Thursday, March 10, 2011

Thursday's Daily Brief

Thursday, March 10, 2011
POLITICS
Terror Hearing In Congress Begins Amid Heightened Security
BUSINESS
Buying Legitimacy: How A Group Of California Executives Built An Online College Empire
WORLD
Dalai Lama Stepping Down As Tibetan Political Leader
TECHNOLOGY
House Panel Votes To Repeal Net Neutrality Rules
STYLE
Galliano's Lawyer Speaks
BLOG POSTS
Rep. Mike Honda: War Internment Lessons: Peter King's Muslim Hearings Will Not Make America Safer
The King hearings do little to keep our country secure and do plenty to increase prejudice, discrimination and hate. I thought we learned a lesson or two from my internment camp experience in Colorado. I hope I am not proven wrong.
Talya Minsberg: "We Aren't Going Anywhere"
Despite Wednesday evening's news of a bill being forced through here in Madison, Wisconsin, protestors are maintaining hope that their voices will be heard by Governor Walker.
Robert Creamer: Cut Head Start But Keep Subsidies for Big Oil? Earth to Boehner...Come In!
Republicans say they need to make budget cuts because "America is broke." But at the very same time they voted to cut education programs like Head Start, they voted to continue $4 billion worth of subsidies to Big Oil.
Bob Edwards: Remembering David Broder
Broder was incapable of purple prose or of leaving political fingerprints on his copy. But he knew he wasn't perfect. In his last column of each year, he used to list everything he got wrong that year. Who else in Washington admits mistakes?
Ty McCormick: The Changing Situation in Egypt: Reflections on Military Detention
The Egyptian Revolution is not over, but the period of feel-good flag-waving may be. What I witnessed today was the first time the military has turned decisively against protesters, who are themselves now becoming divided.

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