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Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Karl Rove is out touting his forthcoming memoir. He was on Fox News Channel today--naturally--showing off the cover, and he's promoting the volume to his million-plus Twitter followers. I'm not unbiased about Rove. My conversation with him was a major part of the CIA leak case, and he came close to a perjury charge over his conversations with me. He also released me from a pledge of confidentiality...
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The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Josh Green isn't expecting many revelations tonight. His general feelings about the state of the parties: The lesson of NY-23, if one is to be drawn (and regardless of whether Doug Hoffman wins or loses), is that the Republican right...
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The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
On the whole, I agree that one shouldn’t be fooled by the conservative euphoria associated with the GOP’s all-but-assured victory in Virginia and possible wins in New Jersey, Maine, and New York’s 23rd district. That being said, I also don’t think Democrats should underestimate the new organizing momentum--and campaign cash--that’s sure to come flowing to the RNC after...
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Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
# 3877 Something today that we discussed back in July ( see `Exceptional Demand’ For Hand Sanitizers In NZ and A Cautionary Tale From The UK ), where the UK and the Southern Hemisphere saw shortages of `flu supplies’ such as hand sanitizer and thermometers. This from CNN . Hand sanitizer in short supply as swine flu hits Makers of the antiseptic rush to increase production amid fears of...
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The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Josh Green makes his pick. From his review of fake McCain adviser Martin Eisenstadt's new book: What’s consistently funny about the book is that for all that Martin Eisenstadt is an obvious parody, there is a striking similarity between his...
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marleyinoc (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
From an email from Dr Josh Green, M.D.Hawaii Physician of the Year 2009Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee finally voted out their bill for healthcare reform. Under pressure from the insurance industry, they passed a bill that removes the choice of a public insurance option. We can't allow Congress to give in to pressure from insurance industry lobbyists and pass a watered down bill. Without
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VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner: How to fire your customers – Believe it or not, there are times where it’s best for a company to dump its customers. Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank discusses when – and more importantly how – to do this. Negotiating VC funding? Look beyond ‘the pre’ – Entrepreneurs too often focus on pre-valuation...
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner: How to fire your customers – Believe it or not, there are times where it’s best for a company to dump its customers. Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank discusses when – and more importantly how – to do this. Negotiating VC funding? Look beyond ‘the pre’ – Entrepreneurs too often focus on pre-valuation...
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Earth2Tech (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
The partners at venture firm Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) say there’s a dirty little secret in the current cleantech investing climate: Much of the sector has been based on modernizing outdated industrial technologies and we’re missing out on a new transformational industry. In an article in Forbes this week MDV partners Josh Green and Will [...]
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The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
My dear friend actually wrote: Karl Rove never imagined that opposition to same-sex marriage would cement a permanent Republican majority. It was a distraction that I'm sure he found distasteful. Chris Orr recommends he read Josh Green's deeply researched piece...
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ColoradoPols.com - Front Page (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
We've brought up the decision by gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis to hang his hat on support for the Army's expansion of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site a number of times --usually associated with the words "strategic blunder" or "alienating the base." Though arguably helpful to with the military vote in El Paso County, elsewhere the issue of the Army's repeated attempts to...
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VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
(Editor’s note: Josh Green is CEO of Panjiva, which helps companies find overseas suppliers. He contributed this column to VentureBeat.) Over the last decade, many businesses came to believe the “wisdom of crowds” could be harnessed to predict the future. The idea went something like this: By aggregating opinions from a wide variety of people, you could get insight an individual...
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The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 08/15/2009
by Patrick Appel Josh Green profiles a friend in the zombie business: Like journalism and domestic auto manufacturing, low-budget horror is being buffeted by forces beyond the current recession. After thriving in the 1970s and ’80s, the B-movie industry went...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
Fans of the markets-in-everything approach to culture will appreciate this piece on the decline of the B-horror industry by the Atlantic 's Josh Green. Apparently it's still possible (at least with a little substitute teaching on the side) to make a living as a zombie-movie actor. Still, as with many professions, it's becoming increasingly difficult to survive: Like journalism and domestic auto manufacturing,...
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The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
Josh Green reports on alternative energy: The key to our energy future lies in exploiting two often opposing forces without having them trample or undermine each other: Silicon Valley’s free-market culture of innovation and Washington’s power to set the terms...