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Obsidian Wings: This Constitution Kills Fascists
by Eric Martin
Johann Hari has a fascinating piece in The Independentthat recounts his interviews with several British nationals that have made the journey from active participantsin jihadi/terrorist causes and back. Hari's quest to find out how an...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 3:01pm -08:00T (1671 words)
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The Purple Center: Chuck Schumer in 2001: Try al Qaeda bigs at military tribunals, not "Federal court...in Lower Manhattan"
Most Americans think that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his fellow 9/11 terrorists should be tried before the Military Commissions created by Congress for that very purpose. Like me, they can't understand why President Obama and Attorney General Holder have ...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 4:21pm -08:00T (362 words)
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Media Matters: Fox News' year in apologies: fake videos, false info, cutting and pasting from GOP
On November 19, co-host Jane Skinner apologized for Happening Now "mistakenly" airing a fake video of Sarah Palin's book tour "crowds." This was not the first time Fox News has apologized for airing fake videos and false information.Fox News' year in ...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 3:00pm -08:00T (992 words)
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PrairiePundit: Hasan email--'I can't wait to join you in afterlife'
ABC News:United States Army Major Nidal Hasan told a radical cleric considered by authorities to be an al-Qaeda recruiter, "I can't wait to join you" in the afterlife, according to an American official with top secret access to 18 e-mails exchanged betwee...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 5:33pm -08:00T (210 words)
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Crooks and Liars: How Many Troops Available for Afghanistan?
Spencer Ackerman has done a yeoman's job digging into the details as to whether the 40-44,000 troop estimate by Gen. McChrystal is even realistic to consider, when one counts the number of troops still in Iraq and Gen. Odierno's glacially slow deploym...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 2:15pm -08:00T (739 words)
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Mainstream Populist Democrats: Senator Webb Introduces the Clean Energy Act of 2009
“The Clean Energy Act of 2009” introduced by Senator Jim Webb D-VA appropriates $20 billion over the next 10 to 20 years to fund a series of loan guarantees; nuclear education and workforce training assistance; research into nuclear reactor lifetime-...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 5:36pm -08:00T (496 words)
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Crooks and Liars: Congressional Democrats Call For Investigation Into Drug Price Increases
Congressional Democrats are calling for two inquiries after the New York Times reported earlier this week that drug companies were jacking up their prices, negating savings they promised for healthcare reform:
Responding to news reports of unusually hi...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 3:30pm -08:00T (216 words)
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Balloon Juice: Thursday Night Pet Adoption Open Thread
The story: Here are a few pics of my cat, Chompers. My partner and I adopted her a little over a year ago from Pets in Need, a small rescue group in eastern Massachusetts. She was 5 months old when we got her; she’s now a year and a half. My par...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 4:15pm -08:00T (247 words)
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Michaelann Land: I have great daughters and a great granddaughter!
My daughter Jess just updated her blog and I'm going to take this opportunity, before turning to more serious things, to remark that both of my daughters and my granddaughter have blogs. Jessie's blog came about after she discovered a trove of old w...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 3:06pm -08:00T (255 words)
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David Limbaugh: New Column: Sally Quinn on Sarah Palin -- Versus Reality
It seems the mainstream media's favorite pastime is to ridicule Sarah Palin. Of all the screeds I've read, I don't think any are snarkier than The Washington Post's Sally Quinn's "On Faith" blog post "Sarah Palin's 'rogue' Christianity."
Do we need furt...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 4:15pm -08:00T (805 words)
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Media Matters: Quick Fact: Beck falsely claims that under the Senate health care bill, "You don't get a single benefit until 2014"
During his November 19 Fox News program, Glenn Beck falsely claimed that under the Senate health care bill, "All of the benefits of this bill don't kick in until when? You don't get a single benefit until 2014." He later added: "[G]uess what, you're not g...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 6:45pm -08:00T (545 words)
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Crooks and Liars: GOP Filibuster Fails Badly, but Jeff Sessions & George Bush May Get Last Laugh
On Tuesday, Senate Democrats beat back Jeff Sessions’ filibuster of Obama’s first judicial nominee – Judge David Hamilton – by a reassuring margin of 70-29. Sessions lost ten of his fellow Republicans, including conservatives like Hatch, Cornyn, a...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 4:45pm -08:00T (360 words)
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Keep Tony Blair For PM: Here SHE is! The New EU President
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20th November, 2009
MEET THE NEW EU PRESIDENT
De-facto "President" Angela Merkel has secured the position she aspired to, without even standi...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 8:02pm -08:00T (736 words)
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2 Political Junkies: A Follow Up On The God-Crazie
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyYou can find the transcript here.Here's how things began:MADDOW: “Let his days be few; and let another take his office,” “Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow....
Dateline: 2009-11-19 8:00pm -08:00T (291 words)
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The Astute Blogger: THE CHICAGO MACHINE GETS ITS VOTES THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY: IT BUYS THEM ... ER, UM... THAT IS WHEN THEY'RE NOT STEALING THEM!
BUYING: ABC:ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports:What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?Here’s a case study.On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recov...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 5:30pm -08:00T (609 words)
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