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• Rocket-launcher, jihadist writings found in Hou...

  And no charges were filed against the alleged owner, Nabilaye I. Yansane. Maybe we should check the terrorist watch list . . . if it's not too much trouble.

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• GOP punched first and swamped Dems on Christmas...

  In fairness, the Dems are notoriously incompetent on national security anyway, but if the boss had gotten off the links a couple days early, they might have been able to stake out a cogent position on the issue. Then again, it is tough to stake out a cogent position when a terrorist on the watch-list gets on a plane with a bomb.

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• 1979 v2.0: The Iranian Regime’s Battle of Karba...

  Ashura is a Shia religious holiday, a day of lamentation that marks the date when the forces of the Umayyad caliph Yazid killed Hussein, son of Ali and grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, during the Battle of Karbala in the year 680. The Shia - the partisans of Ali and his lineage - have been at war with the Sunnis - those who took the side of Yazid - for thirteen centuries. That Khamenei's security people would murder unarmed demonstrators on this day of all days, and that his opponents now denounce him as the Yazid of Iran, may very well set most of the religious conservatives against him for as long as he and his government live. Ayatollah Khomeini compared the Shah Reza Pahlavi to Yazid during the revolution he led in 1979.

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• Abbas nightmare: Peace talks with Egypt and Jor...

  No place to run: Prime Minister Netanyahu believes there is a good chance that negotiations with the PA will be renewed by the end of January, senior officials in Netanyahu's bureau said. The Egyptians and the Americans are exploring the idea of a launch event in Egypt for the talks with the participation of the Quartet, Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the PA. Sources close to Netanyahu said Thursday that if Egypt invited the parties to a peace conference, Israel would be glad to attend.

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• Losers: Fatah vows to escalate struggle against...

  These fools don't want peace on any terms. They make it up as they go. FTA: The Fatah movement led by Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday vowed to step up its struggle against the Israeli occupation with demonstrations and diplomacy. "Our program emphasizes the importance of a two-track approach, with the first being the escalation of the popular struggle to resist occupation," the movement said in a statement. The group said it would model the struggle on the weekly demonstrations in two West Bank towns, Bilin and Nilin, where residents hurl rocks and protest against Israel's separation barrier. Fatah also vowed to "increase movement on the international level to pursue Israel, to isolate it and to force it to answer to international law."

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• Judge tosses Blackwater case in Baghdad shootin...

  Happy New Year! A federal judge dismissed all charges Thursday against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in a crowded Baghdad intersection in 2007.

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• Go figure: Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treat...

  Anyone surprised? "The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little. "More than 3,000 patients eligible for Medicare, the government’s largest health-insurance program, will be forced to pay cash if they want to continue seeing their doctors at a Mayo family clinic in Glendale, northwest of Phoenix, said Michael Yardley, a Mayo spokesman. The decision, which Yardley called a two-year pilot project, won’t affect other Mayo facilities in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota."

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• 58% Favor Waterboarding of Plane Terrorist To G...

  Of course they do. The number who oppose is just 30%. See, when the chips are down, Americans choose survival over political correctness.

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• Fox News Channel establishes ratings dominance ...

  Money quote: "CNN and MSNBC ranked 23rd and 24th among all cable networks in total prime time viewership, while Fox News finished third overall behind only USA Network and ESPN." I wonder which channels ranked 4 through 22. I bet SpongeBob's network squeezes in there. How embarrassing for CNN and MSNBC. Ah - here's a Q3 ranking that has similar results. Brutal.

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• No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction ...

  "Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere. ... In contradiction to some recent studies, he finds that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most recent five decades." Then I don't get it. Where'd the other data come from. This is so confusing. Somebody must have massaged source data somewhere along the way, eh? I wonder who ...

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