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Taken for the New Yorker, it first made the rounds about two years ago, became famous when Colin Powell referenced it:

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Sadly, I seem to have had to pass this link around more frequently in the last month than I've ever remembered.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that health insurance companies across America are jacking up their rates. Which has basically been the case every year, for years now. But this year, they can -- and will -- blame the Democrats.

Broadcasting from tarpaulin tents, Haiti's radio journalists are striking a more critical tone. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A white sun beat high over Port-au-Prince as Orpha Dessources stepped from her tarpaulin newsroom into the city’s biggest slum, with a question no one wanted to answer. Men and women, spotting her spiral...

Despite the president's pledge to end the war in Iraq within the month, one regiment awaits its redeployment and inspires a call to action

While addressing the national convention of the Disabled American Veterans in Atlanta on Aug. 2, President Barack Obama said, "Our commitment in Iraq is changing from a military effort," and all combat operations will cease by the end of the month. But in Killeen, Texas, the run-down military town

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Sometimes your roommate may have good intentions, but they also may be retarded.

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Dick Morris, purporting to be an expert on the deficit from working in the Clinton White House, attacked President Obama for proposing to let the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire, claiming that "is just a method of increasing the deficit." In fact, extending tax cuts actually adds to the deficit.

Morris' economic FAIL: Letting tax cuts expire will increase the deficit 

Morris: Letting Bush tax cuts for wealthy to expire is "just a method of increasing the deficit." On the September 8 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Morris argued that not extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent in America "is just a method of increasing the deficit, increasing the debt." Morris contrasted Obama's position with that of former President Bill Clinton, who "understood that the solution to the recession was to cut the deficit."

In reality, extending the tax cuts will increase the deficit 

CBO estimates extending the Bush tax cuts for wealthiest Americans would cost $700 billion. According to Congressional Budget Office (CBO) budget:    

CBO scores "[d]effering the scheduled increases in tax rates" as the lowest-scoring policy proposal to stimulate economy. In a January 14 report on "Policies for Increasing Economic Growth and Employment in 2010 and 2011," CBO stated:

[P]olicies that would temporarily increase the after-tax income of people with relatively high income, such as an across-the-board reduction in income taxes or an increase in the exemption amount for the AMT, would have smaller effects [than other options] because such tax cuts would probably not affect the recipients' spending significantly.  

The report further stated that "a permanent extension [of the Bush tax cuts] would entail large revenue losses after the recovery is over."

According to a table in the report, CBO estimated that reducing income taxes in 2011 would have the  least stimulative effect of the policy options considered. 

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by Larry Neumeister

NEW YORK - Civil rights lawyers sued the government yesterday to stop authorities from snooping in the laptops, cellphones, and cameras of international travelers without probable cause.

The lawsuit was filed in US District Court in Brooklyn against the Department of Homeland Security and US customs and immigration authorities. The government did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

The lawsuit says more than 6,500 people have had their electronic devices searched as they crossed US borders since October 2008. Nearly half of those searched were US citizens.

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A Promo for Shadia Mansour's music video, "EL KOFEYYE 3ARABEYYE" follows this BBC article below. Hebron - The 24-year-old has been on tour in the West Bank "It's a musical intifada, a musical uprising," says Shadia Mansour squinting in the sunshine outside the hip hop workshop she is running in...

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Had General David Petraeus never condemned a Florida church’s ceremonial destruction of the Quran scheduled for Saturday, September 11, it is hard to imagine that many of his admirers on the political right would have protested. But with the general's warning that video of such a provocative act of hate would endanger the lives of American personnel abroad, both military and civilian, and serve the purposes of our enemies, he etched a line of demarcation. Suddenly, prominent right-wing commentators sprang forth to agree that burning books is beyond the limit of tolerable intolerance, and denounced Pastor Terry Jones and his Dove World congregation in scathing terms as stupid, tasteless, repugnant, and all too reminiscent of Nazism.

Washington - President Barack Obama on Wednesday will propose $300 billion in accelerated or expanded tax breaks for business, a jolt of cash that he says would jump-start hiring and help revive the nation’s economy.

Speaking in Cleveland, Obama will ask Congress to send $200 billion in tax cuts to businesses by allowing them to write off more of their costs through 2011. He’ll also propose expanding and making permanent a tax credit for research and development. That would cost $100 billion over 10 years.

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The University of Cambridge has knocked Harvard University off the top of the QS World University Rankings, as the U.K. establishment's number of academic citations rose.

Is the Internet broken? It appears the FCC would like you to believe that it is. They're in the midst of pursuing an aggressive regulatory overhaul to “fix” the Internet that we all use and enjoy today. But remember the old adage: " If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

by Andrea K. Walker

AAI Corp. of Hunt Valley has developed an unmanned surface vessel that can send devices deep into the ocean to detect mines and other threats. The company, a division of Textron Inc., hopes the Navy will choose the technology to be deployed on its littoral combat ships.

The company behind the Shadow spy plane, which is used to pick up counterintelligence over the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, is taking its technology to the seas.

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