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State employee investigated over 'inappropriate' Obama-Palin image (With Video)
Seeded on Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:04 PM EST (Raw Story)
A Colorado Department of Transportation employee is under investigation for e-mailing an image of President Obama polishing former lawmaker Sarah Palin's shoes.
Despite massive layoffs and budget woes, ultra- right Christian group, Focus On The Family plans on spending $4 million on Super Bowl ads.
Seeded on Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:00 PM EST (Think Progress)
Firedoglake reports that Focus On the Family, an ultra-right Christian group, is poised to drop $4 million on a Super Bowl commercial aimed at promoting its anti-choice propaganda. According to sources:
Coulter brings Obama attending a madrassa lie back to Fox News
Seeded on Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:54 PM EST (Media Matters for America)
In January 2007 -- in what can only be described as a stunning display of race baiting, religious bigotry, and outright dishonesty -- the hosts of Fox & Friends spent a substantial portion of a broadcast repeating an obviously false online claim that then-Sen.
Cop continues to taser a man 11 times while he has a diabetic seizure
Seeded on Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:51 PM EST ()
A suburban Chicago police officer Tasered a man 11 times while he was having a diabetic seizure, and the 56 seconds of needlessly inflicted electric shock, "inflicted ...
Blackwater gets away with murder: judge drops charges against Blackwater guards accused of massacre
Seeded on Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:47 PM EST (Raw Story)
In a rebuke to government prosecutors, a federal judge dismissed criminal charges against five Blackwater security guards accused of fatally shooting 14 people in Baghdad in September 2007.
Mufti Usmani holds Blackwater responsible for Ashura procession blast in Karachi, Pakistan
Seeded on Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:29 AM EST ()
Contrary to the claim and media reports by the media about Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan taking responsibility of the Ashura bomb blast, Mufti Mohammed Rafi Usmani held US agency Blackwater responsible for the gory incident that claimed more than 40 lives.
The Global War on Stealth Underwear: Why something as primitive as an underwear bomb almost thwarted us
Seeded on Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:19 AM EST (AlterNet.org)
There is no "war" against terrorism. What George W. Bush launched and Barack Obama insists on perpetuating does not qualify. Not if by war one means doing the obvious and checking a highly suspicious air traveler's underwear to see if explosives have been sewn in.
Chickenhawks Coulter, Breitbart and Bolling Strut Their National Security Mojo By Calling For Racial Profiling And Showing How Much They Hate Their Fellow Citizens (With Video)
Seeded on Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:12 AM EST (News Hounds)
Eric Bolling substituted for Glenn Beck yesterday (12/30/09) for a segment that would have made Glenn Beck proud for the lengths to which it used the foiled terrorism attack on Christmas to a) attack the Obama administration, Democrats and the left; and b) call for racial profili …
Rep Eric Massa Smacks Down Dick Cheney --- Challenges Him to Debate, even on Fox News (With Video)
Seeded on Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:07 AM EST (Crooks and Liars)
This was a thing of beauty. Ed Schultz takes a few swings at Dick Cheney himself and brings in Rep. Eric Massa who smacks down Cheney for politicizing the attempted terror attack and says he'll debate him any time, anywhere, even on Fox News if Cheney won't appear anywhere else.
REVEALED: See Going Rogue Event 'Banned List' Drawn Up By Todd Palin
Seeded on Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:02 AM EST (Talking Points Memo)
We've just gotten our hands on the so-called "banned list" that was responsible for two journalists getting booted from a Sarah Palin book event in Wasilla last week. Check it out right here.
Rush Limbaugh rushed to hospital with chest pains
Seeded on Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:56 AM EST (Raw Story)
Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital "in serious condition" Wednesday afternoon after complaining of chest pains, several local news sources in Hawaii are reporting.
Politico's Mike Allen slammed as Cheney 'stenographer'
Seeded on Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:34 PM EST (Raw Story)
A number of writers and bloggers say Politico failed to perform the fact-checking role expected of reporters, pointing to questionable assertions from Cheney that went unchecked in Allen's story.
White House Hits Back: Obama 'Doesn't Need To Beat His Chest To Prove' Nation Is At War
Seeded on Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:26 PM EST (Talking Points Memo)
In an unusually direct and aggressive blog post, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer today criticizes former Vice President Dick Cheney for his constant critique of the administration's national security policies.
Gingrich: Obama cares more about 'protecting the rights of terrorists' than the 'lives of Americans.'
Seeded on Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:20 PM EST (Think Progress)
The right wing's response to the failed underwear bomber has been all too predictable — accusing liberals of being anti-patriotic and calling for greater ethnic profiling of Muslims, while ignoring the Bush administration's failure to prevent terrorist attacks, catch Osama …
Shoes vs. Underwear: The GOP's New Terror Double Standard
Seeded on Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:16 PM EST (Crooks and Liars)
The similarities between failed airplane bombers Richard Reid and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab are striking. The only difference? Richard Reid hid a bomb in his shoe, while Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab packed his in his underwear.
Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official
Seeded on Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:12 PM EST (Raw Story)
MOSCOW — Russian scientists will soon meet in secret to work on a plan for saving Earth from a possible catastrophic collision with a giant asteroid in 26 years, the head of Russia's space agency said Wednesday.
Maddow: Conservatives using 'sick torture fantasies' to politicize terror plot (With Video)
Seeded on Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:03 PM EST (Raw Story)
WASHINGTON -- MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Tuesday accused conservatives and Republicans of exploiting the foiled Christmas terror bombing for political gain and to promote torture.
Obama Moves To Curb Federal Secrets, Encourage Declassification
Seeded on Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:59 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday ordered the federal government to rethink how it protects the nation's secrets, in a move that was expected to declassify more than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents and curb the number of government records hidden from t …
FoxNews.com allows 'lynching' comments posted on their site
Seeded on Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:50 AM EST (News Hounds)
Fox Nation reader Jimmy Jon sent us a comment addressed to him hoping that Obama will be lynched. The comment was posted more than 3 hours ago (I'm writing at 3:46 PM ET) and not only got past the moderators, they have not seen fit to remove it.
Karl Rove Attacks Obama For Not Interrogating Terrorism Suspects "The Way They Do In Crime Movies And Television Crime Dramas" (With Video)
Seeded on Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:44 AM EST (News Hounds)
Karl Rove was a guest on Hannity last night (12/28/09) in a segment that was obviously set up to lambaste President Obama over the foiled terrorist attack on Christmas and coincidentally make the Bush administration look smart and tough on terrorism.
Cheney Joins Hypocritical Attacks On Obama's 'Low Key Response' To Failed Terrorist Attack
Seeded on Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:34 AM EST (Think Progress)
As ThinkProgress and others have noted, such attacks are supremely hypocritical considering that no Republicans complained when it took President Bush six days to comment on the similarly failed shoe bomber attack.
Sen. DeMint Now blames labor unions for illegal immigration
Seeded on Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:29 AM EST (Raw Story)
Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, DeMint defended his objection to the nomination, repeatedly insisting "there's a reason" why the TSA is not allowed to unionize, but never really outlining what that reason is.
Senators Lieberman, McCain And Graham Ask Obama To Halt Transfer Of Yemeni Gitmo Detainees
Seeded on Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:26 PM EST (Talking Points Memo)
Sen. Joe Lieberman, Sen. John McCain and Sen. Lindsey Graham wrote a letter to President Obama today asking he halt any transfer of the six Yemeni detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay.
Gingrich: 'It is time to go to profiling of dangerous people.'
Seeded on Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:21 PM EST (Think Progress)
Yesterday on Twitter, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich called for more profiling in light of the failed terrorist attack on Christmas Day: 'It is time to go to profiling of dangerous people instead of harassing and restricting the innocent.'
'Traditional marriage' defender Rove mocked for getting divorced
Seeded on Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:17 PM EST (Raw Story)
The progressive blogosphere is having a good laugh at self-professed "traditional marriage" defender Karl Rove, after a Texas court granted the former Bush White House political mastermind his second divorce
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Blackwater gets away with murder: judge drops charges against Blackwater guards accused of massacreIn a rebuke to government prosecutors, a federal judge dismissed criminal charges against five Blackwater security guards accused of fatally shooting 14 people in Baghdad in September 2007.
- Mufti Usmani holds Blackwater responsible for Ashura procession blast in Karachi, Pakistan
Contrary to the claim and media reports by the media about Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan taking responsibility of the Ashura bomb blast, Mufti Mohammed Rafi Usmani held US agency Blackwater responsible for the gory incident that claimed more than 40 lives.
- The Global War on Stealth Underwear: Why something as primitive as an underwear bomb almost thwarted us
There is no "war" against terrorism. What George W. Bush launched and Barack Obama insists on perpetuating does not qualify. Not if by war one means doing the obvious and checking a highly suspicious air traveler's underwear to see if explosives have been sewn in.
- Chickenhawks Coulter, Breitbart and Bolling Strut Their National Security Mojo By Calling For Racial Profiling And Showing How Much They Hate Their Fellow Citizens (With Video)
Eric Bolling substituted for Glenn Beck yesterday (12/30/09) for a segment that would have made Glenn Beck proud for the lengths to which it used the foiled terrorism attack on Christmas to a) attack the Obama administration, Democrats and the left; and b) call for racial profili …
- Rep Eric Massa Smacks Down Dick Cheney --- Challenges Him to Debate, even on Fox News (With Video)
This was a thing of beauty. Ed Schultz takes a few swings at Dick Cheney himself and brings in Rep. Eric Massa who smacks down Cheney for politicizing the attempted terror attack and says he'll debate him any time, anywhere, even on Fox News if Cheney won't appear anywhere else.
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