There will be no two-state solution. The world must accept that we won’t budge, and learn to live with the status quo.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/opinion/israels-settlers-are-here-to-stay.html
Who Deserves a Tax Break?
The Senate passed a bill to extend tax cuts for the middle class. The Republican-controlled House will undoubtedly kill it because it does not benefit the wealthy.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/opinion/who-deserves-a-tax-break.html
Another Source Says Mitt Romney Had Very Little Contact With Bain After He Left
The Associated Press looks into Mitt Romney’s association with Bain Capital after he left to run the Winter Olympics in 1999, and adds one small tidbit to the story:
Several associates now say Romney made repeated trips between Salt Lake City and Boston, where he met at times with his former partners, mostly to discuss his severance from the firm. The Boston Globe reported last week that Romney also met with his Bain partners at a 15th anniversary celebration in Palm Beach, Fla., in early 1999.
“Some were group conversations. Some were one on one,” said a legal expert familiar with Romney’s discussions with his Bain partners. This person, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential business dealings, said that Romney did not relinquish his Bain ownership after taking the Olympics role but that Romney took care to avoid the day-to-day role of a corporate manager.
This is pretty much the same thing Ed Conard told Chris Hayes a week ago, and since Conard can’t reasonably be described as a “legal expert,” this appears to be independent confirmation of what he said. For the time being, then, it appears that the best evidence supports Romney’s story that (a) he held onto his titles in order to maintain leverage during his severance negotiations, and (b) was involved very little with the operation of Bain after he left. He probably wasn’t completely disengaged (the AP story says his meetings were “mostly” about severance), but it does sound as though he had only minimal operational contact.
Whether he should be held morally accountable for Bain’s actions as long as he held the CEO title is a whole different question. But substantively, probably not.
via Kevin Drum Feed | Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/07/another-source-says-mitt-romney-had-very-little-contact-bain-after-he-left
nathanjurgenson: w/ census API, will there be lots of new tools for researchers to visualize & manipulate the data? http://t.co/Nntts8rt
nathanjurgenson: w/ census API, will there be lots of new tools for researchers to visualize & manipulate the data? http://t.co/Nntts8rt
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nbj914 July 25, 2012 at 09:31PM
@nbj914: The ONLY bad # I could find in @Peretti’s @BuzzFeed letter: 2012 staff = 4.5x 2011 staff. 2012 revenue = maybe 3x 2011 revenue.
NYT: WARNER BROS. and Its Decades of Violent Films…
NYT: WARNER BROS. and Its Decades of Violent Films…
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The Best Skirts for ‘Cankles’
Columnist Teri Agins answers a reader’s question on skirt lengths that are best for “cankles.”
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Negative Ads Hit at Identity to Shape Race
Two candidates who can have trouble connecting with voters on a personal level try to define each other as detached from mainstream American life.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/us/politics/negative-ads-hit-at-identity-to-shape-race.html
HBO And Scott Rudin End Their Deal
EXCLUSIVE: I love meta-producer Scott Rudin because he always makes news. (And gives 
everyone around him heart palpitations every time I call.) So here’s the latest: HBO and Rudin have ended their exclusive deal. Rudin’s reps tell me the reason is so that Scott can have “more flexibility†during his first foray into television. â€You know how full they are. He wants to sell elsewhere.†But another source emails me this, which Rudin’s camp strenuously denies: 
“HBO is so tired of Scott Rudin’s antics that they terminated his overall deal yesterday.â€Â The end follows such Rudin dissapointments as HBO in May deciding not to go forward with the Noah Baumbach/Rudin pilot The Corrections. Based on Jonathan Franzen’s acclaimed book, it boasted one of most star-studded casts ever assembled on television: Chris Cooper, Dianne Wiest, Ewan McGregor, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans and Greta Gerwig. Attempting to bring Franzen’s book to the screen — something that had been tried unsuccessfully on the feature side for a decade — was considered a big swing. Word is HBO brass liked the performances but the decision came down to adapting the book’s challenging narrative. Needless to say, Rudin was not pleased.
At this point it’s unclear how the severed deal will affect all of Rudin’s HBO projects, so many I can’t even keep them all straight. Of course there’s Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom now going into its second season, Ben Stiller’s comedy pilot All Talk which he’s directing and producing and acting in, writer-comedian Harris Wittels’s comedy, first-time filmmaking duo Lisanne Pajot’s and James Swirsky’s Sundance documentary Indie Game which Rudin was developing as a fictional half-hour comedy series. And probably scores more.
via Deadline.com http://www.deadline.com/2012/07/hbo-and-scott-rudin-end-their-deal/
Hospitals wipe out, limit medical bills for Colorado shooting victims
DENVER – Some of the victims fighting for their lives after being wounded in the movie-theatre shooting rampage may face another challenge when they get out of the hospital: enormous medical bills without the benefit of health insurance.
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