May 2011
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Women Fighting and Dying in War, Despite Combat... →
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(WASHINGTON) — By this Memorial Day, nearly 150 U.S. female troops have made the ultimate sacrifice in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, with over 700 wounded. Although Department of Defense policy precludes women from being assigned to ground combat-infantry units, women have for years served in combat situations where they’re just as vulnerable. Marine Lance Corp. Angelica...
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Military Industrial: Should Pentagon Budget Be... →
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(WASHINGTON) — Defense accounts for the largest chunk of U.S. federal spending. Of all the money that Congress controls each year, nearly a quarter goes towards the Pentagon and defense spending. As Congress mulls budget cuts, defense spending is coming increasingly under scrutiny and threatens to become another explosive topic that could divide Republicans as the 2012 race heats...
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Atheists Have Best Sex Lives, Claims Psychologist →
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(TOPEKA, Kan.) -– Darrel Ray, raised a fundamentalist Christian in Topeka, Kan., shed a heavy cloak of guilt surrounding sex after he left the church in the late 1970s, and wondered if his experience reflected that of others. Now he’s completed research that he said bore out his hypotheses — that religion and good sex don’t mix. In an online survey of 14,500 people who had come...
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Lost - The End - One Year Later →
From EW’s Doc Jensen:
Doc Jensen: One year after ”The End,” the need to ”make sense of it” fades, while his desire to apply its themes gets stronger. To that end, new theories about Jacob, the Smoke Monster, and the real power of the Island’s guardians.
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ABC NEWS: A Special Election With National... →
joshsternberg:
Voters in New York’s 26th Congressional district go to the polls today to pick a new member of Congress, and their choice will say as much about who they want to represent them as it does about the national mood on a major GOP proposal already shaping the debate in the Republican presidential primary.
The race between Democrat Kathleen Hochul, the clerk of Erie County,...
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Exclusive: Return to Normal 'Many Months' Away,... →
abcnewsradio:
(JOPLIN, Mo.) — The death toll from a vicious tornado that ripped through Joplin, Missouri, has risen to 117 as searchers claw through rubble hoping to find survivors. In an interview with ABC News Radio, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said the Tuesday morning sunrise gave crews a boost, but also a dose of reality. “Over these last two dark and windy and rainy days, everybody’s been...
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How to Help Tornado Victims in Joplin, Missouri →
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(JOPLIN, Mo.) — Rescue efforts are underway as residents of Joplin, Mo., try to pick up the pieces of their lives after a devastating tornado hit the city of about 50,000, and severe storms ravaged the Midwest this weekend. At least 89 people have been reported dead in Joplin. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency Sunday evening and activated the National Guard....
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“It’s not just disaffected Newsweek vets doing the grumbling, either. The...”
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—Newsroom Roil Is Tina’s Beast of Burden | Adweek
I have a tremendous amount of respect for Tobias Wolff, but, really? Why not? That piece would likely see more readership online at the Daily Beast than it would in print Newsweek (not an indictment of print; the Web is simply wider venue).
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Donald Trump Back in the 2012 Race? →
abcnewsradio:
(NEW YORK) — Perhaps Donald Trump didn’t really bow out after all. The billionaire business mogul phoned into Fox News’ Fox & Friends Monday to lament the state of the Republican field. He took issue with Mike Huckabee exiting the race, saying he’s sure Huckabee could win and he’s still sure he himself could have won. Trump refused to rule out a late entry into the Republican...
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NYC Smoking Ban in Parks, Beaches Goes Into Effect →
abcnewsradio:
As of Monday, all public parks, beaches and pedestrian plazas will be smoke-free, enforced by fines that range from $50 to $250.
With bars and restaurants already giving them the brush, places like Central Park, Times Square plaza, and Coney Island’s boardwalk will join the list of places that no longer welcome smokers to sit back and light up. … Read the Full Story -»
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CDC Prepares for Zombie Apocalypse →
theinevitablezombieapocalypse:
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(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – a government agency – hasn’t outright predicted a zombie apocalypse, but rest assured: it’s prepared. In a post that caught the attention of geeks and politicos alike, the CDC this week posted a guide, called “Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse,” to insure public safety in...
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BREAKING: Dominique Strauss-Kahn Indicted by New... →
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(NEW YORK) — Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was indicted on four major felony charges Thursday, in a seven-count indictment. The major charges include two counts of criminal sexual act in the first degree and one count of attempted rape. The other major count is sex abuse in the first degree. The other counts in the indictment include sexual abuse in the third degree,...
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CDC Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse →
theinevitablezombieapocalypse:
Note: This is an actual blog post from the Centers for Disease Control. The government’s servers are currently being slammed (as is typical during a zombie apocalypse). We are linking to and providing a cached version of the story due to the dire need for public awareness of zombie survival preparedness.
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There are all kinds of emergencies out there that...
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Obama Campaign Hawks Birth Certificate T-Shirts →
abcnewsradio:
(WASHINGTON) — President Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign on Wednesday started selling “Made in the USA” t-shirts featuring images of both President Obama and the long-form birth certificate he released copies of last month. “Wear your support for this campaign with an official Made in the USA T-shirt,” his website advertises. Donate $25 or more today and we’ll send you your...
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“…My inner worrywart wonders whether the new technologies overtaking us may...”
– Bill Keller, The New York Times Magazine
05.22.11
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Mystery Maine Boy Found Dead on Rural Road Puzzles... →
abcnewsradio:
(SOUTH BERWICK, Maine) — Despite receiving at least 100 tips, police said they’re no closer to identifying the dead boy found under a blanket on a rural road in Maine. “Somebody has got to miss this child. He’s a nephew of somebody, a son or grandson of somebody….It’s just been very, very frustrating that we haven’t gotten any leads, significant leads, in identifying this child,”...
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Thanks to the help of @JoshWolff we're making some... →
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Donald Trump Not Running for President →
abcnewsradio:
(NEW YORK) — Donald Trump is not running for president. “After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the Presidency,” Trump said in a statement Monday. “This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders in polls...
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@ABC News has learned that Donald Trump will not...
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Mike Huckabee: 'My Heart Says No' to GOP... →
abcnewsradio:
(NEW YORK) — Count former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee out of the 2012 presidential race. “All the factors say go, but my heart says no,” Huckabee said Saturday night. “My answer is clear and firm, I will not seek the Republican nomination for president this year.” After more than a day of will-he-or-won’t-he speculation about his intentions, Huckabee took to the airwaves of...
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Porn Found in Osama Bin Laden Evidence Trove →
(ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan) — A “huge stash” of pornography was found among the trove of evidence seized from Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound by U.S. Navy SEALs, according to a report confirmed by ABC News. An official tells ABC News the material was found in bin Laden’s bedroom, apparently stored in a wooden box. The discovery of the pornographic videos is just the...
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Nervous Chinese Authorities Crack Down on Sale of... →
abcnewsradio:
(BEIJING) — It’s an icon of Chinese heritage, the subject of many traditional poems and songs, the central ingredient of the country’s favorite tea. But with fear of revolution blossoming in China, authorities are cracking hard down on jasmine…as in, the actual flower. At the Sunhe Beidong Flower Market in Beijing, florist Liu Wei told ABC News that the police had visited vendors...
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Mississippi River Floods Millions of Acres of... →
abcnewsradio:
(MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — It could be weeks before all the flooding is over in the deep south. During the interim, residents can only pray that Mississippi River flooding doesn’t disrupt more lives than it already has. Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi are hardest hit by the floods, with three million acres already swamped by water from the river and its tributaries. The misery is...
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President Obama to Make Mideast Speech, Likely... →
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(WASHINGTON) — President Obama will deliver a speech on the political changes sweeping throughout the Middle East and North Africa “in the relatively near future,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday. Such a speech has been in the works for weeks. A senior administration official tells ABC News that the president will likely deliver the speech next week. The...
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OZ
I’m watching the prison/culture commentary television program Oz. Equal parts riveting, cheesy, and refreshingly naive ‘90’s-era culture-war politics.
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Pakistan Denies US Access to Osama bin Laden's... →
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(NEW YORK) — Pakistan is denying U.S. investigators access to Osama bin Laden’s compound and the wives who lived there with him, a rebuke to the U.S. that is escalating tensions between the two allies in the wake of the raid that killed the al Qaeda leader. Pakistan’s prime minister on...