Tuesday's Daily Brief

2010-09-07       The Daily Brief     Arianna Huffington: Third World America: Why I Wrote the Book and What We Need to Do to Save America's Middle Class Arianna Huffington: Growing up in Greece, everyone knew someone who'd left to find a better life in America. That was the phrase everyone associated with America: "a better life." When I came to live here in 1980, I knew there was no other place I'd rather live. Thirty years later, I still feel that way. But something went wrong -- terribly wrong -- and put our country on a very dangerous path that threatens to transform us into Third World America. It's a jarring phrase, I know, but I decided to make that the title of my new book, which is being released today, as a warning -- to make it clear that if we don't change course that could very well be our future. But the book is not just a critique of the many ways things are broken -- it's a practical guide for how to fix them. Davis Guggenheim: Repeat After Me: We Can't Have Great Schools Without Great Teachers Every family knows what matters most and wonders why we've forgotten this simple truth. Every teacher on every list for every school needs to be great. And we can't stop until we get there. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy: With a Little Help From My Friends In my role as ambassador for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, I have the honor and good fortune to help spread the message of hope for the protection of mothers and children from HIV. Jeffrey Sachs: Saying "Nuts" to Hunger The general public should be helped to understand the difference of acute and chronic hunger, so that both are addressed appropriately. The product Plumpy'Nut is not a miracle cure for global hunger or for global malnutrition. Dylan Loewe: Democrats Still Winning the Long Game Republicans are poised to ride a wave election, conceivably as large as in 1994, and Exhibit A of their success may well be pronounced "Speaker John Boehner." But if you step back, it's also likely to be a temporary bump on a road toward Democratic dominance. Mehmet Oz, M.D.: When the Doctor Becomes a Patient We cannot control the cards we are dealt but we can control how we play them. While these reminders are never pleasant, they are almost always gifts if we choose to treat them as such.     HuffPost News Election Spending Sets Records: No Recession Here Iran Stoning Case: EU Condemns 'Barbaric' Plan, Iran Scoffs At European Concerns Obama Blasts GOP, Calls For $50 Billion Infrastructure Plan For Roads, Rail, Air Travel David Westin Resigns As ABC News President Wyclef: Sean Penn Sniffs Cocaine, Penn DENIES (VIDEO)   Get HuffPost on your iPhone!   ©2010 HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. All rights reserved. 560 Broadway, Suite 308, NY, NY 10012 Add dailybrief@huffingtonpost.com to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. User Agreement Privacy Policy

Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program - Yahoo! News

Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program - Yahoo! News

A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times.

Future hiring will mainly benefit the high-skilled - Yahoo! News

Future hiring will mainly benefit the high-skilled - Yahoo! News

Whenever companies start hiring freely again, job-seekers with specialized skills and education will have plenty of good opportunities. Others will face a choice: Take a job with low pay — or none at all.

Friday's Daily Brief

2010-09-03       The Daily Brief     Lawrence Lessig: Neo-Progressives AP Lawrence Lessig: It seems that just about every hundred years or so, the body politic we call America swells with fever as it fights off a democracy-destroying disease. That disease is "Special Interest Government," a government captured by the economically powerful in society, as they find a way to convert economic into political power; the fever comes from the reform movement, keen to kill that disease and restore an ideal of government of, by, and for "the People." This time around, that breakaway, trans-party reform movement will carry the banner of Neo-Progressivism. Click here to read more. Arianna Huffington: The Audacity of Taupe The Obamas' redecoration of the Oval Office is very cautious, neutral, inoffensive, neither one thing nor the other -- the Audacity of Taupe. But I applaud the switch from flowers to a bowl of fruit on the new coffee table. Les Leopold: Why the Big Lie About the Job Crisis? It's time to say "the end" to the "We're all to blame" fairytale. Let's start a new story this Labor Day. It's called, "Put our people back to work." Sen. Ron Wyden: Missing the Point I voted for health care reform not because I thought it was the best we could do, but because I thought it was a whole lot better than the current system. But in my mind, passing that law is far from "mission accomplished." Jacqueline Novogratz: Dispatches From Pakistan I notice a little boy. His eyes are piercing, hot and angry, a tiny pipsqueak who has seen too much sadness and felt too much fear in his life. Maybe this little man is the most honest man here. His anger is raw, and he doesn't hide it. Scott Mendelson: HuffPost Review: Machete (2010) It is a disservice to both the film and to our own desire for relevant mainstream film-making to ignore the fiery conscience at the heart of this over-the-top piece of Mexican myth-making.     HuffPost News Unemployment Rate Rises In August For First Time In 4 Months As Labor Force Expands Sharron Angle Claims Unemployment Insurance 'Really Doesn't Benefit Anyone' Australian School Drops 'Gay' From Children's Song Jesse James & Kat Von D Step Out Together (PHOTOS) U.S. Open Fight VIDEO: Fans Brawl In Stands (VIDEO)   Get HuffPost on your iPhone!   ©2010 HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. All rights reserved. 560 Broadway, Suite 308, NY, NY 10012 Add dailybrief@huffingtonpost.com to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. User Agreement Privacy Policy

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>>> Having trouble viewing this newsletter? View as a webpage. Top Stories Friday, September 3, 2010 Last day of food aid for flood victims | VIDEO Friday is the last day low-income flood victims can line up to apply for extra food stamps. People have been forming long lines all week, and Friday was no different. O'Hare Hyatt workers strike | VIDEO Union workers at the Hyatt Hotel at O'Hare International Airport were walking the picket line as of 6 a.m. Friday as part of a nationwide strike against the hotel chain. 4th victim dies after garage shooting Four people were shot and killed in a Chicago garage Thursday night in the West Lawn neighborhood, and police were still looking for suspects Friday. 2 to be fired after leaving Joliet girl on bus A south suburban school bus company is promising to fire a bus driver and a monitor who left a sleeping 4-year-old girl on a bus. Man charged in Chinatown strangulation A Chicago man is charged with robbery and murder following an attack in Chinatown two months ago. Bicyclist fatally struck during rainstorm A man was hit by a car and killed while riding a bicycle during Thursday night's rainstorm, and the driver did not stop. MORE STORIES Strange News Goats rescued after 2 days on 6-inch ledge Wyo. troopers examine human ashes in traffic stop Homeless man calls 911 from hot tub, seeks cocoa Chestnut eats 8 lbs in 12 mins to win ribs contest For 2nd time, Ohio woman gives birth in vehicle Consumer New postage stamp honors Mother Teresa Feds: No link between Dry Max diapers, rashes Kia Soul, Sorento recalled due to lighting panels Sharp LCD TVs recalled Target adds health clinics in Chicago stores Healthbeat Bone drugs could increase throat cancer risk Healthbeat Report: The Return of Whooping Cough | VIDEO Hot, humid weather makes for nasty allergy season | VIDEO Can home cooking be hazardous to your health? Survey: More Americans taking Rx drugs MOST POPULAR 'Transformers' accident critically injures extra 4th victim dies after garage shooting Last day of food aid for flood victims Older brother charged in Dolton boy's death Details on how to get flood assistance through Sept. 3 All Most Popular Advertisement TODAY'S WEATHER OUTLOOK 71°F 51°F Becoming windier and not as warm with sunny intervals Hour-by-Hour | 7 Day Forecast | Radar & Satellite TONIGHT ON ABC 7:00 PM Wife Swap 8:00 PM Primetime: What Would You Do? 9:00 PM 20/20 10:00 PM ABC 7 News 10:35 PM Nightline Lottery Results Your Daily Horoscope Labor Day travel means some construction on hold AAA says the number of travelers this Labor Day is expected to increase by about 10 percent. Click here for Travel Times Roadwork creates lane restrictions in Wisconsin Construction Notes: Closures/Projects ABC7 Cheap Gas Price Finder Street-level Interactive Radar Map Tracy Butler chats up soap star Steve Burton You know him as Jason from "General Hospital." Tracy Butler got a chance to talk to Steve Burton about the role that made him famous. SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS I'd like to receive the following newsletters from abc7chicago.com Sign up for news alerts Daily Weather | Daily News | 190 North SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS Sign up for news alerts

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer at a loss for words in first debate | The Upshot Yahoo! News - Yahoo! News

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer at a loss for words in first debate | The Upshot Yahoo! News - Yahoo! News

It's a politician's worst nightmare: Drawing a complete blank in a high-profile debate.

Feds Sue Sheriff Arpaio in Civil Rights Probe

Breaking from Newsmax.com Feds Sue Sheriff Arpaio in Civil Rights Probe The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics. The lawsuit calls Arpaio and his Maricopa County office's defiance "unprecedented," and said the federal government has been trying since March 2009 to get officials to comply with its probe of alleged discrimination, unconstitutional searches and seizures, and jail policies that discriminate against people with limited English skills. Editor's Notes: Doctor Exposes Prescription Drugs That Don't Work Doctor Tells How to Improve Memory and Mental Vigor Arpaio, who had been given until Aug. 17 to hand over documents the federal government asked for 15 months ago, called the Justice Department actions harassment. His office has said it won't hand over additional documents because federal authorities haven't said exactly what they were investigating. "They have hundreds of thousands of reports, hundreds of thousands," Arpaio said at a news conference Thursday morning in downtown Phoenix. "They're so broad, we're trying to narrow it down. We're trying to work with them." The lawsuit is a ruse, Arpaio said. "I think they know we have not been racial profiling, so what's the next step — camouflage the situation, go to the courts, and make it look like I'm not cooperating?" he said. Arizona Republican Sen. Russell Pearce described the Justice Department's actions as a "witch hunt." "This is the game that's played," he said. "They couldn't find any violations . . . that's why it's broad, that's why they're very vague about what they want. It doesn't take a very high IQ to figure out what's going on with these folks." The lawsuit is the latest action against Arizona by the federal government, which earlier sued the state to stop its strict new immigration law that requires police officers to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are in the country illegally. "The actions of the sheriff's office are unprecedented," said Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for the department's civil rights division. "It is unfortunate that the department was forced to resort to litigation to gain access to public documents and facilities." The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, names Arpaio, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, and the county. It says the department is investigating police practices and jail policies but did not specify the documents sought in its dozens of requests. Xochitl Hinojosa, a Justice Department spokeswoman in Washington, said she could not release information on the documents sought. "It is an ongoing investigation," she said. Arpaio also declined to specify what documents the department is seeking. Arizona's new law, most of which a federal judge has put on hold, mirrors many of the policies Arpaio has put into place in the greater Phoenix area. Arpaio believes the inquiry is focused on his immigration sweeps, patrols where deputies flood an area of a city — in some cases, heavily Latino areas — to seek out traffic violators and arrest other offenders. Critics say his deputies pull people over for minor traffic infractions because of the color of their skin so they can ask them for proof of citizenship. Arpaio denies allegations of racial profiling, saying people are stopped if deputies have probable cause to believe they've committed crimes — and only later do deputies find that many of them are illegal immigrants. The sheriff's office has said half of the 1,032 people arrested in the sweeps have been illegal immigrants. Last year, the federal government stripped Arpaio of his special power to enforce federal immigration law. The sheriff continued his sweeps through the enforcement of state immigration laws. The department's lawsuit said Arpaio's office signed agreements promising to cooperate with civil-rights investigations and other reviews when it accepted federal law enforcement grants. Last year, the nearly $113 million that the county government received from the federal government accounted for about 5 percent of the county's $2 billion budget. The lawsuit listed $16.5 million of funding provided Arpaio's office through several programs. In a separate investigation, a federal grand jury in Phoenix is examining allegations that Arpaio has abused his powers with actions such as intimidating county workers by showing up at their homes at nights and on weekends. A Hispanic activist said a federal judge might have to threaten jail time to get Arpaio to cooperate in the lawsuit filed Thursday. Hispanics alleging racial profiling by Arpaio's deputies in a lawsuit already pending in federal court have met with resistance in their own document demands, said Lydia Guzman of the Phoenix-based civil rights group Somos America. "It's going to take the hard hand of the judge to order some sanctions against the sheriff's office," Guzman said. © Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Additional Links: Do You Have Low Energy? Doctor Says You're Low on B12 Special: Can Prayer Heal You? Dr. Crandall Discovered the Truth. TO ADVERTISE For information on advertising, please contact Newsmax Advertising Sales via e-mail. TO SUBSCRIBE     Newsmax.com 4152 West Blue Heron Blvd., Ste. 1114 Riviera Beach, FL 33404 USA

Thursday's Daily Brief

2010-09-02       The Daily Brief     Jim Wallis: The War in Iraq: At What Cost? AP Jim Wallis: The president asked the nation to "turn the page" last night. But what makes me so sad this morning is the enormous human cost of the war in Iraq; and how a massive number of people and families -- in America and Iraq -- have had their lives ended or changed forever because of this war and will have a hard time turning the page. So was the war in Iraq worth the enormous human cost? Click here to read more. Bob Cesca: Glenn Beck the Faith-Healer Continues to Scam His Followers While everyone is focused on the crowd sizes or Glenn Beck's tall tale about holding in his bare hands George Washington's inaugural address at the National Archives, the more important questions ought to be about the money. George Lakoff: The Cry for Democratic Moral Leadership and Effective Communication The Democrats cannot take their base for granted. Only moral leadership backed by actions and communicated effectively can excite the Obama base once more. Without that excitement, the Democrats will lose big in November. Amy B. Dean: Labor Day's Legacy: A More Inclusive America This Labor Day, I propose we think less about the material gains that working Americans have secured. Instead, we should consider the values that organized labor embodies that we might hope to pass along to our children. Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Robespierre of the Hedge-Fund Revolution As a deregulation romance novel, hedge-fund manager Daniel Loeb's "investor letter" is a bodice-ripper. It's the latest salvo in an ongoing war against real financial regulations that protect the American people. Eric Maisel, Ph.D.: The Art of Obsessing Compulsively By focusing all of its attention on illness and on what's not working, psychology has missed the fact that the brain's ability to obsess can also amount to a real treasure.     HuffPost News Hurricane Earl 2010: Parts Of New York, Massachusetts Put On Notice Steven Rattner's 'Overhaul' Pulls No Punches On Obama Administration's Auto Rescue But Minimizes His Own Troubles (EXCLUSIVE) Ed Schultz vs. Glenn Beck Over Rally Ashton Kutcher DENIES Cheating On Demi Moore Samsung to Challenge Apple With Innovative 'Galaxy Tab' Android Tablet   Get HuffPost on your iPhone!   ©2010 HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. All rights reserved. 560 Broadway, Suite 308, NY, NY 10012 Add dailybrief@huffingtonpost.com to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. User Agreement Privacy Policy

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>>> Having trouble viewing this newsletter? View as a webpage. Top Stories Thursday, September 2, 2010 'Transformers' accident injures extra | VIDEO A 24-year-old woman suffered a serious head injury during the filming of a car stunt at a "Transformers 3" shoot in northwest Indiana one day before filming was supposed to conclude in the Chicago area. Plane makes emergency landing at O'Hare | VIDEO An American Airlines flight made an emergency landing at O'Hare shortly after taking off at the airport Thursday morning. Purported gang members speak out | VIDEO People who claim they are reformed gang members are holding a news conference following Police Supt. Jody Weis' decision to meet with gang members about violence in the city. Workman falls at Loop bridge site Firefighters rescued a worker who fell 30 feet into the gears of a downtown bridge from a catwalk early Thursday. Embattled Illinois prisons chief resigns Illinois' prison chief, who became a political liability to Gov. Pat Quinn during an election year because of a secret prisoner release program he oversaw, is stepping down, the governor said Thursday. Man charged in Aurora hospital stabbing | VIDEO Charges have been filed against a man accused of attacking a patient in a west suburban Aurora hospital. MORE STORIES Strange News Homeless man calls 911 from hot tub, seeks cocoa For 2nd time, Ohio woman gives birth in vehicle Lawsuits prompt some W.Va. swing set removals Toby Keith fan Frankenstein cited for conduct Round Lake cop stays on Gurnee coaster 11 hrs Consumer Sharp LCD TVs recalled Target adds health clinics in Chicago stores Police offer free child safety seat checks Apple unveils new box for streaming movies, TV | VIDEO BBB warns against 5 scams targeting senior citizens | VIDEO Healthbeat Journal editors question sale of diet pill Meridia New test may improve TB diagnosis, treatment Botox maker to pay $600M to resolve investigation Do pills equal power? Lack of sleep linked to negative health effects, studies find MOST POPULAR 'Transformers' accident injures extra 'Gang leaders' going public after police warning New CPS school named for fallen officer Plane makes emergency landing at O'Hare Palos Heights tracks students on school buses All Most Popular Advertisement TODAY'S WEATHER OUTLOOK 83°F 62°F Mostly cloudy, warm and humid with a couple of showers and a thunderstorm Hour-by-Hour | 7 Day Forecast | Radar & Satellite TONIGHT ON ABC 7:00 PM Wipeout 8:00 PM Rookie Blue 9:00 PM NightlinePrime: Secrets of Your Mind - Why We Do What We Do 10:00 PM ABC 7 News 10:35 PM Nightline Lottery Results Your Daily Horoscope Offshore oil rig explodes in Gulf of Mexico An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP's undersea well spilled after a rig explosion. Recipes for the Jewish New Year Jewish New Year or Rosh Hashanah will be celebrated next week. It's the first of the two major Jewish holidays observed in the fall. Lamb Tagine Moroccan Couscous UNCOVERED & REDISCOVERED: STORIES OF JEWISH CHICAGO SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS I'd like to receive the following newsletters from abc7chicago.com Sign up for news alerts Daily Weather | Daily News | 190 North SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS Sign up for news alerts

Apple TV poised for the living room, while Ping is no match for Facebook - iPhone app article - Kevin Maney | Appolicious ™ iPhone & iPad App Directory

Apple TV poised for the living room, while Ping is no match for Facebook - iPhone app article - Kevin Maney | Appolicious ™ iPhone & iPad App Directory

Apple (AAPL) failed to make a case Wednesday that Apple TV could replace cable TV. Instead, it did something smarter: It introduced an Apple TV that consumers will want alongside their cable boxes.

How Barack Obama Became Mr. Unpopular - Yahoo! News

How Barack Obama Became Mr. Unpopular - Yahoo! News

The Barack Obama that most Hoosiers remember voting for can still be found on YouTube. He stands before a cheering Elkhart high school gymnasium in August 2008, tireless, aspirational, promising a new America of jobs and hope. "We can choose another future," says the newcomer with the funny name. "So I ask you to join me."