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After Cutting Pay For Soldiers in Harm’s Way… Obama to Cut Healthcare Benefits For Active Duty Soldiers, Too - They will now only get the $7.50 daily proration for the individual days they are actually serving in harm’s way instead of for the whole month. (DOD) Bara...6 hours ago
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GE Breaks Law, Avoids Taxes. Gets Billions From Gov't, Avoids Taxes. Gets White House Post -- Ah, You Know the Rest. - GE paid an effective tax rate of 2.3 percent or less over the past ten years. What did the government do for GE while it was paying little - and often no...6 hours ago
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Majid Kahn and the Pentagon's "Let's Make a Deal" Strategy - Carole Rosenberg at the Miami Herald reports on the Pentagon's new strategyfor Guantanamo cases: Cooperate and work your way out of a major sentence, so c...6 hours ago
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Jon Stewart Ridicules Santorum’s Snob Remark: You Are Against College Because It Is ‘Fancy’? - Today, *Jon Stewart* tried to inaugurate a new segment of the *Daily Show*based on how silly *Rick Santorum*'s comments over the weekend seem to him, entitl...6 hours ago
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Haiti: PM forced out after four months in office - Haitian prime minister Garry Conille submitted a letter of resignation the morning of Feb. 24 as rumors grew of tension between him and President Michel ...8 hours ago
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"handmade" - Just to be clear, fish is not something anybody makes with hands. Unless "mom" is code for God? Thanks Mark.
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Council Members Ask Mayor To Include City College, Columbia in Engineering Plan - In December, Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced his plans to partner with Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to build a two-million-s...8 hours ago
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On the South African genocide against white farmers - In the past two decades, more than 3,000 white farmers have been brutally murdered by blacks in South Africa. Yet, the American media refuse to cover the ...8 hours ago
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Open email links directly in Gmail using Chrome - Posted by Michael Davidson, Software Engineer I used to avoid clicking on email links on the web because an application on my computer that I never used w...9 hours ago
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Public Intelligence wrote a new blog post: Restricted Canada Border Services Agency Tattoo Handbook - Public Intelligence wrote a new blog post: Restricted Canada Border Services Agency Tattoo Handbook [image: Thumbnail] Canada Border Services Agency Orga...9 hours ago
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Lorigo Explains Erie Co. Conservative Endorsement - Erie County Conservative Party Chair Ralph Lorigo explains why his executive committee backed Charles Swanick instead of Mark Grisanti. WPFP(document).read...9 hours ago
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How Can HBO’s ‘Game Change’ Be ‘Fact-Based’ When It’s Based on Gossip and Lies? - “If the book was very misleading, the movie’s going to be far worse”9 hours ago
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“It” made the ballot in Colorado - Specifically, legalizing “it”. From Hit & Run, I learned that the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol got the “Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act ...9 hours ago
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“It” made the ballot in Colorado - Specifically, legalizing “it”. From Hit & Run, I learned that the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol got the “Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act ...9 hours ago
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Rabies (2010) - FEBRUARY 26, 2012 GENRE: SLASHER, SURVIVAL SOURCE: DVD (OWN COLLECTION) I love how the one or two movies I miss at Screamfest every year usually turn o...
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What's Happening in Congress: The Top Ten Things You Need to Know This Week, 2/27/2012 - *What’s Happening in Congress – The Top 10 Things You Need to Know this Week, 02/27/2012* * * 1. *This Week’s Legislative Highlight:* On Tuesday, Feb...10 hours ago
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Vintage Graphic - Young Queen Victoria - Regal Outfit - Click on Image to Enlarge I think this one is quite a rare find! This is a fantastic Victorian Scrap piece of Queen Victoria! She's wearing her full Regal C...
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How Evi Spent A Weekend In App Store Limbo - The mobile world got another reminder over the weekend that the whims of Apple’s App Store review process can make or break a mobile business. In a span ...10 hours ago
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Mars Hill - Sexual Assault Discussion - *Video Description:* What if you know someone who's been assaulted? What are helpful and unhelpful things to do or say? Pray for them, be a good listener, a...
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A Vintage Industrial Home Office Daily Dose of Inspiration - [image: office22712.jpg] More Read More...10 hours ago
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10 Most Amazing Musical Achievements - From the highest to the lowest, the biggest to the longest, these extraordinary artists have made their mark on the world. Watch and listen!11 hours ago
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Thematic Photographic 185 - Greyish - Shaded Boca Raton, FL, January 2012 This week's Thematic theme, greyish, reflects the tone with which I've been viewing the world of late. Here in the Gre...
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NYTimes Tries to Spin Obama’s Big Deficit Problem - Remember when the Bowles-Simpson commission came out with its much-ballyhooed report on how to decrease the deficit? Remember when President Obama rejected...11 hours ago
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In the News - Maybe I should have titled this installment of my old TTM binder "Media Darlings". These ladies aren't all in the news business anymore, but they are all s...
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Monday Evening Links - - Time Warner Cable Revives Usage-Based Internet Plan, But Now It's Optional: 'Essentials Broadband' Service Capped at 5 GB Monthly for $5 Offmultichannel....11 hours ago
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It can be truly said that The Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day has a bat in its belfry. - I'm a sucker for silhouette shots. You've seen a few of them in this column and once my Hobbit reports start back up again you're likely to see one I too...12 hours ago
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Rick Santorum seeks Democratic support in Michigan robocalls - *Rick Santorum*’s presidential campaign is actively seeking the support of Democrats in Tuesday’s Michigan primary, running a robocall that sounds oddly ...12 hours ago
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UN JOBS FORUM HEARS CALL TO UNLOCK POTENTIAL OF YOUNG PEOPLE - UN JOBS FORUM HEARS CALL TO UNLOCK POTENTIAL OF YOUNG PEOPLE New York, Feb 27 2012 6:10PM Governments, corporations and policy-makers must do more to realize...12 hours ago
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Inside outside - [image: the Veranda of Robinsons Galleria] Aside from interior halls dedicated to various restaurants (see yesterday's post), Robinsons Galleria mall also h...
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Watch: Behind the Scenes at Red, White and Blues at the White House - On February 21, 2012 the President and First Lady invited a group of blues legends to perform in the East Room as part of the "In Performance at the Whit...12 hours ago
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Video of the Day: Tilt-shift Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro - Filed under: South America, Brazil, Photo of the Day, Video, Video of the Week Carnaval (or, as we like to write it, Carnival) was last week, but we're ...12 hours ago
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What You're Not Supposed to Know about War - Thomas DiLorenzo is offering a five-week online course on a topic I wish Mitt, Rick, and Newt would take. It's for conservatives who think war not only def...12 hours ago
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