April 2011
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President Barack Obama planned to watch the launch but had not yet arrived.
– NASA delays space shuttle Endeavour’s last launch
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NASA Has Called off Friday's Launch of Space... →
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Royal Wedding… . and on to more important things
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The $100 billion Washington will spend on cybersecurity in the next decade may...
– Timothy P. Carney
Salt, Meet Wound →
futurejournalismproject:
The Daily Beast lists the twenty most useless degrees.
Topping the list (or bottoming it out, as the case may be): Journalism.
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Old policy in place, West Point rejects lesbian →
A lesbian cadet who resigned from West Point last year has been rejected for readmission to the academy even as the military moves toward repealing its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
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With low approval ratings, skyrocking gas prices and deep debt, this actually...
– Philip Klein
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Bye Bye Birthers
American News Media Cover Royal Wedding More... →
Taliban Members Dig Tunnel, Escape from... →
abcnewsradio:
(KANDAHAR, Afghanistan) — An estimated 476 Taliban members reportedly managed to crawl their way to freedom from the main jail in Kandahar, Afghanistan on Monday morning. The prison’s warden said the prisoners used a long tunnel to make their way outside and that authorities discovered it only after the breakout from the political wing of the building. The warden admitted he and...
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The 2011 White House Easter Egg Roll
Rock ‘n’ Egg Roll Stage - Live musical performances for all ages.
10:00 AM EDT - Sesame Street
11:15 AM EDT - Greyson Chance
12:10 PM EDT - Greyson Chance
12:50 PM EDT - John Lithgow
1:25 PM EDT - Colbie Caillat
2:20 PM EDT - Colbie Cailat
3:00 PM EDT - John Lithgow
3:35 PM EDT - Willow Smith
4:30 PM EDT - Willow Smith
5:10 PM EDT - Little Beats and DJ Willy Wow
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It turns out that when Social Security was passed, initially it was really...
– President Obama
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We don’t have the presidential candidates right now, the field hasn’t...
– Paul Ryan
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Donald Trump isn’t going to run for president. He is rich, enjoys himself,...
– Larry Elder
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Obama, it turns out, is no better at analyzing his own missteps than Bush.
– Byron York
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I think the culture war in the West is not mostly about the religious right...
– Timothy P. Carney
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In 2008 he told ABC’s Charlie Gibson that he wanted to raise capital gains...
– Michael Barone - Taxing the rich won’t increase revenues
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I don’t know why Ezra Klein wastes time writing his own blog posts when he could...
– Conn Carroll
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The interesting thing actually is how little traction these social issues are...
– Barack Obama (via catthew)
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The Oval Office, I always thought I was going to have really cool phones and...
– President Obama
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When Paul Ryan says his priority is to make sure, he’s just being...
– President Obama
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The president gave the sort of scare speech he not long ago warned against, and...
– Victor Davis Hanson
Learn Tumblr – you’ll be one step ahead of your colleagues.
– @davelee’s advice for journalists, via @modernjourno
I concur!
(via amzam)
Let’s hope so…
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Today’s speech was nothing more than window dressing
– former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty
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President Obama’s proposals are too little, too late. Instead of...
– Mitt Romney