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What Jobs?
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Forbes, by Desmond Lachman
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Posted By: garnet- 11/7/2009 9:49:47 PM
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One has to hope that the Obama administration does not believe its own rhetoric about the supposed success of its fiscal stimulus program in generating new jobs. For while the administration assures us that the fiscal stimulus is generating new jobs according to schedule, the U.S. labor market continues to deteriorate at an alarming rate. Failure to arrest this deterioration threatens to abort the incipient economic recovery and to aggravate an already bleak labor market
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Dems: 'We have the votes'
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The Hill, by Mike Soraghan and Jared Allen
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Posted By: goblin- 11/7/2009 9:47:43 PM
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Democratic leaders believe they have the votes to pass their historic, $1 trillion healthcare plan Saturday night, Democratic sources said. "We have the votes," said a senior Democratic aide.Though leaders feel comfortable, the margin is narrow. Aides said leaders are confident they have the 218 votes they need, but at the very least they want to find a 219th vote so that no one member can be considered the decisive vote. They are also concerned about a
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Why Democrats are...smiling?
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The Atlantic, by Clive Crook
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Posted By: garnet- 11/7/2009 9:41:35 PM
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A lot of the post-election commentary has been entertaining, if not very enlightening. To any disinterested observer, the Republicans had a good day on the whole last Tuesday. Not an unalloyed success, bearing in mind the self-inflicted wound in New York, but looking at New Jersey and Virginia, a pretty good day. So the question was how this good result for the Republicans was going to be turned into a bad result, or a result
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Muslim leader found talks with
Ft. Hood suspect disturbing
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 11/7/2009 9:19:07 PM
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FORT HOOD, Texas- An Army psychiatrist who authorities say went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood was so conflicted over what to tell fellow soldiers about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan that a local Islamic leader was deeply troubled by it, the leader said Saturday.Osman Danquah, co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen, said he was disturbed by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's persistent questioning and recommended the mosque reject Hasan's request to become
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Zenyatta Wins Breeders’ Cup Classic
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New York Times, by Joe Drape
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Posted By: JoniTx- 11/7/2009 9:15:08 PM
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ARCADIA, Calif.— Zenyatta is a headstrong girl, and a big one, too. So when she balked entering the starting gate here Saturday, a gasp rippled through the grandstand. Did she suddenly not want to race against the best male horses in the world at a distance she had never run? Mike Smith, her jockey, smooched in, and she stood quiet. But outside, in hole 12, Quality Road was acting up.
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Bloodless President Barack Obama makes Americans wistful
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Telegraph UK, by Toby Harnden
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Posted By: buckeye1- 11/7/2009 9:14:50 PM
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During the election campaign, Barack Obama's cool detachment was a winning quality, the "No Drama Obama" a welcome contrast with the "Mr Angry" John McCain, never mind the hot-headed "I'm the decider" President George W Bush. A year into his presidency, however, Mr Obama seems a curiously bloodless president. If he experiences passion, he seldom shows it.
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From the Floor: Healthcare
protesters crowd House gallery
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Molly K. Hooper
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 9:13:18 PM
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The visitors gallery in the House chamber remained packed on Saturday evening as lawmakers on both sides of the healthcare debate pleaded their case on the floor below. Throughout the afternoon debate, observers provoked the presiding officer’s gavel rap for reflecting the emotion on display during debate. (Snip) On at least seven occasions, the lawmaker serving as speaker pro tem called for order due to applause from the rafters. Cheering, booing or outbursts in the
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Rangel and Boehner Tangle
Over Ethics, Abortion
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New York Times, by Kate Phillips
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Posted By: JoniTx- 11/7/2009 9:11:15 PM
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One of the sharpest exchanges in the House floor debate so far took place between Representative Charles Rangel, Democrat of New York and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Representative John Boehner, Republican of Ohio and the House minority leader.Referring to an amendment restricting federally financed abortions that was authored by Representative Bart Stupak, Democrat of Michigan, and others — an amendment intended to overcome conservative Democrats’ objections to the House health
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Non-believers fill the
church of green gods
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The Sunday Times [UK], by Dominic Lawson
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Posted By: quidnunc- 11/7/2009 9:09:13 PM
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“Al Gore, who art in thy fully offset private jet; Nobel-prized be thy name; thy carbon-free kingdom come; on planet Earth (otherwise known as Gaia) as it should be after Copenhagen; give us this day our daily meat-free diet; and forgive us our emissions, though we don’t forgive any other big fat Americans who emit against us; lead us not into exotic holiday flights; and deliver us from climate denial
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Medvedev: Arms control deal
with US can be reached
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Associated Press, by Vladimir Isachenkov
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 8:47:02 PM
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Moscow - Russia and the United States have a good chance of reaching a new nuclear arms reduction deal before year's end, but other nuclear powers must join disarmament efforts, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday. Medvedev also told Germany's Der Spiegel magazine he has been working well with his predecessor Vladimir Putin
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Sources: Pelosi,
Dems lock up 218
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Politico, by Patrick O'Connor *
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 8:44:35 PM
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Hours before an expected vote on a sweeping health care bill, House Democrats believe they've secured the 218 votes they need to approve the bill, several party insiders said. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took to the House floor about 6:30 p.m. to say, ''Today we will pass the Affordable Health Care for America Act… We will make history. We will also make progress for America's working families.''
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Army: Shooting suspect
taken off ventilator
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 8:40:31 PM
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Fort Hood, Texas – A U.S. Army spokesman says the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood has been taken off a ventilator but still remains in intensive care at a military hospital. Spokesman Col. John Rossi told reporters on Saturday at Fort Hood that he is not sure if Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is able to communicate.
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Preliminary Fort Hood Inquiry
Turns Up No Link to Terror Plot
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New York Times, by David Johnston & Eric Schmitt
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 8:37:55 PM
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Washington - After two days of investigation into the mass shooting at Fort Hood, investigators have tentatively concluded that the attack was not part of a terrorist plot. Rather, they have come to believe that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused in the shootings, acted out under a welter of emotional, ideological and religious pressures, according to interviews with federal officials who have been briefed on the inquiry.
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George W. Bush makes secret visit
to mourning families at Fort Hood
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Los Angeles Times, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By: goblin- 11/7/2009 8:19:43 PM
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Last night former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura made a secret visit to the devastated military families at Fort Hood. The Bushes Instructed the mourning military base's commander that they wanted no publicity. With their Secret Service detail, Bush and his wife made the 30 mile trip unannounced from their ranch near Crawford, Texas Friday evening. Fox News broke news of the visit this afternoon.
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Suspect told 'There's something
wrong with you'
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Associated Press, by Angela K. Brownand Allen G. Breed
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Posted By: garnet- 11/7/2009 8:13:25 PM
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FORT HOOD, Texas – There was the classroom presentation that justified suicide bombings. Comments to colleagues about a climate of persecution faced by Muslims in the military. Conversations with a mosque leader that became incoherent. As a student, some who knew Nidal Malik Hasan said they saw clear signs the young Army psychiatrist — who authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood that left 13 dead and 29 others wounded — had no
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2 Canadians linked to
Detroit imam granted bail
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 8:13:03 PM
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Windsor, Ontario -- A judge on Friday granted bail for two Canadian men who face extradition to the U.S. on charges linked to the slain leader of a radical Detroit-area Islamic group. (Snip) The conditions were negotiated behind closed doors after a large number of Muslim community members showed up at the courthouse to support the men. A Detroit imam, Luqman Ameen Abdullah, was killed on Oct. 28 when FBI agents attempted to arrest him
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Somali adulterer stoned to death
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BBC News, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 8:07:13 PM
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Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth. Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka. An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed after she has had her baby. (Snip) The BBC's Mohammed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu says that if the woman is also
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African-Americans slam Obama
in White House protest
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Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By: blondie- 11/7/2009 7:51:52 PM
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WASHINGTON– Decrying Barack Obama as "white power in black face," hundreds of African-Americans marched on the White House Saturday to protest policies of the first black US president, and demand that he bring US troops home.More than 200 people gathered for the first public demonstration by African Americans against the Obama administration since his historic inauguration in January, and slammed the president for continuing what they described as Washington's "imperialist" agenda around the world.
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'Islam not responsible' for
Fort Hood massacre: US imam
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Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By: Pageturner- 11/7/2009 7:50:48 PM
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Islam is "not responsible" for the bloodbath at an army base in Texas where Muslim-American army Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly gunned down 13 people, the prayer leader at the mosque where the officer regularly worshipped said Friday. "We offer our condolences and prayers to the families that have a person who died," said Imam Mohammed Abdullahi over loud-speakers that carried the weekly Muslim prayer to several hundred worshippers gathered at the mosque.
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Obama claims Fort Hood
shootings revealed 'the
best and worst' of America
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Scotsman [Edinburgh, UK], by Philip Elliott
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Posted By: Pageturner- 11/7/2009 7:45:59 PM
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PRESIDENT Barack Obama moved to reassure a nation shaken by the mass shooting on an army post in Texas yesterday by stating that the training designed to keep US forces safe abroad prevented further deaths and ended a rampage at Fort Hood. Praising what he called the heroism that ended the rampage on the nation's largest army post, the president described the exchange that left 13 dead and 30 others wounded on Thursday as a
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Fort Hood shooting: policewoman
Kim Munley awoke from surgery
and asked if anybody died
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Sunday Telegraph [UK], by Nick Allen
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/7/2009 7:41:01 PM
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Sergeant Munley, 34, was unconcious after being shot three times by Hasan and was rushed to hospital after she lost so much blood doctors thought she would die. She was shot twice in the left thigh and once in the wrist but still managed to bring Malik down with four shots of her own. Dr Kelly Matlock, who treated Munley in hospital, said: "She opened her eyes and said, 'Did anybody die?' That's what she
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Iran Positions Israel In Its Cross Hairs
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Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: Pageturner- 11/7/2009 7:35:49 PM
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Mideast: Iran tests an advanced warhead design as it gets caught shipping weapons to Hezbollah. Syria is reported to give the group operational control over Scud missiles. It's five minutes to midnight. Tyranny abhors a vacuum. While the U.S. and the West dither in Hamlet-like fashion over whatever we shall do in places such as Afghanistan and Iran, the Axis of Evil is in full swing in its plans to destroy Israel and threaten Europe
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Stimulating Failure
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Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: Pageturner- 11/7/2009 7:33:16 PM
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The Job Report: Another month, another drop in payrolls. Will it ever occur to our leaders in Washington that what they're doing isn't working — and may actually be damaging our economy? News that the unemployment rate jumped to 10.2% in October, its highest level since 1983, as the economy shed 190,000 nonfarm jobs, underscores the spectacular failure of the so-called fiscal stimulus to stimulate anything other than economic misery.
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The Senate’s New Piñata
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Investor's Business Daily, by Monica Showalter
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Posted By: Pageturner- 11/7/2009 7:29:48 PM
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Lobbyist and Senate sources tell IBD that the new hold placed on Tom Shannon’s appointment as ambassador to Brazil is just one of many in the pipeline for the luckless career diplomat who up until now has been the top U.S. policymaker for Latin America. On Thursday, the Senate did confirm Georgetown academic Arturo Valenzuela as assistant secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, a job Shannon has held until now. Both Shannon and Valenzuela
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