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National poll: Rush should be fired
Posted on March 14, 2012 by jeffpelline
“A majority of Americans — 53 percent — say conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh should be fired for calling a Georgetown Law School a ‘slut,’” according to a wide-ranging new survey on contraception (from Bloomberg),” according to Politico.
“Almost one-third of Republicans — 30 percent — agree with the notion that Limbaugh should be canned for his remarks, the Bloomberg national poll showed Wednesday.
“Men are split over whether Limbaugh should be axed — 49 percent say yes, while 47 percent disagree. Fifty-six percent of women support firing him, compared with 39 percent who do not.
“Meanwhile, more than three-quarters of Americans believe that the issue of birth control shouldn’t even be a topic of debate right now.
“Indeed, 77 percent said that the national political debate shouldn’t involve contraception, while 20 percent said it should.”
The rest of the article is here.
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Nixon’s love letters go on display
Posted on March 14, 2012 by jeffpelline
“Hers are concise notes, funny and practical; his are lengthy, flowery and eager,” the L.A. Times writes in an article about Richard Nixon’s love letters.
“‘Somehow on Tuesday there was something electric in the usually almost stifling air in Whittier,’ Richard Nixon wrote to Pat Ryan in an undated letter written during their courtship. ‘And now I know. An Irish gypsy who radiates all that is happy and beautiful was there.’
“The letter and others exchanged between Nixon and the woman who would become his wife of 53 years will be on display at the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda over the next several months. They are part of an exhibit celebrating what would have been Pat Nixon’s 100th birthday. She was born March 16, 1912.
“The correspondence spans 1938 to 1940, when the couple married. Pat Nixon died in 1993 in New Jersey, one year before her husband.
“The letters show another side of a man rarely associated in the public imagination with romance and passion.”
The rest of the Times’ article, republished in the S.F. Chronicle, is here.
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A plan to spruce up Pioneer Park in Nevada City
Posted on March 14, 2012 by jeffpelline
The Nevada City Planning Commission on Thursday will consider a master plan to improve and enhance Pioneer Park. The plan has been under discussion for some time.
Some highlights of projects underway:
•Maps showing walking loops around the park.
•The creation of a “focused intense enforcement program” has been assigned to the new police chief.
•The Council will consider an ordinance to change the hours of the park from 7 a.m.-to-11 p.m. to 7 a.m.-to-9 p.m.
Other projects considered for this year are playground upgrades, renovation of Seaman’s Lodge, and restore or removing a fountain near the playground.
In addition, the commission will consider the purchase of the house in the middle of the park for park expansion.
The master plan is here and here.
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Goldman Sachs letter shines light on Wall Street greed
Posted on March 14, 2012 by jeffpelline
“Wall Street traders come and go all the time, but few have quit with the flair of Greg Smith. The way he resigned from Goldman Sachs, and what he had to say, could reignite a debate over how much Wall Street has changed in the wake of the financial crisis,” the New York Times is reporting.
“Very little, he said in an Op-Ed article in The New York Times on Wednesday. Mr. Smith, a London-based executive director for Goldman Sachs overseeing equity derivatives, decried a drastic change in culture at the firm since he joined it 12 years ago, with profits now coming before the interest of clients who, he wrote, are often derided as “muppets” by people at Goldman.
“Mr. Smith is saying publicly what others whisper privately, which is why his cri de coeur may be so provocative. Even on Wall Street — where making money is good, and making more money is better — a few shibboleths still command respect, including the one that the customer should come first, or at least second, not dead last. Since the financial crisis, in fact, nearly all the big banks have claimed to be client-centric as they seek to rebuild public trust.”
The letter is here.
The rest of the article is here.
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GOP presidential nomination down to a two-man race
Posted on March 14, 2012 by jeffpelline
“Ever since he swept three contests on a single night in February, Rick Santorum has argued that the Republican presidential nomination battle is effectively a two-man race between himself and Mitt Romney. Tuesday’s primaries decisively turned that claim into reality. Now Santorum must prove that ideology can trump electability with GOP voters who are hungry to defeat President Obama in November,” as the Washington Post reports.
“Santorum’s victories in Alabama and Mississippi once again shook up the Republican contest, although they may not have fundamentally altered its trajectory. Even in losing the two primaries, Romney has still won more states and still holds a significant lead in the race for delegates.
“But with former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) unable to win either state in his home region, Santorum clearly earned the opportunity to try to consolidate the party’s conservative base, which has been resistant to Romney’s candidacy. The former senator from Pennsylvania must now convince Republicans in other regions that his brand of conservatism would make him a stronger nominee against Obama.”
The rest of the article is here.
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