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What's Behind the Lobster Boom

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By Regina Schrambling Especially since the Fancy Food Show, I’ve been saying lobster is the new tuna (the canned kind). What was once a relatively rare luxury is everywhere and relatively affordable; Luke’s Lobster has built a chainlet selling $15 lobster rolls, while a Maine entrepreneur has built a business marketing the likes of lobster macaroni and cheese and lobster flatbreads. Somehow I knew there had to be a downside. And today Tom Philpott over at Mother Jones has confirmed my suspicion. Climate change and overfishing in the Gulf of Maine have created a lobster boom, but naturally it’s probably unsustainable. His piece is well worth the quick read. Luckily, he ends on an upnote. Lobsters are fierce creatures. They may evolve better than humans will.

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Gay-Friendly Boy Scouts Alternative Growing Quickly

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By Michael Franco The Navigators is a tiny group compared to the Boy Scouts, but Mother Jones reports that its gay-tolerant creed has helped it more than double its chapters to 45 in about a year. A former Boy Scout troop leader in Harlem formed the Navigators in 2003, fed up with the…

From: http://www.newser.com/story/166316/gay-friendly-boy-scouts-alternative-growing-quickly.html

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Democrat Who Fingered Progress Kentucky For McConnell Taping Was Trying To ‘Protect’ The Party

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

Earlier Thursday, Jefferson County Democratic Party official Jacob Conway came forward to reporters at WPFL News in Louisville, Ky., to allege that “Shawn Reilly and Curtis Morrison, who founded and volunteered for Progress Kentucky, respectively, bragged to him about how they recorded” the strategy meeting at which advisers to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had discussed the opposition research they’d piled up against actress Ashley Judd, who had, for a time, mulled mounting a campaign against McConnell. This recording made its way to David Corn at Mother Jones, who then made it publicly available. McConnell has since repeatedly contended that the recording was obtained through illegal subterfuge and hinted at the possibility that Progress Kentucky, a liberal super PAC, might be behind it.

Conway has also appeared on Fox News, where he explained that he made his public allegations against Reilly and Morrison because he saw the McConnell recording as potentially damaging to the Democratic Party. Via TPM:

“The only reason that I came forward with what I knew was I was trying to protect the Democratic Party,” Conway said. “I believe in our party’s values, and I was doing what I thought was best for the party because I did not want their bad behavior, their poor mistakes — I shouldn’t say ‘bad behavior’ — their mistakes, their lack of judgment to hurt our party’s efforts here in the state of Kentucky and in Jefferson County, here in Louisville.”

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From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/11/progress-kentucky-mcconnell_n_3064265.html

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McConnell Aides Mock 'Unbalanced' Ashley Judd

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By Matt Cantor After making waves with Mitt Romney‘s “47%” speech , Mother Jones has released a new batch of secret tapes. The recordings reveal Mitch McConnell’s team ridiculing former potential opponent Ashley Judd and suggesting her mental health could be a target. The McConnell team is not amused: It says it’s “working with… …read more

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Eliminating The Deficit, Progressive Style

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Barack Obama 6 SC Eliminating the Deficit, Progressive Style

A wise man once told me that when any tax-levying entity operates at a deficit, the possible causes number precisely two. Either it is taxing too little for how much it wants to spend, or it is spending too much for how much it wants to tax. It has either a revenue problem or a spending problem.

The problem for Republicans is that George W. Bush presided over massive increases in spending and the conversion of a budget surplus to a large deficit. According to Office of Management and Budget data, federal revenue in 2000 totaled just under $2 trillion, while spending was about $1.8 trillion—a $200 billion surplus. By 2008, we had a deficit of $500 billion because spending had increased 67 percent (to 18 percent of GDP) while revenue increased only 25 percent over Bush’s eight years.

By 2012, Barack Obama’s deficit settled in at about $1.3 trillion, a 160 percent increase over 2008. OMB estimates for 2012 show that while annual revenue increased about 17 percent since Obama took office, annual spending increased 27 percent (to 24 percent of GDP).

So, is that a revenue problem or a spending problem? Well, if you ask Democrat leaders and pundits, it’s definitely not the spending. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi doesn’t believe we have a spending problem, nor does Senator Tom Harkin—to provide just two recent examples. As for pundits, countThe Daily Kos, Mother Jones, and Paul Krugman amongst the “spending problem deniers.”

Democrats seem pretty convinced of this. So, here’s an idea: What if we just agreed that we have a revenue problem and tried to erase the deficit with new taxes alone?

Read More at OfficialWire .  By Dr. R.B.A. Di Muccio.

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NRA Prisons, 3-Strikes Laws 'Gave Us a Headache'

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By Neal Colgrass Wayne LaPierre tossed off a line at the Senate gun-control hearings : “We’ve supported prison building.” In fact, the NRA backed stricter sentencing and more prisons in a perfect storm of lobbying that Mother Jones says led to a larger and harsher culture of incarceration in America. It began when the… …read more
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Melaleuca CEO sues magazine, claims defamation

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Idaho businessman Frank VanderSloot is suing Mother Jones magazine because he contends that he was defamed by an article that depicted him as a “gay-basher.”

VanderSloot, the CEO of direct marketing company Melaleuca, filed the lawsuit in Idaho Falls‘ 7th District court on Tuesday. He says a February 2012 article about him and two tweets promoting it prompted national criticism.

The magazine’s co-editor-in-chief Monika Bauerlein says Mother Jones stands by its reporting and she hasn’t yet received official notification of the lawsuit.

VanderSloot is asking for nearly $75,000 in damages. The lawsuit focuses on the article titled, “Pyramid-Like Company Ponies Up $1 million for Mitt Romney.” The term “gay-bashing” never appears in the story, but VanderSloot points to a tweet promoting the article that described him as Romney’s “gay-bashing buddy.”

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