Thursday, September 8, 2011

Thursday's Daily Brief

Thursday, September 8, 2011
BOOKS
HuffPost's First e-Book: A People's History of the Great Recession
POLITICS
Republicans Plan To Skip Obama's Jobs Speech
BUSINESS
U.S. Manufacturing, Once A Beacon, Grows Dim
WORLD
Palestinians Officially Launch Statehood Campaign
WOMEN
Lonely? Win A Wife On The Radio
BLOG POSTS
Ari Melber: GOP Debate: From Birthers to Earthers
The most striking part of the first full-blown debate in the Republican primary was the total rejection of science. In a surreal scene near the night's end, Gov. Rick Perry likened the people denying global warming science to Galileo.
Michael Vlahos: Did We Lose the War?
We will learn nothing and gain nothing from ten years of tragedy, waste, and ruin unless we face up to the fact that we have lost the wars we initiated after the attacks of September 11th, 2001.
Dani Zamora: The Story of Young Artist's Deportation: "In the Land That Saw My Birth, But Is No Longer My Own."
I stepped out of the bus, collected my bag with my wallet and phone, and set foot, for the first time in 11 years, in the land that saw me be born but no longer felt my own.
Michele Nash-Hoff: Poll Shows Creating Manufacturing Jobs Is Key to Recovery
Despite overwhelming public concern about these issues, fewer voters now believe the president or either party in Congress is focused on jobs than thought so in 2010.
Sujatha Fernandes: Hip Hop and Global Unrest
Four decades after its birth in the Bronx, rap music has become the soundtrack to the social unrest sweeping the globe from Tunisia to Libya and London.
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