Nigerian Villages and Churches Are Struck in Deadly Attacks
Reuters, December 25, 2010

JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) — Explosions in Nigeria’s central region killed 32 people on Friday, and six people died in attacks on two churches in the northeast of the country, officials said Saturday.

On Friday night, a series of bombs were detonated during Christmas Eve celebrations in villages near the central city of Jos, killing at least 32 people, the state police commissioner said; more than 50 were wounded in the attacks.....

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Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan pledges to find Jos bombers
BBC News, December 25, 2010

Nigeria's president has said his government will do all it can to find those responsible for a string of bomb attacks that killed at least 32 people near the central city of Jos....Friday night's bomb explosions occurred during Christmas Eve celebrations in villages near Jos, police say....

By Ravi Somaiya, New York Times, December 27, 2010

Julian Assange told a British newspaper that publishing deals for his autobiography may be worth $1.7 million.

[Gov.] Neil Abercrombie knew Barack Obama's parents when the future president was born here in 1961, and he has been aggravated by the so-called birther movement...

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Although Abercrombie's goal may be to support Obama, experts who study political extremism say the release of additional evidence would only perpetuate the conspiracy theory. They say people who embrace such theories are guided by suspicion and, therefore, view any contrary evidence as part of the conspiracy.

Five will get you ten the extremism experts are right on this issue.

The rate at which U.S. women are having babies continued to fall between 2008 and 2009, federal officials reported Tuesday, pushing the teen birthrate to a record low and prompting a debate about whether the drop was caused by the recession, an increased focus on encouraging abstinence, more adolescents using birth control or a combination of those factors.

The birthrate among U.S. girls ages 15 to 19 fell from 41.5 to 39.1 births per 1,000 teens - a 6 percent drop to the lowest rate in the nearly 70 years the federal government has been collecting reliable data, according to a preliminary analysis of the latest statistics.

By Lisa Lerer and Laura Litvan, Bloomberg News, Dec 22, 2010

However history judges the 535 men and women in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate the past two years, one thing is certain: The 111th Congress made more law affecting more Americans since the “Great Society” legislation of the 1960s....

Lisa Murkowski is the current and future Senator from Alaska.

From the article:

The Alaska Supreme Court has upheld a lower court decision in the disputed U.S. Senate race, saying the state correctly counted write-in votes for Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

Well that's what they claim. But quite frankly, I really don't think they would want it back in it's current trashed condition.

By Michael O'Brien, The Hill, December 21, 2010

..."When it's all going to be said and done, Harry Reid has eaten our lunch," Graham said on Fox News radio. "This has been a capitulation in two weeks of dramatic proportions of policies that wouldn't have passed in the new Congress."...

From the Article:

Only the most uncontroversial and cost-free ideas appear to have a chance of passage during the final days of congressional land policy legislation, and that doesn't include most Montana measures.

An omnibus public lands bill with 110 combined projects died on the vine Monday evening in the U.S. Senate, but was expected to be replaced by a considerably smaller bill late Tuesday. Conservation policy watchers in Washington, D.C., were doubtful measures like the North Flathead Protection Act and the Land and Water Conservation Fund would be among them.

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As you probably have heard by now, the New York Giants lost in historic fashion on Sunday, blowing a 31-10 lead in the fourth quarter to lose to the hated Philadelphia Eagles.

Really, I saw this game, standing in the kitchen cooking stuff for the Holidays, and OMG, it was a shocking at it was cool. Man, you had to see it.. but this is a must read, the facebook status updates are classic and tell the story of horror and cheer.