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Lou Dobbs leaves CNN

The evolution of CNN anchor Lou Dobbs from financial news wizard to populist defender of American jobs to right-wing promoter of “birther” conspiracies appears to have come to an abrupt end with his announcement Wednesday evening that he's leaving the network to “pursue new opportunities.” “This will be my last broadcast here on CNN, where I've worked for most of the past 30 years,” Dobbs told an unsuspecting audience on Lou Dobbs Tonight. added by: SleepDirt 31 comments

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Official: Obama rejects all Afghan war options

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior administration official said Wednesday

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Livestreamed Childbirth Is the Only Sex-Ed You’ll Ever Need

Lynsee and Anders Gannett welcomed darling daughter Solveig into the world by aiming a webcam at unmentionable parts of her mother’s anatomy and livestreaming her birth, making her the youngest oversharer in the history of the internet. Unspeakable perverts and frightening hippies will be disappointed to hear there was no spread-eagle shot of little Solveig crowning, but everything else is legit enough to turn horny teens off sex forever, if only because the phrase “birth livestream” is really starting to gross me out.

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The Four Clips that Prove ABC’s V is Anti-Obama Propoganda

When the new ABC sci-fi series “V” premiered last Monday, everyone wondered if its titular Visitors were an allegorical critique of the Obama administration. Tonight’s episode proved without a doubt that the creators of “V” hate Barack Obama . On November 4th, conservative talkdude Sean Hannity said : A new ABC drama seems to be taking aim at Obama-mania.

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Robert Pattinson Would Love To Host ‘SNL’ — If He Could Write Episode

‘That would be fun, but, I think that’s kind of against the protocol,’ ‘Twilight’ star says. By Larry Carroll Robert Pattinson Photo: MTV News Drew Barrymore was 7 years old when she first hosted “Saturday Night Live.” Macaulay Culkin was 11; Jodie Foster was 14, and Lindsay Lohan was 17. Heck, this past weekend, Taylor Swift reached an industry milestone when she hosted and appeared as a musical guest at the age of 19.

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President Obama Pays Tribute To Fort Hood Fallen

President praises their service to country. By Gil Kaufman President Barack Obama speaks in Fort Hood, Texas on Tuesday Photo: Joe Raedle/ Getty Images On Tuesday, President Obama paid solemn tribute to the 13 service members who were killed at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, in a moving ceremony rich

40000 more troops? maybe possibly yes or no?

WASHINGTON (CNN) — White House National Security Adviser Retired Gen. Jim Jones issued a rare public statement Monday vehemently denying media reports that suggest U.S.

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Rihanna: It’s On!

Rihanna looks anything but ‘Rated R ‘ as she steps out of her NYC hotel and heads over to Time Square to appear on It’s On With Alexa Chung. She looked uncharacteristically casual for the usually very fashionable diva .

Landmark Health Care Reform Bill Passes House 220-215

WASHINGTON — Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system on Saturday, advancing legislation that the Democrats said could be their defining social policy achievement. After a daylong clash with Republicans over what has been a Democratic goal for decades, lawmakers voted 220 to 215 to approve a plan that would cost $1.1 trillion over 10 years and that Democrats said would provide relief to Americans struggling to buy or hold on to health insurance.

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Babies begin learning language in the womb

Science Daily reports findings from a new study which suggest that infants begin picking up elements of what will be their first language in the womb, long before their first babble or coo, and are able to memorize sounds from the external world by the last trimester of pregnancy, with a particular sensitivity to melody contour in both music and language. Newborns prefer their mother's voice over other voices and perceive the emotional content of messages conveyed via intonation contours in maternal speech (a.k.a.

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