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Monday Evening News Roundup
ecthompsonmd August 6, 2012

Monday Evening News Roundup I wish I could tell you that I sat down watched hours and hours of the Olympics. I haven’t. For some reason, life hasn’t stopped. I was able to catch a little bit of the US women’s soccer game. An amazing ending. From Steve Benen @ MaddowBlog: Truly extraordinary: “The [NASA] spacecraft plunged through Mars’ atmosphere, fired up a rocket-powered platform and lowered the car-sized, 1-ton Curiosity rover to its landing spot in 96-mile-wide (154-kilometer-wide) Gale Crater. Then the platform flew off to its own crash landing, while Curiosity sent out a text message basically saying, ‘I

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Friday Morning News Roundup
ecthompsonmd September 30, 2011

American born terrorist was killed in Yemen. Details of how he died and who killed him are unclear at this time. Anwar al-Awlaki was the Qaeda leader who inspired Major Nidal Malik Hasan to shoot up an Army base in Foot Hood, Tx. Regulatory uncertainty leads to hiring stalemate. Not so much. Freddie Mac’s interest rates are lower than ever. Manufacturing appears to have increased slightly in September. Our GDP is slightly better than we thought it was. I talked about this case earlier, but I think there’s a real question as to whether Rick Perry, who stated that he sleeps

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Let’s burn some books — not
ecthompsonmd September 9, 2010

I’m not sure why some Americans feel that burning books would accomplish anything. I’m not sure what motivates one to burn books. Looking back throughout history, I am hard pressed to find righteous individuals burning books. I remember back when DJs decided it was a good idea to burn CDs of the Dixie Chicks. These women had the nerve to stand up and say that invading Iraq was wrong. Now, the majority of the American people agree with the Dixie Chicks. So, what was accomplished? From TPM: As Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center gets ready to burn copies

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