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Some thoughts from Rick Moran :
It's really quite simple, you see. The American government and the military are lousy with PC and we paid for our timidity in the face of evil with the lives of 14 brave soldiers.
Or, an equally simple explanation is that war and cruelty to Muslims drove ...
World
We'll never know, writes Barry Rubin :
When John Wilkes Booth opened fire on President Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre in April 1865, the media was puzzled. True, the actor was outspoken in his Confederate sympathies and viewed himself as a Southerner, said someone who knew him, but ...
White House
Abraham Lincoln
Blanche Lincoln
The New York Times
...and the Bears are Minnesota . Maybe things will improve once the Bears build up a decent offensive line...which will be a lot harder now that they've traded away their next two first-round draft picks.
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The first episode of the greatest children's show of all time aired on November 10, 1969. The greatest character of them all, of course, was this guy:
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Desecration of a War Memorial is bad under any circumstances, but this despicable act required serious effort on the part of the vandals:
Vandals destroyed part of the provincial cenotaph located on land between King, Queen, and Church streets.
"My heart is broken," said Jean-Guy Perrault, ...
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With every hour, Nidal Malik Hasan's motivation - and the U.S. military's staggering negligence in not dealing with him sooner - becomes more clear :
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with ...
World
U.S. Army
Yemen
The Berlin Wall was toppled twenty years ago today, but it's always 1988 in one of Canada's favorite vacation spots:
Famed Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez said Friday she and another blogger were punched and thrown violently into a car by presumed state security agents as they walked to ...
World
We cannot say for sure why Major Malik Nadal Hasan carried out his shooting rampage in Fort Hood. (If he really did yell "Allahu Akbar!" before opening fire, that gives us a pretty good idea as to his motives - but this kind of thing is why the 72-hour rule was invented.)
I can say with some ...
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Any similarities between President Obama and the aliens in V are purely coincidental :
The script was not written as a roman a clef or allegory for the Obama administration. The script was written by [Scott] Peters during the Bush administration and started before Mr. Obama clinched the ...
White House
Barack Obama
Canada
Seven dead, 20 injured - and at least two, possibly three, gunmen - at a military base in Texas.
Not much more is known at this stage, but if more than one shooter was involved, it was almost certainly planned in advance. (Not necessarily a plot by a larger organization, though - Columbine ...
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The Iranian student demonstrations have completely fallen off the Western radar, but they aren't over . (via Harry's Place )
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Iran
Roland Emmerich, the Irwin Allen of this generation, shows the destruction of several Christian landmarks (the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica, the Christ the Redeemer statue overlooking Rio) in the disaster epic 2012 , opening next weekend.
No scenes showing Mecca being destroyed, ...
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Things were looking scary for a while, but it looks like the people of Maine will no longer have to put up with the ungodly menace of people in committed, monogamous same-sex relationships entering into the covenant of marriage. Won't someone think of the children ?
Voters on Tuesday ...
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Ford and GM appear to have halted their sales slide:
All four "Core" brands of General Motors (Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac and GMC) posted positive numbers, and GM as a whole, which still counts sales from "non-Core" brands like Hummer, Pontiac, Saab and Saturn, managed to post a 4.1% gain in ...
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General David Petraeus
The Motor City - spread out over an area larger than San Francisco, Manhattan and Boston combined , but largely abandoned - offers would-be city planners an opportunity to try almost anything :
...One natural response is the shrinking cities movement. While this has gotten traction in ...
