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World Newser -- Question Of The Day: What Do You Think Of The President's Iraq Plans?

President Obama said today that the vast majority of U.S. forces in Iraq (142,000 at present) will leave the country within eighteen months -- bringing the U.S. presence down to between 35 and 50 thousand. By the end of 2011,...

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February 27, 2009 in Iraq, Obama, Barack, President 44, Question of the Day | Permalink | User Comments (139)

Cyber-Criminals Target Facebook Users

The 175 million worldwide members of Facebook have become a vulnerable target for scammers and hackers who want to gain access to your personal information. The latest edition of PC World reports more than 20,000 computer viruses and worms attacked...

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February 27, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (0)

Is It Ok If A Newspaper Folds?

Is it ok if some newspapers fold? Is it simply evolution? It has been a bad week for the broad sheets. The San Francisco Chronicle was told by its owner to make big cuts or else. Same goes for the...

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February 27, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (9)

Small Troop Drawdown Will Leave 'Robust Force' for Iraq's Elections

ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports: In a letter to the troops in Iraq, the top U.S. commander, Gen. Ray Odierno says that "following an initial drawdown over the next six months, our forces will remain at a robust level through...

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February 27, 2009 in Political Radar | Permalink | User Comments (11)

Quotes Of The Day: Pope Benedict, Rahm Emanuel, John McCain, Keith Stansell

The financial crisis has been caused by "human avarice and idolatry that go against the true God and the falsification of the image of God with another god -- Mammon. We must denounce this with courage." -- Pope Benedict XVI...

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February 27, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (9)

The Morning Meeting: Economy Sinks, Government & Citi, Leaving Iraq, Elie Wiesel's Madoff Money, Newspaper Mess, Spring Break Warning, & Ford's Hiring!

As if so often the case these days, we begin this morning with a number: 6.2 percent. That's the revised figure for the nation's gross domestic product (GDP) in the last quarter of 2008. The number represents the worst quarterly...

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February 27, 2009 in The Morning Meeting | Permalink | User Comments (3)

A Little Bathroom Humor at 35,000 Feet

ABC's Stu Schutzman from New York: If you've somehow missed the commercial with the jingle "gotta go, gotta go, gotta go go go!" in short, it's about middle aged men with malfunctioning bladders. No matter where they happen to be...

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February 27, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (8)

A Banker's Warning: "The Taxpayer Will Pay One Way Or Another"

ABC's Tom Johnson from New York: It is an eye grabbing memo. The kind of memo you don't think you're supposed to be reading. A few weeks ago the chief US economist for Deutsche Bank wrote a memo (that slipped...

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February 27, 2009 in Economy | Permalink | User Comments (35)

Weird and Wonderful Weekly

Bizarre Incidents, Quotes and People from Around the World By GABRIEL O'RORKE, ABC News London Quotes of the Week "I would be very upset if somebody didn’t take their clothes off" said sculptor Antony Gormley about the 5,000 volunteers who...

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February 27, 2009 in World View | Permalink | User Comments (2)

Clem's Chronicles/That's one big budget...today's dumb banker award...laura bush first interview

Clem Lane here again with another ABC NEWS evening editorial note. BUDGET-President Obama unveiled his budget plan for 2010. We're getting used to big numbers with all this bail-out business-here's another one: $3.5 trillion. Jake Tapper in his WORLD NEWS...

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February 26, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (4)