's health-care law saved consumers $2.1 billion in premiums last year. It shows ... Read more

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Stuart Firestein - "The Values of Science: Ignorance, Uncertainty, and Doubt" - TAM 2012

Warming sign in the Arctic: Starving female polar bear challenges male for food

Warming sign in the Arctic: Starving female polar bear challenges male for food
TOP NBCNEWS HEADLINES | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
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> Wildlife biologist Ian Bullock is a seasoned visitor to the Arctic, but even he was surprised by what he saw last month: a thin female pola... Read more

Study: High-Risk Insurance Pools Are Likely ‘Unsustainable’

Study: High-Risk Insurance Pools Are Likely 'Unsustainable'
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
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The Affordable Care Act created the temporary Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) to cover consumers with pre-existing ... Read more

New York GOP State Senate Candidate Attacks Primary Opponent For Being Friendly With Gays

New York GOP State Senate Candidate Attacks Primary Opponent For Being Friendly With Gays
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
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Hours before today's primary elections, Republican state senate candidate Juan Reyes attacked his opponent New York City ... Read more

A religion of subterfuge...

A religion thus interlarded with quibble, subterfuge, and pun has a tendency to instruct its professors in the practice of these arts. They acquire the habit without being aware of the cause.

-Tom Paine, The Age of Reason

Lawsuit: Sheriff Arpaio’s Jail Denied Medicine To Diabetic Inmate, Causing her Death

Lawsuit: Sheriff Arpaio's Jail Denied Medicine To Diabetic Inmate, Causing her Death
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
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The family of a woman who died after her custody at Maricopa County Jail is suing the office of the infamous Sheriff Joe ... Read more

Akin: Obama Is ‘Apologizing Because He Didn’t Like America’

Akin: Obama Is 'Apologizing Because He Didn't Like America'
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
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Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) is echoing Mitt Romney's attack on President Obama over the Cairo embassy's statement on the ... Read more

Romney’s Adviser Complains About Company’s High Taxes — But It Pays Just 2.2 Percent

Romney's Adviser Complains About Company's High Taxes — But It Pays Just 2.2 Percent
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
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In a congressional hearing Thursday, Continental Resources CEO and Mitt Romney's chief energy adviser Harold Hamm asked ... Read more

Why Politicians Who Deny Climate Change Cannot Be ‘Pro-Business’

Why Politicians Who Deny Climate Change Cannot Be 'Pro-Business'
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
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by Andrew Winston It finally seems to be dawning on many Americans that there's something to this climate change thing. ... Read more

The Members Of Romney's Campaign Who Work For Fox | Blog | Media Matters for America

The Members Of Romney's Campaign Who Work For Fox | Blog | Media Matters for America
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You're so insane lady...

You're so insane lady...
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The Randi Show - "Why Skepticism Matters" - Live from Dragon*Con 2012

Palin Rips Obama After Libya Consulate Attack

Islam: 9 Myths Debunked

Islam: 9 Myths Debunked
PULSE | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
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**_1. Allah_**** is not a name of a god. **It is the Arabic word God, with a capital G, referring to the very same god that Christians and Jews worshi... Read more

O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Palin, & Ingraham Panicked About Romney

Mitt’s Neocon Meltdown

Mitt's Neocon Meltdown
PULSE | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
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We know that we saw something appalling yesterday, in Mitt Romney's response to the violence in Cairo and Benghazi, but let's not lose sight of the fa... Read more

Rush Limbaugh, Conservatives Slam Romney

Rush Limbaugh, Conservatives Slam Romney
THE HUFFINGTON POST - FEATURED NEWS | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
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WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney and his team will be hit with a merciless barrage of friendly fire in the days after the November ... Read more

NDAA: Judge Strikes Down Indefinite Detention Provision

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

This guy set up next to a creationist protest at my school

This guy set up next to a creationist protest at my school
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When You Learn They’re Not Ready | TPM Editors Blog

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New Study Finds High-Income Tax Cuts Don’t Stimulate Economic Growth

New Study Finds High-Income Tax Cuts Don't Stimulate Economic Growth
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
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Congressional Republicans and their party's presidential nominee have both pushed plans to cut taxes on the wealthiest ... Read more

Republican Meterologist To Romney: Top 10 Reasons The GOP Needs To Accept The Climate Reality

Republican Meterologist To Romney: Top 10 Reasons The GOP Needs To Accept The Climate Reality
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
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by Paul Douglas via Neorenaissance During the Republican National Convention in Tampa, climate change became a punch line. ... Read more

Jimmy Carter: Citizens United Is Destroying Democracy - He slams Citizens United ruling

http://www.newser.com/story/153902/carter-money-is-destroying-us-democracy.html

Sarah Palin: Obama Must Grow a 'Big Stick' - She blasts his foreign policy, in eyebrow-raising language

http://www.newser.com/story/153951/sarah-palin-obama-must-grow-a-big-stick.html

9/11: Devastating Book On Bush Admin, Bin Laden Warnings

Shocking Poll: Romney Killed Bin Laden? Some Republicans Think So

Obama Hates God? (Fox News Politicizes 9/11)

The Sunlight Foundation: Sex and Taxes: What the Romney Returns and the Edwards Precedent Say About Political Slush Funds

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-sunlight-foundation/sex-and-taxes_b_1874296.html

This Will Make You See Bain Capital Differently

This Will Make You See Bain Capital Differently
THE HUFFINGTON POST - FEATURED NEWS | SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
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ProPublica: It was one of the "quickest big hits in Wall Street history," as the Wall Street Journal put it at the time. In 1996, an investment grou... Read more

Paul Ryan Makes Big Denial

Paul Ryan Makes Big Denial
THE HUFFINGTON POST - FEATURED NEWS | SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
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If you want to tell me that the so-called "super committee" -- empaneled last year as a last-ditch attempt to reach a ... Read more

Mitt Romney's Problematic Push For 'North American' Energy Independence By 2020 (CHART)

Mitt Romney's Problematic Push For 'North American' Energy Independence By 2020 (CHART)
TPMDC | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
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Is Romney setting himself up for failure by promising energy independence this decade? Read more

Conservatives: Romney's Policy Secrecy Will Be His Downfall

Conservatives: Romney's Policy Secrecy Will Be His Downfall
TPMDC | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
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Conservatives are increasingly worried that Mitt Romney's vagueness about tax reform and other policy issues will be his ... Read more

Fox Omits The Facts To Politicize 9-11 Moment Of Silence

Fox Omits The Facts To Politicize 9-11 Moment Of Silence
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Imagine No Religion (a reminder for today) - [repost]

Imagine No Religion (a reminder for today) - [repost]
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South Korea rejects creationist interference in school textbooks

South Korea rejects creationist interference in school textbooks
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The logic here is flawless.

The logic here is flawless.
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House Republican Leader Unable To Say What GOP Is ‘Willing To Give’ To Avoid Fiscal Cliff

House Republican Leader Unable To Say What GOP Is 'Willing To Give' To Avoid Fiscal Cliff
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
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Republicans fault President Obama's supposed "lack of leadership" for the coming fiscal cliff, but during an ... Read more

STUDY: Health Care Reform Helps Small Businesses

STUDY: Health Care Reform Helps Small Businesses
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
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Opponents of President Obama's health care reform law often justify their position by claiming Obamacare will hurt small ... Read more

A large body of evidence now suggests that Alzheimer's is primarily a metabolic disease. Some scientists have gone so far as to rename it: they call it type 3 diabetes.

A large body of evidence now suggests that Alzheimer's is primarily a metabolic disease. Some scientists have gone so far as to rename it: they call it type 3 diabetes.
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Romney’s Economic Plan Would Put Tens Of Millions Of Americans At Higher Risk Of Poverty

Romney's Economic Plan Would Put Tens Of Millions Of Americans At Higher Risk Of Poverty
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
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The number of Americans at or near the federal poverty level is set to reach an all-time high in 2012, a point Republican ... Read more

Study: GOP Plan To Repeal Obamacare Would Increase Costs For Seniors

Study: GOP Plan To Repeal Obamacare Would Increase Costs For Seniors
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
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If Republicans were to succeed in repealing Obamacare, seniors would pay significantly more for health care, according to a new ... Read more

Nearly Two-Thirds Of White Southerners Favor Expanding Medicaid

Nearly Two-Thirds Of White Southerners Favor Expanding Medicaid
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
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Although Republican governors in Southern states like Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Florida have pledged to reject ... Read more

Calling Conditions ‘Benign,’ Shell Halts Offshore Arctic Drilling After One Day Because Of Massive Ice Sheet

Calling Conditions 'Benign,' Shell Halts Offshore Arctic Drilling After One Day Because Of Massive Ice Sheet
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
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by Michael Conathan After five years of waiting and billions of dollars invested, Peter Slaiby, Shell Oil's Vice President for ... Read more

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Your moral guide

How do you tell right from wrong, or good from evil? Scripture? I don't think so.

Romney Can't Say Which Tax Loopholes He'd Cut

"I left the [Republican] party because it was becoming an apocalyptic cult. Because you cannot govern a country of 310 million people that is the greatest economic power on earth and the greatest military power on earth as if it's a banana republic."– Mike Lofgren, former GOP congressional staffer

"I left the [Republican] party because it was becoming an apocalyptic cult. Because you cannot govern a country of 310 million people that is the greatest economic power on earth and the greatest military power on earth as if it's a banana republic."– Mike Lofgren, former GOP congressional staffer
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The most forgotten fact about 9/11

The most forgotten fact about 9/11
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Native American gay marriage

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Romney To Biosphere: Drop Dead

Romney To Biosphere: Drop Dead
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
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In the annals of idiotic remarks by Presidential candidates, Mitt Romney now has a strong claim for the top spot. On Meet the ... Read more

Number of Homeless Children Living in NYC Shelters Highest since Great Depression

Number of Homeless Children Living in NYC Shelters Highest since Great Depression
THINKPROGRESS | SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
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The number of people living in homeless shelters in New York City increased 17 percent in the last year, and the number of ... Read more