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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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Cartoonist Captures Flavor of Top News Topics

July 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I’ve said it before that editorial cartoonist David Donar and I don’t agree on everything when it comes to politics.  More often than not, however, I find at least one gem every time I visit his blog, Political Graffiti.  Such was the case today as evidenced by the cartoons below:
Thanks, David!

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Uncle Jay Explains the News: July 4th Special

June 29th, 2009 · No Comments

Uncle Jay Explains the News for the first half of 2009 in a July 4th special edition this week.
Topics range from Bernie Madoff (i.e., bars and stripes forever) to Latina judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s first  nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court (one of his first nominees to have paid all of her taxes!).
The [...]

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