Finance Committee Keeping Health Care Cost Numbers From Other Democrats

June 26, 2009

The Senate Finance Committee may have announced earlier Thursday that its new health care reform package costs less than a trillion dollars over ten years, but it has no plans to share the details with most Democrats on the committee until a committee bill is written.

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Sanford's Mistress is Maria Belen Chapur (Video)

June 26, 2009

Well, we now know the name of Mark Sanford’s Argentinean lady friend. It’s Maria Belen Chapur. She: “runs marathons and is fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.”

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Oscars Best Picture Category to Expand to Ten, Include More Movies You Haven't Seen

June 26, 2009

In a surprise announcement the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Wednesday that it would double the number of nominees for the best-picture Academy Award to 10 from 5, returning to a practice it used more than a half-century ago when the number of films released was larger.

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Harold Koh Confirmed Easily by Senate Thanks to Lugar

June 26, 2009

Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh was confirmed as the State Department’s legal advisor in a roll-call vote, 62-35. Koh was tapped for the job nearly four months ago, but has faced criticism from some conservatives for an alleged “transnational” approach to the law.

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Electronic Arts Combines Mythic and Bioware RPG Houses

June 26, 2009

EA is merging their two top roleplaying game developers, BioWare and Mythic, into one massive RPG group, with BioWare’s co-founder Ray Muzyka taking the lead and Mythic’s Mark Jacobs taking a powder. Creating what is effectively a massively multiplayer RPG development juggernaut, EA has tapped Muzkya to become Group General Manager of their new RPG/MMO […]

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What Happens if an Important Congressman's Wife Goes To Jail and No One Notices?

June 26, 2009

Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers has pleaded guilty of conspiring to commit bribery and faces up to five years in prison. Naturally this is big news in the Detroit papers. The charges arise out of a slude hauling contract which was approved by the Council by a 5-4 vote after Conyers switched […]

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That Other, Non-Transforming Movie: Shohreh Agdashloo and the Stoning of Soraya M.

June 26, 2009

An interview with Shohreh Agdashloo: “The stoning scene took six days to shoot in an Arab village (the country remains undisclosed for fear of negative publicity), and tens of villagers acted as extras and got to throw stones. The stones, by law, are small, so as to make the punishment for adultery last longer.”

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This Day in History: Was Custer Outgunned at Little Big Horn?

June 26, 2009

The anniversary of Little Bighorn: “Custer may have contributed to the situation by declining to include Gatling guns in his van. Because he was setting off on what amounted to a search-and-destroy mission, he argued that the Gatlings were too cumbersome and would only slow him down.” Off they rode in the friscalating dusklight.

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Silicon Valley's Silence on China's Green Dam Scandal is Deafening

June 26, 2009

“The reticence coming from the tech companies about the so-called Green Dam requirement is particularly damning. It is a massive escalation of China’s attempts to broaden its campaign of censorship and intimidation against its people regarding all businesses and countries with which it does business.” Green Dam allows China’s government to block anything it wants.

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The Climate Change Climate Change: Why Are They Forcing Waxman-Markey Now?

June 26, 2009

Kim Strassel reports that it’s because of the closing window on anthropogenic global warming: “It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as “deniers.” The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life.”

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