Category: issues

“Conservatives were at an information disadvantage because so many right-leaning outlets wasted time on stories the rest of America dismissed as nonsense.”

“The Jefferson Performing Arts Center [in Metairie], whether it’s called a ‘black hole’ or a ‘white elephant,’ is clearly the most colorful public conundrum in Jefferson Parish. The Parish Council spent close to an hour Wednesday voicing frustration over a building that is 79 percent over budget and almost four years behind schedule.”

“So we’re back to where we were 15 years ago, where we are having to fight for old principles, fight for the old ideas and ideals of a country that should be at the forefront of what we expressed at the Olympics… so unfortunately we will have to stand up and argue for it all over again.”

“Like the country it embodies, indeed for the sake of that country, the Georgian National Museum is reimagining the past to carve out a durable future. … One might call it a struggle to define the Georgian soul, and that defining is what a national museum can do most deliberately.”

“At stake in this important and knotty case is whether copyright holders — publishers, filmmakers, musicians and creative artists of all sorts — can sell their copyrighted works abroad at prices different from what they charge in the American market and rely on copyright law to help maintain the separate pricing without having importers profit from the difference.”

“While a second Obama term would signal status quo on a whole host of industry-related issues, a Romney win would have implications for arts funding, public television, indecency enforcement, media consolidation and net neutrality.”

“No sane person would dispute that trying to raising attainment levels in state secondary schools isn’t essential, just as no one would ever argue that the arts should dominate the school curriculum.”

“Democrats apparently give less money to charity when a Republican is in the White House, and vice versa.”

Why should Congress aid streaming companies at the expense of musicians – or is that another red herring in the royalties for streaming music argument?

Some chants from the march (yes, it was a real thing): “Whose street? Sesame Street!”

“What do we want? Cookies! When do we want them? Now!”

“EL-MO! We won’t go!”