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    Taxpayer Loss On Solyndra Could Be As High As $849 Million

    Bend over. via Zip: The cost to taxpayers for the failure of solar panel company Solyndra may be much higher than the $535 million dollar federal loan guarantee the company received. After the company went bankrupt in last August, 2011, the Energy Department, which had given the original...
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    Why does WCPO have election results posted online 16 days before the election?

    Cincinnati, Ohio TV Station WCPO Shows Election Night Results with Obama Win on its Website Here’s the page where WCPO at this writing still has the “results” posted: http://media2.wcpo.com/html/elections/elections.html On Twitter, they are @WCPO h/t Ohio Dan at AOSHQ h/t sda Also...
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    Caterpillar sees growth slowing to 4-year low

    It's probably nothing. Caterpillar Inc., the world’s largest maker of construction and mining equipment, forecast sales growth for 2013 that is the slowest in four years as the global economy decelerates. Sales growth will be in a range of up 5% to down 5% next year, the Peoria...
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    Arrest made in Bloor-Christie sex assaults

    Toronto police confirmed Monday they have made an arrest in a string of sexual assaults in the Bloor and Christie area in which female pedestrians were attacked from behind as they walked at night. The assaults, more than a dozen stretching back to the summer, happened as women walked along...
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    Harper calls 3 byelections for Nov. 26

    OTTAWA -- The popularity of the federal Conservative government will be put to the test next month in byelections in three provinces. Prime Minister Stephen Harper called for votes November 26 to fill vacancies in the Commons for Victoria, Calgary Centre, and Durham - the riding just east...
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    Ft. Hood Was Not Terrorism

    Remember this tomorrow when the same President Obama is lying to convince the American people that he is fighting hard against terrorism. via sda: Obama Doctrine: Ft. Hood Was Not Terrorism, Wounded Soldiers Get No Benefits Victims of the Nov. 2009 Ft. Hood shooting are being denied...
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    3 dead, 4 injured in Wisconsin shooting

    via Fark Time to reset the "Number of Days Since Mass Shooting" clock BROOKFIELD, Wis. — Three people are dead in a mass shooting that took place at the Azana Spa near the Brookfield Square Mall at about 11:15 a.m. Sunday, according to the Brookfield police chief...
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    U.S. Officials Say Iran Has Agreed to Nuclear Talks

    WASHINGTON — The United States and Iran have agreed in principle for the first time to one-on-one negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, according to Obama administration officials, setting the stage for what could be a last-ditch diplomatic effort to avert a military strike on Iran...
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    Eight crazy things Americans believe about foreign affairs

    Americans have some astonishing misconceptions about international affairs. As the Washington Post's Dylan Matthews explained last month, the baffling fact that 15 per cent of Ohio Republicans believe Mitt Romney deserves more credit than Barack Obama for killing Osama bin Laden may have...
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    Iran Before 1979

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    Comparing the actual policy positions of Obama and Mitt Romney

    Comparing the actual policy positions of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney | World | News | National Post large size: http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/obamaromneygraphicb.jpg
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    Canadian can be extradited to U.S. to face terror charge

    EDMONTON—An Edmonton judge has ruled there is enough evidence to extradite a Canadian citizen to the United States to face charges of conspiracy to kill Americans. Sayfildin Tahir Sharif is also accused of supporting a terror...
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    The Ultimate World Economic Scorecard

    When you are out this evening at your cocktail party, discussing the state of the world, how everyone should be buying GOOG on the dips, how AAPL looks cheap (and the mini-iPad is coming soon), all that cash-on-the-sidelines, and how sentiment is so low; perhaps this handy little global...
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    The 'rogue climate hacker'

    via sda: Y2Kyoto: The Fix Is In Funding from "impoverished" Old Massett First Nations - $2.5 million. Volume of iron strewn over the ocean - 120 tonnes Current benchmark iron ore price - $105.75 a tonne Multiplying 120 x 105.75....priceless. Russ George doesn't think...
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    U.S. Budget-Deficit Projections

    Obama Drowns in Red Ink - Deroy Murdock - National Review Online
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    Brooklyn progressives support the homeless

    Just not in their backyard via Fark Fancy Liberal Brooklyn Is Full of Hypocrites Brooklyn—the expensive parts of Brooklyn, the parts of Brooklyn you read about in higher-end trend stories—prides itself on being a great bastion of liberalism and diversity, a place where the intelligentsia...
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    The 36 Obama-Funded Green Energy Failures…

    So far, 36 companies that have received federal support from taxpayers have either gone bankrupt or are laying off workers and are heading for bankruptcy. This list includes only those companies that received federal money from the Obama Administration’s Department of Energy. The amount of...
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    Battleground snapshot: Romney gains in the South

    from Daily Kos: The bulk of this polling is pre-second debate, and points to further deterioration this week in the southern battlegrounds of Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. Note that Rasmussen is single-handedly boosting Mitt Romney's numbers in most of these states. Take...
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    In today's episode of Overreaction Theater...

    zoo takes down Halloween ghost decorations because some people believe they look like lynchings. via Fark ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) -- St. Louis Zoo officials say it changed a Halloween display of about 10 ghosts with black faces hanging from trees after complaints that it resembled...
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    About those stupid 'lectric cars and such

    miracles of the green crowd and their dear leaders. from sda: small dead animals: We Don't Need No Stinking Sparky Cars Factory has yet to ship out a single battery... Workers at LG Chem, a $300 million lithium-ion battery plant heavily funded by taxpayers, tell Target 8 that they have so...