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Grab Bag — Christmas Version
ecthompsonmd December 26, 2009

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy New Year to all. Some weirdness occurred in Detroit. A Nigerian man claiming to be linked to Al Qaeda tried to set off an incendiary device. It appears the man was subdued by other passengers. The plane had taken off from Amsterdam and landed safely in Detroit. Hopefully we’ll get some more information on this soon. I don’t know how a man gets on a plane with an incendiary device in the year 2009. The healthcare industry is upset with the Senate healthcare bill. This can only be good for the American people. I’m liking

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Pundits and torture
ecthompsonmd April 22, 2009

Sometimes I just have sit back and take in the stupidity.  If a Democratic president had twisted the law to make torture legal, conservatives would have been seizing in Congress.  I thought the Republicans were the Law and Order party. Steve has more: It was pretty painful over the weekend to see/hear so many political pundits whitewash torture. To hear many of the leading conservative media voices, the problem wasn’t with the Bush administration’s illegal policies, which embarrassed the nation and undermined our national security, but rather with the Obama administration’s transparency. While most of the nonsense came from the usual

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What's going on – Morning News Roundup
ecthompsonmd October 9, 2008

Thursday morning news Roundup John McCain’s campaign is looking vaguely familiar. I’ve seen this type of campaigning before…recently. It looks almost exactly like Hillary Clinton’s campaign in late April and May. The only difference is that Hillary Clinton actually found a message and John McCain has not. Yesterday, John McCain told Sean Hannity that Barack Obama “lacks the experience and the knowledge, and, more importantly, the judgment…” A 72-year-old man, who is looking older by the second, picks a running mate with zero experience and is trying to play the experience card. Maybe you can explain it. Dana Milbank, of the

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