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The Media Equation - When Fox News Is the Story - NYTimes.com

A must read. This just goes beyon the pale.

The Gay Marriage Race: Which State Will Be Next? :: EDGE Boston

excerpt from PART ONE OF THIS ANALYSIS PIECE AT EDGE PUBLICATIONS

Whither California, the nation? That's the question LGBT activists and just-plain folks across the country are asking. Will legalizing marriage in the California Republic set off a wave of such actions across the country? Judging from what happened in New York, it may already have. EDGE analyzes the move toward (and away from) gay marriage state by state and handicaps the race to be next in line to the altar.

Political Cortex: Don't Cry For Me Puerto Rico

Instead, they dutifully watched as the hip young "it" girls and boys sporting those Pepsi looking Obama pins would anticipate the next Obama rally as if it were a rock concert, where, when they happened, the reporters on TV would convey to viewers that the "energy here is infectious" while the pundits took turns gushing and blushing over this new message of hope, all building momentum among a new cross section of voters, built on a dynamism that might rescue the nation from its long nightmare that had been brought to the citizens courtesy the current White House of horrors.

The ABC News' Debate's Missed Opportunity for a Real Hit Job

What many appeared to be most miffed about was the unusual barrage of seemingly un-important salvos leveled by moderators Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos at Senator Barack Obama.

The truth is, voters should be upset, because if the moderators were looking to perform some sort of hit job on Senator Obama, they could have at least attempted to aim above the belt and attack issues of substance and relevance.

Still in Shock and Awe in New York's East Village

In the five long years since the first bombs landed in Baghdad, this nation has seen countless sacrifices that most of us learn about through photographs and stories and occasional movies. But what most of us see, hear and read only begins to touch the deeper truths, truths that are too painful and awful to communicate by words, images or anything beyond experience itself.

Sweet Emotion: A Tribute To Aerosmith

Before I'd experienced my first kiss, I used to lock myself in my room, crank up Aerosmith's "What It Takes" and practice on my hand. Steven Tyler was one of my first crushes, only narrowly beaten by Han Solo. When I heard Aerosmith were going to be double headlining at GM Place last year, I knew I had to snap up the $100-a-piece tickets...

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Sudan Accuses Teacher of Islam Insult

The Sudanese police arrested a British schoolteacher and accused her of insulting Islam after she allowed her pupils to name a class teddy bear Muhammad.

Biofuels Could Kill More People Than the Iraq War

If the governments promoting biofuels do not reverse their policies, the humanitarian impact will be greater than that of the Iraq war.

Mayne vs Murdoch

A persistent and effective Australian shareholder activist has forced Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation to consider a motion at its next annual general meeting that would scrap News Corp's outrageous gerrymander system of Class A and Class B shares that ensure Murdoch stays in control with only 15 per cent of the equity.

Inequality's Crusaders: The Rich Are Different From You And Me

In America these days, it s the best of all worlds for the top 10 percent: the rich are getting richer, and they re plotting against the poor and the middle class.

The Anti Gay Bias Of U.S. Immigration Policy

This past Tuesday, Congressman Jerrold Nadler D-NY re-introduced legislation that would provide a mechanism for U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents in bi national same sex relationships to sponsor their foreign born partner for immigration benefits. This story looks at the new bill and what is clearly anti-gay bias in U.S. Immigration policy.

CodyLyon'sblogolater: What Does Iraq's New Hydrocarbon Law say About the War?

Against a backdrop of unimaginable horrors, chaos and a new surge by American troops, Iraq s proposed new oil- hydrocarbon law, and the push to see it quickly passed, has begun to raise serious questions among observers. Critics say the law proves Iraq was blood for oil while supporters see the law as tremendous economic opportunity for the Iraqi people.

Google and taxes

Google s corporate motto is don t be evil . Now, the Securities and exchange Commission is raasing questions about how the web search giant pays its taxes.

Flying Solo _ Orato.com

It's sometimes said a vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer. This was exactly the kind of motivation that prompted travel writer Tamar Kevonian to take her first solo vacation in Europe.