Affairs

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• Theres No Place Like Home -- in Tennessee

  
  Right Truth — Authority: 568
  According to a new, large and lengthy study, States in the United States of America were ranked according to how happy their residents are.  Two of the top five, Florida and Tennessee, have no State income tax, which makes us in Tennessee pretty happy.  All but one in the top 10 are either Southern or warm states ...
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• BREAKING NEWS – Ben Nelson CAVES

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 533
  Senator Ben Nelson has now agreed to vote for cloture on the Health Care Bill: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has released a health overhaul compromise that has won the support of the lone Democratic holdout. The compromise puts new limits on insurance company profits and apparently resolve a standoff over ...
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• Copenhagen FAIL

  
  QandO — Authority: 139
  A lthough the professional “spinners” are at work trying to shape what happened – or more precisely, didn’t happen – in Copenhagen as a success, I think the chief negotiator for the 130 countries that comprise the G77 characterized it best (and brutally honestly): Lumumba Di-Aping, chief negotiator for ...
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• Will Cantwell-McCain Reinstate Glass-Steagall?

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 533
  Might we turn the clock back in an attempt to make our way forward? How so? Pressure is certainly building in America to curtail, if not derail, the excessive risks embedded in our largest banks. How may these risks be unwound? Reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial and investment banking ...
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• Army Specialist Wins Grand Prize for Feline Love Letter

  
  PurinaCare Pet Insurance Blog — Authority: 124
  Cant resist sharing this heartwarming story about a soldier and his two cats. I found it on the St. Louis website under news, which is fitting because the soldier won a contest sponsored by Purinas Tidy Cats® Campaign to End Cattiness, and Purina® pet food, as you know, is headquartered in St. Louis . The scoop ...
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• ‘I’m gay,’ reveals Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas

  
  Steve Rothaus Gay South Florida — Authority: 146
  By MATT WITHERS, Wales Online "Im a rugby player first and foremost. I just happen to be gay. Its irrelevant" Rugby star Gareth Thomas today said he hoped he could make a difference to others struggling with their sexuality after disclosing he is gay. The former Wales international full-back said he ...
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• Simple Answers to Simple Questions (Bernacke Edition)

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 618
  By Dave Anderson: Matt Yglesias is being obtuse as he feigns confusion as to why Senate Republicans are voting against Bernacke despite Bernackes promise to tie the anchor of 10% unemployment around the Democrats necks for the next five years.  it’s somewhat baffling to me that six Republicans on the Senate ...
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• Waiving the condition of mandatory uniform for College students

  
  Chowrangi — Authority: 125
  Sindh Minister for Education Pir Mazharul Haq headed the meeting of steering committee in his...
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• Hold On Oklahoma Abortion Law Remains In Place

  
  Riehl World View — Authority: 728
  Via the OK News . This seems to be a list of the laws implications for data collection . Here is the complaint keeping the law from going into effect. I cant find anything suggesting why the data should be collected. I do believe it is demographic in nature and not by name. But this is the first Ive heard of this ...
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• Commonwealth Wrestling Championship kick-starts in Jalandhar

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Jalandhar, Dec 19 (ANI): The three-day Commonwealth Wrestling Championship tournament began in Jalandhar on Friday (December 18). The championship is being organised by the Wrestling Federation of India and Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in a joint venture.The tournament will be held during December ...
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• The Encounter (a play in four acts)

  
  Cop Car's Beat — Authority: 111
  Yesterday, a kitty that has been "hanging around" our house for a few months now, got up its courage and appeared at our back door, meowing.   During the bitterly cold weather that we had for a few days, I placed a ceramic dish for cat food under our back porch. I didnt want this kitty, or the black kitty that ...
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• Travel websites as France suffers winter delays

  
  This French Life — Authority: 128
  PLUNGING temperatures and freezing weather conditions are having a terrible impact on peoples travel plans to France. The Channel Tunnel is facing problems after a number of Eurostar trains broke down, ferries have also been delayed and a number of airlines have cancelled flights. Fortunately by Monday and Tuesday ...
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• Paramedic Gets £200,000 Compensation after Fall Causes Injury

  
  The Market Outfit — Authority: 130
  Community paramedic Michael Kirkham has received £200,000 in compensation from West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (WMAS) after a fall during work caused him permanent disability, thereby forcing him to quit his job. The accident occurred in March 2003 when Kirkham, employed with Staffordshire Ambulance ...
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• Why did Nike not fire Tiger woods ?

  
  Trakin' the india business buzz — Authority: 544
  After so much has been said and done about Tiger Woods everywhere print, online, and television – No golf tournament could have kept Tiger Woods trending on twitter for so long the way this controversy did. So I finally decide to jump the bandwagon and write something about him, though it’s too late but ...
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• India in no hurry to hang Kasab: Tharoor

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Saturday rejected a suggestion about hanging Ajmal Amir Kasab, the sole surviving Mumbai terror accused in Indian custody, saying there was no hurry to do so and that India will follow the “democratic judicial process” in the case.“We ...
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• Original visa papers of Headley found (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Chicago/New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) The government Saturday said the Indian consulate general in Chicago had located the original visa application form of David Coleman Headley, the Pakistani-origin terror suspect in US custody, and that his activities in India were being investigated.“Yes, they have been found. It’s ...
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• Hundreds Fall Ill in Ireland After Having Swine Flu Jab

  
  A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS — Authority: 152
  Swine flu vaccine has caused adverse reactions in 619 people to date, varying from seizures and anaphylactic shock to fainting and vomiting. Two more people have died from the flu but the number of people falling ill with the virus has halved in the past week. More than 400,000 vaccinations against swine flu have been ...
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• Final Copenhagen Text Includes Global Transaction Tax

  
  A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS — Authority: 152
  The final Copenhagen draft agreement which was hammered out in the early hours of Friday morning includes provisions for a global tax on financial transactions that will be paid directly to the World Bank, as President Obama prepares to bypass Congress by approving a massive transfer of wealth from America into ...
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• ClimateGate Expanding, Including Russian Data and Another Research Center

  
  A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS — Authority: 152
  Well now some Russian climate officials have come forward stating that the data they handed over to the Hadley Centre in England has been cherry-picked, leaving out as much as 40% of the cooler temperature readings and choosing the hottest readings to make it appear things were warmer than they actually are ...
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• Avatar (might be spoiler inside)

  
  World Affairs Board — Authority: 155
  This is the most visually stunning movie up until now. James Cameron definitely knows how to make a movie. It is long (almost 3 hours). That can be good and bad. Did I mention it is the most visually stunning movie yet? Now to my rant... I hate god-damn hippies. I like nature as much as the next guy, but I aint ...
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