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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Baby it's COLD outside!Cold records are being set in many parts of the country, and there's more on the way.How's that global warming thing working in your area?
Maddow Gamely Spins Napolitano's 'System Worked' Absurdity About Fligh
Next time Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano needs a media flack/coat catcher, I know just the right person.MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is lashing out at critics who took Napolitano to task for claiming "the system worked" in response to a terrorist with explosives boarding Northwest Flight 253 and nearly bringing down the plane on Christmas.In the lead segment on her show Dec. 29 (click here…
ABC Despairs Demise of Death Tax Means ‘Government Will Lose Billion
“Congress let renewing the estate tax slip through the legislative cracks and gone with it is $14 billion for the U.S. Treasury,” ABC anchor John Berman fretted in setting up a Saturday night World News story which didn’t consider any of the costs of the death tax, which ABC only referred to as the “estate tax,” such as destroying family businesses, nor the unfairness of re-taxing already taxed…
Ex-Washington Post Ombudsman, Who Recognized Liberal Bias, Killed in N
Deborah Howell, the Washington Post’s ombudsman from late 2005 through the end of 2008, “suffered fatal injuries when struck by a vehicle” while vacationing in New Zealand, an overnight post on WashingtonPost.com reported early Saturday morning. Howell, the top editor at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Washington bureau chief for the Newhouse newspaper chain before jumping to the Post, recognized…
One More Feminist Upset Over Aging Inequalities
If you bother to read Joanna Weiss' column in today's Boston Globe, expect to get a sense of déjà . . . lu. Like untold polemics that have preceded it, "Hollywood’s burden on aging women" stamps its feet over the unequal treatment of aging in men and women.You know: male stars are allowed to age gracefully, but women must struggle ever-harder to conform to a youthful stereotype of sex-appeal.…
Rush Limbaugh Leaves Hospital ‘Feeling Strong and Rested
Late Friday morning Hawaii time, Rush Limbaugh appeared before cameras at Honolulu’s Queen’s Hospital to announce his discharge and that he’s feeling fine, revealing he had an angiogram and “they found absolutely nothing wrong.”In “A Message from Rush to His Listeners” posted on his Web site, Limbaugh shared:Thank you for your prayers and good thoughts over the past several days. Today, I am…
2010: Where's the Black Coffee
For some, the pounding hangover will last through November. (Cartoon below the fold.)
CBS Frets Obama Must Work and So Can’t ‘Recharge His Batteries
The failures that allowed the unsuccessful Christmas Day terrorist attack have marred President Barack Obama’s relaxation schedule in Hawaii, CBS’s Jeff Glor and Chip Reid regretted Thursday night as Reid fretted Obama had “hoped to spend this vacation recharging his batteries, but now he appears to be spending most of it working” and assured viewers Obama is moving fast to protect Americans: “…
