World's first trillion dollar company

American? No, it's Chinese. PetroChina. From the article: "By market capitalization, it is now worth more than the two previous global corporate front-runners, ExxonMobil (XOM) and General Electric (GE), combined."

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Fed cuts key rate another quarter-point

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41% of Americans cannot name a Republican candidate's name without prompting

From the article: "Overall, 81% can name a Democratic candidate unprompted, with 78% volunteering Clinton's name and 62% Obama's. By contrast, 59% could name any Republican candidate. Giuliani is the best known Republican candidate, with 45% of the public naming him."

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Half his life in prison for a crime he did not commit; finally free

Sad - a prime 20 years of his life wasted just because of mistaken witnesses.

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Tape: Bin Laden calls on Iraq insurgents to unite

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Messin' with the 911 system

This guy should be put in jail for a dozen years if not more. One sick individual with too much time on his hands. He could have cost those poor innocent people their lives.

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Lesbian sues restaurant that booted her for using women's toilet

More bigotry against homosexuals.

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Amazon.com deletes negative reviews of Laura Ingraham's book

The link is to the discussion by the people of Ingrahma's book. Here's a snippet in case that too vanishes from amazon.com: ======= - Were all the negative reviews taken off, or am I insane?

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Gore to win Nobel prize, declare candidacy for US President?

Watch out for the big news this Friday. Al Gore is gonna get the Nobel Prize and then he's gonna declare his candidacy for US President. All those poor candidates who've spent all those millions of dollars and all that time. Gotta feel sorry for them.

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Shooting to kill - Reuters Photographers

Chilling. I really don't know what to say. This will probably go down as one of the iconic images of our generation.

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Did Bush turn down chance to get rid of Saddam for $1.3b?

And now he complains about how Democrats can't have $22 billion.

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Jenna Bush: 'We don't like to use the word fiance'

She gave her first TV interview. To be aired tonight on ABC. From the article: On her fiance: JENNA BUSH: "Henry's my boyfriend, my fiancé. I don't, we don't like to use the word fiancé, though."

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Is Ahmadinejad hot?

This is what one person thought of him:

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Why don't GOP presidential nominees care about minorities?

Excerpt:

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Study - liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives

From the article: "Exploring the neurobiology of politics, scientists have found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives because of how their brains work."

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Liberals ditch bitchy blogger

Oh, man, the neocons are going to have a field day with this. _uacct = "UA-2412139-1"; urchinTracker();

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Is Giuliani's Daughter An Obama Girl?

Why vote for someone whose own daughter won't vote for him?

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