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It’s been a hectic week and I haven’t been able to blog very much at all as I’ve been driving back and forth from Boston to PA due to a death in my immediate family. I hope everyone had a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving.
Here are some stories in the news that caught my eye today:
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If the auto-industry titan is hoping to win the top spot on the “Top 5 Corporations We Hate Most” list then I suggest they continue doing everything they are currently doing…and then some.
GM has now filed with the FAA to block the public from having access to the flight records (destination, etc.) of it’s corporate [...]

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Please tell me this rumor is just that- a rumor. The thought of big-mouth Chris Mathews holding court as a US Senator is just to much to take. Didn’t his brother run for office as a Republican in PA a while back?
Neither the Democrats or the Republicans should be punished by having him [...]

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The White House can’t even resist sticking a Christian symbol in its annual Hannukah card. Pathetic. At least Laura Bush has apologized.

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It’s easy to focus almost exclusively on the Middle East as the major front in our efforts to reign in anti-US, religious extremism and terrorism, but that belies the real truth- a truth most in the mainstream media help to maintain and that is that the continent of Africa has become a major player in [...]

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A couple of news stories caught my eye this morning:
-A GITMO case is winding it’s way up to the DC Court of Appeals and if they agree to hear the case, it will test the limits of presidential power.
-A massive bailout is planned for Citigroup.
-Obama to unveil entire economic team today.
-Obama seems to be attempting [...]

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Although the election is over, there are still several Senate races which were too close to call and depending on the particular state law which controls the issue, we may not know the result for at least another month.
In Alaska, long-time Republican Senator and convicted felon, Ted Stevens, is falling farther and farther behind his [...]

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Who cares about John Edwards and his extra-marital affair? Why would he have to “lay low” right now? People have bigger things to worry about than who John Edwards slept with and why.

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Conventional wisdom says that the VP selection generally doesn’t play a role in how people vote on election day. However, in the last days of the campaigns, it became more apparent that the VP selections did in fact matter. Joe Biden provided reassurance to those who worried Obama did not have adequate foreign policy [...]

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Now that a ’socialist’ has been elected, we all know the first thing he’s going to do is enact a huge registry of gun owners which he will keep in his private files and send out federal troops to go knock on the door of every one of those people’s houses and take their guns [...]

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