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Michael Lewis perfectly describes Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind...

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:32:47 -0400

Michael Lewis perfectly describes Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side: “There was a new force in Michael Oher’s life: a woman paying extremely close attention to him who had an eye for detail, a nose for trouble, the heart of a lion and the will of a storm trooper.”

In a recent article on LewRockwell.com Ron Paul wrote,...

Wed, 01 May 2013 16:01:11 -0400

In a recent article on LewRockwell.com Ron Paul wrote, “Sadly, we have been conditioned to believe that the job of the government is to keep us safe, but in reality the job of the government is to protect our liberties.”

LLERO: Eve Torres – Kickin’ Ass and Taking Names It’s that time...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:34:40 -0400

LLERO: Eve Torres – Kickin’ Ass and Taking Names

It’s that time of year, when the fanboy in many of us emerges for WrestleMania. Although the WWE most likely dominates our brains with images of jacked up men jumping off ropes and enough testosterone to fuel the resurrection of the Trojan War, don’t let your mind play tricks on you. There’s plenty of room for the ladies and they are pretty easy on the eyes. Just ask three-time WWE Diva Champion, Eve Torres. ‘LLERO had an opportunity to pick the brain of Eva the Diva on everything from why she gravitated towards the WWE, leaving the biz in her prime and where life is taking her next.

“You will always encounter challenges as a woman working in male-dominated industries,” the 28-year-old Nicaraguan and German former pro-wrestler affirms. “The biggest challenge…is earning respect. It comes down to standing your ground and letting people know you’re not an easy target, while still being likeable and respectful.”

Newsweek: Internal Memo

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:35:17 -0400

Newsweek: Internal Memo:

newsweek:

We just got word that John Avlon, who has been writing with The Beast since 2008, was promoted to political director. Many congratulations to John!

Here’s the email from Tina:

To: All Staff

From: Tina Brown

I am very pleased to share the news that John Avlon has been promoted to…

Peter Sagal crossed the Boston Marathon finish line at 4:04. The...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:31:20 -0400

Peter Sagal crossed the Boston Marathon finish line at 4:04. The bomb went off as the clock read 4:09

“In real life situations, it is not going to be about the...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:29:07 -0400

“In real life situations, it is not going to be about the excitement,” Brooks explained. “It’s all about the really annoying details.”

Before she was an internationally-known author Candace Bushnell...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:26:57 -0400

Before she was an internationally-known author Candace Bushnell was just a little girl growing up in Connecticut watching her mother get ready for work.

The Economic Times: 21st Century Statecraft to shape our future:...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:44:04 -0400

The Economic Times: 21st Century Statecraft to shape our future: Alec Ross, Hillary Clinton’s former advisor for innovation

The Economic Times
By Delshad Irani
17 Apr, 2013

Not too long ago, Alec Ross quit his job as the senior advisor for innovation to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But he is perhaps still the most active supporter of 21st Century Statecraft.

For those of us not familiar with the term, Ross explains, “21st Century Statecraft complements traditional foreign policy tools with newly innovated and adapted instruments that fully leverage networks, technologies, and demographics of our interconnected world.”

Yakima Herald Republic: Sibling brings ‘The Blind Side’ message...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:17:26 -0400

Yakima Herald Republic: Sibling brings ‘The Blind Side’ message to Yakima

Collins Tuohy knows firsthand about the impact of simply paying attention to someone who has long gone unnoticed. She is the real-life sister of Michael Oher, whose adoption into the Tuohy family and subsequent professional football career were portrayed in the popular 2009 movie “The Blind Side.”

Tuohy (TOO-ie) was in town Monday to give the keynote speech at the annual YWCA leadership luncheon, a major fundraiser for the organization. The Yakima YWCA focuses on women and children who are victims of domestic violence.

“I spend a lot of my life doing what the YWCA does on a daily basis — helping at-risk youth and their families to get back on their feet,” Tuohy, 26, said before nearly 1,000 guests at the Yakima Convention Center. She’s on the board of the nonprofit Making It Happen Foundation, which her family started to reach out to marginalized kids.

Former President Bill Clinton has been quoted as saying that...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:12:24 -0400

Former President Bill Clinton has been quoted as saying that Harold Ford, Jr . is “The walking, living embodiment of where America ought to go in the 21st century.”

To learn more about Harold click here!

“I stand for who I am. I’m proud of who I am.”...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:06:41 -0400

“I stand for who I am. I’m proud of who I am.” - Marlee Matlin

Check out the rest of this exclusive clip with Marlee here

The New York Times: Byron Pitts Moves to ABC News From CBS

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:11:00 -0400

Byron Pitts, a 15-year veteran of CBS News, is moving to ABC News, where he will be the network’s chief national correspondent and a substitute anchor.

memoirsofagayshh: Tonight Mia and Ronan Farrow spoke at my...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:53:03 -0400

memoirsofagayshh:

Tonight Mia and Ronan Farrow spoke at my college. They are by far the most amazing and dynamic speakers I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. I fell in love with Ronan. He’s so sweet and down to earth. Mia is just a phenomenal human being.

In this GTN exclusive, Ronan Farrow reveals an obstacle many...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:50:24 -0400

In this GTN exclusive, Ronan Farrow reveals an obstacle many people don’t realize he had to overcome, concluding that “we all have this passport into the world of the healthy and the living, and it can be revoked real quick.”

Jeffrey Toobin for The New Yorker: Gay Marriage at the Supreme Court

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:15:01 -0400

The New Yorker

Wedding Bells
by Jeffrey Toobin April 1, 2013

In 2003, the Supreme Court decided that gay people could no longer be thrown in prison for having consensual sex. Specifically, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion, in Lawrence v. Texas, declared that Texas’s anti-sodomy law “demeans the lives of homosexual persons” and violated the right to liberty guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. But Kennedy was careful to describe the limits of the Court’s holding. He wrote that the case “does not involve whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship that homosexual persons seek to enter.” In other words, in Kennedy’s telling, Lawrence v. Texas was not about same-sex marriage.

To which Justice Antonin Scalia responded, in a dissenting opinion, “Do not believe it.” He explained:

If moral disapprobation of homosexual conduct is “no legitimate state interest” for purposes of proscribing that conduct; and if, as the Court coos (casting aside all pretense of neutrality), “when sexuality finds overt expression in intimate conduct with another person, the conduct can be but one element in a personal bond that is more enduring,” what justification could there possibly be for denying the benefits of marriage to homosexual couples exercising “the liberty protected by the Constitution”?

GTN chats exclusively with Alec Ross about innovation and...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:22:21 -0400

GTN chats exclusively with Alec Ross about innovation and technology.

How did you end up the Senior Advisor for Innovation?
I’m a public school kid from West Virginia who ended up in West Baltimore in the 1990s, during the crack-cocaine wars, as a school teacher through Teach for America. From that experience I started a non-profit organization with three friends call One Economy, where we work to help people from poor communities, like the one that I grew up in in West Virginia and the one that I taught in in West Baltimore; to help kids from those communities be able to compete and succeed in our increasingly technology rich knowledge based economy. It was from that that I got involved in the Obama campaign… Read More

GTN’s newest exclusive speaker, Alec Ross, Former Senior...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:00:10 -0400

GTN’s newest exclusive speaker, Alec Ross, Former Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, says:

“Technology takes on the values and intentions of its users. Governments that try to use these

E! Online: Giuliana Rancic Teams Up With Nonprofit Bright Pink...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:47:45 -0400

E! Online: Giuliana Rancic Teams Up With Nonprofit Bright Pink for Fab-U-Wish™ Initiative to Help Women Battling Breast and Ovarian Cancer.

Former member of SEAL team six, Don Mann, talks exclusively to...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:49:17 -0400

Former member of SEAL team six, Don Mann, talks exclusively to GTN about bonking.

“I think the secret is reaching up to the line where you are almost going to bonk and then back off. Then you get so much more done in your life, you can fill this big, big void that doesn’t get filled.”

http://www.greatertalent.com/speaker-news/gtn-presents-don-mann-on-bonking/

“Kids have to understand that they have control. Not their...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:48:46 -0500

“Kids have to understand that they have control. Not their parents, not the principal, not the president of the U.S. It starts with them and it ends with them. To end this epidemic of bullying they have to standup for one another.”
- Eve Torres