Thursday, September 02, 2010
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Study: 1 in 7 home kitchens would flunk inspection
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Associated Press, by MIKE STOBBE
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Posted By: redsox nation- 9/2/2010 1:36:34 PM
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A new study suggests that at least one in seven home kitchens would flunk the kind of health inspection commonly administered to restaurants. The small study done in Los Angeles County found that less than two-thirds of home kitchens would get an A or B if put through the rigors of a restaurant inspection. At least 14 percent would fail.
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House Dems tout August
outreach to their constituents
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Russell Berman
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Posted By: JoniTx- 9/2/2010 1:27:55 PM
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House Democrats are touting their work during the August recess, claiming their members held 1,800 district events to promote their accomplishments and bash Republicans.The frenzied pace is a response to the growing sentiment among the political class that the Democrats’ majority is in danger this November. The party hopes to argue that the doomsday predictions in Washington do not reflect the reality across the country, where they say their candidates are gaining traction.
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For President and Predecessor,
a Chill Returns
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New York Times, by Sheryl Gay Stolberg
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Posted By: Desperata- 9/2/2010 1:26:23 PM
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On his first visit back to the White House after leaving the presidency, George W. Bush sat in the Oval Office with his successor, President Obama, for a briefing on the earthquake in Haiti. It was January 2010 — nearly a year to the day after Mr. Bush left office — and it seemed, at the time, like a door might be opening between the two men. But the door, it seems, has remained closed.
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McConnell says he's locked up
the votes to remain GOP leader
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Michael O'Brien
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Posted By: JoniTx- 9/2/2010 1:03:42 PM
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday he's confident he will remain in that position when new senators head to Washington next year.McConnell, who's served as Senate GOP leader since early 2007, said he's already locked up enough votes to remain in the top position.(Snip) Still, many of the Republican candidates the party needs to win this fall have unseated some incumbent GOP senators in primaries, raising the fear that those new members might be less loyal to party leadership.
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Tax Dollars for Muslims
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Human Events, by Connie Hair
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Posted By: Jake32- 9/2/2010 12:56:28 PM
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The Obama Administration reportedly held a special workshop this week to help leaders of controversial Muslim groups acquire “direct access” to taxpayer funding for their activities. The event’s main organizer, the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO) has long-established ties to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, which fostered many Islamist terror groups. Some of CCMO’s member groups were unindicted co-conspirators in the successfully prosecuted terrorist funding trial against the Holy Land Foundation (HLF). Event organizers said they would dedicate themselves to “cutting through red tape” to provide “direct access” to U.S. taxpayer funding for these terrorist funding-related groups.
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Glenn Beck: Universities
Are “Just As Dangerous With
Indoctrination” As Hezbollah, Hamas
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Mediaite, by Eric Cunningham
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Posted By: JoniTx- 9/2/2010 12:53:42 PM
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Last night, Glenn Beck had a textbook Glenn Beck-style address in which he hyperbolically dug into both progressive universities and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius within the same 30 seconds.Target 1: Universities.There was a time not too long ago in this country that we used to walk through walls of fire to make sure we weren’t funding Hamas or Hezbollah. I have news for you: there are a lot of universities that are just as dangerous with indoctrination of our children as these terror groups are in Iran or North Korea.
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Website is latest
subsidiary of Beck Inc.
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Politico, by Keach Hagey
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Posted By: JoniTx- 9/2/2010 12:48:44 PM
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With stories like The Daily Caller’s JournoList scoops and Big Government’s Shirley Sherrod video, a new generation of conservative news websites have driven traffic this summer, so it didn’t come as a huge surprise that Glenn Beck, fresh from staging a march on Washington, announced he was getting in on the action and launching one of his own. After all, with President Barack Obama’s job approval ratings slipping to the low 40s and Republicans poised to make big gains in November, it’s a good time to be right-leaning on the web.
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Beck, Palin, and 9/11 As
Secular Conservative Holiday
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Slate, by David Weigel
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Posted By: GaGardener- 9/2/2010 12:27:47 PM
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With not a lot of fanfare, Glenn Beck booked Anchorage's Dena'ina for a September 11 event with no announced program. When I first heard about the event, it was from Palin-watching liberals who assumed -- correctly, it turns out -- that the former governor would attend the rally. (Snip) Instead, I think you're going to see a sequel to Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally. Like I noted in my article on that rally, it wasn't overtly political for the same reasons that his paid speeches aren't overtly political.
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GOP Poised To Add 5 To 7
Governorships In Nov.
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Investor's Business Daily, by David Hogberg
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Posted By: slyscribe- 9/2/2010 12:01:18 PM
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Right now Democrats control 26 governorships while Republicans control 24. That is almost certain to flip to the GOP’s advantage after Nov. 2, probably by a wide margin. Assuming that the Republicans are likely to flip a Democrat-held seat in a race where the GOP candidate has led in the last three polls, then they seem poised to move into governor’s mansions in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
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It's NOT the Economy, Stupid: It's the Mess in Washington
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CNBC.com, by Jeff Cox
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Posted By: peedaddy- 9/2/2010 11:55:12 AM
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Despite all the worry about the sluggish US economy, businesses and investors are finding an even bigger reason to be cautious these days: the political mess in Washington. "Businesses—especially smaller businesses, independent businesses—they don't know what their cost structures are going to be because of government-imposed changes," David Kotok, founder of Cumberland Advisors, said on CNBC this week. "Half the US economy's holding back because of this great uncertainty that's coming from Washington."
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Bill Press: On Election Night
Boehner Office Will Be
'Morgue,' Pelosi's A 'Party'
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NewsBusters, by Mark Finkelstein
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/2/2010 11:50:29 AM
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Gallup might be seeing an historic spread in the Republicans' favor, and even Mark Halperin is predicting GOP gains of as many as 60 seats. But amidst all the Dem panic and gnashing of teeth, the Pelosi party can still count on one true believer: Bill Press. Former California Dem chairman Press has predicted that when results come in on Election Night, GOP leader John Boehner's office will be a "morgue," while Pelosi's place while Pelosi's place is "where the party's going to be." Press proferred his hyper-optimistic prediction on this evening's Ed Show, reacting to the report that
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HHS Awards $17 Million for ‘Patient-
Centered Outcomes Research’
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Cybercast News Service, by Susan Jones
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/2/2010 11:39:21 AM
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The stimulus law, signed by President Barack Obama in February 2009, authorized $1.1 billion for research on what medical treatments work best for which people. On Wednesday, the Health and Human Services Department announced that $17 million of that taxpayer money will be used to establish a network of PCOR centers. PCOR stands for “patient-centered outcomes research,” also known as “comparative effectiveness research.” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said patient-centered outcomes research “can improve health outcomes” by developing “evidence-based information” about the effectiveness of different treatments.
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Coast Guard responding to
rig fire Gulf of Mexico;
people reported in water
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Times-Picayune [New Orleans], by Bob Warren
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/2/2010 11:36:25 AM
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The Coast Guard is responding to a report of a rig on fire "and people in the water'' in the Gulf of Mexico south of Vermillion Bay, authorities said. Petty Officer Casey Ranel said the rig is around 80 miles south of Vermillion Bay and that a helicopter earlier today reported that it was in fire "and that there was smoke and there were people in the water.'' Five helicopters, two airplanes and four boats are en route from Coast Guard stations in New Orleans and Houston, Ranel said.
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Inconvenient Truth: Discovery
Gunman 'Awakened' By Gore's Film
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NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/2/2010 11:29:21 AM
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James Lee, the crazed environmentalist that took hostages at Discovery Channel's Maryland headquarters only to be shot and killed by police Wednesday, was "awakened" by Nobel Laureate Al Gore's schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth." As readers are likely aware, armed with several bombs, Lee took three hostages at the Silver Springs facility. When negotiations broke down, police stormed the building killing the gunman (see Eyeblast reports here and here). Before the incident began, Lee posted the following demands at his website savetheplanetprotest.com:
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Sarah Palin Bashes 'Impotent,
Limp, Gutless Reporters' That Use
Anonymous Sources to Attack Her
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NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/2/2010 11:27:29 AM
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Sarah Palin on Wednesday went after impotent, limp, gutless reporters that quote anonymous sources to attack her. Chatting with conservative talk radio host Sean Hannity about a number of subjects, the former Alaska governor was asked how she handles all the negative press she gets. "I hear there's some pretty ugly stuff right now coming out and what we predict, we always see a pattern," Palin said. In her view, much of it now stems from the success of political candidates she's supportng. "I don't read some of it because...impotent, limp and gutless reporters
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Sketchy tax break for
GZ imam 'prayer pad'
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New York Post, by Jennifer Gould Keil
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/2/2010 11:20:00 AM
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The leader of the Ground Zero mosque got hugely valuable tax-exempt status for a Muslim organization he founded after claiming as many as 500 of its members prayed daily in a small, one-bedroom Upper West Side apartment also listed as his wife's residence, The Post has learned. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf sought "church status" -- an official IRS term for a house of worship of any religion -- for the American Sufi Muslim Association, or ASMA, in 1998. The feds granted the request. "Church status" is more than just an exemption --
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Another Obama White
House Lie About Islam
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Canada Free Press, by Warner Todd Huston
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/2/2010 11:14:33 AM
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Remember that iftar dinner the president sponsored? The dinner that got him in trouble because he came out in strong support of the mega-mosque at Ground Zero, support from which he backed away the very next day? Well, it turns out he delivered another blatant lie at that dinner, one that slipped under the radar because his support of the Ground Zero Mosque was so controversial. In his remarks at the iftar observance, Obama claimed that the “first” iftar dinner in the White House was hosted by Thomas Jefferson.
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Obama Can Turn the
Page on His Troubles
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Washington Post Writers Group, by E. J. Dionne
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/2/2010 11:10:52 AM
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WASHINGTON -- By insisting Tuesday evening that "it's time to turn the page," President Obama was talking about more than the Iraq War, and doing much more than reviving one of his most effective slogans from the 2008 campaign. He was also trying to turn the page on a period in which he has found himself on the defensive, his party in a perilous position for November's elections, and his reputation for political mastery in doubt. Obama's Oval Office speech was resolutely nonpolitical in form but profoundly political in its implications.
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Eddie Bernice Johnson:
'I never heard the rules'
on scholarships
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Dallas Morning News, by Todd J. Gillman
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Posted By: SkyTexas- 9/2/2010 11:04:51 AM
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson broke her silence in a scholarship scandal this morning, insisting that she had no idea the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation had rules against awarding college aide to her own relatives. "I never heard the rules even discussed," she told KRLD-AM (1080). "I can't really blame anyone. I could have researched them myself. But the rules just came to me. One sheet came last year, which I didn't read well, which was my mistake. They were really very ambiguous rules."
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Democrats Doomed? Not So Fast
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Creators Syndicate, Inc., by Susan Estrich
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/2/2010 11:04:46 AM
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Gallup is out this week with a new poll showing the generic Republican beating the generic Democrat in House contests by 10 points. The gap, Gallup points out, is the biggest one it has seen in midterm generic polls since it started doing them. It is substantially larger than the gap in 1994, when Republicans took control of the House in the first midterm election of the last Democratic president, Bill Clinton. Does that mean it's time for Republicans to start picking the drapes for their new leadership offices? Should Nancy Pelosi be packing up her gavel? Not so fast.
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America Is Losing the Resource Wars
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RealClearWorld, by Daniel McGroarty
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Posted By: Kevin6497- 9/2/2010 10:59:25 AM
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For the vast majority of us who wouldn't know a line of software code from an Egyptian hieroglyph, we're quite comfortable living lives touched by magic. But our virtual world has real roots in a range of arcane minerals, metals and elements found on the Periodic Chart, and distributed unevenly under the Earth's crust.
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Rachel Maddow: Fox News’ Lt. General
Thomas McInerney Comes Out As A ‘Birther’
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Mediaite, by Colby Hall
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/2/2010 10:54:03 AM
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Last night Rachel Maddow turned her attention to a story that she had previously been “gleefully ignoring.” Terence Lakin is an army doctor who refused to deploy to Afghanistan because, as Maddow reports, he “thinks President Obama “is secretly foreign and therefore secretly not really president.” But the story has earned Maddow’s attention because a retired three- star general retired three-star Air Force general named Lt. General Thomas McInerney has now filed an affidavit in support of Lakin. Oh, and McInerney often appears on Fox News. So there’s that.
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The Bankruptcy of Barack
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Canada free press, by Daniel Greenfield
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Posted By: snowcloud- 9/2/2010 10:46:26 AM
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Obama delivered a speech about a war that he exploited for political advantage during the election, and ignored the rest of the time. A war that he tried to sabotage as a Senator, and neglected once in the White House. Where Bush conducted constant conferences with commanders in the field, Obama has let the clashing egos of former Clinton Administration staffers, and a few imported radicals, determine how the war will be conducted. Of all the charges leveled at Bush over the war, he could never be accused of just not giving a damn. Yet that is exactly the case with Obama. Staff added text
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Tim Cahill lashes out at
Deval Patrick over remarks
on Glenn Beck
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Boston Herald, by Edward Mason
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Posted By: JoniTx- 9/2/2010 10:43:53 AM
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Independent gubernatorial candidate Tim Cahill blasted Gov. Deval Patrick yesterday for appearing to suggest he wished America wasn’t as free so that last week’s Glenn Beck rally at the Lincoln Memorial where Martin Luther King Jr. once spoke would never have happened.“It’s a free country. I wish it weren’t, but . . . it’s a free country,” Patrick said on the “Jim & Margery Show” on WTKK-FM. “You know, you got to, you got to respect that freedom.”The comment had Cahill lashing out at his liberal rival.“It’s pretty unbelievable and typical of the far left,” Cahill told the Herald.
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Former RNC head — now a casino
lobbyist — backs Harry Reid
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Washington Examiner, by Timothy P. Carney
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/2/2010 10:28:33 AM
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Why would the former chairman of the Republican National Committee — he ran the GOP for six years during Reagan’s presidency — endorse Democrat Harry Reid in a dead-heat election? Because that GOP bigwig is from the K Street Wing of the Republican Party. Frank Fahrenkopf is now head of the American Gaming Association, the gambling industry’s lobby. This cycle, like last cycle, Fahrenkopf has funded Reid’s reelection. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports on a recent Fahrenkopf speech:
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Discovery Channel Gunman
James Jay Lee Was No Terrorist
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Fox News, by Dr. Keith Ablow
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 9/2/2010 10:24:25 AM
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In perilous times, it is wise to know the demons we face. Some have claimed that James Lee, the gunman and hostage killed by police yesterday at the Discovery Channel building, was a terrorist. They point to his writings about the need to save the planet from global warming and his rage that the Discovery Channel has been airing what he considered frivolous programming, while multiple species on the planet face extinction and others—like ants and squirrels—suffer needlessly. We would be lucky if the terrorists we really face were as chaotic and easily identifiable as James Lee.
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