Chip-Shrinking May Be Nearing Its Limits
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December 15, 2007
By JORDAN ROBERTSON –
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Sixty years after transistors were invented and nearly five decades since they were first integrated into silicon chips, the tiny on-off switches dubbed the “nerve cells” of the information age are starting to show their age.
The devices — whose miniaturization […]

My memory may be incorrect, but I think this was a plot on either a

MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY episode with Danny Thomas or
THE DONNA REED SHOW.
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CENTRAL ISLIP, New York (AP) — A jury on Monday convicted a millionaire couple of enslaving two Indonesian women they brought to their mansion to work as housekeepers.
Mahender Murlidhar […]

Stories by KELLY KENNEDY - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Dec 17, 2007 13:10:09 EST
Spc. Gerry DeNardi stood at the on-base Burger King, just a few miles from downtown Baghdad, hoping for a quick taste of home.
Camp Taji encompasses miles of scrapped Iraqi tanks, a busy U.S. airstrip and thousands of soldiers living in row upon […]

ABC News: The Blotter
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Zawahri Wants Your Questions Online
December 17, 2007 9:02 AM
Rehab El-Buri Reports:
Expanding its use of the Internet, al Qaeda now is asking that online users submit their questions — even “hostile” ones — to its No. 2 man, Ayman al Zawahri.
And like any other blogger, Zawahri says he is prepared to engage. He […]

Think Progress…
Olbermann: I Nearly Left MSNBC In 2003 Over Michael Savage’s ‘Spattering Invective’
On PBS’ Bill Moyers Journal this past Friday, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann criticized right-wing radio host Michael Savage, who had a show on MSNBC in 2003. Olbermann recounted how he nearly walked off the set of his Countdown show once when MSNBC […]

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The 700 Club video is Highway 35.
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Thanks to Vincenzo Kolchak for the heads up.
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December 16, 2007
Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry
By ERIC LICHTBLAU, JAMES RISEN and SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON — For months, the Bush administration has waged a high-profile campaign, including personal lobbying by President Bush and closed-door briefings by top officials, to persuade Congress to pass legislation protecting companies from lawsuits for aiding the National Security […]

Huck’s gift-givers ended up in state posts
The Politico
tBy: Kenneth P. Vogel
Dec 14, 2007 03:57 PM EST
Updated: December 15, 2007 02:36 PM EST
Mike Huckabee accepted more than 90 gifts from Arkansans he appointed to state
Mike Huckabee accepted more than 90 gifts from 21 Arkansans he appointed to state posts during his decade as governor, a Politico […]

Lieberman to endorse McCain
By: Mike Allen and Jonathan Martin
Dec 16, 2007 02:57 PM EST
Updated: December 16, 2007 04:12 PM EST
Sen. Joseph Lieberman (Conn.), who was on the national Democratic ticket in 2000, will cross the aisle to endorse Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) tomorrow, Republican sources said.
The two will appear together on NBC’s “Today” show tomorrow, […]

Bolton On Global Warming Conference: ‘If Anyone’s Isolated Here, It’s Al Gore’
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Recently, former Vice President Al Gore — to “rapturous” applause — slammed the Bush administration for being “principally responsible for obstructing progress in Bali” by opposing mandatory greenhouse gas caps.
Yesterday on Fox News, former U.N. ambassador John Bolton criticized Gore, claiming that he is […]

Report Says That the Rich Are Getting Richer Faster, Much Faster
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At the New York Stock Exchange. Investments have been a big source of rising wealth
as the spirit of McTeague reigns supreme.
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By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON
Published: December 15, 2007
The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the […]

If the Democrats had any guts,
they would have impeached this frat boy tyrant years ago!
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Control sought on military lawyers
Bush wants power over promotions
By Charlie Savage
Globe Staff / December 15, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is pushing to take control of the promotions of military lawyers, escalating a conflict over the independence of uniformed attorneys […]

Price’ winner claims car was in wreck
By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON Fri Dec 14, 6:24 PM PST
Associated Press
The price was right but the car was wrong, according to a lawsuit filed this week in Los Angeles Superior Court. In June 2004, a contestant on “The Price is Right” guessed that a sports car was worth $33,495 […]

While arguments abound about Clinton vs. Obama, John Edwards
is the only Democrat who handily beats all Republican comers.
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Political Punch
Power, pop, and probings from ABC News Senior National Correspondent Jake Tapper
A tense Bill Clinton on Charlie Rose
December 15, 2007 11:14 AM
In an interview with the inimitable Charlie Rose last night, former President Bill Clinton said […]

New Dinosaur Discovered in Antarctica
By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 11 December 2007 09:41 am ET
A hefty, long-necked dinosaur that lumbered across the Antarctic before meeting its demise 190 million years ago has been identified and named, more than a decade after intrepid paleontologists sawed and chiseled the remains of the primitive plant-eater from its […]

The Huffington Post
December 13, 2007
This morning on “The View,” Barbara Walters displayed the Christmas card she recently received from the White House. She said it was the most religious White House Christmas card in her memory. The card included explicit religious references beyond just a bible verse.
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Mukasey Rejects Call for CIA Tape Details
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 14, 2007; 2:27 PM
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey today sharply rebuffed congressional demands for details about the Justice Department’s inquiry into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes, saying that providing such information would make it appear that the department was “subject to […]

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New Blood-Thirsty Dinosaur Identified
Dave Mosher
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com Tue Dec 11, 8:02 PM ET
A graduate student has identified the remains of one of the planet’s largest meat-eating dinosaurs ever found.
Steve Brusatte, a paleobiologist at the University of Bristol in England, determined fossils discovered during a 1997 Nigerian expedition belong to a new breed of meat-eating […]

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By Will Dunham Wed Dec 12, 12:23 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists searching for fossils high in the Andes mountains in Chile have unearthed the remains of a tank-like mammal related to armadillos that grazed 18 million years ago.
“It looks different than almost anything out on the landscape today. There really isn’t anything that’s comparable […]

Thompson: ‘I Don’t Care’ What The Intelligence On Iran Says, The NIE Is ‘Foolishness’
On Glenn Beck’s radio show yesterday, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) said he doesn’t care what the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran says. Iran is “undoubtedly intent upon nuclear weapons,” Thompson said, explaining, “I don’t care what this latest NIE says.” […]

Coburn puts hold on civil rights cold cases bill.
Think Progress
This summer, “legislation to beef up investigations into unsolved murders from the civil rights era” passed the House by an overwhelming margin of 422-2. But the bill is being held up in the Senate, where Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) has put a hold on the bill […]

Tension in Hillaryland Grows as Plan Goes Awry: Albert R. Hunt
By Albert R. Hunt
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) –
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Her once-commanding advantage over Obama in Iowa and New Hampshire — the two critical initial contests — is evaporating. She has gotten the worst of recent exchanges over Iran and health care.
There are also political strains with her greatest […]

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By Peter Baker
Monday, December 10, 2007; A17
The Washington Post
Perino’s ‘Missile Crisis’ Confession
Still looking for that last minute Christmas gift for White House press secretary Dana Perino? May we recommend a gift certificate for the forthcoming book on the Cuban Missile Crisis by our colleague Michael Dobbs, “One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on […]

Cocaine-Resembling Candy an ‘Extreme Danger’ for Kids

December 06, 2007 2:03 PMAnna Schecter Reports:South Sioux City (Neb.) Police Chief Scott Ford called the design for “Ice Breakers PACS” a “marketing blunder” that could have devastating repercussions and prove to be an “enormous waste of resources” for law enforcement responding to reports of drug use.A spokesman for […]

Op-Ed Columnist
Spies Like You and Me
By BOB HERBERT
Published: December 8, 2007
Let the witch hunt begin. Are you now or have you ever been an illegal immigrant?
Are any of your friends illegal? Relatives?
The last place you’d expect to encounter a chilling moment is at a presidential debate sponsored by National Public Radio. But on Tuesday, there […]

December 08, 2007
The Politico
White House rejects Dems’ compromise on war funding, domestic spending
Democrats are poised to hand President Bush upward of $50 billion in Iraq funding with no strings attached, and they’ve already offered to cut $11 billion from their domestic spending bills.
But in an unusual Saturday afternoon statement, the White House said it will […]