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Oh, GOD. This guy was all the news when we were in England a few years ago:
David Blaine begins another idiotic and unfortunately fruitless attempt to die getting our attention.
Blaine entered the “bubble” wearing trousers, rubber shoes and a special diving mask.
Please hold your “boy in the bubble jokes” until the end of the [...]

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Ford’s April U.S. sales dip 7%; cars gain - MarketWatch
Dearborn, Mich.-based Ford said it sold 262,722 cars and trucks in April, with the Fusion, Mercury Milan and Lincoln Zephyr sedans as well as the crossover Ford Escape and Freestyle posting gains as consumers moved away from the automaker’s more gas-thirsty vehicles.
“These new, fuel-efficient cars [...]

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Next must-read book:

How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok by Glenn Greenwald
How Would a Patriot Act? is one man’s story of being galvanized into action to defend America’s founding principles, and a reasoned argument for what must be done. Greenwald’s penetrating words should inspire a nation to defend [...]

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Bush challenges hundreds of laws - The Boston Globe
WASHINGTON — President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.
Among the laws Bush said [...]

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