misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 29 2008 | video, humor, funny, politics, Bush
click to playQuoted: Craig Ferguson at the 2008 White House Correspondents Dinner 4/26/2008
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 11 2008 | Jon Stewart, politics, talking heads, humor, video, funny, interview, Daily Show, idiot
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 09 2008 | politics, presidential campaign, election
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 08 2008 | women, news, gender, politics, Hillary Clinton, USA, opinion
Quoted: Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life, whether the question is who must be in the kitchen or who could be in the White House. This country is way down the list of countries electing women and, according to one study, it polarizes gender roles more than the average democracy.
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 08 2008 | interview, rumination, video, art, literature, religion, policy, politics, talking heads, discussion, issues
This website is new but it has some interesting videos from interviews on a variety of topics.
Quoted: The 10 Questions are at the core of Big Think. They are our way of starting the conversation, and giving it shape. They may seem simple and straightforward, but you'll be surprised at the answers they can elicit. Take a look at some of the notable brains we've picked, think about the 10 Questions and share your answers with the world.
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 09 2007 | business, gangs, Nigeria, violence, oil, politics, Africa
Quoted: The violence that has rocked the Niger Delta in recent years has been aimed largely at foreign oil companies, their expatriate workers and the police officers and soldiers whose job it is to protect them. Hundreds of kidnappings, pipeline bombings and attacks on flow stations and army barracks have occurred in the past two years alone. But these days the guns have turned inward,
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 29 2007 | video, politics, humor, funny, Stephen Colbert
click to playQuoted: Stephen Colbert receives the key to the city in Columbia, SC at the University of South Carolina. 10/28/07footage provided by Wltx.com
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 26 2007 | Republican Party, news, politics, racism, opinion
No taxation without representation!
Quoted: The G.O.P. has spent the last 40 years insulting, disenfranchising and otherwise stomping on the interests of black Americans. Last week, the residents of Washington, D.C., with its majority black population, came remarkably close to realizing a goal they have sought for decades — a voting member of Congress to represent them...
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 15 2007 | news, economics, government, politics, books
Alan Greenspan has written a book...
Quoted: Of the presidents he worked with, Mr. Greenspan reserves his highest praise for Bill Clinton, whom he described in his book as a sponge for economic data who maintained “a consistent, disciplined focus on long-term economic growth.” ... paints a picture of Mr. Bush as a man driven more by ideology and the desire to fulfill campaign promises made in 2000, incurious about the effects of his economic policy, and an administration incapable of executing policy.
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 04 2007 | India, software, business, globalization, politics
Quoted: They have hired a former official in the Bush administration as a lobbyist. They are humanizing the issue by bringing Americans they have hired into meetings with politicians.
Quoted: And, most striking, they have mastered the Washington art of waging proxy battles through local organizations, which allows them to not appear to be foreigners with an agenda
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