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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2009
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Iraqi Prisoners Taunt Wis. Soldiers Over Favre Defection

Detainees get into the Packers-Vikings rivalry

57 minutes ago

 Billboard Links Obama to Jihad 

Colo. car dealership wants this opinion heard

1 hour, 45 minutes ago
HE'S GOT A BOOK OUT, TOO

 Beck to Unveil 
 'Big Plan' at 
 Saturday Rally 

Righty pundit OK with destroying Dems and GOP

2 hours, 20 minutes ago

Pakistani Intelligence Sheltering Taliban Leader

Mullah Omar hiding in Karachi: US sources

3 hours, 37 minutes ago

India Miffed By Obama's Bond With Beijing

Perceived slights complicate PM Singh's DC visit next week

3 hours, 57 minutes ago

 Hadron Collider 
 Restarts Briefly 

After 14 months of repairs, proton beams circulate

4 hours, 21 minutes ago
music review

 Rihanna's 
 Rated R 
 a Dark Treat 

Singer channels tumultuous year into great music

4 hours, 46 minutes ago

Shaniya Raped, Killed on Day of Abduction: Cops

NC 5-year-old was asphyxiated, arrest warrant says

5 hours, 24 minutes ago
h1n1 outbreak

Flu Pandemic Slacks Off, But 'It's Not Over'

Tamiflu-resistant cluster crops up in NC; 3 of 4 patients dead

6 hours, 3 minutes ago

 Neglected Ind. Fans Boo Palin 

Hecklers accuse her of 'quitting on the job'

6 hours, 37 minutes ago

Ohio Sues Credit Rating Agencies for Role in Crisis

Moody's, S&P, Fitch lied about risk of toxic securities, AG charges

6 hours, 58 minutes ago
MARKETS

 Dow Dips 14; Energy, Tech Fall 

Dow gains 0.5% for the week, other indices fall

7 hours, 17 minutes ago
kercher murder trial


 Knox Acted Out of 
 'Hatred': Prosecutor 

Closing argument speaks of 'crescendo of violence'

7 hours, 30 minutes ago
TRAVEL

Anonymous Posters Bedevil TripAdvisor

Hotel ranking site shows dangers of crowdsourcing

7 hours, 53 minutes ago
tv review

 Project Runway 
 Limps to Season's End 

Like the rest of Season 6, finale was a bore

8 hours, 9 minutes ago

Limbaugh's Wrong: Gallup's Obama Approval Below 50%

New survey is latest disappointment for President

8 hours, 24 minutes ago
6 contenders

 Who Will Be the Next Oprah? 

Rachael Ray, Sarah Palin, and other potential replacements

8 hours, 38 minutes ago
h1n1 outbreak

Swine Flu Mutation Worries Norway Scientists

CDC official says it's no cause for alarm

8 hours, 50 minutes ago
movie review

 Bullock Shines in 
 Crowd-Pleasing Blind Side  

Football chick flick lacks suspense, delivers happy ending

9 hours, 2 minutes ago
PALEONTOLOGISTS SAY

 100M Years Ago, Africa 
 Was Crocodile Central 

3 new species unearthed from Sahara include DogCroc

9 hours, 15 minutes ago

 Calif. Buffalo Go on 
 Birth Control  

State thins Santa Catalina Island herd humanely

9 hours, 27 minutes ago
Movie Review

 Don't Land On Planet 51 

Laugh-free sci-fi satire mediocre at best

9 hours, 39 minutes ago


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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

The Health-Care Wars Have Just Begun

5
Nov 20, 09 | 8:32 AM BY Michael Wolff

My 84-year-old mother was full of venomous indignation at dinner last night over the great mammogram take-back. Bureaucrats, in her view, will happily kill women to save money. My colleague, Caroline Miller, Newser’s editor in chief, took umbrage in this space the other day about the new guidelines. She noted the obvious cold efficiencies involved with discouraging younger women from having a yearly mammogram, as well as the “patronizing” justification for... More »

Sarah Palin Deserves Some More Attention

14
Nov 19, 09 | 10:14 AM BY Michael Wolff

This is a phenomenon that just keeps giving. Its very lack of explanation, and ensuing incredulity and apoplexy, propel it. There... More »

And We Thought We Hated Mammograms

7
Nov 18, 09 | 2:40 PM BY Caroline Miller

No one likes to get a mammogram. Still, it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who was pleased to hear the new ruling that women in their 40s don’t need to endure the annual indignity of baring their breasts to the radiologist after all. That’s because it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who believes that the federal panel changed its recommendation for her benefit. It’s not that the decision doesn’t make sense: It costs a lot to... More »

China and the Obese: The President Meets His Greatest Problems

12
Nov 18, 09 | 8:43 AM BY Michael Wolff

For all sorts of obvious reasons, it seems like a greatly unacceptable and possibly discriminatory thing to say that the obese are a lot... More »

Rupert Murdoch’s Guy Gets It

6
Nov 17, 09 | 6:50 AM BY Michael Wolff

If Arthur Miller were at it again, he’d call the play Death of a PR Guy. Gary Ginsberg, Murdoch’s PR guy who got... More »

Obama's Secret Weapon: The Hug

4
Nov 16, 09 | 12:30 PM BY Lewis Grossberger

President Obama needs to get the hell out of China as fast as he can, rush back to America and start hugging Republicans. This will... More »

The President Wants You to Know He’s Too Dopey to Use Twitter

19
Nov 16, 09 | 8:01 AM BY Michael Wolff

“First of all, let me say that I have never used Twitter. I notice that young people—you know, they’re very busy with... More »

Does Warren Buffett Know What He’s Talking About?

10
Nov 13, 09 | 6:55 AM BY Michael Wolff

Nobody I know who is smart and rich (albeit much less rich than they used to be) thinks the economy is patched up and ready to roll—except,... More »

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