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Archive for August 17th, 2011
WDAF Fox 4 – Bubba Puts on His Kansas City Royals Uniform
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011NBC Channel 41 – Higher fines recommended for speeding on K-10
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011KSHB 41 – KCMO Council committee votes to overrule petition on area nuclear plant
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Netflix vs. Blockbuster: What’s the best service for streaming and DVDs? – CNET video
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011YouTube, music publishers settle copyright disagreement
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Wall Street Joural – Billionaire Warren Buffett volunteers the middle class for a tax increase
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Michael Barone – Obama is not as good-fortuned as Harry Truman in 1948
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Walter Russell Mead on Wisconsin’s unions – “Three bouts of failure described by much of the mainstream press as three approaching triumphs”
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011US Justice Department is investigating whether the largest credit ratings agency, Standard & Poor’s
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Bloomberg – AOL stock has fallen 57 percent from its peak in April 2010
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Rasmussen – Only 20% Now Support U.S. Military Action in Libya
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Now only 34% say it’s likely that U.S. military involvement in Libya will be over by the end of the year, down slightly from last month. A majority of voters (51%) do not think the United States will be out of Libya by the end of the year, with 15% who say it’s Not At All Likely. Another 14% are not sure. Sixty-seven percent (67%) of voters are still following news stories on Libya at least somewhat closely, including 24% who are following Very Closely. Thirty-one percent (31%) aren’t following news reports on the country closely, but only five percent (5%) aren’t following at all.
Just 13% of Republican voters favor continued military involvement in Libya, compared to 25% of Democrats and 22% of voters not affiliated with either party.
Five-year $90-million contract – Peyton Manning is highest paid NFL player
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Quinnipiac poll – Chris Christie has higher approval rating than Obama in New Jersey
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Mikhail Gorbachev – Current uling monopoly of the United Russia party is a “worse version of the Soviet Communist party”
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Jack Harry talks about Missouri recruiting issue
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands – Yahoo News
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine.
Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties.
Five possible responses to the Google-Motorola merger – Marguerite Reardon, CNET
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Jack Harry talks about Bubba Starling and the Royals
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011KSHB 41 – George Brett weighs in on Bubba Starling’s signing
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