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• Yon handcuffed at border for not stating his income

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  Michael Yon didn’t want to tell custom agents how much he made. Handcuffing someone doesn’t mean you have arrested them. From Michael Yon’s Facebook posts: Got arrested at the Seattle airport for refusing to say how much money I make. (The uniformed ones say I was not "arrested", but they definitely ...
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• Global Warming News: Ted Kennedy can’t stop Cape Wind Now

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  Kennedy was blocking wind farm in his neighborhood because of the noise, birds and it would be ugly. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today issued the following statement in response to the determination by the National Park Service’s Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places that Nantucket Sound is ...
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• Recovery: Affirming yourself

  
  BIKE WITH JACKIE — Authority: 116
  Yesterday, we discussed coping skills . One I left out on purpose, because it deserves its own page, is the act of affirming yourself. Repeating affirmations to yourself can be a positive aspect of living a life in Recovery. You use them to remind yourself that youre just like Al Frankens "Saturday Night Live" ...
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• Last week 6 Gitmo thugs sent to Yemen

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  Same time Obama said Yemen training ground for AQAP terrorists. Dan Pfeiffer, White House communications director, took to the official White House blog last Wednesday to post a response to critics of President Obama and his handling of counterterrorism. ... Pfeiffer mentions Yemen twice. Thats not a surprise ...
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• 90 more Gitmo terrorists to be sent to Yemen

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  Which of the 90 will plan the next terrorist attack in the US? The US administration is coming under pressure from legislators to reconsider the repatriation of Yemenis held at Guantanamo Bay, amid an increasing focus on al-Qaeda-linked activity in their home country. The White House, though, has signaled it ...
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• How about we do a little Shock and Awe on Wall Street?

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 618
  I’m back to Bloomberg again and I’m more and more of the opinion that what we need is a shock and awe policy to deal with Wall Street. Perhaps a little windfall bonus tax is in order?  The title is meek compared to the contents of the piece.  It’s called “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished as Banks Seek ...
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• Klobuchar, Oberstar, Walz receive top marks from environmental group

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 643
  Source: Wikipedia Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and Reps. Tim Walz and Jim Oberstar each earned a 100-percent rating from Environment Minnesota in a year-end congressional scorecard published last week . Rep. Erik Paulsen scored the lowest among Minnesota’s member of Congress with a rating of 17 percent. “We applaud ...
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• Jaccuse

  
  Corrente — Authority: 639
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• What did WH know before Undies Bomber attack?

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  To Dems: Failed bomb = no terrorist attack Obama received a high-level briefing only three days before Christmas about possible holiday-period terrorist threats against the U.S., NEWSWEEK has learned. The briefing was centered on a written report, produced by U.S. intelligence agencies, titled "Key Homeland ...
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• Election 2010: The Minnesota View

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  We’re now officially in an election year here in Minnesota, which means that it’s a terrible time to deal with a budget deficit if you have the letters D-F-L behind your name. One of the things I’ll specifically be paying attention to is how much the health care debate negatively affects DFL candidates and ...
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• That fucking slimeball….

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 439
  From Wonkette’s Top 100 Things of this Rotten Decade : #88: Wacky comedy hip-hop rape-jokester youngster Al Franken not only beat that fucking slimeball Norm Coleman, but finally compensated America for that long dull Lizard-People recount by making Joe Lieberman cry in the Senate. Juan Cole has a different ...
  3 days ago

• My 2009 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 2]

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 431
  Welcome back to my annual outright theft of The McLaughlin Group s awards categories for the past year in politics. Whats that? Were sorry, but out lawyers insist we instead use the phrase "my annual legally-allowable constitutionally-protected parody" instead. So sorry. For those of you who missed it, Part 1 ...
  4 days ago

• News Shots for December

  
  Johnny No One: I Hope You're Happy — Authority: 106
  Doing a little article housecleaning here, and the holidays are keeping me very busy.  Whatever your holidays, have a celebration this year, and let’s make this thing better next year, OK? Oh, and can we vote out Lieberman now instead of 2012? That’s my Christmas wish. Speaking of which, here he is confused as ...
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• Did U hear about rocket launcher and Jihadist Writings found in Houston?

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  Story is only being carried by local media. A woman called police on Monday and said a man was forcing his way into her apartment in the 5300 block of Elm Street. When officers went inside, they found something that made them concerned enough to call the bomb squad. They found an AT-4 shoulder-mounted rocket ...
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• Limbaugh is dead

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  Not yet. So what if he was. Conservatives would continue to fight Obama, the Socialist Congress of America and their socialist agenda. And unlike many liberals, most of Rush’s listeners think for themselves. Callers would start their calls with “Megadittos” because they were pleased that they found somebody on ...
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• Obama’s Veto saves ACORN funding

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  Veto allows funds to transfer Gitmo guests to the US. The enactment of H.R. 3326 (Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010, Public Law 111-118), which was signed into law on December 19, 2009, has rendered the enactment of H.J.Res. 64 (Continuing Appropriations, FY 2010) unnecessary. Accordingly, I am ...
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• Whiners like “The Ed Show” downgrade the Undies Bomber

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  The bomber was in the hospital because he exploded his bomb. A group calling itself Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has said it was behind the failed attempt by a Nigerian man to bomb a US aircraft on Christmas day. The group said in statements posted on the internet on Monday that the attempt had been carried ...
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• Reading the Tea Party Leaves

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Will we see a repeat of 1994—or 1964? My apologies to Buffalo Springfield. But what’s happening with the Tea Party movement, and where it’s going, ain’t exactly clear.  All we know at this point is that the villagers have pitchforks and torches, and are marching up the hill. But will they burn the castle of the ...
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• Robert Peter John Day: The Punk Bitch Chronicles, vol 4

  
  The Nexus of Assholery — Authority: 133
  All good things, as they say, must come to an end. As such, it seems that the Punk Bitch Chronicles must now come to a merciful end. It seems, after all, that Robert Peter John Day didnt want to fight -- or at least he didnt want to fight anyone who might be willing to give him the time of day. As a result, this ...
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• Dave Barry’s Review of the Year 2009

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 603
  Syndicated columnist and bestselling author Dave Barry’s provides an incisive and hilarious, month-by-month review of the year 2009, “Dave Barry’s year in review: 2009.” As he begins: It was a year of Hope—at first in the sense of “I feel hopeful!” and later in the sense of “I hope this year ends ...
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