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• Nick Jordan’s State Senator Endorses Patricia Lightner Over Nick Jordan

  —The Kansas Progress

  Benjamin Hodge writes at RedCounty.com: A few big-government Republicans are attempting to hand-pick former Kansas Senator Nick Jordan as the Republican candidate for the 3rd Congressional District. Nick Jordan, who was a state senator through the end of 2008, lost his senate district to incumbent Democratic Congressman Dennis Moore. But conservative Republican [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 5:32am EST
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• Source: SurveyUSA auto-dialing Johnson County voters, doing poll with KCTV5 on Moran versus Tiahrt

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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 5:11am EST
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• Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government — Comcast-NBC Deal: Does the Merger’s Approval Rest on Health Care?

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  A day, one single day, after the two media giants announced their deal, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts proudly weighed in to strongly support the Senate Democrats’ health care reform bill.
  
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 5:06am EST
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• ClimateGate — Obama science advisers grilled over hacked e-mails

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  WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans pointed to controversial e-mails leaked from climate scientists and said it was evidence of corruption.
  
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 5:04am EST
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• Financial Times — Berlusconi accused by Mafia hitman

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  Testifying behind a screen in a high security court in Turin, Gaspare Spatuzza, a Mafia turncoat, claimed he had been told by a top Sicilian mobster in January 2004 that Mr Berlusconi and his long-time business associate, Marcello Dell’Utri, had given “everything” the Mafia had wanted.
  
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 5:04am EST
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• Palin pokes fun at herself at journalists’ dinner

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  WASHINGTON (AP) - Sarah Palin poked fun at herself in a speech to journalists Saturday night, drawing laughter when she announced she “came down from my hotel room and I could see the Russian embassy.”
  
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 5:03am EST
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• Robert Gates: No good intel on Osama bin Laden in years

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  WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States has not had good intelligence on the whereabouts of terrorist Osama bin Laden in years.
  
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 5:02am EST
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• Kasim Reed Certified as Winner in Atlanta’s Mayoral Election

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  Reed received 50.4 percent of the 84,383 votes cast in a Dec. 1 runoff, said spokesman Reese McCranie. Reed had a 715- vote lead over Councilwoman Mary Norwood, or less than 1 percentage point, said McCranie. The official total announced today includes provisional ballots.
  
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 5:02am EST
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• UK Times Online — Gordon Brown snubbed by soldiers’ ‘curtain’ protest

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  Gordon Brown was snubbed by badly injured Afghan veterans when they closed curtains round their beds during a hospital visit and refused to speak to him.
  
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 5:01am EST
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• Iran says needs 20 nuclear sites

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  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Saturday it needed 20 uranium enrichment plants to provide fuel for its nuclear power plants, an announcement likely to heighten tension with six major powers over the Islamic state’s nuclear ambitions.
  
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 5:01am EST
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• LA Times — Take back Al Gore’s Oscar, 2 Academy members demand in light of Climategate

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  But two Hollywood conservatives (yes, there are some) have called upon the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to rescind the prestigious, profitable gold Oscar statuette that it gave ex-Vice President Al Gore et al two years ago for the environmental movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” Roger L. Simon and Lionel [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 5:00am EST
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• The Tech Folks at ‘Fort Hard Knox’ Explain Google Wave – ‘Facebook’ for Business and Education

  —The Kansas Progress

  Video and more at Fort Hard Knox: Wave is like GMail, Apps, and Reader on steroids. It has a lot of potential for collaboration of all sorts, especially in business and education. It has “social” aspects, in that it only works if your friends are also using it, but is not really [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 9:16pm EST
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• Leavenworth County GOP, with speaker Kevin Yoder — How are they spending your tax money?

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  Representative Kevin Yoder will be at the Lansing Community Center on Monday night at 7pm. Come spend an evening among friends and fellow citizens who share your concerns and frustrations about the Kansas financial mess. As the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature, Kevin has a powerful influence on [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 7:57pm EST
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• New Pat Toomey campaign video: Job growth needed

  —The Kansas Progress

  Watch the Video Now Today, President Obama is making his way through Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley to discuss the economic crises plaguing our country and our state. I’m delighted by the President’s visit and I appreciate the attention he is paying to Pennsylvania. Job creation is an awfully important issue here in [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 7:55pm EST
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• KFL — Urgent - Make weekend call to senators to support of Hatch-Nelson Amendment

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  U.S. Senate may vote any day now on Hatch-Nelson Amendment to prevent government-funded abortion NOTE FROM KFL: YOU’LL NEED THIS INFO TO CONTACT THEIR OFFICES ON THE WEEKEND: Sen. Sam Brownback: Phone: (202) 224-6521 Email:  http://brownback.senate.gov/public/contact/emailsam.cfm Sen. Pat Roberts: Phone: (202) 224-4774 Email: http://roberts.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=EmailPat _____________________________________________________________________________ WASHINGTON (December...
  
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 7:53pm EST
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• Holiday Specials — The Roasterie

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  HOLIDAY Specials myBlend - The perfect gift for everyone on your list! Haven’t created your liquid soul mate yet? Go to myblendcoffee.com now to create your perfect coffee. You are able to customize your blend and personalize the label with your own name and photograph making it the perfect gift. The whole [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 7:52pm EST
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• Monday night — NW JoCo PAC meeting features Derek Schmidt, candidate for Kansas Attorney General

  —The Kansas Progress

  The Northwest Johnson County Republicans invite you to come hear Senate Majority Leader Derek Schmidt come talk about his candidacy for Kansas Attorney General. You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and give Senator Schmidt your Feedback. Monday, December 7 Barley’s Brewhaus at 435 and Midland Dinner/Social Hour — 6:30 p.m. (on you) Meeting [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 7:48pm EST
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• KU owes explanation on Mangino’s exit — JASON WHITLOCK

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  Someone - boosters, taxpayers - paid for the internal investigation into the alleged abusive behavior that cost Mangino his job as Kansas’ football coach. KU fans emotionally and financially invested in Mangino’s eight-year tenure. They were owed an explanation. Instead we got a nighttime press release from athletic director Lew Perkins praising [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 5:17am EST
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• Investor’s Business Daily editorial — Rehire Bernanke

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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 5:17am EST
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• Hillary Clinton op-ed in UK Telegraph: All nations must play a part in Afghanistan mission

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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 5:16am EST
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• John McCain — End the War by Winning It

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  I think President Obama made the right decision to embrace a counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan and to resource it properly. I would have much preferred that Gen. Stanley McChrystal receive the entire force he had requested. But I have spoken with our military and civilian leaders, and I think the [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 5:16am EST
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• San Diego Union-Tribune editorial: Climate-change research fraud is an outrage

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  This editorial page has accepted the predominant view of the scientific community that global warming is occurring partly because of mankind’s industrial activity, specifically the release of carbon dioxide and other “greenhouse gases” into the atmosphere. This view was strongly buttressed by a March 2007 editorial board interview with climate [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 5:15am EST
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• WSJ editorial — The Welfare State and Military Power, Europe-style entitlements mean Europe-sized defenses

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  For our money, one of the better parts of President Obama’s speech at West Point this week was his connection between a healthy economy and U.S. national security. To quote: “Our prosperity provides a foundation for our power. It pays for our military. It underwrites our diplomacy.” We only wish [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 5:14am EST
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• Tina Brown at the Daily Beast: “I have come to the conclusion that the real reason this gifted communicator has become so bad at communicating is that he doesn’t really believe a word that he is saying.”

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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 5:13am EST
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• The End of Audacity — NINA EASTON

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  “Audacity” was a catchy campaign theme, but it’s less attractive as a governing principle. The all-important swing voters who decide elections are nervous about dramatic expansions of the Federal Government–even and especially in this time of economic distress. As it turns out, this financial crisis was not the call to [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 5:12am EST
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• Gambling With American Medicine — Hugh Hewitt

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  This week I asked four proponents of Obamacare to spend some time on air with me. Transcripts of these interviews with The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn, Brookings’ economist Dr. Henry Aaron, Princeton economist Dr. Uwe Reinhardt and MIT economist Dr. John Gruber are all available here .
  
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 5:11am EST
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• Weather Channel founder John Coleman: the MSM won’t admit fault — they will preach global warming until they can claim, “We were misled.”

  —The Kansas Progress

  This simple three-word phrase is almost impossible to say because it changes everything. It is easiest for a child to say it - after all, a child isn’t expected to be right about things. But the higher you climb through life, the more difficult it becomes to admit being wrong. [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 5:11am EST
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• Tiahrt Op-Ed in Washington Times: McCain moderation is politics of convenience

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  Now is not the time to build moderate fiefdoms eager to make alliances with the party of Obama. Rather, we must restore the meaning of Republican to that identified by our party’s first president: “government of the people.” Any number of bright, conservative and principled Republican leaders are ready to take [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:49am EST
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• Pat Toomey campaign Email — Deadline: December 31

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  As of early this morning, we have exactly 31 days until the end of the year. December 31 is also the last day that we’ll be able to raise and report campaign contributions in 2009. In anticipation of this very important deadline, we’ve set an end of month goal to recruit [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:37am EST
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• We-Don’t-Want-to-Talk-About-It-Gate — David Harsanyi

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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:09am EST
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• John Stossel — Who Creates Jobs?

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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:09am EST
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• DE Sen Poll: Republican Mike Castle Holds Lead Over Beau Biden

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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:08am EST
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• UK Guardian editorial — Climate science: Inconvenient truths

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  Another rule of public life, however, is that the cover-up does more harm than the scandal. Any suggestion that scientists are being less than frank will shred their credibility. The leaked emails are thus profoundly inconvenient for all of us who are concerned to make the world wake up to [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:07am EST
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• Pittsburgh Tribune editorial — Here comes Copenhagen: As the fraud turns …

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  How climate change “scholars” and politicos will gather with straight faces at next week’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is beyond us. The “science” of “man-made global warming,” long thought to be the stuff of cooked theological recipes, is proving to be just that. Leaked e-mails from a prominent [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:06am EST
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• Rory Reid campaign for governor in Nevada — Running In His Father’s Shadow, Reid Zeroes In On Economy

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  RCP: “We’ve been kicking the can down the road for decades in Nevada,” Reid told a group of reporters in Washington Wednesday. He talked about a 1955 Colliers Magazine story that discussed Nevada’s “boom-and-bust revenue cycle, an education system with tremendous problems, and gaping holes in its social safety net.” ” [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:05am EST
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• Obama science advisers grilled over hacked e-mails

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  WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans pointed to controversial e-mails leaked from climate scientists and said it was evidence of corruption. Top administration scientists looking at the same thing found no such sign, saying it doesn’t change the fact that the world is warming.
  
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:02am EST
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• Secret Service puts 3 on leave over gate crashing

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  WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the Secret Service asserted Thursday that the security breach at last week’s White House state dinner was an aberration but has put three uniformed officers on leave. President Barack Obama says his confidence in the agency remains unshaken.
  
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:01am EST
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• Chair Metsker Statement on Wysong Resignation

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  December 1, 2009 For Immediate Release Chairman of the Johnson County Republican Party Ronnie Metsker issued the following statement today regarding the resignation of state Senator David Wysong:   “Our best wishes to David, his wife Kathy, and their family.  Senator Wysong has unselfishly served the Johnson County area for 10 [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 5:41pm EST
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• AFP’s Hot Air Tour Goes Global

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  In one week President Barack Obama will travel to Copenhagen, Denmark for the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference.  It is a near certainty the President will commit the United States to an energy rationing scheme that makes us accountable to U.N. bureaucrats, kills jobs here, dramatically raises the price [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 5:30pm EST
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• Poll: KS-03 Republican primary

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  Let the races begin! The primary race in Kansas’ Third Congressional District just got a lot more crowded with Dennis Moore announcing he’s quitting rather than face Republican opposition. You can vote for your choice for a Republican nominee in our poll on the right. We’ve tried to list any candidate running [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:16pm EST
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• Atty: Fort Hood suspect may use insanity defense

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  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - An Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people during an attack on his Texas post will likely plead not guilty to the charges against him and may use an insanity defense at his military trial, his attorney said Monday.
  
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:40pm EST
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• 56-Year-Old Man Brought Back To Life After 47 Minutes, 4,500 Chest Compressions And 8 Zaps With Defibrillator

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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:40pm EST
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• Washington Post closing remaining U.S. bureaus

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  NEW YORK, Nov 24 (Reuters) - The Washington Post (WPO.N) is closing its last U.S. bureaus outside the nation’s capital as the money-losing newspaper retrenches to focus on politics and local news.
  
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:40pm EST
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• News Corp. Joined by Rivals Weighing Google Block

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  MediaNews Group Inc., the Post’s publisher, will block Google News when it starts charging readers in Pennsylvania and California for online content next year, Chief Executive Officer Dean Singleton said in an interview. Morning News owner A.H. Belo Corp. may introduce online subscription fees and also block Google, Executive Vice [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:39pm EST
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• WSJ — Lending Declines as Bank Jitters Persist

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  Total loan balances fell by $210.4 billion, or 3%, in the third quarter, the biggest decline since data collection began in 1984, according to a report released Tuesday by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The FDIC also said its fund to backstop deposits fell into negative territory for just the [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:38pm EST
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• Obama could lock in Afghanistan decision Monday

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  WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House said President Barack Obama could use an unusual evening war council session Monday to lock in his long-awaited decision on whether to commit tens of thousands of new U.S. forces to the stalemated war in Afghanistan.
  
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:38pm EST
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• Schwarzenegger caught parking Porsche in red zone

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  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Just weeks after California first lady Maria Shriver apologized for parking in a red zone, her husband appears to have violated the same law.
  
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:36pm EST
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• China Daily — China State Construction nets $100m US subway deal

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  China State Construction Engineering Corp, the largest contractor in China, has bagged a subway ventilation project worth about $100 million in New York’s Manhattan area, marking the construction giant’s third order in the United States’ infrastructure space this year.
  
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:36pm EST
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• New map suggests Mars was wet and humid

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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:35pm EST
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• BBC: we won’t charge for online news

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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:35pm EST
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