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Argue Like Americas Most Controversial Philosopher
Our annual guide to the businesses that matter most; the ones whose innovations are having an impact across their industries and our ...
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Obama U.S. is not at war with Islam
President Barack Obama delivers a speech on his administration's counterterrorism policy at the National Defense University located on Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., on May 23, 2013. UPI/Kristoffer ...
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Bushs war on terror over
>Editor's note: Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a director at the New America Foundation and the author of "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden -- From 9/11 to Abbottabad," the basis for the HBO documentary "Manhunt" that will be shown on CNN at 9 p.m. today. Washington (CNN) -- In the past few weeks, we've seen a British soldier hacked to death with a meat cleaver on ...
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Jindal Obamas woes flow out of big government philosophy
>Editor's note: Bobby Jindal, a Republican, is governor of Louisiana.(CNN) -- The latest problems with the IRS witch hunt, the seizure of phone records from The Associated Press, the conflicting Benghazi stories and disastrous attempts to enforce Obamacare may all seem unrelated, but they are not. Each of these events is the direct byproduct of two central philosophies of the Obama ...
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When company owns human genes
>Editor's note: Gayle Sulik is a medical sociologist, founder of the Breast Cancer Consortium and author of "Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women's Health. " Follow her on Twitter: @pinkribbonblues(CNN) -- Angelina Jolie, when writing about her preventive double mastectomy, did not discuss how much her surgeries cost, but she did mention that many women would not be ...
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Could Weiner replace Bloomberg
To listen to the podcast, click on the Soundcloud audio player above. Or find it on iTunes. But back to Anthony Weiner: For those of you who missed it, in 2011 the former congressman texted pictures of his private parts to women, lied about it, had to resign. We all agreed his mayoral bid can't simply be dismissed as a ...
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Chatter Obama pledges to curtail drones
in a landmark policy speech , has defended the use of drones, arguing the United States is fighting a "just war" of self defense and countless lives have been saved by thwarting terror attacks. The US president also announced new guidelines, saying drone strikes would be used only when a threat was "continuing and imminent." In Pakistan, where hundreds have been killed by ...
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Red state Dems defect on Keystone pipeline
Two red state Democratic senators signaled support Thursday for legislation authorizing the Keystone XL pipeline opposed by President Barack Obama, Democratic Party leaders, and influential Democratic donors. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D- N.D., told the Washington Free Beacon in a statement that she will support legislation passed by the House on Wednesday to approve construction of the ...
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Is Britney Mentally Stable
Watch out Sin City - Britney Spears is headed your way. The pop star is slated to get down and dirty in Sin City night after night with her own Vegas show, following in the footsteps of musical greats such as Celine Dion, Cher and Bette Midler. Although an official announcement is yet to be made, Spears has confirmed that she is already sweating it out to get her body in tip-top shape for the ...
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House Items You Need to Clean
My Genius Idea: Shoe Rack for the Pantry When you see mold and mildew: Pour to 1 cup of bleach into the bottom of the dishwasher and run a full cycle. For stainless-steel interiors, use vinegar and baking soda. Clean: Once a ...
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Kutcher Its Not My Fault
It's not me, it's you. That was the message from actor and tech investor Ashton Kutcher, who was on hand at CTIA 2013 to discuss his views on the mobile industry and social networking. During the keynote, Kutcher was asked how he thought Twitter was monetizing the mobile market. The star of the upcoming film, "jOBS," said the media messed up the social ...
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Barack Obamas Scandals Confirm That Hes Not A CEO
(Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) Every CEO is a politician. Not every politician is a CEO. The current set of messes that President Obama faces makes the point. They are as much management failures as they are political/legal nightmares. There is a price for having no market-facing executive experience. Indeed, Mr. Obama's first cabinet had almost no private sector management ...
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President Obama and the media a game of flattery and deceit | Ana Marie Cox
recent spate of troubles in the Obama White House, specifically the revelations about administration investigations into the activities of news organizations and individual journalists. Is it the Republicans, whose glee has finally found a source that doesn't coincide with the misery of every day Americans? (That's the problem with pegging your campaigns to Obama's inability to ...
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Obama to speak at Naval Academy graduation
President Obama is scheduled to speak at the U.S. Naval Academy's graduation. The president's speech, his second to a graduating class at the academy, is set for Friday at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis. About 1,000 midshipmen are scheduled to be commissioned as officers in either the Navy or the Marine Corps. Obama gave his first speech to a ...
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Teen Birth Rates Down Across America Hispanic Girls Had Sharpest Drop
new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that teen birth rates in America fell sharply from 2007 to 2011, by as much as 34 percent on average for Hispanic ...
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX may open lower on fears of less Fed stimulus
May 24 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index looked set to open lower on Friday as better-than-expected German economic data was overshadowed by fears that the U.S. Federal Reserve is considering an early decrease of its $85 billion monetary ...
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Canadian custody dispute reaches tentative conclusion
child custody agreement. The argument had sparked between an American woman and a Canadian man. They met when the woman was attending medical school in Canada. An initial ruling had determined the children's custody situation would have to be determined by a Canadian court; that decision was confirmed by the 2nd Circuit earlier this month. The couple's problems began shortly after ...
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Barack Obama Presidential Subject Change
. Needless to say, U.S. President Barack Obama has been floundering … in need of something (anything) to draw attention away from the multiple scandals swirling around his administration. And what better way to do that than declaring victory in the ';War on Terror,'; which he has prosecuted every bit as vigorously (and expensively) as his predecessor, George W. Bush. ...
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Not Enough Rights Groups Respond to Obamas Foreign Policy Speech
National Defense Universityin Washington, DC on Thursday. Human and civil rights groups generally responded to Obama's foreign policy speech by saying that though they welcomed the president's decision to directly address long-ignored issues-including extrajudicial killings, drone attacks, the permanent war footing of the US military, and the ongoing crisis at the Guantanamo Bay ...
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Obama reveals clearer guidelines for drone strikes
In a counterterrorism speech on Thursday, President Obama focused on narrowrt guidelines for deadly drone strikes, arguing they are legal and effective, and announced an end to the ban on transferring detainees from Guantanamo back to Yemen. NBC's Peter Alexander ...
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Putin Obama to Meet in June September - Kremlin
G8 summit in June and during the US president’s visit to Russia in September, a Kremlin aide said on Friday. "The first meeting will be in Lough Erne [Northern Ireland] on the sidelines of the G8 Summit and then [during] Obama’s visit [to Russia] in September, early September," Putin aide Yury Ushakov said, adding that Obama’s visit will take place before the G20 ...
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15 Canadian teens lost on hiking trip
The teens -- ages 16 and 17 from the Waterloo, Ontario, area -- became separated from their main group Thursday afternoon. Police and emergency crews were called in after attempts to find the youths were ...
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Pakistan welcomes Obama stance on force
Obama, who outlined his counterterrorism policy in a speech Thursday, called "the use of force in fighting" terrorism as "part of a larger discussion about a comprehensive counter-terrorism ...
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Electoral fraud did take place in 2011 federal vote but it didn’t affect outcome judge rules
Electoral fraud occurred during the last federal election, a federal court judge ruled on Thursday, but there is no proof that it affected the outcomes in six ridings at issue, so the elections will not be overturned. The court challenge was brought by the Council of Canadians, which sought to overturn the election of six Conservative MPs who won close ridings where there was evidence that ...
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Mike Duffy wants to give Canadians ‘the whole story’ calls for open public inquiry into expenses
OTTAWA -- Sen. Mike Duffy insisted there should be an open, public inquiry into his expenses as controversy swirled Thursday around how impartial a fresh review of his spending is likely to be. The former Conservative senator's call came as news emerged that the RCMP asked last week for documents related to his file, and as the chairman of the Senate's internal economy committee ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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