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Afghanistan Avalanches Kill 157 People - KABUL — The death toll from massive avalanches that blocked a mountain pass north of Kabul soared to 157, as hundreds more remained trapped in their snow...

Honda adds 437,000 cars to global air bag recall - Source: [b]AP[/b] By SHINO YUASA TOKYO (AP) - Honda Motor Co. is adding 437,000 vehicles to its 15-month-old global recall for faulty air bags in the late...

U.K. reveals U.S. secrets about ex-Gitmo inmate - [image: Former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed in a picture taken in London in 2000, prior to his detention.]Britain's government discloses once-secre...

"Lost": "They caught us, again." - The final season of the island thriller unravels in our clutches. So why can't we look away?

Oh gosh, that’s just great news - Jihadists and pirates are forming a marriage of convenience in East Africa.

BofA Scandal Coverage - Getting it wrong on the Street - So this is how it's going to be. Lauren Tara LaCapra of The.Street.Com offered one of the first responses to the fraud lawsuit by New York State against ...

The Politics of Aid - The largest contingent of medical relief workers in Haiti since the January 12th earthquake? The Cubans.

Orange Sky, with Birds -

Prisoners Shoveling Snow in Snowpocalypse - By David Swanson Walking through Charlottesville, Va., today I saw a sight that is increasingly common in the United States: men in prison uniforms, watc...

Simple Facts - The problem for the GOP congressional leadership on the Hill is that when you put the facts together it's clear that it didn't occur to them that anything ...

Popularity - Matthew Yglesias had a fine post up today about popular things in America. It is not surprising that 3-4 out of every 10 Americans believe crazy things, bu...

PA-Sen: Specter still in front - Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter remains in front of Congressman Joe Sestak, 51-36. The race seems to have stabilized since October, and Sestak has jus...

Open Thread - Oh come on, Senator Al Franken, we KNOW it was you. Not a hoax, but thanks John K. for the obvious answer. Open thread below....

Robert Gibbs Mocks Palin - Via The Caucus earlier today… Robert Gibbs classic performance mocking Salin Palin: After President Obama left the White House briefing room today, his pre...

Open Thread and Diary Rescue - *Tonight's Rescue is brought to you by Alfonso Nevarez, Blank Frank, HoosierDeb, mem from somerville, dadanation, srkp23, and pico.* Diary Rescue is all ...

Tuesday Night Open Thread - BTD is traveling. I'm still working. What's on TV tonight? The Hollywood rounds begin on American Idol and Ellen DeGeneres debuts as a show co-host. It's...

Hannity: Snow Storms ‘Seem To Contradict Al Gore’s Hysterical Global Warming Theories’ - Last night on his Fox News show, Sean Hannity claimed that the recent spate of winter snow storms in the Washington, D.C. region clearly means that the pla...

Associated Press stories reappear on Google News - *WSJ.com* [image: aplogo] The AP and Google have been negotiating a new licensing agreement to continue the publication of AP content on Google News. In ...

Quoth - Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power. —Chris Matthews Tweet This Post

News Roundup for 2/9/10 - [image: sponge] *Damp sponge -- or as it's known in the Inhofe household, "Our intellectual superior"* *-Headline of the day-* "GOP senator’s family builds...

On identifying identities - So, for everyone who doesn’t know, I am a teenager. (Hey! If anyone is inclined to make comments that reference that fact, know that they will be deleted w...

Vancouver's Olympic Crackdown -

Goldman Sachs rigging the game - Megan Carpentier has a useful summary of a NY Times article detailing how Goldman Sachs ripped off the U.S. taxpayer: The people at Goldman Sachs invested ...

Bad Weather in D.C. Area - The thought of global warming took a backseat on Monday, as it appears that the Congress in Washington got another break by getting a day off today because o...

Remembering Howard Zinn - by Bill Kavanagh: Historian Howard Zinn, who we lost in January at age 87 to a heart attack, worked throughout his lifetime to create a different America, ...

Fire In The Belly - Progressives & The Democratic Party - *Crossposted from Docudharma* Journalism professor *Jeff Cohen* of FAIR and the Park Center for Independent Media on the struggle within the Democratic Par...

NAACP Gives Score of A To Bigoted Senator Harry Reid - According to Krissah Thompson at The Washington Post even after the racial firestorm last month, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid scored an A on the lates...

How Corporate Dollars Dominate the Black and Latino Conversation on Network Neutrality -

So Much for Openness - By Ruth Conniff, February 2, 2010 Obama is making many of the biggest and most expensive governing decisions behind closed doors.read more

Err-America - Air America died not because of the conservative talk radio shows, but because it committed journalistic suicide.

Dear Fatty: Palin's coattails will win in 2012!!!! - *As I suspected, **Denise Thrurple-Tweet wasn't convinced by the points I made yesterday about how it would be virtually impossible for Sarah Palin to be ...