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Florida Firm Cites BMW Posts in News Release

May 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Officials at the National Institute for Truth Verification issued the following news release today, four days after I published the second post in a two-part series about the U.S. military’s use of portable lie detectors in combat: Two-Part Investigative Series: Military ‘Turf War’ Places Americans at Increased Risk In a recently-published two-part investigative series, a [...]

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Blogger Finds ACORN Info for Glenn Beck

May 11th, 2009 · 11 Comments

On his television show today, Glenn Beck mentioned that neither his show’s researchers nor the Fox News Channel’s researchers could find information about Citizens Consulting, Inc., a New Orleans-based group many describe as “accounting central” for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, the controversial community organizing and voter registration group best known by [...]

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President Obama Launches Health Care Push

May 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

President Barack Obama is meeting today with a group of what the White House calls “health care reform stakeholders.” Those attending represent insurers, hospitals, physicians, medical device companies, pharmaceutical companies and, of course, labor union representatives and will, no doubt, take into consideration everything listed on the president’s “full fact sheet” about the issue of [...]

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Obama Budget Risks Nation’s Energy Security

May 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments

President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget proposal makes it appear he’s ready, willing and able to bury Americans in new taxes, place the nation’s energy security in peril and put  six-million American jobs at risk. In a statement Friday regarding his proposed 2010 budget for the nation, the president had this to say about energy: Specifically, [...]

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King, American President Talk of 57 States (Corrected)

May 11th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Though speaking almost one year apart, King Abdullah II of Saudi Arabia Jordan and President Barack Obama seem to have a penchant for the concept of 57 states. In a TimesOnline article this morning about prospects of Middle East peace, Saudi Arabia Jordan’s king was quoted by writer Richard Beeston as saying, “This is not [...]

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