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What I've Learned — Nearly 50 years ago, when I arrived in Minnesota as a student fresh from Africa, I had much to learn — starting with the fact that there is nothing wimpish about wearing earmuffs when it is 15 degrees below zero. All my life since has been a learning experience.
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Michelle Malkin, Booman Tribune, Riehl World View, Daily Pundit, Macsmind, American Thinker and Decision '08
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Annan to blast U.S. in farewell — In a farewell speech on U.S. soil today, retiring United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan plans to deliver a tough critique of President Bush's policies. He will accuse the administration of trying to secure the United States from terrorism in part …
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Hot Air, Redstate, Joust The Facts, The Glittering Eye, Daily Pundit, PoliPundit.com, Telegraph, Wizbang and Decision '08
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Kofi: I Learned Projection
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Gateway Pundit, Stop The ACLU, Little Green Footballs, Think Progress, A Blog For All, Dr. Sanity and Bill's Bites
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Iran students heckle Ahmadinejad — Iranian students have disrupted a speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a prestigious Tehran university, setting fire to his picture and heckling him. — "Some students chanted radical slogans and inflamed the atmosphere of the meeting" …
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Video: Iranian students heckle Ahmadinejad — I tried to do better for you but this quickie from Fox is the best I could come up with. Too bad. Sounds like the event was a barnburner. … Judging from the posters visible in the video, the pro-regime students outnumbered the dissidents pretty substantially.
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Diana was bugged by secret service in U.S. — American intelligence agencies were bugging Princess Diana's telephone over her relationship with a US billionaire, the Mail's sister paper has learned. — Evening Standard reports that she was even forced to abandon a planned holiday with her sons …
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Power Line, Larisa Alexandrovna's …, Vox Popoli, In From the Cold, The Strata-Sphere and Macsmind
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Poor Bush had a week that reeked — DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF — WASHINGTON - For a wounded President locked in a lethal downward spiral ever since his reelection, it was the cruelest week of all. — Not since Bill Clinton forlornly insisted that "the President is still relevant" …
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Pelosi piques public's interest — As incoming head of the House, with more eyes on her, she intends to paint her own picture. — WASHINGTON — When Nancy Pelosi appeared on national television on the morning after voters returned the House to Democratic hands, Leon Rebibo's phone started ringing in Los Angeles.
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THE REAL RAMADI HAS STOOD UP — In a Nov. 29 blog, "Will the real Ramadi please stand up?" I observed that three articles on conditions in Ramadi and al Anbar Province had appeared within a week of each other giving entirely different points of view. Mine and one in the Times of London …
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For Iraq's Sunnis, Conflict Closes In — Mixed Neighborhoods Unravel as Shiite Militiamen Expand Violence — A few blocks from Ali Farouk's three-story home, an empty house provides a glimpse of what he fears will be the future. Once owned by a Sunni Muslim, the paint is peeling, the windows are blown out.
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LOOKING BACK. In fall 2006, the United States turned on the NeoCommentators. Their smug, wrongheaded chatter had helped lead the country into a catastrophic war and then, without missing a beat, turned to condemn those who sought to end it. Infuriated, readers nationwide began agitating …
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Andrew Sullivan, Ezra Klein, Sic Semper Tyrannis 2006, Swords Crossed, Daily Kos and NewsHog
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Hamas confirms meeting with group of Democrats — Leader claims U.S. party willing to hold dialogue with terrorists — TEL AVIV - A key Hamas official has confirmed reports from last week the terror group held meetings with "important Democrats." — Ahmed Yousuf, chief political advisor …
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Inquiry Sought Over Evangelical Video — Defense Department Asked to Examine Officers' Acts Supporting Christian Group — A military watchdog group is asking the Defense Department to investigate whether seven Army and Air Force officers violated regulations by appearing in uniform …
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Former Rep. DeLay, indicted on state campaign finance charges, begins new 'career' as blogger — New to Raw Story? Click here to visit our home page for the latest news. — Print page sponsored by Velvet Revolution. — Former Texas Congressman Tom DeLay, who resigned as Republican Majority Leader …
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A Conversation With Senator Harry Reid — Entering the office of incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can be a bit of an intimidating experience. It has the austere look one would expect of such a room and it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the fact that the man who has just become …
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Pakistani Islamists protest against pro-women law — KARACHI (Reuters) - Thousands of Islamist protesters demonstrated in southern Pakistan on Sunday against a new law that reduces the burden of proof on rape victims by allowing them to seek justice without the need for four male witnesses.
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Hey, Rosie: Read my lips — Ching, chong, smackdown's on: — Hoisted by her own petard for her Asian language mimickry, diva of political correctness Rosie O'Donnell is getting blasted by a Chinese-American NYC city councilman for offending minorities: … It's one of the rare times I am enjoying the P.C. circus at work.
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Olmert indicates Israel has nuclear capability — In a move unprecedented by any Israeli leader, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday included Israel in a list of nuclear nations. — In an interview with the German television network SAT 1, Olmert was asked about the statement …
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Wanted: A Strong Wooden Stake and Several Garlic Bulbs — Those are some of the tools that are necessary to ensure that a vampire is really dead. As one has died today and his truly vile regime was responsible for the deaths of thousands, the torture of many more thousands …
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Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars — Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow. — A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife.
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Seeking Iran Intelligence, U.S. Tries Google — Internet Search Yields Names Cited in U.N. Draft Resolution — When the State Department recently asked the CIA for names of Iranians who could be sanctioned for their involvement in a clandestine nuclear weapons program, the agency refused …
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Defense Tech, FP Passport, The Carpetbagger Report, Haft of the Spear and Regime Change Iran
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Good News, Everybody: We've Got a New Iraq Slogan! — Not surprisingly, the Bush administration is already backing away from most of the proposals put forth by the Iraq Study Group. The New York Times, with unintended comic irony, noted it this way: "Administration officials …
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Once Just a Sweet Birthday Treat, the Cupcake Becomes a Cause — Once a cupcake wasn't something to think about. It was just what your mom brought to school for your birthday. But this year, as schools across the country begin enforcing new federally mandated "wellness policies," many are banning the little treats.