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How does N.Y.C. have a country radio station before a real dance station???
Jonathan Bernstein: Happy Hour Roundup: There was some actual news today in Virginia. Apparently with one of the...
Jonathan Bernstein: 'A decade of war is now ending': I think one of the least appreciated aspects of President O...
Jonathan Bernstein: 'What will give real meaning to our creed': What struck me about Barack Obama's Inaugural Ad...
Are your clients prepared for a workplace
Can anyone help this student who has posted on DUK's wall. Her question is: "I am in the process of writing my dissertation for my MA in Choreography and i am trying to remember the theorist who spoke about the dichotomy of repetition in the sense that you can never have perfect repetition because we are always moving forward in time, and as such the present moment always dies as soon as its passed, and therefore the repetition, although it looks the same, it is different physically and temporally...??? any ideas?? (this is a very confused version of something i read years ago on my undergrad!) many thanks! x"
Greg Sargent: Morning Open Thread: No roundup this morning, but Jamelle Bouie, Jonathan Bernstein and I will be ...
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If you can't make Brooklyn Bowl tonight for Umphrey's McGee 15 year anniversary run...Check out the LIVE broadcast on SiriusXM Jam_ON with Jonathan Schwartz and special guests - UM lighting director Jefferson Waful, Hidden Track's Scott Bernstein and members of the band, too! Pre-show starts at 8pm
Check Out Da Lyrics! I love this sonq! I've got evidence I've got confidence I'm a conqueror I know that I win I know who I am God wrote it in his plan for m...
You know how a group of cows is called a "herd"...lions comprise a "pride".and, a collection of baboons is called either a "troop" or.wait for it.a "CONGRESS." 'Nuff said.
Don't be too sure. Being a conservative columnist for the New York Times is impossible by design
In 2011, House Speaker John Boehner came up with an arbitrary rule, not for any policy reason, but because he thought it sounded nice: for every dollar in a debt-ceiling increase, President Obama would have to accept an equal amount of spending cuts. So, for example, raising the …
Very much looking forward to Narrating Sergei Prokofiev's "Peter & The Wolf" performed by the award-winning Charlottesville High School Orchestra String Ensemble, Saturday at 3pm, at the Martin Luther King Performing Arts Center. This talented group of student musicians has done this performance for several years now to sold out audiences and it has always been a big hit. Not only does this performance serve as a means to introduce young children to musical instruments and hopefully inspire them to play one some day, but proceeds will go towards the orchestra's trip to New York City this spring to compete in the WorldStrides Heritage Festival of Music. Tickets are $15 for adults 18 and older and $10 for children. Tickets are available at Greenberry's in Barracks Road Shopping Center, New Dominion Bookshop and Music and Arts at 1512 Seminole Trail. Tickets also will be available at the center's box office starting at 1 p.m. on the day of the concert. As a musician myself, and someone who grew up playing tr ...
This is also tremendous from Jonathan Bernstein. The GOP idea well is dry.
We have raised 2,271,000 money over 6 years at the event in Las Vegas, of which 1,000,000 has come directly back to the community. The rest has gone to develop new therapies or to advocate for childhood cancer.
Outgoing British chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks seeks to achieve a union between science and religion in his latest book. Maybe he should have set his sights a little bit lower.
Going to see Peter Bernstein, Larry Goldings and Bill Stewart tonight in Paris! yeww.
CASTING!!! The press for this play is going to be huge with having our leading actor of such a high profile. Looking for someone that can really portray different characters. PLEASE STATE IN THE COMMENT BOX IF THEY ARE REALLY JEWISH. If your client is not on Spotlight please email me on ben.newsomewith subject line 'The Boy Who Was Woody Allen'. Have a nice day! Ben Summary MINIMUM OF £5 OF EVERY TICKET SOLD GOES TO CHARITY! This is a world premiere. The play is about a New York kid called John O'Leary, who is standing in line to meet his school careers officer, with absolutely no idea what he would like to do with his life. However, being Catholic, he is allowed at least one epiphany in his life and, luckily, his arrives now. He is going to be Woody Allen! Initially, John looks nothing like Woody, but as the play progresses, and surreal episodes take place, he develops the peronna of our Woody! The play is written in the style of Woody Allen, and, we are told, is hilarious! It is being directed by Adam ...
5 of the 7 Champion Briefs writers were planning and judging the 2013 Sunvitational, but we still released our February Brief just one week after the topic was released because we prioritize YOU above all else!
Recent polling has convinced many Republicans that they have the upper hand on the debt ceiling. Jonathan Bernstein isn't buying it: [T]hat people think “raise the debt limit” is bad tells us nothing about how they would react to an...
Whether it s a shooting in the workplace, a toxic chemical spill, industrial accident or natural disaster, the majority of employers are unprepared to deal with a workplace crisis, says long-time crisis management expert Jonathan Bernstein.
Jonathan Bernstein: The filibuster and the judicial crisis [Greg Sargent]
Jonathan Bernstein: Obama on track to stay in nation's good graces [Greg Sargent]
Jonathan Bernstein: Politics and Hurricane Sandy: Jonathan Chait on politics and Sandy: Disasters are inherentl...
Jonathan Bernstein: bold predictions about 2010 elections. Can someone pay me to predict events from 2 years ago?
Jonathan Bernstein: How likely is it that the polls are wrong?
Knickers in a Twist: A Dictionary of British Slang by Jonathan Bernstein,
Though there are ways it could matter on the margins.
A smart, sensible piece on the impact (or non-impact) of on the election by Jonathan Bernstein
Jonathan Bernstein: Hurricane Sandy unlikely to have much impact on election
Jonathan Bernstein: The real story of the (likely) Republican Senate disaster: It’s increasingly clear that what...
Quote from Erez Arusi about the hurricane "God has gift wrapped us Hilariousness, we must prevail." Erez Arusi Daniel Feldman Sammy Banilivy Zach Janof Jonathan Bernstein
"In the absence of communication, the void is filled with rumor and innuendo." - Jonathan Bernstein
Jonathan Scott time at tackle. The only question is which side.
“Since he’s not actually, well, leading, Romney partisans have relied on the idea that Romney has momentum: Even if he isn’t actually ahead yet, he is certain to take a commanding lead any minute now. But that “momentum” appears to have been entirely an invention of Republican spinners. It’s certainly true that Romney made impressive gains on Barack Obama in roughly the first week of October, probably in most part as a consequence of the first debate. But after that, the contest has been almost completely flat. For example, the Pollster trend line shows the race a dead heat on October 8 — and that since then, any movement has been only by small fractions of a percentage point. Nate Silver’s “nowcast” bottomed out for the president on October 12, and since then he’s recovered quite a bit. There’s simply nothing in the last twelve days to indicate movement towards Romney.” — The ‘momentum’ myth - Jonathan Bernstein
what a night with the boys of Improvinator last night. Great way to celebrate Hugh Cameron's birthday. I love you boys, Christopher Pirri, Jose Francis Gonzaga, Colin Sharpe, Ben Ball, Jonathan Bernstein, Andrew Haggith and Marshall. Too good last night!
Hot chilli peppers are known to make people "tear up," but a new study led by University of Cincinnati allergy researcher Jonathan Bernstein, MD, found that a nasal spray containing an ingredient derived from hot chili peppers (Capsicum annum) may help people "clear up" certain types of sinus inflammation
Chez: Jonathan Bernstein over at Salon also noticed the influence that conservative media had on Romney’s debate performance last week, but the point he brings up is about the political ethos outlets like Fox News teach rather than simply the “facts” they provide. In Bernstein’s opinion, the reason it’s even important to the right that Barack Obama immediately knee-jerk and call the Benghazi attack terrorism before any of the facts are in is that the politics of the right, certainly its reaction to a crisis situation, now consist of nothing more than scandal and symbolism. Scandal was the first thing Romney grabbed for when the Libya attack was happening; rather than calmly assessing the situation or even dispensing with politics altogether during a time when U.S. interests were under attack overseas and people were dying, he instantly sought a truncheon he could use against his opponent; he saw scandal and cover-up as a first response because he’d been trained to by the right-wing echo cham ...
In the book "Booyah! Spirit" I talk about Courage and getting over fears. I ask "how would your life be different when you overcome your fear?" Usually you can narrow it down to just a word or two... for instance: Sing. Leave. Try. Start. Open up. Stand tall... etc. This album will have one (or two) word posters in it dedicated to the chapter on Courage - in "Booyah! Spirit" .
This election cycle, it's been fascinating to watch the GOP, which has become hostage to Fox News and the rest of the far-right, become more and more bizarre, politically inept and isolated from the American mainstream as it is caught in the "the conservative closed information feedback loop," as Jonathan Bernstein phrased it in Salon, where any fact that does not fit the whacko narrative is either condemned or denied. It reminds me, oddly enough, of it's political polar opposite, the far-left group the Weather Underground, in the sixties and early seventies. Like today's GOP, as political orthodoxy was enforced within the organization, the more crazy it looked to someone from the outside (or any rational person, for that matter). The GOP has reaped its rewards: a party whose core is Christian religious fundamentalists has got a candidate from a fringe non-Christian religion, a boardroom technocrat who has zero idea of the difficulty middle-class Americans are dealing with, and who shifts positions faster ...
Sherron Eggenberger liked Jonathan Bernstein: Richard Mourdock and the GOP's idea of bipartisanship: Richard…
At a certain point during the home stretch of an election, attention tends to drift from the big national head-to-head polls to the more granular polling snapshots of the swing states. Perhaps we should not do this, argues Jonathan Bernstein.
Hue Riherd liked Jonathan Bernstein: The real record on entitlements: Suzy Khimm has a great item out today about…
Tania Reyne liked Jonathan Bernstein: Repeal-and-replace, RIP: Some House and Senate Republicans are now admitting…
By Steve Benen - Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:40 PM EDT 79 Getty Images Romney doesn't mind trying to slice the truth very thin. Paul Krugman, who's been nearly as frustrated by Mitt Romney's habitual dishonesty as I've been, noted this week that political observers should pause to appreciate "this remarkable spectacle." Krugman added, "I really don't think there's been anything like this in American political history: a presidential campaign, with a pretty good chance of winning, that is based entirely on cynical lies about what the sitting president has said." I agree. Mitt Romney is, at a minimum, unique. What's especially striking, in addition to the volume and frequency of the falsehoods, is how often the dishonesty is obvious. Jonathan Bernstein has labeled this "lazy mendacity" -- untruths based on "the indifference to any fact-checking," and "the insistence on continuing to use a lie long after it's been definitively debunked." To better understand the phenomenon, take a look at the 27th installment of my ...
Mitt Romney made it pretty clear today on Good Morning America: his tax plan (and his overall budget plan) will rely on two parts pixie dust, three of Jeannie’s blinks, a pinch of technobabble from Geordi La Forge, and something about the Elder Wand (which, I have to confess, I’ve never quite understood). That is, it’s all magic and fiction.--Jonathan Bernstein
Jonathan Bernstein: Romney’s magical thinking about the deficit -
Jonathan Bernstein: Is Romney ready for the crazy?: Chuck Grassley today: As Romney speaks notice he is smart e...
Jonathan Bernstein: Happy Hour Roundup: 1. Mitt Romney will be on Meet the Press this Sunday, the kind of thing ...
"Republicans constantly accuse President Obama of being "divisive." Why "divisive"? Why not "ignorant," "cowardly," or "incompetent"? Jonathan Bernstein has a plausible theory he calls Luntzism. Many voters say: "Why can't the politicians just work together for the national good," not realizing that the real (unspoken) goals of the parties are fundamentally different. The Democrats, for all their faults (and there are plenty), do really want to make life better for the average American as they have been trying with fits and starts going back to FDR's New Deal and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. So was the party of Abraham Lincoln. But the modern Republican Party is no longer the party of Lincoln. It is the party of Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers and its real goal is to lower taxes for the very wealthy. All the noise about abortion and *** rights is just a campaign tactic. When the Republicans are in power, they don't actually do anything about these issues. Remember that when George W. Bush took ov ...
Chrystal Grawe liked Jonathan Bernstein: Endorsement season is over: Mitt Romney met with New York Mayor Michael…
Samuel Beazer liked Jonathan Bernstein: Happy Hour Roundup: Lots of good stuff, but be sure to click through to the…
Jonathan Bernstein: Happy Hour Roundup: Lots and lots of Paul Ryan today, plus some other stuff, keeping in mind...
Branding destinations is 'tough work', says Jonathan Bernstein of Interbrand Singapore
Samuel Lukacs liked Jonathan Bernstein: A specious lawsuit against the filibuster: In filibuster news today, Common…
Branding destinations 'tough work': Jonathan Bernstein, executive director for brand strategy of Interbrand Sing...
Holley Bobeck liked Jonathan Bernstein: The principled conservative case for an unprincipled Supreme Court decision…
Jonathan-Otto-Bernstein and his brother Nicholas are heroes after saving their nanny from drowning in a pool in Southampton
Alejandra Nahas liked Jonathan Bernstein: Repeal or no repeal, health care still plays well for Obama: Here’s…
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Pol scientist Jonathan Bernstein helps explain what Ryan as VP pick really means:
Some good analysis from Jonathan Bernstein on the Ryan pick:
Prepare for the PROPAGANDA. Today – Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the House Republican budget for the upcoming fiscal year. As you see in the video – we should all be scared of “debt, doubt and decline”. In the video – Paul Ryan talks about President Obama wanting to raise nearly $2 trill...
Romney/Ryan is "a shockingly inexperienced ticket, especially when it comes to national security and foreign policy." Jonathan Bernstein
Happy Hour Roundup. By Jonathan Bernstein. To start with: Buzzfeed has the draft equality language that...
Learned a lot from yesterday's lecture by Ms. Jacqueline Thng of Lexis Branding and Mr. Jonathan Bernstein of Brand Strategy. Thanks to One Cebu Business Summit of Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Jonathan Bernstein: Democratic Senate candidates push DREAM Act for the platfom
Congrats to on a shout-out from Jonathan Bernstein this morning.
Jonathan Bernstein: The primary party difference: The difference between the parties right now, in a nutshell? Y...
One way or another, some tough choices need to be made.
"Republicans claim that they want to balance the budget; never raise a penny of new taxes, and in fact slash taxes even more; slash federal government spending; and to do all that while protecting a wide range of government programs... To do all of that, however, is mathematically impossible. You might recognize this: it matches, more or less, the inconsistent and logically impossible preferences that pollsters find when they ask voters about the budget. ...Americans will if pressed reveal preferences. What the sequester is trying to do is to get Republicans to admit to theirs." —Jonathan Bernstein
Jonathan Bernstein: The hard choices for the GOP in real budget math
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Dr Jonathan Bernstein is apparently shunned by his colleagues in his own practice because of his stalking of his np Jen buitrago ikeda so much so that Jen and Alan and others don't want him on the same floor practicing - karma lol but more interesting is the business isnt bankrupt like he stated so why delay property trial and not pay for your kids- pathetic
Perla Silbaugh liked Jonathan Bernstein: John Edwards, Bill Clinton, and the concept of representation: Ryan Lizza…
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Most companies don't understand the connection between branding and business value says Jonathan Bernstein. Do you?
Opinion: "Republicans vote to repeal Medicare cuts they voted for and are campaigning against" by Jonathan Bernstein
The consequences of a not very competitive primary: Jonathan Bernstein asks, “Did Republicans forget to vet Romney?
Jonathan Bernstein: “The first thing that needs to be understood is the connection between branding & business value.”
Teaching at TPAP this week, having a blast, the level of talent and work being done by the young artists here is amazing. Great to see Gavin Creel, Hunter Bell, Monica Raymund, Clem and all the incredible professionals here working with the students. I am inspired every day by teachers and students alike...just grateful and proud to be part of such a extraordinary project. Jonathan Bernstein, you are a visionary...I would follow you anywhere.
Johnie Patridge liked Jonathan Bernstein: Nullification and the Fed: How unjustified is the continuing Republican…
Meri Penticoff liked Jonathan Bernstein: The House GOP’s big gamble: In for a dime, in for a dollar. Or, in this…
Bernstein: “Some textbook treatments of the franchise in U.S. history treat voting as a gradual but sustained series of victories.That story is wrong." (Read more...)
Sonja Burries liked Jonathan Bernstein: Gas prices: A partisan story: How much are your opinions of the world shaped…
So, the Newsroom. I think it has massive flaws but is v watchable (I'm in for the long haul). I might be in a minority
Jonathan Bernstein tell why America's bright future depends on the elimination of today's Republican party.
Ana Rognstad liked Jonathan Bernstein: Dem candidates mostly quiet on marriage equality: Greg has been reporting…
Jonathan Bernstein: Again: Republicans are mostly getting their way on the economy
Jonathan Bernstein: The jokes are lame, the lectures endless – and it seems as though Sorkin just doesn't have anything fresh to say
Excited to be doing some Improv with Jonathan Bernstein and friends (Rumour has it these "friends" are the rest of Improvinator...) tonight at Naked Fridays! The show start at 9 pm in the John Candy Box Theatre, in the Second City Training Centre, 70 Peter Street (Lower Level)... Sooo looking forward to this! :)
Jonathan Bernstein couldn't see a real story if it hit him much less ask a question of BHO: via
Wife is allergic to her husband's sperm [May. 23rd, 2010|05:50 pm] Julie Boyde, 26, discovered the problem when she and husband Mike, 27, had unprotected sexual intercourse for the first time on their wedding night. The couple had been dating for two years when they got married, but had always used protection. As soon as they had unprotected intercourse for the first time she knew something was wrong. "Before we were always very careful and, you know, used protection, and that time we didn't," Mrs Boyde told ABC News. "So, we figured we were married now, so if we got pregnant, we got pregnant." Mrs Boyde, from Ambridge, Pennsylvania, added: "The pain that I was feeling was inside, kind of like, somebody was sticking needles up inside of me and like a burning, like really painful burning." Doctors were unable to explain why she experienced pain after intercourse, until a friend of hers suggested she might be allergic to her husband's semen. She was eventually diagnoses with Seminal Plasma Hypersensitivity ...
Anyone that has assisted Dr Jonathan Bernstein in committing fraud to the court or Medicaid fraud or assisting him in the abuse and neglect of the children., get ready to be called out by name- u are a criminal either by acts of commission and /or omission and this is a public statement - so make no mistake u crossed the wrong person- hurting my kids for your own personal gain was your first mistake underestimating me was your last. I'm coming back to Las Vegas to ensure u get the same treatment while the good doc pays his arrears and property trial. C u soon
Evette Celano liked Jonathan Bernstein: Gingrich dropping out? Good riddance.: Frankly, Newt Gingrich never had a…
Someone should publicly expose Dr Jonathan Bernstein for again being in arrears in child support and not helping our daughter with medical bills etc and how bizarre Dan Marks tries to misword orders for his own personal gain yet his client is bankrupt and lives at turnberry . I think another trip to supreme court is needed or at least court first Thani think the good doctor should be sanctioned for beating his kids several x and the kids testified to that fact. Justice please and definitely no Europe
Jonathan Bernstein: I m a huge Howard Stern fan, and I like the idea of him on America s Got Talent – I just don t think it s a very good show
As Jonathan Bernstein has repeatedly explained, modern Republican behavior and even language in relation to the deficit is completely nonsensical if you understand “the deficit” to mean the gap between revenue and outlays. Republican use of the term only makes sense if you define “the deficit” to mean “spending Republicans don’t like.” That’s why Republicans consider it impossible to believe that one could simultaneously extend health insurance to the uninsured while reducing the deficit.
How the Media is Enabling the GOP's Rightward Drift - New Republic: New RepublicHow the...
Jonathan Bernstein to everyone: Calm down. Predicting SCOTUS is a sucker's game: via
JournoListers re O's bad polls. Pay no attention 2 that man behind the curtain.
Great point by Jonathan Bernstein: Whoever ends up GOP primary, hardcore conservatives have already won:
Jonathan Bernstein makes good case that tomorrow's GOP debate is critical moment for the GOP candidates:
Jonathan Bernstein on the birth control fight and the perils of ideological extremism:
Jonathan Bernstein says new GOP payroll tax cut plan shows only Dems are serious about deficit:
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Very smart post by Jonathan Bernstein on what you should be looking for in Florida:
On medicine and policy. (Or: why everyone should read Jonathan Bernstein): There is a lot that I know about medi...
Jonathan Bernstein: The myth of proportional representation in the GOP primaries via
Daily Kos: Open thread for night owls: Of wonks, hacks, and unicorns via
In which I am not kind to Rick Perry, Debater, but still think he's a plausible nominee:
DeLong -- Jonathan Bernstein: Obamacare vs. the ACA: Why Republicans may vote for the father of the Affordable Care...
DTN UK: America ditches police shows for high-concept drama: Awake, Ringer, Terra Nova and The Secret Circle all...
The Fox News Primary: Are presidential nominations mostly controlled by the grass roots of the party? Or mostl...
DTN UK: Goodbye to Vincent Chase and his Entourage: The escapades of E, Drama and Turtle were fun, young, aspira...
Why Obama must make a recess appointment right now, for good of presidency and Constiution: via
Could Obama have done more on the economy? answer, in short: Yes:
CanadaRights.com The power that a president does -- and doesn't -- have: And it's not just because of every part...
How punditry works: 3 weeks ago, Jonathan Bernstein, in the WashPost, mocks the idea as "sillÿ" that Pawlenty (cont)
Funny-Jonathan Bernstein, 3 wks ago, touting Pawlenty in the WashPost ("It’s time to buy Tim Pawlenty stock"):
Jonathan Bernstein on how debate gets twisted, CNN edition:
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I wrote about GOP surrender a while ago. Now, on Democratic surrender. BTW, I'm sort of partial to Less Than Jake's cover
What If The GOP Isn't Playing Chicken?: Jonathan Bernstein begins to worry: [W]hat scares me is the strong poss...
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