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  1. Spend a few minutes reading Comments for reaction.
    Why did O bring this out? Was this done with forethought by O’s cabal?
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    “Breaking!! Obama at prayer breakfast says can question his policies, but not his citizenship.
    Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, President appeals for a return to “civility” in politics. “You can question my policies without questioning my faith — or for that fact, my citizenship,” he says, a reference to those who insist Obama wasn’t born in Hawaii.
    (Excerpt) Read more at politico.com”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2444209/posts

  9. Al’s AGW: Downdate.
    It’s Pachy’s fault.
    ““Accumulations have the potential to reach 2 feet in some areas, matching or exceeding snowfall from the December blizzard.””
    …-
    “Major snowstorm headed for eastern US
    4 02 2010
    This national radar mosaic shows huge amounts of gathering moisture ready to collide with frigid air. The storm gets the label “Nor’easter“
    Forecasters all over are watching this storm with concern.
    From Accuweather.com a forecast for the mid-Atlantic suggests Washington DC might get dumped on big time:”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/

  10. Excerpt from a report by Leonard Downie, Jr., and Michael Schudson
    in the Columbia Journalism Review, titled The Reconstruction of American Journalism:
    “In the age of the Internet, everyone from individual citizens to political operatives can gather information, investigate the powerful, and provide analysis. Even if news organizations were to vanish en masse, information, investigation, analysis, and community knowledge would not disappear. But something else would be lost, and we would be reminded that there is a need not just for information, but for news judgment oriented to a public agenda and a general audience. We would be reminded that there is a need not just for news but for newsrooms. Something is gained when reporting, analysis, and investigation are pursued collaboratively by stable organizations that can facilitate regular reporting by experienced journalists, support them with money, logistics, and legal services, and present their work to a large public. Institutional authority or weight often guarantees that the work of newsrooms won’t easily be ignored.” (emph. mine)
    Downie and Schudson’s point about funding is reasonable, in the sense that doing field research, conducting interviews, etc., (as opposed to net-surfing) requires expense, but their starting-point assumption that there is a “public agenda” that should be advanced through the work of journalists and news organizations betrays precisely the mindset that has arguably caused the larger news media to continue to lose credibility.
    “It may not be essential to save any particular news medium, including printed newspapers. What is paramount is preserving independent, original, credible reporting.”
    Well, if news organizations with “institutional authority” work to advance a “public agenda,” what’s independent, or credible, about that?
    Anyway, I’m just nitpicking about one particular passage. The essay is worth reading, if you’ve got the time.

  12. Follow the cascading trail of the MSM.
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    “‘Buy American’ deal to be announced Friday
    Toronto Sun – Kathleen Harris – ‎44 minutes ago‎
    OTTAWA – A year-long battle over the contentious “Buy American” policy is expected to end Friday with news of a deal to end the protectionist measures against Canada.”
    “US waters down ‘Buy American’ policies: sources CTV.ca”
    “‘Buy American’ policy unchanged Montreal Gazette”
    http://news.google.ca/
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/02/04/abortion-just-another-method-of-contraception/#comment-74187

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