Ah, the great Tina Brown, finding she is passe in the “old media”, has decided to imitate the social climbing Huffington in the “new Media” by getting her own group blog.
It will probably be a hit.
But I have a long standing dislike of Tina Brown, because she is a bigot.
Years ago, she moved to Washington […]

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Politics have a way of getting dirty. Lots of verbal mudslinging, parties attack each other, many discussions turning into personal attacks. Every four years we tend to get our juices flowing as we hear debates between different parties and see all kinds of ads running on television. The drama and cheap shots never seem to […]

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By Pam Siegfried
Special to The Stiletto Blog
As a convenience store clerk who works the graveyard shift I have been robbed seven times. Because I am willing to walk home from work alone, I have been sexually assaulted twice. Sexual assault covers two crimes – an aggravated assault (in my case, stabbing) and/or a sexual act […]

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A panel of 44 men and women armed with dials numbered from 0 (most negative) to 100 (most positive) assembled by CBS to watch the veep debate at its TV City research facility in Las Vegas yielded an unexpected finding: Biden did better than Palin when he talked about the Iraq war, but the tables […]

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In an article about how the current financial crisis would affect the two presidential candidates promises, the NY Times demonstrates the real problem without even noticing it.
While first commenting, as I did, that neither candidate could get specific on what promised programs they would not implement or delay as a result of circumstances, the paper […]

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Democratic candidate Barack Obama was a member of the socialist New Party during the 1990s, according to new evidence unearthed by web bloggers, receiving the party’s endorsement for his state Senate run in 1996. Reports earlier this summer that Obama was associated with the New Party were vigorously denied by the Obama campaign and the […]

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That debate at Belmont University in Nashville, TN, was no town hall meeting. It was highly ritualized Kabuki Theater.
To begin with, instead of just letting the first 5,000 people to show up into the Curb Event Center and taking questions from the audience at random, The Gallup Organization hand-picked 80 uncommitted voters from the Nashville […]

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The recent report that USPTO has sent a notice to US legal firms that they need to obtain “Export License” before outsourcing Patent drafting work to India has raised doubts whether this could be a deathknell for the fledgling LPO industry in India. The industry which is estimated to be worth around US $640 million  […]

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Last week the infamous “Ignoble Prize” went to scientists who studied how the crunch of potato chips improve their taste, investigated how income is related to the monthly cycles of lap dancers, and investigated how slime mold figures out how to solve Mazes.
But today’s actual genuine Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists […]

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The estimated US 2.2 billion LPO industry in India has been shaken with a report appearing in Economic Times today about th USPTO move to put restrictions on export of information regarding Patent applications. According to the report US law firms outsourcing their patent related work to India would now require “Government Clearance”.
While some have […]

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 FreeMediaOnline.org and Free Media Online Blog October 8, 2008, San Francisco – Unlike the Voice of America (VOA), which had eliminated radio broadcasts to Russia shortly before the Russian invasion of Georgia, the BBC has decided to continue producing Russian-language radio programs while also expanding its Internet and video production.
FreeMediaOnline.org has obtained the details of the new British broadcasting strategy for […]

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David Schussler
newsweaver
This is a quote attributed to Barry Goldwater Jr. because that is where I heard it last week. The statement was from Mr. Goldwater, as part of a TV interview, in reference to the economic breakdown of our nation now ensuing. I believe it to be right on the money.
Now I’ve had a lot […]

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I just was reading a book about a scholar who studied Chinese history. Actually, the book was a disappointment: There were more elaborate passages about how the professor seduced one of his many mistresses than there was about Chinese culture.
But what really made me throw the book across the room was the professor’s blind support […]

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It cannot be stated too strongly or too often but it is the ideology of the Right – of American Republicans and British Conservatives which has been proved to be defective by the current international financial turmoil.
In mixed economies the key debating area in respect of public policy action are the decisions as to […]

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The usually thoughtful Christian Science Monitor has a “commentary” essay by an Obama supporter entitled “dare I believe Obama can win”.
Could the quiet seed of joy that was planted in my heart the day I heard Barack Obama speak for the first time take root and […]

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 FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog Commentary by Ted Lipien, October 4, 2008, San Francisco – James Glassman, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, gave incomplete and misleading answers when asked Friday whether the elimination of vernacular broadcasts to Georgia, Russia, and India is going to hurt his “war of ideas” effort. Speaking in […]

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The Associated Press reports that Sarah Palin was in the dark on a key decision made by the John McCain campaign. He will be conceding Michigan to Senator Barack Obama and pulling out of the state to focus on other key battleground states like Pennsylvania, Florida, Colorado, and North Carolina.
There appears to be no evidence […]

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FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog October 3, 2008, San Francisco –  As journalists, their organisations, and human rights and press freedom groups are preparing to commemorate the second anniversary of the killing of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, the International Federation of Journalists urged Friday all its affiliates worldwide to join the call for renewed efforts to end […]

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Perhaps it says a lot when we hear that Congress is putting “pork” in the huge bailout bill. So what else is new?
The press is not much help, since they go out of their way to interview congressmen who have taken money from the two quasi government programs that started the mess, i.e. Fannie Mae […]

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Rupert Cornwell, the distinguished and experienced US correspondent of London’s Independent newspaper wrote, more in sorrow than in anger that:
“Yesterday was not only a black Monday for markets. It was the blackest of Mondays too for the US political system, saddled with a discredited president who has completely lost control of his own party and […]

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I remember one influenza epidemic of the 1990’s. We had two strains of influenza, and several in our local nursing home got the flu and almost died, so we put their contacts on one of the anti influenza medicines, and everyone did well.
But I also remember getting called to the Emergency room, where a child […]

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When word got out that top McCain captains Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt were to meet with Sarah Palin for intensive preparation sessions ahead of this Thursday’s vice-presidential debate, not a few Democrats, shortly up until then clearly worried about the Alaskan governor’s broad appeal among independent voters, sat back smug and self-satisfied at what […]

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Barack Obama’s campaign got wind of oppo researcher Stephen Marks’ plans to air the “The Real Barack Obama” ad produced by his 527 group pH for America on five TV stations in the battleground states of PA and MI starting this week, because his “smear-fighting” Web site has launched an attack on the attack ad.
Referring […]

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 FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog September 30, 2008, San Francisco – Sources say that the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) tried to recruit John Cochran of NBC, then ABC News, as their high profile public relations guru. According to earlier reports, the BBG also tried to recruit Paula Zahn, who turned them down.
The yearly cost of such a position is well over $100,000. The […]

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David Schussler
Mike Huckabee is a cross section of America. Anyone who has paid attention to Huckabees career string will see that he has accomplished much. His wit and humor combined with his compassion and knowledge make him a much rounded and entertaining man. I think he will make an even greater impact on our country […]

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Monster movies have fascinated me for over fifty years. As with anything else, there are, of course, good ones and bad ones, and in this genre, many produced in very poor taste. Some aficionados of the genre prefer those films that are heavy on the scare and light on the gore, and my tastes certainly […]

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After meeting nearly around the clock for two days, a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders reached a tentative agreement with the Bush administration early Sunday morning on a compromise financial bailout bill that is less sweeping than the original proposal crafted by Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, and includes more oversight, accountability and taxpayer protections. […]

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The Big Bailout Circus has the nation in stitches. Taxpayers are being sewn into a skin-tight forever suit by an amazingly bipartisan group of government clowns. But despite the agreement about the need for a slap dash redo of the U.S. financial system– and by extension our political system– the designing bozos disagree about details. […]

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The right wing blogs had their tails in a knot over the weekend about a Missouri prosecutor claiming that “lies” against the candidate would be “prosecuted”.
Even Missouri governor Blout got into the act:
“What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas […]

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In another brazen action by pirates off the coast of Somalia, pirates have taken a ship laden with tanks and other armaments destined for Kenya. The US, Russia, and other navies are taking action now to recapture the ship in lieu of a 20 million dollar ransom request. The pirated ship is currently in the […]

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