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Required Daily Reading

Its time for my second installment of daily required reading. Here’s what’s going on in the news today:

The Daily Kos has decided that the best way to honor the Pittsburgh police officers killed in the line of duty yesterday is by joking about their deaths on twitter
Geithner: The government will flat out run companies soon
NORAD: North Korean rocket didn’t eject any satellite… big surprise
Michelle Malkin provides the smiles for today
Obama receives early morning emergency call and forwards it to the UN
Brilliant President thinks Austrian is a language

Remember to check back later for more.

Introducing Required Daily Reading

I thought I’d give you all a little more of the college life experience by introducing you to my latest recuring post: Required Daily Reading.

That way you can feel my pain… well, except not really because the stuff I’ll be giving you to read won’t be an absolute waste of time like the majority of my school reading. Either way, here’s my first installment:

My latest piece at NewsBusters on the new defensive posture of the NYT
Women in Oklahoma can finally legally protect their unborn children
The Guardian really rips into Obama (h/t @JustKarl)
Obama literally threatens bankers
Obama looks utterly pathetic in his french town hall

Be sure to check back to this post periodically as I’ll be trying to update it as often as possible.

My Latest on NewsBusters

Hi again readers of mine,

Make sure you check out my latest post at NewsBusters.

It’s about the death of old media gatekeeper snd the problems with the current new media gatekeepers.

Thanks,

More Hemorrhaging at the RNC

The latest victum? 33 year veteran and chief financial officer Jay Bannin:

RNC chief financial officer Jay Banning, who has been with the committee for 33 years, is resigning. No reason for the resignation was given.

Likely culprit, this man:

Attack of the Kite

Here’s some more of my vacation memories, as promised:

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ_OdjZCv-E

Still more to come! Stay tuned…

Google Not Giving In?

Is Google growing a spine?

Well, as much as I’m skeptical that Google won’t eventually cave to China’s censorship of YouTube, this recent tweet from Google highlighting a recent scathing anti-chinese-censorship of YouTube statement by GNI is a sign of hope (click to enlarge): Continue reading Google Not Giving In?

My Latest on NewsBusters

Hi loyal reader folk,

Make sure you check out my latest piece on Newsbusters.

It deals with the further decline of the media and the scary possibility of a google-government tag team rescue…

Thanks for being awesome,

The College Politico on Twitter

So… I guess this was inevitable given the massive micro-blogging appeal and wide spread blogger use of Twitter, but here comes the formal announcement:

You can now follow The College Politico on Twitter: @collegepolitico

Songs of the Month

This month’s songs of the month come at the end of the month because it has taken me that long to find some really great new music (or rather, new to me music). But, at last, here it is.

This month’s post is dedicated to one band. Cartel.

Now, I had heard of Cartel several years ago but I hadn’t ever really listened to their music. Luckily, that changed over spring break. One of my friends happened to have a Cartel cd and at some point durring the 30 hours of driving played it.

I love them. Their pop/punkyness comes with a bit of a hard edge at times but is comfortably balanced out by blindingly heart felt balads.

Give them a listen. You won’t regret a moment of it.

Back From Break

Hello again everybody,

It’s been a while since I wrote anything as you may have noticed. Sad, I know… but take heart because I’m back from beautiful Nags Head, NC. I’m rested, relaxed, and ready to blog.

But before I get back into the swing of things let me deliver on some of the promised vacation videos and pictures.

Nags Head is awesome and I had a blast with my friends. I have a ton of video to edit and put up online. At the moment I only have one video that’s finished and ready for your viewing pleasure… It’s from our Rita’s Road Trip.

You see on Thursday I left my beach house to attend the Media Research Center’s Dishonor awards in DC. My friends went with me and on the drive back we decided to hit every Rita’s water ice we possibly could for free water ice.

Here are the fun times that ensued:

Rita’s Road Trip
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