"pick" : 47 results during the last 30 days
Your search in 0.256 s
07 Jan 21 : 06 | Michael Giltz: Obama's Latest Dumb Pick: TV Doc Sanjay Gupta Apparently, Marcus Welby is too old and Noah Wylie of ER wants a break because Barack Obama's pick for Surgeon General is CNN"s Sanjay Gupta. This is dismaying since Gupta has embraced junk science, has questionable ethics and seems to have been chosen mostly because he is famous. Forget a Team of... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 29 hours ago |
08 Jan 15 : 24 | Graham Hill: Five Greener Green Stimulus Ideas Shovel-ready is what everyone seems to want Obama's green stimulus plan projects to be. As in projects that are ready to go right now, today, 2009. As in the many, many highway expansion projects that states already had on their wish lists and drawing boards and are now trying to lobby stimulus plan... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 11 hours ago |
08 Jan 08 : 44 | David Kirby: UC DAVIS STUDY: "Autism is Environmental" (Can We Move On... I have always said there may be a small percentage of people with autism spectrum disorder (perhaps those with Asperger Syndrome) whose symptoms are a result only of their genetic makeup, with no environmental factors involved at all. But a new study out of UC Davis' MIND Institute says that it's... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 18 hours ago |
07 Jan 21 : 33 | Frank Naif: If You Think Panetta's Wrong For CIA, You Might Be Part Of The... Finally, adult supervision comes to CIA. The announcement Monday afternoon that the Obama team had named veteran Democratic politician Leon Panetta as CIA Director was greeted by the national security reporters and bloggers first with surprise and derision, then with grudging acknowledgement of the... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 29 hours ago |
07 Jan 18 : 04 | Bob Ostertag: Hoping for Audacity (on climate change!) What I want from my new administration this year: a program to address climate change that is stunning in its breadth and scope. The weird thing is: I might get it. * The new administration will quickly pass an economic stimulus plan approaching something like a trillion dollars. * At the... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 32 hours ago |
06 Jan 23 : 10 | The Progress Report: Putting The Law Back Into Intelligence To receive The Progress Report in your email inbox everyday, click here. Yesterday, press reports indicated that President-elect Obama had decided on his choices to lead the intelligence community, choosing President Clinton's former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta as CIA Director and... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
06 Jan 20 : 49 | Nora McAlvanah: What About A 3 PM Phone Call? Leon Panetta's selection as CIA chief not only is being criticized on its own merits, but also is being panned as a procedural blunder, a gaffe that highlights the charges of inexperience that plagued Obama in the early days of his campaign. The fact that Dianne Feinstein, the incoming Chairman of... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
06 Jan 19 : 06 | Kelli Conlin: Here We Go Again You may have heard this before: A highly intelligent lawyer with a strong political background, a commitment to public service and a track record to prove it, tosses her hat into the ring for political office. And instead of being treated with the respect she deserves -- and the esteem that she... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
06 Jan 18 : 57 | Mike Lux: Phasing Out of Transition and Into the Book Business Cross-posted on OpenLeft.com The deal that I cut with my friends in the transition was that I would get released a couple of weeks early so that I could begin the process marketing my new book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be, which will be in bookstores and... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
06 Jan 14 : 31 | Dr. Judith Rich: The Soul Of Winter: A Call To Deepen Your response to my article on Winter Solstice a few weeks ago was heart-warming and inspiring. Thanks to those who took the time to read it and leave your thoughts. In response to your comments, I promised to write more about the inner journey. This first post of the New Year seemed like a... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
06 Jan 01 : 10 | Marcia DeSanctis: It's January - Where do the Cards Go? It is the first week of January. If you had a Christmas tree, perhaps like me, you took yours down this past weekend. The paper towel-roll angel, my son's pre-school holiday project, is wrapped in her special tissue for another year. The lights are coiled around a Rolling Stone magazine from 1987... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
22 Dec 20 : 53 | Janet Ritz: Why Obama's Pick for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric... President-elect Obama has shown that he is serious about picking the right person to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with his choice of Jane Lubchenco, an expert in overfishing and climate change who should have firsthand knowledge of the collapse of fishing along the... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
05 Jan 22 : 05 | Shashi Tharoor: Air Farce I have been a frequent air traveller since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed me off to boarding school two plane rides away from home. Those days of being willingly handed from air hostess to air hostess as an "unaccompanied minor" made me blasé about the rigours... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
21 Dec 16 : 08 | John Lundberg: Elizabeth Alexander: Obama's Pick For Inaugural Poet Barack Obama has chosen Elizabeth Alexander to read a poem at his inauguration. A well-regarded poet and professor at Yale, Alexander is also a friend of the Obama family. She will be just the fourth "inaugural" poet, joining Robert Frost, who read "The Gift Outright" at Kennedy's inauguration,... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
18 Dec 18 : 38 | Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Obama's Rick Warren Pick Makes Perfectly Good Sense President elect Barack Obama almost certainly knew that he'd take some heavy flack from gay rights and abortion rights groups for picking mega preacher Rick Warren to give his inaugural invocation. Warren backed the anti gay marriage Prop 8 in California to the hilt and rails against abortion. But... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
19 Dec 18 : 55 | Frank Schaeffer: Obama Was Right To Pick Warren I'm pro-Obama, pro-gay rights. I'm a former once burned, twice shy, ex-evangelical, son of a founder of the Religious Right, now a writer excoriated by the right as a traitor. And Let me tell you why Obama is -- again -- wiser than his critics in picking Warren to pray at the inauguration. Unlike... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
18 Dec 16 : 32 | Huff TV: Hillary Rosen On AC360 Discussing Obama's Controversial Inaugural... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
01 Jan 20 : 34 | Joseph Romm: The Top 10 Global Warming Stories of 2008 What events, actions, and findings had the most positive or negative impact on the likelihood that the nation and the world will act in time to avoid catastrophic warming? Since the #1 story is way too obvious to generate any drama, I will start there and then go back and count down from 10 to 2. ... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
31 Dec 19 : 59 | Hermene Hartman: The Governor's Audacity to Appoint Governor Rod Blagojevich made one thing perfectly clear Tuesday: he is still the governor. He played a brilliant game of checkmate politics. He made a gangster move. He appointed the perfect candidate to the vacant Senate seat and leveraged his political capital to the hilt. The world may not... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
31 Dec 11 : 29 | Brandon Friedman: Military Times Damages Credibility with Obama "Survey" Once again, the widely-read Military Times is deliberately attempting to accentuate the perceived rift between the military and the incoming Obama administration by promoting an amateurish, unscientific survey called the "2008 Military Times Poll." Here's the headline for the main article: 2008... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
30 Dec 02 : 05 | Adele Stan: Transcendental Invocation: Surprise Me, Rick Warren! Nearly two weeks after Barack Obama stunned his most passionate supporters by announcing his choice of Rev. Rick Warren to make the invocation at Obama's inauguration, you'd expect the thing to have blown over. That it has not says as much about the American people as does our election of Barack... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
30 Dec 01 : 19 | Chris Weigant: Is Rick Warren Beyond The Pale? Is Rick Warren, pastor of a California mega-church and author of The Purpose Driven Life considered unacceptable in American society at large? Was Obama's invitation to Warren to speak at his inauguration akin to, in today's world, inviting a white supremacist, an anti-Semite, or a blatant... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
28 Dec 18 : 39 | David Quigg: What Would Obama Do If Obama Was Mad At Obama About Rick... The question is right there in my title, but I'm going to repeat it: What would Obama do if Obama was mad at Obama about Rick Warren? Warren is the anti-gay-marriage pastor who Obama picked to lead a prayer at the presidential inauguration. People are pissed. People I know. People I respect. People... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
28 Dec 05 : 29 | Marlene Rossman: Your Private Sommelier's Gift Giving Guide So Christmas may be over, but you still need some last minute gifts for those relatives spent the last four days sleeping on the floor of the airport. You bought some kickass gifts, but let's be honest -- with all this gift buying and giving, isn't there a little voice inside saying, "and what... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
26 Dec 21 : 22 | Linda Milazzo: Brinks or Blackwater: My Frightening Encounter With A... For years since the United States invaded Iraq, I've witnessed countless photo and video images of innocent civilians - men, women, teens and children - being rudely and aggressively threatened by hired uniformed militants (mostly men), wielding guns. I've seen these images from Iraq, Afghanistan,... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
25 Dec 21 : 24 | Frank Schaeffer: Faith, Meaning, Hope and Christmas Faith is certainly not theology to me these days. Church (for me a local Greek Orthodox church) is just one of the places I look for answers to the only real question I have: Why do we long for meaning? For me faith is best experienced in the twilight in the medieval hall of the Metropolitan Museum... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
24 Dec 17 : 46 | Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein: 2008's Angels &... So, how about those legacy interviews from the great Scrooge himself, Dick Cheney? Did he just confess to everything? Is anyone surprised? Is the public perception of Cheney and his pal Bushie ever really going to change, and maybe improve over -8% (or whatever it is now) approval rating? What if... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
24 Dec 00 : 06 | Alison Armstrong: Santa Claus is the Quintessential Man As the mother of three children, there have been numerous opportunities to answer the question, "Is Santa Claus real?" And my answer has always been the same: Absolutely. Is there a man who flies through the night sky on a sled pulled by reindeer? Probably not. It is the spirit of Santa Claus... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
22 Dec 16 : 03 | Greg Mitchell: The Greatest Concert Ever -- 200 Years Ago Today On this holiday week Monday, let's take a break from Barack, bailouts and Bush to contemplate the universe. Tomorrow marks the 200th anniversary of The Greatest Concert Ever. Fellow geezers: Forget the Beatles at Shea Stadium, Dylan in Manchester, the Stones at Altamont, Springsteen at the... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
19 Dec 16 : 48 | Neal Rodriguez: 3 Christmas Causes for the Web 2.0 in You Is it truly better to give than to receive? Come on, fling off the Scrooge top hat like you just got your degree and exorcise the ghost of Christmas past forever. Opportunities, to let the Xmas Spirit rebuke the Gordon Gecko out of you, rain cyberspace confetti on Web 2.0 platforms for the holidays.... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
16 Dec 22 : 14 | Terrance Heath: "Drop Dead" Conservatism, Part One "Drop Dead." That's the best answer that some conservatives have been able to offer to a country in teeth of the worst financial crisis we've faced in a generation. When the Wall Street crisis loomed and the bailout was being debated: let the market fail, and risk another Great Depression, "for the... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
14 Dec 23 : 57 | Thelma Adams: Motherhood Tales: My Little Runaway When my husband, Ranald, was small, a neighborhood girl tried to flush herself down the toilet. Her mother found her standing in the john, next stop China. Ranald told me the story after our daughter Elizabeth, 9, packed her bags on Columbus Day and split. Lizzy's long goodbye began with a banging... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
11 Dec 22 : 35 | Judge Penny Reynolds: Getting Through the Holidays During Difficult... As we approach the holiday season and in particular the Christmas holidays, I want everyone to remember what this time is all about. For most people, we think of the holidays as a time in which we celebrate with loved ones and friends. It is a time of gift giving and sharing. What happens to... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
01 Jan 01 : 00 | No Title Source : |
