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• Obama’s Justice Dept attempts to destroy privacy on Internet

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 129
  Even the loony left should object. In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day. The grand jury subpoena also required the ...
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• Obama: most gifted orator or greatest teleprompter reader

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 129
  Is Obama a worst speech maker than Bush? As the most gifted orator of his generation, President Obama finds speechmaking perhaps his most potent political tool. It propelled him to national prominence in 2004 and to the White House in 2008. And whenever he needs to calm economic fears or revive stalled health care ...
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• Obamacare rationing is already here

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 129
  H1N1 is NOT a crisis except in the socialist minds. From a letter to the editor: The new era of government control over our lives and freedoms has begun. This week, it got personal, and I felt helpless. The doctor overseeing my health care advised me to get an H1N1 flu shot. Ive been under a six-year treatment ...
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• Franken and Coleman hawk ‘Democra-cialis’ in MAD ad

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 683
  While Minnesota’s drawn-out 2008 Senate election didn’t top MAD Magazine ’s upcoming “MAD 20″ list of the “dumbest people, events and things” of 2009 , the issue does promise a cure for “electile dysfunction” — in the form of a fake ad for “Democra-cialis,” showing Al Franken and Norm Coleman ...
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• Honoring Veterans Day 2009: U.S. Veterans team up with Puppies Behind Bars

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 573
  Honoring Veterans Day 2009: U.S. Veterans team up with "Puppies Behind Bars". Under the Service Dogs for Veterans Act, Veterans Affairs will provide about 200 service dogs to former service members. Half would go to people with mental disabilities and half to those dealing with physical [...]
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• Obama exceeds Bush on Afghanistan

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 129
  Kudos Mr. President for sending more troops unless you change your mind. Tonight, after months of conferences with top advisors, President Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more troops and plans to keep a large force ...
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• White House Visitor Records: Transparency like you’ve never seen before

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 129
  Except for William Ayers (so far) As part of President Obamas commitment to government transparency, we are providing records of White House visitors on an ongoing basis online. In December 2009, we will begin posting all White House visitor records for the period from September 15th onwards under the terms of our ...
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• Global Warming News: 3rd coolest October

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 129
  It’s not GW but now climate change. The average October temperature of 50.8°F was 4.0°F below the 20th Century average and ranked as the 3rd coolest based on preliminary data. For the nation as a whole, it was the third coolest October on record. The month was marked by an active weather pattern that ...
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• Tagged and in the bag

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 565
  The new header’s actually scarier when you can read the tags. Not sure everyone realized it, but the tags do denote what passes for thoughts in my innermost cranial thinkspots. Word cancers would be another way of putting it. Lots of word cancers. This iteration of Norwegianity isn’t even a year old but I’ve ...
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• In almost 30 states, you can be fired for being gay

  
  MNpublius.com — Authority: 537
  Not only that, there are still apparently people out there who think this should be allowed to continue. We don’t allow employment discrimination on any other basis, such as race or gender, but there are lawmakers who are actively working to keep it legal to fire someone because of their sexual orientation. I find ...
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• World leaders in Berlin to mark fall of Wall

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 129
  Obama too busy making us the Socialist States of America to attend the 20th anniversary of the Berlin wall. World leaders past and present gathered in the German capital on Monday to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Walls fall, which led to German reunification and hastened the demise of the Soviet ...
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• H1N1 vaccine: One big confusing mess

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 129
  But Obamacare will be efficient and cost effective. There are plenty of reasons to get upset about the H1N1 influenza situation. Over-optimistic projections of vaccine supply have given way to acknowledgements that by the time the vaccine is widely available, this wave of H1N1 infection may well be over. There have ...
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• Ft. Hood shooter was part of Obama’s Homeland Security transition team

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 129
  Or maybe he wasn’t. The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI), an entity that "creates innovative strategies and solutions to current and future threats to the nation," published a report entitled "Thinking Anew - Security Priorities for the Next Administration - Proceedings ...
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• Ft. Hood shooting proves we need more gun control laws

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 129
  What an asinine idea! This past week, we were sadly reminded that guns in the hands of the aggrieved or the disturbed can produce horrific consequences. Just as the nation dealt with the shock of an Army psychiatrist killing 13 and causing injury to another 38 on Thursday at Fort Hood in Texas, a disgruntled ...
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• Franken speaks out on employment discrimination

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 683
  Sen. Al Franken spoke at a Senate hearing on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) on Thursday. ENDA, which is vociferously opposed by the religious right, would make it illegal to fire somebody because of their sexual orientation. Franken sits on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee which held ...
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• What they’re saying about T-Paw’s red-hot, smokin’ Iowa speech

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 683
  Tim Pawlenty didn’t bring it. Or he did, depending on who you ask. Here’s a roundup of reaction to the Minnesota governor’s speech to Republican activists in Iowa over the weekend. But first things first. Below is the clip from the 2006 movie “Talledega Nights” that provided Pawlenty with one of his most ...
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• Senator Al Franken meets a service dog

  
  Retrieverman's Weblog — Authority: 141
  Source. Senator Franken recently added this legislation to the Defense Authorization bill , which passed at the end of last month. It would provide a service dog  to around 200 veterans. That service dog appears to be a Democrat (Democratic-Farmer-Labor in Minnesota). Or Franken just ate something very tasty and ...
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• Cheesehead hat is bigger news than Obama’s speech

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 129
  Why did Obama escape the oval office to go to Madison? Liberian immigrant Mansfield Neblett just wanted to wear his cheesehead hat to President Barack Obamas speech at a Wisconsin middle school. The first roadblock were U.S. Secret Service agents. They initially told him the bright yellow hat in the shape of a ...
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• Global Warming News: Dog owners killing the planet

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 129
  And it is not a PETA study that says pets have bigger carbon footprint than SUV. In "Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Living," authors Robert and Brenda Vale argue that resources required to feed a dog -- including the amount of land needed to feed the animals that go into its food -- give it ...
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• Al Franken: S.2736 – Justice for Survivors of Sexual Assault Act of 2009

  
  Political Cartel — Authority: 129
  Al Franken continues his crusade for women by introducing new legislation to remove an institutional bias against women. For context, review his “Anti-Rape” Amendment- H.R. 3326 discussing how ADR disenfranchises employee’s whom are subjected to outrageous contract stipulations. The legislation will work ...
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