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CNN fires Rick Sanchez after remarks

Los Angeles Times - Melissa Maerz - ‎Oct 2, 2010‎
The 'Rick's List' host suggests that Jewish people run all TV networks and calls Comedy Central's Jon Stewart a 'bigot.

White America Has Lost Its Mind

Village Voice - Steven Thrasher - ‎Sep 28, 2010‎
By Tom Robbins By Nat Hentoff By Michael Musto By Tom Robbins By Michael Musto By Tom Robbins By Michael Musto It had been a pretty good run up to that point.

Las Vegas Faces Its Deepest Slide Since the 1940s

New York Times - Adam Nagourney - ‎Oct 2, 2010‎
LAS VEGAS - There are many cities across the country that are beginning to see the first glimpses of the end of the recession. The 76-acre City Center complex on the Las Vegas Strip was conceived before the downturn.

Whitman's husband says it's 'possible' he saw Social Security letter

CNN - Alan Duke - ‎Oct 1, 2010‎
Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The husband of Meg Whitman, California's Republican nominee for governor, said "it was possible" he saw a 2003 letter that questioned his housekeeper's Social Security number, but he insisted it did ...

The Folding Bike Goes Cool

Wall Street Journal - Michael Hsu - ‎Oct 1, 2010‎
The appeal of foldingbikes goes beyond the fact that they're easy to transport and store. One minute, these bikes are cruising down the street.

Basic Religion Test Stumps Many Americans

New York Times - Laurie Goodstein - ‎Sep 27, 2010‎
Americans are by all measures a deeply religious people, but they are also deeply ignorant about religion. How much do you know about religion?

Texters, you'd be better off driving drunk

Los Angeles Times - Michael Fumento - ‎21 hours ago‎
Studies show that driving while texting is more dangerous than driving under the influence. Our laws and penalties don't reflect that.

Love Google. Hate Facebook. Here's Why

Wired News (blog) - Peter Kirwan - ‎Oct 2, 2010‎
Recently, I've been working on a big research project. Yesterday, I had Delicious links, PDFs, spreadsheets and Word documents open on my desktop when I came across a couple of useful presentations on Scribd.

11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad and the Overused

Mashable - ‎Sep 28, 2010‎
This series is brought to you by the Intel AppUp℠ Developer Program, which provides developers with everything they need to create and then sell their applications to millions of Intel Atom™ processor-based devices.

America on the brink of a Second Revolution

MarketWatch - Paul B. Farrell - ‎Sep 27, 2010‎
ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- “What's distinctive about the Tea Party is its anarchist streak -- its antagonism toward any authority, its belligerent self-expression, and its lack of any coherent program or ...

India Launches Project to ID 1.2 Billion People

Wall Street Journal - Amol Sharma - ‎Sep 28, 2010‎
India's vaunted tech savvy is being put to the test this week as the country embarks on a daunting mission: assigning a unique 12-digit number to each of its 1.2 billion people.

FBI alleges dean forced students to shovel snow, chauffeur and cook

CNN - ‎Oct 1, 2010‎
(CNN) -- Investigators say a former vice president and dean at a New York university forced students to cook, clean, wash clothes and chauffeur her family -- and threatened that their scholarships would be revoked if they refused.

FHA changing its mortgage insurance fee structure

Los Angeles Times - Lew Sichelman - ‎Oct 2, 2010‎
Most borrowers will have lower monthly payments for the first few years their loans are on the books, but then their costs start to go up.

The Weekend Interview with Eric Cantor: 'Things Could Get Pretty Messy'

Wall Street Journal - Steve Moore - ‎Oct 1, 2010‎
The man who would be the next House majority leader talks about the GOP agenda and working with Obama. By STEVE MOORE 'Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority.

10 most overpriced products you should avoid

WalletPop (blog) - ‎Sep 27, 2010‎
Who wouldn't want to save both time and money? Often, however, one comes at Convenience, for example, comes at a price. You'll pay dearly for the luxury of enjoying a candy bar from the minibar in your hotel room.

Tea & Crackers

RollingStone.com - Matt Taibbi - ‎Sep 28, 2010‎
It's taken three trips to Kentucky, but I'm finally getting my Tea Party epiphany exactly where you'd expect: at a Sarah Palin rally.

US-China split would be a catastrophe

CNN - ‎Oct 1, 2010‎
Editor's note: Fareed Zakaria's interview with Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will air on "Fareed Zakaria GPS" on CNN US on Sunday at 10 am and 1 pm ET and CNN International at 2 and 10 pm Central European Time/5 pm Abu Dhabi/9 pm Hong Kong.

Market Jitters? Funds for Nervous Investors.

Wall Street Journal - Brett Arends - ‎Oct 2, 2010‎
If you're feeling nervous or confused by this market, you're not alone. Savers are holding more than $7.5 trillion on the sidelines, in bank accounts and money-market funds -- even though they're earning next to nothing in interest.

The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O'Donnell

New York Times - Frank Rich - ‎Oct 2, 2010‎
ALL it took was some 30000 Republican primary voters in a tiny state to turn Christine O'Donnell into the brightest all-American media meteor since Balloon Boy.

The 4chan porn leak: First of many?

CNET (blog) - Greg Sandoval - ‎Sep 28, 2010‎
The Web probably looks a lot less anonymous and private to the thousands of people whose identities were posted to the Internet this weekend alongside the names of the pornographic films they are accused of downloading.

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