Jon Stewart last night performed a comic tour de force imitating Glenn Beck. If anyone has video of Glenn Beck parodying Jon Stewart, send it along... The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Intro - Progressivism ...

From Dow Jones (hat tip, Drudge), “Caterpillar: Health care bill would cost it $100M“: In a letter Thursday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio, Caterpillar urged lawmakers to vo...

Amid all the spinning and sparring over the Congressional Budget Office’s assessment of health care legislation, a couple of stories stand out for bringing much-needed context to the proceedings. The Washington Post did a smart anal...

As we reported earlier today, Christiane Amanpour is leaving CNN after nearly 27 years with the network and heading to ABC News where she'll succeed George Stephanopoulos as moderator of that network's Sunday public affairs show, "T...

Comedian Jon Stewart riffs for fifteen minutes on Glenn Beck, and leaves me thinking, yet again, that he might well be the most astute, incisive - and influential - progressive thinker in America.See: Tonight, the Role of Glenn Beck...

Medtronic has received FDA approval for its integrated diabetes management system called MiniMed Paradigm REAL-Time Revel System. The system combines insulin pump therapy, continuous glucose monitoring and diabetes therapy managemen...

Update 1:20pm: Added quotes from Ethan Malone, details on future Broadway design. Seattle’s Department of Transportation has recommended the Two-Way Broadway alignment for the First Hill Streetcar, without a park loop as initially p...

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Chief Technologist Sam Pullara is leaving the company, capping off a week of high-profile departures. At Yahoo, Pullara was “responsible for ensuring that products we develop are competitive and provide compelling...

Dairy Management Inc. is conducting a webinar on social media for dairy producers in a couple weeks. Dairy producers who use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to stay connected with family and friends, and producers who want to learn a...

Commanders from the 5/2 SBCT (Task Force Stryker) in Afghanistan have asked us to post two very extensive reports detailing the brigade's activities to date. The first provides an overview of the brigade's various areas of operation...

The recent string of pharmaceutical robberies is a product of two factors: Drug prices in the U.S. are twice what they are in other countries,... ...

The major Hollywood studios have joined with cable operators to launch a $30 million marketing campaign to highlight video-on-demand services under a new brand name, Movies on Demand. The Movies on......

Philadelphia plans a new traffic control center for the city's biggest roadways. Officials say they want to better synchronize signals and manage the flow of traffic, particularly on the major roadways. So the Nutter administration...

Jon Stewart took another run at Glenn Beck on the Daily Show last night. In a 13-minute spoof that Gawker 's Matt Cherette calls "probably one of his greatest segments ever," Stewart plays Beck in all his God-fearing, progressive-ba...

As SXSW Interactive comes to a close and SXSW Music kicks off, it's worth taking a look at the ideas, trends, discussions, and issues that dominated the four-day technology summit. Here are the five areas that stood out the most to ...

Sarah Palin is closer to landing a deal for a reality show. Sources say A&E Networks and Discovery Communications want to acquire Palin's project, which...

In a stunning display of academic arrogance, MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber, who promoted and defended the administration's health care policies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance as well as the Health, Education, ...

On "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart spent roughly half the program last night on an elaborate and detailed send-up of Glenn Beck. Stewart goes after everything from Beck's mannerisms to his chalk board device to his argument style. T...

It appears to be the season for agency switching, and Paradigm is getting in on the action. The agency signed actress Taraji P. Henson and screenwriter/producer Bobby Moresco. Henson was Oscar nominated for The Curious Case of Benja...

Excerpt from post: I had a front row seat for the last generation of ebooks: In 1999 I was at Softbook (one of the early ebook reader companies), and later I interacted with the folks at Peanut Press (an ebook publisher) after they ...