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20 Nov 21 : 20 | Peter Diamandis: Voting for the $25,000 "What's Your Crazy Green Idea?"... We asked the public to propose an Energy & Environment X PRIZE... Where would a $10 million prize drive meaningful breakthroughs? We called this YouTube competition, "What's Your Crazy Green Idea?" This competition, sponsored by Prize Capital, generated 133 video submissions. Our team of judges... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 8 hours ago |
20 Nov 21 : 21 | Robert Koehler: History Is Screaming Nobody opines sagely anymore that the races will never get along, calmly ladling conventional certainties over the earnest idealism of civil-rights activists. But we live in a world so permeated with militarized fear of demagogic leaders and rogue states that nuclear deterrence retains enough of the... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 8 hours ago |
20 Nov 14 : 05 | Dean Baker: Will Henry Paulson Sink Detroit? Henry Paulson's main claim to fame is getting just about everything wrong in his tenure as Treasury secretary. However, he now stands to gain lasting notoriety as the person who destroyed the domestic U.S. auto industry, and the economies of the Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana along with them. The... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 16 hours ago |
20 Nov 01 : 00 | Rev. Peter Laarman: The Tear-Down (Detroit edition) It's interesting that while no one knew exactly what the consequences would be if the U.S. Treasury failed to ride the rescue of mismanaged big banks, everyone pretty much DOES know what the consequences will be if Congress stiffs the mismanaged and cash-strapped domestic auto industry. Yet a... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 29 hours ago |
19 Nov 21 : 57 | Peter Schwartz: Risking Our Best Talent? Send Them All to Double-A... Serial entrepreneur Penny Hersher worries about a talent-retention challenge if Wall Street eschews bonuses this year. In response to a Bloomberg article on public objections to mega-bonus payouts to Wall Street executives, Hersher says that "talent" follows money, and if the money goes, then the... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 32 hours ago |
19 Nov 20 : 32 | Phil Bronstein: Focus on the Family saves Christmas - thank God! Warning to anxious retailers printing up holiday catalogs with your shopping season fingers crossed: Don't just say a prayer for decent sales this year. (And try to say it to the right deity). Absolutely, positively make sure you don't shy away from the using word "Christmas" in your crass annual... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 33 hours ago |
19 Nov 18 : 33 | Ariston Anderson: Kevin Spacey thinks now is the time to give more than... Although Petra Nemcova's 2008 gala for her Happy Hearts Fund was on Wall Street, Monday night at the Cipriani, there was no sign of a recession in sight. The theme of the night, "A Masquerade in Venice," welcomed New York's elite, brining in droves of lovely ladies in carnival masks and floor-length... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 35 hours ago |
10 Nov 15 : 26 | Shelly Palmer: Madagascar Earns $63.5 Million at Box Office: MediaBytes... "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" took home the top spot at the Box Office this week. The DreamWorks-Paramount production took in $63.5 million at 4,056 theaters nationwide, besting runner-up Role Models by over $40 million. Madagascar helped increase Box Office earnings this week by nearly 30% over... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
19 Nov 01 : 02 | Robert L. Borosage: Free Fall Free fall. The US has lost private sector jobs for 10 straight months. One quarter of all businesses in the US plan to cut payroll over the next year. Retail sales fell in October by the largest monthly drop on record. Auto sales have collapsed, driving the auto companies towards the precipice. ... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
18 Nov 20 : 22 | John Feffer: G20 v. G1 Reposted from Foreign Policy In Focus The world isn't flat. When it comes to the global economy, the world slopes upward. The 190-odd countries in the world, roped together in various-sized groups, are groping their way toward the top of this mountain. The summit - and now you know why they are... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
18 Nov 18 : 24 | Matthew Filipowicz: After Prop 8, James Dobson Asks Who Would Jesus Fire? There's been quite a lot written about the shameful passage of Proposition 8 in California, but it's now being reported that James Dobson's ministry,Focus on the Family, which spent well over half a million dollars fighting to take away the right of homosexuals to marry, is being forced to lay off... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
18 Nov 15 : 58 | Marian Wright Edelman: Is the U.S. Living Its Creed and Preparing for the... Is the U.S. Living Its Creed and Preparing for the Future? How America Ranks in Investing in Children At this transformative moment in American life with the election of Senator Barack Obama as our first African American and 44th President of the United States of America, we citizens must now roll... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
18 Nov 15 : 51 | Shelly Palmer: Jerry Yang Will Resign From Yahoo: MediaBytes with Shelly... Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang announced that he will resign from his position. The search engine founder, who has had a controversial run as CEO, will continue to hold the Chief position until a suitable replacement is found. Investors have been after Yang's head for turning down a Microsoft deal for... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
18 Nov 02 : 59 | David M. Abromowitz: Homeownership Done Right Homeownership done right During the presidential campaign, the housing debate sometimes had more to do with how many homes a candidate owned than about solutions to the nation's housing crisis. At other times, specious claims were made that the current foreclosure crisis was caused by Fannie Mae,... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
18 Nov 00 : 09 | Bill Chameides: A New Ice Age IS Coming ... but Don't Hold Your Breath Dr. Bill Chameides is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the dean of Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. He blogs at www.thegreengrok.com.Skeptics have been arguing that we should forget about global warming -- a new ice age is imminent. Maybe, some say, it's already... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
17 Nov 21 : 41 | Johann Hari: The strange return of the sixties radicals Their story seems strange even after all this time. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, small posses emerged from among the most privileged young people in Europe and America and took up arms against the society their parents had built. They bombed the Pentagon, killed some of the most senior... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
17 Nov 18 : 01 | Lanny Davis: Lobbyists Are Good People, Too Shocking news in this season of lobbyist bashing -- many lobbyists not only are good people but also represent real people. And even more shocking news: Without lobbyists, government could not function efficiently and perhaps not at all, going all the way back to George Washington. Last year,... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
17 Nov 17 : 11 | David Hoyt: An Obama Boom in Hyde Park? Or, When The World Comes to Hyde Park ( ... and Then Goes Downtown For Dinner) The week or so before and after the general election were, for this blogger, framed by the following encounters, in the order of their increasingly surreal occurrence: 1) A conversation with two Jehovah's Witnesses,... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
17 Nov 15 : 12 | Shelly Palmer: Quantum of Solace Takes Box Office, Best Bond Debut:... James Bond: Quantum of Solace took in $70.4 million this weekend to top the Box Office. Quantum of Solace took in $30 million more than Casino Royale on opening weekend to set the record for highest opening weekend for a Bond film, besting Die Another Day by $23 million. Through November Sweeps,... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
17 Nov 06 : 59 | Raymond J. Learsy: Detroit's Rebirth as the "Arsenal for America's Future" In past posts I have touched on this issue. Given the current crisis facing the automobile industry it becomes more pertinent today than ever. For those who have previously read my general argumentation on the subject, my apologies. On December 29, 1940. Nazi Germany had conquered much of Europe... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
15 Nov 21 : 09 | Scott Mendelson: Friday Box Office - Bond does Bourne at the box office... Various people are tossing around the Batman Begins/Dark Knight comparison for the Quantum Of Solace's $27 million opening day and plausible $65-70 million opening weekend. But the real point of comparison, as I predicted two years ago, is that of the Bourne series (I'm not saying I'm a genius, I... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
15 Nov 19 : 48 | Erica Heller: "The Witch of Wall Street", a cautionary tale for tough... My final conversation with my wry and witty mother, on her deathbed 12 years ago, was practically lifted right out of "Mildred Pierce", with a dash of the Marx Brothers thrown in to prevent it from being utterly banal as well as maudlin. "Come closer," she whispered, beckoning me with a weak but... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
15 Nov 12 : 02 | Steve Parker: Memo to Detroit: Change now or die The "saving" of the American auto industry has become a comedy of errors, a circus with seemingly no good end in sight. Feeling somewhat helpless about it all, I decided, in that great American business tradition, to send a memo! Memo - To Rick Wagoner (GM), Alan Mulally (Ford) and Robert... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
14 Nov 18 : 38 | Jonathan Tasini: It's Bozo The Clown's Fault, Not The "Free Market" Yes, to begin, let's posit that a president with the lowest approval rating in the history of polling has no credibility about any subject of importance--and, in fact, most of the country would like, as David Letterman joked, to let Barack Obama start his new job right away. But, the current... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
14 Nov 16 : 31 | John Feffer: North Korea: Change You Can Believe In? Reposted from TomDispatch As Barack Obama assembles his foreign policy team, he appears to be drawing from two primary sources: the Clinton faithful and Republican renegades. These old dogs might be up for some new tricks, but one risk of relying on such "experience" could be the triumph of... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
13 Nov 20 : 09 | Stewart Acuff: Together We Are Turning America Around, Support the Employee... Almost unnoticed in the well-earned exuberance of the Obama and other pro-worker candidates being elected to public office, is that America's unions had not only provided critical ground level electoral support but had also created the largest demand in our labor movement. Just a week before the... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
13 Nov 17 : 50 | Michael Nagrant: The President-Elect Has No (Culinary) Clothes? I drank the Obama Kool-Aid, but it took a while. I didn't quite see him as the messiah as quickly as everyone else. I may not be a native Chicagoan, but I've lived here long enough to see the Hired Truck Scandal, unapologetic nepotism, a woeful Tax Increment Financing system, one that lent 18... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
13 Nov 05 : 33 | Elayne Boosler: Gay Marriage, Chickens, and How to Win It's hard to be totally elated at the lifting up of one group (African Americans) when another group (gays) is stripped of the most fundamental of human rights. Prop 8 in California passed; a constitutional amendment to define marriage as being between a man and a woman (or however many men and... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
12 Nov 18 : 12 | Mark Green: Progressive Patriotism: How the 44th President Can Change... The following is the introduction to Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President: From Politics to Governance It was a "change" election all right, but will it actually change Washington and America? November 2008 wasn't so much a culmination as it was the beginning of a... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
12 Nov 16 : 15 | Shelly Palmer: Midway in Trouble, Redstone's Battle: MediaBytes with Shelly... General Motors may not survive 2008 without a Federal bailout. The 100 year old automotive company's stock hit rock bottom yesterday, closing at $2.92, a 65 year low. GM has been used more than $2 billion of its cash reserves each month this fall and may run out of money by the end of the year. GM... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
11 Nov 23 : 22 | Vicky Ward: The Mansion Trap In January 1995, Veronica DeGruyter Beracasa de Uribe Hearst gave an intimate lunch for Diana, Princess of Wales, in her opulent apartment on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 66th Street. The Princess was in New York to give an award to the then editor of Harper's Bazaar magazine and fellow... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
11 Nov 14 : 20 | Graham Hill: Tech-Enabled Bike Sharing Rolls Into North America In its article on the "third generation" of bike sharing programs, the New York Times profiled Barcelona's Bicing in particular as demonstrating the success of bike sharing in getting people out of their cars and all over their cities. The first generation of bike sharing started in Amsterdam in... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
10 Nov 21 : 29 | Edward Lozzi: Bad Rap for Lawyers Representing Victims of California Train... Metrolink/Union Pacific Train Crash September 12th in Chatsworth, California Even the AP (Associated Press) made a mistake and put out misinformation about lawyers here being ambulance chasers. But to the disappointment of Railroad PR spin doctors, AP just corrected their mistake. It's a minor... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
10 Nov 14 : 15 | Peter Schwartz: Obama's Biggest Challenge: Foreign Policy Revanchism I run a small technology company in Seattle, and will normally focus my HuffPosts on business, culture, and technology. As we absorb the meaning of Barack Obama's election, however, I will launch my inaugural post with some thoughts on his biggest challenge as president: which will be facing down... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
08 Nov 22 : 08 | Bertha Lewis: Thanks From ACORN - Now Let's Move A Progressive Agenda! We made history Tuesday.A country created by slaveholders, that denied women the right to vote until 1920, and that needed a “second Reconstruction” in the 1960’s to guarantee the right to vote for Black Americans, elected the former community organizer and quintessentially American... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
07 Nov 21 : 55 | Melissa Silverstein: Interview with Shamim Sarif, Director of The World... Most directors dream of having one film released during any year but English director Shamim Sarif has pulled a Clint Eastwood and has two films coming out here in the US within two weeks of each other. Odd? Yes. Especially due to the fact that both films are about gay women and star the same... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
06 Nov 14 : 52 | Billy Kimball: A Long Night's Journey into Day in Minneapolis The lawn signs are still up for Al Franken here in Minneapolis. And they seem likely to stay up until long after the squirrels have eaten the faces off of all the remaining jack-o-lanterns. A mandatory recount looms in Al's still-undecided Senate contest with Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
05 Nov 16 : 59 | Jeff Cohen: Big Election Winner: Indy Media Of all the factors contributing to Obama's victory - luck, economic crisis, Bush, Palin - a major factor is now so second-nature to us that we may overlook its transformative impact since just four years ago: the Internet and the progressive online boom. First off, without its record-smashing... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
03 Nov 18 : 11 | Erik Ose: Early Voting Flood in Swing States Predicts Obama Tsunami Beyond election-eve polls, the best indicator of how this election will turn out is to look at who has already voted. Early voting has now ended across the country, and the results are very good news for Barack Obama and the Democrats. In four swing states - Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and North... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
02 Nov 19 : 06 | Roger Wolfson: Why Obama Supporters Need to Do More than Vote First, the good news. Obama is one of the most gifted politicians of our lifetimes. A supremely effective manager, an inspirational speaker, and a transformative leader. An Obama victory on Tuesday will increase consumer confidence, spur the beginnings of an economic turnaround, inspire a... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
31 Oct 17 : 53 | Dave Fratello: 5 Guilty Governors Fight Prop. 5 Say you've got a huge prison crisis in your state. Who you gonna call? In California, you might call the five living governors together. And Thursday, someone did. Alas, they were united not to solve the prison overcrowding crisis, but to try to defeat the only viable solution - Proposition 5.... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
28 Oct 00 : 32 | Mark Nickolas: What Political Malpractice Looks Like (The B Team That Ran... Yesterday's big New York Times story on the state of the presidential race says the final days will find both campaigns buried in red states: Mr. McCain and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, are planning to spend most of their time in Florida, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri,... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
23 Oct 23 : 41 | Andrew Jenks: Why Obama's Inevitable Presidential Win Proves That the... Why Senator Obama Can Thank My 22 Year Old Friends And Me For Helping Him Win The Election and Why His Inevitable Presidential Win Proves That The Millenials Time Has Come By: Andrew Jenks I am 22 years old. I am part of Generation Information. We are roughly between the ages of 18-29. We are... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
23 Oct 17 : 06 | Melissa Silverstein: Men Play Presidents in the Movies and in Real Life On the eve of the presidential election, Harrison Ford (Air Force One) was picked as the best movie president in a moviefone poll that got 1.1 million votes. The rest of the top five includes most of the leading male actors of our time: Morgan Freeman (Deep Impact); Michael Douglas (The American... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
