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    Man charged with setting Houston mosque fire was a devout attendee

    I know eh. A Houston man has been arrested in connection with a suspected arson at a mosque on Christmas Day. A spokeswoman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed that the man was arrested early Wednesday, sometime after midnight, and appeared in...
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    Death knell for AGW

    Steve Milloy ‏@JunkScience From @NYTimes Dec. 12, 1938 -- and then the world went into a 35-yr cooling phase From NYTimes, December 12, 1938: ‘World Climate Growing Warmer’ | JunkScience.com
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    Jihadi Couple Who Plotted London Bomb Attack Jailed For Life

    *trigger warning by The Associated Press LONDON — A husband and wife convicted of...
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    This Nazi-era archive has brought people to tears

    Now, it is open to the public This Oct. 24, 1940 file photo shows Adolf Hitler, right, shaking hands with Head of State of Vichy France Marshall Philippe Petain in occupied France. (AP Photo, File) It has been more than 70 years since the end of the war, but emotions have been running...
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    This Incredible Injectable Material Could Fix Broken Bones

    Wouldn’t it be great if we didn’t have to wait months for broken bones to heal, trapped in bulky casts for what seems like forever? Perhaps we’re steadily creeping towards such an ideal future, with promising developments in materials science. A team in France, for example, has just come up...
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    Ten reasons why it’s wrong to change our electoral system

    in the way the change is being proposed Stephen Taylor ‏@stephen_taylor Warren Kinsella explains... I was on a CTV panel when the Speech...
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    Why things look bleak for Newfoundland

    Newfoundland’s new Liberal government is facing a Greece-like mountain of red ink—and has no clear path to tackle it There was a fierce debate during the 2015 federal election campaign over whether Prime Minister Stephen Harper had actually delivered a “surprise” $1.9-billion surplus last...
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    Baltimore’s 2015 murder rate highest per capita

    23 victims were children Former Baltimore mayor Martin O’Malley’s attempt to capitalize on his gun control record during November’s Democratic debate came with particularly bad timing, as the city had just that day recorded its 300th homicide of the year. “With all due respect, it’s fair to...
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    This day in history

    History Today ‏@HistoryToday Signed on December 30th, 1853, the Gadsden Purchase settled the main boundaries of the US. It was the Gadsden Purchase that settled the main boundaries of the United States of America...
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    Canadians feel least safe on public transit, see Islamic State as ‘major threat’

    but anyway...coffee tables, ladders 'over there' and such. A majority of Canadians say they feel safe in most public spaces like churches and movie theatres, a new poll indicates. But most also remain wary of the threat posed to Canada by terrorist groups like the so-called Islamic State...
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    Police capture two ISIL bombers in Turkish capital ahead of New Year’s Eve

    Counter-terrorism police units captured two Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suicide bombers in Ankara preparing for a New Year’s Eve attack in an operation conducted in the capital’s Mamak district on Dec. 30, the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has stated. The two ISIL...
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    Temperatures 50 degrees above normal at North Pole

    Steve Milloy ‏@JunkScience I dunno... warmth at the North Pole doesn't seem as 'unprecedented' as warmists claim.
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    Paying down debt remains top financial priority of Canadians

    Monte Solberg ‏@montesolberg Monte Solberg Retweeted Globe Investor Note it's the top priority for regular people. Governments not so much. A new CIBC poll suggests that paying down debt remains the top...
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    Ontario’s fiscal train wreck

    ConcernedCitizen ‏@ProudCON #Ontario is the largest sub-national debtor in the entire world. Truly, let that sink in. Ontario is the largest sub-national debtor in the entire world Ontario’s deteriorating fiscal...
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    Canadian Imam likens Trudeau to a King who helped Muslims and converted to Islam

    Canadian Sheikh Shaban Sherif Mady (شعبان شريف ماضي), was a scholar at al-Azhar theological school in Egypt and served at the Ministry of Endowment and Ministry of Education of the Egyptian government. Today, he is the Imam of a Muslim congregation in Edmonton, Alberta which holds its Friday...
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    Another massive BC Liberal scandal buried

    CKNW Verified account ‏@CKNW Researchers settle dispute vs B.C. government, ex-health minister in firings scandal #bcpoli A settlement has been reached in a wrongful dismissal lawsuit with two of the key players...
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    Temperatures 50 degrees above normal at North Pole

    oh. my. god. Steve Goddard ‏@SteveSGoddard Steve Goddard Retweeted Judah Cohen In Irving Berlin's 1954...
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    As U.S. Focuses on ISIS and the Taliban, Al Qaeda Re-emerges

    Stephen Miller ‏@redsteeze Impossible. Obama killed Osama Bin Laden and told us that war was over WASHINGTON — Even as the Obama administration scrambles to confront the Islamic State and resurgent Taliban, an old...
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    Gotta love revisionist history

    In Star-world he used "'old stock' demagoguery." https://twitter.com/JJ_McCullough/status/681913512168259584 read here: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/12/29/a-tale-of-two-canadas.html … I imagine they're still ignoring how Stephane Dion has used the exact same term...
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    New contagious form of cancer discovered

    cool Contagious cancers may not be as rare as thought, say scientists who have discovered a second transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils - small dog-sized ferocious carnivores found in the Australian island state of Tasmania. Transmissible cancers - cancers which can spread between...