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  • Sisu

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    Fans of underdogs should observe today as an international holiday. It’s the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Winter War.  It was 70 years ago today that Stalin’s Red Army invaded sprawling, cold, thinly-populated Finland.  His army of well over 200,000 troops, with hundreds of tanks and hundreds more artillery [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:00pm EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • I Don’t Have to Outrun the Bear. Just You.

    Number of comments: 10
    While Democrats and Republicans battle it out, most Americans have lost no love for either party and may be lining up behind…neither. Main Street America has entered an era of populism that embraces neither party. People are tired of government bailouts, spending and unchecked corruption, as well as the media’s perceived [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:00am EST
    by Johnny Roosh

  • Note To Local Leftybloggers

    Number of comments: 10
    I realize you get that sense of edgy rebellion by calling our governor “Timmy”.  And ordinarily I’d not be the one to rain on your parade, however pathetic “your parade” would seem to be. However, he was elected by a plurality of your neighbors – twice.  So it’s actually “Governor Pawlenty” to [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:43am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Now, This Would Spike The Ball

    Number of comments: 3
    I think it’s unlikely, but far from impossible, that the GOP will take the US House back in 2010; beyond the historical tradition of the president losing seats at midterm, I think that there’s a lot of generalized dissatisfaction with the Administration out there.  It’s easy and tempting to fall [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:13am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Indefinite Detention

    Last week, I wrote about the U of M Department of Education’s plan to screen Education majors – aka “future teachers” – for political purity. I was going to write a detailed fisking last week, but as expected, FIRE – America’s foremost academic freedom group – beat me to it. I’m excerpting [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:00am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • It’s All Coming Back To Me Now

    Number of comments: 7
    Y’know, I have to confess – two weeks ago, when I ribbed the local “Minnesota Netroots Conference” – the last thing I’d have expected was that any of them would actually be reading me.  Partly because, I’ll be honest, my readership among local leftyboggers is pretty darn minimal, and partly [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:59am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Radio Dazed

    By the way – posting’s been zephyr-light over this holiday weekend (although I see Roosh and Doug have contributed – bully, lads!), and I’ll confess I needed a bit of a break. And the show’s off today, too – we’re taking our traditional Thanksgiving day off.  I hope you’re enjoying the [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 11:58am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Here We Are Again…

    Number of comments: 10
    …living in the midst of a burdensome if not oppressive government, gorging itself on the citizens it was created to serve. We may find ourselves in the very same predicament the pilgrims of Plimoth risked their lives to flee. The pilgrims were deeply focused on the Old Testament narrative of Moses leading [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:28am EST
    by Johnny Roosh

  • Radio Silence

    Number of comments: 2
    The Northern Alliance Radio Network – King, John, Brian, Ed and I – are all taking the day off today to observe the Thanksgiving holiday. Tune in to a “Best Of” broadcast, and join us next weekend! [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 7:55am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Brain Candy

    Number of comments: 1
    I tried this online game thingie – ten minutes to remember every country in Asia and the Middle East.  I got 46 out of 48, officially – although one of the ones I “missed” I knew, but spelled wrong. [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:24am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Like New Years

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    Every year, I try to think if I can write a better Thanksgiving piece than I wrote seven years ago, for this blog’s first Thanksgiving. Nope.  I still got nothin’. Happy Thanksgiving, all! [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:09pm EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Happy Thanksgiving

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    Ronald Reagan’1985 message to America: [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 5:05am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Things Newt Gingrich (Maybe) Never Said

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    I came across this quotation allegedly by Newt Gingrich today: “I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, but that America gave him the White House based on the same credentials.” Hah, hah. It’s funny cuz it’s true, etc. etc. That’s [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:04pm EST
    by Bogus Doug

  • SITD Redux: How To Save Public Schools

    Number of comments: 5
    This is a piece I originally published in April of 2005.  Some minor updates and copy-edits have been added. ———- When I hear blowhards like Nick Coleman ranting about how Republicans want to “abolish the public school system”, I get a chuckle. I grew up in the public schools – Dad was [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:00pm EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Twin Cities Leftybloggers: Verdict – Guilty! Sentence – Ridicule!

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    Here’s one for the Hall of Shame. A few months ago, US Census worker Bill Sparkman was found dead.  The death was suspicious – he was found hanging, with anti-government graffiti scrawled on his chest. This happened not long after Rep. Michele Bachmann spoke about her ambivalence about cooperating with a census [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:00am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Ditto

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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:29am EST
    by Johnny Roosh

  • It Just Occurred To Me

    Number of comments: 10
    I ask people on the left, constantly, “so what, precisely, is the problem you have with Katherine Kersten – besides the fact that she’s a conservative?” The closest thing I’ve seen to an answer that wasn’t solely fueled by politics was “she was never a reporter; she’s nothing but a think [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:55am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • The Schizo Pages

    Number of comments: 8
    Getting a job at the City Pages is apparently like getting a “diary” on Minnesota “Progressive” Project. Otherwise, how would “Hart Van Denburg” have gotten to get this bit here published? Last week, MinnPost gave controversial conservative scribe Katherine Kersten a free megaphone for her oft-repeated views on everything from gay marriage [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:36am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Don’t Blame Geithner…It’s All of ‘Em

    Number of comments: 10
    Last quarter’s “numbers” confirm that the stimulus didn’t stimulate, clunkers was one, the unemployed are still growing in ranks and the consumer is still cowering at home. Democrats are looking for someone to take the fall when in fact they are all making exactly the wrong moves economically, and soon [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:49am EST
    by Johnny Roosh

  • Their Master’s Voice

    Number of comments: 10
    Robin “Rew” Marty is leaving the Center for “Independent” Media – the “non-profit” that controls and bankrolls a whole slew of “independent” political propaganda sites like the Minnesoros “Independent“: Over my years with the CIM my job became more and more operational based, and now that they are larger, they have [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:00pm EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Tyranny For Ye, But Not For We

    Number of comments: 10
    The word “hypocrite” gets tossed around with excessive abandon in grassroots political arguments; leftybloggers throw it about like monkeys flinging poo over every perceived inconsistency or imperfection they can dredge up. “Hypocricy” is when someone completely contradicts a moral, ethical, philosophical or other stance. Like, say, when a Legislative body tries to [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:07am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Aim

    Number of comments: 10
    Since the Civil Rights movement’s epic victory in the Heller case two years ago, the eyes of civil-rights-loving Americans of all parties have been trained on Chicago. The City of Chicago, and many of its suburbs, have gun control laws scarcely less onerous than those in North Korea – while the [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:00am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • A Roof Over My Head

    Number of comments: 6
    …and a hole in the ground. But an investment? …not so sure any more. Another advisor and I were just talking about this over lunch on Friday: is one’s home an investment or just a place to live? The former is only true to the extent that paying off the mortgage and residing [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:00am EST
    by Johnny Roosh

  • Going Un-Framed?

    Number of comments: 10
    Via Andrew Malcolm; Sarah Palin’s numbers are rising as fast as The One’s are dropping: Not that it matters politically because obviously she’s a female Republican dunce and he’s a male Democrat genius. But Sarah Palin’s poll numbers are strengthening. And Barack Obama’s are sliding. Guess what? They’re about to meet in the 40’s. A very [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:15pm EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Why, It’s Almost Like He’s Crazy Or Something

    Hugo Chavez doesn’t think Idi Amin was all that bad: “We thought he was a cannibal,” the Venezuelan leader said, referring to Amin, whose regime was notorious for torturing and killing suspected opponents in the 1970s. “I have doubts. … I don’t know, maybe he was a great nationalist, a patriot.” Most [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:03pm EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Dear “Youtube Star”

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    To:  Would-be YouTube “Stars” From: Mitch Berg Re:  Your Activities To whom it may concern: You know who you are.  You make videos of yourselves sitting on the toilet chanting “I’m Sittin’ On Da Toilet”.  You have your roommates post videos of you, slobbering drunk, chanting “Hhhope ‘enn chanzhe” over and over. You scream [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:00pm EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • You Are Guilty Of Thought Crime; Go To Mental Detention

    Number of comments: 10
    Need any more reason to get your kids the hell out of the public school system? “America Last” is going to be a matter of academic doctrine – at least, at the U of M. Katherine Kersten – the single best columnist working in the Twin Cities today -  takes it down: Do you believe in [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:10am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Now The Strib Is A Giant Of Free Enterprise!

    Number of comments: 5
    In the nearly eight years this blog has been a going concern, I’ve spent countless posts bagging on the Minneapolis Star/Tribune – usually for the relentlessly left-of-center orientation of the editorial board and columnists, although occasionally for really really bad reporting.  I’ve also noted, of course, that whatever their faults, [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:24am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • I Can Learn

    Number of comments: 4
    For all these years, I thought that being “African-American” was a combination of African-descended ethnicity and, at some level, some stake in the cultural history involving slavery, reconstruction and the battle for civil rights. Silly me. It’s all about supporting Obama, no matter what: The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:00am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • “Maybe Al Gore can Photoshop something before December.”

    Number of comments: 1
    From the tearful pleas of rock stars to politicians pounding their hammy fists, the Man Made Global Warming movement has been a maypole for liberals for what seems like twenty years now. …and gave Algore a suitable purpose for his deceitful, pathetic life. Watch now as world leaders quietly turn their backs [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:00am EST
    by Johnny Roosh

  • Happy Birthday, Miami Steve

    Number of comments: 10
    It’s Steve Van Zandt’s 59th birthday today. So which Steve Van Zandt do you like best? The guitar player? As “Miami Steve”, Van Zandt has served for a couple of decades, with a break from 1984 through the mid-nineties, as Bruce Springsteen’s onstage foil – sort of the quiet anti-Clarence-Clemons of the band.  [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 7:00pm EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • There Was Someone On The Radio Saying “Come On, Come On!”

    Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network brings you the best in Minnesota conservatism from 9AM-3PM. The King Banaian Show – On AM1570, “The Businessman”, from 9-11.  King’s broadcasting from Saint Cloud, at long long last. Volume I “The First Team” -  Brian and John or some combination thereof kick off from 11-1. Volume [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:09am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Bad, Bad Jeff.

    Number of comments: 10
    Before I get started, let me just start by saying how very, very much I hate Andy Birkey of the Minnesota Independent. Part of it is the gay thing, sure.  But for the most part, it’s because like most sentient people I hate liberals; their attitudes, their smug self-centered perspective on [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:00am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Good, Good Jeff

    Number of comments: 7
    I had two very different things to say about this particular Jeff Fecke post. In their own way, they rated two separate posts: That out of the way, it’s time for me to defend Carrie Prejean. As you may have heard, former Miss California USA-slash-anti-gay activist Carrie Prejean “Anti-gay activist”? Well, no.  She’s a [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:59am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • When In Downtown Saint Paul Today…

    Number of comments: 8
    …and you’re wondering why there are forty nebbishy white guys with professor glasses and Elvis Costello hair cuts in front of you at Subway asking if there’s arugula and if the salami is free-range, and if the line at Caribou is paralyzed by perpetually outraged-looking women who look and sound [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:35am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • “If You Kids Don’t Stop Fighting I’m Going To Turn This Nation Around!

    A Democrat congressman from Missouri, tired of all that dissent, wants Congress to just shut up and quit its beefing.  Emanuel Deaver is asking his fellow congresscritters to join him in sponsoritng a Concurrent Resolution to bar “complaining” : From time to time, we all experience anxiety, frustration, stress, and regret. [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:11am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • The Exploding Cigar

    Number of comments: 10
    “Liberalism:  Where everything that isn’t mandatory is banned”    — Unknown One of liberalism’s most noxious traits is its tendency – indeed, its almost inevitable need – to support and enforce “liberal” (big and small “L”) policies with authoritarian means.  This tendency is expressed through means both moderately civil and benign (the European [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:05pm EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • A Parliament Of Third-Graders

    Number of comments: 5
    “When you’re taking flak, you know you’re over the target”      — Mike Huckabee “When they call you crazy, you’re scaring the p**s out of them”     — Mitch Berg “Most frequently, ideas about a struggle for truth and justice are formed by personalities with a paranoid structure,”    — Vladimir Bukovsky Note to Michele Bachmann, [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:00pm EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • The Evil Health Insurance Companies

    Number of comments: 10
    …are not so evil after all. The government recently advised that women don’t really need so many mammograms…that it takes 1900 of them to save one life. Insurance companies’ reply? Don’t worry. You’re covered… Insurance companies contacted by USA TODAY say they will continue paying for annual mammograms amid widespread fears that new breast [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:19am EST
    by Johnny Roosh

  • Moo. Moo? Moo!

    Number of comments: 8
    It’s a new book about our CarnivorousnessTM Eating Animals is an exploration of what we eat and why, and how what we eat affects our lives and the environment. Inspired by his impending fatherhood and the responsibility of making dietary choices for his child, Foer set out to discover what exactly [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:02am EST
    by Johnny Roosh

  • He Will Be Convicted

    Number of comments: 10
    On whether he finds it offensive that a terrorist is afforded all the legal rights of an American citizen… Obama: I don’t think it will be offensive at all when he’s convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him. The Government has a good case! He will be convicted and [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:31am EST
    by Johnny Roosh

  • I’m No Lawyer…

    Number of comments: 5
    …and I have only followed the Petters trial in the most cursory possible depth.  But I suspect that… Petters said two top executives of Petters Co. Inc. (PCI), Deanna Coleman and Robert White, filled the company’s balance sheet with constantly maturing promissory notes that eventually broke the company and cost investors $3.65 [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:10am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Unlamented

    Number of comments: 10
    This story passed almost un-noticed in the past three weeks:  John Evander Couey is dead.  He passed away due to complications from anal cancer on September 30. Couey was convicted of kidnapping nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford and burying her alive. Couey took Jessica from her bedroom to his nearby trailer in February 2005, [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:00am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Next We’ll Have Posters Everywhere

    Number of comments: 10
    As Allahpundit notes, the Administration is using “Kiddie Human Shields” in its latest PR project – a propaganda video contest. Which is bad enough.  But here’s the part that caught me. Doesn’t the beginning look like the beginning of a WPA or NRO newsreel from the thirties? [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:52am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Dumbest Tack Ever

    Number of comments: 3
    I commented on this yesterday; the administraiton is listening to the bipartisan revulsion at the decision to hold show-trials for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and company in Manhattan, and saying “na na na scaredypants”. It’s catching on: Senator Patrick Leahy, the real leader of the DNC Markos Moulitsas and Attorney General Holder are all playing [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:34am EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • Obama Won’t Read Palin’s Book…He Thinks It’s About Him.

    Number of comments: 8
    and…in a surprisingly early concession… “You know, if – if I feel like I’ve made the very best decisions for the American people and three years from now I look at it and, you know, my poll numbers are in the tank and because we’ve gone through these wrenching changes, you [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:17pm EST
    by Johnny Roosh

  • Coleman: The Fix Is In

    Number of comments: 10
    I don’t go to the WaPo’s Chris Cilizza for keen-eyed observations on conservatives or Republicans.  But his piece in “The Fix” on the Minnesota goober race provides some junk food for thought: Norm Coleman (R) isn’t expected to make a decision on the 2010 governor’s race until next year but a new Rasmussen [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:02pm EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • The Class Of ‘04

    Number of comments: 6
    Gary Gross’ Let Freedom Ring blog is celebrating a big anniversary today: Today marks the fifth anniversary of me starting blogging. It’s understatement to say that it’s been a great experience. During those years, I’ve watched history being made, starting with the elections in Afghanistan, then Ukraine’s Orange Revolution (that’s how [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:00pm EST
    by Mitch Berg

  • “It would be nice if some leader could induce the country to salivate for the future again.”

    Number of comments: 1
    Instead of apologizing for it’s past. The Chinese, though members of a famously old civilization, seem to possess some of the vigor that once defined the U.S. The Chinese are now an astonishingly optimistic people. Eighty-six percent of Chinese believe their country is headed in the right direction, compared with 37 [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:00am EST
    by Johnny Roosh

  • Lightning Never Strikes Twice

    Number of comments: 10
    Somali pirates attack the Maersk Alabama – the ship from last spring’s hostage drama with captain Richard Phillips – again.  This time, the crew drove the pirates off: Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama for the second time in seven months on Wednesday, but guards on board the U.S.-flagged cargo ship repelled [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:58am EST
    by Mitch Berg
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