IMPALIN’ — Stop Sarah Palin for President in 2012

pThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to decide by Saturday whether to continue allowing bisphenol-A (BPA) in food and beverage containers, Americans’ main source of exposure to the chemical implicated in everything from a href=”http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/05/02/bpa-linked-to-childhood-asthma/” target=”_hplink”asthma/a to a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/bpa-chemical-hormone-obesity-diabetes_n_1276996.html” target=”_hplink”diabetes/a./ppStudies show that developing fetuses and young children are most vulnerable to the risks. Impoverished kids, whose meals more often come out of BPA-leaching plastic packages and coated metal cans, may bear the brunt of the burden./pp”Hormonally active chemicals such as BPA have no place in our kids’ life,” Sarah Janssen, senior scientist with the a href=”http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/sjanssen/an_update_on_bpa_science.html” target=”_hplink”Natural Resources Defense Council/a, told reporters last week./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/29/bpa-fda-decision-poverty-children-health_n_1389799.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/health/”More on Health/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/E36-WHu357vDKrJuQRILGONDzeg/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/E36-WHu357vDKrJuQRILGONDzeg/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/E36-WHu357vDKrJuQRILGONDzeg/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/E36-WHu357vDKrJuQRILGONDzeg/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=mERV0xtcQtU:E84G9C7NXzw:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=mERV0xtcQtU:E84G9C7NXzw:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=mERV0xtcQtU:E84G9C7NXzw:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=mERV0xtcQtU:E84G9C7NXzw:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=mERV0xtcQtU:E84G9C7NXzw:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/mERV0xtcQtU” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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pbr/ brBy Alexei Oreskovic and Sarah McBride/br brSAN FRANCISCO, March 28 (Reuters) - Social-networking site Facebook is halting the sale of its shares on secondary markets effective next week as the company prepares to hold its initial public offering in May, according to a person familiar with the matter./br brFacebook recently asked firms that arrange trading of its privately held shares to stop doing so, a move intended to reduce churn in its valuation that could complicate matters as it sets an IPO price, according to another person familiar with the matter./br brFacebook is planning to raise $5 billion in an offering that could value the company at up to $100 billion, making it the largest IPO in Silicon Valley history./br brThe May time frame for the high-profile IPO is dependent on the Securities and Exchange Commission declaring the company’s prospectus effective, the first source noted. Facebook has amended its prospectus three times since filing paperwork to go public in early February./br brA Facebook spokesman declined to comment./br brThe company has said it wants its shares to trade under the ticker FB, but has yet to announce which exchange it will list its shares on./br brWith more than 845 million users, Facebook is the world’s No.1 social networking service and is challenging established Web companies such as Google Inc and Yahoo Inc , which compete with Facebook for users’ time online and for advertising dollars./br brAs Facebook moves towards its IPO, some investors are raising concerns about Facebook’s dual-class share structure, which will give Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg control of 56.9 percent of the company’s post-IPO voting shares. At a recent meeting with financial analysts and investors, Facebook executives suggested that Zuckerberg will not be very involved with Wall Street. [ID: nL2E8EN2CI]/br brDespite the criticisms, investor demand for equity in Facebook has burned strong for years, with shares of Facebook trading briskly in special secondary markets for private company stock./br brSharesPost Financial, a firm that facilitates trading shares of privately held companies such as Facebook, announced on Wednesday that it would cease facilitating transactions in Facebook as of the end of day on Friday “to help ensure the company’s orderly transition into the public markets.”/br brSecondMarket, another firm that arranges trading in private shares, declined to comment. Bloomberg reported the news earlier Wednesday./br/pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/28/facebook-ipo-may_n_1386460.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/facebook/”More on Facebook/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ql6O1ZBRl3yveAI7LvpITiLTPf4/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ql6O1ZBRl3yveAI7LvpITiLTPf4/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ql6O1ZBRl3yveAI7LvpITiLTPf4/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ql6O1ZBRl3yveAI7LvpITiLTPf4/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=dfTAFZ93vDQ:8iF1PzDvF7E:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=dfTAFZ93vDQ:8iF1PzDvF7E:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=dfTAFZ93vDQ:8iF1PzDvF7E:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=dfTAFZ93vDQ:8iF1PzDvF7E:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=dfTAFZ93vDQ:8iF1PzDvF7E:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/dfTAFZ93vDQ” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Facebook IPO Set For May: Source

pbrBy Oliver Holmes/br brBEIRUT, March 20 (Reuters) - Armed opposition groups in Syria have kidnapped, tortured and executed members of the security forces and supporters of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday./br brThe rights group condemned the tactics by opposition fighters, who have long accused government troops and loyalists of carrying out similar abuses./br br”The Syrian government’s brutal tactics cannot justify abuses by armed opposition groups,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, in an open letter to dissident groups including the official opposition body the Syrian National Council (SNC)./br br”Opposition leaders should make it clear to their followers that they must not torture, kidnap or execute under any circumstances,” she added./br brSyria’s armed opposition is highly fragmented and many militias do not appear to belong to an organised command structure or to be following SNC orders./br brThe year-long uprising in Syria, in which the United Nations says more than 8,000 people have been killed, started as a peaceful protest movement. But it has become increasingly violent with daily clashes between rebels and security forces around the country./br br/ brSECTARIAN TENSIONS/br brHRW cited dozens of YouTube videos in which Syrian security forces or their alleged supporters confessed to crimes, apparently under duress. At least 18 of the videos showed detainees who were bruised, bleeding, or suffering from other signs of physical abuse, the groups added./br brOne video showed a man hanging from a tree by his neck in front of several armed fighters with commentary indicating that he was a member of the Shabbiha, feared irregular forces loyal to Assad./br brHRW said some of the attacks appeared to have targeted Shi’ite Muslims or members of Assad’s own Alawite sect./br brAnalysts warn the uprising could degenerate into civil war, pitting Alawites against Sunni Muslims, who make up 75 percent of the 23-million population./br brThat it turn would add to strains along the Middle East’s sectarian divide, with Assad’s backer Iran, and Tehran’s Shi’ite allies in Lebanon and Iraq, against the Sunni powers which dominate Arab governments from Egypt to the Gulf./br brHRW’s Whitson said: “(The Syrian Opposition) need to make it clear that they envision a Syria that turns the page on Assad-era violations and welcomes all - regardless of their religious group or background - without discrimination.”/br/pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/syria-opposition-torture-execute_n_1366352.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/syria/”More on Syria/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vJRWHB88gE_A9jiWdm6K8pJhBv4/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vJRWHB88gE_A9jiWdm6K8pJhBv4/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vJRWHB88gE_A9jiWdm6K8pJhBv4/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vJRWHB88gE_A9jiWdm6K8pJhBv4/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=O3byS2p6OkQ:NJkIRmuYNZg:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=O3byS2p6OkQ:NJkIRmuYNZg:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=O3byS2p6OkQ:NJkIRmuYNZg:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=O3byS2p6OkQ:NJkIRmuYNZg:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=O3byS2p6OkQ:NJkIRmuYNZg:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/O3byS2p6OkQ” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Dear Governor Palin: I called the White House to see if the president might be available to debate you. Alas, I was told he was busy running the country and trying to make peace in the world.bra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/sarah-palin-letter_b_1354949.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/sarah-palin/”More on Sarah Palin/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FEx1VDbhxwFyXfmfosGvNyhhMx8/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FEx1VDbhxwFyXfmfosGvNyhhMx8/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FEx1VDbhxwFyXfmfosGvNyhhMx8/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FEx1VDbhxwFyXfmfosGvNyhhMx8/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=_5LpHyaNIxU:zuQCS3aLf24:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=_5LpHyaNIxU:zuQCS3aLf24:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=_5LpHyaNIxU:zuQCS3aLf24:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=_5LpHyaNIxU:zuQCS3aLf24:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=_5LpHyaNIxU:zuQCS3aLf24:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/_5LpHyaNIxU” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Paul Abrams: Governor Palin: The President Is Busy, So I Accept Your Debate Challenge

pLaw-abiding or not, Sarah Shahi is stepping back into the shoes of her “a href=”http://www.aoltv.com/show/fairly-legal/8406590″ target=”_hplink”Fairly Legal/a” character on Fri., March 16 for the series’ second season./ppShahi returns as Kate Reed, a 29-year-old woman who leaves her job as a lawyer for a position as a mediator. In this exclusive clip from “Fairly Legal’s” Season 2 premiere, “Satisfaction,” Kate has her first meeting with the intelligent, quick-witted trial attorney Ben Grogan (Ryan Johnson). /ppWith Ben and Kate throwing around flirty remarks about “being a schoolteacher” and “not wanting any foreplay,” it becomes clear that their relationship may result in a breach of professional boundaries as Season 2 of the legal drama continues. /pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/15/fairly-legal-season-2_n_1346982.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/video/”More on Video/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QdyPC2Mdr7kVKWyokJkQ3e65JQw/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QdyPC2Mdr7kVKWyokJkQ3e65JQw/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QdyPC2Mdr7kVKWyokJkQ3e65JQw/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QdyPC2Mdr7kVKWyokJkQ3e65JQw/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=JIq6mCRIJ-w:VWzmzCgdqjg:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=JIq6mCRIJ-w:VWzmzCgdqjg:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=JIq6mCRIJ-w:VWzmzCgdqjg:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=JIq6mCRIJ-w:VWzmzCgdqjg:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=JIq6mCRIJ-w:VWzmzCgdqjg:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/JIq6mCRIJ-w” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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pWhen Travis ran away to Hawaii on “Cougar Town” (Tue., 8:30 p.m. ET on ABC), he ran into Ted Buckland (Sam Lloyd) from “Scrubs.” It was the same actor and the same character across the two Bill Lawrence shows, but Lloyd wasn’t the only returning “Scrubs” alumnus in attendance at this week’s “Cougar Town,” though he was the only character./ppTed and his a cappella group showed up in Florida for a competition, bunking at Jules’ place for a while. There he saw Ellie (Christa Miller) — who looks a lot like Jordan Sullivan from his old job — sitting next to Bobby’s new girlfriend, played by Sarah Chalke — who of course looks identical to Dr. Elliot Reid./ppSuddenly, Ted started freaking out realizing that they women here looked like women he knew there, and then they started picking up their mannerisms. Suddenly, Ken Jenkins dropped in to check on his daughter — Jenkins also played Bob Kelso on “Scrubs” — the pizza delivery guy looked just like J.D. (Zach Braff) and after Ted backed into the doorway and collapsed, The Todd (Robert Maschio) leaned in with a “You all right, five?”/pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/14/cougar-town-scrubs-reunion-couple-surprises-video_n_1343766.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/reality-free/”More on Reality-Free/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/a663Hbqr3GS09UTuGAU7L1jKo8E/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/a663Hbqr3GS09UTuGAU7L1jKo8E/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/a663Hbqr3GS09UTuGAU7L1jKo8E/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/a663Hbqr3GS09UTuGAU7L1jKo8E/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=CjmeB_J8QTw:Mp2QZZTbGJc:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=CjmeB_J8QTw:Mp2QZZTbGJc:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=CjmeB_J8QTw:Mp2QZZTbGJc:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=CjmeB_J8QTw:Mp2QZZTbGJc:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=CjmeB_J8QTw:Mp2QZZTbGJc:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/CjmeB_J8QTw” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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pa href=”http://www.aoltv.com/celebs/jon-bernthal/2153381/main” target=”_hplink”Jon Bernthal/a had a strict gag order on him, forbidding him to talk about the shocking death of his character Shane on “a href=”http://www.aoltv.com/show/walking-dead/8282918″ target=”_hplink”The Walking Dead/a” this past weekend. And yet, he admitted to breaking the order and telling one person on “a href=”http://www.aoltv.com/show/late-show-with-david-letterman/183878″ target=”_hplink”Late Show/a” (Weeknights, 11:35 p.m. ET on CBS)./pp”I hope that the warlords at AMC won’t hunt me down for this, but I did tell one person,” he admitted. “I told my grandmother.”/ppBut he had a good reason for doing so, after getting an earful from his grandmother after an earlier episode featured a sex scene in the woods between him and a href=”http://www.aoltv.com/celebs/sarah-wayne-callies/2112505/main” target=”_hplink”Sarah Wayne Callies/a, who plays Shane’s best friend Rick’s wife Lori./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/13/jon-bernthal-talks-death-frank-darabont-la-noire-video_n_1340989.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/reality-free/”More on Reality-Free/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yapRZaU_PvL7VDYdX7SzA4iEL7U/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yapRZaU_PvL7VDYdX7SzA4iEL7U/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yapRZaU_PvL7VDYdX7SzA4iEL7U/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yapRZaU_PvL7VDYdX7SzA4iEL7U/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=Z747oc_UdEo:qqzSCJLdUQU:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=Z747oc_UdEo:qqzSCJLdUQU:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=Z747oc_UdEo:qqzSCJLdUQU:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=Z747oc_UdEo:qqzSCJLdUQU:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=Z747oc_UdEo:qqzSCJLdUQU:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/Z747oc_UdEo” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Our country’s inability to elect women to the highest or even second-highest office in the land begs the uncomfortable question: if women are the majority of American voters, then does the blame for the dearth of women leaders lie with women voters?bra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keli-goff/female-voters-female-candidates_b_1340601.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/sarah-palin/”More on Sarah Palin/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bsG-IUe4IWUQKb1vect5HzsiXLE/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bsG-IUe4IWUQKb1vect5HzsiXLE/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bsG-IUe4IWUQKb1vect5HzsiXLE/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bsG-IUe4IWUQKb1vect5HzsiXLE/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=xsUPhQkRjyc:08QiKICDAAY:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=xsUPhQkRjyc:08QiKICDAAY:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=xsUPhQkRjyc:08QiKICDAAY:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=xsUPhQkRjyc:08QiKICDAAY:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=xsUPhQkRjyc:08QiKICDAAY:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/xsUPhQkRjyc” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Keli Goff: Are Female Voters to Blame for the Failure of Female Candidates?

p”Game Change” (Sat., 9 p.m. EST on HBO) offered a dramatized and unflattering look at Sarah Palin’s role in the 2008 presidential campaign. The story followed her from the moment she was picked from obscurity to try and jolt the campaign through to her emergence as a true superstar on the political stage./ppIn the intervening time, though, were many instances where advisors to the McCain campaign were stunned at her lack of knowledge regarding foreign policy, and even domestic concerns. The film alleges that Palin was fed scripts to memorize during debates, where response time is more limited, thus explaining her stronger performances there than in media interviews, like her infamous sit-down with Katie Couric./ppAfter success in the vice presidential debate put the public firmly behind her, the film shows Palin emerging from her cocoon of depression into a strong presence on the campaign trail. Ultimately, though, it looked as if the power went to her head in the film. She started trying to blatantly lie about things in her past she wanted buried, and even took to treating it as if this was her campaign, and McCain was riding on her coattails./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/12/game-change-did-sarah-palin-get-power-mad-video_n_1338327.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/reality-free/”More on Reality-Free/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GbS3cHoWg-hYHJsOunq_4dU454Y/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GbS3cHoWg-hYHJsOunq_4dU454Y/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GbS3cHoWg-hYHJsOunq_4dU454Y/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/GbS3cHoWg-hYHJsOunq_4dU454Y/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=GSLSGY3QS6o:H07Apxc7cIM:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=GSLSGY3QS6o:H07Apxc7cIM:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=GSLSGY3QS6o:H07Apxc7cIM:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=GSLSGY3QS6o:H07Apxc7cIM:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=GSLSGY3QS6o:H07Apxc7cIM:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/GSLSGY3QS6o” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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‘Game Change’: Did Sarah Palin Get Power Mad Late In The Campaign? (VIDEO)

On March 11 of last year, just minutes after the earthquake, I woke to the sound of my phone. It was a message from one of my favorite former students in Japan.bra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-ruddy/after-the-tohoku-earthqua_b_1335092.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/japan-earthquake-anniversary/”More on Japan Earthquake Anniversary/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ibpqxnOj9ceE1SR8fhG_dvBi374/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ibpqxnOj9ceE1SR8fhG_dvBi374/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ibpqxnOj9ceE1SR8fhG_dvBi374/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ibpqxnOj9ceE1SR8fhG_dvBi374/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=TtuJlq7MDOU:x3qHFXMmf0A:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=TtuJlq7MDOU:x3qHFXMmf0A:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=TtuJlq7MDOU:x3qHFXMmf0A:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=TtuJlq7MDOU:x3qHFXMmf0A:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=TtuJlq7MDOU:x3qHFXMmf0A:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/TtuJlq7MDOU” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Sarah Ruddy: After The Tohoku Earthquake: ‘I Gave Up My Family For Dead’ (PHOTOS)

centeriframe width=”550″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/IYQhRCs9IHM” frameborder=”0″ defang_allowfullscreen=”"/iframe divia href=”http://www.soomopublishing.com/suffrage/#!lyrics”Click here to read the lyrics/a/i/div /center pWriting a a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/news/this20in20war20women”weekly round-up/a of the various battles in the War on Women is usually pretty depressing./p pFor every battle won, there are a dozen more we’ve lost, and even those victories feel like little reason to celebrate, given that they’re usually defensive. Yea, we managed to keep some bugfuck crazy state legislator from turning his bugfuck crazy proposed bill into law. Woo hoo, kinda sorta, I guess./p pThere are exceptions, of course. The president’s new health care policy requiring insurance companies to cover comprehensive, preventative health care for women—including birth control—was an absolute cause-for-celebration victory. The beauty of this policy is that it is emoffensive/em, not emdefensive/em. We need a lot more of that kind of offense if those who care about women—or a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/03/1070560/-This-week-in-the-War-on-Women-Sluts-unite-?detail=hide”sluts/a, as Rush Limbaugh calls them—are going to win this war. It isn’t enough to stop Republicans from passing bad laws to hurt women; we need to pass good laws and enact good policies that expand women’s equality./p pTake, for example, the a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/13/washington-abortion-reproductive-parity-act_n_1205415.html”Reproductive Parity Act/a being debated in the state of Washington:br //p blockquote[L]awmakers in Washington state have introduced a rare, groundbreaking reproductive rights bill that would require every insurance policy in the state that covers maternity care to also cover abortions. p”This bill is about ensuring that all Washington women have health insurance coverage that includes the full range of reproductive health care options, including abortion,” said Rep. Eileen Cody (D), who sponsored the bill. “As we implement the federal health care reform law, we need to ensure that we have no erosion of our existing laws in Washington that protect women’s reproductive rights.”/p /blockquote California is also a href=”http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2012/03/09/2262037/bill-would-increase-access-to.html”debating a bill/a to protect and expand women’s abortion access. pMeanwhile, in Congress, the a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_Fairness_Act”Paycheck Fairness Act/a, which would expand the Equal Pay Act of 1963 to better address the wage gap, languishes. As does the a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment”Equal Rights Amendment/a, which is reintroduced every congressional session and always goes absolutely nowhere. The Pro-Choice Caucus also has repeatedly introduced the a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Choice_Act”Freedom of Choice Act/a to codify emRoe v. Wade/em, and to make it the law of the land that:br //p blockquote[E]very woman has the fundamental right to choose to bear a child, to terminate a pregnancy prior to fetal viability, or to terminate a pregnancy after fetal viability when necessary to protect the life or health of the woman./blockquote pPredictably, this too has gone nowhere. Republicans, of course, oppose any attempts to protect and expand women’s rights. And Democrats have been unwilling to expend any energy at all for what they typically dismiss as unimportant “special interest” legislation./p pBut the times, they are a-changin’. And as Republicans (and some of their Democratic enablers) have become increasingly bold and blatant in their War on Women, Americans—and even usually tone-deaf Democrats in Congress—are waking up and fighting back and, most importantly, realizing that fighting emfor/em women isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s the empolitically/em smart thing to do too. For Democrats, it’s a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/28/1069123/-Democrats-see-electoral-gold-in-birth-control-fight-but-do-they-see-women-s-health-?detail=hide”electoral gold/a. For Republicans, it’s a a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/07/1072119/-Republicans-losing-lady-voters-Gee-no-one-saw-that-coming?via=history”losing issue/a, driving women away from the Grand Ol’ Party in droves. Maybe that’s why Republican leadership is a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/07/1072047/-GOP-leadership-losing-steam-for-birth-control-nbsp-fight-?via=history”losing their appetite for the fight/a. Heck, even Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/07/1072102/-Lisa-Murkoswki-blasts-Republicans-for-the-Blunt-amendment-she-voted-for?via=history”knows this war is a bad idea/a. (Too bad she didn’t come to Jesus embefore/em she voted with her party to try to write a galaxy-sized loophole into the president’s new policy.)/p pRepublicans’ unwillingness to forcefully condemn a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/05/1071386/-Video-53-of-Rush-Limbaugh-s-most-vile-smears-against-law-student-Sandra-Fluke?detail=hide”Rush Limbaugh’s slut crusade/a has further revealed just how deep their hatred of women goes—and it’s blowing up in their faces. The backlash against Rush and his Republican defenders, including Bill O’Reilly and a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/07/1072046/-Shocker-Sarah-Palin-defends-Rush-Limbaugh-s-slut-crusade?detail=hide”faux feminist Sarah Palin/a, has demonstrated that when people who care about women, aka sluts, fight back and go on the attack, a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/07/1072229/-Rush-Limbaugh-loses-more-advertisers-but-denies-he-s-losing-nbsp-money?detail=hide”they win/a./p pSo, sluts, here is what you can do this week to fight back:/p ul lia href=”http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=84″Stand with women veterans calling on Armed Forces Network to stop airing Rush Limbaugh/a./li lia href=”http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=85″Tell advertisers on Rush Limbaugh’s show to drop him permanently/a./li lia href=”http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=83″Tell advertisers to drop Bill O’Reilly like a hot falafel for standing with Rush/a./li /ul pThese three actions won’t take but a minute of your time. Getting misogynists like Limbaugh and O’Reilly off the air won’t solve all our problems—we need legislative victories as well as rhetorical ones—but with each battle we fight and win, we’re one step closer to winning the war./p hr size=”2″ color=”#000099″ width=”75%” / br / This week’s good, bad and ugly below the fold. pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vDB64GmF5B6Cwol3S_oVGAvSdWM/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vDB64GmF5B6Cwol3S_oVGAvSdWM/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vDB64GmF5B6Cwol3S_oVGAvSdWM/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vDB64GmF5B6Cwol3S_oVGAvSdWM/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=RR7UMV5JFXM:LssPf7jZNQs:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/RR7UMV5JFXM” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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This week in the War on Women: Hey, sluts, let’s win this thing

pSarah Palin a href=”http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-sarahpalin-gamechangebre829028-20120309,0,2598204.story” target=”_hplink”dismissed/a the HBO film “Game Change” — a href=”http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/08/entertainment/la-et-game-change-20120309″ target=”_hplink”airing publicly/a for the first time on Saturday night — as unimportant./ppIn an email to ABC News, Palin said her “family has the right priorities and knows what really matters,” a href=”http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-sarahpalin-gamechangebre829028-20120309,0,2598204.story” target=”_hplink”according/a to the emChicago Tribune/em. As she brushed off the film, she also took a swipe at President Barack Obama for having a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/20/top-10-celebrity-obama-su_n_96313.html” target=”_hplink”supporters/a in the entertainment industry./pp”For instance, our son called from Afghanistan yesterday and he sounded good and that’s what matters,” Palin said. “Being in the good graces of Hollywood’s ‘Team Obama’ isn’t top of my list.”/pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/10/game-change_n_1336956.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/slidepollajax/”More on Photo Galleries/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tsteIqJ0fvdJWzGLUk9i1xzPq0Q/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tsteIqJ0fvdJWzGLUk9i1xzPq0Q/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tsteIqJ0fvdJWzGLUk9i1xzPq0Q/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tsteIqJ0fvdJWzGLUk9i1xzPq0Q/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=Eh-IpiwPPWU:LUY8SV7hrsU:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=Eh-IpiwPPWU:LUY8SV7hrsU:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=Eh-IpiwPPWU:LUY8SV7hrsU:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=Eh-IpiwPPWU:LUY8SV7hrsU:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=Eh-IpiwPPWU:LUY8SV7hrsU:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/Eh-IpiwPPWU” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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‘Game Change’: Sarah Palin Dismisses HBO Film As Unimportant

centeriframe width=”550″ height=”309″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/IPhh7mch5zo?rel=0″ frameborder=”0″ defang_allowfullscreen=”"/iframe/center pThe HBO movie emGame Change/em, from the book of the same name, debuts Saturday night to a barrage of publicity. While both critics and criticism have focused on the two chapters of the book that deal with Sarah Palin, it’s nearly impossible to avoid the implications of the most important—and disqualifying—decision John McCain made in 2008. Realizing that he was losing, McCain authorized the choice of Sarah Palin, a politician with no qualification for being a heartbeat away from the presidency./p pReviews suggest a somewhat sympathetic view of Palin, reaffirming that she was a great campaigner who brought needed electricity into the McCain camp while at the same time confirming that she was the political neanderthal we all took her to be. One of my favorite writers, a href=”http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott”James Wolcott/a, in emVanity Fair/em:/p blockquoteThe chief reason to see Game Change (HBO, Saturday March 10th) is that it’s fun. It has nothing new or profound to say about the runaway train of a presidential campaign, it doesn’t have paint any rainy moments of a candidate’s somber reflection on the toll of his soul as the an aide prattles on the latest polls, it doesn’t peel any of the crab shell off of John McCain for a look under the psychological hood, or show us a side of Sarah Palin that will send us to the rewrite pages of history. It doesn’t drip oil from the ceiling like Ides of March, implicating everyone including the audience in collusion and corruption. It’s a slow-burn comedy of exasperation, finally blossoming into cursing frustration when Palin, the rock-star treatment from her rabid fans pumping her up into believing that she’s bigger than the campaign, wants to make her own concession speech the night of the losing election./blockquote You can a href=”http://www.mediaite.com/tv/john-mccain-trashes-hbos-game-change-director-defends/”watch McCain/a trash the film, or even take the trouble to bother to see a href=”http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/sarah-palin-responds-to-game-change/”what Palin thinks/a (”the film doesn’t matter to her”). But the relevant comments come from a href=”http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/sarah-palin-responds-to-game-change/”these two/a: blockquoteOther aides who worked on the campaign – campaign manager Steven Schmidt and top aide Nicolle Wallace – have said the film is a generally accurate portrayal of Sen. John McCain’s selection of Palin, whom they allege was emotionally and intellectually not up for the job./blockquote Let’s be clear: Palin is absolutely right. The film doesn’t matter. pWhat matters is that John McCain picked someone so totally and completely unfit for the position of vice president. That disastrous decision disqualifies McCain for the position of “senior wise man” that he so loves to play. But what this choice tells us, reinforced by his behavior during the September 2008 financial meltdown, is that McCain’s instincts are abysmal and his judgment is worse./p pWhy anyone would continue to take McCain seriously from a political standpoint is unanswerable. He’s never going to live down this choice. And the reason he’s so dismissive of the movie and the book is for all the right reasons: the chatter may be all about Palin, but the implications are all about McCain./p pIn fact, that’s actually what happened in 2008, in case anyone has forgotten./p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CvvMiDrjAUTKY_7rl8uY9YFPago/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CvvMiDrjAUTKY_7rl8uY9YFPago/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CvvMiDrjAUTKY_7rl8uY9YFPago/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CvvMiDrjAUTKY_7rl8uY9YFPago/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=yCK3Nvbx9JU:QhGxHz9Dr4E:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/yCK3Nvbx9JU” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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‘Game Change’ and the realities of political decisions

After months of promotion HBO’s film on Sarah Palin and the 2008 campaign, emGame Change,/em will air (finally) tonight.bra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/game-change-palin_b_1336841.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/sarah-palin/”More on Sarah Palin/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WtvTWIdP8S-5qdy83qTnKJD_jXk/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WtvTWIdP8S-5qdy83qTnKJD_jXk/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WtvTWIdP8S-5qdy83qTnKJD_jXk/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WtvTWIdP8S-5qdy83qTnKJD_jXk/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=YiiNYoKUyqU:HvZYLoKXfJw:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=YiiNYoKUyqU:HvZYLoKXfJw:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=YiiNYoKUyqU:HvZYLoKXfJw:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=YiiNYoKUyqU:HvZYLoKXfJw:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=YiiNYoKUyqU:HvZYLoKXfJw:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/YiiNYoKUyqU” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Greg Mitchell: Game Change in Real-Time (Part IV): Palin Appears on ‘SNL’ and More!

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/1054/Gothic_Owl_550px_TEXT.jpg” alt=”Open Thread for Night Owls” height=”100″ width=”550″ //div At emEsquire/em, Charlie Pierce reviews emGame Change/em, the movie based on the book based on the true-story nightmare of a href=”http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/game-change-movie-review-7186191#ixzz1oeenLxcU”that thing we all lived through just a few short years ago/a:br / blockquoteWhen John Heilemann, and the utterly inexcusable Mark Halperin, published Game Change, their gossipy account of the campaign four years ago, almost every page fairly dripped with flop sweat. Not from the authors, but from the dozens of professional political types, anonymous and not, who saw in the book a chance to rehabilitate their own reputations from the fools, thieves, and mountebanks for whom they’d worked. (And who, it should never be forgotten, they spent two years trying to foist on the rest of us as national leaders.) There was backstabbing befitting the court of a Borgia pope. There was resumé-polishing and brown-nosing that would have embarrassed the Haskell family down four generations. (The most distasteful was the unpardonable slandering of Elizabeth Edwards, something that the authors won’t live down for a while, either.) Generally, you’d have to wait until the Ides of March to watch a group of people sell out their boss that badly. To barber a phrase from the great Dan Jenkins, the book was further proof, as if we needed any, that, if you put 100 political consultants in a barrel and rolled it down a hill, there’d always be a son of a bitch on top. pNow, the people at HBO, and the writer/director behind Recount, that network’s superb retelling of the machinations in Florida in the aftermath of the 2000 election, have adapted one long portion of that book for a movie that debuts this Saturday, in what can fairly be called The Last Temptation of Sarah Palin. /p /blockquote I won’t be watching. Ever. I have had very close to what I imagine to be a lethal dose of Sarah Palin already, and until someone comes up with an antidote or at least better-performing earmuffs, I’m not going to risk it again. Even watching someone else pretend to be Sarah Palin is too much, too soon. It is fine when she travels around the country from inside the confines of a lead-shielded bus, stalking actual candidates and dispensing little kaleidoscopic glimmers of American history as interpreted by someone exposed to more than their fair share of diesel exhaust, but reliving the whole bit about her being one old man’s heartbeat from the theoretical presidency of These United States still gives me hives. pBut Charlie Pierce reviews it magnificently, thus sparing us all the trauma of watching. So there you go./p center hr width=”75%” color=”#000099″ size=”2″ //center pa href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/03/09/706229/-Bush-s-Stem-Cell-Policy-is-Kaput?via=blog_1″Blast from the Past/a. At Daily Kos on this date in b2009/b:br //p blockquoteWith the stroke of a single pen and a dramatic flourish, President Obama is expected at long last to consign George Bush’s ill-conceived embryonic stem cell policy to the pseudo-scientific abyss from whence it came later today: piPresident Obama will sign an executive order Monday lifting limits on human embryonic stem cell research and will direct federal agencies to “restore scientific integrity” to decision-making, White House aides said Sunday. Obama’s order follows years of wrangling over stem cells and scientific decision-making in the Bush administration./i/p /blockquote center hr width=”75%” color=”#000099″ size=”2″ //center pa href=”http://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/178219185128751104″Tweet of the Day/a:br //p div style=”margin:4px auto 4px auto; width:400px; font-size:12px;background-color: #eeeeee; border: 1px solid #999999;padding:5px;”a href=”https://twitter.com/#!/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/178219185128751104″img src=”http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1866344547/Google_ChromeScreenSnapz001_normal.png” style=”float:left;padding:0px;margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width:48px; height:48px;” //aOuch. Mitt Romney asks Randy Owen of Alabama to sing “Sweet Home Alabama” which is by Lynyrd Skynyrd. h/t @jimacostacnnbr / span style=”color:#555555;font-style:italic;”— a href=”https://twitter.com/#!/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/178219185128751104″@BuzzFeedAndrew/a via a href=”http://www.tweetdeck.com” rel=”nofollow”TweetDeck/a/span div style=”clear:both;”/div /div br / center hr width=”75%” color=”#000099″ size=”2″ //center pHigh Impact Posts are a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/09/1072779/-High-Impact-Posts-March-8-2012″here/a. 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Open thread for night owls: Movies for masochists

p/ppThis Sunday in Austin, Texas, “$ellebrity” — the first feature documentary directed by respected celebrity photographer Kevin Mazur — will premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival. I know this because I’m an Executive Producer of the film - which in this case means that I had the considerable pleasure of filming remarkably candid interviews with assorted famous folks like Jennifer Aniston, Elton John, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow, among many other interesting people, about the state of fame today. “$ellebrity” — which Huff Po recently spotlighted as one of the most anticipated films of the SXSW Film Festival — explores the good, the bad and the ugly about our cultural obsession with fame — and the way that technology has changed the tone and texture of celebrity. All of us who worked on the film can’t wait for audiences to see Kevin’s movie, and if we all just so happen to get more famous because of “$ellebrity,” well, then we’ll just have to live with that too. Here then is my soon to be famous playlist for “$ellebrity” — which I may use to entertain at our after-party hosted by Sheryl Crow in Austin this weekend. As always, please add your own songs about fame below./ppbr /bra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-wild/fame-a-playlist-for-the-p_b_1333951.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/sarah-jessica-parker/”More on Sarah Jessica Parker/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/meYsZTXPbSPay-3UVVJiHAlmmY0/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/meYsZTXPbSPay-3UVVJiHAlmmY0/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/meYsZTXPbSPay-3UVVJiHAlmmY0/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/meYsZTXPbSPay-3UVVJiHAlmmY0/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=Y3cN4ZWrHyw:3TnEulcdQk0:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=Y3cN4ZWrHyw:3TnEulcdQk0:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=Y3cN4ZWrHyw:3TnEulcdQk0:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=Y3cN4ZWrHyw:3TnEulcdQk0:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=Y3cN4ZWrHyw:3TnEulcdQk0:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/Y3cN4ZWrHyw” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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pWASHINGTON — After three years of speculation and a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/game-change-sarah-palin-movie_n_1321733.html” target=”_hplink”plenty of criticism/a from its main subjects, HBO’s “Game Change” premiered in Washington on Thursday at the Newseum before a packed audience of more than 200 political and media heavyweights. br / br /Adapted from the book by Jon Heilman and Mark Halperin, the film chronicles a two-month period in the 2008 presidential race, beginning with then-Gov. Sarah Palin’s nomination to be the Republican vice presidential nominee, and ending with Sen. John McCain’s concession speech following Barack Obama’s victory.br /bra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/08/julianne-moore-game-change-premiere_n_1333758.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/sarah-palin/”More on Sarah Palin/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RuulZbyKIV8KBHnSq3t-pDuheqo/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RuulZbyKIV8KBHnSq3t-pDuheqo/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RuulZbyKIV8KBHnSq3t-pDuheqo/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RuulZbyKIV8KBHnSq3t-pDuheqo/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=FiOqJMcltcw:JT93X2cFLd4:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=FiOqJMcltcw:JT93X2cFLd4:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=FiOqJMcltcw:JT93X2cFLd4:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=FiOqJMcltcw:JT93X2cFLd4:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=FiOqJMcltcw:JT93X2cFLd4:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/FiOqJMcltcw” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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pWASHINGTON — After three years of speculation and a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/game-change-sarah-palin-movie_n_1321733.html” target=”_hplink”plenty of criticism/a from its main subjects, HBO’s “Game Change” premiered in Washington on Thursday at the Newseum before a packed audience of more than 200 political and media heavyweights. br / br /Adapted from the book by Jon Heilman and Mark Halperin, the film chronicles a two-month period in the 2008 presidential race, beginning with then-Gov. Sarah Palin’s nomination to be the Republican vice presidential nominee, and ending with Sen. John McCain’s concession speech following Barack Obama’s victory.br /bra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/08/julianne-moore-game-change-premiere_n_1333758.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/sarah-palin/”More on Sarah Palin/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RuulZbyKIV8KBHnSq3t-pDuheqo/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RuulZbyKIV8KBHnSq3t-pDuheqo/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RuulZbyKIV8KBHnSq3t-pDuheqo/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RuulZbyKIV8KBHnSq3t-pDuheqo/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=FiOqJMcltcw:JT93X2cFLd4:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=FiOqJMcltcw:JT93X2cFLd4:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=FiOqJMcltcw:JT93X2cFLd4:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=FiOqJMcltcw:JT93X2cFLd4:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=FiOqJMcltcw:JT93X2cFLd4:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/FiOqJMcltcw” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/3/voting_booth.jpg” alt=”Empty voting booths in St. Louis county” height=”384″ width=”550″ / div class=”dkimg-cap”Empty voting booths in St. Louis County. (Sarah Conard/Reuters)/div /div I wrote yesterday on the a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/07/1072094/-GOP-turnout-woes-intensify”GOP’s turnout problem/a, with numbers mostly down from 2008. Many of the downturns can be explained by extraneous factors (such as Missouri being demoted to “beauty pageant” status). However, the trend is unmistakable, as confirmed by the wankerish “Bipartisan Policy Center” (Bob Dole and Tom Daschle are co-founders). pRather than stopping at just the turnout numbers, they went further and calculated what percentage of eligible voters participated:br //p blockquoteAverage Republican turnout in the presidential primaries through thisbr / week’s Super Tuesday contests has been smaller than the average turnout in thebr / primaries in the same states in both 2008 and 2000, the previous two years ofbr / competitive GOP contests. pBased on final and official results from the six states whose primaries preceded Superbr / Tuesday and near final and unofficial results from the seven Super Tuesday primaries,br / 7,846,172 voted out of 68,125,000 eligible citizens or 11.5 percent. Turnout in 2008 was 13.2 percent of eligibles and it was 12.2 in 2000/p /blockquote In fact, the only states that showed an uptick were “states that allowed independents or both independents and Democrats to vote in the GOP primaries in a year when there was no Democratic presidential contest.” pThe chart below is a bit hard to read, but I’m too lazy to rebuild it. So I’ll try to explain—VAP means “voting age population”—a measure of how many people who could vote in that state actually did. The chart compares the 2012 to the 2008 VAP percentage, then notes how many points up or down it is.br //p div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/3/GOP-Turnout_VAP.png” alt=”" height=”345″ width=”400″ //div The total drop in VAP turnout was 1.69 points in the primary states, or a drop of 13 percent. Yes, Missouri skews the numbers, but that doesn’t explain the drop in the swing states of Arizona and Florida, or the drops in GOP bastions like Georgia, Oklahoma and Tennessee. pIn 2010, conservatives would’ve walked barefoot over broken glass to cast their vote against Nobama-Democrat Kenyan socialists. This year, they’ve taken a look at their options and have decided that meh, like George Will a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-can-stop-obama-one-way-or-another/2012/03/02/gIQAjq6bmR_story.html”said/a:br //p blockquoteFrom Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal to Wisconsin’s Rep. Paul Ryan, Republicans have a rising generation of potential 2016 candidates. This does not mean conservatives should be indifferent to the fate of this year’s nominee, and it is perhaps premature to despair of Romney’s and Santorum’s political aptitudes. strongStill, the presidency is not everything, and there will be another election in the next year divisible by four/strong./blockquote pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RhITWC3_NbXoQ9Ftn6Xqg9WdnPc/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RhITWC3_NbXoQ9Ftn6Xqg9WdnPc/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RhITWC3_NbXoQ9Ftn6Xqg9WdnPc/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RhITWC3_NbXoQ9Ftn6Xqg9WdnPc/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=RhKJaceB0Kg:eMpKj710aNE:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/RhKJaceB0Kg” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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pIn the wake of the controversy over Rush Limbaugh’s a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/rush-limbaugh-sandra-fluke-slut_n_1311640.html” target=”_hplink”derogatory remarks/a about Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke, conservatives have accused the left of hypocrisy in not condemning comments made by liberal political satirist Bill Maher. /ppMaher, who a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/24/bill-maher-super-pac-obama-_n_1299250.html” target=”_hplink”donated $1 millon/a to Obama-supporting super PAC Priorities USA Action last month, a href=”http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-calls-sarah-palin-the-c-word-during-his-stand-up-act/” target=”_hplink”used a sexual epithet/a to refer to Sarah Palin during his stand-up act in 2011. Palin and other conservatives have demanded that the group a href=”http://www.mediaite.com/online/sarah-palin-demands-obama-return-bill-mahers-campaign-donation/” target=”_hplink”return Maher’s money/a./ppBut on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on Thursday, Priorities USA chairman Bill Burton rejected the idea that comments made by Limbaugh and Maher were equivalent to each other, saying that the argument distracted from larger issues/pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/08/maher-limbaugh-priorities-usa-chairman_n_1332498.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/elections-2012/”More on Elections 2012/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/enfUl55lsNDKqW_2d6l3Snkj-WA/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/enfUl55lsNDKqW_2d6l3Snkj-WA/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/enfUl55lsNDKqW_2d6l3Snkj-WA/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/enfUl55lsNDKqW_2d6l3Snkj-WA/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=iwRYMcRanok:_kK96jSJim4:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=iwRYMcRanok:_kK96jSJim4:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=iwRYMcRanok:_kK96jSJim4:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=iwRYMcRanok:_kK96jSJim4:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=iwRYMcRanok:_kK96jSJim4:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/iwRYMcRanok” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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pThe a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/kansas-anti-abortion-bill_n_1258185.html” target=”_hplink”sweeping anti-abortion bill/a working its way through the Kansas Legislature would levy a sales tax on women seeking abortions, including rape victims./ppBuried in the 69-page bill being considered by the a href=”http://kslegislature.org/li/b2011_12/committees/ctte_h_fed_st_1/” target=”_hplink”House Federal and State Affairs Committee/a are several provisions, in fact, that opponents say would increase taxes on those who seek abortions. The tax sections do not include any exemptions for women who want an abortion after a sexual assault, to end a dangerous ectopic pregnancy or to remove the remains of a fetus following a miscarriage — the latter of which is defined as an abortion under Kansas law, according to Sarah Gillooly from Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri./ppThe committee is likely to continue discussing the bill Thursday afternoon. /pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/08/kansas-abortion-bill-sales-tax_n_1327301.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/womens-health/”More on Women’s Health/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Uf1MRxKsEMidhk6xRucPW1IqVPc/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Uf1MRxKsEMidhk6xRucPW1IqVPc/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Uf1MRxKsEMidhk6xRucPW1IqVPc/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Uf1MRxKsEMidhk6xRucPW1IqVPc/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=ODCQQlcofHI:WE1Br-eZwsA:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=ODCQQlcofHI:WE1Br-eZwsA:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=ODCQQlcofHI:WE1Br-eZwsA:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=ODCQQlcofHI:WE1Br-eZwsA:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=ODCQQlcofHI:WE1Br-eZwsA:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/ODCQQlcofHI” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Kansas Abortion Bill Could Raise Taxes On Women Seeking Procedure

div class=”dkimg-r”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/2563/standardized_test.jpg” alt=”standardized test” height=”184″ width=”275″ title=”standardized test” //div pDifferent states, cities and school districts have embraced the current corporate-reformist fad to evaluate teacher performance using a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/leading-mathematician-debunks-value-added/2011/05/08/AFb999UG_blog.html”unproven, unreliable value-added models/a to different extents. In Washington, D.C., under the IMPACT system created by former schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, a value-added testing model can be 50 percent of how a teacher is evaluated—at the high end of the weight placed on value-added models—and it’s still in use even as the city’s schools are investigated for a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/28/960859/-Investigation-shows-questionable-test-results-under-Michelle-Rhee?detail=hide”suspected widespread cheating/a on the very test used to evaluate teachers. IMPACT’s emphasis on testing is a terrible model to begin with, but it’s far worse when you consider the fate of non-cheating teachers who inherit students whose previous year’s test scores were inflated by cheating./p pThat may be a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/creative–motivating-and-fired/2012/02/04/gIQAwzZpvR_story.html”what happened/a to a former teacher profiled by the iWashington Post/i’s Bill Turque. Sarah Wysocki was a second-year teacher who had received glowing classroom evaluations from her assistant principal; he wrote, “It is a pleasure to visit a classroom in which the elements of sound teaching, motivated students and a positive learning environment are so effectively combined.” The head of her school’s PTA had a child in Wysocki’s class and said she was “One of the best teachers I’ve ever come in contact with.” But the previous year, in her first year teaching, Wysocki’s classroom evaluations had been less positive, and a poor IMPACT ranking two years in a row means a teacher is fired. So despite her excellent classroom teaching, when Wysocki’s average student test scores fell a few points short of what the value-added model said they should, she was fired. But the value-added model is partly based on a student’s test scores in the previous year, and:br //p blockquoteFourteen of her 25 students had attended Barnard Elementary. The school is one of 41 in which publishers of the D.C. Comprehensive Assessment System tests found unusually high numbers of answer sheet erasures in spring 2010, with wrong answers changed to right. Twenty-nine percent of Barnard’s 2010 fourth-graders scored at the advanced level in reading, about five times the District average. pD.C. and federal investigators are examining whether there was cheating, but school officials stand by the city’s test scores./p /blockquote The other fifth-grade teacher in Wysocki’s school, also considered a good teacher by the administrators who evaluate classroom performance, was also fired. But don’t worry—despite the cheating investigation and results like these, school officials stand by the city’s test scores and the Secretary of Education is a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/28/1068847/-Education-data-matters-when-it-can-be-used-against-teachers-but-Michelle-Rhee-retains-Teflon-coat?detail=hide”still/a making appearances with Michelle Rhee, so there must not be a problem with this system. p(Wysocki, happily, quickly got a new job teaching in a northern Virginia school, with a strong recommendation from her former principal.)/p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kOw1SKTYqQ_zg5VfFjX08unQw3I/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kOw1SKTYqQ_zg5VfFjX08unQw3I/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kOw1SKTYqQ_zg5VfFjX08unQw3I/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kOw1SKTYqQ_zg5VfFjX08unQw3I/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=dIKJJqYMsHE:BUcBl3zURLc:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/dIKJJqYMsHE” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Was a highly regarded Washington, D.C. teacher fired because of someone else’s cheating?

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/3/Mitt_Romney-2-20.jpg” alt=”Mitt Romney” height=”396″ width=”550″ / div class=”dkimg-cap”Weakest. Frontrunner. Ever. nbsp;(Joshua Lott/Reuters)/div /div A Republican candidate needs strong1,144 delegates/strong to secure the nomination. According to the emNY Times/em, the current a href=”http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/primaries/scorecard/statebystate/r”delegate count/a is:br / br / iframe width=’100%’ height=’105′ frameborder=’0′ src=’https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AtlAkTpK89FudEhiOVNxZ1ExVUVCZDZmcEZkS2Q2OXcamp;single=trueamp;gid=0amp;range=A13AD6′/iframe pA huge caveat is in order here—those delegate estimates are based on a guess of how delegates will be awarded according to election results. That’s not how many are selected, however. In Iowa, for example, there is a three-round process to select the final delegate slate. That’s why the emNY Times/em’ delegate list is different, significantly so, than a href=”http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/primaries/scorecard/statebystate/r”CNN’s/a. The fact that no one can get an accurate read as to the state of the GOP race is yet another sign of how f’d up the GOP is. Add to all that chaos the fact that up to a quarter of those delegates are unbound, and can vote for anyone they want in the end, and things get that much more confusing./p pBut let’s assume that the emNY Times/em estimate is roughly accurate. That means that Romney has to win 729 of the 1,541 delegates left, including about 100 remaining super delegates. That would be fairly easy in a winner-take-all primary system, such as we saw in 2008 on the Republican side. Winner-take-all means that if win a state, you get all of its delegates. However, most states this year are apportioning their delegates proportionately./p pOf the states that have yet to vote, only a handful are winner-take-all contests—Maryland, Washington DC, Wisconsin, Delaware, sCalifornia/s, New Jersey and Utah. Together, they add up to s400/s 228 delegates, but swell over half of them—California (169) and/s New Jersey (50) doesn’t vote until emJune/em 5. And Utah’s 40 winner-take-all delegates won’t be awarded to Romney until emJune 26/em./p pThe rest of the states will allocate their delegates proportionately, meaning that Romney has to reach his final goal in small increments, each one bleeding precious time and money. And for every Illinois, in which Romney should do well, there’s a Texas, where a href=”http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-presidential-election/santorum-leads-republican-field-texas/”he won’t/a./p pMuch of the punditry talks about how impossible it is for the not-Romney’s to get to 1,144. And they’re pretty much right—Santorum needs 968 of the remaining 1,541 delegates. Gingrich needs 1,039 of them. Paul needs 1,097. Sure, it’s emmathematically/em possible for them to get to 1,144, but it just ain’t gonna happen./p pBut what they ican/i do is prevent Romney from getting the delegates he needs, which would then give us that mythical creature called the “brokered convention.” But that’s just fantasyland. It won’t happen./p pNone of these candidates will give up their claim to the nomination to a white knight (and you know he’d be a “he” and “white,” no matter how much Sarah Palin would desperately hope otherwise). If it happened, the surprise GOP nominee would emerge from a bitter convention with no campaign organization, no money, and facing a hundreds-million defining ad-blitz from the Obama campaign and its allies. Furthermore, as Republicans found out in 2008 with Sarah Palin, you kind of want your candidates properly vetted embefore/em thrusting them on the national stage./p pIf Romney can’t close the deal at the California, New Jersey and Utah contests in June, he’ll make a deal with one of the other candidates in order to cross the magic line, and it would happen ibefore/i the RNC convention. If Ron Paul has enough delegates to push Romney over the line, he could trade them for VP nominee Rand Paul. Santorum could offer ihis/i delegates up in exchange for being the veep nominee himself. Gingrich could … nevermind. He’ll hoard his pittance of delegates and declare himself emperor in his own mind./p pTwice Romney could’ve put an end to this clown show—in Michigan and in Ohio. By failing to win convincingly despite spending tens of millions against underfunded joke opposition, he ensured that this race will continue into spring, and possibly (hopefully!) beyond./p pbUpdate/b: Turns out California is proportionate, not winner-take-all, which makes Romney’s task a little more difficult./p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/88HUo1IHr7ShylUlJjksChN_mbE/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/88HUo1IHr7ShylUlJjksChN_mbE/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/88HUo1IHr7ShylUlJjksChN_mbE/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/88HUo1IHr7ShylUlJjksChN_mbE/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=rHZzEkj8E6I:QGEpj66_FU8:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/rHZzEkj8E6I” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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The GOP’s messed-up delegate race

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/151025/sluts_vote.jpg” alt=”Sluts vote” height=”452″ width=”550″ / div class=”dkimg-cap”Bad news for Republicans (a href=”http://lianamaris.tumblr.com/post/18841333250/sluts-vote-just-a-little-reminder-for-the”Lian Amaris)/a/div /div Pity the poor Republicans. pIn 2010, finally freed from the shackles of their belief that women should keep their damn mouths shut and leave the serious governing stuff to the menfolk, Republicans applauded themselves for their bold realization that a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/06/27/879595/-Republicans-discover-the-F-word?detail=hide”chicks can do stuff too/a. They even convinced themselves that 2010 was going to be the Year of the Woman, but for Republicans. With Sarah Palin stomping around the country, anointing lady candidates with her magical Mama Grizzly fairy dust, Republicans seemed poised to finally seize that reliable lady voting bloc from Democrats./p pSadly for Republicans, a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/11/07/918365/-The-Year-of-the-Woman-that-wasn-t?detail=hide”it didn’t exactly work out/a as they’d hoped. Meg Whitman, Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell and Carly Fiorina were all laughed into obscurity, and even some of the emsuccessful/em lady candidates, like South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, did better with men than women—not exactly demonstrating an ability to arouse conservative women to rise up in a show of sisterly solidarity./p pStill, Republicans managed to do better with women voters than they’d ever done before, not because they actually did well with women, but because Democrats did a piss-poor job of giving women a reason to bother voting at all. Thus, Republicans remained convinced that they just might have a shot with the lady voters in 2012./p pSo what did Republicans do? Why, they ramped up their war on women, of course. And now, according to a href=”http://www.npr.org/2012/03/07/148116969/can-republicans-win-over-women-in-november?ft=1amp;f=1014amp;sc=tw”NPR/a:br //p blockquote[T]he events of recent days are raising questions about whether Republicans, who so recently saw an opportunity to close the gender gap, may now be watching it widen given the recent maelstrom surrounding women, contraception, Congress, Catholics and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. pMany Republicans are still shaking their heads at how quickly the debate turned on an issue where they had traction with a wide swath of the electorate./p /blockquote Shaking their heads at how they managed to so thoroughly erase their perceived edge? Yeah, I’ll bet they are. pem(Continue reading below the fold)/em/p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/661Yed-uKQDM7zSrc9pRy8Rz8qg/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/661Yed-uKQDM7zSrc9pRy8Rz8qg/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/661Yed-uKQDM7zSrc9pRy8Rz8qg/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/661Yed-uKQDM7zSrc9pRy8Rz8qg/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=ffh8ZRv9k-8:BCvC25O6Ar0:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/ffh8ZRv9k-8″ height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Forget whether or not Sarah Palin suffered through some sort of psychological breakdown during the 2008 campaign, the bigger issue is how can the U.S. best select its leaders when celebrity packs more electoral caché than experience or political courage?bra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/game-change-sarah-palin-a_b_1325852.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/sarah-palin/”More on Sarah Palin/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5tZPUY-4Yf4567HiGGkG0DmLJB8/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5tZPUY-4Yf4567HiGGkG0DmLJB8/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5tZPUY-4Yf4567HiGGkG0DmLJB8/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5tZPUY-4Yf4567HiGGkG0DmLJB8/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=8JBerQQYnXE:Zwz-1AyduDc:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=8JBerQQYnXE:Zwz-1AyduDc:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=8JBerQQYnXE:Zwz-1AyduDc:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=8JBerQQYnXE:Zwz-1AyduDc:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=8JBerQQYnXE:Zwz-1AyduDc:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/8JBerQQYnXE” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Geoffrey Dunn: Game Change: Sarah Palin and the Confessions of Steve Schmidt

This week’s international celebration of women is a vivid illustration of just how much the position of women in some countries around the world has improved over the past hundred years. But it also serves as a poignant reminder of how much work remains to be done. For instance, it is simply unacceptable in 2012 that a teenage girl is five times more likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth than a grown woman, and that childbirth is still the leading cause of death for teenage girls in the developing world. While we continue to address the healthcare reasons behind these statistics, what’s clear is that if these girls were in school, their lives would certainly be safer.bra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-brown/education-is-the-cure_b_1325023.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/womens-empowerment/”More on Women#039;s Empowerment/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WYdGhBk0reUXcgeG3FgmloNzSgI/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WYdGhBk0reUXcgeG3FgmloNzSgI/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WYdGhBk0reUXcgeG3FgmloNzSgI/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WYdGhBk0reUXcgeG3FgmloNzSgI/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=1aLmf-XOIVY:wnUzAiFxKZ8:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=1aLmf-XOIVY:wnUzAiFxKZ8:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=1aLmf-XOIVY:wnUzAiFxKZ8:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=1aLmf-XOIVY:wnUzAiFxKZ8:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=1aLmf-XOIVY:wnUzAiFxKZ8:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/1aLmf-XOIVY” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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pIt’s not too late to rule out Sarah Palin./ppWhile attending a caucus in Wasilla, Alaska on Super Tuesday, the former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate told CNN’s Paul Vercammen that “anything is possible” when it comes to a run for president./pblockquoteVERCAMMEN: Sarah Palin for President, 2016 — is it possible?bra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/06/sarah-palin-cnn-alaska-president_n_1325508.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/sarah-palin/”More on Sarah Palin/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/h7bWBW8ppeNOxUX7JDQL0xp-1nk/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/h7bWBW8ppeNOxUX7JDQL0xp-1nk/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/h7bWBW8ppeNOxUX7JDQL0xp-1nk/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/h7bWBW8ppeNOxUX7JDQL0xp-1nk/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=DOoZIgUyJ0U:98Zi3aLq6gk:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=DOoZIgUyJ0U:98Zi3aLq6gk:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=DOoZIgUyJ0U:98Zi3aLq6gk:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=DOoZIgUyJ0U:98Zi3aLq6gk:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=DOoZIgUyJ0U:98Zi3aLq6gk:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/DOoZIgUyJ0U” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Sarah Palin Says ‘Anything Is Possible’ When Asked About Possible Presidential Run (VIDEO)

pCNN Washington bureau chief Sam Feist said the network had “no expectations” that Sarah Palin, Wasilla, Alaska’s most famous resident and Fox News contributor, would show up to vote in the Alaska caucus vote Tuesday night — nevermind take questions for several minutes live on air./pp”I can’t say there was an expectation that Sarah Palin would be there,” Feist told The Huffington Post. “We were there to cover the caucus and Sarah Palin showed up.”/ppPalin made some news in her impromptu interview with CNN correspondent Paul Vercammen, saying “anything is possible” when asked about a 2016 run for the presidency. Palin also said she’d wouldn’t “close any doors” if someone wanted to throw her hat in the ring at a brokered GOP convention this summer./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/06/cnn-super-tuesday-sarah-palin_n_1325540.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/super-tuesday-2012/”More on Super Tuesday 2012/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AQolJmud0RY4VE1BztlnKJzyYc4/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AQolJmud0RY4VE1BztlnKJzyYc4/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AQolJmud0RY4VE1BztlnKJzyYc4/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AQolJmud0RY4VE1BztlnKJzyYc4/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=fDvjhJJJVcA:qsat-XEzOmA:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=fDvjhJJJVcA:qsat-XEzOmA:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=fDvjhJJJVcA:qsat-XEzOmA:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=fDvjhJJJVcA:qsat-XEzOmA:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=fDvjhJJJVcA:qsat-XEzOmA:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/fDvjhJJJVcA” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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CNN On Sarah Palin Super Tuesday Interview: ‘No Expectations’ Finding Palin In Wasilla

pThe Oscars are over, and nowadays, it’s all about television anyway. Just look at “Homeland,” “Downton Abbey” and “Boardwalk Empire.” /ppAnd if you’re in the world of TV, some major notches on your belt might include getting your mug on HBO or working with superstar J.J. Abrams. Actress Sarah Jones has done both. She has worked on “Sons Of Anarchy,” “Big Love,” and the shockingly-canceled-because-it-was-so-good show, “Lonestar.” She’s from Florida but lives on the east side of LA, and according to those who know her, isn’t exactly the girl next door. She’s more indie, she tells it like it is, and reportedly wants to bring back the ‘broad with a heart of gold’ vibe to Hollywood. Now with the leading role on FOX’s “Alcatraz,” Jones spends her time playing a San Francisco detective assigned to a mysterious homicide case involving an Alcatraz inmate./ppBut things aren’t always as they seem in Hollywood. “Alcatraz,” takes place at the infamous prison in the Bay Area, but it’s really shot in Vancouver. Sarah Jones is the star female of the show, but she really moved to LA to be a dancer. The Huffington Post caught up with the actress at the end of her debut season with “Alcatraz” to find out where she eats, what she watches and just how she ended up here./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/06/sarah-jones-alcatraz_n_1322556.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/slidepollajax/”More on Photo Galleries/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jFRJy5ifs_Zrct3rBPS9y84SX4M/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jFRJy5ifs_Zrct3rBPS9y84SX4M/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jFRJy5ifs_Zrct3rBPS9y84SX4M/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jFRJy5ifs_Zrct3rBPS9y84SX4M/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=ZhtcK57WeI0:mtss7rVywe0:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=ZhtcK57WeI0:mtss7rVywe0:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=ZhtcK57WeI0:mtss7rVywe0:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=ZhtcK57WeI0:mtss7rVywe0:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=ZhtcK57WeI0:mtss7rVywe0:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/ZhtcK57WeI0″ height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Sarah Jones: ‘Alcatraz’ Star Reveals The Biggest Surprise About J.J. Abrams, Her Tendency To Overanalyze More: MY LA

pMove over, Tina Fey. /ppJulianne Moore is the latest actress to literally step into Sarah Palin’s shoes, as she plays the former VP candidate in the HBO film a href=”http://www.hbo.com/movies/game-change/index.html” target=”_hplink”"Game Change,”/a premiering a href=”http://www.hbo.com/movies/index.html” target=”_hplink”March 10/a. Based on the book of the same name, “Game Change” focuses on John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. In the above clip, Moore discusses her experience making the film and how she mastered Palin’s accent in record time. The 51-year-old stunner also reveals what she did to her eyes to look even more like Palin and what she thinks about the movie’s portrayal of the McCain campaign.br //pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/06/julianne-moore-game-change_n_1321959.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/video/”More on Video/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oBzwr9_hlmKMCGrmTwIGEOPFrXE/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oBzwr9_hlmKMCGrmTwIGEOPFrXE/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oBzwr9_hlmKMCGrmTwIGEOPFrXE/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oBzwr9_hlmKMCGrmTwIGEOPFrXE/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=9FOLj-wAJss:xhTXgYQzgSg:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=9FOLj-wAJss:xhTXgYQzgSg:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=9FOLj-wAJss:xhTXgYQzgSg:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=9FOLj-wAJss:xhTXgYQzgSg:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=9FOLj-wAJss:xhTXgYQzgSg:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/9FOLj-wAJss” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Julianne Moore Discusses ‘Game Change’ On ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ (VIDEO)

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/1054/RUSH-night-owl-banner3.jpg” alt=”Open Thread for Night Owls” height=”100″ width=”550″ //div At ProPublica, Jesse Eisinger a href=”http://www.propublica.org/article/fed-shrugged-off-warning-let-banks-pay-shareholders-billions”writes/a of how the Fed shrugged off warnings and let banks pay shareholders billions, leaving the financial system, and the rest of the economy, vulnerable to as big a mess as the last crisis put us into. Who covers the banks’ liabilities? That would be the taxpayers. pnbsp;/p blockquoteIn March 2011, the Federal Reserve green-lighted most of the top 19 financial institutions to deliver tens of billions of dollars to shareholders, including many of their own top executives. The 19 paid out $33 billion in the first nine months of 2011 in dividends and stock buy-backs.br / div class=”dkimg-r”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/6/dollar_signs_pile.jpg” alt=”" height=”128″ width=”155″ //div The Fed allowed the largest financial firms to pay out $33 billion to shareholders last year, money they won’t have to cushion themselves if a new crisis hits. pThat $33 billion is money that the banks don’t have to cushion themselves — and the broader financial system — should the euro crisis cause a new recession, tensions with Iran flare into war and disrupt the oil supply, or another crisis emerge./p pThis is the first in-depth account of the Fed’s momentous decision and the fractious battles that led to it. It is based on dozens of interviews, most with people who spoke on condition of anonymity, and on documents, some of which have never been made public. By examining the decision, this account also sheds light on the inner workings of one of the most powerful but secretive economic institutions in the world./p pThe Federal Reserve contends it assessed the health of the banks rigorously and made the right decisions. The central bank says the primary purpose of the stress test was to assess the banks’ ability to plan for their capital needs. The Fed allowed only the healthiest banks to return capital — and they are still not paying anything like the proportion of profits that they distributed in the boom years. And it says the stress test covered only one year. Regulators say they can revisit their decisions if the economic picture turns bleaker./p pMost important, Fed officials argue that the biggest financial institutions still added $52 billion in capital to their balance sheets in 2011 despite raising dividends or buying back stock. The top 19 financial firms had a 10.1 percent capital ratio by the end of the third quarter of 2011, using the measure that regulators primarily look at, nearly double what they had in the first quarter of 2009./p pBut a wide range of current and former Federal Reserve officials, other banking regulators and experts either criticized the decision to allow dividend payments and stock buy-backs then, or consider it a mistake now. /p /blockquote center hr width=”75%” color=”#000099″ size=”2″ //center pa href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/04/952589/-State-of-the-Nation-poll-The-unlovable-Newt-Gingrich?via=blog_1″Blast from the Past/a. At Daily Kos on this date in b2011/b:br //p blockquoteIf Newt Gingrich wasn’t already having an awful week, the latest Daily Kos/PPP poll offers even more bad news for him: Of the major GOP contenders for the presidency, Newt is by far the least-liked candidate among Democrats. Yes, that’s right: Dems profess to like Newt even less than Sarah Palin. pBy now, you are probably quite familiar with Newt’s recent travails. To recap briefly, on Tuesday morning, a senior aide informed the media that Newt would soon announce the formation of a presidential exploratory committee. Later that same day, a different adviser contradicted the first, saying no, there was no such committee in the works - not exactly the picture of a well-run campaign. Then on Thursday, Newt himself made a big speech, in which he had a chance to set things aright. So what did he do? He unveiled… a website, and one with a weird name, too (that’s already been spoofed). That’s it. A website./p /blockquote center hr width=”75%” color=”#000099″ size=”2″ //center pa href=”https://twitter.com/#!/cdashiell”Tweet of the Day/a:br //p div style=”margin:4px auto 4px auto; width:400px; font-size:12px;background-color: #eeeeee; border: 1px solid #999999;padding:5px;”a href=”https://twitter.com/#!/cdashiell/status/176469053311959040″img src=”http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1287469240/falcon_normal.jpg” style=”float:left;padding:0px;margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width:48px; height:48px;” //aCause and effect means when you elect a former Fox News host as your governor, you’re on your own when tornadoes hit.br / span style=”color:#555555;font-style:italic;”— a href=”https://twitter.com/#!/cdashiell/status/176469053311959040″@cdashiell/a via web/span div style=”clear:both;”/div /div br / br / center hr width=”75%” color=”#000099″ size=”2″ //center pHigh Impact Posts are a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/04/1071010/-Week-s-High-Impact-Posts-February-25-March-2-2012?via=search”here/a. 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pCan Jeff Goldblum fill the shoes of Sarah Silverman’s ex-boyfriend? You better believe it. /ppThe current “Glee” guest star is headed to NBC as Silverman’s ex in the pilot for “Susan 313,” a href=”http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jeff-goldblum-sarah-silverman-nbc-comedy-pilot-296666″ target=”_hplink”according to The Hollywood Reporter. /a/ppSo what is “Susan 313″ all about? Loosely based on Silverman’s life, the show centers on a newly single woman who just got out of a long relationship. Goldblum steps in as her ex of 10 whopping years./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/04/jeff-goldblum-nbc-casting-news_n_1319786.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/video/”More on Video/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ek0u9G-k64fuvcCfUHNkzclT3wc/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ek0u9G-k64fuvcCfUHNkzclT3wc/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ek0u9G-k64fuvcCfUHNkzclT3wc/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Ek0u9G-k64fuvcCfUHNkzclT3wc/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=KRw08jnPQoA:gK5jDkcPZSM:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=KRw08jnPQoA:gK5jDkcPZSM:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=KRw08jnPQoA:gK5jDkcPZSM:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=KRw08jnPQoA:gK5jDkcPZSM:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=KRw08jnPQoA:gK5jDkcPZSM:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/KRw08jnPQoA” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Jeff Goldblum Is Headed To NBC And More Casting News

pThings are about to get frightening for Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters and Lily Rabe. a href=”http://www.eonline.com/news/watch_with_kristin/american_horror_story_season_two_scoop/298039″ target=”_hplink”The trio have joined the cast of “American Horror Story” Season 2./a/ppAccording to E! Online, a href=”http://www.eonline.com/news/watch_with_kristin/american_horror_story_season_two_scoop/298039″ target=”_hplink”Paulson, Peters and Rabe will join the previously announced cast of Jessica Lange and “Heroes” actor Zachary Quinto./a “a href=”http://www.aoltv.com/show/american-horror-story/8807210″ target=”_hplink”American Horror Story/a” co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk made the announcement at PaleyFest. Lange, Peters, Quinto, Paulson and Rabe all appeared in Season 1 of the FX series./pp”Everyone will be playing the opposite of what they played,” a href=”http://www.eonline.com/news/watch_with_kristin/american_horror_story_season_two_scoop/298039″ target=”_hplink”Murphy said at the PaleyFest panel./a The season is currently being written./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/03/american-horror-story-season-2-cast_n_1318218.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/reality-free/”More on Reality-Free/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HDdzss_cymUoZ8EhWKHBnWp0V_0/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HDdzss_cymUoZ8EhWKHBnWp0V_0/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HDdzss_cymUoZ8EhWKHBnWp0V_0/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HDdzss_cymUoZ8EhWKHBnWp0V_0/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=ld4Pg_nBGVM:RNm8wifHqoo:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=ld4Pg_nBGVM:RNm8wifHqoo:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=ld4Pg_nBGVM:RNm8wifHqoo:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=ld4Pg_nBGVM:RNm8wifHqoo:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=ld4Pg_nBGVM:RNm8wifHqoo:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/ld4Pg_nBGVM” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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