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06:19 - 18.07.2010
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Meet Ilda Boccassini, the lady who scares the Italian Mob A fearless anti-Mafia judge has launched a new onslaught against the country's most dangerous gangsters Read Article
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13:11 - 22.06.2010
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The Problem With McChrystalJoe Biden and Ambassador Eikenberry doubt the war in Afghanistan can be won. The general's contempt for them shows he fears they may be right.Andrew Sullivan
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10:53 - 19.04.2010
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Obama plays eight times more golf than Bush President Barack Obama has played golf 32 times since he took office Read Article
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11:22 - 06.06.2010
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America's incomplete vision of the pastThe US knows its history – but the rallying cries of the Tea Party and others rely on its selective use as a propaganda device Sasha Abramsky guardian.co.uk, Sunday 6 June 2010 Article history A Tea Party tax protest. Selective use of history? Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Europeans frequently assert that Americans have no history, or at least no sense of history. They say it as a sort of snobbish rebuke, a put-down to the parvenu. Look at us with our castles and our cathedrals, our millennia of recorded history, our ancient villages and cradle-of-western-civilisation cultures; and then look across the pond at the upstart nation.The critique always annoys me on several levels. First, plenty of Europeans are pig-ignorant of the recent past, let alone antiquity. Simply having a past doesn't mean one understands that past. Second, on a day to day basis, during journalistic man-in-the-street encounters, I have always found that Americans are far more cognisant of their history, far more likely to ground everyday contemporary political and cultural discourse in that history than are Europeans. (Think of the importance of Lincoln in today's political discourse, and then try to imagine either Cromwell – England's civil war leader – or Gladstone, Lincoln's contemporary, occupying such a place in British political life today.) Indeed, the very premise of the US supreme court as an institution, holding all current legislation and regulations up to constitutional scrutiny, is a striking testimony to the importance of, the sense of nobility of, history in everyday life in America. Third, while it is true that many Americans can't name their great-grandparents, a surprisingly large number are obsessed with genealogy, able to reel off the names, occupations, origins of generations of ancestors with an ease that would put many Europeans, at…
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07:19 - 14.06.2009
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The underworked American
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U.S.S. Ponce trolling in Middle East |
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The Navy is converting an aging warship it had planned to decommission into a makeshift staging base for commandos as tensions rise with Iran, al-Qaeda in Yemen and Somali pirates, among other threats. Merriam-Webster - ponce: British: pimp, or a male homosexual |
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"Newt, for his part, looked increasingly forlorn. His performance was so dismal it demands explanation. I can only suspect that, after several days of relentless attacks from all corners of the Republican Party, from figures as far apart as Bob Dole and Elliot Abrams, he knew he was finished even before he stepped on the stage. In retrospect, his ludicrous proposal to establish a lunar colony by 2020 was a sign of desperation." |
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When Contractors Build for Themselves |
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A builder of luxury homes reveals how he created his weekend retreat on a budget. "He chose solid cherry cabinets in the bedrooms, kitchens and bathrooms; he said cabinets aren't the place to cut corners because they're highly visible. The quality of a house also shows in its doors; the home's doors are solid mahogany and 1¾ inches thick, instead of the standard 1 3/8 inches. He made the ceilings higher than standard—12½ feet in some places." |
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Obama: "A first term ending in a whimper" |
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The union’s state is dire Barack Obama’s big speech to Congress was mainly a bit of electioneering Mr Obama’s problem is that Americans simply do not believe these good tidings. More than 48% of them disapprove of the way he is doing his job. More than 65% believe that the country is on the “wrong track”. |
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Party School USC Upset With its Depiction |
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"Undergrads," a series produced by James Franco, depicts a band of hard-partying students having run-ins with the law. The administration is not happy. "More accurately representative of USC are the students who provide hundreds of hours in community service, who rank among the country's most academically and artistically gifted, and who value diversity in cultures, nationalities and socio-economic backgrounds among their peers, said Michael L. Jackson, vice president of student affairs, in a statement". LOL |
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The End of the Peyton Manning Era? |
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“This should end with an entire region paying tribute to the greatest Indianapolis Colt of all time, not a blizzard of words.” |
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Madonna - Back from the Dead |
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Madonna, as she preps for the release of her new movie "W.E." and a performance at the Super Bowl, sounds off about her music, her movies, and internet leaks. |
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"Wall Street is about to get Facebook fever" |
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Wall Street clicks 'like' on Facebook IPO Beyond minting an estimated 1,000 new millionaires at the company, Facebook's initial public stock offering could provide a huge boost to Wall Street investment banks sorely in need of a hot stock to excite investors. The right to manage the IPO will also generate an estimated $250 million in fees. |
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Bill Gates: "I wrote Steve Jobs a letter" |
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Bill Gates: 'I wrote Steve Jobs a letter as he was dying. He kept it by his bed’ Bill Gates talks about friendly rivalry and how to get bankers to part with their money. |
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"Gingrich Falls Short in a Crucial GOP Debate" |
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"There was only one question going into Thursday night's Republican debate in Jacksonville, Fla.: Would Newt Gingrich win, or would he lose?" He lost. And even worse for Gingrich, Mitt Romney won. |
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Recipe for a Loveless ( GOP ) Marriage |
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Israel persuades Europe on Iran sanctions |
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Sanctions aimed at averting wider conflict European and United States experts on Iran claim that fear of a new war is the key reason the European Union decided to phase out purchases of Iranian oil. In particular is the belief that Israel is planning an attack on Tehran's nuclear installations
"There is particular concern that Israel might act in 2012 out of concern that Iran is nearing nuclear weapons capability and in the belief that the Barack Obama administration would be obliged to support Israel in a US presidential election year" |
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States’ Drive to Collect Taxes on Internet Sales |
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States’ Drive to Collect Taxes on Internet Sales Is a Blow to Marketers An Illinois tax measure led Tim Storm to move the company he founded, FatWallet, to Wisconsin. “We didn’t really have a choice about relocating the business,” Mr. Storm said. “It was relocate or become irrelevant.” |
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NYT: In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad |
By CHARLES DUHIGG and DAVID BARBOZA An explosion last May at a Foxconn factory in Chengdu, China, killed four people and injured 18. It built iPads. A staggering manufacturing system in China has made it possible for Apple and other companies to make devices almost as quickly as they can be dreamed up, but for workers, it can be dangerous. |
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Gingrich Opens Up an Effective Line of Attack on Romney |
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Gingrich Opens Up New Line of Attack on Romney Look for Newt Gingrich to abandon his above-it-all “presidential” tone at Thursday’s debate and come out rip-roaring about Mitt Romney’s investments that, Mr. Gingrich contends, profited from home foreclosures in Florida. Mr. Gingrich was referring to a report on, of all places, the left-leaning Web site Think Progress on Wednesday, which claimed that an examination of Mr. Romney’s personal financial disclosure from last year showed he and his wife owned shares of a Goldman Sachs fund that invested in mortgage-backed securities. It linked the fund to “thousands” of foreclosure proceedings against Floridians. |
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You can give them everything but they remain stupid. |
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Oscar De La Hoya sued by escort over 'assault during hotel room orgy’ Oscar De La Hoya, the 10-time world champion boxer, is being sued by an escort who claims that he assaulted her during a drug-fuelled orgy in a New York hotel room |
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Romney had a Swiss bank account |
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Not all Romney income is on ethics forms Some investments in Mitt and Ann Romney's 2010 tax returns, including a now-closed Swiss bank account, were not explicitly disclosed in a personal financial statement. |
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Obama, Apple, Mrs. Jobs, and JOBS |
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Apple doesn’t manufacture here and it doesn’t expect ever to do so. “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” Jobs reportedly told Obama at a dinner when the President asked whether it would be possible to make iPhones in America.
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The "Real" Kim Dotcom - Who Cares? |

Kim Dotcom's brash jetset image 'hid sharp business mind' Another former business colleague, again speaking anonymously, said Dotcom was "a very smart guy, very clever, very quick on the uptake, very driven, very pedantic". While he was trustworthy – "within reason" – he at times showed symptoms of "anger issues", and too often "thought money could fix everything", she said. "He likes playing God." |
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How Rich is Buffett's Secretary? |
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This morning's reports—that Debbie Bosanek pays a tax rate of 35.8 percent of her income—are confusing. |
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Jeb Bush Fighting Last War |
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Jeb Bush Republicans will need the group to take the White House. "When we hear foreign languages in the streets of America, that is a validation of the Republican vision to create a place where people want to come and make their lives." |
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The Secret to Going Viral |
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Marketers want to boil down people's sharing behavior to one, easy equation, but that's not how social networks work. Felix Salmon articulates this sentiment at the Columbia Journalism Review's Audit desk "HuffPo is built on the idea that when stories are shared on Twitter or Facebook, that will drive traffic back to huffingtonpost.com, where it can then monetize that traffic by selling it to advertisers," writes Salmon. "But in future, the most viral stories are going to have a life of their own, being shared across many different platforms and being read by people who will never visit the original site on which they were published." |
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Romney Recovering in Florida |
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Two new voter surveys suggest Romney has a big lead over Gingrich among college grads and non-evangelicals Part of Romney's advantage is that Rick Santorum draws slightly more from the groups favorable to Gingrich than from the groups that tilt toward Romney. Most dramatically, Santorum in the survey attracts 18 percent from Tea Party supporters |
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Ariz. Gov. Brewer in an intense conversation with Obama. (AP) David Nakamura Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and the president spar over her immigration book on tarmac in Phoenix. |
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US opens talks to establish Philippines foothold Washington has opened talks to establish a military foothold in the Philippines to counteract China's rise in the Pacific. "The news that the Pentagon is contemplating a return to the Philippines is certain to anger Beijing. China has already protested about the plan to increase the presence of US forces in the region, which it sees as an attempt both to encircle it and to counter its influence in southeast Asia. America already has large bases in Japan and South Korea." |
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Navy's new drone - X47B - is a "game changer" |
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Able to be flown autonomously by computers aboard ship, the X-47B could usher in an era when death and destruction can be dealt by machines operating semi-independently. ""It's a different world from just a few years ago — we've entered the realm of science fiction in a lot of ways. New rules have to be developed as new technology comes about, and this is a big step forward." |
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Rush Limbaugh: Resentment Fueled Gingrich's Rise |
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Rush Limbaugh: Resentment Fueled Gingrich's Rise Why did those questions tee Newt up, and why did Newt know what to do with them? Very simple. I've been doing this show for 23 years, and one of my themes from the beginning, from 1988, has been that the American conservative middle class are the ones playing by the rules. They are the ones that obey the law to the best of their ability. They raise their kids. They try to shield their kids from cultural rot and depravity. They try to keep them off drugs. They try to get them into college...... |
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The Billionaire Magnate Bankrolling Gingrich |
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Sheldon Adelson is reshaping the 2012 presidential race. |
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Newt vs. Nancy: She has 'something' on him, he demands to know what it is "Let me just say this. That will never happen," she said. "He's not going to be President of the United States ... Let me just make my prediction and stand by it, it isn't going to happen." |
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Facebook's Subscribe option is an "organic discovery mechanism" |
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Is Facebook 'Subscribe' for real? Booming new traffic explained 
As their Facebook "subscriber" lists have spiraled upward -- into the thousands and tens of thousands in recent weeks -- many journalists have looked on in awe and wonder. |
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The Obamas Can't Get No French Satisfaction |
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Fashion writer 'praises' Obamas for teaching African-American people how to dress French Elle writer manages to shock and offend with one story. "Things get even more baffling when she dubs the Obamas the “black-geoisie” who dress "white" but still maintain their ‘blackness” with symbols." |
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Obama: "A first term ending in a whimper"
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Party School USC Upset With its Depiction
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The End of the Peyton Manning Era?
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Madonna - Back from the Dead
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"Wall Street is about to get Facebook fever"
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Bill Gates: "I wrote Steve Jobs a letter"
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"Gingrich Falls Short in a Crucial GOP Debate"
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Recipe for a Loveless ( GOP ) Marriage
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Israel persuades Europe on Iran sanctions
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States’ Drive to Collect Taxes on Internet Sales
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NYT: In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad
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Gingrich Opens Up an Effective Line of Attack on Romney
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You can give them everything but they remain stupid.
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Romney had a Swiss bank account
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Obama, Apple, Mrs. Jobs, and JOBS
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The "Real" Kim Dotcom - Who Cares?
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How Rich is Buffett's Secretary?
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Jeb Bush Fighting Last War
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The Secret to Going Viral
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Romney Recovering in Florida
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Obama in Tarmac Dust-up
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Navy's new drone - X47B - is a "game changer"
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Rush Limbaugh: Resentment Fueled Gingrich's Rise
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The Billionaire Magnate Bankrolling Gingrich
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Newt: "Bring it out"
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Facebook's Subscribe option is an "organic discovery mechanism"
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The Obamas Can't Get No French Satisfaction
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John Kerry's Scary New Look
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Dan Balz: Leaders in GOP race leave voters wanting more
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AsiaTimes: The crash and burn of drone warfare
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Don't Laugh: "Gingrich has a real chance to be president"
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"Gingrich boosts the president’s reelection prospects"
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"What Obama Doesn't Get About America"
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What if solar storms knocked out the Internet?
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Obama Kneecaps Romney
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Does Newt's Electability Argument Make Sense?
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Romney Collapsing
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Getting to know you - without a Résumé
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Target Fights 'Showrooming'
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What's the No. 1 Marriage Breaker
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WSJ: The Web's Growing Muscle
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Internet: an Outlet for Lonely Teens--and Barack Obama
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Newt: "The dangers of electing a man with no prudence"
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Last Secret JFK Oval Office Tapes Released
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Finding the line between good stress and bad
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The Obama Memos: Tracing Obama’s shift from idealism to pragmatism.
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Why the United States Will Never, Ever Build the iPhone
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GOP Field Making Obama Look Good
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"The GOP Deserves to Lose"
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Why Gingrich?
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YouTube reports 4 billion video downloads — a day
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George F. Will: Crunch time for Romney
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Florida Poll: Newt Up By 10 Points
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"NEWT IS A CRAZY PERSON. DO NOT VOTE FOR HIM"
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"Paterno could have taken cue from Wooden"
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WSJ: The Evolution of a Football Curmudgeon
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"Newt Gingrich exploits politics of class and culture"
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"Gingrich's biggest problem is that more voters say they dislike than like him"
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"Religion is essential - a romantic relationship is not"
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White House joins Google+ ahead of State of the Union speech
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Ron Paul's son, Rand, detained at US airport
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Battlin' Kuwaiti Bros use hiretohack.net
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Who Is to Blame for Newt Gingrich's Rise?
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Paterno Avoids Testifying....
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"So, you folks have a choice: too hot, too cold or just right"
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Newt Makes MSM's Dream Come True
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Obama – "he drank his own Kool-Aid"
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Should You Have a Caribbean Tax Haven, like Mitt?
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Yahoo: the rise and fall of a pioneer
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Colbert shows Republicans how to draw a crowd
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WSJ: Inside Lavish Life of Kim Dotcom
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