Alter: Why Senator Rubio Is No Dream Veep

Saturday, December 03, 2011

The Big Story, By Jonathan Alter Rubio, Republican Dream VP, Won't Fix Party Woes Although he claims to have no interest in the job, Florida Senator Marco Rubio is the most likely VP choice for any Republican nominee. But in truth, Rubio is not the ideal vice-presidential candidate to solve Republicans' trouble with Hispanics. READ MORE

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My Front Pages By Joe Conason Trump? The Republican Primary Is Now Officially A Gong Show Marketing genius is perhaps the most appropriate way to describe Donald J. Trump's newest incarnation as the announced host -- he can hardly be called a "moderator" -- of a post-Christmas Republican debate sponsored by Newsmax, the conservative magazine and website. Why would the candidates agree to join this spectacle? READ MORE

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Tax Cut Fight Republicans: We Always Love Tax Cuts (Just Not For The Poor) The failure of most Republicans to back an extension of the payroll tax cut opens up vulnerable senators to charges of hypocrisy -- especially in a political environment of resurgent populism across the spectrum, where Republicans are even more likely than Democrats and Independents to support continuing those tax breaks. READ MORE

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Featured Column: Bruce Judson Occupy Our Homes: Shining A Light On Our Great Failure Members of the 'Occupy' movement are planning to begin a nationwide action protesting the foreclosure crisis. Whatever your views of the movement itself, they are casting a bright light on the place where capitalism, our democracy, and our society have all failed: the housing crisis. READ MORE

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The Cain Scrutiny Is This The Last Stop For The Cain Train? Ever since Georgia businesswoman Ginger White went public with her claim that she was involved with Herman Cain in a 13-year extramarital affair, his poll numbers have plummeted and he has acknowledged that he is having trouble raising money. Despite a range of reports, nobody knows exactly what Cain plans to do. But when even Mark Sanford -- the former South Carolina Governor who stayed in office after his secret love affair was revealed and his wife divorced him -- is saying that it's time to go... READ MORE

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Jobs Unemployment Rate Falls To Lowest Since March 2009 The U.S. unemployment rate fell last month to its lowest level in more than 2½ years. More people out of work either found jobs, or else gave up looking and -- in a peculiarity of government economic analysis -- were no longer counted as unemployed. READ MORE

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Friday's Daily Brief

Friday, December 2, 2011 Best of TEDTalks 2011: Kathryn Schulz On Regret (Premiere) BUSINESS U.S. Unemployment Rate Falls To Lowest Level In Nearly Three Years POLITICS Herman Cain On 'Hannity': 'I Am Going To Reestablish My Character' TECHNOLOGY Apple, Verizon, Google, Microsoft, AT&T And Others Speak Out On Phone 'Tracking' Controversy BUSINESS Honda Recalls 304,000 Vehicles For Air-Bag Problem GREEN Geoengineering Could Save Earth -- Or Destroy It BLOG POSTS Jared Bernstein: Jobs Report, First Impressions Employment was up 120,000 last month and the unemployment rate dropped significantly, to 8.6 percent in November down from 9 percent in October. While the employment story has improved over the past few months, the decline in the November unemployment rate isn't as good as it sounds. There's still a great deal of slack in the job market and we're a long way away from providing job seekers and workers with the job and wage increases they need to get ahead. Outside of the public sector, we're at least moving in the right direction -- but very slowly. Cecile Richards: What Siri's Blind Spot on Women's Health Really Means Apple's trusty little phone wizard is clueless about birth control or abortion care. While this may be nothing more than a programming glitch, it is a modern-day example of the historic struggle women have always faced in getting access to health care and health information. Carl Pope: Letter From Durban Although the formal negotiating process is a disappointment -- particularly the U.S. role -- the opportunities we face keep increasing, along with the challenges. Can Durban be the turning point? Gretchen Rubin: 8 Splendid Truths of Happiness In my study of happiness, I've labored to identify its fundamental principles. Because I get a tremendous kick out of the numbered lists that pop up throughout Buddhism, I decided to dub these fundamental principles as my Eight Splendid Truths. Gisele Bundchen: End Mother to Child Transmission -- Together, We Can Make a Difference Today, more than 1,000 babies are born with HIV every day in the developing world. As a mother, this statistic really breaks my heart, especially when as many as 98% of these cases could be prevented.

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Thursday's Daily Brief

Thursday, December 1, 2011 Arianna Huffington and Chris Anderson: 18 Great Ideas From 2011 That Can Shape 2012 Arianna Huffington and Chris Anderson: On behalf of The Huffington Post and TED, we are delighted to invite you on a year-end journey of ideas that can help shape the world in 2012. Starting today, we will be counting down 18 of 2011's most impactful TEDTalks -- and combining them with new blog posts written by the people who delivered them. TED stands for technology, entertainment and design, but the content has become much broader than that. The talks you'll be seeing touch on science, business, global issues, education, and much more. Picking the 18 wasn't easy. For the TED team, it was like being asked to name their favorite child. And this year, they had over 300 kids to pick from. But they finally managed to come up with their selections. Watch them, comment on them, and pass them along. An idea is one gift that you can hang onto even after you've given it away. POLITICS McCaskill: Spend Money On U.S. Infrastructure, Not Troubled Afghanistan Programs POLITICS Cain Hints At His Next Move PARENTS High Arsenic Levels In Fruit Juices, New Study Says BLACK VOICES Kentucky Church Bans Interracial Couples TRAVEL 1,000 Places To See Before You Die: Your Most Desired Vacation Destination BLOG POSTS Elton John: Stopping the AIDS Epidemic in Its Tracks It's a time to reflect on the fact that we all have a role to play in ending the AIDS epidemic. And one of the most important ways we can stop AIDS in its tracks is simply by fighting stigma and homophobia. Jim Wallis: Evangelical Consistency and the 2012 Elections Too many of congregants' political priorities are determined by a party or ideology -- not the Word of God. Their identities are shaped by marketing and media campaigns that manufacture a view of the world in order to maximize their own power and profit. Bernard-Henri Lévy: Israel-Palestine: What If Peace Were Actually at Hand ? We must try everything. Put everything out there. For at the crossroads of these three paths, faithful to the spirit of Geneva, we have a rendezvous with peace. Michelangelo Signorile: Every Day Is World AIDS Day World AIDS Day has always been bittersweet for me. On the one hand, it's a day when much of the media focuses on a global pandemic that desperately needs attention. On the other hand, it's become the only day that happens. Lisa Belkin: Working Moms Multitask More, And Enjoy It Less Maybe that's what makes women cranky -- the realization that we are not nearly as efficient as men think they are. Or maybe it is because, as the Sociology Association study found, women do more of this serially-multiple-tasking, and while some feels productive, some more feels overwhelming.

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