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Satellite images show ethnic cleanout in Iraq
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor Fri Sep 19, 4:19 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to […]
The Conscience of a Liberal
Paul Krugman
The New York Times
September 19, 2008, 7:24 pm
McCain on banking and health
OK, a correspondent directs me to John McCain’s article, Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American, in the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries. You might want to be seated before […]
Nor, it appears, has it ever had a genius or
and intellectual relationship with reading.
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Inhofe on attack again in Senate race, Rice disputes claims
By The Associated Press
9/17/2008 8:14 PM
Last Modified: 9/17/2008 8:27 PM
OKLAHOMA CITY — Democrat Andrew Rice has a divinity degree and has worked as a missionary, but he is being called to account […]
Now, I remember where I may have seen him.
Could he have been a J.C. Penney’s catalogue model in his previous life.
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Todd Palin: Sarah Was ‘Destined for Higher Positions’
by FOXNews.com
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Alaska’s ‘First Dude’ Todd Palin. (AP Photo)
Todd Palin, in his first major TV interview since his wife became John McCain’s running mate, said […]
The New York Times
September 12, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
The Social Animal
By DAVID BROOKS
Near the start of his book, “The Conscience of a Conservative,” Barry Goldwater wrote: “Every man, for his individual good and for the good of his society, is responsible for his own development. The choices that govern his life are choices that he must make; […]
The Ugly New McCainBy Richard Cohen
Wednesday, September 17, 2008;
Following his loss to George W. Bush in the 2000 South Carolina primary, John McCain did something extraordinary: He confessed to lying about how he felt about the Confederate battle flag, which he actually abhorred. “I broke my promise to always tell the truth,” McCain said. Now […]
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The New York Times
September 14, 2008
Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes
By JO BECKER, PETER S. GOODMAN and MICHAEL POWELL
WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed […]
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Conflict Over Spying Led White House to Brink
By Barton Gellman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 14, 2008; Page A01
This is the first of two stories adapted from “Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency,” to be published Tuesday by Penguin Press. Original source notes are denoted in [brackets] throughout.
A burst of ferocity stunned the room into silence. No […]
In a rushed shower before going to work, I discovered there was no bar of soap, so I grabbed a bottle from my wife’s stash. Don’t scrub your face with exfoliating soap unless you want the feeling of having climbed out of the water at Cape Cod’s Nauset Beach or having motorcycled through Needles, California […]
Rule Changes Would Give FBI Agents Extensive New Powers
By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 12, 2008; A02
The Justice Department will unveil changes to FBI ground rules today that would put much more power into the hands of line agents pursuing leads on national security, foreign intelligence and even ordinary criminal cases.
The overhaul, the most […]
Citizenship filings decline after fee hike
By AMY TAXIN, Associated Press Writer
Wed Sep 10, 4:26 AM ET
ORANGE, Calif. - Immigrants aren’t seeking U.S. citizenship as often these days — not since the American dream became more expensive.
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Following a 69 percent increase last summer in citizenship fees, about 281,000 immigrants have applied to become U.S. citizens in […]
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Images: (Air & Space Museum) letsgo.dc.com; (Ford) texashideout.tripod.com; (Terraplane) hetclub.com;(C-123k) via staticflickr.com; (’54 Greyhound) Redden Archive Collection via walkercustomer.com; (Packard) via imstumped.com; (Con-Air) via allposters.com
By using Kolchak’s Abbott & Costello observation…
Then who is he?
No, Hu is in charge of China?
But he’s not ill?
Who knows?
I would imagine he does.
KIM JONG IL ILL
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Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home
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Taxpayers Also Funded Family’s Travel
By James V. Grimaldi and Karl Vick
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Washington Post Staff Writers
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008; A01
ANCHORAGE, Sept. 8 — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a “per diem” allowance […]
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Images: (President Eisenhower) via digitalhistory.uh.edu; (Hurricane Ike) via itn.co.uk
Brad’s Blog
Blogged by Brad Friedman on 9/7/2008 3:16PM
Arizona Election Integrity Advocate Arrested While Observing Hand-Count
Tucson’s John Brakey ‘Frog Marched’ Out of Counting Room After Noticing Ballot Bags With Missing Security Seals Incident Latest in String of Embarrassments for Pima County’s Disgraceful Election Director Brad Nelson… Pima County (Tucson), Arizona Election Integrity advocate and expert […]
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Think Progress
Historians: Stop Bush/Cheney From Destroying Presidential Records
“Thirty-two of the nation’s leading historians have sent letters to congressional leaders calling on them to stregthen the Presidential Records Act (PRA). The effort, led by the Center for American Progress Action Fund and joined by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the National […]
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Algae-dyed polar bears puzzle Japan zoo visitors
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Sun Sep 7, 3:08 PM ET
TOKYO - Green polar bears are drawing questions from puzzled visitors at a Japanese zoo.
Three normally white polar bears at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in central Japan changed their color in July after swimming in a pond with an overgrowth of algae.
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Los Angeles Times
11:46 AM, September 8, 2008
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Maximilien Brice / CERN
Super-smasher targets a massive mysteryThe world’s largest science experiment will re-create big-bang energies on the smallest scale, as part of a multibillion-dollar effort to solve the biggest puzzle in physics.(MSNBC.com)
Image: (Man with sledgehammer) entertheiphone.com
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State paid for trip when Palin told students to pray for pipeline
By RICHARD MAUER
rmauer@adn.com
Published: September 7th, 2008 01:57 AM
Last Modified: September 7th, 2008 02:39 AM
Gov. Sarah Palin used state funds in June when she traveled from Juneau to Wasilla to speak to graduating evangelical students and urge them to fan out through Alaska “to make […]
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
Sept. 3
Warning for College Student Voters
Last week, Virginia’s Montgomery County, home to Virginia Tech, issued a press release regarding proper protocol for college students registering to vote. In interviews with Inside Higher Ed Tuesday, it was described by turns as “unsubstantiated,” “chilling,” and (more generously) as not “incredibly encouraging or friendly.”
It reads, in […]