Current Affairs

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• Abdulmutallab and the dont close Gitmo meme...

  
  At-Largely — Authority: 563
  The issue of closing Gitmo does not apply to the failed bombing attack in Detroit. The guilty go to prison. The innocent go home. How difficult is this to understand? Regardless, how is where... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]
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• Perhaps al Qaeda isnt as competent as weve made them out to be

  
  swimming freestyle — Authority: 441
  It seems fair to say the system failed.  The facts: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was able to board, in Amsterdam, a commercial airliner bound for Detroit carrying explosives and an al Qaeda supplied detonator capable of destroying the plane.  Able to board despite Abdulmutallabs father having warned the U.S. Embassy ...
  4 hours ago

• "Success?"

  
  Where Are My Keys? — Authority: 148
  Only in the minds of the naive : Here, no thanks to the government, the plane was not destroyed, and we wont get to the bottom of the larger conspiracy (enabling the likes of Napolitano to say theres no indication of a larger plot — much less one launched by an international jihadist enterprise) because the guy ...
  5 hours ago

• Magazines: Is This GQ Cover of Rihanna really necessary?

  
  Charcoal Ink - Proud Member of the Mike Mafia — Authority: 120
  I am not sure about what Rihanna is trying to do with her career. I don’t think this is particularly empowering, but that is more because I think female sexuality is stronger when it is coquettish and titilatting. I just find this a bit contrived and a bit too harsh. I don’t know what Rihanna is trying to do. ...
  5 hours ago

• The real missed opportunity in Obama’s first year

  
  Clive Crook's blog — Authority: 536
  Many Americans – conservatives, liberals and centrists – are dismayed by Barack Obama’s first year. Republicans call Mr Obama a tax and spend liberal. Progressives say he surrendered to corporate interests, and his foreign policy is a continuation of George W. Bush by other means. Independents feel let down ...
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• 2010: Will Capitalism be alleged to be a public nuisance, major corporations sued?

  
  Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter — Authority: 445
  Those 12 barking dogs down the street, those coal emissions from TVA facilities, and lead paint in older housing -all of these have been alleged to constitute or contribute to a "public nuisance."  In 2010, with Everyman and Inside the Beltway types rip-roaring mad at Wall Street and business, capitalism may join the ...
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• The California High-Speed Rail Project: Another Socialist State Boondoggle

  
  Body Parts — Authority: 133
  California is doing manly iron pumping on behalf of the state high-speed rail project foolishly approved by voters in 2008 . The state hopes to receive billions of federal dollars for the huge project that would run high-speed trains (150 to 200 mph) from San Diego in the South to Sacramento and San Francisco in ...
  5 hours ago

• Drive-Thru Diet: Meet Christine, Taco Bell’s Jared

  
  The Fitness Center — Authority: 427
  Did you ever think you’d use the words “healthy” and “ Taco Bell ” in the same sentence? Christine, via drivethrudiet.com Eyeing an untapped market, the inexpensive fast-food favorite of slackers everywhere has recruited their version of Subway ’s Jared to promote a new menu called the Drive-Thru ...
  5 hours ago

• Merry - um, what day is it again?

  
  Jim Kenzie's The Driver's Seat — Authority: 118
  For those of you who have been wondering where I have been - and I hope there have been more than just my on-line editor - flat on my back is the basic answer. Seems to be the only way I can keep this GD cough from wracking my chest to pieces. I used to blame my annual Christmas cold on the rigours of teaching - ...
  6 hours ago

• You’re welcome, Connecticut

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 512
  Not content to have pushed for preemptive military action in Iraq , Iran and Syria , now, your “Independent” Senator would like the U.S. to “ act ” in Yemen. “Somebody in our government said to me in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, Iraq was yesterday’s war. Afghanistan is today’s war. If we don’t ...
  6 hours ago

• Live: Kid Sister vs. Moving Units @ The Vanguard

  
  The Scenestar — Authority: 438
  ARTICLE BY JON BUCHANAN DEC. 16 | LOS ANGELES—The gloves came off at The Vanguard, as local disco-punk outfit Moving Units jostled with “Juke Music” queen Kid Sister for decibel superiority as part of The Red Bull Sound Clash series....
  7 hours ago

• Detroit "Crotch" Bomber Needs Balls Toasted With A Bic Lighter

  
  Right Truth — Authority: 554
  It is very interesting reading different comments and articles concerning the Christmas Day terror attempt on  Northwest Flight 253, like:    Clown alert: Janet Napolitano says the “system worked”.   The.  System.  Worked?  What planet is Janet Napolitano living on?  The only thing that worked is the ...
  7 hours ago

• Trouble in Gaza, Iran and elsewhere

  
  Pickled Politics — Authority: 505
  - BBC: Ban Ki-Moon: Gaza reconstruction not being addressed UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said more must be done to repair damage done in the Gaza Strip by Israeli military action one year ago. Mr Ban said Gazans were being denied “basic human rights” and urged Israel to end its “unacceptable and ...
  7 hours ago

• R.I.P. Vic Chesnutt

  
  The Scenestar — Authority: 438
  Sad news over the Christmas break Scenestar readers. Athen, Georgias Vic Chesnutt passed away at age 45 on Friday, December 25th on Christmas afternoon as confirmed by his label Constellation Records. Vic Chesnutt recently played in Los Angeles at the...
  7 hours ago

• Taliban releases video said to be of missing soldier

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 512
  The Taliban releases a video — on Christmas Day, no less — purporting to be Bowe Bergdahl, the young soldier who disappeared June 30th after wandering away from his unit. The young man in the tape is wearing a U.S. Army uniform, his face obscured by a helmet and dark glasses, and he is reading what appears to be a ...
  8 hours ago

• Department of Homeland Security

  
  Howard's Notebook — Authority: 139
    I have never been a fan of the Department of Homeland Security.  We may need such a department but President Bush and his gang used it for political reasons.  It failed many times.  It was used to help the Republicans in Texas.  It has just been a mess.   Just for New Orleans alone it should have been done ...
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• Flight 253 ‘hero’ wants cash for disclosure

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 512
  Welcome to the brave new world of temporary celebrity. From Mediaite : Here is a lesson in how journalism (and really, life) works in 2009: the passenger on Northwest Flight 253 being billed as a hero for helping subdue Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab will tell you his story – but only if you pay him money. But ...
  8 hours ago

• Democrat eyeing Kennedy seat avoids family legacy; remains supportive of DOMA repeal

  
  Steve Rothaus Gay South Florida — Authority: 144
  By STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press BOSTON -- Attorney General Martha Coakley may be the front-runner in the race to fill the late Edward Kennedys U.S. Senate seat, but she is crafting a campaign largely free of the Kennedy mystique. Although she shares Kennedys position on key issues and is appealing to the ...
  9 hours ago

• Now That Is Some Kind Of Generous Gift

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 519
  Just in time for the holidays, Emperor Obama gave a gift the length and breadth of which would warm the cockles of your heart – if you happened to be one of the recipients. Because what he gave is something most people cannot afford in this economy for themselves, but guess what? You were kind enough to do this ...
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• January 1, 2010 - Is "it" over?

  
  Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter — Authority: 445
   They should have flown in the elite FBI from "Criminal Minds" to figure out what the "it" was.  All we experienced and really knew about the "it" was that the force was alien and was changing us.  As the decade of the "it" winds down, all we wonder is if the worst is over.  Spencer Reed and Aaron Hotchner ...
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