While there had been some speculation that Sharron Angle, the Tea Partier and 2010 Republican Senate candidate who lost to Harry Reid, would make another run for the Senate, she announced today that her intention is to run for Congress in Nevada’s Second District: While Angle lost to the very unpopular Reid 45% to 50%, it she beat him by 7 points in the Second District , which encompasses the entire… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Weekly Standard Blog Discovery Date : 16/03/2011 21:47 Number of articles : 2
Although we got a pretty decent look at the Honeycomb tablet ourselves at Mobile World Congress, we didn’t get to use the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 as one would in the real world. French-bred AndroidHD took the tablet around their home country and did everything you could imagine doing with a tablet in one day. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Android Phone Fans Discovery Date : 14/03/2011 01:13 Number of articles : 2
While his BFF continues to express disappointment in Barack Obama , Ben Affleck also stepped into the political arena this week, testifying before the House Africa, Global Health & Human Rights Subcommittee. The actor, who founded the Eastern Congo Initiative, stated his case regarding the central African country, which is mired in violence, and why America must do more. “If we continue to place Congo on the back burner of U.S. policy, it will come back to haunt us,” Affleck said. “The last time Congo collapsed, armies came in from across Africa and five million people died… We must learn from history.” The Oscar winner is asking Congress to protect Congolese civilians from ongoing attacks. He wants the U.S. to offer support in this November’s elections and to appoint a representative to the Great Lakes region of central Africa. “This is an ambitious agenda, but it can be accomplished,” Affleck said. “The federal budget may be seen as a zero sum game but our morality, our sense of decency, our compassion for our fellow human beings, is not.” Cindy McCain, a member of Affleck’s nonprofit organization, has joined the actor in his fight.
You have until Monday night, 8 pm, March 7, 2011 to get help readjusting your mortgage payments to something more affordable. The NACA “Save the Dream” Tour is back in Atlanta with representatives from most major banks and financial institutions. Counselors will be available to work with you in free “one-on-one” sessions. Don’t forget to bring important documents including income verification, your mortgage bill, tax returns, property tax bill, and insurance payments. You may also log onto their website www.naca.com to submit your information electronically. NACA is set up at AmericasMart, 240 Peachtree Street Northwest, Downtown Atlanta. (Note – Chase Bank mortgage counselors are set up at the Georgia World Congress Center until 8 tonight.)
Russell Simmons did his peaceful Hip-Hop guru thing on Sunday as part of a rally against an upcoming Congressional hearing that he and others say would basically study terrorism and Islam as one and the same. Some 300 people gathered in Times Square on Sunday to speak out against a planned congressional hearing on Muslim terrorism, criticizing it as xenophobic and saying that singling out Muslims, rather than extremists, is unfair. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and the imam who had led an effort to build an Islamic center near the World Trade Center site were among those who addressed the crowd. “Our real enemy is not Islam or Muslims,” said the imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf. “The enemy is extremism and radicalism and radical ideology.” The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Peter King, has said that affiliates of al-Qaeda are radicalizing some American Muslims. He’s planned hearings starting Thursday on the threat he says they pose. King, a Republican from New York’s Long Island, told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that he sees an international movement with elements in the United States of Muslims becoming more radical and identifying with terrorists. Speakers at the cold and drizzly Times Square rally said King was targeting Muslims unfairly. “American Muslims are as fully American as any other faith community,” said Rabbi Marc Schneier, founder of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding. Singling out Muslim Americans “as the source of homegrown terrorism” is an injustice, he said. Democratic Congressman Andre Carson of Indiana, one of two Muslims in Congress, said he wanted to say “to the Peter Kings of the world: We will not take your xenophobic behavior.” Imam Shamsi Ali, the leader of the Islamic Cultural Center on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, said, “We are here today because we love this country. We are here today because we want to see America remain the most powerful and the most beautiful country in the world.” Simmons promised “to make sure that this rally is taken to the next generation and to a new age” by enlisting entertainers and sports figures to tweet about it, including Kim Kardashian, who tweeted Sunday that she stood with Simmons in “promoting love and compassion.” A smaller group rallied a few blocks away in support of King’s hearings. Which side of this debate are you on? Is it time to stop linking terrorism in America to Muslim Americans? Source
Some say the world will end in fire and some say in ice. But in Washington, a lot of people say it will end if we don’t continually raise the debt ceiling. The statutory debt limit, or debt ceiling, represents the maximum amount of debt the federal government can carry at any given time. The limit was created in 1917 so that Congress wouldn’t have to vote every time the government wanted to increase… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Reason Magazine – Hit & Run Discovery Date : 01/03/2011 22:30 Number of articles : 2
One of the bigger things Google wanted to highlight in Android 3.0 was the developers’ ability to take advantage of a new animation framework they’ve included. As we aren’t developers we haven’t gotten a real chance to check it out – and most of the apps we’ve seen at Mobile World Congress have not used Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Android Phone Fans Discovery Date : 19/02/2011 01:17 Number of articles : 2
There are some pretty cool PlayBook apps being demonstrated at Mobile World Congress 2011. The PlayBook is slated to be shipped around April 1st and everyone is hoping RIM hits this target date. Although, would anyone really be surprised if it gets delayed? Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : BlackBerryCool Discovery Date : 16/02/2011 22:54 Number of articles : 2
Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Neo has already been given the review treatment by Eldar Murtazin and his team at Mobile Review but that doesn’t mean we aren’t excited to see a video overview of a device that will get an unveiling at this months Mobile World Congress event. The Xperia Neo’s Gingerbread menus are given a Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Next Web Discovery Date : 09/02/2011 10:08 Number of articles : 2
Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Neo has already been given the review treatment by Eldar Murtazin and his team at Mobile Review but that doesn’t mean we aren’t excited to see a video overview of a device that will get an unveiling at this months Mobile World Congress event. The Xperia Neo’s Gingerbread menus are given a Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Next Web Discovery Date : 09/02/2011 10:08 Number of articles : 2
