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08 Jan 22 : 00 | Brian Kahin: NPEs and Abstract Patents Patent attorneys like to argue that the U.S. patent system is the envy of the world, the "gold standard" by which all others are judged. While this may be the view of other patent attorneys around the world, policymakers have viewed the U.S. patent system with growing skepticism after the 1998... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 76 minutes ago |
08 Jan 21 : 55 | Max and the Marginalized: Date With Dynasty For our first song of 2009, we are adding our guitars, drums and voices to the chorus of opposition to Caroline Kennedy's possible Senate appointment, which keeps seesawing to and away from inevitability. Enjoy "Date With Dynasty"! Also: for a great take on why these appointments from the... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 81 minutes ago |
08 Jan 21 : 00 | Jessica Catto: Plant Power to the Planet By Jessica Hobby Catto How do you think of your planet, our earth? a) As a big blue marble? b) As a spinning globe on top of a desk? c) A network of teaming cities, airports, trains and highways? d) Or as mountains, oceans, and plains that nurture us spiritually as well as sustain our very... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 2 hours ago |
08 Jan 20 : 54 | Scott Swenson: HIV Activists Sentenced in Senegal: The Other Side of Rick... Originally posted on RHRealityCheck.org - Information, commentary and community for reproductive health. Pastor Rick Warren is right about one thing, gay rights is a humanitarian issue and a human rights issue. The problem is he offered those comments in defense of retaining the privilege of... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 2 hours ago |
08 Jan 19 : 19 | Michael Wolff: The Times Dies For so long, mine was the lonely and vilified voice saying that the New York Times was doomed--vilified most hotly by people at the Times. But the end of the New York Times has now become a conventional forecast, taken up most recently by my friend Michael Hirschorn in the Atlantic. I don't know of... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 4 hours ago |
08 Jan 19 : 15 | Chris Gunn: ASBL: Obama Ignores Economic Experts On Stimulus Plan The American Small Business League (ASBL) released the following press release today. Petaluma, Calif. - President-elect Barack Obama and the new 111th Congress will soon be rolling-out an economic stimulus plan. The stimulus package will no doubt cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars,... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 4 hours ago |
08 Jan 19 : 13 | Larisa Alexandrovna: The evil of it all... Israel's (the far-right government counter-parts to the Bush-Cheney cabal) continued immoral actions in Gaza put in jeopardy not just Israel, but Jews all over the world and not just to growing anti-Semitism and condemnation, but also to violence and retaliation. Here is a sampling: UK: ... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 4 hours ago |
08 Jan 19 : 09 | John W. Whitehead: Will Obama be a Peacemaker? "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 4 hours ago |
08 Jan 19 : 07 | Angela Glover Blackwell: A Recovery Package for All? Grim, yet hopeful. Constrained, yet honest. President-elect Obama's gripping recovery press conference today promised, in his words, a "clean break from a troubled past." Let's hope so. Central to a clean break must be an emphasis on recovery for all Americans, not the just usual beneficiaries. ... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 4 hours ago |
08 Jan 18 : 04 | Robert J. Elisberg: Live from the Consumer Electronics Show: Day 1 Coming to you from the CES press room, where everyone says "hi" to the folks at Huffington Post. (Wave, guys. The Huffingtonians are here. Hey, you in the back, put down that muffin.) There have been reports that the show will be more sparsely attended this year because of the world economy,... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 5 hours ago |
08 Jan 18 : 02 | Jill Brooke: Because Pain Makes You Self-Centered, a Doctor Wants a Kidney... Because pain makes you self-centered, we have divorce stories where a man wants his kidney back from his ex-wife and an ex-wife spikes her daughter's teddy bear with a listening device to spy on her ex-husband. Yes folks this is the reality of what happens in divorce -- but not often to this... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 5 hours ago |
08 Jan 17 : 58 | The Media Consortium: 2009 is Make or Break Year for Immigration Reform ... By Nezua Media Consortium Mediawire Blogger The new year rushes upon us with momentum born of crisis and necessity. In every direction one looks, change is needed—and not cosmetic alteration, but deep, structural repair. The issue of immigration is no exception. As New America Media... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 5 hours ago |
08 Jan 17 : 45 | Suw Charman-Anderson: Join Me on Ada Lovelace Day I've mainly stayed away from the discussion of gender issues in technology. I didn't think that I had any real expertise to share. But over the last six months, after many conversations, it has become clear that many of my female friends in tech really do feel disempowered. They feel invisible,... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 6 hours ago |
08 Jan 18 : 02 | Mitchell Bard: It's Time for the Senate to Hold Its Nose and Seat Burris Sometimes you just have to make chicken salad. Well, I don't, because I'm a vegetarian, but you know what I mean. Sometimes life throws you a curve at a bad time, and you just have to make the best of it. Yes, I'm talking to the Democrats in the U.S. Senate. Look, I get it. Nobody was happier than... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 5 hours ago |
08 Jan 18 : 02 | Margot Wallström: Women We Need: Towards a More Female-centred Foreign... The recent nomination by incoming President Barack Obama of Senator Hillary Clinton as the next Secretary of State and Susan Rice as the new US Ambassador to the UN confirms that more countries are choosing to appoint females to lead their countries in the international arena. Since Madeleine... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 5 hours ago |
08 Jan 17 : 57 | The Progress Report: The Case For Urgent Action To receive The Progress Report in your email inbox everyday, click here. Today, President-elect Obama delivered a speech at George Mason University in order to "make the case for urgent action on an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan," an economic stimulus package that could amount to $775... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 5 hours ago |
08 Jan 17 : 55 | Jodi R. R. Smith: Top Twelve Tips to Saving Time in 2009 The work smarter not harder philosophy brought to life... Happy New Year to all! To help you succeed for another year, during January take the time to pause, reflect and refocus. After all, we know it is easy to keep busy. Yet one can be perpetually busy without accomplishing anything. One must... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 5 hours ago |
08 Jan 17 : 50 | Patt Morrison: How Many Xes in ''Porn Bailout''? You have to give them points for trying, I suppose. Just don't give them any of my money. Porn mogul Larry Flynt and a fellow named Joe Francis, who dreamed up those "Girls Gone Wild" videos, say they want Congress to deliver a $5-billion bailout to the porn industry. I've always read that when... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 5 hours ago |
08 Jan 17 : 47 | David Sassoon: The True Face of Mean Coal There is no escaping the poisonous byproducts of coal combustion. Clean up the smokestack, you end up with solid waste that contaminates the earth; capture CO2 and liquefy it, you still have to pump it into the earth and keep it there. It's like quitting smoking and taking up chewing tobacco... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 5 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 8 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 15 hours ago |
08 Jan 04 : 44 | Gordon Goldstein: Lessons of Obama's First Cabinet Controversy It had to come some time. Despite a nearly flawless transition period of astute, substantive and widely praised cabinet appointments, the nascent Obama administration has unintentionally provoked its first controversy. Significantly, it is in the sphere of national security. A vigorous... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 19 hours ago |
07 Jan 23 : 05 | Pia Sawhney: Between Gupta and Daschle, Who Will Fix Health Care? In his latest blog post, economist Paul Krugman has questioned the President-elect's choice for Surgeon-General, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, chief medical correspondent at CNN who anchors a range of medical affairs and documentary programming for the cable network. Krugman brings the weight of his influence... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 24 hours ago |
08 Jan 00 : 58 | Thomas Frank: An Unrepentant New Dealer Runs for Congress Thanks to the media circus swirling around the governor of Illinois and his schemes to fill President-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat, little attention is being paid to the race to succeed Rahm Emanuel as he moves from the House of Representatives to White House chief of staff. That's a shame,... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 22 hours ago |
07 Jan 21 : 17 | Mairi Beautyman: Eating Squirrel and Four Other Wacky Ways to Make Your... The kitchen is a good place to start when it comes to green living. We already know that eating organic is better for both your body and the earth. But there are a few things I've heard about recently that may cause a bit more trepidation when it comes to the stomach. Photo via Flickr1. Eat... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 26 hours ago |
07 Jan 23 : 31 | Casey Gane-McCalla: Droppin' Out: The Real American Crisis There is a major crisis going on in America. If we do not avert this crisis we may see the destruction of America as we know it. We will no longer be able to compete with other countries, thousands more people will be unemployed, our cities will become centers for poverty, violence and drug... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 24 hours ago |
07 Jan 23 : 29 | Marlene H. Phillips: McCain's 'Country First' Actually "Republicans First' John McCain sent an email to supporters today, urging them to donate money to Country First, his new endeavor. As if to prove that nothing's changed, he addressed each email recipient as 'My Friend.' And in further proof that nothing's changed, when I clicked on the website I got a whole lot of... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 24 hours ago |
07 Jan 21 : 11 | ProPublica: Send Us Your Questions About Post-Katrina Vigilante Violence frican-americans-with-impunity">The Nation magazine/Institute/ProPublica probe of violence in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has sparked intense discussions on a slew of blogs and Web forums -- as of this posting, more than 500 people have commented on YouTube and hundreds more on the Huffington... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 26 hours ago |
07 Jan 23 : 23 | Allan Gerson: Proportionality and Disproportionality: A Guide to Arguments... A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas seems imminent, although how long it will last is anyone's guess. One thing is fairly certain: even as the guns fall silent the charges and counter-charges of violations of international law will continue. Already the airwaves are full of talk that Israel's... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 24 hours ago |
07 Jan 23 : 21 | Larry Beinhart: THE GOD SERIES - PART III - BELIEF & FALSE BELIEFS THE GOD SERIES - PART III - BELIEF & FALSE BELIEFS This is a multi-part series about God, religion, and politics. PART I says that we need to understand religion because, after a brief, semi-retirement of a few hundred years, religion has returned as the number one cause of violence, war and... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 24 hours ago |
07 Jan 23 : 13 | Bill Chameides: This Winter's Temperature: Is It a Boy or a Girl? Bill Chameides, recently appointed to America's Climate Choices, blogs regularly at theGreenGrok.com. Predicting climate variations from year to year is dicey. So many variables can play a role. Of particular importance is the state of the southern Pacific Ocean. It now looks like the ocean may be... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 24 hours ago |
07 Jan 23 : 07 | Jim Wallis: Child Tax Credit: Better Late Than Never In 2003, Call to Renewal was deeply engaged in working to have a refundable child tax credit included in that year's tax cut legislation. Ultimately, the credit was dropped from the final legislation. In response, I wrote a column, explaining that we had supported it as a way to "put money directly... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 24 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 26 hours ago |
07 Jan 21 : 15 | James Moore: Shut 'em Down "Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is dead' to people that never knew Lord Jones was alive." - G. K. Chesterton There comes a time to stop fretting and make a decision. The great angst over the future of newspaper journalism has become an unnecessary expenditure of energy. ... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 26 hours ago |
07 Jan 21 : 10 | Shunit Harpaz: Courage Needed Israel is tangled in a war for the second time in just two years. This could indicate one of two things; either Israel's enemies are gaining more power than ever before, or it's an election year again. Both hypotheses are correct, hence a conflict is unavoidable. Now, a courageous candidate running... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 26 hours ago |
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 26 hours ago |
07 Jan 21 : 02 | June Hopkins: The New Deal Redux Political pundits often draw comparisons between current events and the good (or bad) old days. Especially now. Last year's stock market rollercoaster seems to be a replica of the 1929 crash that led to the Great Depression of the 1930's. Furthermore, President-elect Obama is channeling... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 26 hours ago |
07 Jan 20 : 52 | Kelley Bell-Wenzlaff: Matt Lauer vs. Ann Coulter: The Drudge Match! My appreciation for the sparring skills of Today Show host Matt Lauer hit heavyweight status this morning as I watched him man-handle The Coulterrgeist with pugilistic poise. Coulter was bumped from The Today Show Monday and spun the story through minions on The Drudge Report that she was "banned... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 26 hours ago |
07 Jan 20 : 34 | Page Gardner: How Congress Can Act Now for Economic Recovery -- And Simple... As early as this week , the new Congress can jumpstart the economy by passing two laws that will put more money into working women's paychecks by making sure they're paid what they're worth. Especially if concerned citizens call on Congress to take action now, the House and Senate are poised to... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 27 hours ago |
07 Jan 17 : 56 | Grant Cardone: What's Your Excuse? His teachers said he was "too stupid to learn anything." and was fired from his first two jobs for being "non-productive." Thomas Edison's 1000 inventions came during the Panic of 1873 -- 6 years -- and the Long Depression -- 23 years. He did not speak until he was four years-old and did not read... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 29 hours ago |
07 Jan 20 : 29 | Nancy Goldstein: How the Madoff mess hits women Cross posted from Salon's Broadsheet For all the ink that's been spilled on the Madoff investment scandal, I've read nothing about its impact on funding for progressive women's causes -- which is considerable. Simply put, only a small pool of foundations are funding litigation and advocacy work... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 27 hours ago |
07 Jan 20 : 26 | Regina Weinreich: Rethinking The Reader Movies set in World War II Europe are in such plentiful supply at least one New York Times critic glibly and sardonically called the Holocaust the gift that keeps on giving. Among those in current release are the fable, Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the action thriller Defiance, even the irresponsible... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 27 hours ago |
07 Jan 19 : 01 | Cheryl Saban: Grandma's in the House Very soon, President-elect Barack Obama and his family will move into the White House. They'll take their belongings, their hopes, and their dreams and settle into the esteemed residence of the individual who holds the highest, most powerful, and most difficult office of our land. 0ur new... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 28 hours ago |
07 Jan 19 : 01 | Mona Gable: Gaza on YouTube: Film at 11! If you want to see the action in Gaza, the good news is you don't have to be a foreign correspondent. Actually, Israel has nixed reporters from entering the country for now because they don't want them getting in the way or information getting out. Or for journalists to get the wrong message. ... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 28 hours ago |
07 Jan 18 : 51 | Reverend Billy: Sunday School Lesson: Life After Shopping Enticing difficulties await us, children, in the Life After Shopping. Yes, with a feeling of heady freedom we face the void of the night sky, and gape at the beauty of it, and then notice that the stars have become little derisively laughing faces... You see, children, when the billboard... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 28 hours ago |
07 Jan 18 : 48 | A. Siegel: Stimulate me Stimulate Etymology: From Latin stimulatus past participle of stimul? ("goad on") . Verb: to stimulate: To encourage into action. To arouse an organism to functional activity. Synonyms: encourage, induce, provoke, animate, arouse, energize, energise, excite, perk up Antonyms: de-energize,... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 28 hours ago |
07 Jan 18 : 42 | Alexander Davenport: Chinese Migrants Home for the Holidays, Perhaps... Across China, migrant workers are heading home. The annual ritual of returning to ancestral villages provides workers with what is usually their only opportunity to see family each year. Typically, the train stations and bus stations are clogged with migrant workers rushing from their last day of... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 29 hours ago |
07 Jan 18 : 40 | Brian Ross: Fox News Ate My Brain (I Swear!) - Of Chaos Theory & Roland... I don't know who pays to get public places to play Fox News instead of CNN, but it is everywhere you turn, a car-chase-punctuated, bimbo-model-hair-pulling, right-wing infomercial from Hell. I was getting my car fixed. The auto outpatient center was crowded. They had Fox News on the 35" flat... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 29 hours ago |
07 Jan 18 : 35 | Barbara Coombs Lee: New HHS "conscience" rule jeopardizes end-of-life pain... The administration, hurrying to cement its social agenda in place before leaving town, adopted a most meddlesome, dangerous rule at Health and Human Services. The proposed "conscience" rule is scheduled to take effect on January 19, 2009. Congress and President-elect Obama have separate and... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 29 hours ago |
07 Jan 18 : 16 | Marianne Mollmann: Women Are Not Special Women are not special. So if you are expecting another article about what the Obama-Biden administration should do for the constituency I claim to speak for (women), read no further. Women are not and should not have to be a special interest group. Policies that consistently ignore the needs of... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 29 hours ago |
