Archive for December, 2011

Fox’s Year Of Class Warfare

Saturday, December 31st, 2011

 

In 2011, as President Obama and congressional Democrats pushed for increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans, Fox ramped up its defense of the rich while accusing Obama of attempting to incite a class war. Along the way, Fox relentlessly attacked poor and unemployed Americans, union workers who fought back against attempts by Republicans to strip their right to collectively bargain, and the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has been highlighting increasing income inequality in America. Here, Media Matters looks back at Fox’s year of class warfare

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Jon Huntsman’s campaign faults Mitt Romney for link to plant closure in New …

Saturday, December 31st, 2011

 

Boston.com

Bain combined them into the Holson Burnes Group and built a factory in South Carolina. But while sales grew, Holson Burnes was operating at a loss, the AP reported. The company closed the South Carolina plant in 1992, laying off workers there and …

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Whitefield Industries to close Oshkosh plant

Saturday, December 31st, 2011

 

The Business Journal

The shutdown of the industrial coatings plant is due to “unforeseen business circumstances stemming from substantial losses associated with the loss of a significant amount of business from a major customer,” Whitefield management stated in a plant … leaving 30 workers without jobs.

http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2011/12/22/…

 

Album: In the Moonlight (13 songs) – Sophie Milman

Saturday, December 31st, 2011

 

Review

2011 album from the Jazz vocalist. Few young vocalists have entered the Jazz scene in this new century with the kind of acclaim received by the supremely talented Sophie Milman. Still in her 20s, she has now delivered her fourth album and first masterpiece, In The Moonlight. Produced by Grammy-winner Matt Pierson (Jane Monheit, Michael Franks, Joshua Redman, Kirk Whalum), this warm, witty, and altogether wonderful collection marks the first time Sophie has recorded in New York with an all-star supporting cast of Jazz veterans and hot new stars, performing gorgeous arrangements for strings and larger ensembles. With a rich, sensuous voice that puts a thoroughly modern spin on the legacy of immortals like June Christy and Carmen MacRae, Sophie Milman makes her mark not just as a singer of songs, but as a complete musician whose taste and sophistication set her alongside today’s very greatest singers.

Tracks

  • 1. Do It Again
  • 2. Oh Look At Me Now
  • 3. Moonlight
  • 4. Speak Low
  • 5. Till There Was You
  • 6. Watch What Happens
  • 7. Prelude To A Kiss
  • 8. Ces Petits Riens
  • 9. So Sorry
  • 10. Detour Ahead
  • 11. Let Me Love You
  • 12. Day Dream
  • 13. No More Blues

http://sophiemilman.com/

 

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Comedian Argus Hamilton …

Saturday, December 31st, 2011

 

The USS John Stennis aircraft carrier entered the Persian Gulf this Tuesday. It’s named after the long-serving U.S. senator from Mississippi. The Stennis’s mission is to open the gulf and convince the Shiites and Sunnis that segregation can buy them one hundred years of peace.

http://www.argushamilton.com/

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three thousand words – Ann Cleaves: Mayan 2012; Jeff Danziger: New Hampshire primary explained; Jim Morin: Florida voting law

Saturday, December 31st, 2011

 

Ann Cleaves
Freelance
Dec 30, 2011

Cartoon by Jeff Danziger

 

Jeff Danziger: New Hampshire primary explained (news.yahoo.com)

Cartoon by Jim Morin

 

Jim Morin: Florida voting law (gocomics.com)