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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Grainy cell phone images are often used against cops accused of using excessive violence. Now, officers are being armed with their own cameras. The so-called head cameras are the latest technology to come from TASER International, Inc., makers of the stun guns popular with law enforcement. "It's like the helmet cam you've ...
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Stuff. And then all kinds of f-in'really bad stuff about Leftists.
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Witness Says Sharp-Dressed Man Aided Terror Suspectby burghnews
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Showing sensitivity to the people who want you dead is a good way to help them succeed. IBD Editorials: Homeland Security: Al-Qaida's botched Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Flight 253 raises a series of concerns about U.S. vulnerability. Chief among them: a Homeland Security chief in denial that we are at war. The nearly 300 trans-Atlantic passengers targeted ...
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News Busters: "The government is increasingly monitoring Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites for tax delinquents, copyright infringers and political protesters." So ominously began an editorial in Sunday's New York Times. Those with accounts at such websites should pay attention, for according to the Times, and other sources, Big Brother is watching you: The Wall Street Journal reported ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The aftermath of the Christmas attack on a Detroit-bound airliner was a major topic for discussion on MSNBC Monday. But its executives did not want to talk about why the network gave the story so little attention as it was breaking. CNN devoted virtually all of its prime-time to the story Friday ...
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CBS: President Obama has left a golf course abruptly while vacationing in Hawaii on Monday for a "personal matter," and an ambulance was seen speeding to the first family's compound. CBS 2 has learned that the incident does not involve any member of the first family, and that a young family friend traveling with them has suffered ...
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The Wall Street Journal: In 2008 and 2009, Washington strove to save the economy. In 2010, Americans will get a clearer picture of how Washington has changed the economy. Only as the recession recedes will it become fully evident how permanently the state's role has expanded and whether, as a consequence, a new, hybrid strain of American ...
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Telegraph: In the darkest moments, each of their notes has been a source of comfort and hope, and they continue to be so in my current situation," wrote Polanski in a letter released online. The 76-year-old Oscar winner made his first public statement since his arrest in September in a letter to the French philospher Bernard-Henri Levy, ...
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I wanted to bang my head into the nearest hard, preferably flat surface upon reading this. I will not be held liable if you wind up with head trauma for having less self control than I do. Contact Music: American singer TORI AMOS has vowed to run for office if former U.S. Vice President candidate SARAH ...
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CBS: A passenger who flew into LaGuardia Airport on Sunday night was questioned by FBI agents after allegedly boarding the flight with an explosive device in his possession, CBS 2 has learned. Officials confirmed Monday that a crew member on board Piedmont Airlines flight 4126, originating from Baltimore Washington International Airport, was cleaning the plane after ...
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CAIRO (AP) — Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on Monday claimed responsibility for the attack on a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day, saying it was retaliation for a U.S. operation against the group in Yemen. Federal authorities met Monday to reassess the U.S. system of terror watchlists to determine how ...
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FOX News: Congressional Democrats could soon have a retirement problem on their hands -- several representatives in vulnerable districts are stepping down ahead of an election year in which the party's incumbents are already threatened by discontent over the economy. In the course of less than a week this month, three Democratic representatives announced their resignations: ...
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Percy Sutton American Thinker: Legendary lawyer and politician Percy Sutton has died at the age of 89, and the major media are omitting mention of one of his most notable acts. The former Borough President of Manhattan, Sutton had a long and distinguished career as a lawyer (he was Malcolm X's attorney) and media mogul, who purchased ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite the ease with which an alleged terrorist boarded a Detroit-bound flight with explosives, the Obama administration says the incident shows the U.S. aviation security system worked yet has ordered investigations into how travelers are placed on watch lists and explosives are detected on passengers. "The investigation will look backwards and figure out ...
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Related: ABC News: Flight 253 Terrorist Trained In Yemen WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says there is no indication that the man who attempted to destroy an airliner in Detroit on Christmas Day is part of a larger terrorist plot. Napolitano refused to say whether Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has a connection to al-Qaida, citing the ...
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h/t @tahDeetz The Sun: COPS fear that 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb Western airliners. The fanatics, in five groups, are now training at secret terror camps in Yemen. It was there London-educated Umar Abdulmutallab, 23, prepared for his Christmas Day bid to blow up a US jet. The British extremists in Yemen are in their early 20s and ...
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