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Cannes reviews: Politics and troubled family lives in "Ain't Them Bodies Saints," "Blue Ruin," and "Tip Top"

CANNES, FRANCE — While the red-carpet crowd at Cannes has been toasting the Coen brothers' tuneful "Inside Llewyn Davis" — you can read Barbara Scharres's take here — the parallel programs have also turned a spotlight on American movies. Show More Summary

Kurdish Death Row Prisoner Transferred, His Lawyer Arrested

A Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death has been transferred back to Orumiyeh Central Prison after spending 15 months inside the Semnan Central Prison, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.Show More Summary

Auditing America's Political Integrity

The IRS scandal, Benghazi incidents, and the disappointment of dishonorable leadership. The recent scandals swirling inside the beltway seem to have come one after another—Benghazi, the AP records seizure, the IRS audits. While investigations...Show More Summary

The real swivel-eyed loons are inside Number 10

The swivel-eyed loons are surely in Number 10, not outside it. Month after month, David Cameron's premiership expose him and his inner circle as even more out of touch than we thought possible. Politics is about working with others in order to change things for a greater good. Yet Cameron's close network of friends and [...]

The "Do Nothing" Solution to "Illegal Immigration"

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida www.ftlauderdale.gov/news Both sides of the political aisle have made a major issue out of the problem of the 11 million people inside the US illegally or presently undocumented. The president has said this is a priority and Florida senator Marco Rubio has agreed. Show More Summary

Smith: 'We're not 10 yards from Super Bowl'

When he meets with the media, Atlanta Falcons coach Mike Smith almost always comes across as polite and not very emotional. But he’s a football coach and you get the sense there’s a lot more inside of him. A glimpse of what a Smith pep...Show More Summary

Syrian Troops Flush Out Rebels from Prison

(BEIRUT) — Syrian government troops on Thursday flushed out rebels who had stormed a prison compound in the northern city of Aleppo in a bid to free hundreds of political prisoners inside. The forced retreat was the latest setback for fighters seeking to topple President Bashar Assad, whose forces have been gaining ground in the country’s civil war. Show More Summary

David Gregory and the illegal AR-15 magazine

Emily Miller has the story. Gregory is the political reporter who, on NBC Nightly News, pulled out an AR-15 magazine... at a studio inside DC, where such magazines are banned. Of course, nothing ever happened. Ms. Miller and Judicial Watch...

Blax News Attempts To Interview Former Black Panther Rep Bobby Rush About The Obama Administration's Assignment Of Assata Shakur To The Terrorist List - But We Were Denied Access For Security Reasons

Blax News Documents - The Political "Americanized Blacks" And Their Break From The Black Revolutionaries Now That They Are Firmly "Inside The Door" And Have Taken Over The Management Of The CIA/FBI/DoD/Department of State

ABC News Senior Washington Correspondent Jeff Zeleny Will Host “The Fine Print”

New, Weekly Show in the Daily, Original, Digital Video Series “Power Players” from ABC News and Yahoo! News  “The Fine Print” Tackles the Biggest Political Names & Stories From Inside the Beltway  First Interview with Former Republican Senator Jim DeMint Launches on Tuesday, May 14 ABC...

Conservative Group Says IRS Leaked Docs to Rival

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) says someone inside the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) leaked its confidential tax return to one of its chief political opponents, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). HRC’s president, Joe Solomonese, served as the co-chairman of the Obama reelection campaign. Show More Summary

Weiner lines up a campaign staffer

The former head of Jewish outreach for Anthony Weiner confirms he's been in talks with the ex-congressman about working on an expected mayoral campaign. A plugged-in source in Orthodox Jewish politics told the Insider that the hiring...Show More Summary

‘Morning Joe’ Mayhem at Politics & Prose

The scene was standing room only inside Politics & Prose Bookstore Thursday afternoon as the swarm of patrons awaited MSNBC “Morning Joe” Co-hosts Mika Brzezinksi and Joe Scarborough. People stuffed themselves between the bookshelves. Show More Summary

The Insiders: The Obama economy has delivered for the 1 percent!

It is ironic, if not surreal, that the president is traveling today to Texas — of all places — to celebrate the Obama economy. Texans oppose just about every political position he has taken, and their political leaders have opposed … Continue reading ?

Inside a Wild and Raucous Pakistani Political Campaign

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Let the clichés ring. A fall from grace.  An historic collapse.   A campaign Ker plunk The moment that Imran Khan, Pakistan’s most famous cricket star turned politician, took a fateful – and clearly, dangerous – televised tumble off a lift en route...

Inside Al Gore's Crazy Riches

If it's not polite to talk about one's money then Al Gore is in for quite the rude Monday. His riches (which, at an estimated $200 million, definitely qualify as riches) are the subject of both a Bloomberg piece (for which he declined to be interviewed) and a New York...

The Insiders: Only a polite “golf clap” for the April jobs report

Only a polite golf clap is warranted for the April jobs report. A “golf clap” is defined by the Urban Dictionary as “exaggeratedly quiet clapping intended as a show of sarcastic support or disdain,” although it is “increasingly being used to … Continue reading ?

The tangled web of bologna

Ry Rivard, "Duke Faculty Say No", Inside Higher Ed 4/302013: Bass argued that “politics got in the way of good sense” when the faculty voted last week.  Bass said faculty argued they had not been consulted enough by Lange and the administration, though faculty committees have been working on the issue for nearly a year. “This had [...]

Cute Cats to the Rescue? Participatory Media and Political Expression

Some years back, I gave a talk at O’Reilly’s ETech conference that urged the audience to spend less time thinking up clever ways dissidents could blog secretly from inside repressive regimes and more time thinking about the importance of ordinary participatory media tools, like blogs, Facebook and YouTube, for activism. I argued that the tools [...]

Please Welcome Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Brad Smith and Sean Parker to the ZuckerPAC

Mark Zuckerberg brings more of his powerful friends to the roster of his political advocacy group inside the Beltway.

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