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Breaking? Study Finds Fox News Viewers Are The Most Misinformed
To perhaps nobody's surprise, a study released this week finds that Fox News viewers are the most misinformed of any news consumers. The University of Maryland study, called "Misinformation and the 2010 Election," looked at "variations in misinformation by exposure to news sources," among other things, and specifically Newspapers and news magazines (in print and online), network TV news broadcasts, NPR and PBS, FOX News, MSNBC, and CNN. The study found that daily Fox News viewers, regardless...

Whole-Fat Dairy Products May Lower Type 2 Diabetes Risk: Study
MONDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that whole-fat Dairy Products -- generally shunned by health experts -- contain a Fatty Acid that may lower the risk of type 2 Diabetes. The Fatty Acid is called trans-palmitoleic acid, according to the study in the Dec. 21 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, and people with the highest blood levels of this Fatty Acid reduce their odds of diabetes by 62 percent compared to those with the lowest blood levels of it. In addition, "peop...

Schwarzenegger's next step: pushing oil at the White House?
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has only a few more days left with the title of Governor, but he won't be forgotten. He talked with the Los Angeles Times last Friday about Schwarzenegger's future plans in politics. The governor went on to say that he would like to work on Public Policy issues in which he could have an impact "with my celebrity power, and also my knowledge and experience." He said he's hot for environmental issues, and has some experience with Climate Change issues, but also likes...

Immoral budget? Here's an alternative...
Doing the “unthinkable” to avoid the “unbearable” and submitting a proposed Budget that is “immoral”? That’s how the Governor characterized her proposed Budget amid what were clear signs of emotional turmoil over the challenge and enormity of her task. While her unease was very likely sincere, was an “all cuts” Budget truly her only option? Republicans in the legislature were generally overjoyed with her proposal. Not surprising given their &...

Pirate Bay financier takes case to Swedish Supreme Court
Stumble This! A key financier of the Swedish filesharing site, The Pirate Bay, appealed to the country's highest court on Monday to overturn his four-month Prison sentence and fines to the music and movie industry, court documents showed. "Carl Lundstroem demands the Supreme Court cancel the Appeal Court's ruling," the petition read. In April 2009, Lundstroem and Pirate Bay founders Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, were sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay 32 mil...

Nevada School Bans Saying Merry Christmas After ACLU Complaint
(Fox News)- There is Controversy and confusion in the town of Mesquite, NV after teachers and staff members at the local High School were told to stop saying, “Merry Christmas,” according to an attorney with a conservative Advocacy Group. Teachers at Virgin Valley High School are reportedly not allowed to post any religious Christmas decorations, and are prohibited from engaging in other Christmas activities as part of an agreement with the Nevada American Civil Liberties Union, acc...

House GOP leaders: 9/11 first responders aid bill a massive new entitlement program
Politico: House Republican leadership is advising its members to vote against a Bipartisan bill that would, among other things, bolster medical support to Sept. 11 Victims. The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2009, sponsored by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), would provide medical monitoring to those exposed to Toxins at Ground Zero, bolster treatment at specialized centers for those afflicted by Toxins on Sept. 11 and reopen a compensation fund to provide for the economic los...

After 4 decades, Harvard opens door to ROTC
Harvard University will welcome ROTC back to campus now that Congress has repealed a ban on gays and Lesbians serving openly in the Military, university president Drew Faust said. The move will end a four-decade standoff between one of the nation’s most prestigious universities and its Armed Forces. The tension began over the Vietnam War and continued in recent years as university administrators, faculty, and Students objected to what they saw as Discrimination against gays and lesbians. ...

ROTC still a long way off at Harvard
Harvard University is preparing to formally recognize ROTC, now that Congress has repealed the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, but that doesn’t mean Military training will return to campus anytime soon. Recognition will reverse decades-old opposition to the program that began with the 1960s anti-war movement. Opponents later cited the 1993 policy barring gays from serving openly. “The Repeal of DADT is a historic step,” Harvard President Drew Faust said...

Harvard, Yale open up to ROTC plans after 'don't ask, don't tell' vote
Source: CNN The presidents of Harvard and Yale universities have expressed interest in ROTC programs after Congress voted to Repeal the Military's Controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that has banned Openly Gay and Lesbian service members. The universities' statements come five months after Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, then a Supreme Court nominee, came under criticism by Republican senators who complained that she actively tried to block military recruiters from Harvard Law School...

The College Diploma Fraud
For more than a half-century, government has tried to close racial gaps in educational attainment. Sad to say, those gaps have proven intractable. Nevertheless, the impulse remains as heartfelt as ever (perhaps due to its financially lucrative character), but the emphasis is now shifting from actual learning to equality of graduation rates. President Obama has spoken of adding 5 million graduates to the Workforce by 2020, and credential-mania is now all the rage. This shift is a disaster in the ...

Harvard University Plans to 'Welcome ROTC Back to Campus'
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 By Susan Jones (CNSNews.com) - A four-decade standoff between Harvard University and the U.S. Military is coming to an end, the Boston Globe reported on Tuesday. Harvard will "welcome ROTC back to campus" now that Congress has repealed a ban on gays and Lesbians serving openly in the military, university president Drew Faust said. “I look forward to pursuing discussions with Military officials and others to achieve Harvard’s full and formal recognition of ROTC...

ROTC To Return to Ivy League Schools
CNN reports: (CNN) — The presidents of Harvard and Yale universities have expressed interest in ROTC programs after Congress voted to Repeal the Military’s Controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that has banned Openly Gay and Lesbian service members. The universities’ statements come five months after Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, then a Supreme Court nominee, came under criticism by Republican senators who complained that she actively tried...

Harvard shamefully reopens campus to ROTC while throwing transgender students under the bus
This has me absolutely fuming. Once DADT has been repealed, Harvard University will reopen its campus to ROTC. I look forward to pursuing discussions with Military officials and others to achieve Harvard's full and formal recognition of ROTC. I am very pleased that more Students will now have the opportunity to serve their country. I am grateful to the Massachusetts delegation for their unified support for Repeal. -- Harvard President Drew Faust ROTC was banished from Harvard in the first pl...

George H. W. Bush and "Voodoo Economics"
Sam Houston State University historian, writing on the Forbes web site, has a very odd blog post this morning. He criticizes MIT Economist Simon Johnson for attributing the term "voodoo economics" to George H.W. Bush. Domitrovic calls it a "myth" that the elder Bush ever uttered those words. "You'd think there'd be a scrap of evidence dating from 1980 in support of this claim. In fact there is none," he says. Perhaps down in Texas they don't have access to the Los Angeles Times. If one goes to t...

Harvard Puts Lie To Kagans DADT Claims
From CNN: Harvard, Yale open up to ROTC plans after ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ vote December 21, 2010 (CNN) — The presidents of Harvard and Yale universities have expressed interest in ROTC programs after Congress voted to Repeal the Military’s Controversial "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy that has banned Openly Gay and Lesbian service members. The universities’ statements come five months after Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, t...

Schools lift ROTC ban after don't ask vote
Published: Dec. 21, 2010 at 8:13 AM Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Two Ivy League schools say they'll welcome back the ROTC program now that the U.S. Congress repealed a ban on gays and Lesbians openly serving in the Military. The decision to reinstate the Reserve Officers' Training Corps ends a 40-year standoff between Harvard University and the Armed Forces that began over the Vietnam War and remained as university administrators, faculty and Students objected to the military's "don't ask,...

Harvard pres: ROTC talks on after DADT repeal
CAMBRIDGE — Harvard University’s president says she looks forward to a return to campus of the long-banned Reserve Officer Training Corps program, now that Congress voted this weekend to allow gays to serve openly in the Military. President Drew Gilpin Faust said in a statement that she plans to hold discussions with military officials and hopes they will lead to Harvard’s full and formal recognition of ROTC. The university banned the program on campus in 1969 amid Vietnam War...

Today's Unsurprising Amanda Admission...
For the record, I don’t think I even met anyone who went to Harvard until I was like at least 25. An Aside: In truth, though, after reading Matthew Yglesias over the past few years, if I read some Amanduh prose without knowing the source, I'm pretty sure I'd chalk it up to a Harvard grad....

The Ivy League Makes Peace with ROTC
The Repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law barring gays and Lesbians from serving openly in the Armed Forces won't be implemented for a few months yet, but it will immediately lead elite colleges to begin to reconcile with the Military training program kicked off college campuses more than four decades ago. Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust promised in a November joint appearance with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen at the school's Institute of Politics that the ...

The disposable academic
ON THE evening before All Saints’ Day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg. In those days a Thesis was simply a position one wanted to argue. Luther, an Augustinian friar, asserted that Christians could not buy their way to heaven. Today a doctoral Thesis is both an idea and an account of a period of original research. Writing one is the aim of the hundreds of thousands of Students who embark on a doctorate of philosophy (PhD) every year. In most c...

Damage to Harvard books on gay issues an accident
Cambridge, Mass. -- A Harvard University dean says damage to three dozen books on gay and Lesbian issues that appeared to have been doused in urine in a campus library was simply an accident. Campus Police were investigating the incident that occurred Nov. 24 and reported Friday as a Hate Crime. Dean Evelynn Hammonds told The Crimson Student Newspaper Monday that an investigation determined that a library worker found a bottle of what appeared to be urine on a shelf in the Lamont Library and...

Tuesday Open Thread
Joining in on Jon Stewart’s outrage over the failure of the 9/11 First Responders bill today was Fox News’ Shep Smith, who asked: “How do they sleep at night?” Stewart devoted his whole show last night to gravely attacking Senate Republicans for voting against the bill, which would provide Health Care to the First Responders on September 11. Shep was equally incensed: “Who’s going to hold these people’s feet to the fire? We’re able to put a 52-stor...

111th Congress: Worst ever?
Historians may argue, but there's much to support a case for the affirmative. Frank Donatelli reviews the power-mad exploits of this outgoing band of despots. Among them: $800 billion "stimulus" Why take any time to study the contents when you know exactly what to do? The problem was that most of the money went to states to preserve the jobs of government workers. Some stimulus. The president said it would keep Unemployment at 8 percent. It is now near 10 percent.Cap and Trade: Passed by the s...

Colorado cop accused of child porn
Published: Dec. 19, 2010 at 4:32 PM Colorado Springs, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A Colorado police sergeant carried Child Pornography on a Laptop that he brought to work, police said. Sgt. Morgan Sellman, 39, of the Aurora force, was arrested Friday on suspicion of possessing hundreds of videos depicting Victims as young as 2, Colorado Springs police said in an Arrest Warrant reported by the Colorado Springs Gazette. The Laptop case, found in his office, also contained sex toys, police said. Sellman, who...