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• 1 December 09 (pm)

  
  blueollie — Authority: 138
  Afghanistan President Obama announces that while 30,000 more troops will be going to Afghanistan, there will be a time limit; July 2011 is the target date for starting to withdraw. Here are some key excerpts. I’ll post the video when it comes available . This is just a cruddy situation. I’d love to bring ...
  3 hours ago

• Some Good News! Even Today.

  
  OB Rag Blog — Authority: 135
  It’s a very confusing day in my world.President Obama is appearing on television and saying some things I’m not very happy about. The National Security State exists to protect and defend the interests of our Corporatocracy and not even the “change you can believe in President” can oppose their interests. My ...
  5 hours ago

• The Moment of Crystallized Disenchantment – an Appeal to Progressives Who Have Supported Barack Obama

  
  OB Rag Blog — Authority: 135
  In just a few hours, President Obama will lay out his plan to send an additional 30,000+ US troops to Afghanistan. Which makes this a very trying moment for progressives who supported Obama during the campaign, his Presidency, and up to now. It is a very painful moment, a very anguishing one, as many of us are ...
  8 hours ago

• Swiss ban minarets

  
  Orange Punch — Authority: 144
  Because Switzerland stays neutral in wars and has somehow managed an accommodation among residents with different national roots — French, Italian, German — through an extremely decentralized system, there’s a tendency to think of it as liberal (in the classic sense) and tolerant. That image has been damaged ...
  9 hours ago

• EU, United Nations and Turkey Gang Up on Switzerland Following Minaret Ban

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 611
  The European Union, the United Nations and Turkey have ganged up on Switzerland following that country’s brave decision to ban the further construction of minarets. Leading the charge against the democratic will of the Swiss people is that country’s so-called justice minister and dreadful liberal, Eveline ...
  9 hours ago

• Israeli Settlements

  
  Samuel J. Scott — Authority: 128
  JERUSALEM — Law professor David M. Phillips sets the historical and legal record straight:Though routinely referred to nowadays as “Palestinian” land, at no point in history has Jerusalem or the West Bank been under Palestinian Arab sovereignty in any sense of the term…The Ottoman Empire contained the area ...
  9 hours ago

• Hijacking healthcare reform | Nancy Northup

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  The anti-abortion lobby is manipulating US healthcare reform to endanger and curtail a womans right to choose The debate over US healthcare reform has taken many surprising twists and turns, and the task of navigating the bill through the divided Senate promises yet more deep bends in the road before passage. One ...
  10 hours ago

• The U.S. Shouldn’t Bless Honduras’s Flawed Elections

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 647
  Elections took place Sunday, Nov. 29 in Honduras with National Party leader Porfirio Lobo declared the winner. But elections carried out under a state of emergency — with visible military and police presence, by a government installed by coup, with a…
  13 hours ago

• Candlelit Vigil to remember Ian Tomlinson tonight

  
  Harpymarx — Authority: 534
  I will be attending the vigil to remember Ian Tomlinson this evening . The family of G20 protest victim Ian Tomlinson are due to lead a candlelit vigil to remember his death. Mr Tomlinson, 47, died after he was pushed to the ground by a police officer during clashes in the City of London that marred the meeting ...
  14 hours ago

• Northern Liberties

  
  PhilaStories — Authority:
  Nina de Costa, president of the Northern Liberties Business Owners Association, leads Philadelphia Weekly on a tour of all the places to live, play, work and have fun in Northern Liberties. The neighborhood has been described as "up and coming"...
  14 hours ago

• Even Dan Hannan opposes the ban on minarets

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 684
  Is it still committing heresy to link favourably to right wing Tory MEP Daniel Hannan ? Ah well, I was never going to be invited to the Cool Kids’ table anyway: The decision by Swiss voters to outlaw the construction of minarets strikes me as regrettable on three grounds. First, it is at odds with that other ...
  15 hours ago

• Sheriff Joe Arpaio Foiled by "Bohemian Rhapsody" at School Talk

  
  Runnin' Scared — Authority: 738
  Joe Arpaio -- the sadistic sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona who has instituted a female chain gang, cut prisoners to two meals a day, and is contemplating a run for Governor -- was invit...
  17 hours ago

• Authority to Spy on Americans Unclear as Patriot Act Expires

  
  JustGetThere — Authority: 133
  Editor: If its unclear, read the Bill of Rights ABC News | Rushed into law by Congress just weeks after Sept. 11, 2001 three controversial provisions of the Patriot Act granting officials far-reaching surveillance and seizure powers in the name of national security, are due to expire this New Years ...
  19 hours ago

• Controversial school drug tests get under way in Hong Kong

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Hong Kong, Dec 1 (DPA) The Hong Kong government Tuesday began a controversial trial project to test 22,000 secondary school pupils for drug use.From Tuesday, urine samples were being taken from pupils in 23 schools and results shared between teachers, police and social workers in a move to tackle a growing tide of ...
  20 hours ago

• David Cameron declares war on the "nonsense" of the "over-the-top health and safety culture"

  
  thetorydiary — Authority: 667
  David Cameron is making a very welcome speech to Policy Exchange later today in which he will outline how he wants to dismantle the ridiculous elements of "the great knot of rules, regulations, expectations and fears that I would call the over-the-top health and safety culture." Whilst most health and safety ...
  22 hours ago

• "America’s Toughest Sheriff" Heckled Off Stage At Journalism Forum By Singing Protestors

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 507
  Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Editor Tempe, AZ (AHN) - A Controversial sheriff was heckled off stage at a public forum held at the Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State University on Monday. Minutes into the interview student protesters broke into song
  23 hours ago

• BBC photographers are not a criminals either

  
  B12 Solipsism — Authority: 443
  So how many photos of St Paul’s Cathedral are taken every day? How easy would it be for someone to find a photo without even having to visit London? Pretty easy, methinks . 1 Or just purchase a postcard, usually sold right in front of the building in question. And of course, what terrorist needs to have snapped ...
  1 day ago

• Reader Rant: America is the richest country in the world but Americans can’t afford to live here.

  
  OB Rag Blog — Authority: 135
  by Molly MacquireAmerica IS - still - the richest country in the world. Yet Americans cannot afford to live here. Let me share two brief stories with you of friends I have run into recently. Both friends are leaving America because they cant do it any longer - they cannot afford to live here.My first friend - he ...
  1 day ago

• Switzerland Votes to Prohibit Minarets

  
  Thinking Out Loud — Authority: 130
  I never knew when I wrote my original post on this subject on September 18th , that when the vote took place two months later, it would generate so many new visits here. According to traffic on this blog on the days leading up to and after the Swiss voted on the weekend to prohibit Muslim mosques from ...
  1 day ago

• 90 Positive accomplishments by President Obama in his first six months

  
  OB Rag Blog — Authority: 135
  [Editors Note: I have published this list - followed by a progressive critique - as a counter-pole to the anguish progressives and leftists feel right now, on the eve of President Obamas announcement of additional US troops being sent to Afghanistan. Some progressives are ready to throw Obama out of office because of ...
  1 day ago

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