If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone

Seeded on Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:26 AM EST (Ars Technica)

According to his official biographer, Steve Jobs went ballistic in January 2010 when he saw HTC's newest Android phones. "I want you to stop using our ideas in Android," Jobs reportedly told Eric Schmidt, then Google's CEO.

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House Republicans scrap direct vote on Senate payroll tax plan

Seeded on Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:19 AM EST (CNN)

Washington (CNN) -- Republicans on the House rules committee have voted to prevent a direct vote Tuesday on a Senate plan favored by Democrats and Senate Republicans to extend the payroll tax cut for two months. By an 8-4 vote Monday night, the GOP-led panel rejected a Demo …

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Climate scientists cleared of malpractice by panel

Seeded on Thu May 6, 2010 3:01 PM EDT (discovermagazine.com)

Score yet another one for reality: a panel of six scientists have investigated the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit — the target of the so-called "climategate" — and has cleared them of "any deliberate scientific malpractice".

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Radical Islamic Web site takes on 'South Park'

Seeded on Tue Apr 20, 2010 1:18 PM EDT (CNN)

The radical Islamic Web site Revolutionmuslim.com is going after the creators of the TV cartoon series "South Park" after an episode last week included an image of the Prophet Mohammed in disguise.

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Howell Raines: Why don't honest journalists take on Roger Ailes and Fox News?

Seeded on Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:30 PM EST (The Washington Post)

One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice.

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Republicans Send Out a 'Census' Form—That's Really a Fundraiser

Seeded on Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:36 AM EST (ProPublica: Articles and Investigations)

In big, bold letters at the top it announces, "2010 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT CENSUS." The form even has a "Census Tracking Code." But it's not from the Census Bureau.

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Tea Party Email Warns Members: Beware Liberal Trolls Like Rachel Maddow

Seeded on Fri Jan 8, 2010 12:48 PM EST (Talking Points Memo)

Tea partiers beware: "You can and will be banned for being a liberal." Organizers behind the upcoming Tea Party Nation convention we wrote about this morning told members today that MSNBC's Rachel Maddow tried to join the group and "we banned her 7 minutes after she joined."

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Senate approves health care reform bill

Seeded on Thu Dec 24, 2009 7:56 AM EST (CNN)

The Senate has passed an $871 billion health care reform bill. Senators voted 60-39 shortly after 7 a.m. to pass the bill, the centerpiece of President Obama's domestic agenda. Every member of the Democratic caucus backed the measure; every Republican opposed it.

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22 Million Missing Bush White House E-Mails Found

Seeded on Mon Dec 14, 2009 5:11 PM EST (FOXNews.com)

Sloan said the latest count of misplaced e-mails "gives us confirmation that the Bush administration lied when they said no e-mails were missing." The two groups say the 22 million White House e-mails were previously mislabeled and effectively lost.

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Conservative media take note: Reagan preached tax cut gospel to America's students

Seeded on Fri Sep 4, 2009 11:10 AM EDT (Media Matters for America)

Putting aside possible ulterior motives, the conservative freak-out over President Obama's planned speech to students urging them to stay in school and work hard is due to fears that Obama will use his platform as an opportunity to push his agenda on unsuspecting students.

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White Man Grabs Black Lady's Rosa Parks Poster, Rips It Up at Town Hall Meeting

Seeded on Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:45 PM EDT (Wonkette » top)

watch this video from Claire McCaskill's town hall yesterday. Old guy just gets up from the bleachers, STEALS the black lady's poster of Rosa Parks that she'd been showing a reporter, rips and crumples it up, cops chase the lady out, and everyone boos the black lady.

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Far-right religious group behind outrageous health care lies

Seeded on Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:54 PM EDT (Daily Kos)

where did Palin get that bad information? It appears she pulled it from a set of talking points that has been making its way around the internet in recent weeks -- talking points assembled by the Liberty Counsel, a far-right religious group that's part of Jerry Falwell's Liberty  …

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