40 Homes Burn on Easter Sunday at New Hampshire Christian Center

April 12, 2009

ALTON BAY, N.H. — A massive fire damaged or destroyed dozens of wood-frame buildings, mostly unoccupied summer homes, at a 146-year-old Christian center on Easter.

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Lee: We Have a Right to the Occasional Populist Rant

April 12, 2009

Why shouldn’t bailouts and government spending make us angry? Both the stock market and the economy are beginning to show tiny signs of recovery. But the national mood, defined by continuing popular rage over the bailouts, seems darker.

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Rupert Everett Disses Same Sex Marriage, "Awful Middle Class Queens"

April 12, 2009

That’s what out-of-the-closet actor Rupert Everett called other gay men who want to get married and adopt children. Kevin Sessums talks to Larry Kramer, founding member of ACT-UP Peter Staley, and comedienne Kate Clinton about how they feel about that.

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Not Science Fiction: The Pentagon's New Bionic Arm

April 12, 2009

(CBS) When Americans are wounded in Afghanistan or Iraq, no expense is spared to save their lives. But once they’re home, if they have suffered an amputation of their arm, they usually end up wearing an artificial limb that hasn’t changed much since World War II.

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Under Fire Over Prop 8 Flip-Flop, Rev. Warren Dodges "This Week" Interview

April 12, 2009

Instead of explaining contradictory statements over his actions regarding California’s Prop 8 on same-sex marriage, Rick Warren went with Plan B today: He didn’t show up for a planned interview on ABC’s “This Week.”

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Hirsh: Old Wall Street Digs In

April 12, 2009

Not long ago, a group of skeptical Democratic senators met at the White House with President Obama, his chief economic adviser, Larry Summers, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. The six senators—most of them centrists, joined by one left-leaning independent, Vermont’s Bernie Sanders—said that while they supported Obama, they were worried.

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Beutler: Everyone an Instapundit – How the Left Underestimates Twitter

April 12, 2009

I’ve noticed a trend over the past few weeks, roughly concurrent with the Twitter-reinforced Tea Party movement, which is a tendency on the Left to dismiss Twitter both for its apparent limitations as well as its embrace by the political Right. Not only do I think they are making a mistake, but the explanation in […]

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Changing Course, Bloomberg Will Run as Republican in Bid for Third Term

April 12, 2009

Mayor Bloomberg will run for reelection as a Republican this fall, the Daily News has learned, after successfully courting the party to let him back on its ballot line two years after he left it.

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Has Dobson Thrown in the Towel? Not Quite – In Fact, the Opposite

April 12, 2009

I have already written a few posts this week trying to beat back the notion that the Religious Right is on the verge of collapse, pointing that that such declarations are made every few years and noting that right-wing leaders have repeatedly declared that they have no intention of giving up the fight.

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Vatican Blocks Caroline Kennedy as Ambassador, Refuses to Consider Pro-Choice Candidates

April 12, 2009

Are there no pro-life Democrats? Obama is running out of time to find ambassador before trip to Rome. Arguably the most embarrassing ongoing political saga of this Administration isn’t anything about bailouts, unpaid tax bills, Austrians, DVDs, or bows: it’s the failure to recognize that the Vatican doesn’t really take to being shoved around.

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