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I'm not sure where TC is getting his data from, but I'm very excited to hear it.
You know what they say: We could send 40 men of high stature to the Senate... or we could just send Steve Hunt!
Or something like that... ;)
I'll keep you posted once I hear [...]
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You know, I've got the greatest idea ever: If you don't want to see your family members get killed in the streets, then stop encouraging them to try to kill innocent civilians. Or heck, maybe even try to stop hating said innocent civilians for just one little bit, and see [...]
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Number of comments: 1 By Carlos Miller
Further making a national mockery out of the Arizona legal system, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office refused to book one of its own Tuesday night because of some unexplained clerical error.
Adam Stoddard surrendered to the jail as he was ordered to, but was then told to go [...]
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From watching the audience pans during the telecast and then looking at stills, the problem with Obama's Afghan escalation speech was evident in the room. Between the distractibility of the cadets, the flat expressions and the cocked heads, Obama's description and [...]
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Time and time again, the effects of "green" living shows that it is not "green". It does not save "green". It does not create "green" jobs, nor does it cause the earth to "green".
What it does do is cause people to turn red in rage and their accounts to see [...]
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Hopefully you read my previous post about Sass and CSS preprocessors and felt my angst toward learning a new syntax. I’ve been using LessCSS for about a week and I’m really impressed. For starters, no new syntax to learn. This is simply an augmentation of existing CSS [...]
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Posted: December 01, 2009, 7:36pm EST
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Number of comments: 2 
After a week dominating cable infotainment, the White House gatecrasher story has become a media distraction game.
The much bigger question is what Katie Couric and America's top network (so-called) journalists are doing at the Administration's first State Dinner, and why they are standard [...]
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Mr. Shubin has done more in one act to protect our police and military forces than many of today's politicians--or, dare I say, the entire staff of Washington Post--have done in their entire lifetime.
For that, I mourn the passing of this humble man:
Lester D. Shubin, 84, a Justice Department [...]
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I used to keep an occasional eye on Mahmoud's blog way back in 2006, but apparently, it fell out of fashion at some point since then.
Never fear, though -- Mahmoud is back online, and he's back with a vengeance.
Not that any of you regular readers are surprised [...]
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 Times are tough for Design Within Reach, the ten-year-old retail startup turned publicly traded lifestyle emporium. According to the company's most recent regulatory filings, quarterly net sales (for the period ending July 4) plummeted 35% compared to the previous year. In the first half of 2009, [...]
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Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:40pm EST
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 Have you ever seen a beautiful design and been curious who created it? Would you like to not only learn who the designer is but also interview them? Me too. And so, I thought I’d try something new and invite NoD readers to site beautiful designs that [...]
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Number of comments: 6
This is the picture that BBC photographer Jeff Overs was taking when he was suspected of being a terrorist.
By Carlos Miller
It’s been almost a year since the United Kingdom enacted a law that turned photographers into terrorists but it is only now that the [...]
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Number of comments: 13
Update: Arizona detention officer spared from jail because judge “screwed up”.
By Carlos Miller
Defying a court order, Maricopa County detention officer Adam Stoddard said he would rather go to jail than apologize for swiping a defense attorney’s court file.
Now it’s up Superior Court Judge Gary Donahoe to follow through [...]
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Number of comments: 8 
Well, what a relief to finally see Stanley smile.
(photo: Scott Olson, Getty Images. caption: General Stanley A. McChrystal, Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and U.S. Forces Afghanistan, visits with soldiers from Blackfoot Company of the Army's 1st Battalion 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment on Thanksgiving [...]
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I linked Ace's article in the Fast Lane earlier this evening, but I think it bears a broader look.
In your traditional Cult-of-Personality dictatorship, say for example one such as Josef Stalin's reign, every action and activity is traditionally set in terms of the Leader to whom the [...]
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In a not-so-stunning repeat of 2007, it would seem that Iran has taken another set of British sailors hostage:
The Foreign Office confirmed that a racing yacht owned by Sail Bahrain and crewed by five British sailors was detained by the Iranian Navy on November 25.
The yacht had been on [...]
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You know, with all the attacks by the greens and the freedom-hatin-capitalism-hatin leftists in our world decrying our energy usage, one must wonder how projects like these EVER get constructed. Without a peep from Al Gore.
CERN announced early Monday that the Large Hadron Collider has become the world?s highest-energy [...]
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He doesn't really say a lot these days, but when he does, the Dissident Frogman really packs a mean wollop: A lengthy and most amusing article on the Swiss vote banning Minarets, which is too long and insightful for me to even begin to consider excerpting (So Read It [...]
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 When you see this photo, taken by Reuters stringer Sharif Karim, do you think:
(a) What kind of news agency treats the rantings of a murderous thug as a valid democratic expression?
(b) Did Sharif Karim go out of his way to select a woman raising her hand in order [...]
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Architect and Atlanta native John Portman, who designed a hefty chunk of his hometown's downtown, gets the star treatment in a peachy new exhibition at the High Museum of Art. On view through April 18, 2010, "John Portman: Art & Architecture," features architectural projects by [...]
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Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:26pm EST
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 Enhance your resume and your Thanksgiving photos with the Mediabistro mothership's two-day crash course in Adobe Photoshop, back by popular demand. This very weekend (December 5 and 6) in NYC, you can get up and running on the program of programs—the subject of many [...]
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Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:56pm EST
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I’ve been window shopping the CSS preprocessor world the last week or so. Sass seems to be everyone’s new bicycle but it hasn’t won me over and here’s why:
1) It’s a new syntax that I don’t want to learn or support. I have an awesome job where we [...]
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Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:54pm EST
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Number of comments: 6
In 2007, Magnum photographer Martin Parr was drawn to Dubai as an example of the raging excess of wealth -- just before major economic systems hit the skids and the rich nearly everywhere toned it down.
Today, as the financial status of [...]
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Fresh on the heels of the Climate scandal that's rocking the world, we get a "What, Me Worry?" from the Presidential Spokesdunce-in-Chief: (I'll translate Robert's babblings for you in italics below.)
The White House on Monday made exceptionally clear that it wants nothing to do with the furor over documents that [...]
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It says alot about the current Administration that fewer than 10% of the Cabinet-level appointees have been selected with a background in private-sector experience. In the midst of a recession of almost-historic proportions, we see a President who insists on actively ignoring any input from people whose experience [...]
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Once again, we see the impressive rewards that the Obama Administration's smart diplomacy are bringing us: Iran has announced over the weekend that it will no longer be voluntarily cooperating with the United Nations nuclear monitoring agency:
TEHRAN - Iran officially announced that it will cease its voluntary cooperation with [...]
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As many of you know, the race to fill Ken Cuccinelli's soon-to-be-vacated Virginia Senate seat is coming to a close in tomorrow's primary election. For those of you who live in the area, here's yet another reason why Steve Hunt deserves your support:
Dear Friend,
As you know, the Republican primary [...]
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Le magazine Étapes avait demandé à Pascal Béjean de collaborer à une interview de Zuzana Licko à la fois pour le contenu et la forme. [...]
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Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:47am EST by jfp
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As much as we sometimes hate to admit it, fans love "list" stories. Sunday's Dallas Morning News featured the mother of 'em: The Top 50 Cowboys of All Time.
Tom Landry topped the voting list, which was created using [...]
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Number of comments: 1 Much of the time, photographs provide the ideal pretext for those who would deny the obvious. The gambit goes like this: someone, often a photographer with intimate knowledge of the setting, takes a photograph that is circulated by the press and then used as evidence in political argument. At that [...]
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From photographer George Hickey on the tenth anniversary of the Seattle WTO protests:
I see the WTO as basically a protesters vs cops event. The cops being there to protect the interests of corporate power. The protesters attempting to make their views known [...]
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Number of comments: 13 
Slain cops (photo from Salem-News)
Clockwise from top left: Greg Richards, Mark Renninger, Ronald Owens and Tina Griswold.
By Carlos Miller
Police have turned against the media in the wake of four cops getting ambushed and executed [...]
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Number of comments: 6
By Carlos Miller
As we learned a couple of weeks ago, the Transportation Security Administration does not have a specific ban on photography inside airports.
That, of course, doesn’t prevent TSA officials from making up their own laws.
A man who goes by Villagechief on Flyer Talk describes [...]
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By Carlos Miller
Walmart did an excellent job in controlling the crowds during Black Friday this year.
At least that is what the mainstream media is telling us.
But then again, they were not exactly allowed to enter the stores to see for themselves (except for four pre-selected [...]
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I'm really curious to know how much the poster might have done it.
(Here was the alternative, by the way.)
(photo: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters. caption: People walk under posters of the Swiss People's Party (SVP) demanding 'Stop - Yes to ban of minarets' at the central [...]
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Remember back in 2006 when Dubai wanted to take over management of six American ports?
Boy, isn't hindsight just awesome?!?
The United Arab Emirates' central bank said Sunday it would offer additional liquidity to banks, signaling a push by the federal government to reassure investors worried about the country's banking sector [...]
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Number of comments: 12 
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Why photos of the White House gatecrashers (1, 2, 3, 4) -- otherwise, a superficial story lapping up attention in a holiday news vacuum -- have impact.
1. Speak to ever-widening gap between "two Americas" [...]
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Pictured: The man, in action!
One of my favorite things from the photo-web-universe is the 2008 interview of portrait photographer 
