President Obama held a candid, face-to-face conversation with House Republicans today at their annual retreat in Baltimore.
After Obama gave his remarks, he had to answer tough questions from Republican lawmakers about health care, the budget, taxes, and other issues. Although the riveting exchange lasted over an hour, both CNN and MSNBC aired the
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http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/29/fox-obama-retreat/
Dr David Runciman analyses why people often vote for parties that do not represent their economic interests, or that might even positively damage their financial or health prospects.
House Republicans were fired up and ready to go for their conversation with President Obama at their annual retreat today...However, after Obamas strong performance, some Republicans are now regretting that decision.
Barack Obama, for an hour and a half, was able to refute every single Republican talking point used against him on the major issues.
A group of conservative politicians is making headway towards a ban on topless bathing on some of Australia's best known beaches.
Taitz said on her blog this week that she is considering running for state office in California, either for Attorney General or Secretary of State, so she could sue Obama for his records.
The Pentagon announced the sale of the military hardware to Taiwan.
It is widely expected to anger China.
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http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_to_sell_missiles_ships_helicopte_01292010.html
For roughly an hour and a half, Obama lectured GOP leaders and, in a protracted, nationally-televised question-and-answer session, deflected their policy critiques, corrected their misstatements and scolded them for playing petty politics.
So effective was the president that Fox News cut away from the broadcast 20 minutes before it ended.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/29/obama-goes-to-the-gop-lio_n_442331.html
White House officials have told the Justice Department to consider other venues for the 9/11 terror trial that was to be held in lower Manhattan, the Daily News has learned.
A Kansas jury deliberated just minutes before announcing it reached a verdict in the murder trial of religious terrorist Scott Roeder
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/28/kansas.abortion.roeder.verdict/index.html?hpt=T1
Toyota Motor Corp faced scrutiny from Congress over its biggest ever safety recall as investors, suppliers and consumers weighed the impact of an unprecedented halt in U.S. production by the No.1 automaker.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60R7GB20100129?rpc=64
There's a story of an ex hausted tenor at La Scala who, facing repeated cries of "Encore" responded that he couldn't go on.
A man rose in the audience to say, "You'll keep singing until you get it"
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/obama_answer_for_america_more_of_1IboSZ3t6WFW12qZnpv10J
Son says J.D.
Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye,' has died at age 91.
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http://www.wbbm780.com/J-D--Salinger--author-of--Catcher-in-the-Rye---has/6229900
Iran executes two men held during the period of unrest that erupted after June's presidential poll, unconfirmed reports say.
Wall Street can quit worrying about a stock market correction�for now. Market forecaster Charles Nenner, who called the crash of 2008, says the recent pullback in U.S. stocks is not "what they call the big one." According to a combination of technical models and cycles he follows."Chances are that we'll see a very big correction" end of 2010
The daily flag-handling ceremony in the vast space is a stirring moment for Chinese tourists -- and a sometimes weird, unsettling one for foreigners.
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http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/16/world/la-fg-china-redflag16-2010jan16
POLITICO's Kasie Hunt, who's in the House chamber, reports that Justice Samuel Alito mouthed the words "not true" when Obama criticized the Supreme Court's campaign finance decision.
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http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0110/Justice_Alitos_You_lie_moment.html
You might just be surprised by where some of your favorite -- and even your not-so-favorite -- companies ranked in 2009.
Source:
http://www.billshrink.com/blog/fortunes-top-100-fastest-growing-american-companies/
Most markets were overvalued four years ago.
No more. In the majority of markets now, homes sell at a discount to their fair market price.
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http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/27/real_estate/most_overvalued_metro_areas/index.htm
As it turns out, retired CIA agent John Kiriakou has an active imagination, basically.
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http://rawstory.com/2009/2010/01/revealed-excia-agent-basically-up-waterboarding-details/
President Barack Obama will ask Congress to repeal the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy during his State of the Union address on Wednesday night, news reports say.
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http://rawstory.com/2009/2010/01/obama-dont-ask-sotu/
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president John Silber, died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling, his family said.
He was 87.
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/howard_zinn_his.html
On Tuesday, the French parliament called the burqa a challenge to national values, and backed the ban of the full Islamic veil from public places such as schools, hospitals, government offices and transport systems.
The 200 pages report, put together by a parliamentary committee, was made public on Tuesday.....
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http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/01/27/france-is-banning-the-burqa-a-good-idea/
CBS News exposed it -- a congressional junket to the climate summit in Copenhagen.
Now, find out how much it cost you, the taxpayer in Follow the Money.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/25/cbsnews_investigates/main6140406.shtml?tag=digg
It is imperative for the country, the economy, the party, and the Obama presidency that Democrats resist the temptation to let this rare opportunity slip by.
The most effective path forward is also the most obvious . . .
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1001w.benen.html
Leftists are pouring into town to rail against freewheeling capitalism during the World Social Forum, gleefully cheering the humbling of bankers and business titans by the global economic meltdown.
The 10-year-old conference is the left's counter to the World Economic Forum at Davos.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100126/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_brazil_social_forum
A man was pulled from rubble in Haiti's capital on Tuesday, two weeks after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake leveled much of the city, officials said.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/26/haiti.earthquake/index.html?hpt=T1
As news stories look for signs of of the direction of economic indicators, photographs fill the wires of people working from all over.
Once more, I've collected some of these disparate photos over the past couple of months, composing another global portrait we humans at work around the world.
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http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/01/at_work_part_ii.html
The systematic and brutal targeting of demonstrators and government critics by security forces shows that the regime's crackdown is nothing but an attempt to silence voices of dissent
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http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/24/iran.human.rights/
Ask the President questions after the State of the Union.
What will you ask?
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http://mashable.com/2010/01/26/obama-questions-youtube/?utm_source=feedburner
Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin known as Chemical Ali, is hanged for crimes against humanity in Iraq.
In early 2006, a cosmetics trader named Rakhman began showing up at Russian salons hawking low-price Botox.
Officials now worry about an illegal factory in Chechnya churning out raw botulinum toxin, the key ingredient in the beauty drug and one of world's deadliest poisons. A speck of toxin smaller than a grain of sand can kill a 150-pound adult.
The way venture capital firms are structured makes it almost impossible for outsiders to see whats really going on inside those 1970s lodge-like Sand Hill Road offices.
A firm is nothing more than a collection of partnerships around certain funds that run for ten years or more.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/24/why-vcs-should-take-their-own-advice/
Four U.S.
Senators are pursuing legislation they believe would fix the "mistake" President Obama made with the man who allegedly failed to blow up a Christmas Day flight into Detroit. That "mistake" was treating him like a serious criminal, tossing him in jail and planning a trial.
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http://rawstory.com/2009/2010/01/aclu-oppose-making-constitution-optional/
Despite being all but irrelevant to the world economy just two decades ago, India has clearly become a force to be reckoned with on the global stage.
Continuing our series on growing economies, we'll look more closely at India's economic landscape.
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http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/india-the-new-land-of-opportunity/
South Carolina Lt.
Gov. Andre Bauer, who is running for the Republican nomination for governor, has compared giving people government assistance to 'feeding stray animals.'
As I said during the campaign, If you like the way things are, by all means, vote for the incumbent� and dont complain.�
They did, so dont.
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http://biggovernment.com/2010/01/23/my-massachusetts-district-didnt-learn-a-thing/
"The public has set a new standard of giving for a relief telethon with 'Hope for Haiti Now,' and the donations continue to come in," Lisa Paulsen, president and CEO of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, said in a statement released Saturday.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9641401
The Indian head of the UN climate change panel defended his position today
even as further errors were identified in the panel's assessment of
Himalayan glaciers.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6999051.ece
The habitually ill-tempered Keith Olbermann was more splenetic than ever, excoriating Mr.
Brown as "an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex nude model, tea bagging, supporter of violence against women, and against politicians with whom he disagrees. In any other time in our history, this man would have been laughed off the stage."
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.smith0121,0,7344748.column
Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. investors overwhelmingly see
President Barack Obama as anti-business and question his ability
to manage a financial crisis, according to a Bloomberg survey.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20100121/pl_bloomberg/a8uii1bcrdmy
Massachusetts may signal an end to old ways of political fighting.
Scott Brown strives to be a consensus builder.
Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua say the US is using the international relief operation in Haiti as a cover-up for a military takeover.
Progressive firebrand Rep.
Alan Grayson eviscerated the Supreme Court ruling on campaing finance and urged action or we could be dealing with the "Congressman from Wal-Mart."
How to get 4% interest on your checking account, without doing anything sneaky.
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http://www.mint.com/blog/saving/high-interest-checking/
Paul Volcker, legendary central banker turned radical reformer of our financial system, has won an important round ... will the White House have the courage of its convictions and really fight the big banks on this issue?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-johnson/paul-volcker-prevails_b_430869.html
Now for the 2010 Citizen's Medal, the White House is opening up the process to include an exciting source of nominations: you. President Obama is inviting the American public to nominate candidates he should consider for the Presidential Citizens Medal -- truly making this an honor of, by, and for the American people.
This will be the worst week in modern history for the Democrat liberals in D.C.
In an explosive interview, progressive champion Dennis Kucinich eviscerates Obama and Democrats for failing the American people on their promises of change.
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http://rawstory.com/2009/2010/01/exclusive-kucinich-shreds-democrats/
Inflation pressures at the wholesale level eased in December as a drop in energy prices offset a big jump in food costs.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100120/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/us_economy
It turns out that your chances of fighting the IRS in court -- and winning -- are actually better than getting hit by lightning (1 in 6,250), dying after a shark attack (9 in 152) or even having twins (3 in 100).
The National Taxpayer Advocate's office found that taxpayers won some portion or all of their cases roughly 14% of the time.
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http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/01/20/taxpayers-take-the-irs-to-court-and-actually-win/
Erroll Southers, President Obama's nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration, has withdrawn his name from consideration, a Senate aide confirmed Wednesday.
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/01/tsa_nominee_erroll_southers_wi.html
A few days ago, CNBC's financial guru predicts a huge surge in the stock market if Scott Brown wins the Mass. special election.
Was he right?
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http://imgur.com/Py2T0.jpg
Police were looking for a lone shooter who they said killed eight people Tuesday in central Virginia, then fled in the woods, violently resisting efforts to take him in and even nearly shooting down a police helicopter as it hovered over the area trying to flush him out.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100120/ap_on_re_us/us_appomattox_shootings
81 percent of Americans support legalizing marijuana for medical use and nearly half favor decriminalizing the drug more generally, both far higher than a decade ago.
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http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Politics/medical-marijuana-abc-news-poll-analysis/story?id=9586503
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for the South Los Angeles, Long Beach and Whittier areas as a powerful new storm moves ashore.
Striving for an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown pushed ahead of Democrat Martha Coakley on Tuesday in a U.S.
Senate election that became a referendum on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and his first year.
An innovative startup believes the way to lower energy bills and solving the climate crisis can be accomplished with two small tools: No. 10 envelopes and smiley faces.
WTF?
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http://www.climatebiz.com/blog/2010/01/19/power-peer-pressure-combatting-climate-change
Billionaire Sebastian Pinera won Chile's presidential election Sunday in the country's first democratic election of a right-wing ruler in 52 years.
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http://www.dailypress.com/news/national/sns-ap-lt-chile-election,0,1516912.story
RedState just posted a list of phone banks for Martha Coakley--and several posters there are suggesting they jam them, a la the New Hampshire Senate election in 2002.
The Department of Justice, in a major antitrust review for the Obama administration, will join the Federal Communications Commission in reviewing Comcast Corp.'s deal to take control of General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal.
The decision settles a tug of war between the department and the Federal Trade Commission.
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http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/07/business/la-fi-ct-nbc7-2010jan07
There is no exaggeration saying that an Excaliber round could destroy a parked car 20 miles away on the 1st shot. The accuracy is incredible & could be fired on from a mountain higher than the summit of Mt Everest. Aircraft & missles have range & other profound advantages, yet on a tactical battlefield these guns are like a force of nature.
On November 25, 43-year-old mom Tabassum Kham was stabbed to death in her Houston apartment.
Police suspicion soon turned to her son, 18-year-old high school student Danish Minhas. He claimed he was out all the night when his mother was killed.
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http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/01/danish_minhas_hires_high_schoo.php
As we celebarte Martin Luther King Day, let's reflect on what the cilvil rights leader might say about the devastating earthquake in Haiti as well as both the positive efforts and negative comments that followed in its wake.
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http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/01/17/what-would-martin-luther-king-say/
The earthquake in Haiti is being reported as the worst disaster of its kind in history.
There is a severe lack of food, water, medical supplies and resources on the ground. Right now, the best way to provide assistance is to donate money directly...Here are some resources to help out.
Recent riots by Africans in southern Italy have exposed a brutal Mafia-run labor system in which migrants work long days for little pay and fear for their lives.
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1953619,00.html
Even if Democrats lose the special
election to pick a new Massachusetts senator Tuesday, Congress
may still pass health-care overhaul through a process called
reconciliation, a top House Democrat said.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aPg2UfFaCh9c&pos=9
His claim about Barack Obama and the national debt is breathtakingly free of facts.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/14/AR2010011403909.html
Here in Massachusetts, as well as in Washington, a growing sense of gloom is setting in among Democrats about the fortunes of Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley.
Two images, before and after.
Zoom in to view the decimation in Port-au-Prince, including its cathedral and shantytowns
Ebert responds to Rush Limbaugh's insinuation that Barack Obama would steal money donated by Americans to help out the people of Haiti.
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http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100114/OPINION/100119985
Obama will campaign in Massachusetts this weekend for Martha Coakley in a bid to save Kennedy's former Senate seat -- and with it the Democrats' filibuster-proof majority.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703657604575005212723179150.html
President Obama has offered Haiti the United States' 'full support' after the island nation suffered an epic earthquake.
What he did not mention is America's generosity may come with a hefty price tag to U.S. taxpayers as the deficit mushrooms from the cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
With the first of its flights touching down in earthquake-devastated Haiti late Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. began deploying military planes, ships and ground troops to the Caribbean nation.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/13/haiti.us.coast.guard/index.html
VeriSign iDefense researchers have identified the source of the recent cyber-assault against Google and have found the command-and-control servers that were used to orchestrate the attack.
Your 'theological' nonsense is revolting.
Don't speak for Haiti, and don't speak for God. You never had much credibility -- but now it is all gone.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-raushenbush/go-to-hell-pat-robertson_b_422397.html
Former Chief U.N.
Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Nabbed in Teen Sex Sting, Former Chief United Nations Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter was arrested in a Pennsylvania sex sting in November on a litany of charges involving a lewd Internet conversation with a person he thought was a 15-year-old girl.
CEO Muhtar Kent told the company's 92,000 employees in an e-mail Wednesday the Atlanta-based company is also checking on the safety of the 850 people who work for its bottler there.
Three Coca-Cola employees who happened to be in Haiti during the earthquake Tuesday were safe and have since gone to the Dominican Republic, the company said.
Guerilla marketing is about using a small budget for big results.
Some guerilla ad campaigns are completely waged on the social media front. Others are creatively brilliant, while still others are simply strange. Here are guerilla marketing campaigns, 22 ads from bizarre to brilliant.
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http://weburbanist.com/2010/01/13/guerilla-marketing-22-ads-from-bizarre-to-brilliant/
The poorly built homes, buildings and roads of Haiti were no match for the 7 magnitude quake that hit the country Tuesday afternoon.
Speaking to CNN En Espanol, the Haitian Ambassador to the US expressed that such as catastrophe "had been expected."
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http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/01/12/haitian-mbassador-we-had-been-expecting-this-catastrophe/
eMusic, the popular subscription-based music service, just announced that it has signed a deal with Warner Music, the world's third-largest music company.
Job market got you down? If applying to real-person jobs isn't landing you the position you want, it may be time to try something different.
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http://www.businesspundit.com/7-ways-to-make-money-without-actually-having-a-job/
The policy differences between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown were as clear during last nights debate as they have been throughout this short special-election campaign.
A bomb destroyed part of a main gas pipeline in Russia's Muslim region of Dagestan, but supply disruptions are expected to be minimal, the regional division of Gazprom said.||"Unknown people blew up the...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60B4FD20100112?rpc=64
A new DNA reader could turbocharge research into cancer and autism.
The biotech company Illumina is introducing a new machine that it says will decode a person's DNA in one week using $10,000 worth of materials--five times cheaper than any other competing gadget on the market.
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http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/12/genome-illumina-sequencing-business-healthcare-cancer-autism.html
After discovering a major security breach from hackers in China that sought to steal info on Chinese and international human rights activists, Google says it will stop self-censoring Google.cn content in Chinese Google searches.
Too bad the realization comes after they supported the Communist Party's censorship for years.
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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html
A book due out this week by political journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin has all the right politicos sweating and backpedaling, from John McCain to the Senate majority leader, and even Bill and Hillary Clinton.
But it's former lawmaker Sarah Palin who takes it on the nose. -=W/ VIDEO=-
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http://rawstory.com/2009/2010/01/authors-mccain-aides-worried-palin-mentally-unstable/
The EU is now in a position to assume a "stronger, more credible role in the world," the nominee for the EU's top foreign policy post says.
The wedding industry brings in over $71,795,327,100 annually�.yes, thats $71 billion! Have you ever wondered how that breaks down and where you fall within the norm?
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http://bridepop.com/everything-else/weddings-by-the-numbers-infograph/
Being your own boss has plenty of perks.
And working from the comfort of your living room only sweetens the deal. A look at some of the hottest industries for home-based businesses -- and the entrepreneurs who have found success in them.
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http://www.inc.com/ss/9-businesses-you-can-start-your-pajamas-2010#0
Palin's most powerful nemesis, McCain/Palin campaign strategist Steve Schmidt, will soon return the fire Palin unloaded on him from her book, %u201CGoing Rogue%u201D.
Operation Palin Apocalypse officially commences Sunday night when Schmidt appears on 60 minutes. The only question remaining is how low will they go? This is the GOP after all. The pa
British newspaper's defence correspondent killed and one of its photographers severely injured by roadside bomb in Helmand province.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/10/afghanistan-journalist-rupert-hamer
China's exports rose 17.7% in December, state media has reported, suggesting the country has overtaken Germany as the world's largest exporter.
General Motors begins the process to close Swedish carmaker Saab, but says it is continuing efforts to find a buyer.
A strong earthquake, estimated magnitude 6.5, rocked the Eureka, Calif., area this afternoon, snapping power lines, toppling televisions, disrupting power throughout the region and forcing the evacuation of at least one mall.
The earthquake was centered under the Pacific Ocean...
The National Iranian American Council is on high alert after a South Carolina Congressman announced this week that he will introduce legislation that would require the deportation of all Iranians living in America.
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http://rawstory.com/2009/2010/01/gop-congressman-deport-iranian/
Silence has long shrouded the men and women who die in the nations immigration jails.
For years, they went uncounted and unnamed in the public record. Even in 2008, when The New York Times obtained and published a federal government list of such deaths, few facts were available about who these people were and how they died.
A rare 1913 U.S. coin once owned by an Egyptian king and later featured in a famous U.S.
TV detective series was sold for more than $3.7 million (2.3 million pounds) in a public auction in Florida, the auctioneers said on Friday.
Source:
http://af.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idAFTRE6074E820100108
Rudy Giuliani appeared on CNN this afternoon in an attempt to explain what he meant when he claimed that no domestic terrorist attacks happened under President George W.
Bush.
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http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/giuliani-i-do-remember-sept-11.php
Gunmen attacked a Chevron Corp. oil pipeline in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta, causing an unknown amount of damage, a government spokesman said Saturday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100109/ap_on_bi_ge/af_nigeria_oil_unrest
The increased conservatism among Americans last June persisted throughout the year, so that the year-end political ideology figures confirm Gallup's initial reporting: conservatives (40%) outnumbered both moderates (36%) and liberals (21%) in 2009.
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http://www.gallup.com/poll/124958/Conservatives-Finish-2009-No-1-Ideological-Group.aspx
Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing in Afghanistan last month that killed seven CIA employees and contractors and a Jordanian military officer, according to a statement posted on Islamist Web sites.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/01/07/afghanistan.cia.al.qaeda/index.html
Rudy Giuliani, the man who was mayor of New York City during the 9/11 attacks, appeared on Good Morning America today to say President Obama should take lessons from former President George W.
Bush on how to prevent a terrorist attack. "We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We've had one under Obama,"
We know you're not surprised, but we thought you'd like to know.
Matt Frei, presenter of BBC World News America, asks what motivates affluent youngsters to turn into suicide bombers.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8444780.stm
European nations were sharply divided Thursday over the need to install full-body scanners at European airports, with some EU members playing down the need for beefed-up security measures.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100107/ap_on_hi_te/eu_eu_airport_security
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, then led by Timothy Geithner, told American International Group Inc. to withhold details from the public about the bailed-out insurers payments to banks during the depths of the financial crisis, e-mails between the company and its regulator show. ...
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aXIvW4igKV38&pos=1
What does the mysterious helicopter crash that killed one of Indias most popular politicians have to do with White House economic czar Larry Summers?
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http://www.decodedstuff.com/the-exile-newspaper-story-on-ysrs-mysterious-helicopter-crash/
Hot on the heels of what President Barack Obama called a potentially disastrous screw-up by the civilian intelligence community, here comes a devastating report on shortcomings of military intelligence in Afghanistan.
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http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2010/01/07/american-intelligence-and-fortune-telling/
The Chicago Police Department is seriously considering scrapping the police entrance exam, sources tell Fran Spielman.
Dropping the exam would bolster minority hiring and avert legal battles, according to one source, while others confirm that the exam could be scrapped to open the process to as many people as possible.
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http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/chicago-police-scrap-entrance-exam-80790827.html
"One of my jobs as President will be to guide this process..." All 8 clips.
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http://www.breitbart.tv/the-c-span-lie-did-obama-really-promise-televised-healthcare-negotiations/
Organizers of a marijuana-legalization fundraiser in Washington say former New Mexico Gov.
Gary Johnson will appear along with comedy legends Cheech and Chong.
Egyptian security forces clash with activists seeking to take a convoy of trucks carrying relief supplies to Gaza.
The U.S.
Embassy in Yemen, which was closed over the weekend due to security concerns, reopened Tuesday.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/05/yemen.us.embassy/index.html
Sen.
Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) announced this evening that hes retiring at the end of his term, a shocking development that threatens Democratic control of his Senate seat next year.Dorgan was up for re-election in 2010, but the third-term senator wasn't facing any strong Republican opposition-- but was facing the growing possibility of a serious...
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http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/0110/In_shocker_Dorgan_announces_retirement.html
Airport security is a big deal these days.
But since when has reporting your income been a matter of national security?
Michael Yon is an ex-Green Beret turned war correspondent who's spent much of the past four years covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/01/ex-green_beret_and_war_corresp.php
Britain and the Netherlands are pushing ahead with plans to install full-body scanners at airports to thwart terrorist attacks.
But critics say the machines may not be effective and are a violation of privacy
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1951529,00.html
In a TV interview Monday, Steele said the party won't be regaining control of Congress in the mid-term elections this year.
And if there's a reason for that, it's that the Republicans "screwed up" after Ronald Reagan left office.
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http://rawstory.com/2009/01/steele-gop-screwed-up-reagan/
Dale Robertson, a Tea Party activist who operates TeaParty.org, is getting stung for an old photo taken at the Feb. 27, 2009 Tea Party in Houston in which he holds a sign reading Congress = Slaveowner, Taxpayer = Niggar.
After the ResistNet listerv promoted Liberty Concerts to be held by TeaParty.org, a source passed [...]
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http://washingtonindependent.com/73036/n-word-sign-dogs-would-be-tea-party-leader
From MSNBC's "Ed Show": Democratic Congressman Rep.
Alan Grayson: Is Satan Doing The Intro To Dick Cheney's Book? - 01/04/10
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http://videos.mediaite.com/video/D-Rep-Alan-Grayson-Is-Satan-Doi
One of five Americans detained in Pakistan said their aim was to go to Afghanistan to wage jihad against Western forces, defending their intention as justified under Islam.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100104/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_us_arrests
Human rights advocates say a conference with three Americans helped set the stage for a bill to execute homosexuals.
Great. now a piece of fiction is used to justify murdering of human beings.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html
An intercity train carriage has barged through a platform crashing into the hallway of a hotel at Helsinki Railway station.
Since June, he has been among thousands to take to the streets of Tehran in support of reform for his country.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/03/iran.protests/index.html
Yes, Rush.
That's the point! American medicine is superb-for those who can get it. And, in Hawaii, no one gets special treatment, because everyone can get it. Hawaii has had nearly-universal employer-mandated health insurance since 1974.
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http://thejoshuablogs.blogspot.com/2010/01/irony-alert-rush-limbaugh-touts.html?sms_ss=digg
The world's tallest building opens in Dubai on Monday, after being completed during a property crash in the global downturn.
Telegraph photographers choose their favourite pictures of the year.
White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan was briefed in October on an assassination attempt by Al Qaeda that investigators now believe used the same underwear bombing technique as the Nigerian suspect who tried to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day, U.S. intelligence and administration officials tell NEWSWEEK.
Now outside of government, members of the George W.
Bush administration are desperate to polish their turbulent legacy. However, a history of "Operation Enduring Freedom" being prepared by the Army would seem to contradict their version of the war on Afghanistan.
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http://rawstory.com/2009//01/official-army-history-finds-bush-admin-hamstrung-troops-afghanistan/
The political action committee that organized the Tea Party Express ("Our Country Deserves Better PAC") funneled almost two-thirds of its spending back to the political consulting firm from which it was spawned.
More than $850,000 of the money the "grassroots" PAC collected went to the firm of GOP political operatives who ran it.
Secular campaigners publish series of anti-religious quotes and say they will challenge law if charged with blasphemy
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/01/irish-atheists-challenge-blasphemy-law
The accused "underwear bomber" made a dramatic final call to his father that he found so alarming, the father approached Nigerian officials who took him directly to the CIA's station chief in the Nigerian capital, sources told ABC News.
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http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bombers-phone-call-father/story?id=9457361
Today is the second worst day of my life after 12-25-09.
Today is the day that I realized that my own country is lying to me and all of my fellow Americans. Let me explain.
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http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_kurt_hask.html
A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed vehicle in a crowd of people watching a volleyball tournament Friday in northwest Pakistan, killing 75 people in the deadliest attack in the country in more than two months.
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http://slon.im/Np8lMK
Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska's political deal from the federal health care reform bill or face legal action, according to a letter provided to The Associated Press Wednesday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091230/ap_on_re_us/us_health_care_deal_states
The Dow (INDU) lost 120 pts, or 1.1%, after ending the previous session at the highest point since Oct. 1, 2008.
The S&P 500 index (SPX) fell 11 points, or 1%, after ending the previous session just short of a 15-month high. The Nasdaq (COMP) shed 22 points, or 1%, and ended the previous session at the highest point since Oct. 3, 2008.
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http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/31/markets/markets_newyork/
The punishing battle over healthcare is still unresolved, but the Obama administration is quietly laying plans to take up another issue that could generate even more controversy and political division--a major overhaul of the nation's immigration system.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/sns-dc-immig29-final,0,1583235.story
There is no more solemn duty for an American��commander-in-chief than the martialling of "all elements of American power" - the phrase Obama himself used on Monday - to protect the people of the United States.
In that key respect, Obama failed on Christmas Day, just as President George W.
The Netherlands said Wednesday it will begin using full body scanners on all passengers taking flights to the United States, following the attempted terrorist attack on a U.S.-bound flight on Christmas Day.
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http://us.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/12/30/airline.terror.schiphol/index.html
