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This was not a good debate for Obama, period. But it wasn't a great debate for Clinton either. Of course, that may not matter to Team Clinton. In a twp-way debate, it's not about which candidate narrowly wins -- but which candidate gets pummeled in the post-debate reviews. And Obama will get pummeled because well he did get pummeled, a little bit by Clinton and a little bit by the moderators. In the first 40 minutes of the debate, most of the questioning was on Obama's negatives (except for a lone Bosnia-sniper question to Clinton) and that's what helped create...

Tuesday, 27 November 2007 Multi-National Corps – IraqPublic Affairs Office, Camp VictoryAPO AE 09342FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASERELEASE No. 20071127-04November 27, 2007Operation Varsity March leads to capture of suspect (Sayafiyah)By Spc. Ben Hutto, 3rd HBCT, 3rd Inf. Div. PAOMulti-National Division – Center PAOFORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, Iraq – Soldiers from Company B, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, captured 13 suspected extremists during a nighttime air assault mission in Sayafiyah, Iraq, a small village outside of Salman Pak, Nov. 24.One of the detainees was a high-value individual, who is a member of al-Qaeda in Iraq wanted for weapons smuggling and financing attacks...

LIVINGSTON, TX - A prisoner on Texas' death row was released today after prison officials failed to produce enough documentation to keep him behind bars. The prisoner, known as 'Old Joe', is thought to have been on death row since the 1950's, although no records of his trial, conviction or appeals could be found in prison archives...

In a story of betrayal worthy of an episode of Dateline NBC, undercover producer Michelle Madigan was exposed and forced out of the conference on Friday Dateline NBC Producer Michelle Madigan was publicly outed at the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas Friday after show organizers were tipped off that she was trying to film show attendees with a hidden camera. ... Madigan ran from the show after organizers publicly threatened to escort her from the event at the beginning of a 4 p.m. conference session by noted hacker HD Moore. "She literally kicked the door open," said "Priest," a...

Cheney won't take back Pelosi comment 24 minutes ago Vice President Dick Cheney refused Friday to take back his charge that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record)'s opposition to President Bush's Iraq war buildup is playing into the hands of the al-Qaida terrorist network. "If you're going to advocate a course of action that basically is withdrawal of our forces from Iraq, then you don't get to just do the fun part of that, that says, 'We'll, we're going to get out,' and appeal to your constituents on that basis," Cheney said. The vice president had voiced the...

Representative Martin T. Meehan (D-Mass.) and Barney Frank (D-Mass.) say they intend to reverse the 13-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays and lesbians in the military. Meehan said he plans to hold congressional hearings early next year of the House Armed Services Subcommittee, which he is likely to chair, on a bill that would “permit openly homosexual individuals to service their country.” “We will have hearings, and then we can have an honest intercourse with members of Congress,” Meehan said. “I have always believed, that once people see the facts, it will become clear that allowing openly gay...

A day after violent Muslim riots spurred Pope Benedict XVI to apologize for implying that Islam has brought more evil to the world, the Pontiff today agreed to consider a petition to add the name of Islam’s founder to the pantheon of Roman Catholic saints. A Vatican spokesman said that, as part of the Holy Father’s self-imposed penance to atone for his ill-advised remarks about Muhammad, he has given permission for the Roman Catholic church to investigate canonizing the founder of one of the world’s three great monotheistic religions. Vatican researchers said the application is already being processed and they...

Chris Link July 30, 2006 12:00am THIS is the picture that damns Hezbollah. It is one of several, smuggled from behind Lebanon's battle lines, showing that Hezbollah is waging war amid suburbia. The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy-calibre weapons. Dressed in civilian clothing so they can quickly disappear, the militants carrying automatic assault rifles and ride in on trucks mounted with cannon. The photographs, from the Christian area of Wadi Chahrour in the east of Beirut, were taken by a visiting journalist and smuggled...

September 11, 2001 ... Atlas shrugged (with apologies to Ayn Rand)We, as Americans were forced out of our go-nowhere political doldrums by a horrific attack on U.S. soil by, as sneak attacks go .. a fairly effective action.Since then, we've been bombarded (no pun intended) with the word and concept of "terrorism".Terrorism and terrorists have been analyzed every which way and loose .. and to the un-interested, we seemed to be going nowhere fast.Well .. it seems .. we are about to be vindicated ... The President of the United States of America snuck into Iraq, had a meeting, snuck...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Kansas City woman is screaming mad after a cell phone conversation got her kicked out of Crown Center. Zekia Geotcha says she was treated unfairly. She was kicked out of the entire mall after one store clerk did not want her on the phone. Cell phones are a major convenience at times and an annoying disturbance at other times. People use them for emergencies, to keep in touch with family and friends. Some people find users rude when they are constantly on the phone, or when they are in a quiet place and being loud....

Central American Songbird Provides Confirmation of Intelligent Design Lincoln, NE (AP) - Researchers at the University of Nebraska have, for the first time, confirmed a prediction of the controversial theory known as intelligent design, or ID.  The unexpected discovery was made by Paavamanti Ashook and Jessica Aylesworth, two graduate students working under the direction of Dr. Peter Harl, a professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Nebraska, while they were sequencing a section of the genetic code for the turquoise-browed motmot, Eumomota superciliosa, a Central American songbird. The Turquiose-browed Motmot of Central America may provide the first...

AP News Alert ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigerian police say they have arrested Liberian warlord Charles Taylor.

Forecasters said yesterday that the month of December had an average temperature of 38 degrees in New York City, 4 degrees higher than normal and 10 degrees higher than December of 1904. It was the warmest December in 14 years. There have been only four December in the last thirty-five years that have been warmer. The warmest on record was in 1891, when the mean temperature for the month was 42 degrees.

   December 4, 2005 Vigilantes nab crook Hog-tie suspect after snack machine thefts By TAMARA KING, STAFF REPORTER Vend-Tec employees apprehended a man they say was breaking into one of their machines early yesterday morning. (Handout) Frustrated with a spate of snack machine break-ins that's reportedly cost them thousands of dollars, several Winnipeggers took the law into their own hands early yesterday morning. They set up a sting to catch an alleged crook with his hands in the proverbial "cookie jar" -- snack machines which contain upwards of $100 in change. A crew from Vend-Tec Group spent the night...

July 28th, 2005 Only by author » All Articles Closing the loop on reparations July 28th, 2005 There’s sweet irony; there’s delicious irony; and then there’s irony that a spoonful of which would just make medicine go down. As you may know, slavery reparations shakedown thugs have been beating their drum for quite some time now, but have thus far failed to achieve their ends through Congress or courts. Undeterred, they’ve changed their tack and have decided to work from the ground up, pressuring localities to enact pro-reparations ordinances and targeting poltroonish CEO’s who shudder at the prospect of placement...

HADITHA, Iraq (AP) -- Slumped on the doorstep of a war-damaged police station, worn out and sweltering in 110 degree heat, Pfc. Derek Davidson couldn't resist a joke about a friend who'd stayed back at base after injuring himself lifting weights. "I gotta go to the gym more often," Davidson lamented. Around him, a small group of fellow U.S. Marines, taking a brief break from battle, erupted into snickers. As they have throughout their history, the Marines here often turn to jokes or pranks to relieve the tension of living in constant danger, these days while patrolling dusty streets of...

HAN YUNIS: A member of the armed wing of Islamist movement Hamas was on Sunday shot dead by an Israeli sniper after he left his home in the central Gaza town of Khan Yunis, Palestinian medical and security sources said. Palestinian medical and medical sources named the man as 30-year-old Said Saeam, a member of the Ezzedin al-Qassam Brigades, in Khan Yunis. He was killed by a sniper from a nearby Israeli observation tower, just two days after seven Hamas militants were killed in Israeli air strikes over Gaza city and the northern West Bank. There was no immediate comment...

IT WAS front-page news this week when Newsweek retracted a report claiming that a US interrogator in Guantanamo had flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet. Everywhere it was noted that Newsweek's story had sparked widespread Muslim rioting, in which at least 17 people were killed. But there was no mention of deadly protests triggered in recent years by comparable acts of desecration against other religions. No one recalled, for example, that American Catholics lashed out in violent rampages in 1989, after photographer Andres Serrano's ''Piss Christ" -- a photograph of a crucifix submerged in urine -- was...

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