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Thursday, August 16 2012

  • Today's Takeaway | August 16, 2012 August 16, 2012

    Michael Grunwald makes the rare pro-stimulus argument | Special ops group takes a shot at Obama over Bin Laden and leaks | Negative campaign rhetoric reaches a new low | Multi-platfor... (episode)

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    • 'The New New Deal': The Rare Pro-Stimulus Argument August 16, 2012

      As President Obama campaigns for reelection, as he delivers speech after speech in swing states from Ohio to Florida, there's one word that’s completely off-limits. The word-which-mus...

    • Special Ops Group Takes a Shot at Obama Over Bin Laden and Leaks August 16, 2012

      A new ad campaign against President Obama has former U.S. intelligence and special forces operatives attacking the President for boasting about killing Osama bin Laden and (allegedly)...

    • Negative Campaign Rhetoric Reaches a New Low August 16, 2012

      This election season, the campaign rhetoric appears to be overwhelmingly dominated by back-and-forth name-calling and character assaults.  Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the director of the ...

    • Pakistani Air Force Base — and Rumored Home of Nuclear Weapons — Attacked August 16, 2012

      Islamist militants are believed to be behind an attack this morning on a major Pakistani Air Force base where some of the country’s nuclear weapons are thought to be stored. A gun bat...

    • The Olympics Mark New Frontier in the Future of Network Broadcasting August 16, 2012

      <p><strong>Bob Garfield</strong> talks about how the digital revolution is changing our collective experience of the viewing of the Olympics, and how it might give a sense of the future of network broadcasting.</p>

    • Forget the Economy — What Could Really Swing the Election August 16, 2012

      After 236 years of democracy, the 15th Amendment, the 19th Amendment, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, you'd think Americans would have voting down to a science. But small battles a...

    • Voting Controversies in Ohio August 16, 2012

      Ohio has limited its early voting hours since 2008, which primarily benefited left-leaning minorities and low-income citizens. Democrats see this as a direct attack on their party. Re...

    • Bain Capital and Off-Shoring August 16, 2012

      As Mitt Romney continues to hammer President Obama over the stagnant economy, the former Massachusetts governor's own time in the public sector, as the CEO of Bain Capital, continues ...

    • First Non-Profit Brewpub Opens in Portland August 16, 2012

      A handful of do-gooders are opening the first non-profit brewpub in the brewpub capital of the world, Portland. Staffed entirely by volunteers, The Oregon Public House expects to dona...

    • Have Financial Markets Polluted Our Moral Code? August 16, 2012

      Banking scandals have dominated the headlines this summer. Now Michael Sandel, professor of political philosophy at Harvard University, is arguing that market-driven thinking has corr...

    • Assange Granted Asylum August 16, 2012

      Ecuador's government says it will grant political asylum to the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. Assange has been inside Ecuador's embassy in London since June. He's been seeking...