Israel ordered a pause in its Gaza offensive for three hours Wednesday to allow food and fuel to reach besieged Palestinians.
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Obama: I’ll Have Plenty To Say About Gaza War After Jan. 20th
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From Steve Holland at Reuters:
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, breaking his silence about the Gaza war, expressed deep concern on Tuesday about civilian deaths in Gaza and in Israel.
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Obama May Appoint Sanjay Gupta as Surgeon General
President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country’s next surgeon general, the cable news network said Tuesday.
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VIDEO: Brolin and Wright Brutalized By Cops During Filming Of “W”
This summer Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright got into an altercation with police in Texas while filming ‘W.’ Footage of the altercation and arrest has finally been released. In the video both Brolin and Wright get pepper sprayed by police and Wright is repeatedly tasered.
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Inside Obama’s Bulletproof Cadillac
The new car Barack Obama will use is a Cadillac that rivals the bulletproof SUV that rapper, 50 Cent drives.
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Best Ideas On Obama’s Website? Legalize Weed and End War on Drugs
Barack Obama’s website change.org has opened itself up to online democracy. He has challenged his supporters to give him their Top 10 Ideas for Change in America.
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NBC’s “Today” Show Disses Conservative Pundit
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From HuffingtonPost:
Coulter appeared on CBS’s The Early Show where she told anchor Harry Smith that he was her favorite for having her on this morning after The Today Show had canceled her. WATCH the video after the jump.
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Leading Black Republican Denounces “Magic Negro” Comment
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From ThinkProgress:
Today, the candidates debated the future of the Party at the National Press Club and all agreed that the GOP needs to bring in more minorities. Michael Steele said Saltsman’s comments were distracting from this goal.
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OPINION: American Media Skews Pro-Israel On Gaza War Coverage
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From Habib Battah at Al Jazeera:
The images of two women on the front page of an edition of The Washington Post last week illustrates how mainstream US media has been reporting Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Israeli Strike Hits U.N. School, At Least 34 Dead
An Israeli bombardment hit outside a U.N. school where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge on Tuesday, and Palestinian medics said at least 34 people died — many of them children — as international outrage grew over civilian deaths.
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Top 20 Stupidest Bush Quotes
President George W. Bush will leave behind a legacy of Bushisms, the label stamped on the commander in chief’s original speaking style. Some of the president’s more notable malaprops and mangled statements:
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Right-Wing Media Watch: George Will and the Politics of Denial
The prominent conservative pundit flails about to find another way of blaming current social woes on anti-discrimination law.
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Obama Quiet on the Gaza Strip
President-elect Barack Obama’s studied silence on the subject of Israel’s 10-day-old war against Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip is only partly out of deference to the man who still has the big job for two more weeks.
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Bay Area Transit Cops Shoot Unarmed Man
An attorney hired by the family of a man slain by a transit agency police officer early New Year’s Day says the victim was shot in the back while lying on his stomach waiting to be handcuffed. Attorney John Burris says 22-year-old Oscar Grant posed no threat to Bay Area Rapid Transit officers when Grant was fatally shot at around 2:15 a.m.
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Boy, 4, Shoots Babysitter For Stepping On His Foot
Police say an angry 4-year-old Ohio boy grabbed a gun from a closet and shot his baby sitter.
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