What's Killing NPR

Howard Kurtz, NewsweekFrom left: James O'Keefe, Vivian Schiller, and Senator Jim DeMint.Steve Inskeep, A veteran National Public Radio correspondent, is calling from Cairo, having just visited a 23-year-old man with welts on his back who says the Egyptian Army tortured him."That, to me, is a real story," he says. At a time when he is trying to get flak jackets to his colleagues in Libya, Inskeep has little patience for charges that NPR leans to the left. "What's important to us is the work we do," he says. "I actually get accused of being a conservative as...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/21/what039s_killing_npr_252377.html

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Soak the Rich? They Are Already Soaked (Powerlineblog.com)

(John) We pointed out a couple of years ago--time flies--that the United States has the most progressive system of personal taxation of any developed country. Now, the Tax Foundation has the same message. The top ten percent of American taxpayers pay more to the national government in taxes, both as a percentage of the total taxes collected and in proportion to their share of the national income, than upper-income taxpayers in any other developed country. This chart says it all: It is interesting that upper-income Americans pay a much larger share of the freight than those in countries that we think of as well to our left, like Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Belgium. Belgium! Americans still tend to think of our country as a bastion of free-enterprise values, compared to the semi- socialized Europeans. Sadly, that stereotype is, in many important respects, not true. Share With Friends: | | Politics - Top Stories News, News Feeds and News via Feedzilla.

Source: http://news.feedzilla.com/en_us/stories/politics/top-stories/67069310?client_source=feed&format=rss

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Tech Note: Most-Tweeted Articles and LGF Pages (Littlegreenfootballs.com)

I'd like to draw your attention to our left sidebar, where you'll see two new additions to the list of "drop-down" links: "Tweeted Articles," and "Tweeted Pages." These new drop-down lists show you the most-tweeted (in other words, posted on Twitter) LGF front page articles and user-submitted LGF Pages, in the last 7 days. I can already see that LGF Pages have been getting increasingly noticed on Twitter; congrats to the authors, and keep up the great posts! Also, another tech note that doesn't affect anything you see on LGF, but does speed up page loading: the "retweet" counters you see at the upper right of each post (next to the blue Twitter button) are now cached at 90-second intervals, instead of making calls on every page load to the bit.ly API -- which can take some time. Caching the results makes pages finish loading faster, and is also less demanding on the bit.ly API, which should make them happy. Share With Friends: | | Politics - Top Stories Stories, RSS and RSS Feed via Feedzilla.

Source: http://news.feedzilla.com/en_us/stories/politics/top-stories/67056564?client_source=feed&format=rss

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Camouflaging Red Blood Cells For Transfusion

Could matching blood types be a thing of the past? New research published in Biomacromolecules describes a method for coating red blood cells to hide them from antibodies. Mark Scott, senior scientist with Canadian Blood Services, who was not involved in the study, explains the findings and other possible applications of "immunocamouflage."

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/18/134658884/Camouflaging-Red-Blood-Cells-For-Transfusion?ft=1&f=1007

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