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Conservative chatterbox Ann Coulter nearly had a coronary on Monday when head honchos at The TODAY Show abruptly cancelled a scheduled appearance on the day her new book about The Obamas is set to hit bookshelves. The cancellation has sparked speculation that she had been “banned for life” from NBC and its two cable news networks, CNBC and MSNBC. A claim a high-ranking NBC News official has as “total hogwash.” NBC insists Ann was bumped from TODAY’s Tuesday schedule to make room for “brea
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Pardon me for a moment while I roll out a bit of what could probably be called old fogeyism in today’s post but this particular thing has been bothering me for awhile and what better place to vent about it and get it off my chest then right here on my blog? After all, it’s why I have this thing, right? So that I can occasionally air my opinion and then wait for everyone else to come by and either validate it or tell me that I’m wrong!Okay then, the thing that’s bothering me is this … since w
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In a letter to Michelle and Barack Obama, NASA’s Jim Hanson makes some valid critique of the “cap and trade” approach to the reduction of CO2 emissions that we also embraced in Europe: Policies being discussed in national and international circles now, which focus on ‘goals’ for emission reduction and ‘cap and trade,’ have the same [...]
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RETURN OF A ZAPATISTA The rebel leader Marcos appeared at the “Festival of Dignified Race” held in the chiapas state. It’s been over a year since the subcomandante Marcos has been seen, during the festival he spoke about Mexico’s war on drugs and how President Felipe Calderon was in cahoots with some drug gangs to eliminate other gangs. He also spoke on the voters that elected the new president Barack Obama who expect change in US foreign policy would be disappointed; he cited the fact that
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Tue, Jan 6, 2009 (1:39 a.m.) President-elect Barack Obama’s studied silence on the subject of Israel’s 10-day-old war against Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip is only partly out of deference to the man who still has the big job for two more weeks.
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It seems Diane Feinstein is peeved that Obama dared to ignore her: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who this week begins her tenure as the first female chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said today that she was not consulted on the choice and indicated she might oppose it. “I was not informed about the selection of Leon Panetta to be the CIA director,” Feinstein said. “My position has consistently been that I believe the agency is best served by having an intelligence professional
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Malia and Sasha Obama begin classes at Sidwell Friends under watchful eyes of, well, everyone.
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The Central Islamic Organization of Guyana (CIOG) has initiated a position of peaceful and positive action in the wake of the Israeli Government’s constant offensive on the Palestine people, which has resulted in the deaths of over 300 people, and injuries to more than 800. The CIOG, the representative body of Muslims in Guyana, in a release issued yesterday, condemned the attack, which it regarded as a “massacre of the highest order…carried out especially against innocent people, including he
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