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Tomas weakens, but still a threat to Haiti
Maryland WeatherTomas, weakened from its former Cat. 2 hurricane strength to a minimal tropical storm, is still expected to regain some of that strength and turn toward Haiti as a Cat. 1 hurricane by Friday morning. The island nation has been......Tags: Disasters and Accidents, National Hurricane Center, Natural Disasters, Hurricanes, Tropical Storms
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Leroy Sievers
The TV ZoneI'll get back to the wild and wacky world of TV blogging in a just a little bit - promise - but I first wanted to make note here of another untimely passage in the TV industry. This one......Tags: Entertainment, Newspaper and Magazine, Health, Elie Wiesel, Disasters
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Judge: Release some Gitmo detainees
The Swampby James Oliphant In a stinging rebuke to the Bush administration, a federal judge Tuesday ordered the Pentagon to immediately release a small group of Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo Bay into the United States. U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina......Tags: Court Administration, Defense, Trials, Prisons, Punishment
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LI debate: Last chance for Obama-McCain 'illegals' clash
Spin CycleImmigration policy has drawn remarkably little mention in this huge general-election campaign ??? and some want to see the presidential candidates confront the issue in their final debate Wednesday at Hofstra University. One year ago, nothing in...Tags: Government, National Government, New York, Manhattan (New York City), Immigration
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Panning Levy II: Exec's "pitiful program"
Spin CycleWe aren't the only ones not impressed by Steve Levy's "one-day story" performance in the wake of the murder of Marcello Lucero, left. In this blog post, Pat Young of the Central American Refugee Center says the Suffolk executives......Tags: Marcelo Lucero, Steve Levy, Politics
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SoS Hillary? New WH counsel bashed her foreign cred
Spin CycleOver the weekend, reports indicated that Obama has chosen Gregory Craig as his new White House counsel. With Hillary Clinton now under consideration as Secretary of State, it's worth remembering that Craig -- a former Clinton classmate who served......Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, National Government, Armed Conflicts, Bill Clinton, Government Health Care
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Obama's free advice from Boston U profs
The Swampby Frank James When you're president or president-elect, you get a lot of gratuitous advice. And so it is that some Boston University professors have some ideas for President-elect Barack Obama, some serious, some not some serious. Hat tip to......Tags: White House, Scientific Exploration, Society, Teen-agers, Migration
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Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, LBJ: Farewells
The Swampby Mark Silva As President George W. Bush and his writers place the final touches on 15 minutes of televisied talk that will deliver a farewell to the nation after two tumultuous terms in office, it's worth remembering the most......Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, Washington Monument, Bill Clinton, Federal Reserve, Freedom of the Press
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"Law & Order: SVU:" Tonight, Hell
The TV ZoneWow. Take a look, if you can, at tonight's pretty unusual and pretty powerful "SVU." Below is the clip and - superficially at least - what is notable about this episode, entitled "Hell," is the fact that this is......Tags: Genocide, CNN (tv network), United Nations, Law & Order (tv program), Massacres
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Obama's illegal alien aunt has court date
The Swampby Frank James President Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt who is in the U.S. illegally had an immigration court date today in Boston at which a judge set her asylum hearing date for next February. Zeituni Onyango, half sister to Obama's......Tags: Government, National Government, Immigration, Extradition, Migration
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Obama, Israel: Republicans' 'wedge'
The Swampby Mark Silva Republican congressional leaders are attempting to "drive a wedge'' between President Barack Obama and the politically influential American Jewish community, the way one well-known conservative Republican sees it. Israel is the wedge. The...Tags: National Government, Television Industry, Mike Pence, Symptoms, Satellite and Cable Service
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Let's try to separate the hate from Haiti
Mayo on the Side: Broward news columnist Michael Mayo | Sun-Sentinel BlogsWhen I wrote that South Florida would be needed as a sanctuary for desperate post-earthquake Haitians in my Sunday column, I knew two things would happen: 1) There'd be a lot of hateful comments and generalizations about Haitians. 2) People......Tags: Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Haiti, Disasters, Immigration, Demographics
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