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Lateral Move December 2, 2012 Ed Driscoll “Al Jazeera is putting the final touches on a deal to take over Current TV, the low-rated cable channel that was founded by Al Gore and his business partners seven years ago,” the New York Times claims: If the deal is completed, Current will provide the pan-Arab news giant with something it has sought for years: a pathway into American living rooms. Current is available in about 60 million of the 100 million homes in the United States with cable or satellite service.Rather than simply use Current to distribute its English-language channel,...

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Ahh Those Oh So Compassionate Liberals July 26, 2006 Vox Populi, Will Malven Once more friends, America is being treated to an example of exactly what Liberals mean by “compassion.” Via Michelle Malkin’s post on Townhall.com this morning, Human Events Online writer Lisa De Pasquale provides us a taste of what those “peace loving” Leftist are really like by reposting comments she found on an America Online message board attacking Sgt. Leonid Milkin, whose wife, two sons and sister-in-law were murdered in Kirkland, Wash., last week while he was serving in Iraq: “Too bad the paid assasin [sic] wasn’t home...

Can Photos Be Trusted? The web is crawling with jokes, hoaxes and more insidious fakes. Digital-image experts aim to develop foolproof detection tools, but until then, seeing is not believing By Steve Casimiro Related Articles: Can Photos Be Trusted? WEB EXCLUSIVE Can You Tell Which Photos Are Real? Lance Corporal Ted "JOEY" Boudreaux Jr. was bored. It was the summer of 2003 in Iraq, the pause between the heavy lifting of the U.S. invasion and the turmoil of the insurgency, and you can joyride around the desert in a dusty Humvee only so often. Loitering at the back gate of...