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Egyptian-born Ayman al-Zawahiri is
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Images: (Big O) al jazeera via i.a.cnn.net; (Natty) (AP /APTN) via image.cbsnews.com
U.S. seen internationally as an ‘Endemic Surveillance Society.’
In the recently released annual survey of worldwide privacy rights by Privacy International and EPIC, the United States has been downgraded from “Extensive Surveillance Society” to “Endemic Surveillance Society.” As Glenn Greenwald notes, this is “the worst possible category there is for privacy protections, the category also occupied […]
Indian Museum Director Spent Lavishly on Travel
By James V. Grimaldi and Jacqueline Trescott
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, December 28, 2007; A01
The founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian spent more than $250,000 in institution funds over the past four years on first-class transportation and plush lodging in hotels around the world, including […]
Pope’s exorcist squads will wage war on Satan
By NICK PISA
Last updated at 16:34pm on 29th December 2007
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Pope Benedict XVI during his Urbi et Orbi
This is the photograph used with the Daily Mail article.
I am not joking.
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Satanism on the rise: Pope Benedict has unveiled plans to set up specialist exorcism squads
The Pope has ordered […]
BUSINESS WEEKThe Associated Press December 28, 2007, 9:13AM ET
Private meat producer warns consumers
FORT WORTH, Texas
Privately-held meat producer American Fresh Foods on Friday warned consumers not to buy its ground beef from “questionable” vendors after one of its refrigerated trucks was stolen.
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In an attempt at piety, I sent a warning e-mail of this story to […]
This online CNN story struck Vincenzo Kolchak as strange and
threw him into a reverie which produced the vignette below the image.
Bhutto exhumation okay, Pakistan official says
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — The Pakistani government has no problem with officials from Benazir Bhutto’s political party exhuming the slain opposition leader’s body if they see a need […]
reading handouts instead of using a minimal amount of investigatory journalism? How many times did we hear and read since Tuesday that the wall was anywhere from 15–20 feet high and the moat was 10 to 20 feet wide? Is it any wonder that difficult assignments like war, economics and politics are often […]
Report: Cheney Exempted His Office From Executive Order Protecting Classified InformationHouse investigators have learned that over the objections of the National Archives, Vice President Cheney exempted his office from a presidential executive order designed to safeguard classified national security information.
According to a letter from House oversight chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA):
– Since 2003, Cheney’s office has […]
Forsooth, I do hate piggies
All through those summer days
My cold resistance
Bill kept his promise
And kept his distance.
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The actual ad is at YouTube.
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Here is the much better response.
Don’t Cry for Me. Argentina– via sing365.com
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(AP Photo/L’Osservatore Romano, HO)
It’s another case of a very late term abortion performed by the W enablers!
He ain’t heavy fahder, it’s just greed!
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Cigna stands by liver-transplant-coverage decision
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Insurer initially denied funding, then reversed itself, but patient, 17, died
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By Robert Daniel, MarketWatch
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Last update: 9:25 a.m. EST Dec. 25, 2007
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TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) - Cigna decided not to pay for a […]
Hey, Fred. Even in your brand of English,
a preposition should not end a sentence.
Nevertheless, Freddy the Sloth is unaware that
many legal immigrants don’t speak the lingo.
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Thompson’s got trouble in River City
Iowa has become central to his GOP campaign as he’s slid to asterisk status in New Hampshire. Challenges include lackluster polling, energy and […]
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Team Clinton circa 2012
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Op-Ed Columnist
Savior or Saboteur?
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: December 23, 2007
WASHINGTON
Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
Maureen Dowd
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Once it was about Hillary, but now, of course, it’s about Bill.
Our ubiquitous ex-president is playing his favorite uxorious game, and it goes like this: Let’s create chaos and then get out of it together. You ride to […]
occurred after Jake LaMotta defeated Marcel Cerdan
at Detroit’s Briggs Stadium in 1949.
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Giuliani Claims It Would Have Been ‘Impossible’ To Give 9/11 Firefighters Working Radios
Today on ABC’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos pushed former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani on why the radios for the 9/11 firefighters didn’t work. Giuliani dodged the question, claiming that it would have been “impossible” to have given them working radios:
The […]
Cheney Repeatedly Met With Auto Execs Before White House Killed California’s Emissions Law
Before EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson “answered the pleas of industry executives” by announcing his “decision to deny California the right to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles,” auto executives directly appealed to Vice President Cheney. EPA staffers told the LA Times that Johnson […]
Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950
By TIM WEINER
Published: December 23, 2007
A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.
Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July 7, 1950, […]
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AP IMPACT: Giuliani secretive as mayor
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press Writer
Fri Dec 21, 3:50 AM ET
When a mayor of New York leaves office, little goes out the door but memories — unless he’s Rudy Giuliani. Government rules discourage the city’s most powerful officeholder from departing with more than token gifts collected on the job.
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When […]
Romney fields questions on King
Campaign says claim not literal
December 20, 2007
BY TODD SPANGLER
FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said he watched his father, the late Michigan Gov. George Romney, in a 1960s civil rights march in Michigan with Martin Luther King Jr.
On Wednesday, Romney’s campaign said his recollections of watching his father, […]