Archive for November, 2009
Talking Israel, Jews and anti-Semitism at Amsterdam film festival (JTA)
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A hushed crowd filed into a standing-room-only space above the Escape Club in Amsterdam last week to hear the Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Maziar Bahari describe the four months he spent in a Tehran jail.
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November 30, 2009
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Chris “Tingles” Matthews on Obama: “Too Much Chamberlain, Not Enough Churchill” (Video)
This is weird.
Chris “Tingles” Matthews says Barack Obama needs to act a little less like Neville Chamberlain and more like Winston Churchill.
Via NewsBusters from this weekend’s “The Chris Matthews Show”:
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Will this long deliberation, Anne Kornblut, you’ve got the tough question here to start with. Whip around here. It took three months to [...]
November 30, 2009
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Police Are Searching Other Areas For Maurice Clemmons – Baltimore Sun
CBC.ca
Police Are Searching Other Areas For Maurice ClemmonsBaltimore SunSEATTLE – Officers ended a standoff at a house in Seattle's Leschi neighborhood Monday morning after discovering that the suspect in the murders of four Lakewood police officers was not in the home. Earlier, Pierce County Sheriff's Department spokesman …Pennsylvania Family Mourns Fatally Shot Washington OfficerFOXNewsSeattle police [...]
November 30, 2009
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Senate to begin debate on healthcare overhaul – Washington Post
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Senate to begin debate on healthcare overhaulWashington PostWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Senate opens debate on a broad healthcare overhaul on Monday with senators seeking an elusive compromise on thorny issues like a government-run insurance plan, abortion coverage and …UPDATE 1-US Senate health plan would raise some premiums-CBOReutersWhat Does the Senate Bill Do to [...]
November 30, 2009
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Barack Obama issues Afghanistan troop build-up orders – BBC News
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Barack Obama issues Afghanistan troop build-up ordersBBC NewsUS President Barack Obama has issued new orders for the US military in Afghanistan after deciding how many more troops to send, officials say. Mr Obama told senior military leaders about his long-awaited decision on troop numbers on Sunday night, …Obama Issues Order for More Troops in [...]
November 30, 2009
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Muslim Leaders Condemn Swiss Minaret Ban – Wall Street Journal
Telegraph.co.uk
Muslim Leaders Condemn Swiss Minaret BanWall Street JournalZURICH – Muslim leaders from around the world condemned a vote in Switzerland to ban the construction of minarets in the Alpine country, raising fresh fears of a backlash against Swiss interests around the world. …Foreign, domestic anger at Swiss minaret banThe Associated PressMinaret ban marks start of [...]
November 30, 2009
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Obama Issues Marching Orders on Afghanistan War Strategy – FOXNews
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Obama Issues Marching Orders on Afghanistan War StrategyFOXNewsTop military and diplomatic officials got their marching orders Sunday night from President Obama ahead of a planned speech Tuesday in which he's expected to outline his new Afghanistan war strategy and call for about 30000 more US troops to be sent to …UK expected to confirm extra [...]
November 30, 2009
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Foreign, domestic anger at Swiss minaret ban – The Associated Press
Telegraph.co.uk
Foreign, domestic anger at Swiss minaret banThe Associated PressGENEVA — A top Swiss official said Monday that voter approval of a ban on minarets next to mosques could be struck down in court, as critics at home and abroad swiftly condemned the vote, saying it undermined the country's secular image. …Minaret ban marks start of [...]
November 30, 2009
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Diversity in Iowa
The Chronicle of Higher EducationNovember 25, 2009
By David EvansThe other day, I was at a meeting of the chief academic officers from institutions affiliated with the Iowa Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. IAICU serves as the consolidated voice of Iowa’s private institutions (almost all of which are active members) in state and national governmental [...]
November 30, 2009
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Updates from Parkland-area crime shooting scene – TheNewsTribune.com
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Updates from Parkland-area crime shooting sceneTheNewsTribune.com7:08 AM UPDATE MONDAY Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said Seattle police have searched the Seattle house and did not locate suspect Maurice Clemmons. There is a warrant out for his arrest on four murder charges. The neighborhood is still …Washington Cop Shooting Suspect Maurice Clemmons Not in [...]
November 30, 2009
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Cost control big question in Senate health bill – San Francisco Chronicle
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Cost control big question in Senate health billSan Francisco Chronicle(11-30) 04:00 PST Washington – — As the Senate takes up health care legislation this week, the question of whether it will "bend the curve" of soaring costs has emerged as a central dispute among experts and the subject of an all-out push by the [...]
November 30, 2009
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Williams fined record $82500 for US Open tirade – The Associated Press
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Williams fined record $82500 for US Open tiradeThe Associated PressSerena Williams was fined a record $82500 for her US Open tirade and could be suspended from that tournament if she has another "major offense" at any Grand Slam in the next two years. Grand Slam administrator Bill Babcock's ruling was released Monday, …Serena Williams fined, [...]
November 30, 2009
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Police: Suspect in deaths of officers not in house – Seattle Times
Times Online
Police: Suspect in deaths of officers not in houseSeattle TimesAuthorities say a suspect in the slaying of four police officers who were gunned down in a coffee shop was not found in a Seattle house. The Associated Press Authorities say a suspect in the slaying of four police officers who were gunned down in [...]
November 30, 2009
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Kaiga employees quizzed over radiation; ‘nothing to worry’,says PM – Sify
BBC News
Kaiga employees quizzed over radiation; 'nothing to worry',says PMSify/New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) About 50 employees of the Kaiga atomic power plant in Karnataka were being interrogated by probe agencies after a drinking water dispenser was found contaminated with radioactive Tritium. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has …No leak at Kaiga nuclear plant, nothing to [...]
November 30, 2009
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Breaking: Wounded Cop Killer Maurice Clemmons Eludes Officers in Washington- Campus Warned
The killer of four police officers yesterday in Washington eluded officials today after he was thought to be holed up in a Seattle home.
Ex-con Maurice Clemmons at one time faced more than 100 years behind bars.
The LA Times reported:
Police surrounded a Seattle house early today, attempting to close in on a 37-year-old landscaper with a [...]
November 30, 2009
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Best Unnoticed Headline of the Week
It was in the Telegraph; a U.K. publication, of course:
Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation.
The laughing stock that is the Amerikan Big Media can’t cover this story or any other stories that counter their leftist template because they are too heavily invested in the big lie. The big lie of [...]
November 30, 2009
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Big Gangster Govt
You gotta love Michele Bachmann! Watch this and ask yourself about that hope and change.
November 30, 2009
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India, China, Brazil Plan Joint Exit From Copenhagen Junk Science Talks
India, China, Brazil and South Africa plan to walk out of the international junk science meetings next month in Copenhagen.
The Times of India reported:
In an unprecedented move, India on Saturday joined China and two other developing countries to prepare for a major offensive on rich nations at the Copenhagen conference on climate change next month. [...]
November 30, 2009
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GOP Cut-and-Runner Wants Troops Home Now From Afghanistan
Freshman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) wants the US to cut-and-run from Afghanistan.
He will give a speech later today urging the US to bring the troops home.
…What a loon.
The Politico reported:
Saying it’s time for Republicans to do more than “take pot shots at ACORN,” freshman Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz will call on President Barack Obama on [...]
November 30, 2009
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Sarah Palin Slams Obama: “We Head Into Christmas Wishing For Leadership in Washington”
“His plan comes up short. There’s not enough troops, not enough resources and not enough urgency. What President Bush and Senator McCain don’t understand is that the central front in the War on Terror is not in Iraq and never was. The central front is in Afghanistan and Pakistan where the terrorists who hit us [...]
November 30, 2009
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Change! Somali Terrorists Use Obama Portraits For Target Practice
Isn’t this racist?
Somali terrorists linked to Al-Qaeda are using portraits of Barack Obama for their target practice.
Radical Islamist Shebab members ride horses in Mogadishu in September. Al-Qaeda and Islamists fighting to topple Somalia’s government provide “mutual support” to each other, the head of the African Union peacekeeping force has told AFP in an interview. (AFP/Mustafa [...]
November 30, 2009
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Lawmakers Probe Science Czar Holdren’s Links to Climategate
Republican lawmakers are probing Science Czar John Holdren’s links to the Climategate documents.
Obama’s socialist Science Czar John Holdren, who once said that forced abortions were needed to save the planet, is also involved in the Climategate Scandal.
Holdren, another socialist in the White House, was pushing global cooling before he was pushing man-made global warming.
His name [...]
November 30, 2009
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Iran says sees little benefit from nuclear treaty – Washington Post
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Iran says sees little benefit from nuclear treatyWashington PostTEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani said on Monday Iran saw little benefit from its membership of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, a day after Tehran announced plans to build 10 uranium enrichment plants. …French FM Kouchner gives Iran 'last chance for dialogue'Jerusalem PostRussia concerned by [...]
November 30, 2009
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France’s FM Bernard Kouchner condemns Swiss minaret ban – BBC News
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France's FM Bernard Kouchner condemns Swiss minaret banBBC NewsBernard Kouchner said he was shocked by the decision which, he said, showed "intolerance" and should be reversed. More than 57.5% of voters and 22 out of 26 cantons – or provinces – voted in favour of the ban on Sunday. The proposal had been put …Swiss [...]
November 30, 2009
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Minister of Interior: Police Salary Supplements Problematic
Minister of the Interior Guusje ter Horst (Labor) has officially declared that she is “unpleasantly surprised” about the supplementary payments to the heads of the Dutch police. It was recently published that the top commanders of the police sometimes receive very high supplements for housing and for on call 24 hours a day. She has [...]
November 30, 2009
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