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Dennis Moore's Retirement Marks the Loss of Another Moderate Politician
Tweet Share on Facebook December 14, 2009 Comment (3)So far three House Democrats have announced their retirement from Congress next year and a number of others are leaving to run for other political jobs. There are almost certain to be more retirement announcements in January which must make Democratic leaders a little nervous about their prospects for holding onto the majority in next fall's election.
The first to announce his departure in late November was Dennis Moore. Elected to Congress in 1998, he is the only Democrat in the Kansas delegation and his seat is one the Republicans feel they have a good chance of picking up. Before Moore's election, the seat had been held by the Republicans for 40 years.
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Rupert Murdoch vs. Arianna Huffington on the Future of News
Tweet Share on Facebook December 2, 2009 Comment (4)By Linda Killian, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Media baron Rupert Murdoch and aspiring baroness Arianna Huffington had a bit of a smack down Tuesday in Washington with Murdoch calling Internet aggregators, and by extension Huffington and her Post, thieves who use the content of traditional news organizations like Murdoch's Wall Street Journal "without contributing a penny to its production."
But Huffington countered that aggregation "is part of the Web's DNA," essential to the free flow of information and a benefit to news organizations by driving traffic to their websites.
"Promiscuity is not a good thing in relationships but it's a great thing in news," she declared.
