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Posted at 8:07pm on Jun. 30, 2008 GA-10 Republican debate
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As I write, the debate between US Rep. Paul Broun and Republican challenger Barry Fleming is being streamed live and will also be made available later at WGAU 1340 AM's web site.
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Posted at 11:12pm on Jun. 16, 2008 The single most awesome...
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...political roundtable program yet this year* is airing as I write and is also available in the archives. Lizz Winstead, Christopher Hitchens, Ben Relles, Zoe Stagg and Baratunde Thurston share their respective video products and commentary with executive producer and panel moderator Tammy Haddad with frequent poignancy and hilarity.
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Posted at 1:16pm on Apr. 8, 2008 An Honest Politician
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Mayor Nikolai Malakhov of Chapayevsk, Samara Oblast in the Russian Federation, has concluded that the "ideal solution" to protect his constituents' health from the lingering toxic waste of Soviet arms factories is to abandon the city and resettle its 70,000 residents in a safer area. This is counter to the recommendations of the Natural Resources Minister:
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Posted at 3:49am on Apr. 8, 2008 Hugo Chavez Has Gone Too Far This Time
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Yahoo! News reports that Venezuelan broadcaster Televen has replaced "The Simpsons" with reruns of "Baywatch Hawaii" for the stated purpose of protecting the development of children:
Televen TV station spokeswoman Elba Guillen said Monday that the decision to hand over the daily 11 a.m. time slot came after the National Telecommunications Commission received complaints from viewers.
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Posted at 11:46am on Apr. 1, 2008 Bush, Putin Plan Tunnel from Kremlin to White House
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Today's best April Fool's story in the international press comes to us from the Moscow Times. New Deal nostalgists might fall for it as a public works idea.
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Posted at 7:49pm on Mar. 23, 2008 Grandmothers & Kings: a Conversation with an Inept Scammer
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Today I was contacted by one of a steady stream of dating site impostors. Their basic pattern is to establish a match, send a Yahoo! address for mail and instant messenger contact, and then start the whole spiel with the deception. I had already decided to begin playing along with something deliberately confusing but this Tega Otunba proved particularly unskilled at pulling off any scam. Having already reported the address to Yahoo! as spam, I have no inhibition to further expose it to the address harvesting of other spammers:
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Posted at 2:03pm on Mar. 17, 2008 Can you believe these people?
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If recent statements by the leadership of the International Olympic Committee are any indicator of the IOC's vision and goals, then maybe it's time to question how they define peace and harmony.
Brutality in Tibet is no reason to boycott the 2008 games, according to IOC President Jacques Rogge:
"We believe that the boycott doesn't solve anything," Rogge told reporters on this Caribbean island. "On the contrary, it is penalizing innocent athletes and it is stopping the organization from something that definitely is worthwhile organizing."
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Posted at 9:30pm on Feb. 20, 2008 An Attempted McCain Bimbo Eruption Breaks
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The New York Times is unloading on McCain's ethical integrity, specifically in regards to a possible extramarital affair.
It may pass over and it may prove to be an untrue allegation but it's something we shouldn't be surprised to see the left put forth.
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Posted at 12:40am on Jan. 6, 2008 Bhutto Killed by Laser Beams?
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The leadership vacuum in the wake of Benazir Bhutto's recent assassination may be more profound than previously believed. The Pakistan People's Party has issued its own medical report which asserts that Ms. Bhutto was killed by laser beams.
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Posted at 1:13am on Oct. 28, 2007 New Evidence of Syria-North Korea Nuclear Deal
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Debka reports that US and Israeli intelligence services have obtained the handwritten order by Syrian president Assad to provide $120 million of Durham wheat without charge in exchange for aid and material for a "cement factory" in Al Tibnah, which is the site bombed by Israeli jets last month. US and Israeli intelligence, having already noticed the North Korean freighter traffic and the wheat orders, saw no alteration to the exchange despite a volatile worldwide wheat market, in which the value of Durham wheat doubled, and a shortfall in expected Syrian wheat output.