Tag Archives: Terrorism
U.N. meeting on Climate Change
1. U.N. Climate Change Meeting Looks to Pick up the Pace – Is the clock really ticking? How can the world’s governments move faster? Are we really at a tipping point? Is there enough data? How can we overcome the economic impact? How much is this going to cost? How much will it cost if [...]
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Who will get Ted Kennedy’s seat?
1. Who will get Ted Kennedy’s Seat? - Between Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, Mass. hasn’t had an open senate seat since 1984. With all the competition, could another Kennedy, Robert’s son and Ted’s nephew, rise to the top? (From the Wall Street Journal)
2. Hey Neo-Cons: Regan Didn’t Like Torture – The Conservative argument for [...]
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Lockerbie Bombing Convict to be released
1. Scottish Gov’t to release the only person convicted of Lockerbie Bombing – 270 people were killed when Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Scotland and crashed into the ground. One former Libyan Intelligence officer was convicted. There are some doubts to his guilt, and he’s been in prison every since. He has terminal cancer, [...]
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Obama Health Care Press Conference Fact Check
1. President Obama Health Care Press Conference Fact Check - There’s so much misinformation on BOTH sides of the aisle about this thing, that you’d wonder if we’ll ever know the truth about what will… or what won’t… get passed. (From the Associated Press)
2. President Obama Weighs in on Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrest mess [...]
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Who was Abraham Lincoln?
1. Lincoln. The Man, the Myth, and finally… the Truth –
It was 200 years ago that arguably the greatest President of the United States was born. But what’s fact and what’s fiction? We in the general public tend to forget that Honest Abe was, at his core, a politician. He was also an abolitionist, [...]
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Kill Terrorists Teams almost started Training
1. Secret CIA Program was about to get the green light - The Plan that Dick Cheney told the CIA to not inform Congress about, was shut down by new CIA Director Leon Panetta before it launched into a training phase. Training as in, training teams of agents overseas to head out into the field [...]
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Gitmo Gitmo, and GAY GAY GAY
1. 1 in 7 Gitmo Detainees head to Terrorism (again) once released - Well… so six don’t? Meanwhile, the Obama Administration seems to be admitting that there are some guys in Gitmo that if they shut it down, they still don’t want them out tramping around the world doing whatever it is they do… but [...]
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Pakistan wants to take back South Waziristan