President Obama continues to take heat from members of Congress over Libya. Let's start with the line of attack taken by 2012 GOP presidential hopeful, Mississippi governor Haley Barbour.
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The massive great-earthquake, subsequent tsunami, and nuclear emergency in Japan have caused Libya to take a back seat in the last few days. I would like to join the world in expressing my sympathy and support for all of Japan and Japanese people everywhere.
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The recent, sudden collapses of long time political monopolies in Tunisia and Egypt, while certainly not bloodless coups, were quite peaceful compared to what we're seeing in Libya.
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Today is the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's inaugural address. It was in this speech that he spoke the famous words, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." Legend has it that JFK adapted this line from... somewhere.
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We'll get to the Crab People in a minute, I promise, but first I'd like to address a misconception about the percentage of the American electorate that I fall into. That is, white people who voted for Barack Obama in 2008.
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The popular social networking website Facebook has acquired social aggregator site FriendFeed. The implications could be pretty big for the social media community. Facebook is the fourth largest internet based business in the world.
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As a Southern California native and life long LA Lakers fan, I have to gloat over how badly the Phoenix Suns are playing lately. I just came home and turned on the TV to see that the Charlotte Bobcats are beating the Suns 74-46.
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There were two big news stories yesterday. The one we expected was the farewell presidential address of George W. Bush. But this was overshadowed by the amazing story of 155 people who survived the emergency landing of a US Airways Airbus A320 in the Hudson River.
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South Park just did their take on the Obama victory. It's kind of a parody of Oceans Eleven. Obama and Mc Cain team up to steal a $210,000,000 diamond while everybody is distracted by the celebration. Randy Marsh is getting really drunk.
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I don't watch Fox News, but as I was flipping through the channel guide today I saw the word "Huckabee".
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With two weeks left to go before the 2008 presidential election, the John Mc Cain campaign is still playing a game of reactionary politics.
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While appearing on the Larry King show this evening, conservative right wing talk radio mouthpiece Lars Larson made some outrageous comments that belie a frightening political ideology.
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Chris Dodd and other leading Democrats announced today that the House of Representatives has reached a preliminary agreement on the "Bailout". Then Minority Leader John Boehner said that, in fact, they have not agreed to anything.
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