Monday's Daily Brief

Monday, February 21, 2011 Wisconsin Democratic Senators Vow To Stay In Illinois Until Gov. Walker Agrees To Negotiate It's day four of exile for Wisconsin's Democratic state senators, who crossed state lines in order to stall the expedited passage of Gov. Scott Walker's (R) budget proposal. Although many of the governor's supporters have called on them to come back to Madison, Democrats are ready to stick it out in Rockford, Ill. until Walker agrees to negotiate. "We'll be here until Gov. Walker decides that he wants to talk," said state Sen. Tim Carpenter (D) in an interview with The Huffington Post on Saturday. He added that so far, the governor refuses to meet with them or even return the phone calls from members of the Democratic caucus. WORLD Massacres Reported As Libya's Protest Crackdown Intensifies POLITICS GOP Rep On How Congress Will Avoid A Government Shutdown WORLD Major Volcano Eruption Takes Place In Philippines BUSINESS NASDAQ Nears Highest Level In A Decade SPORTS 14-Car Crash At Daytona 500 BLOG POSTS Howard Schweber:The Madison Protests: It's Not About the Money The Wisconsin protests have never been about the money. It's about the politics, about the representation and about the duty that public officials have to treat their constituents who are taxpayers with a minimal degree of respect. Rep. Jackie Speier:"Abortion" Fuels Intolerant Thinking In our nation's political dictionary, "abortion" is a word employed by intolerant people to cast shame on women who choose it. Steve Stoute:An Open Letter to Neil Portnow, NARAS and the Grammy Awards Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business, I have come to the conclusion that the Grammy Awards have clearly lost touch with contemporary popular culture. John Lundberg:Robot Wins Jeopardy, But Can It Write Poetry? Writing good poetry may one day be a final exam of sorts for an artificial intelligence. Ian Fletcher:American Manufacturing Slowly Rotting Away: How Industries Die Losing positions in key technologies means that whatever brilliant innovations Americans may dream up, large-scale commercialization of those innovations will increasingly take place abroad.

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