Time Out Of Mind

A long tradition of shielding liberals while ruthlessly going after conservatives

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(from "Time Shields Americans From Obama Failure" at Big Hairy News)

Obama Abandons Background Checks

Ending ban on arming al-Qaeda terrorists fundamentally transforms U.S.

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(via "WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? Obama waives ban on arming known terrorist groups" at directorblue.blogspot.com)

Some elements of the Syrian opposition are associated with radical Islamic terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, which was responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pa., in 2001. Assad's regime is backed by Iran and Hezbollah.

The president, citing his authority under the Arms Export Control Act, announced today that he would "waive the prohibitions in sections 40 and 40A of the AECA related to such a transaction."

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The U.S. Constitution is signed in Philadelphia (1787)

The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland (1939)

After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarność (Solidarity) is established (1980)

Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay (1980)

Last Russian troops leave Poland (1993)

Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City (2011)

b: Chuck Grassley (1933), David Souter (1939); d: Karl Popper (1994), Spiro Agnew (1996), Patricia Kennedy Lawford (2006), Noordin Mohammad Top (2009)

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