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Al Jazeera To Broadcast In DC Area
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Al Jazeera English, after a long struggle to break into the American TV market, has finally found a home in a major metropolitan area. Washington, D.C.-area folks can catch AJE's evening newscast at 10 p.m. on Thursday, the first show to air from their Washington bureau. It can be found on Comcast channel 271, Cox channel 470 or Verizon FiOS channel 451. It'll be broadcast by the MHz Network. Al Jazeera popped a nice scoop two weeks ago when "Fault Lines" host Avi Lewis got former Bush administration deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage to say he should have resigned over White House torture policy. Beginning July 1, AJE will be on 24 hours a day ...

Al Jazeera To Broadcast In DC Area
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Al Jazeera English, after a long struggle to break into the American TV market, has finally found a home in a major metropolitan area. Washington, D.C.-area folks can catch AJE's evening newscast at 10 p.m. on Thursday, the first show to air from their Washington bureau. It can be found on Comcast channel 271, Cox channel 470 or Verizon FiOS channel 451. It'll be broadcast by the MHz Network. Al Jazeera popped a nice scoop two weeks ago when "Fault Lines" host Avi Lewis got former Bush administration deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage to say he should have resigned over White House torture policy. Beginning July 1, AJE will be on 24 hours a day ...

Brian Levin, J.D.: Sarah's Dance With Conspiracists
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — While many are pondering what exactly Sarah Pallin’s approving radio comments on the birther issue and her subsequent “clarification” mean to her possible 2012 run, there is a more fundamental question: what does this bode for our democracy? The answer is this is yet another indicator that extreme is the new mainstream. In a radio interview on the conservative Rusty Humphries show yesterday, the former 2008 Vice Presidential Republican candidate answered a question about her possibly using the President’s birth certificate as an issue if she ran again for office:  “I think the public rightfully is still making it [the President’s ...