Oct 26, 2009 -
O's embarrassment
Berlin rhetoric vs. DC reality
By MICHAEL BARONE
PRESIDENT Obama, who found time to go on a 24-hour jaunt to Copenha gen on Oct. 2 to seek the 2016 Olympic Games for Chicago, apparently can't find the time for a 24-hour trip to Berlin on Nov.
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May 24, 2009 -
Jack Goldsmith, The New Republic Published: Monday, May 18, 2009
Why Barack Obama is waging a more effective war on terror than George W. Bush.
Former Vice President Cheney says that President Obama's reversal of Bush-era terrorism policies endangers American security.
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Apr 24, 2009 -
PUBLIC POST
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Barack Obama to release up to 2,000 photographs of prisoner abuse
President Barack Obama is to release up to 2,000 photographs of alleged abuse at American prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan in a move which will fuel the uproar over CIA interrogation memos.
By Toby Harnden in Washington
Last Updated: 5:58PM BST 24 Apr 2009
The decision to make public the images sought in a legal action by the American Civil Liberties Union comes amid a political firestorm over alleged torture of detainees under President George W. Bush.
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Mar 10, 2009 -
Associated Press Writer Brett Zongker, Associated Press Writer – Tue Mar 10, 5:29 am ET AP –
WASHINGTON – A collector believes a photograph from a private album of Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant shows President Abraham Lincoln in front of the White House and could be the last image taken of him before he was assassinated in 1865.
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Mar 12, 2009 -
HE’S HOT, HE’S SEXY, HE’S UNDEAD
Two years ago, Robert Pattinson was a forgotten extra in a ‘Harry Potter’ movie. Then he got cast as a blue-balled vampire in ‘Twilight,’ the year’s kazillion-dollar movie franchise, and every woman in America over 14 wants him. Too bad he’s not sure he wants them
It’s December; Twilight, in which Pattinson, 22, plays an adorably tortured perma-teenage vampire too principled to drink human blood, has been in theaters for about a month.
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Mar 06, 2009 -
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Writer – Thu Mar 5, 9:04 pm ET
Featured Topics:
Actor Brad Pitt stands with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., prior to their AP – Actor Brad Pitt stands with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., prior to their meeting on Capitol Hill …
WASHINGTON – First of all, no, Brad Pitt is not short. Yes, he's handsome enough to stand out in any crowd. And, sorry, Angie wasn't with him.
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Feb 18, 2009 -
John Mayer poses outside the opening of the new Georgio Armani store on 5th Avenue on Tuesday (February 17) in New York City.
The 31-year-old singer reportedly surprised girlfriend Jennifer Aniston on Valentine’s Day by having a private jet take them to the Bahamas last Thursday evening.
The couple boarded a private jet in Los Angeles and flew to the island of Eleuthera, where the singer had rented a gated home.
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Dec 25, 2008 -
A Visit From St. Hillary
By Lisa Fabrizio on 12.24.08 @ 6:07AM
(With sincerest apologies to Democrats everywhere and, once again, to Clement Clark Moore.)
'Twas the night before Christmas in 2008,
All the liberals were happy, but not quite sedate;
Their thoughts lifted skyward, their lips formed a prayer,
In hopes that St. Hillary might disappear.
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Feb 02, 2009 -
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/02/unrest-in-china-worse-than-widely.html
When we have featured articles that mention growing unrest in China, we've been told that it's overblown. The usual arguments: most of the people losing their jobs in Guangdong were young women who could go back to the provinces; that the violence wasn't organized and hence posed not real threat to the authorities; that the people who had lost their jobs could go back to doing what they did before, namely, subsistence farming.
I've had trouble with these arguments because they run afoul of history.
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Dec 29, 2008 -
ne child's story speaks for the thousands locked in silent servitude
The Associated Press
updated 4:11 a.m. CT, Mon., Dec. 29, 2008
In Africa, children of the poor are commodities, often traded like cows or donkeys by adults who value their labor.
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