The Pew Research Center: A substantial and growing number of Americans say that Barack Obama is a Muslim, while the proportion saying he is a Christian has declined. More than a year and a half into his presidency, a plurality of the public says they do not know what religion Obama follows. [...] The view [...]
Matt Gertz for Media Matters: Media Matters has confirmed Bloomberg’s report using publicly available IRS filings. We also found no evidence of corresponding donations to the Democratic Governors Association in the current political cycle. News Corp. wants Republicans elected to office, and they’re willing to spend money to make it happen. According to the article, [...]
From the Google Public Policy blog: It is imperative that we find ways to protect the future openness of the Internet and encourage the rapid deployment of broadband. Verizon and Google are pleased to discuss the principled compromise our companies have developed over the last year concerning the thorny issue of “network neutrality.” The two [...]
MSNBC: A little over a year after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett began hatching a plan over dinner to persuade America’s wealthiest people to give most of their fortunes to charity, more than three-dozen individuals and families have agreed to take part, campaign organizers announced Wednesday. [...] The pledge is a moral commitment to give, [...]
If you haven’t read this, you should. For parents of terminally ill children (like Merri and I), this is simply amazing.
Rob Beschizza of BoingBoing: Hyperspectral images of a draft of the Declaration of Independence reveal that it originally used the word ‘subjects’ instead of ‘citizens’ at a critical juncture. After writing “our fellow subjects,” author Thomas Jefferson scrubbed it out and replaced it with the familiar alternative.
Steve Jobs, via Wired: We require all of our suppliers to certify in writing that they use conflict few materials. But honestly there is no way for them to be sure. Until someone invents a way to chemically trace minerals from the source mine, it’s a very difficult problem. It sure would be nice if [...]
The following article was written by my younger brother, Mark Christopher Hackett, for Operation Broken Silence, the anti-genocide organization he founded in 2007. In 2006, I, like many others, purchased an Apple laptop. At the same time I was purchasing what has been a very valuable product to me, a woman was getting raped in [...]
CNN: Lawmakers told BP Chief Operating Officer Tony Hayward on Thursday that they intend to grill him on what they believe to be cost-cutting measures adopted by the oil giant that compromised the safety of the Gulf of Mexico well. “After learning of risks, BP made a decision to ignore them,” said Rep. Henry Waxman, [...]
ProPublica investigative reporter Abrahm Lustgarten to NPR: The documents are strikingly consistent, which was the first thing that jumped out to us. You start to see a couple central themes. And those were: internal criticism for a lack of accountability in the company, lack of support for workers at BP and at BP’s contractors. … [...]
