AP
New York – Obama will be flying to India just two days after the midterm elections — leading some bloggers to conclude he's eager to avoid the fallout from a "Democratic bloodbath" Full Story »
New York - Another Obama appointee has jumped ship, says David J. Rothkopf at Foreign Policy, but the loss of national security adviser Gen. Jim Jones may be a good thing Full Story »
WASHINGTON, DC - Recently, a few media outlets have been reporting nostalgia among prominent Republicans for none other than Bill Clinton. In hindsight, they say, the guy's quite lovable—at least in a political sense. This has Democrats who recall some of the uglier fights of the Clinton years a bit confused. What's going on? Here are the key right-leaning quotes and the left-leaning response: Full Story »
Barack Obama, after the storm. Washington's political elite is talking about it. The Republican wave is only a matter of size and scope, barring an October surprise. And yet, while the storm clearly looms over the horizon, Obama's reaction remains a mystery. Full Story »
Washington - Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, sat down with reporters last week in Washington at The Christian Science Monitor breakfast. Full Story »
The Nation -- Research support for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. In Lou Dobbs's heyday at CNN, when he commanded more than 800,000 viewers and a reported $6 million a year for "his fearless reporting and commentary," in the words of former CNN president Jonathan Klein, the host became notorious for his angry rants against "illegal aliens." But Dobbs reserved a special venom for the employers who hire them, railing against "the employer who is so shamelessly exploiting the illegal alien and so shamelessly flouting US law" and even proposing, on one April 2006 show, that "illegal employers who hire illegal aliens" should face felony charges. Full Story »
Read Rep. Charles Rangel's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com Full Story »
New York - Fox News television host Glenn Beck says the idea of “collective salvation” – that our fates are linked – is “dangerous to the Constitutional republic.” He argues that related notions of social justice, redistribution, and ending oppression are fundamentally anti-American, communist creeds. American’s Founding Fathers would disagree. They embraced collective redemption and the protection of the common good. Full Story »
Perfect timing. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to China’s leading democracy advocate, Liu Xiaobo – on the eve of events that could well shape the future of China as an emerging superpower: Full Story »
Washington - As a former Republican member of Congress who devoted 24 years of service in the People’s House, I am saddened to find that our system of campaigning for Congress today is deeply flawed and in need of major repair. Full Story »
WASHINGTON, DC - Thursday night, the congressional candidate Art Robinson appeared on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC program. Robinson is a chemistry professor and the Republican candidate for Oregon's Fourth Congressional District, and will face the incumbent Democrat Peter DiFazio in November. Early in the interview, Maddow tried to ask Robinson about an anonymous donor who's given $150,000 to his campaign. Rather than answer the question, Robinson launched into a minutes-long jeremiad against DiFazio, barreling over Maddow repeatedly as she tried to bring him back to the subject at hand. Full Story »
WASHINGTON, DC - In what could be a major power grab by Apple, The New York Post and others report that Apple is working on a subscription-based music service for $10 to $15 per month. Apple currently dominates downloadable music sales through its iTunes Store. Its entrance into music streaming could further strengthen its clout in an industry struggling to find a business model. Furthermore, the move seems to be in concert with efforts to prevent Spotify, a hugely popular European streaming service, from entering the North American market. As CNET reported Thursday, Apple is trying to convince music industry executives to blackball the free streaming service: In meetings in Los Angeles recently, Apple executives told their music industry counterparts that they had serious doubts about whether Spotify's business model could ever generate significant revenues or profits, according to two sources with knowledge of the discussions... They noted that it's tough to sell something that someone else is giving away, the sources said. One industry insider said it is only logical that if Spotify were allowed to launch a free-music service here, at a time when Nielsen recently reported that the growth of digital sales has flattened out, it could eat into the businesses of proven revenue-producers. Full Story »
WASHINGTON, DC - The Westboro Baptist Church, led by Fred Phelps, has attracted outrage for years for its outlandish protests at military funerals and other sensitive events. Their sign-waving protests inevitably generate blowback, typically in the form of physical threats or harassment, which the Westboro Church uses as an excuse to churn out lawsuits, the returns from which fund more protests and keep the Phelps family well-fed. Full Story »
WASHINGTON, DC - White House National Security Adviser Jim Jones was always clear that he would leave his post before 2012. So when Jones announced his departure today, it wasn't a major surprise. But his departure is still a significant event for the White House, which has recently shed such high-profile members as Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and economic adviser Larry Summers, and for U.S. national security policy. He will be replaced by Tom Donilon, his deputy. Here are the reactions to Jones's departure. Full Story »
WASHINGTON, DC - On Thursday, shares for Adobe Systems soared 17 percent following a New York Times article suggesting that Microsoft would acquire the software company. Soon afterward, however, Kara Swisher at All Things Digital deemed the deal "nonsense" citing "numerous sources at both companies." After throwing a wet rag on the Times article (and consequently lowering Adobe's shares), Swisher advanced the idea that Google was actually much more likely to acquire Adobe. The reportage from both publications has spurred a great deal of strategic musing over which tech giant would benefit most from an Adobe acquisition:A Microsoft Acquisition Makes Sense, writes Horace Dediu at Asymco: "Adobe is one of the last surviving desktop software companies. So is Microsoft. Consolidation happens when an industry matures and excess capacity and excess overhead can be squeezed out of the value chain, giving a temporary burst of earnings growth. So, in this way of thinking, recognizing that the sun is setting on desktop software, a merger of old schools of thought may make sense. Rather like Sun and Oracle or HP and Compaq."The Justice Department Would Probably Green Light It, writes Ed Hansberry at Information Week: "An acquisition by Microsoft would have been unthinkable a decade ago. Back then, the justice department was considering breaking up the software giant, something Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered but was reversed on appeal, being found guilty of misconduct. Today though, Microsoft isn't the giant it was in 2000... It is doubtful the US government would put up too much of a fuss if the two companies got together. If Microsoft did acquire Adobe, would it matter? While Flash is important, I don't see it being a deciding factor for too many people on what phone they buy, and with HTML5 on the horizon, Flash will have less importance in the coming years."A Microsoft Acquisition Is Not in the Works, writes Kara Swisher at All Things Digital: It is kind of hard to do an acquisition when “Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, recently showed up with a small entourage of deputies at Adobe’s offices to hold a secret meeting with Adobe’s chief executive, Shantanu Narayen.”Memo to the Times: When there is an acquisition afoot–in my experience–it’s all private airplanes and law offices and not a company HQ visit by the very loud and very noticeable Ballmer, the exact polar opposite of a shrinking violet. Full Story »
Read Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D.'s other articles on HuffingtonPost.com Full Story »
WASHINGTON, DC - The latest jobs report is out. Good news: the private sector added 64,000 jobs in August. Bad news: the public sector cut 159,000 jobs. The conclusion: as the government cut back on stimulus and spending, the result was a net loss of 95,000 non-farm jobs. As always, there is plenty to worry over and analyze in the report--and experts are already at it. But here's the quick list of reactions: Full Story »
WASHINGTON, DC - High-profile bloggers are turning a New Jersey infrastructure project into a national debate. The Garden State's Governor Chris Christie has decided to scrap an $11 billion rail tunnel connecting New Jersey to Manhattan. The tunnel is sorely needed but New Jersey, like many other states, faces a steep budgetary shortfall. Is the governor being shortsighted or a responsible steward of the state's finances? Full Story »
Chile's mining minister said Saturday night that the 33 miners trapped for more than two months will probably be pulled out starting Wednesday. Full Story »
The cracking wall of an industrial plant reservoir appeared on the verge of collapse late Saturday, and engineers were working to blunt a possible second wave of the caustic red sludge that has already deluged several towns in western Hungary and killed seven. Full Story »
Not even earnings from big names like Google and GE next week will be able to pull Wall Street's focus away from the possibility of more cheap cash flowing in from the Federal Reserve. Full Story »
Add headlines to your personalized My Yahoo! page (About My Yahoo! and RSS)
