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NBC's Tim Russert dead at 58 - U.S. news- msnbc.com

Posted by Damianmann from MSNBC

Tim Russert, NBC News' Washington bureau chief and the moderator of "Meet the Press," died Friday after a sudden heart attack at the bureau, NBC News said Friday. He was 58.

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\\\\\\\'Jewish settler attack\\\\\\\' on film

Posted by theangryindian from BBC News

Footage from a video camera handed out by an Israeli human rights group appears to show Jewish settlers beating up Palestinians in the West Bank.

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Colbert at White House Correspondent's Dinner 2006

Posted by Jeff from video.google.com

Stephen Colbert's courageous tenacity speaking truth to power at the 2006 White House Correspondents dinner deserves another look. He was mocking McCain as a maverick before the Bush administration had rearranged the deck chairs on the Hindenberg. McClellan and Scalia are there too and some not so subtle jabs at the press core for failing to take on the administration. I am still in awe that he prepared the second half of the act despite having fully expected to be yanked from the podium.

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Inteligentaindigena Indigenismo : Kucinich Reads Impeachment Articles Against Bush on House Floor

Posted by theangryindian from Angryindian.blogspot

For a good part of this evening, Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio 10th District) has been live on C-Span reading Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush.

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Whatever Happened to Iraq? | American Journalism Review

Posted by Damianmann

Armando Acuna, public editor of the Sacramento Bee, turned a Sunday column into a public flogging for both his editors and the nation's news media. They had allowed the third-longest war in American history to slip off the radar screen, and he had the numbers to prove it.

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Richer, greener

Posted by Jeff from Feeds.feedburner

By Ryan Avent

The New York Times looks at the impact of high gas prices in communities across the nation today and concludes that increases are most painful in rural areas. Part of this analysis involves an examination of money spent on gas as a share of total income. The big middle of the country does badly, and Appalachia and the deep South do very badly.

We can explain some of the excessive spending on fuel in these places by noting their dependence on trucks and the lack of transit alternatives, but the biggest factor, without question, is simply that those places have very low incomes. The nation's highest average gas price (by municipality) is only 30 percent or so higher than its lowest, but the nation's highest median income is more than five times higher than the nation's lowest.

Now, it's also true that expenditures on gasoline as a share of income don't really capture the stress faced by people living in some of richer metropolitan areas. Housing in such places is much more expensive than in poorer areas. Families on the outskirts of those regions are often driven there by high home prices, generally have very long commutes (and high levels of auto-dependency), and don't have a lot of room for error in their household budgets.

But all of this suggests that increasing access to the nation's richest metro areas should be a priority. Limits on housing growth in those places push up home prices, exacerbating income inequalities as marginal households are pushed to areas paying lower real wages. Limits on growth also push people away from central areas and from transit, increasing exposure to high fuel costs (and also increasing emissions [PDF]).

And while it would obviously be desirable if places like Washington, D.C., and New York boosted housing construction, we should also recognize that the biggest gains will be possible in the suburbs. If Fairfax County, a Virginia suburb of D.C., were built at D.C.'s density, it would contain four times as many people as it currently does -- three million more than the current population. Meanwhile, a doubling of District density, while nice, would only mean the addition of 600,000 people.

Basically, we need more places that look kind of like the District: dense, walkable, and with good transit access. And if we focus on building those places in areas with dynamic economies, then we'll solve multiple problems at a stroke.

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why does Chris Matthews keep saying African-Americans aren't "regular people"?

Posted by theangryindian from Media Matters

The past several months have brought a congealing conventional wisdom among many reporters and pundits that MSNBC is lurching to the left. It is perhaps unsurprising that this story line would emerge. It is, however, nonsense. Why is the story line unsurprising? Quite simply, several of its most prominent advocates have a clear interest in MSNBC being seen as liberal.

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