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• Detriot Exploding Underpants Boy: DOJ says crim...

  These people are fools: Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Brennan was asked why the Obama administration did not choose to treat Abdulmutallab as an enemy combatant. "He was arrested on U.S. soil," Brennan answered. "The Department of Justice makes that determination about what is the best tool to use."

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• 32 terror-related incidents since 9/11, of whic...

  Rather nasty indictment of Obama: "Brian Jenkins, a terrorism expert for the RAND Corp., said that of 32 terror-related "events" in America since 9/11, 12 occurred in 2009. This spike probably is due in part to the fact that security officials in the Obama administration think it more important to avoid hurting the feelings of Muslims than to take effective measures to protect Americans."

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• Brits: Barack Obama is vulnerable on terror – a...

  Barry has issues: "Complacency, faux moralising and partisan shots at Republicans. It was a neat summary of where Obama is going wrong after the Christmas Day debacle when the Nigerian knicker bomber managed to waltz onto a Detroit-bound flight."

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• UN's dirty leader of the climate change panel -...

  In a nutshell: "That Pachauri heads the UN's IPCC while having a vast conflict of interest is pure corruption. And the bottom line is that until people like Pachauri are exposed and made to step down, if not locked down (which would be appropriate, since we are talking about theft that would make Bernie Madoff look like a mere pick pocket), then the science of AGW will always remain politicized and there is little chance of stopping this world record scam from reaching into our pockets."

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• Top Stock Picks for 2010 from 80 Advisors

  When I was much younger, I remember asking my dad's broker what he would do when a stock he thoroughly researched and purchased, tanked. He said, "It's a buying opportunity. If the stock was good at $30, then it's great at $20." Here's the opinion of 80 folks for 80 stocks. Maybe 2010 will be a good year for investments. Remember to buy as far down the chain as possible - get close to raw materials. It's where a sustainable growth pattern will begin.

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• Salon: 2010 situation grows more difficult for ...

  Dems don't get it: "To minimize expected losses in next fall's election, President Barack Obama's party is testing a line of attack that resurrects George W. Bush as a boogeyman and castigates Republicans as cozy with Wall Street." There is one way for the dems to win: "We were wrong. We learned. We'll do it right." But they will never go this route. Too arrogant.

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• "Not all Muslims are terrorists, but pretty muc...

  Learning from the pros: "News anchor Diane Sawyer seemed shocked to hear Thomas report that Israeli security actually 'stereotypes' passengers on all Israeli flights. Yes, hard to believe though it is, individuals from certain religious and ethnic groups are singled out for special attention before they are allowed to fly. Contrast that with here, where little gray-haired grandmothers are made to take off their tennis sneakers. Of course, Israel hasn't had a single instance of airplane terror in more than 30 years." (Thanks, Cat!)

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• Interesting background on Yemen: Poor and armed...

  Gotta love it: 60 million handguns and small arms for 21 million people. "Yehya al-Mutawakil, a former interior minister, was quoted as saying that everyone in Yemen is armed with handguns, while members of various tribes have gone upscale: they are armed with assault weapons, rocket launchers and submachine guns. The United Nations has categorised Yemen as one of the 49 least developed countries (LDCs), describing it as one of the poorest of the world's poor. Poverty is widespread, according to the United Nations, with about 45 percent of the population living on less than two dollars a day. When North and South Yemen buried their political differences back in May 1990 to become a single country - the Republic of Yemen - the merger was cynically described as "two poor countries becoming one poor country."

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• I don't understand: 2 ships reported hijacked o...

  "A British-flagged cargo ship and a chemical tanker from Singapore have both been hijacked by pirates in the perilous waters off the coast of Somalia, officials said Saturday." Why isn't there any private companies stepping up to provide protection? A few rocket launchers would keep these pirates at bay. Are they becoming a rogue navy?

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• It's official: al-Qaida behind botched Christma...

  US president Barack Obama has accused al-Qaida of being behind the botched plot to blow up a transatlantic passenger jet on Christmas Day. He said it appeared that the alleged would-be suicide bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had been trained by an al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen. "We're learning more about the suspect," Obama said in his weekly radio and internet address today. "We know that he travelled to Yemen, a country grappling with crushing poverty and deadly insurgencies. It appears that he joined an affiliate of al-Qaida, and that this group – al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula – trained him, equipped him with those explosives and directed him to attack that plane headed for America," the president added.

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