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newsbusters.org - 21 minutes ago
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After introducing Lopez on her CNN Headline News
program last night, Behar played a clip of Lopez's
HBO special in which he said, "There are a lot of politicians that would be Latinos and a lot now who are Latino. Sarah Palin, Latina. Believe ...
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Joy Behar, George Lopez Label Todd Palin a 'Bum' for ...
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weeklystandard.com - 21 minutes ago
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The University of Georgia is mourning its mascot,
Uga VII, who unexpectedly died of a heart attack
yesterday at four years old. He had served fewer than two seasons as the football team's mascot, the shortest tenure of any in the long line of ...
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The Daily Grind (Uga VII Memorial Edition)
thehill.com - 22 minutes ago
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A bipartisan effort gaining momentum in the House
to require periodic audits of the Federal Reserve is
little more than "great PR," one Republican senator stressed Friday. Although Reps. Ron Paul (R-Tx.) and Alan Grayson's (D-Fla.) effort to subject ...
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Gregg: Fed audit amendment panders to 'populist fervor'
directorblue.blogspot.com - 23 minutes ago
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Hat tips: Sean E. and Papa B.
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The moment before the pain begins
liberalvaluesblog.com - 32 minutes ago
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The House passed this year’s annual fix to
the flawed Medicare payment formula which would cut payment
to physicians by 21 percent. The bill would also fix the formula so that we don’t have to keep going through this every year. The vote was primarily along party lines, with ...
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Republicans Try To Explain Their Flip Flop As They Vote ...
directorblue.blogspot.com - 47 minutes ago
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Papa B writes:Don't complain about the traffic in
Atlanta... you could be driving to work in Bolivia.
We have seen some pretty scary roads, but this certainly gets my vote for ‘Number One.’A Road in BoliviaPapa B never checks Snopes -- and neither did I -- but it's too good to verify.
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A Road in Bolivia
thehill.com - 47 minutes ago
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Undocumented immigrants should be able to purchase insurance
from health insurance exchanges with their own money, not
federal dollars, Sen. Robert Menendez (D.N.J.) said Thursday. Menendez said that allowing illegal immigrants to buy insurance from ...
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Menendez: Illegal immigrants should be able to buy ...
huffingtonpost.com - 51 minutes ago
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One of the loudest populist voices in the
Democratic Caucus predicted on Thursday that the party may
have to forcefully challenge the White House on economic matters if it wanted to hold on to power in the 2010 elections. One day after calling on ...
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Peter DeFazio, Dem Rep.: It's 'Pretty Embarrassing' That ...
GrassrootsPA.com - 54 minutes ago
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State rep promises bill to block Pittsburgh’s tuition
tax…
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State rep promises bill to block Pittsburgh’s tuition tax…
GrassrootsPA.com - 55 minutes ago
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Lincoln U students upset about required fitness class
for overweight undergrads…
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GrassrootsPA.com - 58 minutes ago
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Men head to prison for burning as many
as 3 cats in active burn barrel…
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Men head to prison for burning as many as 3 cats in ...
GrassrootsPA.com - 59 minutes ago
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Police: Western PA woman’s kiss smuggled drugs to
inmate…
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Police: Western PA woman’s kiss smuggled drugs to inmate…
GrassrootsPA.com - 62 minutes ago
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Luzerne judges in cash-for-juveniles scandal granted immunity in
civil suit…
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Luzerne judges in cash-for-juveniles scandal granted ...
politico.com - 65 minutes ago
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Politico - Fox News host plans on becoming
more active in the populist conservative movement he spawned.
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Beck to be more active in movement
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onthehillblog.blogspot.com - 65 minutes ago
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Outrage over the Army's media ban has nothing
to do with what you think of Palin as
a person or politician. One can disagree entirely and intensely with the full range of Palin's policies and politics and still find the Army's decision wrong and indefensible.
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Capitol Idea: The President Can Make 'Democracy ...
angrybear.blogspot.com - 88 minutes ago
minx.cc - 90 minutes ago
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Finally. The fourth fastest fall below majority support
of any president, coming in just days after Reagan
fell below 50%, for similar reasons. Reagan of course became very popular, but he had an advantage Obama doesn't: Reagan installed a low-tax...
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Gallup: Obama Under 50% for First Time; Charlie Cook ...
themonkeycage.org - 91 minutes ago
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A new PPP poll finds that 49% of
McCain voters think that ACORN stole the election for
Obama. 20% of McCain voters are not sure. Only 31% think that he legitimately won the election. By comparison, 93% of Obama voters believe that he legitimately won ...
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Did ACORN Steal the Election?
prospect.org - 97 minutes ago
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The unwarranted backlash against fans of the world's
most popular vampire-romance series.
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Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs
berkshireeagle.com - 99 minutes ago
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The White House's decision to try alleged Sept.
11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian courthouse
in New York City constitutes a return to America's noble system of justice and a rejection of the kangaroo court system of President George W. Bush.
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A Return to Traditional American Justice
hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com - 106 minutes ago
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Earlier today, we said that VA Gov./DNC chair
Tim Kaine was going to have a hard time
outraising the RNC this month. Well, he did. Kaine and the DNC raised $11.5M in October, nearly $3M more than the RNC's $8.8M month. A party source tells ...
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DNC Pulls In Stunning $11.5M
huffingtonpost.com - 107 minutes ago
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Oprah's announcement that she will give up her
syndicated talk show in 2011 after 25 years on
the air leaves an enormous hole: who will be the next king or queen of daytime TV? Below are some of the names that immediately come to mind as potential ...
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Oprah's Replacement: Who Should Be The Next King/Queen ...
huffingtonpost.com - 110 minutes ago
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At the Ad Council Annual Dinner Wednesday night,
"30 Rock" creator Tina Fey brought back her famous
impersonation of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. "Mrs. Palin and I continue to have so much in common," she said. "They recently made a porn ...
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Tina Fey Does Sarah Palin At Ad Council Dinner (VIDEO)
prospect.org - 112 minutes ago
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Facing heavy domestic criticism, the Iranian regime could
seek to recoup lost credibility by causing more trouble
in the region.
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Iran's Crisis of Resistance
gatewaypundit.firstthings.com - 114 minutes ago
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Dr. Michael Mann co-authored the famous graph of
temperature trends dubbed the “hockey stick graph.” Today, Mann
was implicated in the global warming email and document conspiracy. Mann’s controversial work has been challenged ...
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Mann-Bear-Pig… “Hockey Stick” Creator ...
justoneminute.typepad.com - 117 minutes ago
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Keith Hennesey details Obama's violations of his No
new middle-class taxes" pledge, including the Reid hike of
the Medicare payroll tax that I flagged Wednesday.
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Reid His Lips: New Taxes
thinkprogress.org - 118 minutes ago
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Fired Up! Missouri points out that the Lafayette
County Republican Central Committee is highlighting a new billboard
in the state with steps for a “ citizens guide to revolution of a corrupt government “: This billboard replaces one ...
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New Missouri billboard tells Americans to ‘prepare for ...
news.firedoglake.com - 120 minutes ago
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Bill Clinton told FDL’s Eve Gittelson that it
would be problematic for him to attend a free
medical clinic being held in Little Rock, Arkansas tomorrow because MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann had “politicized” the event.” He ...
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President Clinton to Skip Arkansas Free Clinic, Blames ...
jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com - 2 hours ago
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Since the AP has 11 fact checkers to
pore over Sarah Palin's book, I figured I could
be one fact checker looking into the allegations about angry protestors at her book signing in Noblesville, IN.The liberal bloggers are going crazy over a video that ...
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Roguish Liberal Behavior
themoderatevoice.com - 2 hours ago
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Could we Win if We Had to Fight
World War II Today? by Rick Moran The debate
over “The Greatest Generation” and whether the way America is today could duplicate their stunning achievements in winning two wars and fighting through a depression while maintaining unity has been ...
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Could We Win if We Had to Fight World War II Today? ...
themoderatevoice.com - 2 hours ago
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We’ve reached a point where my friend Ed
Morrissey and I must come to a parting of
the ways on the current health care debate, though we’ve seen eye to eye on most portions of it up until now. Tomorrow, the Senate will face a procedural vote to open debate on their version of the ...
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Why Republicans Should Vote Yes Tomorrow
hotair.com - 2 hours ago
youtube.com - 2 hours ago
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Ad Council Annual Dinner 2009 - Tina Fey's
Introduction
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townhall.com - 2 hours ago
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Yes, it's come to this. CNN's "news" anchor
Kyra "White Guilt" Phillips takes a stand against those
10-year-old bigoted bullies picking on liberal sweetheart Will Phillips. The Left sure know how to be tough when...
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Greg Hengler: CNN's Anchor To Bullies Of "Pledge Kid": ...
sfgate.com - 2 hours ago
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Rep. Jackie Speier took one of the biggest
risks of her political career recently -- she agreed
to appear on "The Colbert Report" --- and the segment aired last night. How dangerous can this be? When Rep. Linda T. Sanchez (D-Lakewood) appeared on the ...
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Politics Blog : Rep. Jackie Speier tells Colbert she is ...
tnr.com - 2 hours ago
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Ron Wyden will have his day and, in
somewhat scaled-down fashion, he'll have his way. Majority Leader
Harry Reid, Finance Chairman Max Baucus, and Wyden just announced that they will be amending health care legislation to include a compromise ...
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A (Small) Win for Wyden and Choice
delong.typepad.com - 2 hours ago
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Three points to serve as background: First of
all, from the day after the collapse of Lehman
Brothers, the policies followed by the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. Federal Reserve and the U.S. administrations have been very helpful. They have been good ...
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The Puzzles of American Political Economy Today
nytimes.com - 2 hours ago
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BAGHDAD In its largest reconstruction effort since
the Marshall Plan , the United States government has
spent $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, building tens of thousands of hospitals, water treatment plants, ...
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U.S. Fears Iraq Development Projects May Go to Waste
tnr.com - 2 hours ago
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I used to be the foreign editor of
In These Times in Chicago. I didn’t particularly enjoy
the job, because I have never been fascinated with the world outside of the United States. I am not sure whether I could find Honduras or Liberia ...
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Obama in Seoul: My Problem with Foreign News
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thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 2 hours ago
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The appointment of a senator to replace Barack
Obama gets scrutiny from the Senate Ethics Committee.
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Ethics Panel Admonishes Senator Burris
blogs.abcnews.com - 2 hours ago
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ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: Doug Hampton’s interview
with ABC’s Cynthia McFadden seems likely to spark a
new round of questions regarding Sen. John Ensign’s efforts to set his former mistress’ husband up in business. In one part of the ...
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Doug Hampton: Ensign Knowingly Broke Ethics Rules on ...
tnr.com - 2 hours ago
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The majority of House Republicans opposed the Democrats’
$210 billion physician payment bill--which passed this afternoon on
a 243-183 vote--accusing the legislation of increasing the deficit by relying on federal borrowing through Medicare to ...
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The GOP Flip-Flop on the Doc Fix
huffingtonpost.com - 2 hours ago
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Stephen Colbert sat down with David Letterman last
night and reminisced about his trip to Iraq .
He recounted for Dave his visit to the White House where the president taped a segment for Stephen to show the troops. Turns out the president is an ...
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Colbert On "Letterman": Obama Is The Meryl Streep Of ...
news.yahoo.com - 2 hours ago
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AFP - A planned November hearing by the
US Senate Armed Services Committee to consider ending a
ban on gays serving openly in the US military will be postponed, a spokeswoman indicated Friday.
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US Senate puts off action on military ban on gays
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angrybear.blogspot.com - 2 hours ago
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Congratulations to Andrew Samwick of Capital Gains and
Games for being named Professor of the Year in
New Hampshire .
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Teaching that Contracts Should Be Broken is Rewarding
bloomberg.com - 2 hours ago
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Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Carl Levin , chairman
of the Senate Armed Services Committee , said higher-income
Americans should be taxed to pay for additional troops sent to Afghanistan and that NATO should provide half of the new soldiers. An “additional ...
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High-Income Tax May Be Needed for Afghan War Cost, Levin ...
dailymail.com - 3 hours ago
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A nonprofit group's
campaign to hold free medical clinics for the uninsured
in three states is turning into a not-so-subtle jab at moderate Democrats to support their party's efforts to reform health care. More than 800 ...
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Charleston Daily Mail
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news.yahoo.com - 3 hours ago
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AP - A Vatican researcher claims a nearly
invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the
authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth.
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Researcher says text proves Shroud of Turin real
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mahablog.com - 3 hours ago
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True story: On Monday I sent a payment
for something in a regular-size envelope from a post
office in southern Westchester County, New York — about three miles north of the Bronx — to an address on Long Island. And I wanted to be sure it arrived in a timely manner. So I sent it ...
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