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Report: U.S. Failing to Address Urgent Biothreat

October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

The United States is failing to address its most urgent threat—biological proliferation and terrorism—concluded a report issued today by the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. In a news release yesterday, the commission also felt the Obama Administration has given appropriate high-level attention to the nuclear threat but [...]

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Question: ‘Why Didn’t Voters Pay Attention?’

October 16th, 2009 · No Comments

“Why didn’t voters pay attention?” is a question I asked myself after taking a fresh look at “Foster Friess on Barack Obama: Rhetoric vs. Record”, a video which first appeared in a post on this blog Oct. 28, 2008.

Narrator Foster Friess, a successful businessman and Army veteran living in Jackson Hole, Wyo., begins by [...]

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Uncle Jay Explains the News: Oct. 12, 2009

October 13th, 2009 · No Comments

“Acronym” is Uncle Jay’s word of the week, and he employs them frequently while covering a wide range of topics (below) in this week’s edition of Uncle Jay Explains the News:

NASA blew up the moon;

Miley Cyrus decided to dump her Twitter page in order to regain some of her privacy — and then she sang [...]

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‘Democracy for Iran’ Billboard Surfaces in St Louis (Update)

October 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Reboot Congress reports that a digital billboard ad (above) advocating “Democracy for Iran” has sprung up near the intersection of Manchester Road and Highway 141 in suburban Saint Louis.
I contacted DDI Media, the St. Louis-based company that owns the billboard, to find out who paid for the ad but ran into a temporary “roadblock” of [...]

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New Movement Seeks to DeNuke Iran

October 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Preventing the Islamic Republic of Iran (a.k.a., “the PIRANHA“) from obtaining nuclear weapons is the core of a new online advocacy campaign launched at DeNukeIran.com.
Co-founders Michael Fenenbock and Daphne Weisbart offer two ways you can take a stand for the denuking of Iran:
First, sign a Declaration that gives us a way to email you [...]

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