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Politics, media and the politics of media.
It was yesterday, October 29, in the shore town of Belmar, New Jersey, where Governor Chris Christie had come to commemorate the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. Former Asbury Park city councilman James Keady, holding a sign that read, "Stay in NJ. Finish the job," interrupted the governor to ask about his miserable record on Sandy relief.
My favorite line isn't "Sit down and shut up!" It's the more creative "I've been here when the cameras aren't here, buddy, and done the work!"
Or maybe it's Christie's comeback after he offered to debate Keady ("Anytime you like, buddy, anytime, anytime you like"), and Keady said, How about at dinner tonight? Revealing that he's all bluff and no tuff, Christie shot back: "There's about a thousand things I'll do tonight. Going to dinner with you is about number 1,001."
And do not miss Christie's wife, Mary Pat, to his left, with that tolerant-spouse-of-an-asshole smile. (The Bruce Braley lookalike standing next to Christie, Belmar mayor Matt Doherty, looks like he'd rather be anywhere else on earth.)
Here are more of Christie's choice words, from NJ.com:
"I'll be more than happy to have a debate with you anytime you like, guy, because somebody like you doesn't know a damn thing about what you're talking about except to stand up and show off when the cameras are here. I've been here when the cameras aren't here, buddy, and done the work…. Turn around, get your fifteen minutes of fame, and then, maybe, take your jacket off, roll up your sleeves, and do something for the people of this state."
Keady, who said he is a lifelong resident, continued, "I was here for a month after Sandy, and…"
Christie finished Keady's sentence for him.
" … and there's been 23 months since then, when all you've been doing is flapping your mouth and not doing anything. So listen, you want to have the conversation later? I'm happy to have it, buddy. But until that time, sit down and shut up."
Chris Hayes smartly booked Keady for his show last night, where Keady said that of the $1.1 billion allocated to victims of Sandy, "only 20 percent of those dollars have gotten to the people." He also explained that he took off a month from work to clean up people's homes and run the clean-up crews. Watch him nail Christie:
OK, let's give Christie a break: he's had a rough few days. Kaci Hickox, the nurse he had quarantined against her will, had been kicking his butt public-relations-wise (she's now out bike-riding in defiance of Governor Paul LePage in Maine); Wisconsin governor Scott Walker had groused that his re-election campaign needed only Christie's RGA money, and not his presence on the stump); and on Tuesday a Monmouth University poll was released that found 66 percent of Garden State residents are "somewhat dissatisfied" or "very dissatisfied" with the Sandy relief efforts.
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Still, Christie's outburst in Belmar was even less "presidential," to put it politely, than his long line of earlier tantrums. So far, only the nice moments of that day have made it to the governor's YouTube channel.
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When Kaci Hickox stood up to Governor Chris Christie for quarantining her against her will and claiming she was "obviously ill" when she wasn't, she did more than bring a little sanity to our Ebola-panic politics. She also struck a blow for all the teachers, nurses, public employees, minimum-wagers and workers of all kinds that Christie has bullied, belittled and silenced over the years. It was a sweet sight, and now she may be doing the same to another out-of-control, authoritarian governor, Paul LePage of Maine.
Hickox, a 33-year-old nurse from Fort Kent, Maine, has advantages that so many of Christie's victims have not: a platform with the whole world's attention on her for longer than the initial public encounter and, at least for now, widespread public sympathy. She also had photos of the plastic tent that Christie had confined her in, and its outhouse-like toilet. Even some conservatives could relate: her freedom was taken by government jackbooted thugs (though this time they were from New Jersey, not from Obama; he wanted her released). She word-whipped Christie succinctly: "I am not, as he said, 'obviously ill.' I am completely healthy and with no symptoms. And if he knew anything about Ebola he would know that asymptomatic people are not infectious."
Facing the possibility that an articulate and courageous nurse might unman him, Christie allowed Hickox to return home to Maine. For that, Rush Limbaugh slammed him for being a serial Obama-hugging weakling: "And so one week before the election, once again New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has caved and is seen as—we need to quarantine Chris Christie, is what needs to happen here, folks."
Embracing Obama is one viral image that Christie, almost certainly running for president in 2016, simply cannot allow to spread. So he's been trying to re-he-man up, which in this case he can do only by lying. He's been insisting that he and his gubernatorial partner, Andrew Cuomo of New York, didn't cave on enforcing their mandatory twenty-one-day quarantine for healthcare workers returning from West Africa. "Our policy hasn't changed and our policy will not change," Christie told Matt Lauer yesterday. To get away with that whopper, he had to lie again about Hickox's health, offering the medical equivalent of pretending that the George Washington Bridge was closed for a "traffic study." Josh Marshall dissects the deceptions:
[Christie] said she would only have been forced to remain in isolation, "if she continued to be ill. She hadn't had any symptoms for 24 hours and she tested negative for Ebola. The reason she was put in the hospital in the first place was because she was running a high fever and she was symptomatic.… The minute she was no longer symptomatic she was released." [Emphasis added.]
Again, based on everything we know about Hickox's care, this is false. She was never symptomatic for Ebola and she never had a fever with the exception of one reading which was apparently contradicted a short time later by a more accurate test.
Nor was there any need for her to be symptomatic under the policy that the two Governors announced. The explicitly and expressed goal of the policy was not to hold people who were symptomatic but to hold everyone who'd treated Ebola patients in West Africa in isolation for 21 days in case they became symptomatic. Again, these are Cuomo's and Christie's own words.
So Christie is not only lying about the specifics of Hickox case he's also claiming the policy says something different from what he said it was when he announced it.
The guv went on to insist that he's not a pandering hysteric, but anybody who worries that stigmatizing Ebola volunteers as unclean might disincentivize health workers willing to fight the epidemic at its roots, is. "I think Dr. [Anthony] Fauci is responding, unfortunately, as are many of the people from the CDC, in a really hyperbolic way," Christie said, with a straight face.
As for Cuomo, there's no doubt that he'll win his bid for re-election next week. But he's come across as Christie's indecisive junior partner, flipping and flopping on how to handle the situation day by day. He even flip-flopped within the same lame joke, telling folks who've been in contact with infected people to stay at home and "enjoy your family, enjoy your friends, read a book—read my book—you don't have to read my book, but stay at home for 21 days."
Cuomo and Christie have a "special relationship," according to The New York Times, which describes it as coming "across as a nonaggression pact, if not an outright alliance: Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, has refrained from commenting on the Christie administration's role in the closing of access lanes to the George Washington Bridge; Mr. Christie, the head of the Republican Governors Association, has declined entreaties to campaign for Mr. Cuomo's Republican opponent in the Nov. 4 election."
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(Worse, they may have partnered up in trying to tamp down the Bridgegate scandal. The Wall Street Journal reported last December that Christie called Cuomo to ask to him to rein in one of his Port Authority appointees from investigating Christie's PA appointees. "A Cuomo spokesman denied the call took place when the story came out, although the Journal stood by its story," Politico recounts, and little more has been heard about it since.)
Meanwhile, Kaci is standing up to another statehouse bully, Republican governor Paul LePage of Maine, now in a tight race for re-election. Just around the time that Christie went stumping for him, LaPage ordered Hickox to stay at her home, where Maine State Police are monitoring the residence.
She says if she's not allowed out by Thursday morning, she'll go to court. "This policy is not scientifically or constitutionally just," Hickox told Matt Lauer via Skype this morning. "I am not going to sit around and be bullied by politicians and forced to stay in my home when I am not a risk to the American public."
If she does develop symptoms, she says she will of course isolate herself, call the health department, and arrange to be safely transferred to a hospital.
But if LePage, Christie, Cuomo, and the rightwing media have their way, even a perfectly healthy Hickox will remain quarantined until November 10—too late to vote, of course.
Watch her here, on today's Good Morning, America:
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Good catch by Mediaite. The Morning Joe crew, practically echoing the GOP rebranding of Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) as "Senator Uterus," decided that the Democrats are losing their gender-gap advantage by focusing too much on reproductive rights. But…
Four minutes later: effusive praise for Republican Iowa senatorial candidate Joni Ernst's pig-shit ad (her second swine-flavored spot of the cycle), which completes the metaphor of her "cleaning up Washington." The closest the ad comes to an actual policy is Ernst's promise to "balance the budget," though the ad conveniently fails to mention she plans to do that by, for instance, shuttering the Department of Education and the EPA.
"I think women really like that first ad," host Mika Brzezinski said, agreeing with Matt Lewis that Ernst would probably win the seat largely thanks to the two pig ads.
To sum up: ads about actual policies that the GOP passes and implements: bad. Ads not about any actual policies in any sense, but with a poop gimmick: great!
Ernst might be good at castrating hogs, but the real poop on her candidacy is that she's chickening out on facing newspaper editorial boards. Perhaps afraid they'll ask about her support of a personhood amendment to the State constitution, she's reportedly been canceling meetings all over the state. The Des Moines Register, TPM writes, "called Ernst out on her support of a Personhood measure in a blistering editorial on Tuesday.
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"Specifically, the editorial criticizes Ernst for saying during the last U.S. Senate debate between her and Representative Bruce Braley (D-IA), that a Personhood amendment to the state Constitution that she supported 'is simply a statement that I support life.' "
"Simply a statement that I support life": Those are the exact same words Colorado GOP Senate nominee Cory Gardner has been using to muddy over his support of a federal personhood bill. Kyle Clark of KUSA in Denver forcefully called him out for dodging the issue during a debate last week against Senator Udall.
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You can count on one hand the number of cases in this startling outbreak, and we can predict with near certainty that they will not snowball into a full-blown epidemic. But reports continue to filter in of Fox hosts objecting on-air to their network's fear-driven Ebola coverage.
How could this happen? Maybe Fox got embarrassed about the extent of the wacko hysteria it's fueling, like the story of a woman in Louisville who sequestered herself because the plane carrying an Ebola-infected nurse from Dallas to Cleveland may have passed over her roof. Or maybe it's because Fox News chief Roger Ailes wants to blunt accusations that Fox's panic-mongering is interfering with public-health efforts to keep people safe.
Whatever the reason, last week it was Shep Smith and Greta Van Susteren who were telling their compadres to cool it; this week it's Fox Business host Neil Cavuto (reportedly one of Ailes's best Fox friends) ordering the right to lay off Obama's Ebola "czar," Ron Klain.
"I have a message for Republicans who continue to attack Ron Klain: Shut up and save it for issues that matter," Cavuto said. "Okay, so the president's Ebola coordinator doesn't have any medical experience. Neither do a lot of you guys, but that hasn't stopped you from pontificating as if you were Marcus Welby just the same."
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Cavuto notes that there wasn't a peep out of the GOP when President George W. Bush appointed a political insider without a medical background to coordinate the fight against bird flu in 2004. (It's probable that Cavuto caught this info from Fox nemesis Media Matters, where Eric Boehlert published it a day earlier.)
Still, most of the folks at Fox know the party line on Ebola (or on anything else): it's not Fox that is sensational—it's the accusations that Fox is sensational that are sensational. Catch the exchange between Kimbery Guilfoyle and house liberal Bob Beckel toward the end of another cockeyed conversation on "The Five":
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A few developments today in the all-important Kentucky Senate race: Bill Clinton is expected to draw large, enthusiastic crowds for Alison Lundergan Grimes in Owensboro and Paducah; Mitch McConnell is on day two of his three-day fake-enthusiasm bus tour (the state GOP party is giving all-expenses-paid trips to volunteers as long as they "contribute to an enthusiastic atmosphere" at his events, according to an e-mail obtained by The Hill); and Chuck Todd continues to defend his now-infamous declaration that Grimes "disqualified herself" by refusing to say whether she voted for Obama.
As you've probably seen by now, McConnell put footage of Todd in a heavily rotated TV ad, and, from what I could tell after spending two days in Kentucky, Chuck Todd has become the face of the McConnell campaign.
Now, I don't know if this exactly disqualifies Todd from moderating the New Hampshire debate tonight between Jeanne Shaheen and Scott Brown, but the host of the storied Meet the Press and a self-described political junkie has said that it really doesn't matter which political party wins the Senate. He made that case in an interview with President Obama on his debut MTP last month, saying, A couple more extra red or a couple more blue seats, what's the diff? Three billion dollars, he said, is being spent merely "to see if it's Harry Reid or Mitch McConnell that's in charge of gridlock in the Senate."
Todd then turned to panelist John Stanton, from Buzzfeed, to pooh-pooh Obama's argument that party control of the Senate is actually, uh, important:
TODD: You know, Stanton, he was trying to make the rationale for why the midterms matter. And when you have to say, "I know some people don't think, but they really do matter."
JOHN STANTON: You've already lost…..
in terms of legislation passing. If Democrats keep the Senate, and they have, what, a two-seat or a one-seat majority, or if Republicans take it and have a two-seat or one-seat majority, you still are left with essentially the same dynamic in Washington.
But surely Todd, if not also Stanton, knows that even if no legislation passes (presumably the Dems would filibuster and Obama would veto GOP bills), a McConnell-led Senate would still affect the lives of millions of people. A one- or two-seat majority would give Republicans all the committee chairmanships, and that, as Norm Ornstein writes, "would undoubtedly stop confirmation on virtually all Obama-nominated judges, and probably on most of his executive nominees. And we would see a sharp ramp-up of investigations of alleged wrongdoing, with Benghazi and IRS redux. If you like Darrell Issa, you will love having his reinforcements and doppelgängers in the other chamber."
Even Politico says, "No one should underestimate the significance if the GOP captures the Senate in November…"
Mitch McConnell, who would become majority leader if the Senate changes hands, is already promising to load up the appropriations bills with policy restrictions that could raise the risk of another government shutdown if Obama doesn't sign them.
With both the Senate and the House in their hands, Republicans could put Obama on defense on everything from Obamacare to the administration's greenhouse gas regulations, the Keystone XL pipeline, education policy and spending priorities.
And even with gridlock, McConnell could reach his dream of repealing Obamacare "root and branch." Robert Reich warns in a MoveOn video that the R's could use the Senate maneuver of "reconciliation," which requires "only 51 votes to pass major tax and budget legislation instead of the 60 votes usually required." That means, he says, that Republicans could win tax cuts for the wealthy and loopholes for Wall Street and pay for them with cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and education. (The Dems used reconciliation to pass the Affordable Care Act in the first place.)
But issues that matter to real people often evaporate in the heat generated by horse-race pundits like Todd. Grimes is "disqualified" for not answering a question ("By dodging the question, did she cast a spell on herself that reverse-aged her to be ineligible for service in the U.S. Senate?" Jim Newell at Salon asks. "Did her incantation strike names from her ballot petitions, putting her below the threshold to qualify for ballot placement?"). But McConnell lies by claiming he can repeal Obamacare while letting Kentuckians keep their Kynect—without acknowledging that Kynect is Obamacare.
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As The Nation's Reed Richardson writes: "When confronted about his specious reasoning in a subsequent Facebook Q & A, Todd backed off his judgment a bit ('disqualifying for some voters' was his new formulation), but still defended his over-the-top analysis as reflecting 'political reality.' But for all his cynicism, Todd still tries to have it both ways. For, later in the same Facebook chat he said he was 'sick' over the fact the McConnell camp had already stuck his Grimes-bashing soundbite into a campaign ad."
Todd goes into still longer explanations with Media Matters, saying his wording was "sloppy." It seems like his judgment that it doesn't matter who runs the Senate was, at best, sloppy, too.
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Shep Smith, often the sole voice of reason on Fox News, had had enough of his colleagues' conspiratorial, "hysterical" and "irresponsible" fear-mongering over Ebola.
Earlier this week, Laura Ingraham had called CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden "the Baghdad Bob of the health care community," Bill O'Reilly and Brit Hume agreed that "the federal government under President Obama [is] not telling the truth" about Ebola, Sean Hannity said he wouldn't cover the CDC press conference because "I don't trust them," and Fox house shrink Keith Ablow decided that Obama is letting Ebola into America because he "may literally believe we should suffer." And that's just a sampling of the crazy.
And so yesterday, Shep told his media brethren and the viewers they're freaking out to take a deep breath and, basically, to ignore Fox. "Do not listen to the hysterical voices on the radio or television or read the fear-provoking words online," he said. "The people who write and say hysterical things are being irresponsible.
He gave them an extra strong hit of fact-based reality:
You should have no concerns about Ebola at all. None. I promise. Unless a medical professional has contacted you personally and told you of some sort of possible exposure, fear not.…
Suggestions have been made publicly that leaders and medical professionals may be lying to us. Those suggestions are completely without basis and fact. There is no evidence of any kind of which we at Fox News are aware that leaders have lied about anything regarding Ebola.
I report to you with certainty this afternoon that being afraid at all is the wrong thing to do. Being petrified and that's a quote, is ridiculous. The panic that has tanked the stock market and left people fearful their children will get sick at school is counterproductive and lacks basis in fact or reason. There is no Ebola spreading in America. Should that change, our reporting will change. But there is nothing to indicate that it will.
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There is one concrete thing you can do to fight your fears, he said:
Best advice for you and your family at this moment get a flu shot. Unlike Ebola, flu is easily transmitted. Flu with resulting pneumonia killed 52,000 Americans last year alone. A flu shot will reduce your chance of getting flu. So get one.
We've also heard a lack of hysteria from Fox's Greta Van Susteren, who took on O'Reilly by name. "My colleague, Bill O'Reilly, has called for the head of the CDC to resign. I disagree totally with him. I think Dr. Frieden has done a good job and I want him to continue to lead this," she said Monday.
"I think Bill O'Reilly's dead wrong on this one."
But mostly it's Shep who, from time to time, actively counters the Fox narrative. (Keep in mind, he's not risking his job by doing so. Last year he signed a multi-year, multimillion-dollar contract, making him Fox's second-highest paid anchor, after O'Reilly.) On many issues—birtherism, climate change and, most famously, torture ("I don't give a rat's ass if it helps," he once shouted. "We are America! We do not fucking torture! We don't do it!")—Smith has bucked the Fox fear-and-hate machine.
Media Matters has put together a handy video of "Seven Times Shep Smith Was Fox News' Voice Of Reason." It starts with Smith educating Fox reporter Doug McKelway yesterday over his claim that there's "widespread panic across the country."
The Beltway media are at it again, creating winners and losers long before Election Day. Yesterday I wrote that Alison Lundergan Grimes beat Mitch McConnell in Kentucky's one and only Senate debate, and if you watched the debate, you might agree.
But if you had only followed the media coverage, you might well believe that Grimes is a goner, that her refusal to say whether she voted for Obama was of such import that it rightly overshadowed all other issues the candidates fought over—minimum wage, jobs, climate change, student loans, healthcare—and that her demurral was far more worthy of coverage than McConnell' s actual lies and deceptions about the healthcare of 500,000 Kentuckians.
And if Grimes's non-answer wasn't a pretend disaster enough for the media to hyperventilate over, they got more confirmation later yesterday when the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee announced it wasn't going to spend more to run ads in Kentucky. Well, surely that showed that Big Dems agreed with Big Media that Grimes was out. Money speaks. She's over. Or so it seems.
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But the media have it wrong. First, on the debate: Columbia Journalism Review did a large round-up of the political media responses to Monday's debate and found that the coverage was "imbalanced" and that it "calls into question the national media's role in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country."
Democratic candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes made national headlines during the debate for again declining to share how she voted in previous presidential elections. At the same time, however, the Washington press corps barely covered a claim by incumbent Sen. Mitch McConnell that Obamacare, unpopular in Kentucky, could be repealed without dismantling Kynect, the popular statewide healthcare exchange funded through the law. McConnell's argument is not only factually questionable, at best, but also seems to be of much more potential consequence to the state's voters. Monday's debate was the only televised face-off scheduled before the November election, and the imbalanced coverage calls into question the national media's role in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country.
Grimes' non-answer received headline treatment on web stories at CBS, NBC ABC, and CNN. The Washington Post devoted an entire piece to the refusal, which led the Associated Press' story , and Politico and National Journal both listed it as their top takeaway of the debate. Such stories either omitted McConnell's claim or played it down relative to Grimes' comment. FoxNews.com mentioned only the latter, meanwhile, and The Wall Street Journal left McConnell's statement as its story's kicker, unchallenged.
It's not as if the media was hearing Mitch's lie for the first time and simply lacked the time to study up on it. It had all been reported on before:
Liberalmedia and a few national outlets, such as the AP, challenged the five-term senator's claim back [in May]. Indeed, an Obamacare repeal would have huge consequences for the Bluegrass State, as an estimated half-million residents have signed up for health coverage through its Kynect exchange. A Washington Post Fact Checker column soon after concluded, "the history of individual state exchanges shows it is not credible for McConnell to suggest that the state exchange would survive without the broad health-care system constructed by the Affordable Care Act, such as an individual mandate and subsidies to buy insurance."
Given the availability of such reporting, not to mention McConnell's hazy logic in a race in which Obamacare has been a central theme, it's unclear why the national media didn't pounce on his answer Monday. What's more, local coverage of the debate suggests that Grimes' voting history—a sign of her allegiance to President Barack Obama—is merely one of many concerns or Kentucky voters.
It is true that the DSCC stopped running ads in Kentucky in order to redirect funds to other state races. But the Democratic Senate campaign arm is still funding Grimes's get-out-the-vote drive, and is "monitoring the race for future investments," according to a DSCC official. In any case, Grimes is very well-funded herself, having just announced a record breaking nearly $5 million haul for the third quarter.
But the national media were quick to jump to the most melodramatic conclusion. As Daily Kos pointed out:
Today a rumor was spread throughout national media by irresponsible nationally-known media (Chris Cillizza, Jon Heilemann, Mark Halpirin, MSNBC, CNN) that "Democrats have abandoned Grimes".
Heilemann and Halperin agreed on their program that "Her campaign is dead".
This rumor was based upon the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) not having pre-purchased ad buys in KY market for last 3 weeks of campaign. The DSCC has been very active in the Kentucky market, with great ads playing. The DSCC acknowledged this was true, but that they were open to purchases if necessary.
Guy Cecil, the Executive Director of Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, posted at about 8:00pm eastern Tuesday night 10/14, on Twitter:
Guy Cecil @guycecil 3h 3 hours ago
Just signed a $300,000 wire for the KY Get Out The Vote operation for @AlisonForKY. That's an interesting view of "pulling out of the race"
And for all this, you'd never know that as of Wednesday afternoon, Alison Grimes is only three points behind Mitch McConnell in the RealClearPolitics average.
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When Alison Lundergan Grimes began interrupting Mitch McConnell last night in the first and only debate in the Kentucky Senate contest, it became clear, if it hadn't already, that she just could possibly win this race.
"I hate to interrupt," Grimes said toward the end of the nearly one-hour debate, and went on to mock one of McConnell's most frequent verbal tics. "But 'under this administration'?—we've used that 'this administration' over and over again. Senator McConnell fails to see he has a role in all the jobs that have been lost in this state."
It didn't matter so much what she interrupted him about. The point was to show that she could dominate and rattle the Senate minority leader.
And she did. When it came time for the two candidates' closing statements, McConnell was reduced to bragging that in a recent poll, "congressional staffers" had voted him the Senate's hardest-working member. It was so stiflingly inside-the-Beltway that, should he lose, it could serve as his political epitaph.
Grimes still has an uphill fight, of course, and McConnell is up by four points in the latest poll, from Fox. But in last night's debate, Grimes came off so strong and McConnell was so droning that it could possibly drown out her embarrassing refusal to say whether or not she voted for Obama, who's more unpopular in the state than even the widely disliked Mitch.
But her ridiculous politician's spin on that—claiming she wouldn't answer because "our Constitution here in Kentucky grants the right to privacy at the ballot box"—is less ridiculous and much less consequential to Kentuckians than Mitch's refusal to say what he really means when he vows to repeal Obamacare "root and branch." The state's version of the Affordable Care Act, Kynect, is hugely successful, and Mitch was as slippery as a wet doorknob last night. "That's fine," he said. "I think it's fine to have a website. Yeah."
As if the website portal to Obamacare isn't itself a major root. As Talking Points Memo points out:
If Obamacare is repealed, then the federal subsidies for the coverage expansion would disappear and Kentucky would either have to strip that insurance for recent recipients or foot the large bill through the state's budget.….
Grimes torched "the fictional fantasy land that Mitch McConnell is in" on Obamacare, saying that she would keep the law and tweak aspects of it, such as by extending the "grandfathering" clause so as to let individuals keep insurance policies deemed substandard by Obamacare rules.
She said more than half a million Kentuckians have benefited from the health care law—she didn't use the word Obamacare—and promised that "I will not be a senator that rips that insurance from their hand."
Grimes came across equally strong and McConnell equally out of touch on other subjects—from minimum wage (she called it a living wage; he wrongly maintained that it's mostly for entry-level young workers) to student loans (she supports the Elizabeth Warren proposal to reduce student loan debt by taxing the rich; he says that would crush this generation's children's children and blah blah blah).
And although they both tried to out-coal each other, she accepts man-made climate change and is at least making noises about protecting miners from black lung, while he cited "George Will [who] wrote recently that back in '70s a lot of scientists thought we were moving towards an ice age."
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Again and again, she seemed to have more energy and was easier to listen to. His voice, on the other hand, tended to recede, as if pitched through the tunnel of his thirty years in Washington, a tenure she repeatedly bemoaned.
Many in the mainstream media had to allow that Grimes had the stronger performance. But they wouldn't quite give it to her. For them, more important than the candidates' stances on healthcare or shutting down the government was her tactical refusal to admit she voted for Obama.
It obscures her "otherwise" very "strong performance," The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza said today on Andrea Mitchell's MSNBC show.
But it is of course media people like Cillizza, and the guy he'd sometimes sub for on The Daily Rundown, Chuck Todd, who largely determine what obscures what.
Mitch McConnell liked so much what Todd said about Grimes's dodge—that it "disqualified" her—that he made an ad out of it.
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Things were beginning to look up again for Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Kentucky Democrat who has a fighting chance of knocking Mitch McConnell out of his over-warmed seat as Senate minority leader. After slipping in the polls and getting outspent by McConnell forces two to one, Grimes surprised everyone last week by surging in the latest Bluegrass Poll, topping Mitch by two points, leaving her within three points of McConnell in the latest RCP poll average.
Then, at an endorsement meeting with the Louisville Courier-Journal yesterday, this happened (see first 40 seconds):
Like so many Dems running in red states, Grimes's campaign revolves around the chant "I'm not Barack Obama." Which makes it all the more strange that she didn't have a stock answer for a question she had to know was coming. "Grimes is fairly new on the national scene, but she's not new enough not to know how to answer this fairly simply," Phil Bump writes in The Washington Post. "'Yes, I voted for him,' you say, 'but I've been disappointed by a lot of the things he's done, particularly on COAL and JOBS and GUNS' or whatever." Chuck Todd, the new host of Meet the Press, is not new enough not to know better than to go overboard by saying, as he did on Morning Joe, "I think she disqualified herself" (a blowhard statement the rightwing blogs are lovin').
Still, Grimes's refusal to answer a direct question kind of shreds the image she's assiduously been building as a strong Kentucky woman who looks tougher handling a gun than Mitch. That—and proving her distance from Obama—was the whole point of her ad "Shooting Skeet." "It's that gun ad" says Democratic Representative John Yarmuth of Louisville that's responsible for her rise in the polls.
Her refusal to answer if she voted for Obama comes right after Mitch's own bad performance earlier this week: he sounded angry and petulant on the most popular radio show in Kentucky.
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No, we progressives don't like that Grimes won't say who she votes for, that she won't mention Obamacare—even though its Kentucky incarnation as KYnect is extremely successful—or that she's trying to sound like she's dirty coal's best friend.
But the risks of her losing—the GOP winning the Senate and McConnell running it—are worth sucking it up for. If you want to look deeper into Kentucky politics, you should check out "Five Days in Kentucky," Al Jazeera America's half-hour special tonight at 8:30 ET, the culmination of shorter reports that have been running all week.
And if you want to dig still deeper into the Kentucky coal debate, you have to see Chris Hayes's "Coal Country," also a five-parter running every day this week, on his 8 pm show on MSNBC; it began with a focus on Kentucky, travels to other states, and lands on the future beyond coal.
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Posted 22 December 2012 - 07:18 AM
I take Motilium for my milk supply and finish my course next week. I'm a bit worried that when I finish the course my supply may start to dwindle (this is my 2nd course, my supply dwindled after I finished the first course).
Has anyone had this happened to them and if so what else did you try?
I also get terrible headaches after taking Motilium, does anyone else get this side effect?
Posted 22 December 2012 - 08:58 AM
I didn't have problems with my supply dwindling after finishing up on motilium, but I did get horrible headaches so can relate to that! The only thing that helped was finishing up taking the motilium, unfortunately.
Have you tried fenugreek? May have less side effects for you (although gave me a bit of an upset stomach, but a lot of people have no problem with it).
Posted 22 December 2012 - 09:12 AM
I was in the same boat as you, and I second fenugreek, in fact looking back I think that for me fenugreek worked better for me than Motilium, and I really noticed an increase in supply.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 09:20 AM
My DD1's Paed allowed me repeats on the script until I chose to give it up (we were full time expressers). I found a proper brewed (yeast) ginger beer helped.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 10:41 AM
I have some fenugreek so will try that. My ob actually thinks I'm wasting my time on the Motilium so when I finish this course I don't think I will bother with it again. Looking forward to getting rid of the headaches.
Tet I'm also a full time expresser, so I am a bit worried about my supply.
Thanks for your replies
Posted 22 December 2012 - 11:35 AM
My ob actually thinks I'm wasting my time on the Motilium
I wonder what the rationale for this thought is?
Are you under the care of a LC, she will be able to advise you re supply issues and how helpful the Motilium really is.
Have you got a double pump puffsgirl? Studies have shown that double pumps maximise supply, as well as being more time efficient.
All the best.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 12:26 PM
Motilium works by increasing the base level of prolactin so your natural ups and downs are at a higher level.but the effects wear off after about. 2 weeks. You're better off doing lactation cookies and fenugreek and fennel and extra stimulation.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 12:34 PM
Can I please ask you lovely ladies, fenugreek, do you take it in capsule form? And what brand do you prefer? I am currently on my second round of Motilium but that finishes soon. TIA
Edited by lovealpacas, 22 December 2012 - 12:35 PM.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 01:07 PM
My fenugreek comes in capsule form, I get it from my local herbalist.
Lucky - my ob said that he had recently been to a conference where another ob stated that he didn't believe it worked. I do have a double pump that I'm using. I have seen an LC who virtually just told me that my supply is up to the highest amount it will get to and that there isn't much else I can do apart from what I'm doing (DS has 2 bottles of formula a day due to my low supply).
Is it true that you can only get your supply so high and no matter what you do nothing will increase it?
I have a recipe for lactation cookies that I will try.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 04:05 PM
My OB told me I was wasting my time with motilium also.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 04:48 PM
my ob said that he had recently been to a conference where another ob stated that he didn't believe it worked.
I wouldn't be satisfied with "believe", I'd prefer some evidence.
It either helps or it doesn't, the proof is in the pudding so to speak.
Is it true that you can only get your supply so high and no matter what you do nothing will increase it?
If you have done everything possible (physiologically and hormonally) to maximise your milk production and it remains pretty much stuck at a level the it would seem you have reached a capacity. So I'd be guided by what your LC has said.
It is easier to maximise supply with baby on the breast so you are doing a fantastic job with your expressing and milk production.
I have a memory of reading that whatever your supply is at around 6 weeks that is indicative of it's maximum but don't quote me on that!
I know women who will easily keep up a full supply with only expressing but not all, I would guess I'd be one who couldn't.
I did express for quite a while and I wasn't able to store very great amounts, I bet I'd have to express every 2 hrs around the clock to even try and I cant imagine I could sustain that long term.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 04:58 PM
Thanks for that Lucky. My LC said I ned to stop the Motilium after this course is finished and just keep doing what I have been doing.
I'm committed to expressing for as long as I produce milk for, I figure every little bit of breast milk my little boy gets is doing him some good.
I just wish I had more support when I was in hospital having DS and maybe my. Breast feeding journey would of been successful.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 06:55 PM
Puffsgirl11 I completely relate. I had a very straightforward easy birth in a birth centre and was led to believe that being home would be the best place for my baby and I following the birth. It was wonderful being home, but I wish I had support breastfeeding! Nobody, not one midwife (never saw an OB), suggested that staying a few nights might be beneficial to help establish breastfeeding. By the time I worked out that I had low supply at about 12 weeks it was probably too late to ever increase it to a full supply. Baby was hungry and I never knew.
Motilium, however, I felt really did help. I worked so hard with frequent feeding, expressing, fenugreek, acupuncture etc and when I stopped the first course my milk supply dwindled again. I'm still taking the motilium months later - GP has no problems with it.
I have put on weight though - not sure if its a side effect - anybody else put on weight taking motilium?
Posted 22 December 2012 - 07:13 PM
I have s great book I refer to all the time - mother's guide to making more milk. It helps to work out why you might have supply issues and how to address it.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 08:56 PM
My OB also reluctantly prescribed motilium for me cos he kept saying it won't work...and he prescribed in meagre amounts and doses. I have since stopped taking and didn't go back to pharmacy for repeats.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 09:15 PM
I'm on my first round of Motilium at the moment and feel its made a huge difference to my supply. What doses are other people taking? Also my doctor said she can't give me a script with repeats on it as it won't be covered by PBS so I have to go back in and see her to get repeats is this true?
Posted 22 December 2012 - 09:20 PM
you need to wean off of the motillium. it is the ONLY thing that worked for me (the motillium) so i don't see why your OB thinks you are wasting your time... gradually lower the tablet by 1 less every 3 days.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 09:21 PM
butterfly- it is an authority script, so she can get you 200 tabs at a time 4x25 tablets which is 1 prescription.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 09:37 PM
I have read a lot of studies that have shown that motilium increases supply. So not sure why your OB says you are wasting your time? Maybe there is some new research out that I dont know about.
If I were you OP I would slowly wean off them, maybe 1 tablet less every week. I found that the first day I start dropping tablets is the worst and my supply would seem low that day. But my body then adjusts and the following day my supply is back. I hope you notice the same thing. Good luck!
Posted 22 December 2012 - 10:08 PM
QUOTE (mummaorange @ 22/12/2012, 07:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
butterfly- it is an authority script, so she can get you 200 tabs at a time 4x25 tablets which is 1 prescription.
Thanks for that i will bring it up with her at my appointment next week.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 10:19 PM
I've just weaned off Motilium after being on it for 6 months and it most definitely was helping my supply.
I was taking 90mg per day. From my research, 60mg per day is the standard recommendation in Australia, while they prescribe up to 160mg per day in America for lactation (google Dr Jack Newman). You can have big jumps in supply from 60 to 90mg, and from 90 to 120mg.
And yes, weight gain is a side effect for some (along with no periods, bad skin, the "blahs", headaches etc).
ETA - And yes, weaning off slowly can minimise drop in supply.
Edited by OnTheJourney, 22 December 2012 - 10:22 PM.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 10:26 PM
I had low supply (baby lost 12% of bodyweight by day 3) so we were breastfeeding, pumping and comping from then. Pumping only from 6 weeks when we finally admitted she just couldn't feed from the breast as she had a terrible sucking reflex and tongue tie that wasn't diagnosed until much later.
Motillium was a godsend for me. Fenugreek gave me the runs and absolutely no increase in supply Motillium however bumped my supply up another 50%.
I maxed out at 600mls production a day solely pumping. I was on motilium and pumping up until 7 months when a bout of mastitis killed my supply and i didn't see the point of pumping for so many hours each day to get 100ml.
Each time i tried to come of motillium my supply dropped off so i was on a maintenance dose. Motillium kept my baby on breastmilk from 2 weeks until 7 months meaning i only had to give bubs one formula bottle each day. I was lucky not to suffer any headaches from it.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 10:36 PM
60mg per day is the standard recommendation in Australia
I've seen 80 mg being prescribed in Australia, ie 2 tabs by 4 times a day.
Posted 23 December 2012 - 12:52 AM
I was on 3 tablets a day for a week, 2 tablets for the next week and now I take 1 tablet daily. It hasn't increased my supply but I think it has probably maintained it somewhat.
My skin is like a teenagers and has been since I started the Motilium, can't say I will miss that side effect. I have been told that by my LC that I can only take it for 6 wks, which I thought was weird considering other people seem to stay on it for longer. They did tell me that if I needed it again later down the track I could have another course.
I didn't really ask more info off my ob why he didn't think Motilium worked, I figured the LC probably knew more about.
I have noticed that sometimes when I express I only get 60mls and other times I can get 120mls (from both breasts). This hasn't really changed since starting the second course.
Posted 23 December 2012 - 01:07 AM
I was on 2x the recommended dose (under the supervision of a LC) along with blessed thistle and fenugreek as well as pumping after each feed. Once I stopped the Motilium, my supply drastically dwindled. I was on it for about 4 months, with no side effects. The vitamins helped a bit, but unfortunately for me, I had to switch to formula at 4 months.
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New paernts can get frustrated when their newborn gets fussy and can't settle down. When you're feeling overwhelmed, try some of these simple tips to help soothe your baby.
20 baby names that are becoming more popular every year
The data-lovers at nameberry.com have been at it again – this time, they've discovered the names that are continually rising up the ranks, ready to take out some top spots in the next few years.
10 great meals to make for new parents
Ideally, you want to give food that isn't expensive to make, isn't too difficult to create, and freezes well; stews, bakes, soups and pasta sauces are perfect.
Weird pregnancy products
Some pregnancy products come to market and are just awesome. Others just leave you scratching your head.
Carers admit to force-feeding children
Two children who were given to the wrong families at birth will soon learn if they will be returned to their biological parents.
How many weeks til Christmas?
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David Bowie's Ex-Wife Does Not Like His New Single
Upon its release, David Bowie's new single,'Where Are We Now,' received glowing reviews. However, Bowie's ex-wife is less than impressed, and has taken to the U.K. media to voice her displeasure.
Upon its release, David Bowie's new single,'Where Are We Now,' received glowing reviews. However, Bowie's ex-wife is less than impressed, and has taken to the U.K. media to voice her displeasure.
The creative and personal relationship between David Bowie and Iggy Pop will form the basis of 'Lust for Life.' The film will soon be shopped to international buyers at the European Film Market.
In a bizarre bit of news that has the unintended side effect of making album artwork interesting again for the first time in years, David Bowie is rumored to be miffed about the cover of Morrissey's upcoming single.
Covers of classic rock songs by indie acts are quite the rage these days. Yesterday we wrote about the Flaming Lips taking on the Beatles' 'All You Need Is Love,' and now we have Beck performing David Bowie's 'Sound and Vision' last night (Feb. 5) in Los Angeles.
The Atomic Sunrise festival was held in March 1970 at the legendary Roundhouse club in England and featured a number of the underground rock scene's most shining lights. The event featured David Bowie, Hawkwind, and Genesis, among others. All these acts were in their infancy, and that's what makes the event so interesting. Fortunately, the festival was captured on film and now, after over 40 years, the film has been unearthed.
Trevor Bolder, longtime bassist for Uriah Heep, is taking some time off from the band so that he can undergo an undisclosed operation. The band reported the news on its website (via Bravewords) yesterday (Jan. 13).
Well, that joy wore off quickly. After the surprising the world on his birthday (Jan. 8) with a new single, 'Where Are We Now?' and an album, 'The Next Day,' due in early March, fans of David Bowie were hoping that he would return to the stage. However, in a new interview, his longtime producer Tony Visconti has ruled that out.
Earl Slick needs no introduction. A killer rhythm guitarist and long-time David Bowie collaborator, the 60-year-old played on John Lennon's 'Double Fantasy,' has recorded with Ian Hunter and played in the post-Stray Cats group Phantom, Rocker & Slick.
David Bowie will release a brand new studio album, 'The Next Day,' this March. It will be the recently reclusive rocker's first new record since 2003's 'Reality.'
David Bowie's 1987 album 'Never Let Me Down' is considered to be among his worst, but for Peter Frampton, its importance can not be overstated. In a new interview, he credits his time with Bowie, both on the album and its accompanying tour, for helping revive his career.
Many therapists have gotten rich hearing stories about how their patients, at an impressionable age, caught their parents in the throes of passion. Of course, it's only natural that Slash can pretty much top everybody's own story of seeing their parents in flagrante delicto, because he's Slash. In a new interview, he reveals that he once walked in on his mother and David Bowie.
It's rare that we see David Bowie these days, so the recent news that there was a Victoria and Albert museum David Bowie exhibition on the way got people wondering if the reclusive singer might rejoin the spotlight.


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Austin, Texas (November 11, 2014) – Outdoor retailer, Austin Canoe and Kayak (ACK), a division of MSP Holdings, LLC, will donate $1,435.72 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF).
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Hiking and Your Feet
Hiking is one of the easiest ways to engage in regular physical activity. Unlike many other athletic pursuits, hiking requires minimal equipment and can be done in almost any type of weather.
How to Choose a Trolling Rod Holder
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Wilderness Systems AirPro MAX Seat
Wilderness Systems upgraded their kayak seating in a big way with the newest addition to their Ride kayak series. They recently launched their brand new Ride MAX series featuring the Phase 3® AirPro MAX high/low seating system.
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Austin Canoe & Kayak Receives Sixth Bizrate® Circle of Excellence Award
ACK hits another milestone with sixth consecutive year of outstanding customer service award. Austin, Texas (September 30, 2014) – Outdoor retailer, Austin Canoe and Kayak (ACK), a division of MSP Holdings, LLC is excited and honored to have received the Bizrate® Circle of Excellence award for the sixth year in a row.
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Roger B. Kennedy, Inc. Breaks Ground on Casa Mirella Apartments Phase II
October 29, 2014
ORLANDO, FLA. (Oct. 27, 2014) - Construction manager Roger B. Kennedy, Inc. broke ground October 22 for Unicorp's $6.2 million, 60-unit Casa Mirella Apartments, Phase 2, having completed the $18 million, 216-unit initial phase ahead of schedule in February 2014. Located at 101 Casa Mirella Way, Windermere, and designed by Slocum Platts Architects, P.A., Winter Park, Casa Mirella sets the new standard of residential rental living according to its website, featuring plush landscaping, a state-of-the-art clubhouse, fitness facility and a resort-style pool. Also included are granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, spacious floor plans, garage buildings and more. Orlando-based Unicorp National Developments, Inc. is one of the fastest growing, most dynamic retail, mixed-use and drug store developers in the country, according to its website. Casa Mirella Apartments, Phase 2, is slated for February 2015 completion.
Roger B. Kennedy, Inc. Ranked Among Florida's 100 Fastest-Growing Companies for Second Consecutive Year
September 22, 2014
ORLANDO, FLA. (Sept. 22, 2014) -- Roger B. Kennedy, Inc. prominently ranks among Florida's 100 fastest-growing companies for the second consecutive year according to Bizjournals' 2014 "Florida Fast 100" survey. Ranked 31st statewide, the company regionally ranks 10th among Orlando Business Journal's 2014 "Fast 50" fastest-growing companies. Currently ranked as Central Florida's 5th largest construction company in Orlando Business Journal's 2014 "Golden 100" Top Privately-Held Companies, the Kennedy organization has been in continuous operation as a family-owned construction business for 144 years, and opened its Florida office in Orlando in 1972.
Roger B. Kennedy, Inc. Completes New Savion Park Luxury Apartments in Gainesville
September 9, 2014
GAINESVILLE, FLA. (Sept. 5, 2014) - Roger B. Kennedy, Inc. completed the construction of Trimark Properties' new Savion Park Luxury Apartments, an upscale five-story, 55-unit student housing apartment building at 719 SW 5th Avenue, Gainesville. The Orlando-based construction manager performed the work under an $8.5 million contract with Midtown Properties of Gainesville, LLC. Designed by Skinner Vignola McLean, Inc., Gainesville, the apartment community offers floor plans ranging from studio apartments to four bedroom apartments and townhouses. In addition, apartments feature floor to ceiling windows in select units, gourmet kitchens with stainless steel appliances, ethernet ports in every bedroom, a convenience elevator, resident parking and more.
Roger B. Kennedy, Inc. Breaks Ground on $11.6M, 7-Story Westgate Lakes Resort Parking Garage and $11.7M The Exchange at Savannah Park Apartments
September 4, 2014
ORLANDO, FLA. – Roger B. Kennedy, Inc. broke ground September 2 on the new $11.6 million, 7-story Westgate Lakes Resort Parking Garage located at 10000 Turkey Lake Road, Orlando, and The Exchange at Savannah Park, an $11.7 million, 138-unit apartment community in Sanford. Designed by General Design and Restoration, Branson, Mo., the 220,000-square-foot garage will contain 472 parking spaces, a pedestrian bridge and guard house when completed in May 2015. Kennedy has constructed nearly $300 million of projects at Westgate Lakes Resort in Orlando and Westgate Resort in Kissimmee. The Exchange, located at 5724 Byron Anthony Place, was designed by ORA Architects, Raleigh, N.C., and is slated for completion in August 2015. In addition, Kennedy completed Unicorp's Casa Mirella Apartments, a new $18 million, 216-unit gated rental community at 101 Casa Mirella Way, Windermere, designed by Slocum Platts Architects, P.A., Winter Park.
Roger B. Kennedy, Inc. Ranked As Central Florida's 5th Largest Construction Company
September 3, 2014
ORLANDO, FLA. (August 22, 2014) - Roger B. Kennedy, Inc. prominently ranks as Central Florida's 5th largest construction company in Orlando Business Journal's 2014 "Golden 100" Top Privately-Held Companies. The company ranks 37th largest overall. The prestigious annual rankings were announced at ceremonies held August 22, 2014, at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort.


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Today, all those who have spent years trying to fix our broken immigration system should feel gratitude toward President Obama. In a primetime address to the nation Thursday night, the president announced he was taking executive action to relieve some of the suffering caused by the failures of the status quo. Millions of families will no longer live under the daily threat of having their lives torn apart by senseless deportations, which is something all people should celebrate. But unfortunately, the president's compassionate actions are creating a political firestorm among some Republicans in Washington. Their anger and antipathy toward the White House are blinding them to the positive effects these measures will have for our society.
I had the pleasure of sitting one seat over from Emil Michael at the now-infamous Uber dinner in New York last week. Emil was originally seated next to me and moved over to greet Ben Smith as a guest.
Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari are exploring how the massive debt which led to the Great Recession, the spending collapse that followed, and the stagnation that persists are all linked to income inequality. In this interview, they discuss what their findings mean for America.
Prosecutorial discretion -- the power of the executive to determine when to enforce the law -- is one of the most well-established traditions in American law. Prosecutorial discretion is, in particular, central to the enforcement of immigration law against removable noncitizens.
This morning, Ricky Jackson walked out of the Cuyahoga County courtroom in downtown Cleveland a free man after 39 years in prison--several of those on death row--for a murder he didn't commit.
Perhaps the reason no one can pass a solid immigration reform bill is because the conditions that motivate the immigration are so poorly understood. The mainstream discourse surrounding immigration today is entirely misguided.
What I've heard over and over is not only how the experience of studying abroad has made them global citizens, but how it has changed their lives.
For me, this is the ultimate homecoming, not only because this is where I and my accent were born but because HuffPost is very firmly rooted in a Greek tradition of bringing people together and facilitating interesting conversations.
Picasso is the standard by which all other artists are measured: first, of course, for pure talent, but not far behind for showmanship, the love affairs, the extended and often fractious family, the tortured women he left behind, the control he exerted and now, for the photographs of his life and work.
I am convinced that stem cell research means we Baby Boomers will be the last generation to have to watch our parents die of Alzheimer's or watch our children die prematurely of sickle cell disease. Proposition 71 set this research in motion. Now we have to make sure this research keeps moving forward.
The nuclear negotiations with Iran are in their eleventh hour. By Monday we'll know whether a resolution has been reached or a new crisis of the first order added to the conflagrations in the Middle East -- indeed, one that will exacerbate all the others.
If you're seeking charming, often winsome melodies you can't get out of your head, stirring performances by the leads with fine work from the supporting cast, and a book that will intrigue and ultimately move you, run to the Kennedy Center box office.
The Texas State Board of Education wants to reinforce this knowledge gap, forcing Texas high schoolers to learn a sanitized version of U.S. history in the name of being "pro-American."
My conversation with Gugu and Gina covered a wide range of issues facing women in the entertainment industry. I asked Gina specifically why she wanted to tell this story, which at its core is a love story, and why it seems so difficult to get movies made about two black people falling in love.
Which American police force had an officer arrested for misconduct almost every single day between 2005 and 2012? No idea? The agency I'm talking about is Customs and Border Protection.
If the thought of being the unwitting star of your own prime time reality show gives you the willies, consider the recent revelation that more than 73,000 unsecured webcams and surveillance cameras are, as I write this column, viewable on a Russian-based website.
The bottom line is this: If the media covers someone who comes out as intersex, it is its responsibility to educate itself about what that means. In Chandler's case, although some outlets did cover the term correctly, the majority failed. This is deplorable. Why? Because it just reinforces stereotypes.
While race is definitely an obvious component in our family, it is not, nor has it ever been the driving force behind our relationship towards one another. We don't love each other in spite of our differences; we love each other because of them.
As someone who has spent my career focused on domestic economic issues, including a stint of my own at the Treasury Department, I know how important these issues are and how much the people in Treasury can shape policies.
I've realized that when I give my money to companies that not only ignore the negative effects of unchecked bro-culture but actively embrace dirty tactics to get the advantage, I have become part of the problem that I am working to eradicate.
Unilever claims that Hampton Creek is violating the standard of identify for mayonnaise -- stemming from pre-World War II regulations -- because we're using plants instead of chicken eggs in what is now America's most popular condiment.
Ebola has taught us that our value system needs a shot in the arm. The real villain is not a virus or microbe, it is when good policies, well thought-out, are not funded or followed through.
Industrialists who built the railroads and core infrastructure in the 19th century exploited labor, corrupted governments, and built monopolies. Uber is also exploiting labor to some extent, but its disrepute is largely because of its arrogance and frat-boy behavior -- not only its business practices. And this behavior is only slowing the company down.
This month is Alzheimer's Awareness Month. I propose that we raise awareness of just how horrible, destructive and expensive this disease is and that we deploy the attention and resources needed to beat Alzheimer's before it beats us.
Thanksgiving is fast approaching, and this year I'll be cooking my bird as I usually do these days--outdoors in my kettle grill.
This is a journey we hope will include the voices of all Greeks, from the farthest-flung islands in the Aegean and Ionian Seas to the major cities to the mountain villages.
At this point, it seems pretty pointless to review a new entry in The Hunger Games series.
Opposition to Puerto Azul is widespread among Belizeans. While they support tourism -- the backbone of the country's economy -- they do not support building a resort that will irreversibly destroy the Mesoamerican reef, the very place that tourists come to experience.
There have been so many films that have touched and altered my perception over the years that I couldn't begin to single out the few that have been the most impactful, but if we only look at some of the films of the past year and the conversations, debate and change they are driving, we start to see how important and irreplaceable these films and filmmakers are.
President Obama on Thursday made it clear that, if a gridlocked Congress won't do its job on immigration reform, he will do that job himself. Now we should hope that he can also turn attention to an immigration challenge that falls under his own branch of government: immigration courts.
President Obama should be applauded for defending America's greatest values and challenging the nation to be a welcoming place for the stranger. For in the face of the stranger we see the face of God.