Newt Gingrich: Gay marriage is “a temporary aberration that will dissipate.”
The Occupy Wall Street protests seem to be gathering some momentum. And that was before it was announced that Radiohead will perform this afternoon in the Financial District at 4 p.m. ET.
Late Update: Radiohead to WSJ: No, we’re not playing Occupy Wall Street gig.
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The number of Republicans running for President today exceeded the number who aren’t.
After news broke about the death of Anwar Al-Awlaki’s overnight I was interested and curious to see tweets on the topic from Hussein Ibish, former Communications Director for the Arab-American Anti-discrimination Committee and now with the American Task Force on Palestine. (He’s a must-follow on twitter by the way.) Ibish’s take was that al Awlaki had posed a unique kind of threat to Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans. And that purely from that perspective his demise was a very good thing. We interviewed Ibish this afternoon on the topic to follow up. Take a look.
There’s that old saw: If I’d a known I was going to live so long I’d have taken better care of myself. Mike Huckabee now seems to be saying: If I’d a known the rest of the field woulda sucked this bad, I’d never have bowed out of running for president.
Automation and robotics has cut like a scythe through middle class incomes and jobs over the last generation. Here’s some evidence that software and artificial intelligence could soon do something similar to the white collar folks who have heretofore been spared.