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- Two state troopers involved in a Christmas Eve shooting in which a 12-year-old black boy was fatally shot in the back two years ago won't face federal charges, according to the Justice Department. |
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- In this month’s Arab Reform Bulletin, a special issue on media, Marc Lynch has a good little piece on the positive, democratizing effect of Arabic-language satellite TV. Key snippet: By shattering state control over public debate, Arab satellite television, especially Al Jazeera, is building the foundation of a more democratic Arab political culture. ... The new Arab media has eroded state monopoly over information, embedding in its audience an expectation of choice and contention that undercuts authoritarian political culture. |
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- Though William Rehnquist is slated to swear in President Bush in January, you can probably bet the farm at this point that the ailing 79-year-old chief justice won't stay on the bench much longer. Many expect his departure to usher in an incendiary period of battle over judicial nominations, particularly as emboldened right-wing activists put increasing pressure on President Bush to tap anti-abortion, anti-gay-marriage hard-liners for the job. |
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- The auction of Commerce One's intellectual property demonstrates that patents are worth more today as weapons than anything else. That's wrong. |
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- Though William Rehnquist is slated to swear in President Bush in January, you can probably bet the farm at this point that the ailing 79-year-old chief justice won't stay on the bench much longer. Many expect his departure to usher in an incendiary period of battle over judicial nominations, particularly as emboldened right-wing activists put increasing pressure on President Bush to tap anti-abortion, anti-gay-marriage hard-liners for the job. |
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- The auction of Commerce One's intellectual property demonstrates that patents are worth more today as weapons than anything else. That's wrong. |
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- Though William Rehnquist is slated to swear in President Bush in January, you can probably bet the farm at this point that the ailing 79-year-old chief justice won't stay on the bench much longer. Many expect his departure to usher in an incendiary period of battle over judicial nominations, particularly as emboldened right-wing activists put increasing pressure on President Bush to tap anti-abortion, anti-gay-marriage hard-liners for the job. |
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- The auction of Commerce One's intellectual property demonstrates that patents are worth more today as weapons than anything else. That's wrong. |
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- There might not be a better metaphor for the poorly planned U.S. occupation of Iraq. The "Phraselator," a hand-held device supplied to U.S. |
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- There might not be a better metaphor for the poorly planned U.S. occupation of Iraq. The "Phraselator," a hand-held device supplied to U.S. |
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- There might not be a better metaphor for the poorly planned U.S. occupation of Iraq. The "Phraselator," a hand-held device supplied to U.S. |
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- More from the Scrap-Metal Army files: |
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- A plan to kill 25,000 elephants a year -- with trophy hunters doing some of the shooting -- has divided African wildlife experts and revived old charges of colonialism. |
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- More from the Scrap-Metal Army files: |
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- A plan to kill 25,000 elephants a year -- with trophy hunters doing some of the shooting -- has divided African wildlife experts and revived old charges of colonialism. |
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- More from the Scrap-Metal Army files: |
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- A plan to kill 25,000 elephants a year -- with trophy hunters doing some of the shooting -- has divided African wildlife experts and revived old charges of colonialism. |
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- A Pennsylvania school board is in the forefront of nationwide efforts to bring the fight over evolution to the Supreme Court. |
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- High-level detainees go on a hunger strike to protest their solitary confinement and impending trials in an Iraqi court. |
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- A Pennsylvania school board is in the forefront of nationwide efforts to bring the fight over evolution to the Supreme Court. |
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- High-level detainees go on a hunger strike to protest their solitary confinement and impending trials in an Iraqi court. |
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- A Pennsylvania school board is in the forefront of nationwide efforts to bring the fight over evolution to the Supreme Court. |
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- High-level detainees go on a hunger strike to protest their solitary confinement and impending trials in an Iraqi court. |
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- "So SuSE 9.2 is a system that is extremely easy to install, at least to an empty machine. It updates a prior version very well. Adding and removing software packages is essentially a no-brainer. It now deals with removable media as many people expect, including USB. |
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- Dell.com - Epson Stylus Photo R200 Inkjet Printer $89.10 Shipped + $20 Visa Gift Card By Rebate. |
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- "So SuSE 9.2 is a system that is extremely easy to install, at least to an empty machine. It updates a prior version very well. Adding and removing software packages is essentially a no-brainer. It now deals with removable media as many people expect, including USB. |
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- "So SuSE 9.2 is a system that is extremely easy to install, at least to an empty machine. It updates a prior version very well. Adding and removing software packages is essentially a no-brainer. It now deals with removable media as many people expect, including USB. |
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- "Your editor spends a lot of time dealing with PDF files. The proliferation of "profit through litigation" business models has not helped in this regard, but, even without the legal profession's contributions, much text of interest comes in the PDF format. As a result, a great deal of your editor's time is spent working in PDF viewers. PDF viewing hassles can rival the holiday season in their ability to make an editor grumpy. There is little to be done about the latter, so it seems like a g |
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- ... and I haven't done my duty as a Fusileer and linked to the post today telling you why you should donate to the Spirit of America, so go there, and please read and donate. Or donate by clicking here:... |
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- Runny shit. Sweat or piss would also be fuckin' awful. |
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- The Bad Santa Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over. Yahoo - World Photos - Reuters The Winners Ne Plus Ultra: Cassandra - After Santa got into the holiday eggnog for the 5th time, Rudolph decided he could jolly well guide his own *&%! sleigh tonite… Second: |
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- Scott "Smash" Koenig gets a response from deserter Pablo Paredes. |
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- The daily linkfest: Kate McMillan's small dead animals has been voted the Best Canadian Weblog. Brett Marston has a "special Chilean double-whammy edition." Michele Catalano presents a blogging theme song. Rob Sama has this week's Carnival of the Capitalists. |
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- Jury Agrees on Sentence for Scott Peterson The jurors deciding whether Scott Peterson should be executed or spend life in prison for killing his pregnant wife reached a verdict in the trial's sentencing phase Monday, a court official said. The decision came on the third day of deliberations and after ... |
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- Kevin Drum suggests that for the following reasons Clarence Thomas is an embarassment, Thomas is one of the few jurists today, conservative or otherwise, who understands and defends the principle that our rights come not from government but from a "creator" and "the laws of nature and of nature's God," as ... |
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- Phil Carter has an excellent op-ed column in yesterday's NYT entitled, "How the Front Lines Came to the Rear." No fan of the Administration's handling of the war, he nonetheless notes that most observers are missing a crucial point when they criticize Rumsfeld's answer to a soldier last week ... |
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- Six Army reservists court-martialed for scrounging equipment in Iraq (CBS 2 - AP) At a time when some U.S. troops in Iraq are complaining they have to scrounge for equipment, six Ohio-based reservists were court-martialed for taking Army vehicles abandoned in Kuwait by other units so they could carry out ... |
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- Time for the Monday OTB Caption ContestTM A little more Glitz and a little less Holidays this time around Yahoo - AFP Top Photos Winners will be announced Thursday P.M. |
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- Politics1: In a sign that US Senator George Allen Jr. (R-VA) is planning a 2008 White House run, he just hired Dick Wadhams to be his new Chief of Staff. Wadhams, who ran the campaign that just ousted Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), is viewed as one of today's hottest ... |
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- Bush Taps EPA Chief As Health Secretary (ABC News - AP) President Bush chose Environmental Protection Agency chief Michael Leavitt on Monday to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, filling one of the last two openings in his second term Cabinet. Bush praised hm as a ... |
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- 3Com has agreed to acquire TippingPoint Technologies, a maker of network security products, for about $430 million as it beefs up security for such offerings as VoIP. |
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- Personal computer stocks were quiet Friday as the sector focused more attention on China where Hewlett-Packard introduced a new, low-priced PC. |
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- Scientists may have finally stopped spinning their wheels in a 33-year search for the long-predicted but never observed "spin Hall effect," a property of electrons. |
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