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Crazy-Off: Sarah Palin-ites vs. Scientologists

Of late the two topics that have garnered us the most spittle-flecked emails have been the rogue and the frauds.

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Crazy-Off: Sarah Palin-ites vs. Scientologists

Obama’s War Speech Wins Over Some Skeptics

A month ago, Donnie Jones, a 40-year-old Republican who lives outside Dallas, told pollsters that he was not sure President Obama had a plan for the war in Afghanistan. But after hearing the president speak Tuesday night, Mr.

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White House Makes Case for Afghan Plan

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s top cabinet officers went before skeptical members of Congress on Wednesday to argue his case for a rapid build-up of troops in Afghanistan, followed by withdrawals beginning in 2011.

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Obama Adds Troops to Afghanistan, but Maps Exit Plan

WEST POINT, N.Y. — President Obama announced Tuesday that he would speed 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan in coming months, but he vowed to start bringing American forces home in the middle of 2011, saying the United States could not afford and should not have to shoulder an open-ended commitment. Promising that he could “bring this war to a successful conclusion,” Mr

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Salahis may face charges for crashing State dinner

WASHINGTON — President Obama and his wife, Michelle, had a face-to-face encounter with the couple who sneaked into a state dinner at the White House this week, White House officials acknowledged on Friday. The revelation underscored the seriousness of the security breach and prompted an abject apology from the Secret Service. A White House spokesman said that the couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi of Virginia, met and shook hands with the president and the first lady in the receiving line in the Blue Room, as the Obamas greeted each of their 400 invited guests Tuesday night before moving to a tent on the South Lawn for dinner

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By happy accident, chemists produce a new blue

“Blue pigments of the past have often been expensive (ultramarine blue was made from the gemstone lapis lazuli, ground up), poisonous (cobalt blue is a possible carcinogen and Prussian blue, another well-known pigment, can leach cyanide) or apt to fade (many of the organic ones fall apart when exposed to acid or heat).

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Man raises son to speak only Klingon

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/11/dinkytown_dad_s.php Is this taking the whole Star Trek thing a teensie weensie bit too far? d'Armond Speers spoke only Klingon to his child for the first three years of its life.

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80 year-old bookkeeping error causes first species to be fished to extinction

Everyone has no doubt heard about how fisheries around the world are in grave danger of being fished into oblivion. Countless species are currently threatened by overfishing, and environmentalists work fiercely to prevent victims like sharks and tuna from disappearing–but no one suspected that a common skate would be the first to go. And it turns out no one suspected anything because of a simple classification mistake made 80 years ago

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80 year-old bookkeeping error causes first species to be fished to extinction

Beanie Sigel Disses Jay-Z with "Average Cat"

On the list of intelligent feuds one can start, dissing Jay-Z doesn’t strike us as one you’d see ranked very high. But that’s not about to stop Beanie Sigel. The rapper dissed Jay-Z in his new “Average Cat” song, according to the Wall Street Journal , debuting the track today on New York’s Hot 97 radio station

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Marge Simpson on Playboy Pics, Relationships

Move over, controversial Meghan McCain Twitter photo .

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Marge Simpson on Playboy Pics, Relationships