U.S. diplomats can breathe a little easier knowing Chen Guangcheng is in the U.S. and the weeks of difficult negotiations and high drama are behind them. Chen arrived Saturday with his wife and two children in New York, where he has a fellowship to study.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/20/153120228/after-chinese-activists-arrival-rest-and-relief?ft=1&f=1004
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Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending. A copy of the legal brief was obtained by The Associated Press ahead of Monday’s filing.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/20/153121669/states-rally-in-campaign-finance-legal-battle?ft=1&f=1003
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Prosecutors also said the men, arrested in a raid Wednesday, planned to attack Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s home and other targets during this weekend’s NATO summit. The suspects were each being held on $1.5 million bond.
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Melissa Block and Robert Siegel read emails from listeners about Donna Summer and conservative donor Joe Ricketts.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/18/153029912/letters-donna-summer-and-joe-ricketts?ft=1&f=1057
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Clarence Birdseye’s life as a taxidermist, fur trader, hunter, and fish lobbyist all led to his creation of the modern frozen food industry. His inventions made frozen food tastier and more widely available to consumers.
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NPR’s Scott Horsley talks about what some are terming the “diplopaloozaa” this weekend, when President Obama hosts the G8 conference at Camp David on Saturday and the next day plays host to two dozen NATO heads of state in Chicago.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/19/153096758/obama-hosts-world-leaders-at-g8-summit?ft=1&f=1004
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It may seem like a long shot, but that’s exactly what Peter Thiel invests in. The Silicon Valley venture capitalist, who co-founded PayPal and was an early investor in Facebook, has said his support for Ron Paul is the best chance for now to encourage a libertarian movement.
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Romney took friendly questions by phone from five participants in swing states on Friday. He told those on the call “You folks are going to have a big say in who our next president is” and that they were not called “by random.”
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The Group of Eight is meeting at Camp David this weekend. The setting is leisurely, but there’s nothing relaxing about the timing of the summit. While leaders may agree about the need for growth in the debt-ridden European economy, addressing the crisis is easier said than done.
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Zimbabwe’s 2008 elections were marred by extreme violence. In the aftermath, the country’s two main political parties were forced to share power. Now, elections are once again on the horizon. As Anders Kelto reports, the violence is escalating while many are still trying to heal.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/19/153076969/violence-haunts-zimbabwe-ahead-of-elections?ft=1&f=1004
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Van Harris and his wife, Shirley, grew up in the same Brooklyn neighborhood, about a block from each other. During a visit to StoryCorps, Van recalled the day he first noticed Shirley: “She was about 10 years old, and she was beating up a couple of guys. … I said, ‘Geez, I’d like to meet a girl like that.’ “
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Alan Greenblatt, NPR
President Obama's performance in next Tuesday's Arkansas primary won't be as embarrassing as what happened in West Virginia two weeks ago, when he gave up 41 percent of the vote to someone who happened to be sitting in a federal prison in Texas for embezzlement.But it may well do more lasting damage to his party.Obama lost Arkansas by 20 points in 2008 and has virtually no chance of carrying the state this year in the November general election. Even many Democrats, it seems, have never warmed to him.
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We may romanticize that strawberries are grown down the road, but most of them come from California. And a complex web of plant cloning practices, relocation and fumigation has cropped up to keep it that way. Although scientists are exploring new options, like soil-free growing.
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Chen Guangcheng was hurriedly taken from a hospital Saturday and boarded a plane that took off for the United States, closing a nearly month-long diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations. U.S.-based rights activist Bob Fu called Chen’s departure “a victory for freedom fighters.”
Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/19/153062303/chinese-activist-prepares-to-head-to-u-s?ft=1&f=1004
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A TED Talk challenging conventional wisdom that rich entrepreneurs are the number one job creators is now available for public viewing, after TED organizers originally kept the video private because it was too “explicitly partisan.”
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For decades, the Palestinians have urged foreign Muslims to boycott one of the holiest sites in Islam, the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. But now, Palestinian religious figures are encouraging such visits, saying they could highlight Palestinian claims in their feud with Israel.
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Legendary scientist Reichard Feynman offered a simple but profound lesson about how we understand the world in a lecture at Cornell in 1964. The world, it is presumed, works perfectly well without us. How we think about it makes no important difference.
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US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s Washington home was burglarized in early May, just months after he and his wife were robbed while on vacation in the West Indies.
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Matt Gutman, ABC News
Two police reports written the night that George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin said that Zimmerman had a bloody face and nose, according to police reports made public today.The reports also note that two witness accounts appear to back up Zimmerman's version of what happened when they describe a man on his back with another person wearing a hoodie straddling him and throwing punches.
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/18/cops_witnesses_back_up_zimmerman039s_version_280256.html
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Bill Schneider, Politico
‘More to come.” That’s what a source close to the Obama campaign told POLITICO about the ad attacking Mitt Romney’s record as chief executive officer of Bain Capital. This is not a one-week story. It’s going to be the central narrative of the Obama campaign.Why are Democrats so confident they can win on the anti-Bain issue? Because it hits Romney on the defining theme of his campaign: Romney’s claim that he’s a turnaround artist.
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/18/team_obama_putting_romney_in_a_world_of_bain_280215.html
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Legendary scientist Reichard Feynman offered a simple but profound lesson about how we understand the world in a lecture at Cornell in 1964. The world, it is presumed, works perfectly well without us. How we think about it makes no important difference.
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Earlier this year, President Obama’s fundraising machine ran millions of dollars ahead of even the best-financed Republican presidential candidates. But now that Mitt Romney is the presumptive nominee, the money gap is narrowing.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/18/152979173/romney-starts-to-close-funding-gap-with-obama?ft=1&f=1014
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Despite a White House threat to veto the bill, the VAWA passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday. Democrats say the House bill doesn’t offer enough protection for victims of abuse. Republicans say objections are just election year politics. Host Michel Martin talks with GOP Rep. Sandy Adams from Florida and NPR’s Ron Elving and Don Gonyea.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/17/152918356/gop-defends-violence-against-women-act?ft=1&f=1014
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TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts became front-page news Thursday because of a report he was considering a $10 million ad campaign that would attack President Obama over his former pastor. But Ricketts has been quietly funding conservative political causes for the past few years.
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Robert Siegel speaks with Dr. Leigh Hochberg, neurologist and engineer at Brown University and the VA Medical Center in Providence, R.I. Hochberg is the lead author of a new study that looks at how paralyzed people are able to move robotic arms with their thoughts, due to a microchip that is implanted in their brains that sends neural signals to a computer.
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One of the highest-profile political matchups of the season is playing out in Virginia, where former governors with powerful friends and big-money backing are battling for an open U.S. Senate seat. The dead-heat matchup pits Democrat Tim Kaine, 54, against Republican George Allen, 60.
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We decided to check in with political types in North Carolina, where the electorate is about 72 percent white and 23 percent black, and where polls show Obama and expected GOP nominee Mitt Romney in a dead heat. We asked how ads featuring the incendiary Rev. Jeremiah Wright would play in their state.
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Four years ago, an atmospheric scientist near Boulder, Colo., stumbled on surprising air pollution data: The region’s levels of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, were far higher than anyone would have expected. What was going on? The search for an answer led straight to the natural gas and oil fields of northern Colorado.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/17/151545578/frackings-methane-trail-a-detective-story?ft=1&f=1007
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As President Obama hosts leaders of the Group of Eight, he’s announcing a major initiative to boost investments in rural Africa. The program aims to lift millions out of poverty and will include several billion dollars in investments from private companies.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/18/152966524/u-s-serves-up-new-food-security-effort-in-africa?ft=1&f=1003
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If all goes well, an unmanned capsule will become the first commercial spacecraft to visit the International Space Station. SpaceX and NASA have been working together to make this launch happen, navigating cultural differences between the young start-up and the veteran agency.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/18/152953776/nasa-spacex-aim-to-launch-private-era-in-orbit?ft=1&f=1007
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Charles Krauthammer, Wash Post
There are two ways to defend gay marriage. Argument A is empathy: One is influenced by gay friends in committed relationships yearning for the fulfillment and acceptance that marriage conveys upon heterosexuals. That’s essentially the case President Obama made when he first announced his change of views.No talk about rights, just human fellow feeling. Such an argument is attractive because it can be compelling without being compulsory. Many people, feeling the weight of this longing among their gay friends, are willing to redefine marriage for the sake of simple human sympathy.
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/17/obama039s_gay_marriage_contradiction_280196.html
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Jim Geraghty, National Review
I would underline that Obama is using a familiar strategy because it’s not really clear that he’s ever had to use any other one. Once he won the Democratic primary for his State Senate seat in 1996, he had the seat for life, representing Hyde Park, an ultra-liberal neighborhood. He lost a House bid in 2000 against Democrat Bobby Rush, and then his next genuinely difficult fight was the 2004 Senate primary… when revelations from sealed divorce records doomed his best-funded opponent. Many of you are thinking, ‘wait, Jim, no, you’re thinking of…
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/17/obama039s_career-long_electoral_strategy_280181.html
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Peter Wehner, Commentary
In his appearance on ABC’s “The View,” President Obama was asked how tight he thinks the campaign against Mitt Romney will be. To which the president responded, “When your name is Barack Obama, it’s always tight.”Actually, that’s not true.Barack Obama’s victory in 2008 was the most sweeping since 1980. He became the first Democratic president since Lyndon Johnson 44 years earlier to garner more than 50.1 percent of the vote. In the process, he took seven states that had twice voted for George W. Bush, including…
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/17/it039s_not_about_your_name_mr_president_280121.html
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Christian Schneider, New York Post
On Monday, local party officials began complaining bitterly about the lack of resources national Democratic groups are committing to the recall effort in Wisconsin. “We are frustrated by the lack of support from the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Governors Association,” a top Wisconsin Democratic Party official told The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent.Back in January, the complaints were coming from the other end: National Democrats were irked that labor unions and others planned to spend tens of millions of dollars to recall Gov. Scott Walker…
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/17/dems_in_despair_on_wisconsin_280101.html
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George Will, Washington Post
Bipartisanship, the supposed scarcity of which so distresses the high-minded, actually is disastrously prevalent. Since 2001, it has produced No Child Left Behind, a counterproductive federal intrusion in primary and secondary education; the McCain-Feingold speech rationing law (the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act); an unfunded prescription drug entitlement; troublemaking by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; government-directed capitalism from the Export-Import Bank; crony capitalism from energy subsidies; unseemly agriculture and transportation bills; continuous bailouts of an unreformed Postal…
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/17/another_bipartisan_spending_boondoggle_280091.html
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Chinese authorities have his completed application now, and have indicated that Chen and his family may get their passports within about two weeks. But Chen says he hasn’t gotten a firm promise.
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John Nichols, The Nation
Voters across Europe are rejecting politicians who have placed the mania for deficit cutting above all other needs, and the mainstream media are beginning to echo the mood, with even The Economist arguing that austerity is “strangling the eurozone’s chances of recovery.” As deeply flawed as the European experiment with austerity has been, however, at least it is commonly understood as a policy response to serious fiscal challenges. It’s different in the United States, where there has been little honest debate about the reasons for or the failures of…
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We may romanticize that strawberries are grown down the road, but most of them come from California. And a complex web of plant cloning practices, relocation and fumigation has cropped up to keep it that way. Although scientists are exploring new options, like soil-free growing.
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