Dec 31, 2009 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: President Obama is set to receive a preliminary report Thursday detailing what warning signs were missed before a 23-year-old Nigerian who was already on a terror watch list boarded a plane to Detroit armed with explosives. The president declared Tuesday that a "systemic failure" on multiple levels allowed the suspect to board and said ...
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HONOLULU (AP) — Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh was taken to a hospital after suffering chest pains and was resting comfortably Wednesday, his radio program said in a statement. "Rush was admitted to and is resting comfortably in a Honolulu hospital today after suffering chest pains," the statement said. "Rush appreciates your prayers and ...
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska's political deal from the federal health care reform bill or face legal action, according to a letter provided to The Associated Press Wednesday. "We believe this provision is constitutionally flawed," South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and the 12 other ...
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Fox News: CIA's Africa division had prepared a report on a young Nigerian man well before he allegedly attempted to blow up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day, but the report wasn't distributed because the analyst in charge was waiting for pictures of the man, Fox News has learned. Sources cite this as a main reason ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A congressional official says CIA employees are believed to be among the dead in Wednesday's suicide bombing inside a base in eastern Afghanistan. A former senior CIA officer who was stationed at the base said a combination of agency officers and contractors operated out of the remote outpost with the military and other ...
Continue ReadingDec 30, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The American Spectator: Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, had an article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal drawing attention to the rise of "online hostility" and the "degeneration of online civility." He (and coauthor Andrea Weckerle) suggested ways in which we can "prevent the worst among us from silencing the best among us." I agree with just ...
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Watts Up With That: his new French carbon tax was scheduled to go into law on Jan1, 2010. The tax was steep: 17 euros per ton of carbon dioxide (USD $24.40). In a stunning move, and surely a blow to warmists everywhere, the tax has been found unconstitutional and thrown out. Originally found here (Google ...
Continue ReadingDec 30, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
News Busters: MSNBC, "the place for politics" strikes again, this time with character assassination in the name of same-sex marriage. On the Dec. 29 broadcast of "The Rachel Maddow Show," Maddow took aim at former Bush administration Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, now a Fox News contributor. She noted his prior opposition to same-sex marriage, which ...
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SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) - A man savagely killed a dog, ran naked through a tennis club and poured hot coffee on his head before he was finally arrested early Wednesday, Orange County sheriff's deputies said. Bayron Reyes Lopez, 26, of San Clemente, was hospitalized after being captured at the tennis club where he worked as ...
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DENVER (AP) - Actor Charlie Sheen and his wife Brooke want to reconcile, their lawyers said Wednesday, even though she told police he put a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her less than a week ago. "They're very much in love. They want to try to work it out and want to have ...
Continue ReadingDec 30, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
Sphere: No one was killed in the Christmas Day terrorist attack aboard Delta/Northwest Flight 253. But that doesn't mean the al-Qaida operation failed. On the contrary, 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab beat a multibillion-dollar security system. He successfully brought explosives aboard a passenger jet bound for the United States. He even got himself a seat strategically located ...
Continue ReadingDec 30, 2009 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
A state Rep is of course, not as impacting as a national Congressmen, but it showcases a rising trend in the Democratic Party. A trend that I genuinely hope continues. Denver Post: State Rep. Kathleen Curry has changed her voter registration from Democrat to unaffiliated, a move that will require the Gunnison lawmaker to relinquish her positions ...
Continue ReadingDec 30, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: CONCORD, N.H. — A New Hampshire woman diagnosed with a rare gastrointestinal anthrax case may have swallowed spores propelled into the air by vigorous drumming, a state health expert said. Officials haven't confirmed how the woman contracted the disease but are focusing on a drum circle gathering she attended Dec. 4 at the United ...
Continue ReadingDec 30, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
We shouldn't have to frisk ten old ladies just to say that that guy looks suspicious. If he get's pissed off just say... "Sorry." And if he's still mad after that... Well hey, you're the one who wore the tubran to the airport, asshole. Get a John Deere cap for travel days. - Ron White The ...
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BAGHDAD — Staggered explosions Wednesday killed 23 people — 13 of them policemen — and wounded an Iraqi provincial governor, officials said, in the worst violence in months to hit the western province that was formerly Al Qaeda's top stronghold in Iraq. Also in Iraq, a British hostage held for over two years by militants ...
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