News Desk: Obama Administration Announces Fuel
Standards of 54.5 MPG by 2025

post from Taylor Marsh on 28 August 2012 06:00:37 PM. © Taylor Marsh

THE RELEASE from the White House, an excerpt:The Obama Administration today finalized groundbreaking standards that will increase fuel economy to the equivalent of 54.5 mpg for cars and light-duty trucks by Model Year 2025. When combined with previous[...]

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News Desk: Chinese Media Confront Romney Over
Policies

post from Taylor Marsh on 28 August 2012 06:00:37 PM. © Taylor Marsh

OVER ON Foreign Policy, Josh Rogin was the first to report this story.From China Daily:“By any standard, the U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s China policy, as outlined on his official campaign website, is an outdated[...]

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Fox News' Megyn Kelly Spreads Propaganda That
Mitt Romney Is 'Self Made'

post from Crooks and Liars on 28 August 2012 06:00:10 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Fox News continues their campaign of spreading propaganda about conservatives and Mitt Romney when Megyn Kelly plaintively cries to RMoney's five sons that nobody in America knows that Mitt Romney is a self-made man and not actually hatched out of the privileged class."It turns out that your dad is, in many ways, self-made."

My God, George Romney was worth a huge fortune and was Michigan royalty as their long-serving governor. If Romney fell into the kind of real hard times that average Americans do every day with no way out, George would have bailed him out as many times as was required. As it was, Romney got the privileged leg up of an expensive prep boarding school and Harvard education, courtesy of Dad's name and wealth. Many wealthy kids try to make it on their own and it's one thing for a person who has no safety net to venture out into the world, but another when you have a gold-plated safety net in the form of a rich and connected dad waiting their to catch you.

Megyn breathlessly gushes over Mitt like a love-struck puppy.

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Methane Showing Up in Water Contaminated By
Fracking

post from Firedoglake on 28 August 2012 05:50:49 PM. © Firedoglake

The biggest reason for the decline in greenhouse gas emissions in the US over the past couple years is the replacement of dirty coal with natural gas to generate electricity. But this will not last if the fracking that has unlocked so much natural gas[...]

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T.V. show

post from Daily Kos on 28 August 2012 05:50:04 PM. © Daily Kos

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Ohio Secretary Of State Fires Board Of Elections
Officials For Supporting Weekend Voting Hours

post from ThinkProgress on 28 August 2012 05:34:52 PM. © ThinkProgress

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has fired two Montgomery County board of election members who voted for expanded early voting hours on weekends in defiance of his state-wide directive ordering them to restrict voting hours to weekdays only. Dennis Lieberman and Thomas J. Ritchie, Sr. were suspended immediately after voting to expand the board’s [...]

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Minnesota Pediatricians Come Out Against Marriage
Inequality Amendment

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The Minnesota chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics announced today that it opposes the proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. The group points out that there is no research to show a link between a child’s well-being and his or her parents’ sexual orientation. According to chapter president Dr. Robert M. Jacobson, “This [...]

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CHART: Americas Unionizaton Rate Plummets While
Canadas Holds Steady

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A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research shows that, while America’s unionization rate has plummeted over the last few decades, Canada’s has stayed relatively steady. CEPR notes that two Canadian pro-labor policies — allowing employees to form a union via signing cards and using so-called “first contract arbitration” to prevent stalling [...]

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Republican Platform Will Feature End of Medicare
as We Know It

The Republican National Convention has been gaveled into order, and an already-hoarse RNC Chair Reince Priebus has begun the proceedings. The first day will include the roll call to formally nominate Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for President and Vice[...]

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NYT: Reporter Erred Sending Draft Of Dowd Column
To CIA To Help With Fact Check

Updated: 4: 26 p.m. ET

From the annals of reporters getting cozy with their sources: New York Times national security reporter Mark Mazzetti gave a CIA spokesperson an advance copy of Maureen Dowd's Aug. 6, 2011 column, which made mention of a movie by "Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow about the raid on Osama bin Laden's Islamabad compound.

According to emails obtained by Judicial Watch, Mazzetti told CIA spokeswoman Marie Harf, before sending along Dowd's draft, "this didn't come from me....and please delete after you read. See, nothing to worry about." Harf helped coordinate access and information for the movie's screenwriter, Mark Boal, and Bigelow, according to the emails.

Dowd wrote in her column that the White House is counting on the movie -- titled "Zero Dark Thirty" -- "to counter Obama's growing reputation as ineffectual." At the time, the movie was set to open in mid-October, which could have create a little positive buzz for the president ahead of the election. However, the movie is currently slated for a December 2012 release.

Managing Editor Dean Baquet told Politico that the situation amounts to "much ado about nothing," though he didn't go into specifics.

"The optics aren't what they look like," he said. "I've talked to Mark, I know the circumstances, and given what I know, it's much ado about nothing."

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Late update:

In a statement, the paper calls Mazzetti's move a "mistake that is not consistent with New York Times standards." Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said that Dowd asked Mazzetti to help check a fact for her column. Mazzetti sent the full column to the CIA without Dowd knowing shortly before her deadline.