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  • Hasan's Superiors Advanced Him Despite Concerns

    A recently released review of Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the doctor accused of murdering thirteen people at the Ft. Hood army base in Texas, paints the picture of a man who was continually advanced up the ranks by superiors despite reservations among superiors. From The Washington Post A Defense Department review of the shooting rampage…

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  • Tucker Carlson Launches Website

    Tucker Carlson has launched The Daily Caller, ‘a conservative answer to The Huffington Post’. Reception has been mixed. Alex Pareene of Gawker thinks, all things considered, the site will be a welcome foil for HuffPo, whereas TS of Instaputz thinks the site doesn’t have the goods to last longer than a year. Give the site…

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  • Read/React: Michael Eric Dyson on Obama

    Found this video over on Urban Politico. Fire away.

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  • Blagojevich Means "Blacker Than Obama" in Serbian

    According to The Washington Post, disgraced former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich told Esquire magazine that he was a real guy among phonies and makes the claim that he was blacker than President Obama. Blagojevich, referring to the president as “this guy,” says Obama was elected based simply on hope. “What the (expletive)? Everything he’s saying’s…

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  • Obama/Biden: Beef You Can Believe In?

    In their new book “Game Change”, journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann allege that Barack Obama and Joe Biden were not the best of friends on the 2008 campaign trail. From Politico [A] separate campaign call was regularly scheduled between the then-Delaware senator and two of Obama’s top campaign aides – “so that they could…

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  • Read/React: Glenn Beck Dislikes "African-American"

    The Buzz is going to go out on a limb and say, of all the things Beck has said, this isn’t really the most egregious and his point isn’t without merit. On his syndicated radio show, Beck had this to say Beck went on to explain his displeasure with the term, which centered around African-American…

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  • Michael Jackson's Doc Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter

    Dr. Conrad Murray has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson. From The Guardian: The criminal case, first reported by the Associated Press, comes nearly five months after the Los Angeles county coroner ruled the pop legend’s death was a homicide, finding he was poisoned by an overdose of the anaesthetic…

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  • Steele's Book Surprised GOP

    Michael Steel went rogue with his book release and party leadership was “caught by surprise”. From The Washington Post: Republican congressional leaders say they did not know that their party chairman, Michael S. Steele, was publishing a book until it was released this week, and they had no input in drafting what Steele is promoting…

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  • The Confab — Jan. 8, 2010

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  • Pro-Life Doesn't Play in New York, Mr. Ford

    The Root has been watching Harold Ford Jr.’s potential run for Senator of New York. While we’re skeptical New Yorkers would tolerate his carpet-bagging, Hillary Clinton has done it before—and she’s doing big things. Greg Sargent points out that it’s really Ford’s cultural conservatism that might turn off  voters in the big, blue state. Watch…

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