About Kaizar
| Location | San Francisco, California, United States |
Background
| Education | College graduate |
| News | 90 minutes a day or more |
| Internet | 90 minutes a day or more |
| Languages | Other |
| Politics | Left |
| Age | 25-34 |
| Gender | Male |
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| Subjects | Sci/Tech, Internet, Media, New Media, Media and Politics |
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Contact Info
| Address | 2431 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, 94110, US |
| Last Visit | Jan 6, 2009 - 4:59 PM PST |
| Last Edit | Nov 18, 2008 - 4:42 PM PST |
Kaizar's Story Reviews
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How Bombay Became Mumbai
n+1 - by Nikil Saval - Dec. 8, 2008 (Opinion)
A place whose hotels are not safe from Muslim terrorists is not safe for capital; it marks a perfect time for the BJP's re-entry, whose consequences all of us should fear ...
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South Asia’s Deadly Dominoes
New York Times - by Helene Cooper - Dec. 7, 2008 (News Analysis)
The Mumbai attacks may have begun with Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani guerrilla group known in the West mostly for its preoccupation with Kashmir. But by the time the crisis ...
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Will the Safety Net Catch Economy’s Casualties?
New York Times - by Steven Greenhouse - Nov. 16, 2008 (Special Report)
After Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, Washington started trimming and tightening many social programs. To boost the economy, Mr. Reagan called for smaller government, lower ...
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Approaching the Midnight Hour
Washington Post - by Dan Froomkin - Nov. 20, 2008 (News Report)
The Bush Administration said it would take the high road on last-minute regulations, but with a deadline looming the low road is bumper-to-bumper today.
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In France, Budgeting for Less
Wall Street Journal - by Leila Abboud - Nov. 17, 2008 (News Report)
Spending cutbacks by people like auto worker Mikael Deschamps could help push France into a recession like that of other parts of Western Europe.
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Republicans rebranded
Boston Globe - by James Peyser - Nov. 9, 2008 (Opinion)
Typically, political observers say that the national Republican Party has moved too far to the right for moderate New Englanders. But I think a more telling way to frame the ...
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Right-wing media feeds its post-election anger
Los Angeles Times - by James Rainey - Nov. 10, 2008 (News Report)
But many on the losing end of last week's election want to hold on to their anger. And there are those in the media -- led by the likes of Limbaugh and Hannity -- only too ...
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Put on a Happy Face
Weekly Standard - by Fred Barnes - Nov. 8, 2008 (Opinion)
Republicans should recognize their position in relation to Obama. For the time being anyway, he's a colossus astride the continent, the most commanding political presence ...
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Slow Learners
New Republic - by Jonathan Chait - Nov. 8, 2008 (News Analysis)
The outpouring of Republican enthusiasm for Palin suggests that the party faithful have not quite digested Lowry's critique of Bush--or, for that matter, any critique of Bush ...
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Won't Obama bring left-wing change?
Washington Times - by Clifford D. May - Nov. 6, 2008 (Opinion)
Will President-elect Barack H. Obama use this awesome power to strengthen America's defenses in a time of global conflict and repair America's economy in a period of financial ...
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Losses Prompt GOP Review of How Best to Repackage Its Agenda
Congressional Quarterly - by Jonathan Allen - Nov. 6, 2008 (News Analysis)
... many Republicans share elements of a vision for their path back to power that emphasizes GOP solutions to broad public policies, not just narrowly targeted social issues ...
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A Once-United G.O.P. Emerges, in Identity Crisis
New York Times - by Sam Tanenhaus - Nov. 6, 2008 (News Analysis)
One by one, prized Republican strongholds fell Tuesday night and yesterday. Ohio and Indiana, Florida and Virginia, Colorado and Nevada — all succumbed to Senator Barack ...
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The Rightosphere Copes With Defeat
Pajamas Media - by John Hawkins - Nov. 6, 2008 (News Analysis)
And yet, the most common reaction across the right side of the blogosphere was either a congratulations to Obama, a recognition that having the first black president was a ...
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Palin Last Nail in Republican Coffin?
Outside the Beltway - by James Joyner - Nov. 6, 2008 (Opinion)
The whole Palin thing, though, worries me. I take people like George Will and Christopher Buckley and Colin Powell at their word when they say the selection of Palin was very ...
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The Changed Contours of America
Wall Street Journal - by Gerald F. Seib - Nov. 6, 2008 (News Analysis)
the election showed how much America has been changing. For years, the country's economic power has been shifting to states such as Colorado, North Carolina, Virginia and ...
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Politics and Social Networks: Voters Make the Connection
Washington Post - by Jose Antonio Vargas - Nov. 3, 2008 (Special Report)
... with the Internet making it easier than ever for voters to fund a candidate, act as their own publishers and search for information (and misinformation), the Washington ...
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Media Credibility
New York Times - by Douglas MacKinnon - Nov. 3, 2008 (Opinion)
Beyond recent studies by the Pew Research Center and the Project for Excellence in Journalism, other research shows that the media has tilted to the left; indeed journalists ...
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From Outsider To Politician
Washington Post - by Eli Saslow - Oct. 9, 2008 (Special Report)
Obama has built a biography on overcoming obstacles -- on fusing unlikely bonds that help him to adapt and then advance. He knew from the moment he took the oath of office in ...
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McCain Racism, Hypocrisy on Khalidi Issue
Informed Comment - by Juan Cole - Oct. 30, 2008 (Opinion)
The increasingly sleazy John McCain, who once promised to run a clean campaign, has now attacked my friend Rashid Khalidi and attempted to use him against Barack Obama. ...
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Why McCain is getting hosed in the press
The Politico - by John F. Harris, Jim VandeHei - Oct. 28, 2008 (News Analysis)
There have been moments in the general election when the one-sidedness of our site — when nearly every story was some variation on how poorly McCain was doing or how well ...
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Obama on Redistribution of Wealth
The Volokh Conspiracy - by David Bernstein - Oct. 27, 2008 (Opinion)
On the issue of whether Obama endorses redistribution of wealth through the courts, it certainly sounds to me like he thinks the Rodriguez case (holding 5-4 that unequal ...
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Muscling Up the Majorities
Congressional Quarterly - by Bob Benenson - Oct. 27, 2008 (Special Report)
The reasons go beyond the flagging popularity of the Republican “brand,” which has been in evidence all year, and the coattails of Barack Obama , who appears ...
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The AP Is Breaking More Than News
Washington Post - by Jay Newton-Small - Oct. 25, 2008 (News Analysis)
"The Internet has become our new business environment," Curley told an Online News Association conference in 2004, "not just another medium for distribution." He has also ...
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Pakistan stares into the abyss
The Independent - by Andrew Buncombe, Anne Penketh, Omar Waraich - Oct. 23, 2008 (News Report)
Pakistan was locked in crisis last night, with the government pressed by Washington to deepen its conflict with Islamic militants in the lawless regions on the Afghan border, ...
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What Went Wrong
Washington Post - by Anthony Faiola, Ellen Nakashima, Jill Drew - Oct. 14, 2008 (News Analysis)
A decade ago, long before the financial calamity now sweeping the world, the federal government's economic brain trust heard a clarion warning and declared in unison: You're wrong.
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The Oracle
New Yorker - by Lauren Collins - Oct. 7, 2008 (Special Report)
Although Huffington was known as a conservative for most of her life, the Huffington Post is a kind of liberal foil to the Drudge Report. According to Nielsen Online, in ...
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Will Gun-Totting, Churchgoing White Guys Pull the Lever for Barack Obama?
New York Times - by Matt Bai - Oct. 19, 2008 (Interview)
Obama told me. “If I were watching Fox News, I wouldn’t vote for me, right? Because the way I’m portrayed 24/7 is as a freak! ... Who wants somebody like that? “... ...
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Media Gives Palin a Pass
Washington Post - by Richard Cohen - Oct. 7, 2008 (Opinion)
Reading William Kristol's column in The New York Times, I discover that Sarah Palin and I have something in common. Kristol, who was once Dan Quayle's chief of staff and ...
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The top 10 stories the US news media missed in the past year
San Francisco Bay Guardian - by Amanda Witherell - Oct. 3, 2008 (Review)
"This year, war and civil liberties stood out," Peter Phillips, project director since 1996, said of the top stories. "They're closely related and part of the War on Terror ...
Ratings Given
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To Kenneth Sibbett | for The ultimate power lunch - with friction on the menu | 01/06/2009 |
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To Subramanya Sastry | for India: An elephant, not a tiger | 12/12/2008 |
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To Michael Bugeja | for Muslims in India Put Aside Grievances to Repudiate Terrorism | 12/09/2008 |
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To Marsha Iverson | for Muslims in India Put Aside Grievances to Repudiate Terrorism | 12/08/2008 |
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To Michael Bugeja | for Americans' Food Stamp Use Nears All-Time High | 11/26/2008 |
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To Terry Gamble | for Obama Tilts to Center, Inviting a Clash of Ideas | 11/22/2008 |
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To Kenneth Sibbett | for Crash and Burn | 11/19/2008 |
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To Dale Penn | for G20: A New World Order | 11/17/2008 |
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To Stephen Pizzo | for The End of Wall Street's Boom | 11/15/2008 |
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To fred evans | for National Enquirer: Cindy McCain Having Affair | 11/12/2008 |
Ratings Received
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From Glenn LaBauve | for Californians to Bush: the feeling's mutual | 01/06/2009 |
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From Chris Finnie | for Californians to Bush: the feeling's mutual | 01/05/2009 |
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From Fabrice Florin | for Californians to Bush: the feeling's mutual | 01/05/2009 |
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From Dwight Rousu | for Bonfire of profanities | 01/05/2009 |
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From Dwight Rousu | for More oddities in the U.S. "debate" over Israel/Gaza | 01/04/2009 |
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From Glenn LaBauve | for How Will Treasury Pick the Banks to Save? Just Trust Them | 01/03/2009 |
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From Dwight Rousu | for The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | 01/02/2009 |
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From Dwight Rousu | for The Joshua Generation | 01/01/2009 |
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From Derek Hawkins | for The War We Don't Know | 12/29/2008 |
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From Dwight Rousu | for Attack on Gaza: As Usual, U.S. Media (And Most Liberals) Silent | 12/29/2008 |
