Obama dug a deep hole in
Honduras by trying to save a Chavez wannabe
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Janesville Gazette [WI], by Ray Walser
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Posted By: Pageturner- 11/21/2009 1:48:36 AM
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WASHINGTON — EDITOR’S NOTE: The writer is addressing the question, Should the continued presence of a de facto government in Honduras be considered a serious setback for democracy in Latin America? In Honduras, Barack Obama’s foreign policy team finally rediscovered the first law of holes: when you find yourself stuck in one, the first thing to do is stop digging.
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Krauthammer on Landrieu $100 Million
‘Louisiana Purchase’ Buyoff: ‘It's a New
Kind of Business as Usual’
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Newsbusters, by Jeff Poor
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Posted By: Rufus2007- 11/21/2009 1:26:56 AM
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Remember earlier this year when the new era of hope and change was ushered into Washington, D.C. and President Barack Obama made the statement on day one his policies would "represent a clean break from business as usual"? Not so fast says Charles Krauthammer, columnist for The Washington Post and Fox News regular.
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The Evidence of Climate Fraud
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The American thinker, by Marc Sheppard
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Posted By: Another_Fred- 11/21/2009 1:16:28 AM
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A folder containing documents, data and emails purportedly "hacked" from Britain's Climate Research Unit (CRU) may be smoking gun proof of a worldwide conspiracy to exaggerate the existence, causation and threat of global warming. And the list of apparent conspirators includes many of the world's leading climate alarmists -- the very scientists on whose work the entire anthropogenic global warming theory is based.
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No Substitute for Victory
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Wall Street Journal, by William Kristol and Frederick W. Kagan
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/21/2009 1:07:43 AM
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Can the United States win the war in Afghanistan? The antiwar left has long held the war is unwinnable. Now some conservatives are arguing that President Obama's weakness and indecision forecast American failure--and that, if we're going to fail, we should just get out now. We would be the last to defend Obama's indefensible dithering. But the war in Afghanistan remains both winnable and worth winning--even with Obama as president.
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Obamanomics 101
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Weekly Standard, by Fred Barnes
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/21/2009 1:05:25 AM
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Back in February, President Obama met with a group of CEOs in the White House, seeking their support for his economic stimulus package. One of his chief targets was Jim Owens, the head of Caterpillar in Peoria, Illinois. The day after the session in Washington, the president flew to Peoria to speak at the Caterpillar factory and took Owens and newly elected Republican representative Aaron Schock, the youngest member of Congress at 28, with him.
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Eric Holder's Horrible Hearing
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Weekly Standard, by Mary Katharine Ham
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/21/2009 1:04:05 AM
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Geraldine Davie has already seen one 9/11 co-conspirator tried in the United States, and that was enough for her. "I went to the Moussaoui trial every day," says Davie, of the years-long prosecution of the "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. "That was a travesty." Davie, a petite brunette, is quick to proclaim her Italian, New York heritage, but her accent says
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Chavez praises Carlos the Jackal
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Pageturner- 11/21/2009 1:03:12 AM
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Hugo Chavez is defending alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was a "revolutionary fighter" rather than a terrorist. The Venezuelan president praised Carlos — whose real name is Ilich Sanchez Ramirez — during a speech Friday night saying: "I defend him. It doesn't matter to me what they say tomorrow in Europe."
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New Consensus Sees Stimulus
Package as Worthy Step
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New York Times, by Jackie Calmes and Michael Cooper
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/21/2009 1:01:08 AM
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WASHINGTON — Now that unemployment has topped 10 percent, some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their warnings that the $787 billion stimulus package President Obama signed into law last February was way too small. The economy needs a second big infusion, they say. No, some conservative-leaning economists counter, we were right: The package has been wasteful, ineffectual and even harmful
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Six dead after suspected
Colombian rebels burn bus
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Reuters, by Patrick Markey
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Posted By: Pageturner- 11/21/2009 12:59:40 AM
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BOGOTA - Six people, including two children, were killed when suspected Colombian FARC guerrillas stopped and set fire to bus traveling in the south of the country, a local state governor said on Friday. The FARC has been battered by President Alvaro Uribe's U.S.-backed military campaign, but guerrillas are still active in areas where state presence is weak. Rebels often stop and burn buses and trucks as a form of intimidation.
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Health bill opponents
turn up the volume
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Washington Post, by Michael D. Shear and Dan Eggen
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/21/2009 12:55:47 AM
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As a health reform bill endorsed by President Obama marches toward its first Senate floor vote on Saturday, his opponents stepped up efforts to define the legislation as big-government ambition run amok that will interfere with intimate medical decisions and threaten the pocketbooks of average taxpayers. A dozen Republican senators spent Friday in an orchestrated, hours-long session of floor speeches, assailing the health-care bill as a vehicle
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Rebels Say U.S. Spying on
Venezuela from Colombian Base
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Latin American Herald Tribune [Miami FL], by Staff
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Posted By: Pageturner- 11/21/2009 12:53:44 AM
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BOGOTA – The smaller of Colombia’s two main guerrilla groups says the United States is spying on neighboring, leftist-led Venezuela from a Colombian base on the border. U.S. military personnel have established an “underground base” at a Colombian army battalion headquarters in the northeastern province of Arauca, the National Liberation Army, or ELN, said in a statement posted on its Web site.
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Hasan had intensified
contact with cleric
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Washington Post, by Carrie Johnson, Spencer S. Hsu . . .
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/21/2009 12:52:06 AM
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In the months before the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers and other steps that could translate his thoughts into action, according to two sources briefed on a collection of secret e-mails between the two. The e-mails were obtained by an FBI-led task force in San Diego between late last year and June
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Eric Holder's Baffling KSM Decision
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Wall Street Journal, by David Beamer
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/21/2009 12:49:43 AM
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On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee met to question Attorney General Eric Holder about his decision to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in criminal courts rather than military tribunals. As the father of Todd Beamer, who died on United Airlines Flight 93, I was able to attend that hearing. What transpired caused me great concern and shook my confidence in our current administration.
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The Coming Deficit Disaster
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Wall Street Journal, by Douglas Holtz-Eakin
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/21/2009 12:48:23 AM
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President Barack Obama took office promising to lead from the center and solve big problems. He has exerted enormous political energy attempting to reform the nation's health-care system. But the biggest economic problem facing the nation is not health care. It's the deficit. Recently, the White House signaled that it will get serious about reducing the deficit next year—after it locks into place massive new health-care entitlements. This is a recipe for disaster
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Colombia says its military
on 'maximum alert'
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Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By: Pageturner- 11/21/2009 12:39:28 AM
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BOGOTA — Colombia warned its forces were on "maximum alert" and were prepared to defend against any attack, amid rising tensions with neighboring Venezuela. Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva issued the warning after a meeting of the country's national security council in Arauca, a city on the eastern border with Venezuela.
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Americans Are Messaging Each Other 'S.O.S.'
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American Thinker, by Lee Cary
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Posted By: zanutsa- 11/20/2009 11:27:23 PM
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In many and varied ways, Americans are tapping out the international distress signal to each other since Washington, D.C. isn't listening. To all except the most zealous supporters of the Democratic Party, the intentions of the party in power have become clear in less than a year.
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Can a Culture War Manifesto
Reach a New Generation
of Evangelicals and Catholics?
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U.S. News & World Report, by Dan Gilgoff
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Posted By: Engraved-on-His-hands- 11/20/2009 11:26:46 PM
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A who's who of Christian right leaders, including Chuck Colson and Tony Perkins, have partnered with a handful of more moderate religious voices, including National Association of Evangelicals President Leith Anderson and New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, to release a document that reasserts the primacy of three culture war issues for Christians in the public square: abortion, marriage, and religious liberties. A handful of those who signed the document, called ''The Manhattan Declaration: A Call
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Ralph Lawler, Mike Smith
suspended for tonight's Clippers telecast
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Los Angeles Times, by Diane Pucin
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Posted By: ClangClang- 11/20/2009 11:22:08 PM
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Veteran play-by-play man Ralph Lawler and analyst Mike Smith (above, left and right) were suspended for tonight's Clippers telecast on Fox Sports Prime Ticket for comments made during Wednesday's telecast, according to sources with knowledge of the decision but not authorized to speak publicly. Fox issued this statement at 5:03 p.m. today: "We regret the remarks made by Clippers announcers Michael Smith and Ralph Lawler during Wednesday's telecast.
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In a Global Climate Crisis
Are Holiday Lights Irresponsible?
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Minneapolis Star Tribune, by Kim Carlson
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 11/20/2009 11:11:58 PM
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Before you string your holiday lights this weekend - read on. In the mid 1970’s during the energy crisis, many families and communities decided to give up lighting their homes and trees for the holidays. Homes in my neighborhood didn’t turn on their outdoor holiday lights again for many years, even after the crisis had passed. Well, here we go again.
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Army Allowing Media to Cover
Palin Event at Fort Bragg
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/20/2009 11:06:02 PM
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Raleigh, N.C. -- The U.S. Army has reversed its position and now says it will open Sarah Palin's appearance on Fort Bragg to media despite fears the event will turn into political grandstanding against President Barack Obama. Fort Bragg officials in a news advisory said Friday evening that any interested media will be able to attend. A day earlier, a spokesman said media would be prevented from attending so the Palin book signing would not
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Student expelled for having unloaded shotguns in truck
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Chico Enterprise Record, by RYAN OLSON
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Posted By: ruby2ssday- 11/20/2009 11:02:04 PM
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The Willows Unified School District board of trustees has expelled a 16-year-old for having unloaded shotguns in his pickup parked just off the Willows High School campus. [snip] after the weapons were discovered via scent-sniffing dogs on Oct. 26.
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