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Harry Alford, the president of the Black Chamber of Commerce, says that he failed to properly vet Obama before he voted for him in 2008. Alford says that his growing disappointment and growing suspicion of President Obama is based on his secretiveness and placing politics over policy. “I didn’t analyze him. I read his book and he’s talking about using cocaine and all the drugs he could find and I kind of brushed through that. That should have caught my eye.”

The soldier accused of killing 13 people and wounding 30 others at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday attended Barstow Community College from spring 1989 to spring 1990, college records show. Maj. Nidal M. Hasan was a straight-A student and on the dean's list at the college, said Maureen Stokes, the public information officer at the school. He took six classes and earned 19 credit hours. His classes - all basic courses - were English, history, sociology, math, political science and biology. Hasan's official transcript indicates he was an enlisted man, an E-3, at Fort Irwin at the time but John...

Question for Computer Geeks. If someone blind carbon copies you on an email, is there any way that the person receiving the email can dig into that email to see the names blind copied?

For months, 17-year-old Andrew Saraf had been troubled by stories he was hearing about a Peace Studies course offered at his Bethesda high school. Last Saturday, he decided to act. He sat down at his computer and typed out his thoughts on why the course should be banned . "I know I'm not the first to bring this up but why has there been no concerted effort to remove Peace Studies from among the B-CC courses?" he wrote in his post to the school's group e-mail list. "The 'class' is headed by an individual with a political agenda, who wants...

Al-Jazeera, the Arabic news channel that gained international prominence during the Gulf war, has hit back at a "ridiculous" attack on its most senior editor in the Daily Express, which branded him "Bin Laden TV chief". The BBC has also defended its decision to hire al-Jazeera's editor-in-chief, Ibrahim Helal, to train journalists throughout the Middle East. In a front-page splash today, the Express lashed out at Helal under the headline: "Now BBC signs up Bin Laden TV chief - new insult to viewers just days after Kilroy sacking." The paper branded al-Jazeera "terror chief Osama Bin Laden's mouthpiece TV channel"...