| Elizabeth Taylor in hospital for heart surgery Posted: 06 Oct 2009 03:46 PM PDT ![]() LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actress Elizabeth Taylor said Tuesday she was going into a hospital for heart surgery and asked for prayers. Taylor, 77, was diagnosed with congestive heart failure five years ago and also has endured severe back problems and a benign brain tumor operation.
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| Sarah Palin: We Must Win in Afghanistan Posted: 06 Oct 2009 05:00 PM PDT ![]() For two years as a candidate, Senator Obama called for more resources for the war in Afghanistan and warned about the consequences of failure. As President, he announced a comprehensive new counterinsurgency strategy and handpicked the right general to execute it. Now General McChrystal is asking...
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| The joint Post/Obama defense of the Patriot Act and FISA Posted: 06 Oct 2009 07:20 AM PDT  (updated below - Update II) The Washington Post's Anne Kornblut today produces an extreme piece of government-serving, stenographic "journalism," publishing a dubious administration press release masquerading as a lengthy news article on Obama's approach to Terrorism and civil liberties. The Post depicts Obama as heavily and heroically engaged in disrupting the alleged Najibullah Zazi domestic terrorist plot and -- repeatedly highlighting that success -- claims "the White House has been charting a delicate course as it attempts to turn the page on Bush-era anti-terrorism policies," whereby "
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| Edgar Allan Poe finally getting proper funeral (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2009 08:10 AM PDT  AP - For Edgar Allan Poe, 2009 has been a better year than 1849. After dozens of events in several cities to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, he's about to get the grand funeral that a writer of his stature should have received when he died.
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| Polanski Is Not the Only Party to Blame Posted: 06 Oct 2009 03:27 AM PDT  Focusing only on Polanski seems hypocritical in a society that celebrates and exploits teen sexuality. Jennifer Ginsberg: In the aftermath of child rapist Roman Polanski being taken into custody after trying to enter Switzerland on Saturday, questions about culpability, morality, and teen sexuality have arisen. The Academy Award-winning director pled guilty in 1977 to a single count of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, acknowledging he had sex with a 13-year-old girl, but fled the United States before he could be sentenced. It is alleged that in addition to raping the child, he
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| Mel Gibson's DUI Wiped from His Record Posted: 06 Oct 2009 12:17 PM PDT  A Malibu judge has ruled that Mel Gibson's infamous DUI can be completely removed from the actor's record.
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| ACORN: Congress can't hurt us Posted: 06 Oct 2009 02:07 PM PDT  Any successful efforts to cut off funding for the group would have little effect, says its CEO.
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| Beyonce Explains Kanye's VMA Outburst: "He Was Standing Up for Art" Posted: 06 Oct 2009 12:40 PM PDT  "When they didn't call my name, he was like, completely shocked," she says
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| NATO says kills 100 fighters in huge Afghan battle (Reuters) Posted: 06 Oct 2009 07:32 AM PDT ![]() Reuters - NATO forces said Tuesday they had killed more that 100 fighters in a huge weekend battle in eastern Afghanistan in which eight Americans died, the deadliest firefight for U.S. troops in more than a year.
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| Rush for Rams? Limbaugh bids for NFL team (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2009 07:13 AM PDT  The lowly Rams have someone who loves them. Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday he is teaming up with St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts in a bid to buy the Rams, owners of the NFL's longest losing streak at 14 and just 5-31 since 2007. In a statement, Limbaugh declined to discuss details, citing a confidentiality agreement with Goldman Sachs, the investment firm hired by...
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| Flagged while thanking God Posted: 06 Oct 2009 12:44 PM PDT  Oakland's Chris Johnson went to his knees in thanks after making a great interception.
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| Holder: NY plot was one of most serious since 9/11 (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2009 12:58 PM PDT  AP - Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday the alleged terror plot disrupted in New York was "one of the most serious in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001" — but he gave no indication when more arrests might be made.
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| Coburn shifts on Ensign scandal Posted: 06 Oct 2009 11:19 AM PDT  Coburn backs away from his initial claim that he wouldn't divulge information to the Ethics Committee.
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| Origin of Komodo Dragon Revealed (LiveScience.com) Posted: 06 Oct 2009 09:34 AM PDT  LiveScience.com - Scientists now find that the world's largest living lizard species, the Komodo dragon, most likely evolved in Australia and dispersed westward to its current home in Indonesia.
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| Former Yale lab tech appears in court; hearing set (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2009 04:47 AM PDT  AP - A former Yale University lab technician charged with strangling a graduate student and stuffing her body behind a laboratory wall appeared in court Tuesday but did not enter a plea to murder.
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