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ACORN Cleared Again, Video Doctored
Brooklyn prosecutors on Monday cleared ACORN of criminal wrongdoing after a four-month probe that began when undercover Republican "conservative" activists filmed workers giving what appeared to be illegal advice on how to hide money.
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'The election is over' Obama reminds McCain
President Obama sparred with his 2008 presidential campaign adversary Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) at Thursday's bipartisan health care summit, reminding him that the election is behind them.
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Law enforcement tracking US cell phones in real time
How many of the owners of the country's 277 million cell phones even know that companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint can track their devices in real time? Most "don't have a clue," says privacy advocate James X. Dempsey.
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Cheney Hospitalized With Chest Pains, Staff Says - CNN.com
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has been hospitalized with chest pains, his staff confirmed Monday.
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Sam Stein: Boehner: Obama 'Slapped Table,' Scolded Me
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said on Thursday that President Barack Obama "slapped the table, wagged his finger and scolded him' at a recent White House meeting. Boehner's crime? Allegedly scaring the American public into a state of economic anxiety.
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America's Worst Schools get a $4 Billion fix
The White House is devoting $4 billion to turning around America's worst schools. Will these extreme makeovers work?
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Foxheads wonder why 'liberal media' laugh at denialists
No serious skeptic of global warming would try to argue that these storms disprove global-warming theories (as a matter of fact, they tend to confirm the existing models, as we noted previously). The only people who would try to claim that are clowns -- partisan hacks looking to score cheap political points...
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Joe the 'Plumber': 'I don't own John McCain *****'
For one-time political icon Joe Wurzelbacher, reminders of his old campaign buddy Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) aren't exactly pleasant. ... Some grapes turn more sour than others, it seems.
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During the Olympics, the Feds Will Be Reading Your Tweets -
As the winter Olympics begin, the Department of Homeland Security has disclosed that it will be monitoring the comments and posts on websites and social media like Twitter for information on possible terror threats. Among the sites listed in a privacy impact statement filed Friday afternoon by DHS are the Drudge Report, the Huffington Post, Twitter
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