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Least popular president meets one of the most popular presidents-elect.

Today, President-elect Barack Obama is scheduled to meet with President Bush at the White House. The New York Times notes that the visit will be both “historic” and “perhaps awkward,” since Obama consistently criticized Bush on the campaign trail. A new Gallup analysis also finds...

Posted to General World News by Anonymous on 11-10-2008
PC Makers Try To Pinch Seconds From Their Boot Times

Some computers are never turned off, or at least rarely see any state less active than "standby," but others (for power savings or other reasons) need rebooting — daily, or even more often. The New York Times is running a short article which says that it's not just a few makers like...

Posted to Hardware by Anonymous on 10-26-2008
Old Media Deathrace: Newspapers Nose Ahead

The Grey Lady, as it’s called, might possibly be in the winter of its lifetime. `According to Henry Blodget’s calculations , the New York Times is burning cash much quicker than it’s making it, and this year might end up defaulting on their loans. Their cash reserves sit at $46 million...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-24-2008
ThinkFast: September 18, 2008

68 percent: The number of Americans who think John McCain would either continue President Bush’s policies or enact more conservative policies, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll. The poll found that 57 percent of all voters view McCain as “a typical Republican,” despite his...

Posted to General World News by Anonymous on 09-18-2008
THE BLACK KEYS HEADLINE BIGGEST SHOW TO DATE!

The Black Keys recently played their biggest headlining show to date in Brooklyn, NY at McCarren Pool with over 4,800 fans in attendance. Rave review from the New York Times: “Mr. Auerbach’s crawling guitar lines…and Mr. Carney’s thrusting drum racket…appealingly ragged…walls...

Posted to Blues by Anonymous on 08-09-2008
The truth about food

Source: Prospect Magazine Author: Robert Paarlberg Date: May 29, 2008 As everyone knows, the price of many basic foodstuffs has surged in the past half year. Rice tripled in price over just the first four months of 2008, wheat doubled and corn rose 46 per cent. The New York Times has dubbed this a “world...

Posted to General Science by Anonymous on 05-29-2008
McCain Advised On Catholic Issues By Former Bush Adviser Accused Of Sexual Misconduct

As Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) courts the Catholic vote, “part of a larger effort to build bridges with religious voters,” The New York Times reports today that his “informal adviser” on Catholic outreach is Deal W. Hudson. In 2004, Hudson advised Bush-Cheney ‘04, serving as “the architect...

Posted to General World News by Anonymous on 04-15-2008
Romney Contradicts McCain Adviser: ‘You Can’t Keep On Growing The Federal Deficit’

Yesterday, ThinkProgress noted that Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) economic advisers are abandoning McCain’s earlier talk of balancing the budget. According to the New York Times, his chief economic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, “said that if the war and the personal and corporate tax cuts...

Posted to General World News by Anonymous on 04-15-2008
Freedom’s Watch ‘paralyzed’ by ‘gridlock’ and ‘infighting.’

Last summer, the right-wing group Freedom’s Watch spent $15 million “in a nationwide advertising blitz supporting President Bush’s troop escalation in Iraq.” In September, The New York Times heralded it as “a conservative answer to the nine-year-old liberal MoveOn.org.”...

Posted to General World News by Anonymous on 04-12-2008
Bush does damage control on troop withdrawal comment.

Earlier this week, President Bush endorsed Gen. Petraeus’s plan for a “pause” in troop withdrawals, eagerly stating Petraeus could have “all the time he needs” before reducing American forces further. Yesterday, in his interview with ABC, Bush tried to backtrack on that comment, reports...

Posted to General World News by Anonymous on 04-12-2008

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