http://www.megite.com Megite is the newspaper for anyone interested in what's happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs. Copyright 2009, Megite 30 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:17:41 +0000 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_1 942b642f559a68268b8c996c05686bc0 Mozilla updated Firefox to version 3.5.1 for Windows, Mac, and Linux on Thursday, fixing a security problem, improving stability, and speeding launch time on some Windows systems, according to the release notes. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-07-17T09:14:00Z http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_2 0e3ac0ddd865a6acbffd81c7ba55ed85 Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:17:41 +0000 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_3 de65c62a91911074eac573017433b56a The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a $2 million check in return for the group’s endorsement in a bitter legislative dispute, then flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:57:50 GMT http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_4 04fce402c45593e8f0314fbe9d2dd552 Goldman Sachs’s record quarterly profits show us that the investment bank is very good at what it does. Unfortunately, what it does is bad for America. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:55:42 GMT http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_5 d283607e903c42bf165e37698adac60f At least six people including some foreigners have been killed in two separate blasts at luxury hotels in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, police say. The country's Metro TV reported that one explosion hit the Ritz-Carlton and the other, the Marriott Hotel. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:55:42 GMT http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_6 7c705ae3e24e803fd0a067ed9e7c497e Aside from the damage done to his standing as a social conservative, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s recent admission of an extramarital affair may end up tarnishing another of his political credentials—his carefully-honed reputation as a tight-fisted steward of taxpayer money. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:55:42 GMT http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_7 d8da4be10cffe01b2c2a72207deaa1c1 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-07-16T16:34:05-05:00 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_8 4beda63c15bcb7986d1f3dad3beb3b24 President Obama has often talked of the importance of transparency and accountability in government and he has chalked up some landmark achievements in this area. As a senator, he co-sponsored with Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK, the Federal Financial Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 that established the USASpending.gov web site to enable ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:38:28 GMT http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_9 755bc46407fc562f90ee8201e8b3b4c2 AP Photo Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the second most powerful man in Iran, is delivering the Friday Sermon in Tehran. Will it be the end of the protests, or a new challenge to the regime? (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:01:31 +0000 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_10 6aaf1534aca4bcda5952cd0ebaa4914e LIES, INTIMIDATION, AND BANK OF AMERICA. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:39:50 +0000 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_11 98366694a50b8d512813b36bd8eb1788 Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:53:32 GMT http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_12 d7b1903af8a9e46473c41afa969c0550 The abandonment of a so-called card check provision was an example of the power of moderate Democrats to constrain their party’s more liberal legislative efforts. (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:19:02 -0600 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_13 68aea543f0c0ba314c88e86ed912df41 Congressional Budget Director Douglas Elmendorf testified today before the Senate Budget Committee that the Democrats' various health care proposals will increase, not reduce, federal government spending on health care: Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf warned lawmakers the legislation that he has seen so far would raise ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:38:28 GMT http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_14 af75e24820e40bc7a8c0e0fa16cf9f95 Colleagues of Senator Edward M. Kennedy are lamenting his absence, especially as they work on his signature issue. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-07-17T07:55:00.003-04:00 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_15 16d0a1b3d989c81184ac3386d01cd87a Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:36:29 GMT http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_16 f360aefbbe24bb318e9ba6b16d311b29 The system which helps decide the level of public funding in Scotland is condemned as "arbitrary and unfair". (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-07-17T04:46:00.001-04:00 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_17 1d869f66b1915ac8ff465b045bf4cea3 Challenger Carolyn Maloney has the edge for now over appointed incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand in New York’s Democratic primary campaign for the U.S. Senate. But nearly a third of potential primary voters have no preference at this time leaving the 2010 race wide open. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-07-17T06:03:00.001-04:00 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_18 830028385a0da2de1704c40084e479ad Read on Source) ]]> 2009-07-17T02:34:00.001-04:00 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_19 883895810009ef2d41092627eda7bb0d Read on Source) ]]> 2009-07-17T04:46:00.001-04:00 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/1#item_20 6411cecf8b8a09e9daac122c6e1e90e5 Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:28:47 -0700 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/21#item_1 6a8c5cd01b98216dcea3e55d4e580a0a New Haven firefighter Frank Ricci has been the invisible man of Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings . For four straight days, members of Congress have endlessly rehashed, dissected and debated the case that bears his name. Republicans have lionized Ricci and used his lawsuit against New Haven, Connecticut to bash Sotomayor for ... (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:36:22 -0400 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/21#item_2 5083017067a943e0df4a14584af07b86 BRISTOL — The Bristol Fourth of July Committee and the Rhode Island Tea Party put down their sabers Wednesday, a week after a phone call between two Bristol residents unleashed a torrent of nationwide anger upon this town and the state of Rhode Island. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-07-16T23:57:15+00:00 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/21#item_3 557787b587d3952fb2053f0a3713b281 CNN won't say whether it declined to renew Susan Roesgen's contract because of her job performance, but that certainly would make sense. Roesgen committed one of the most blatant violations of journalistic ethics ever seen on air while covering the anti-tax tea party in Chicago on April 15. She was almost universally condemned for picking a ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-07-16T16:34:05-05:00 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/21#item_4 ef216d11c26e3281dcef0b205d03d99c Hey Iain: If Henry Alford objects so strongly to Senator Boxer putting all that race-based stuff in the record, what's he doing as President of the National Black Chamber of Commerce? Wouldn't that be, sort of, you know, a kind of race-based organization? (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:59:47 -0500 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/21#item_5 13b4c6d9f6bee54e2204e9a8ac4d0ded Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:36:22 -0400 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/21#item_6 6d54b80c7369698f96baa0d5496f6766 By hilzoy Fester at Newhoggers links to a set of right-wing bloggers' predictions for 2003. It's pretty stunning. For instance: If we go into Iraq, how many casualties do you expect to see (on the side of the US and... (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:36:22 -0400 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/21#item_7 d3b417d8e636d4b1e2ab1587f13b195b Read on Source) ]]> 2009-07-16T23:57:15+00:00 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/21#item_8 35ac9bf6202e37892b97e68c4e624213 It is an honor to be here, in the city where the NAACP was formed, to mark its centennial. What we celebrate tonight is not simply the journey the NAACP has traveled, but the journey that we, as Americans, have traveled over the past one hundred years. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-07-16T23:39:00.002-04:00 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/21#item_9 25755b9f532464accfea11bb6389c00a Rather than try to concoct a post at this late hour, you're free to discuss amongst yourselves until Chris wakes up in Paris. Gnite. (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:45:00 PDT http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/21#item_10 6907069eb5a63661989e78d37597200c Microsoft is bringing out the big guns to combat instant message spam and phishing attacks done to users of its Live Messenger network. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant filed a civil lawsuit Thursday in King County Superior Court in Seattle against Funmobile , Mobilefunster, and several individuals, who Microsoft says is responsible for ... (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:23:25 -0500 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/21#item_11 a2a06e905026b658b2f112ae7fd1b1c8 Human evolution is well on its way to becoming a do-it-yourself project. Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon welcome a panel of futurists who discuss how and why people are going to be making major enhancements to themselves, and soon. (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:23:25 -0500 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/21#item_12 179a68d1985223c4cc6aa138b8c68271 This is your horrible, dystopian future: John Yoo, the former Office of Legal Counsel official who had a hand in crafting the Bush administration’s detentions, interrogations and warrantless surveillance abuses, writes endless and endlessly misleading defenses of himself. Some people die because of Yoo’s cavalier relationship with the ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-07-16T13:38:11-08:00 http://www.megite.com/politics/1247836695/21#item_13 dd396504601718516fc23635480ab7a0 Read on Source) ]]>