Orbitcast is live blogging the full-year 2008 and fourth-quarter 2008 investor conference call. Keep hitting the refresh button to see the latest updates. Regular old introductions of "forward looking statements" David Frear is on right now talking about how the company still managed to grow despite...

GLAAD has issued a press release announcing the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. They feature that Clay Aiken will be presenting the Excellence in Media Award to Tyra Banks. Tyra Banks and Suze Orman to be Honored at 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards Presented by IBM in New York The Gay & Lesbian Al...

Headlines from DemocracyNow.org, a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 650 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US. Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist Sentenced to 3 Years The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at Presid...

Robert Reich's Blog: Is Obamanomics Conservative or Revolutionary?: The basic idea of Reaganomics was that the economy grows from the top down. Lower taxes on the wealthy make them work harder and invest more, and the benefits trickle down to everyone else. Rarely in economic history has a theory be...

The San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombing occurred on February 16, 1970, when a pipe bomb filled with shrapnel detonated on the ledge of a window at the San Francisco Police Department's Golden Gate Park station. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Investigators in the early '7...

FLEISCHER'S WEAK PITCH.... Rumor has it, a number of the most die-hard loyal Bushies still hope, reality be damned, to rehabilitate George W. Bush's public image. Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer is a leader of the effort, and......

(Pictured: British writer Howard Jacobson) Mindless Jew-hatred conveniently masquerading as mere criticism of Israel is not a new phenomenon by any means, but it's been rising to heretofore unimaginable levels in Britain - to the point where a number of left-wing British Jews have begun publicly mov...

Our digest and commentary on today's Florida political news and punditry follows. Charlie goes with a Dem Justice ... wingers furious "Crist made a Central Florida circuit judge the Florida Supreme Court's fourth-ever black justice on Wednesday, disappointing conservatives seeking to tilt th...

By Roberto 'Tito' Sarrionandia from Tito's Blog,cross-posted by MetaBlog Today I got together a parcel for my Conservative candidate Simon Hart. After thinking long and hard about it, I chose Atlas Shrugged as the book to send him.I also sent this letter. Dear Simon Hart, I enclose, a...

Scott Johnson notes Walter Pincus' whitewashing of the Chas Freeman withdrawal brouhaha: One would never know from the article that Freeman ascribed his withdrawal to "unscrupulous people with a passionate attachment to the views of a political faction in a foreign country," to "a special interest g...