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Sunday News Roundup (Update)
ecthompsonmd August 28, 2011

President Barack Obama has made some thoughtful comments on Hurricane Irene. Damage from Irene has been massive. Tons of places are flooded. CT is now getting pounded. I know that some people may believe that New York overreacted by shutting down the transportation system. I think that they made the right call, without a doubt. Local mother is charged with stabbing her daughters to death. Very sad. Great article on how to fix the terrible political conditions in Afghanistan as we withdraw our troops. Update: Herman Cain wins a Georgia Straw Poll. Of course, Ga is his home state. In a

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Tuesday Afternoon News Roundup (Update)
ecthompsonmd August 9, 2011

On Sunday, Texas Governor and presidential hopeful Rick Perry had a big prayer rally in Houston, Texas. The governor’s prayer rally drew somewhere around 30,000 people. Interestingly, just blocks away at the convention center in Houston, they were giving away free school supplies. How may people turned up for free school supplies? Over 100,000! School supplies as a rule aren’t that expensive. Yet with one fifth of Houston residents living below the poverty level, many are desperate. Ongoing riots in London. On the good-bad scale this is bad. Very bad. Update:  No significant violence so far tonight in London. Manchester has had an

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