Tag: news
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May 10, 2006 10:29 PM EDT --
The stereotype of "The Ugly American" - loud, arrogant, ill-dressed, ill-mannered and lacking respect for other cultures - is one of the root causes of anti-Americanism.
Keith Reinhard, founder . . . more
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May 16, 2006 02:16 PM EDT --
We see this kind of news story now and again. Sometimes we try to imagine the people behind the numbers, the human realities underneath the surface abstractions. But overall, the . . . more
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June 23, 2006 08:21 PM EDT --
Tom Ridge announced his resignation on November 30, 2004. He promises to stay in office until a replacement has been trained to change the color on the terror alert system and tell us when . . . more
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April 11, 2006 01:43 PM EDT --
originally posted at The Agonist
Yesterday the San Antonio Express-News' Ombudsman, Bob Richter, asked, "You want more titillating stories -- or less?"
And today, on CNN, Kira Phillips' . . . more
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May 01, 2006 02:34 PM EDT --
A lawsuit has been filed against a New York City high school for failing to prevent the a vampire attack on three girls who attended the school.
According to the New York Post, a vampiress savagely sank . . . more
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May 13, 2006 05:44 PM EDT --
The Associated Press reports Democratic Party leaders are wondering what to do about Larry Darby, a Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general, who denies the Holocaust occurred and will and wants . . . more
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August 02, 2007 10:43 AM EDT --
COLEMAN, KLOBUCHAR REQUEST IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF EMERGENCY RELIEF FUNDING FOR I-35 W BRIDGE DISASTER
Minnesota Senators today assessing damage with Secretary of Transportation
Washington . . . more
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August 04, 2007 11:26 AM EDT --
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August 25, 2006 10:41 AM EDT --
In a year in which none of California's 53 Congressional races is considered close, three races each in Pennsylvania, Indiana and Connecticut feature races where Republicans are struggling to stay . . . more
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September 07, 2006 01:06 PM EDT --
In an article on how gas prices are everyone's fault but oil companies, Rob Port attempted to support his thesis with what he termed "verifiable facts."
Problem is, this support was neither . . . more
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June 08, 2006 08:16 AM EDT --
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaeda leader in Iraq who waged a terror campaign of suicide bombings and beheadings of hostages, has been killed in a U.S. airstrike.
What great news to hear upon awakening. . . . more
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December 26, 2006 02:14 PM EST --
Competition has been fierce this year for the fifteenth annual P.U.-litzer Prizes.
Many can plausibly lay claim to stinky media performances, but only . . . more
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April 06, 2006 01:54 PM EDT --
Court filings indicate that I. Lewis Libby, Cheney's former aide, testified that Bush had authorized the leak of pre-war intelligence. While it is unclear whether that included the identity of CIA . . . more
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August 02, 2006 12:18 PM EDT --
The last three USA Today/Gallup polls have shown a steady rise in the popularity of Democrats. Back on December 19, 2005, the Dems had only a 1% margin among those polled, with 46% having a "favorable . . . more
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December 17, 2006 02:08 PM EST --
From the J-Post, on what I consider to be good news:
Rafsanjani, one of Ahmadinejad's main opponents, gained almost two times more votes than the presidential candidate Mohamad-Taqi Mesbah- Yazdi, . . . more
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March 20, 2007 12:48 PM EDT --
This morning finds Dick Cheney on his way back to George Washington Medical. His spokeswoman, Megan McGinn, initially reported "It's just a routine checkup."
However, according to NBC News: . . . more
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August 03, 2006 01:08 PM EDT --
From Maureen Dowd's NY Times Op-Ed column today: "The vice president, who believes in unwarranted, unlimited snooping, is so pathologically secretive that if you use Google Earth's database . . . more
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April 14, 2006 10:27 AM EDT --
Six retired generals, some of whom served in the current Iraq war, are calling for Donald Rumsfeld to resign his post at the Pentagon. They claim he mismanaged the war, and micro-manages operations. They . . . more
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March 06, 2006 06:41 PM EST --
My heart breaks.
I grew up in the classic American home, a little white cap cod in a small suburban town. Our high school was a cookie cutter image like thousands of others throughout the country. . . . more
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September 21, 2006 12:29 AM EDT --
I don't even know where to start with this story. But I'll give it a shot: basically loans sharks, legal ones, have set up shop outside of military bases around the country preying on families . . . more
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