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Entries from February 2010

Census Ads Everywhere, Including Back of the Bus (Update)

February 10th, 2010 · 5 Comments

Only three days after being “treated” to a $2.5 million Super Bowl commercial touting the 2010 Census as a “Snapshot of America,” I spotted another advertisement for the 2010 Census and took a photo of it (below). Plastered to the back of a bus I encountered on the way back from St. Louis Lambert International [...]

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Senator Blasts New Global Warming Bureaucracy

February 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) made an appearance on the Fox Business Network yesterday to discuss what he described as an apparent “crisis of confidence” in the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “There is a crisis of confidence in the IPCC, and the Obama Administration is turning a blind eye by creating a new [...]

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Photos Show Scene Where Trail of Injustice Began

February 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments

During the past nine months, I’ve written and/or published 22 posts about the case of 1st Lt. Michael Behenna, an Army Ranger now serving a 15-year sentence after being found guilty of unpremeditated murder in the shooting death of Ali Mansur, a known Al-Qaeda operative.  Today, I share three just-obtained photos which show the scene [...]

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Stop Whining About Too Much Snow

February 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment

In case you’re one of those who finds yourself whining about too much snow and thinking that winter has made your life uncomfortable, think about our fighting men and women serving in Afghanistan are enduring. The U.S. Army photo above, shot by Sgt. Russell Gilchrest, shows a U.S. Army soldier from the 118th Military Police [...]

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Claim: Ethiopian Airlines Crash Caused by Al-Qaeda

February 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment

On the day that an Ethiopian Airlines jet crashed after takeoff from Beirut, Israel’s YNET News reported that Lebanon’s president had ruled out terrorism as a possible cause.  Today, however, an intelligence and security news service is reporting otherwise. The DEBKAfile is reporting this morning that the 92 deaths aboard that Boeing 737-800 were caused [...]

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Conflict of Interest in $27B Suit Against Chevron

February 9th, 2010 · No Comments

Loyal readers of this blog will remember the name of Richard Cabrera as one that has appeared in a half-dozen posts on this blog, including one in which I asked the question, What Will Be The Outcome of the Amazon Defense Coalition’s Lawsuit Against Chevron in Ecuador? Thanks to news that broke today out of [...]

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Israeli Ambassador’s Speech Disrupted 10 Times

February 9th, 2010 · No Comments

The Orange County Register reported today that 12 people were arrested after they repeatedly — 10 times — shouted down Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren during a speaking engagement Monday night at the University of California-Irvine.  As the video below clearly shows, most of those involved in the disruptions appeared to be [...]

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