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| Does the Narrative Behind Kathryn Bigelow's Big Oscar Win Mar the Event's Power as a Feminist Triumph?
(HuffingtonPost.com)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:11:27 GMT HuffingtonPost.com - Read Scott Mendelson's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com |
| The Scandalous Empire State
(RealClearPolitics.com)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:00:00 GMT RealClearPolitics.com - Pick your applicable New York cliché. Its politicians fall faster than a New York minute. Bad apples spoil the Big Apple. It's called Babylon for a reason. |
| The Greek debt crisis: How the international community can help
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:45:51 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - Greece may be doing all the right things to revive our economy. But not everyone may want us to succeed. To succeed, the international community needs to address the threat of speculation and ill-regulated financial markets – a threat that imperils not only Greece, but the entire global economy. |
| If Only Financial Reform Really Were Funny
(The Nation)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:23:25 GMT The Nation - The Nation -- This piece is cross-posted from the WashingtonPost.com, where Katrina vanden Heuvel writes a weekly column. |
| Tale of Two CEOs: One of Them Needs to Do Better
(HuffingtonPost.com)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:30:18 GMT HuffingtonPost.com - Read Leo Hindery, Jr.'s other articles on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Revenge of the GOP Nerd
(RealClearPolitics.com)
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:00:00 GMT RealClearPolitics.com - What do these three Republican rising stars have in common: Paul Ryan, Mitch Daniels and Bobby Jindal? You can imagine all at a Star Trek convention. |
| Immigration reform rests on a national worker ID
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:21:28 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - During their day-to-day activities in public, some 10 million people in the United States live a lie. They pretend to be legal residents when they are not. |
| Why Israel jailed me for ‘talking too much’
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:59:01 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - The Palestinian elected leadership is weak. And even with Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan this week, the renewed Middle East peace process appears to be little more than a charade. |
| Protest Friends of IDF Fundraiser
(The Nation)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:16:13 GMT The Nation - The Nation -- Tonight, March 9th, The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, a non-profit organization that provides support and services to members of Israel's national army, will be holding a gala $1,000 a plate fundraiser at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan. |
| Navy submarines: What’s really in the way of women serving?
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:01:22 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - Defense Secretary Robert Gates notified Congress in a letter Feb. 19 that the Navy intends to repeal the Congressional ban on female personnel on submarines. It’s about time. |
| IRAQ WAR STILL A MISTAKE
(Georgie Anne Geyer)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:59:07 GMT Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- One would have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by the Iraqi elections Sunday. |
| MARCO RUBIO REPUBLICANS
(Maggie Gallagher)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:59:07 GMT Maggie Gallagher - He came, we saw, he conquered. |
| Beware of Democrats Bearing Gifts
(Mona Charen)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT Mona Charen - The signs are all around us. Even as Barack Obama and the Democrats lower their heads and prepare to bulldoze a huge new entitlement through Congress, the results of profligate government spending are everywhere apparent. It requires a prodigious degree of ideological blindness to miss this. |
| Who Should Pay the Piper?
(Pat Buchanan)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT Pat Buchanan - Greece this past weekend saw the worst rioting since the debt crisis began. After Athens had announced new tax hikes and budget cuts to reduce a deficit of 13 percent of gross domestic product, mobs drove guards from Greece's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and attacked police. |
| PRESIDENTS AND THEIR PEP TALKS
(David Shribman)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:25:04 GMT David Shribman - Had John McCain been elected president and had a general malaise settled on American politics, you might have imagined picking up a newspaper like the Financial Times and seeing a headline like this one: America Needs a Pep Talk. |
| OLD PREJUDICES CAN ENDURE EVEN AMONG THE YOUNG
(Cynthia Tucker)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:24:57 GMT Cynthia Tucker - WASHINGTON -- Having done my share of sneering at the younger generation over their rap music (I despise the violence and misogyny), their sartorial style ("Pants on the Ground!") and their seeming sense of entitlement (40K a year isn't enough for that first job?), I should acknowledge their continuing contributions to a culture that celebrates diversity and equality. |
| STUDENTS WAKE UP IN CALIFORNIA
(Richard Reeves)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:50:43 GMT Richard Reeves - LOS ANGELES -- Thousands of California students, from graduate students to kindergarten kids, walked out of their classrooms last Thursday to peacefully (mostly) demonstrate against the decline of education in the Golden State. Could this be the start of something big? Something bigger than tea bags? |
| A Year of Anti-Religious Bigotry
(Brent Bozell III)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT Brent Bozell III - It's quite striking to see the degree to which traditional Islam has come under ferocious attack from the anti-religious impulse in Hollywood and New York and other bohemian centers in America. It is clearly anti-Islamic religious bigotry. Take a look at just some examples over the past year alone. |
| The Undemocratic Democrats
(Linda Chavez)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT Linda Chavez - Arrogance is an occupational hazard in politics, one that is often fatal, and the Democrats show every sign of having succumbed. |
| The Obama Way: Bluster, Bully, Bribe
(Michelle Malkin)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT Michelle Malkin - The White House took great offense this week when conservatives suggested President Obama might be trading a judicial appointment for a wavering Democrat's vote on his health care reform plan. "Absurd," a miffed administration official told Politico.com. Wherever could the American people get such an impression? Let us count the ways. |
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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 10, 2010 is:
petard • \puh-TAHRD\ • noun
1 : a case containing an explosive to break down a door or gate or breach a wall *2 : a firework that explodes with a loud report
Example sentence:
"The blast occurred on Sunday afternoon in a farmer's house in the Anhui Province, destroying six rooms which stored materials for making petards and firecrackers." (RIA Novosti, January 11, 2010)
Did you know?
Aside from historical references to siege warfare, and occasional contemporary references to fireworks, "petard" is almost always encountered in variations of the phrase "hoist with one's own petard," meaning "victimized or hurt by one's own scheme." The phrase comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet: "For 'tis the sport to have the enginer / Hoist with his own petar." "Hoist" in this case is the past participle of the verb "hoise," meaning "to lift or raise," and "petar(d)" refers to an explosive device used in siege warfare. Hamlet uses the example of the engineer (the person who sets the explosive device) being blown into the air by his own device as a metaphor for those who schemed against Hamlet being undone by their own schemes. The phrase has endured, even if its literal meaning has largely been forgotten.
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.