December 31, 2009
AP – U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan doubled in 2009 compared with a year ago as 30,000 additional troops began pouring in for a stepped-up offensive and the Taliban fought back with powerful improvised bombs.
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December 31, 2009
Bart Simpson and the Sugar Bowl game could disappear from the TVs of Time Warner Cable subscribers in New York, Los Angeles and other markets in a bitter dispute over fees that the Fox television network is demanding.
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December 30, 2009
AP – Tavern on the Green, once America’s highest-grossing restaurant, is singing its culinary swan song.
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December 29, 2009
Captured Yemeni rebels. Image by AFP/Getty Images via Daylife
Journalists everywhere were given a rude break from their vacations when Umar Farouk Abdulmatallab attempted his Christmas Day airplane bombing. Al-Qaeda in Arabia is claiming responsibility for the bombing, and mounting evidence shows that he made contact with them in Yemen. This site has writen extensively about why Yemen would likely cause severe problems for the United States in the coming years, and it’s a damn shame to be right on that count.
In the week before Abdulmatallab’s airplane bombing, the United States quietly made
December 28, 2009
I wrote back in June about the shameful silence of the Obama administration during the mass street protests that greeted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s fraudulent re-election victory as President of Iran. As White House spokesman Robert Gibbs ludicrously put it, the administration was “impressed by the vigorous debate and enthusiasm this election generated.” Or in Vice President […]
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December 28, 2009
When Daniel Ottalini entered the University of Maryland in 2004, his family had an array of choices to cover the cost — cheap student loans, a second mortgage at low rates, credit cards with high limits and their own soaring investments.
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December 28, 2009
AP – Thailand sent army troops with shields and batons to evict more than 4,000 ethnic Hmong asylum-seekers Monday and send them back to Laos despite strong objections from the U.S. and rights groups who fear they will face persecution.
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December 28, 2009
AP – Authorities say actor Charlie Sheen has been accused of using a weapon in an alleged case of domestic violence in Aspen.
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December 27, 2009
AFP – Family members of a British man due to be executed this week for drug trafficking are expected to arrive in China Sunday in a last ditch attempt to plead for his life, a rights group said.
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December 26, 2009
AP – Charlie Sheen spent the better part of Christmas Day in a Colorado jail cell after being arrested on domestic violence allegations.
Martin Rogen 