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Entries from February 2010

People Judge You By the Words You Use

February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

Having spent a great deal of time during the past two years reporting on the use of portable lie detectors and related devices by the U.S. military, I found a recent story that aired on Austin television station KXAN about the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count software program very interesting. Dr. James W. Pennebaker and [...]

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Birth Certificate Lawsuit Lawyer Interviewed

February 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments

During Hour One of her radio program yesterday, Dr. Laurie Roth interviewed attorney Philip Berg about his legal crusade via which he’s calling upon Barack Obama to produce a vault copy of his birth certificate to prove his eligibility to serve as president of the United States. In case you’ve been living under a rock [...]

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Santelli Deserves Nationwide Round of Applause

February 19th, 2010 · No Comments

Ahh, I remember it so well; one year ago today, CNBC’s Rick Santelli called for a ‘Chicago Tea Party’ from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  For that, he deserves a nationwide round of applause. The video below captures the moment, including Santelli’s call for President Barack Obama to put up a web site [...]

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U.S. Mint Releases Yet Another New Penny Design

February 19th, 2010 · No Comments

Have you seen the new 2010 penny, both sides of which are shown below?  It comes barely a year after I informed readers of this blog about four new Lincoln pennies that would compete with seven Barack Obama coins. The new one-cent coin, according to the U.S. Mint’s web site, continues to bear the familiar [...]

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‘Truthers’ Group Holding News Conference Today

February 19th, 2010 · No Comments

A group calling itself “Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth” is holding a news conference at 11 a.m. PST today in San Francisco to discuss their call for a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center Sept. 11, 2001. According to the group’s news release [...]

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Plane Crashes Into Echelon Building in Austin (Update)

February 18th, 2010 · No Comments

UDPATE #4 2/18/10 AT 12: 15 p.m. Central: Fox News is backtracking on its earlier reports that the pilot’s target was the IRS office. UPDATE #3 2/18/10 at 11: 21 a.m. Central: Fox News just reported that, according to an NTSB official on the scene, the pilot of the plane that crashed into the Echelon [...]

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Former CNN Hack Charles Jaco Shows True Colors (Update)

February 18th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Former CNN journalist Charles Jaco showed his true colors to St. Louis blogger Adam Sharp Wednesday during a left-wing health care reform rally in downtown St. Louis. When confronted with questions about his consistently-biased reporting about members of the Tea Party Movement for local Fox affiliate KTVI Fox 2 News, the newsman most famous for [...]

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