Yesterday, Daily Kos featured two live blogs of interest: Federal Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Summit Today covered the all day summit that reviewed possible H1N1 vaccine recommendations and possible school closures coming down the pike from the Feds. School-age children will be among the population groups likely to get pandemic H1N1 flu vaccine in the fall, and they may get their shots at schools. Howard Dean Liveblog: His Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform featured Dr.

Bad AIG , no bonus for you! Daily Kos I would like to bring attention to a new story emerging today that has AIG looking for a way to pay out more bonuses . In this trying economic time people …

Can it be that only yesterday the big freakout was that this girl was wearing a shirt with a peace sign on it ? How quickly things escalate .

Will DC’s New Egghead Culture Last? – Fast Company In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter chronicled the ebb and flow of anti-intellectual feeling in …. Generational Capital Markets Announces the Sale of its Client … – PR Web (press release) Mr. Hofstadter said “The principals of Bronco and Powertuff have known each other for many years as the companies have been strong competitors. …. What Obama Means For The White Nationalist Movement – TPMCafé ….

The future for Amerika? In Part One we learned how diverse segments of the Left see Obama’s presidency as the “perfect storm” to get their agendas advanced and in Part Two we learned how the Minnesota Secretary of State was crucial in the 2008 Senate election there and how the Secretary of State Project helped get him elected initially.  Today, in the final part of this series we will learn about the “project” itself and what it might mean for future elections in the U.S.

Memo to Prince Charles: CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is plant food. – James Delingpole – Telegraph Blogs For those of us who still believe in logic, reason, empiricism, rationality, commonsense, economy reality and our inalienable right not to have trillions and trillions of our pounds, euros and dollars flushed down to the toilet to no purpose whatsoever, listening to the Prince of Wales’s pronouncements on “man made global warming” is becoming an increasingly trying experience. …

Have you heard the news out of Philadelphia this week? About a group of day campers who paid to enjoy a weekly swim time at a local pool club, but on the first day they showed up to swim they were asked to leave? Take one guess what race the campers were. What boggles my mind is not so much that this happened – I have long since lost any illusions I might have once had about the (non)existence of racism in this day and age – but that the pool employees actually said OUT LOUD, in basically so many words, that the kids were being asked to leave because they were black.