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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

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Osama Bin Laden Killed in U.S. Military Raid

It is being reported by various news agencies this morning that the mastermind behind the worst terrorist attack on American soil in our history has been shot and killed by American special operations forces. Osama Bin Laden was shot and killed inside his compound in Pakistan, ending an almost decade long hunt for the terrorist [...]

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A Sanctuary for Terror

The militants wage war in Afghanistan while using Pakistan as a place for rest, recuperation and recruitment.   By SADANAND DHUME Perhaps the most surprising thing about the so-called Afghanistan war logs released by WikiLeaks Sunday is our continued capacity to be shocked. That the war isn’t going as well as advertised is already painfully [...]

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POLITICO Breaking News: Pakistani Taliban Behind Times Square Terrorism Plot

POLITICO Breaking News: Attorney Gen. Eric Holder says investigators have “now developed evidence that show that the Pakistani Taliban was behind” the attempted bombing of Times Square. “We know that they helped facilitate it,” Holder said on ABC’s “This Week.” “We know that they helped finance it, and that [the suspect] was working at their [...]

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O’Connor: God bless Sarah Palin, the Tea Party Movement

By: Coleen O’Connor, SDNN Consider the following: A just released Pew Poll finds that nearly 80 percent of Americans do not trust their government. This is hardly a surprise. Predictably, the survey finds “a perfect storm of conditions associated with distrust of government – a dismal economy, an unhappy public, bitter partisan-based backlash, and epic [...]

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Wall Street Leaves Pakistan’s Financial Capital

By:  TOM WRIGHT Three Wall Street banks have abandoned their brokerage operations in Pakistan amid the nation’s bleak economic situation. Citigroup’s Citibank shuttered its equity research office in Karachi, the nation’s financial capital, in March. Credit Suisse Group closed its research operations in the same city earlier this year. That follows JPMorgan Chase’s decision in [...]

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Calvin Woodward of AP Debunks #SOTU

Calvin Woodward the chief AP  debunker has gone over Obama’s claims during last night’s State of The Union address. By CALVIN WOODWARD WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama told Americans the bipartisan deficit commission he will appoint won’t just be “one of those Washington gimmicks.” Left unspoken in that assurance was the fact that the commission won’t [...]

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Elite U.S. Force Expanding Hunt in Afghanistan

The New York Times By: Eric Schmitt BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan — Secretive branches of the military’s Special Operations forces have increased counterterrorism missions against some of the most lethal groups in Afghanistan and, because of their success, plan an even bigger expansion next year, according to American commanders. The commandos, from the Army’s Delta [...]

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