Last Friday, startup plug-in hybrid maker Fisker Automotive announced it had raised another $115 million in funds from private backers, including lithium-ion cell supplier A123 Systems and legendary venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Buried in the press release was a startling fact: Fisker has switched lithium-ion cell …
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Police in the small Georgia town of Aragon are stepping up the search for Amber Graham, a 14-year-old ninth grader who vanished eight days ago. U.S. Marshals and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation will be joining what has been a low-key search for the last seven days as concern for …
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A few weeks ago on this program, we talked about the “Chicago way” of doing things and how Rahm Emanuel and President Obama did not leave it in Chicago. They packed it up and brought it along to Washington. It’s already corrupt enough, but the ante has been raised: The …
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Two-year-old Maddox Flynn is a precocious toddler who loves to laugh, run around and play hockey – he is Canadian after all. But, a severe facial deformity has led this little Edmonton native and his father to leave their home country and come to the United States for a life-changing …
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More than 50 days after oil began spewing into the crystal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, I want to take a step back from all the finger pointing and political speculation, and talk about the innocent lives at stake because of the health hazard this disaster has created: Gulf …
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It’s time for a salute to the magical Kathy Griffin, truly an example of fearless fearlessness: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) KATHY GRIFFIN, BRAVO: Remember when Republicans tried to get that nutbag Sarah Palin to sound credible before the vice presidential debate? The had a board and ran flash cards to teach …
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Iran’s lies exposed, that is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo.” As “The Factor” has been reporting all week, Iran’s nuclear weapons program has now reached critical mass. And worldwide conflict is very possible. Friday, President Obama, British Prime Minister Brown and French President Sarkozy revealed a secret …
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Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Mum’s the Word The resignation of President Obama’s green jobs “czar,” Van Jones, might have come as a shock if you do not watch cable news. In fact, the “big three” evening news casts and two of the nation’s most-prominent newspapers barely …
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Here’s The One Thing… We’re on the road to socialism. So if we’re going down the road, let’s really go for it. Comrades, good news on the Western Front — our glorious revolution of change is starting to take hold. Our fearless leader spoke out against capitalism today: (BEGIN VIDEO …
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Washington, D.C. – Truth be told, Barack Obama may be the most charismatic and articulate public speaker in America today. Give him carefully-crafted prose, well-wrapped applause lines, a teleprompter and an audience and he will bring ’em to their feet, fired up and ready to charge the barricades. It is …
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