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From today’s show: Jeff Bercovici, staff writer at Forbes talks to Warren about what Yahoo! wants with Tumblr, and what Tumblr gets from the billion dollar deal. Will we see more ads on Tumblr?
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Warren talks with @HankGreelyLSJU about the ethical issue of cloning human embryos on today’s @tothepoint_kcrw
Is it ethical to clone human embryos for stem cell research?
Modification of the last infographic. Congressladies + men = still a ways to go.
Source: Office of the Clerk
From AP: An elementary school student suggests that guns should only shoot chocolate bullets. Biden responds.
The IRS’s Cincinnati branch made some terrible and damaging errors. But they were dealing with a real problem.
Good backgrounder on the IRS scandal
“Is it only white males who can be mentally ill? Can’t we consider the possibility that these suspects might be mentally ill? I don’t want to stigmatize mentally ill people, but that that’s a possibility here - it just hasn’t been considered, and we have rushed to the conclusion that because of a particular ancestry, that they must be terrorists.” - Ali Abunimah
“Muslims are the primary victims of Al Qaeda-inspired terrorism. If there was anyone - if there was any community with the incentive to end this problem, as much as it can, it would be the Muslim-American community.” - Dalia Mogahed
“We don’t profile all white males. We don’t expect all 20-something white males to be apologetic and to denounce the actions of other white males. We allow them their individuality.” - Ali Abunimah
Ali Abunimah is co-founder of the website Electronic Intifada, which publishes news and commentary on Middle East issues. He wrote a column on the site criticizing President Obama and others for calling the Boston bombing terrorism just because the suspects are Muslim.
Dalia Mogahed is CEO of Mogahed Consulting and co-author of Who Speaks for Islam?
Both of them talked about the Boston bombings and being Muslim in America on today’s “To the Point.”
Israeli airstrikes have hit military targets near Damascus, allegedly to prevent weapons from being shipped to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Why now? Will Obama
A moving slideshow from Foreign Policy.
Tammam Azzam left his home in Damascus at the beginning of the Syrian uprising. Now based in Dubai, he’s supporting what he calls the “revolution” with his art, which draws on the works of great European masters — from da Vinci to Matisse, Goya to Picasso. He digitally lifts iconic images from famous paintings and sets them amid the rubble of Syria’s cities to highlight the profound destruction humanity is capable of inflicting.
