Texting motorists '6 times more likely to crash'
'Requires drivers to switch their attention from 1 task to the other'
--LiveScience
UPS driver sues Joe Namath over 'dangerous' dogs
Former deliveryman says canines 'caused vicious and serious personal injuries'
--Palm Beach Post
'Furious' coroner probes Brittany Murphy leak
'If partial information goes out, it of course makes us look bad'
--Associated Press
Couple charged in bizarre kidnap, sex-assault case
Man catches wife in affair, forces her to have sex with paramour
--Duluth News Tribune, Minnesota
Unemployment calls overwhelm Connecticut
State issues 156,000 benefit checks last week, up some 50% from 105,000 last year
--Associated Press
Small-biz bankruptcies rise 81% in California
With credit tight, consumers still pinching pennies, many owners find they can't go on
Keep IRS auditors away: Earn less than $200,000
Returns under that amount have 1 percent chance of getting inspected
--Associated Press
Naked Corruption: Senate Democrats defend backroom deals
Seedy Chicago Politics Replaces 'Change we can believe in'
Stossel: If ObamaCare a Matter of Life and Death, pork would be unnecessary
Senator: Foes of Health Bill Birthers, Right-Wing Militias, Aryan Groups
1st of more to come in new Wave: Dem Congressman Switches to GOP
Tea Partiers Take Aim at Sen. Hutchison (R-TX)
Der Spiegel: Copenhagen a 'Club Of Losers'
Socialism Creeps In As America Sleeps-12/22
IBD, Health Care: Democrats on the take and in the dead of night pass
an execrable piece of legislation that they haven't read, the public
doesn't want and only socialists could love. What has happened to this
country
Reid Bill Says Future Congresses
Cannot Repeal Parts of Reid Bill-12/22
Weekly Standard, by John McCormack-- Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)
pointed out some rather astounding language in the Senate health care
bill during floor remarks tonight.
A new world order is taking shape-12/21 China.org, By Wu Jianmin--The
following remarks are reflections on the international situation in
2009 by Wu Jianmin, president of the Shanghai Institute for
International Studies and a professor at the China Foreign Affairs
Institute:
2009 is drawing to a close. Reflecting on changes
in the international situation that have taken place this year, I
believe we are witnessing the emergence of a new world order. World
orders are relatively stable and usually retain their basic structure
over a long period. On December 25, 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as
president of the Soviet Union
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