Google Books: Shelved for good? (The Week)
New York – A judge rejects Google’s settlement with authors and publishers.
Did God have a wife? (The Week)
New York – Yes, says a leading theologian. And she may have been edited out of the Bible All the great religions of the world share the belief that there is but one solitary creator of the universe
Can Republican Scott Brown save Planned Parenthood? (The Week)
New York – The Massachusetts senator joins two GOP colleagues in opposing a House bid to strip federal funding from the family-planning group House Republicans’ hopes of stripping all federal funding from Planned Parenthood hit a big obstacle Tuesday, and his name is Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass). The junior senator from Massachusetts (and one-time Tea Party favorite) said the measure simply “goes too far.” Two other GOP senators, Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), had already voiced their opposition to the House plan
Newt Gingrich’s Libya ‘flip-flop’: What was he thinking? (The Week)
New York – Gingrich hammered President Obama earlier this month for not intervening in Libya. Now he’s griping, “I would not have intervened.” Huh? Former House speaker and current GOP presidential aspirant Newt Gingrich has done a “complete flip-flop” on his Libya position, says George Zornick at ThinkProgress
Apple’s software guru departs: Is the tech giant going all mobile? (The Week)
New York – Bertrand Serlet, who helped rebuild Apple in the late ’90s, is leaving, and the tech world buzzes over what it means for Steve Jobs and Co. Apple announced on Wednesday that Bertrand Serlet, the software engineer instrumental in the development of Mac OS X, is leaving the company. Serlet, who said in his departure statement that he wants to “focus less on products and more on science,” has worked with Steve Jobs for 22 years, and was the driving force behind the software that helped launch the company back into prominence in 1997
Anti-Iraq War Bush-Haters Squirm to Justify Libya (Larry Elder)
Creators Syndicate – “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation,” then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said in December 2007.
The real March Madness: Duke, Uncle Tom, and success as a ‘white’ value (The Christian Science Monitor)
New York – A few summers ago, I took my daughter and a few of her friends to see the rapper Lil Wayne in concert. He bounded onto the stage in a blaze of blinking lights, then served up the usual menu of songs about gangsters, hustlers, and pimps. And the mostly white audience cheered
March Madness: By the numbers (The Week)
New York – The annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament is down to 16 teams. Does anyone in America still have a perfect bracket
Could Detroit disappear? (The Week)
New York – The population of the Motor City declined by an astonishing 25 percent in the last decade. Could it vanish altogether
Could the West’s anti-Gadhafi coalition fall apart? (The Week)
New York – Tensions are flaring as the U.S. and its allies debate who should take charge of the military mission in Libya Allied planes and warships continued to pummel Moammar Gadhafi’s forces with bombs and missiles on Thursday, but the coalition is showing signs of splintering.
