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Sources: Limbaugh Rushed To Honolulu Hospital — Conservative Radio Show Host Suffering From Chest Pains — HONOLULU — Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on Wednesday afternoon with chest pains, sources told KITV.
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Limbaugh hospitalized — Honolulu TV: — Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on Wednesday afternoon with chest pains, sources told KITV. — Paramedics responded to the call at 2:41 p.m. at the Kahala Hotel and Resort. — Limbaugh suffered from chest pains, sources said.
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Anill / Think Progress:
Limbaugh Rushed To Honolulu Hospital That Gave Rise To ‘Birther’ Conspiracy — Conservative radio shock jock Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital yesterday with chest pains. After paramedics arrived and treated him at the Kahala Hotel and Resort, Limbaugh was transferred …
Associated Press:
Report: Rush Limbaugh taken to Hawaii hospital — HONOLULU (AP) - A Honolulu television station is reporting that conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was taken to a hospital with chest pains. — KITV reported Wednesday that paramedics responded to a call at 2:41 p.m …
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Obama to get report on intelligence failures in Abdulmutallab case — President Obama will receive a report Thursday detailing how some government agencies failed to share or highlight potentially relevant information about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab before he allegedly tried to blow …
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Shadow of 9/11 Is Cast Again — WASHINGTON — The finger-pointing began in earnest on Wednesday over who in the alphabet soup of American security agencies knew what and when about the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up an airliner. — But the harshest spotlight fell …
New York Times:
Spy Agencies Failed to Collate Clues on Terror — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency four months ago intercepted conversations among leaders of Al Qaeda in Yemen discussing a plot to use a Nigerian man for a coming terrorist attack, but American spy agencies later failed to combine …
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The Prowler / American Spectator:
The Politics of Incompetence — On December 26, two days after Nigerian Omar Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to use underwear packed with plastic explosives to blow up the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight he was on, and as it became clear internally that the Administration had suffered perhaps …
Dan Pfeiffer / White House.gov Blog Feed:
The Same Old Washington Blame Game — There has been a lot of discussion online and in the mainstream media about our response to various critics of the President, specifically former Vice President Cheney, who have been coming out of the woodwork since the incident on Christmas Day.
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elliott.org:
Full text of my subpoena from the Department of Homeland Security — We had just put the kids in the bathtub when Special Agent Robert Flaherty knocked on my front door with a subpoena. He was very polite, and used “sir” a lot, and he said he just wanted a name: Who sent me the security directive?
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Los Angeles Times:
Afghanistan suicide bombing kills 8 CIA officers — The Taliban takes responsibility for the explosion at a U.S. base in Khowst province where the agency has a major presence. No U.S. or NATO military personnel are hurt. — Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Rochester, N.Y. …
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White House Visitors Log: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis In Obama Residence Week Before Sting Videos Launched — This afternoon, on arguably one of the slower news day of the year, the Obama White House released another document dump of “visitor records.” According to the White House …
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Greg Gordon / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Investors could only lose in Goldman's Caymans deals — NEW YORK — When financial titan Goldman Sachs joined some of its Wall Street rivals in late 2005 in secretly packaging a new breed of offshore securities, it gave prospective investors little hint that many of the deals were so risky …
Booman Tribune:
Why We Blog — Blogging is an activity. It's something you do either in your spare time or the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night. If you are doing full-time political blogging, something is motivating you. For most of us, that motivation was originally outrage …
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Shannyn Moore / The Huffington Post:
Palibanned Per Todd Palin — I wrote about this last week, but now we have documents! — Sarah Palin's Wasilla book signing had a few rules. “Per Todd Palin”, three of us were banned. “Public servants” in their police uniforms at a “public event” in a “public building” had a list of “public citizens” not allowed in.
Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
Into Thine Hand I Commit My Spirit — Arghandab, Afghanistan — On this small base surrounded by a mixture of enemy and friendly territory, a memorial has been erected just next to the Chapel. Inside the tepee are 21 photos of 21 soldiers killed during the first months of a year-long tour of duty.
Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Madden defends GOP's hypocritical attacks: Obama's in Hawaii, which ‘seems like a foreign place.’ — On CNN this morning, host John Roberts asked former Romney spokesman Kevin Madden about the hypocritical “heat for this president from the Republicans” regarding the Obama administration's response …
John / Power Line:
Government-Caused Disaster — The Obama administration calls terrorism a “man-caused disaster,” but the biggest disasters are government-caused. Only government has the ability to set us back a trillion dollars. — In today's Wall Street Journal, Peter Wallison has explosive …
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Fouad Ajami / Wall Street Journal:
A Cold-Blooded Foreign Policy — No despot fears the president, and no demonstrator in Tehran expects him to ride to the rescue. — Printer — Friendly — With year one drawing to a close, the truth of the Obama presidency is laid bare: retrenchment abroad, and redistribution and the intrusive regulatory state at home.
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Exclusive: Controversial Obama U.N. nominee withdraws for “personal reasons,” official says — Jide Zeitlin, the Obama administration's nominee to be America's point man for financial reform at the United Nations, has withdrawn himself from consideration for the job, an administration official tells The Cable.