Hamas sees 'no prospects'
for Mideast peace
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Associated Press, by Mansur Mirovalev
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 1:48:26 AM
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Moscow - The leader of Hamas said Monday he sees "no prospects' for a Mideast peace settlement, a stand that could reduce Russia's chances of holding a Middle East peace conference that includes the Palestinian militant group. (Snip) Mashaal, however, praised Moscow's position to promote his group's stance in relations with Israel. ''It's enough that Moscow tells the world that Hamas is a movement of freedom fighters, not a terrorist group,'' he told journalists.
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Party of 'No'...and Proud
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American Thinker, by Matt Spivey
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 1:45:01 AM
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Conservatism is about being not obstructionist, but principled. Imagine if someone told you that even though you are a Christian, in order to get along better with others, you need to put your religious beliefs on hold until 2012. (Snip) It's time for conservatives to embrace their refusal to bend on basic beliefs. And it's time for liberals to understand that a refusal to accommodate is not simply to impede ideologically, but rather to stand
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Key Dem wants to pause
discharges of
gay service members
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Michael 0'Brien
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 1:39:01 AM
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Congress could pass a limited moratorium on the military's ''Don't ask, don't tell'' policy this spring, a key chairwoman said Monday. Rep. Susan Davis (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Military Personnel Subcommittee on the House Armed Services Committee, said that she hopes to include a measure prohibiting discharges for gay and lesbian members of the armed forces who are outed by colleagues.
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Will There Be a Bipartisan
Health Care Reform
Summit? We Shall See
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ABC News, by Jake Tapper
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 1:37:23 AM
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House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, R-Va., sent a letter to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel about the president's proposed health care reform summit today, asking if the ''President is sincere about moving forward on health care in a bipartisan way, does that mean he will agree to start over so that we can develop a bill that is truly worthy of the support and confidence of
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Militants targeting
Americans arrested: Pakistan
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 1:32:56 AM
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Lahore - Authorities arrested six suspected Taliban militants with a suicide vest and hand grenades allegedly on their way Monday to attack a five-star hotel and kill Americans in Pakistan's cultural capital, said police. (Snip) The militants arrested Monday on the outskirts of Lahore included a 14-year-old boy and a prayer leader from Pakistan's Khyber tribal area near the Afghan border, said police official Zulfikar Hameed. The prayer leader was wearing a vest packed with
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Obama Panders to the Feminists
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Townhall, by Phyllis Schlafly
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 1:29:01 AM
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Barack Obama's ''spread the wealth around'' doesn't mean only higher taxes on taxpayers and more handouts to non-taxpayers. More especially, it means transfers of financial goodies to the president's political allies. (Snip) Feminists immediately had a tantrum to complain that the freeze exempted funding for the military, intelligence and homeland security. Now we learn that all feminist programs and organizations will also be exempted from the freeze.
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Liberal Conceit
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American Thinker, by Christopher Chantrill
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 1:25:17 AM
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We all know liberal condescension. ''Why are Americans so anti-intellectual?" your liberal friend might ask. But Gerard Alexander has written about it -- in the Washington Post. "Why are liberals so condescending?'' he asks. Why indeed? Your average liberal exhibits four kinds of condescension, according to Alexander. (Snip) Then there's the conservatives-are-racists meme. ''It is now an article of faith among many liberals that Republicans win elections because they tap into white prejudice against black...''
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Frank Rich and the State
of Liberal Commentary
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Townhall, by Dennis Prager
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 1:21:35 AM
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If one had to read one columnist to appreciate the state of contemporary left-wing commentary, my nomination would be Frank Rich of the Sunday New York Times. No well-known leftist columnist better exemplifies the worst aspects of today's left. Virtually every piece is filled with anger, filled with ad hominem responses to arguments, filled with insults of opponents and at the same time devoid of intellectual arguments. A Frank Rich column is essentially a weekly
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Democrats, Meet Your
Biggest Nightmare
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American Thinker, by Carol Peracchio
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 1:17:45 AM
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My husband's cousin Paulette called me the morning of January 20 from Massachusetts. Breathless with excitement, her words tumbling out so fast I could barely keep up, she recounted the joy of Scott Brown's win in the special election to the U.S. Senate. Paulette is 66 years old. (Snip) She told me she'd never been politically active, ''except for voting, of course.'' But all that changed after Barack Obama's election. Paulette started watching FOX News
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The Fallacy of ''Fairness''
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Creators Syndicate Inc., by Thomas Sowell
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 1:11:33 AM
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If there is ever a contest to pick which word has done the most damage to people's thinking, and to actions to carry out that thinking, my nomination would be the word ''fair''. It is a word thrown around by far more people than have ever bothered to even try to define it. (Snip) If by ''fair'' you mean everyone having the same odds for achieving success, then life has never been anywhere close to
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Unlearned Lessons
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Townhall, by Cal Thomas
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 1:04:48 AM
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''What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.'' (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, "The Philosophy of History," 1837) Last week, the Newark Star-Ledger reported that New Jersey lost $70 billion in wealth over the past five years. The reason? Affluent people have moved to states with a lower tax rate or no income tax at all.
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Why the Media Ignored a Scandal
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Washington Examiner, by Byron York
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 1:00:20 AM
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Two weeks before the 2008 Iowa caucuses, the National Enquirer published a detailed story reporting that Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards had had an affair, and that the woman involved -- campaign videographer Rielle Hunter -- was pregnant, and that Edwards had arranged for an aide to falsely claim to be the father, and that Hunter and the aide and the aide's family were being taken care of financially by a wealthy Edwards supporter. (Snip)
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International Court dismisses
case of Darfur rebel
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 12:57:13 AM
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The Hague, Netherlands -- International war crimes judges dismissed the case against a Sudanese rebel leader Monday, ruling that prosecutors failed to provide enough evidence to put him on trial for the deaths of international peacekeepers. Bahar Idriss Abu Garda had been accused of planning and participating in an attack on an African Union peace mission in Sudan's Darfur region in 2007 that killed 12 international troops. Had it gone to trial, the case would
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China quake activist sentenced
on subversion charges
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BBC News, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 12:54:19 AM
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A Chinese activist who had investigated whether shoddy construction contributed to deaths in the Sichuan quake in 2008 has been sentenced to five years' jail. Tan Zuoren was formally charged for inciting subversion in connection with the bloody suppression of pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989. But human rights groups say the real reason for the action taken against him were his investigations.
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Congressman: Murtha's intestine
damaged in surgery
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Associated Press, by Kimberly Hefling
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 12:52:41 AM
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Washington - A Pennsylvania congressman and longtime friend of the late Rep. John Murtha says the congressman's large intestine was damaged during gallbladder surgery and the complications led him to be hospitalized. (Snip) Rep. Bob Brady says an infection developed and that Murtha had a fever when he was admitted to the Virginia hospital. Messages left with the Bethesda hospital were not immediately returned.
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Former engineer sentenced
to 15 years for stealing
aerospace secrets for China
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Los Angeles Times, by Patrick J. McDonell
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 12:48:27 AM
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A Chinese-born aerospace engineer who had access to sensitive material while working with a pair of major defense contractors in Southern California was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison for acquiring secret space shuttle information and other documents for China. U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney in Santa Ana imposed a 188-month prison term on Dongfan ''Greg'' Chung, 73, a naturalized U.S. citizen who resides in Orange.
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New federal office would
study global warming
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Washington Times, by Jennifer Haberkorn
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 12:45:49 AM
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Amid the growing fight over the accuracy of climate data, President Obama is seeking to have the federal government put its imprimatur on the science by calling for the creation of a new federal office to study and report on global warming. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Service office would help federal agencies and businesses prepare for and cope with global changes,
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Free trade a priority for
Costa Rica's Chinchilla-Interview
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Reuters, by Leslie Josephs
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Posted By: PageTurner- 2/9/2010 12:36:34 AM
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, - Costa Rican President-elect Laura Chinchilla will put securing free-trade deals with the European Union, China and other Asian nations at the top of her government's agenda, she said on Monday. Chinchilla, the market-friendly protege of Nobel peace laureate President Oscar Arias, won a landslide victory in Sunday's election and will become the first woman to lead the Central American nation when she takes office on May 8.
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Social Security numbers
of nearly 50,000
Californians disclosed
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Los Angeles Times, by Jack Dolan
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 12:36:14 AM
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Sacramento - California health officials have accidentally disclosed the Social Security numbers of nearly 50,000 of the state’s most vulnerable residents. The numbers were printed on the outside of envelopes sent to elderly patients of the Adult Day Health Care program, many of whom are blind or have Alzheimer’s disease or other cognitive disabilities. The Department of Health Care Services sent the envelopes, which contained change-of-benefit notices, Feb. 1.
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Army warned about
jihadist threat in '08
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Washington Times, by Bill Gertz
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Posted By: Photoonist- 2/9/2010 12:33:08 AM
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Almost two years before the deadly Fort Hood shooting by a radicalized Muslim officer, the U.S. Army was explicitly warned that jihadism — Islamic holy war — was a serious problem and threat to personnel in the U.S., according to participants at a major Army-sponsored conference. The annual Army anti-terrorism conference in Florida in February 2008 included presentations on the threat by counterterrorism specialists Patrick Poole, Army Lt. Col. Joseph Myers and Terri Wonder.
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Obama's Unholy Union With Unions
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CNBC, by Dennis Kneale
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Posted By: PageTurner- 2/9/2010 12:26:23 AM
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President Obama is losing friends left and right these days. Moderate Dems to his right are getting queasy over just how liberal and profligate some of his policies turn out to be. Ultra-liberals to his left are miffed he isn't even more liberal. Even Democrats in Congress are backing away from their once-Teflonic leader. Sen. Christopher Dodd just criticized the President publicly for playing politics
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