So far in 2009, I have found one exceptional Christmas album to recommend: Christmas in Bethlehem by Swedish artist Carola. Amazon.com is featuring the song Hark, the Herald Angels Sing as part of their free offerings this year. Hark is a wonderful rendition with a very middle-eastern sound...
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President Obama’s “approval rating” fell below 50% for the first time in the Gallup Daily Tracking Poll on Tuesday. A dust up between press secretary Robert Gibbs and Fox News’ Major Garrett resulted in this comment from Gibbs: “If I was a heart patient and Gallup was my EKG, I’d visit my doctor,” Gibbs...
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Several media outlets are reporting a donneybrook in Denmark as the Copenhagen climate summit attendees grapple with a leaked document. The UK’s Guardian reports: The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement...
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ABC News’ Jake Tapper reports on a tiff between Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., and the President: Conyers has been critical of the president’s decision to send more troops to Afghanistan and last month he had harsh words on the president’s efforts on health care reform. Conyers said on the Bill Press Radio Show, as...
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The term show trial is a pejorative description of a type of highly public trial. The term was first recorded in the 1930s. There is a strong connotation that the judicial authorities have already determined the guilt of the defendant and that the actual trial has as its only goal to present the accusation...
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