A Closer Look at the Term ‘Islamist’ – The Takeaway

Inbox Influence reveals your connections’ connections » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism. A new tool from the Sunlight Foundation would seem to seek to tweak that paradigm. It’s called Inbox Influence, a Gmail plugin that requires exactly one step: installing it. When an email message arrives — from a company, a political candidate, a PR person, your aunt — you’ll see statistics about that entity’s political connections. The plugin detects names in body text, email addresses, and links.

Received via email —– Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin, what if things were switched around?….think about it. Would the country’s collective point of view be different? Could racism be the culprit? Ponder the following: What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter? What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review? What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class? What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee? What if Obama was the candidate who…

Yemen is not Tunisia or Egypt – CNN.com. Yemen’s regional diversity actually helps a weak central government to remain in power. No rival commands a large enough following to challenge Saleh’s rule. The protesters call on Saleh not to put his son in power, but no one is chanting a viable successor’s name. There is no ElBaradei waiting in the wings, as we see in Egypt.