Bipartisanship is Overrated Except When it's of the Utmost Importance

March 31, 2009

John Dickerson considers the President’s attacks on Rush Limbaugh and refusal to own any of the economic problems. “He often frames Republicans unfairly or defines them by their most extreme elements, but he is not openly derisive…In the cut and thrust so far, it’s congressional Republicans who have taken the political hit.”

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DNC Chair's Modest Pro-Life Move Infuriates Abortion Groups

March 31, 2009

VA Gov. Tim Kaine, Obama’s man at the DNC, signs legislation allowing Virginia motorists to join 23 other states to be able to pick “Choose Life” specialty license plates. “The revenue from the specialty plates would go to crisis-pregnancy centers, which many abortion-rights backers believe proslyetize against abortion and encourage women to keep unwanted children.”

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YouTube Takes on Hulu: In This Economy, You Can't Survive Without Income (Here's Looking at You, Twitter)

March 31, 2009

In a massive effort to connect advertisers with consumers, the sort of basic thing you think a company would focus on earlier, YouTube is revamping: “According to the digital-advertising news site Clickz, YouTube will roll out a complete redesign next month, one that will highlight professional movies and TV shows with commercials and sponsors.”

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Mugshot Glory for Late Night Ads: ShamWow Guy Booked

March 31, 2009

The ShamWow Guy, whose fauxhawk is a bit much for a 44-year-old, gets booked after fight with South Beach prostitute. “Mug shot show injuries inflicted by TV pitchman.” TMZ America’s new pastime: reveling in the violent, depressing lives of other people who are nothing like you. Maybe he was set up by Billy Mays?

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Get Back to Call of Duty, Kids: Violent Action Video Games Improve Vision

March 31, 2009

The latest in a long line of studies commissioned by teenagers to justify Playstation time: “Those who played the action games showed an average 43 percent improvement in their ability to discern close shades of gray—close to the difference Bavelier had previously observed between game players and non-game players—whereas the Sims players showed no improvement.”

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Great Way to Start the Week: GM, Banks Lead Stock Plummet

March 30, 2009

Stocks fell sharply as turmoil in the auto industry and depleted hope for financial and economic stability eroded much of the market’s March gains. Over the weekend, the Obama administration forced out the chief executive of General Motors after the administration’s auto task force determined neither GM nor Chrysler put forward viable plans to restructure […]

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GM's Wagoner Jumps With $20 Million Parachute

March 30, 2009

Rick Wagoner will leave his post as CEO of bailed-out General Motors with a $20 million retirement package, the company’s financial filings show. Although the Treasury Department has barred GM from paying severance to Wagoner or any other senior executive, Wagoner is eligible to collect millions in retirement benefits from his former employer, according to […]

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Chrysler Agrees on Framework of Alliance with Fiat

March 30, 2009

DETROIT (Reuters) – Chrysler LLC has reached an agreement on a framework of a global alliance with Italian automaker Fiat SpA (FIA.MI) that has the support of the U.S. Treasury, Chrysler’s CEO Bob Nardelli said on Monday. “We appreciate the willingness of the (autos) Task Force, along with industry and financial experts, to consult closely […]

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Diagnosis From the Left: Why the Democrats Can't Govern

March 30, 2009

Jonathan Chait looks at the historical trends of the Clinton and Carter collapses and examines the early stumbles of the new administration with misanthropic gusto: “The contours of failure are now clearly visible. In Obama’s case, as with his [Democratic] predecessors, the prospective culprit is the same: Democrats in Congress, and especially the Senate.”

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Breitbart: Online Rules for Conservative Radicals

March 30, 2009

A digital war has broken out, and the conservative movement is losing. Read the comment sections of right-leaning blogs, news sites and social forums, and the evidence is there in ugly abundance. Internet hooligans are spewing their talking points to thwart the dissent of the newly-out-of-power.

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