December 2010
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Our List: The Best News Tumblrs
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ABC News Radio http://abcnewsradio.net/
ABC World News with Diane Sawyer http://abcworldnews.tumblr.com/
Blogging Via Typewriter http://inothernews.tumblr.com/
The Daily What http://thedailywh.at/
The Huffington Post http://huffingtonpost.tumblr.com/
MSNBC.com http://msnbc.tumblr.com/
Newsweek http://newsweek.tumblr.com/
The Nightline Daily Line http://nightline.tumblr.com/
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The year in stupid "scientific" studies →
Last spring scientists found that women with larger breasts make bigger tips, as do those who are slender and blonde. Also, men always want sex, and many want it more often than they get it. Oh, and in case you weren’t sure, little boys love to play with cars, and little girls love dolls.
Here’s the full list of obvious findings. Shouldn’t these researchers be searching for...
rightnowradio asked: You made our list of best News Tumblrs! http://citadelnow.tumblr.com/
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“Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate”
– -Sarah Palin
During the past year, the ex-Alaska governor often took to Twitter to express her influential political opinions. But when she inadvertedently coined the word “refudiate” — a combination of “refute” and “repudiate” — in a July tweet about moving...
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If you leave your Christmas tree's lights on...
Who knew?
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6 holiday-themed drug busts →
…and creative Christmas-inspired ways people hide their drugs, including one man who put a tiny bit of marijuana wrapped in a bow behind every door of his advent calendar. Then there’s the guy who decorated his six-foot-tall pot plant like a Christmas tree. Creative, but not enough to avoid getting caught, I suppose.
Here is the full list. Enjoy, and happy holidays, Tumblr!
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“I am not trying to pretend that my kids are saints, always behaving...”
– Krista Pfeiffer and the case against using Santa as a scare tactic
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The biggest controversies of 2010 →
From Tim Tebow to the Tea Party and the firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, here’s a look back at the political clashes, provocative stances, celebrity scandals, and public outrages that most defined the past 12 months of our lives.
Enjoy.
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Here's how the government is spending your money →
According to a new report, tax payers spent $11.5 billion in 2010 to enhance zoos with poetry, honor the Grateful Dead, and subsidize the Department of Energy’s “inefficient” energy use. Here, some numbers (read the full list of ridiculous expenditures):
$175 million Amount spent by the Department of Veterans Affairs to maintain unused buildings, including an octagonal, pink...
darkillumination asked: What are the parameters that you use when compiling opinion stories? And how do you find them? The opinion links are always so good and always done by great writers.
“308,745,538.”
– The US population on April 1, 2010, according to new numbers announced by the US Census, up 9.7% from 281,421,906 in the year 2000. (via npr)
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darkillumination asked: What are the parameters that you use when compiling opinion stories? And how do you find them? The opinion links are always so good and always done by great writers.
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Haley Barbour, Miss. Gov. and 2012 GOP contender,... →
…and tells the Weekly Standard that growing up in Yazoo City, Miss. during the civil rights revolution wasn’t that bad.
Barbour’s spokesman says critics are using his comments to unfairly “paint the governor as a racist.”
This “whitewashing” of Southern racism is Barbour’s version of Nixon’s “Southern Strategy,” says Heather...
Ask us stuff! →
You know you want to.
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Researchers say they've found a (real) cure for... →
A researcher in Germany says he’s discovered a fool-proof method for treating baldness! It could be available for humans within five years, offering relief to 80 percent of people who suffer from hair loss.
Here’s how it works
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The 'War on Christmas': A timeline →
It’s a holiday tradition that has become as predictable as airings of It’s a Wonderful Life on television: The annual Christmas culture war. On one side, mostly conservative Christians say the government and businesses are conspiring to take the religion out of Christmas; on the other, a pro-diversity crowd argues that public Christmas displays constitute unacceptable attempts to...
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Julian Assange gets a taste of his own medicine →
Oh, the irony. The WikiLeaks founder — no stranger to the leaking of documents — cries foul as humiliating details of his alleged sexual assaults are leaked to the British media.
His lawyers say there is only one motive behind the leaked reports: “Trying to make Julian look bad.”
One report describes his sexual performance as “the world’s worst screw.”...
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“Economic chaos, political deadlock, religious and ethnic conflict, another awful...”
– William Falk finds hope in examining the past 12 months of conflict, stupidity, and disaster in the most recent edition of The Week’s Editor’s Letter
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“Some have said this is not the time to repeal this policy, and they’re...”
– - Sen. Harry Reid’s comments on the repeal of “Don’t ask, don’t tell”
vs. Sen. John McCain’s comments on the repeal:
“I hope that when we pass this legislation, that we will understand that we are doing great damage.”
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“All of the other men from their crew were dead. Their plane had gone down in the...”
– This week’s Last Word is an excerpt from Laura Hillenbrand’s new book, “Unbroken,” in which three U.S. airmen refuse to surrender
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Watchmsnbc:
A coyote was rescued this morning after he was spotted floating on a patch of ice barely bigger than himself, hundreds of yards away from land, in Lake Michigan.
Yay! A drink called “Coyote On Ice” should be invented to celebrate. Ingredients suggestions?
The luckiest coyote ever.
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Haha. Hahaha. →
Funny cartoon within.
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A record 60 percent of Americans now say the... →
Pressing on could prove costly for President Obama. Will it be his undoing?
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Happy Birthday to Bradley Manning →
The alleged WikiLeaker turns 23 in solitary confinement today. Here, more from The Daily Beast.
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BREAKING: House Democratic leaders pull the tax... →
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As the debate over how the tax cut bill will be brought to the floor and voted on was wrapping up, House Democratic leaders abruptly pulled the “rule” from the floor because they don’t know if they have enough votes to even bring the tax bill to the floor, according to a senior Democratic leadership aide. [read more]
Merry Christmas, everyone! This oughta be a...
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Want to report suspicious activity to the... →
There’s an app for that.
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