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In Sicko "fact check," CNN's Gupta falsely claimed
his source's "only affiliation is with Vanderbilt University" Read more…
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JEFFREY GOLDBERG ON The World’s Pornographic Interest in
Jewish Moral Failure. Is it pornographic? Or is it
just cowardly, since the Jews don’t cut off your head when you complain?
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Brent Wilkes, the former defense contractor who's serving
a jail sentence for bribing former GOP congressman Randy
"Duke" Cunningham, is expected to leave prison today, reports the San Diego-area North County Times . Says the paper: On Monday, a ...
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9th Circuit says key Cunningham figure can bail
out, pending his appeal By TERI FIGUEROA - Staff
Writer | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 1:39 PM PST Brent Wilkes, the Poway man who was at the center of the corruption scandal that brought down former U.S. ...
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While I’ve been waiting two months for a
new Dell laptop on backorder to arrive at work,
I’ve been thinking about getting an ASUS 10-Inch Netbook
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Incumbent RNC Chairman Mike Duncan tries to hold
onto his job and explain the future of conservatism
: “We have to do it in the Facebook, with the Twittering, the different technology that young people are using today,” Duncan ...
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In a new piece for Politico today, right-wing
pundit Hugh Hewitt pens a paean to President Bush,
saying that he remains in the small minority who approve of the job the President is doing. “Count me among the 30 percent, which will soon be 40 ...
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Despite the bioline, the Huffington Post cites "David
Kahane" straight.
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Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp.
, the biggest technology employer, may cut thousands of
jobs this month amid the global economic slowdown, according to the employee group Alliance for IBM. Employees have been hearing that ...
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Acknowledging that earlier cost-cutting moves are insufficient due
to the sustained economic downturn, aluminum maker Alcoa Inc.
announced deeper work-force cuts, more plant closures and a 50% reduction in capital expenditures. By the end of this ...
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The Obama administration approached CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta
about becoming U.S. surgeon general.
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After he leaves office on Jan. 20, President
Bush will be giving up his photo-op Crawford ranch
and moving to the affluent Dallas neighborhood known as Preston Hollow. Newsweek noted that the Bush family has “ found a friendly pocket ” in a ...
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In its new package of rule changes, the
House has finally decided to make its official language
gender neutral, recognizing the growing representation of women in Congress (including as Speaker of the House). Gone are references to “he,” ...
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Elliot Spitzer’s vision for improving education : Provide
funding for robotics teams at every school. If you
ever want to see intellectual competition in the arena that matters today—technological wizardry—visit the robotics competitions ...
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Rover
found this 4 hours ago on
www.democraticunderground.com
Source: [b]New York Times[/b] SAN FRANCISCO Apple
said it would begin selling song downloads from all
four major music companies without the anticopying measures that have been part of its iTunes store since it opened in 2003. It will also move away from its insistence on pricing songs at ...
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Former Time Warner Chairman and CEO is under
consideration as possible replacement for Bill Richardson at Commerce.
Parsons, a onetime Ford White House aide and former Dime Bank executive, ran Social Security study group in Bush era. Parsons ...
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Well done! All the things you need to
know in life you can learn from Blazing Saddles.“Howdy
cowboy. What’s your name?” “My name’s Tex, ma’am” “Well, Tex Ma’am, are you in the show?” ” Why, no.” “Then get your fwiggin boots ...
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On June 18, 1912, Congress passed a law
entitled,...
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RNC Chairman Mike Duncan on rebuilding his party.
"We have to do it in the Facebook, with
the Twittering, the different technology that young people are using today." Harness the the tubes ! Watch out, Change.org. -- Michael Crowley
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I don't find it surprising when studies of
American/European health care consumption show little relationship between consumption
and health outcomes. After a certain point, after all, iatrogenic morbidity and mortality has to outweigh the ...
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Jeb Bush has announced that he is not
running for Senator from Florida, dealing a blow to
the GOP's chances to hold on to their open seat here. Jeb told the Associated Press that his brother's poor poll numbers were not a factor: "While I'm proud ...
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Jeb Bush has decided not to run for
the Senate in Florida, according to former state House Speaker Marco
Rubio. "He said it just wasn't the right timing," Rubio said, recounting a phone call he received this afternoon from the ...
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There will be no Senator Bush. Here's his
statement: While I will always have more than fond
memories of my years in public office and was humbled by the outpouring of support I received over the last few weeks, now is not my time to be running ...
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Reports are coming in of a particularly grisly
encounter at a school in Gaza. Maybe 40 dead
in a U.N. school. For a glimpse of how these images are being seen in the global media - very different from American sources - check this story out . The ...
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Conservative author Ann Coulter will appear on Wednesday’s
“Today” show, according to an NBC spokesperson. Coulter has
been talking up being bumped by NBC for the past two days, both on other networks and the radio. A controversy ...
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A new study [PDF] puts the generation costs
for power from new nuclear plants at from 25
to 30 cents per kilowatt-hour -- triple current U.S. electricity rates ! This staggering price is far higher than the cost of a variety of carbon-free renewable ...
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You'd almost get the idea that this was
all Israel's fault, from the coverage of new horrors
emerging in Gaza. But before we get to the news, what looks almost like a Greenwald parody of Greenwald, while attempting to disparage Gaza war coverage, ...
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So the warranty ran out on my expensive
Lenovo X-61 notebook, (about $1600 a year ago), to
which I had added an extra 2 gigs of ram, and a 128 gig solid state hard drive - another $600 or so. Warranty died on 12/29/2008. Today, 1/5/09, I ...
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WowOWow.com reports , and NBC confirms to TVNewser,
that Ann Coulter will appear for two segments on
the Today show tomorrow. So after NBC canceled yesterday and Drudge Report said Coulter was "banned for life," then she went on "Hannity & ...
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Rover
found this 7 hours ago on
angrybear.blogspot.com
by Tom Bozzo Live from San Francisco :
The iTunes store is going DRM-free. (The record labels
get variable pricing.) Good riddance.
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If Jon Chait thinks I’ve veered into some
kind of objectionable “moral equivalent” (incidentally, if he doesn’t
like using those buzzwords, which he shouldn’t, then it seems to me he shouldn’t use them), then ...
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — In an unusual moment of
candor from a group of high-ranking partisans, the six
candidates for Republican Party chairman offered frank criticisms of the Bush administration Monday. Asked by conservative Grover Norquist to ...
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Way, way better than Brennan, and, significantly detached
from the torture regime and its apparatus in a
way that anyone involved in the CIA in the last eight years would not be. As my colleague Marc Ambinder just said, the man who has had every job ...
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Are they really budget cuts or are they
reductions in the increase in state spending from previous
projections? That's the problem when some of these articles are published without any relevant context. Gov. Jon Corzine (D), has stated that he'd like ...
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Clever and unscrupulous use of internet sites has
given the left an advantage. Time for conservatives to
wise up and turn the tables.
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How do you create a $2 million internet
media company? You start with $25 million, and give
it to Arianna Huffington…
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Ariane Sherine explains where the idea for the
Atheist Bus Campaign came from and Polly Toynbee talks
to Richard Dawkins about the word 'probably' Link to this video Today, thanks to many Cif readers, the overall total raised for the Atheist Bus ...
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In a story published by the New York
Times about the New York Times it was revealed
that they will start accepting display ads on their front page (h/t Hot Air ). The NYT broke the news in an odd third person kind of way: In its latest concession ...
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Rover
found this 9 hours ago on
www.reason.com
One of the great guitar-grinders of all time
is gone: Ron Asheton of the Stooges is dead
at age 60 , found in his Ann Arbor home. Asheton has more than fair claim to space on top of that most crowded of pedestals, the one where we stand up and honor the "father(s) of punk rock." Ron ...
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From June: 'No ice at the North Pole,'
to January: 'Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level
as 1979' No pairing of any two stories better illustrates the child-like alarmism of global warming religionists than these two stories. The first from June of 2008 ...
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Sanjay Gupta's history of dissembling