UP-FRONT CAMPAIGN NUGGET!!
On The Trail, A Campaign's Style Can Reveal A Lot About Substance (Ari Shapiro) from NPR's All Things Considered
"While President Obama and Mitt Romney offer competing visions every day on the campaign trail, there's also a more superficial aspect to their campaigns. And on the surface, Obama and Romney events feel completely different."
Plots Are Tied to Shadow War of Israel and Iran from the New York Times
"Analysts say the plots have more in common with the cloak-and-dagger maneuverings of the C.I.A. and the K.G.B. during the cold war than the publicity-hungry campaign of Al Qaeda."
Religiosity Plummets In Ireland And Declines Worldwide; Atheism On The Rise from the Huffington Post
"...this week, a new global survey on faith and atheism has revealed that the crisis of faith in Ireland may be much worse than previously thought. According to the poll released by WIN-Gallup International, the traditionally Catholic country has seen one of the steepest drops
worldwide in religiosity."
The Texas Drought Seen Firsthand from the Eyes of Ranchers (Malcolm Jones) from the Daily Beast
"Last year panhandle ranchers Phillip and Doris Smith suffered through the worst one-year drought in Texas history. A year later, they tell Malcolm Jones, it’s only gotten worse."
Susan G. Komen Founder Nancy Brinker To Leave CEO Role from Reuters via the Huffington Post
"Susan G. Komen for the Cure founder Nancy G. Brinker plans to leave her CEO position as part of a number of leadership changes, but will stay on in a management role, the organization said on Wednesday. It also said that President Liz Thompson would leave Komen in September and board members Brenda Lauderback and Linda Law were leaving the board."
The Wacky GOP Primary Voters (Gail Collins) from the New York Times
"...the most cheerful place this side of Disney World is the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. ... The Tea Party is once again giving Democrats a new lease on life."
Polls: Voters Dividing Along Familiar Lines, -- With One Surprise (Ronald Brownstein) from National Journal
""To me that's the most important development of the summer politically," Garin said. "For working class women, who really feel like every day is a struggle economically, they've just decided Romney is not going to look out for them at all." The result is that a gender gap now exists both among college-educated and non-college whites."
Romney’s Tax Plan Makes No Sense (Robert J. Samuelson) from the Washington Post
"There seems to be a Democratic mole inside Mitt Romney’s campaign. Could it be Romney himself? Well, of course not. But considering the campaign’s behavior, it might just as well be. President Obama and his allies have cast Romney as a wealthy fat cat who’s out of touch with everyday
Americans and who would use his presidency to enrich the already rich. To counter this damning image, the last thing you’d expect Romney to do is embrace a tax plan favoring the super-rich. Which is exactly what he has done."
Economists to Romney Campaign: That’s Not What Our Research Says (Ezra Klein) from the Washington Post
"...so I contacted some of the named economists to ask what they thought of the Romney campaign’s interpretation of their research. In every case, they responded with a polite version of Marshall McLuhan’s famous riposte. The Romney campaign, they said, knows little of their work. Or of their policy proposals."
The Moment All the Doubts About Romney Resurfaced on the Right (Erik Erikson) from Redstate.com
"Priorities USA was damaging itself and Barack Obama over its mind numbingly insane ad painting Mitt Romney as a killer. Then the Romney campaign decided to sabotage itself with a mind numbingly bit of spin that may mark the day the Romney campaign died."
Conservatives Blast Romney on Health Care (Rosalind S. Helderman and Aaron Blake) from the Washington Post
"Mitt Romney has drawn new fire from conservative allies on a familiar topic — health-care reform — as his spokeswoman offers unusual praise for his efforts on the issue as Massachusetts governor."
On Mitt Romney’s Crazy Bill Clinton Gambit (Michael Tomasky) from the Daily Beast
"There was not and is not a single major Obama initiative that Clinton has gone on the record opposing. But now the insinuation is racial: Clinton made those lazy blacks work, and Obama wants to go back to giving them “free stuff.”"
Picking Through the Romney VP Chatter from the Wall Street Journal
"NBC’s First Read on Wednesday morning wrote that it has a “high degree of confidence” that the VP picks “largely come down” to former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, and Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. "
CHALLENGING COLLEGES NUGGET!!
College Rankings 2012: Most Rigorous Schools (Photos) from Newsweek
"... these are the colleges where accepted students find the workload most difficult when normalized by the aptitude of the student body."
Columbia is #1. In our region: Allegheny College (#20): and CMU (#19).
JAMES BOND NUGGET!!
Britain To Get 24-Hour James Bond Channel from NPR's Morning Edition
"British broadcaster BSkyB is launching the channel for the month of October to mark the 50th anniversary of the Bond franchise. The first movie to be shown in high definition will be the 1962 film, Dr. No."
PUBLIC ART NUGGET!!
3D Street Art: 13 Amazing Optical Illusions Created By Chalk Artists (PHOTOS) from the Huffington Post
"When it comes to admiring 3D street art, it's often a matter of
perspective -- look at a street artist's design from one angle and it appears flat and distorted, but from another the illustration comes alive."
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