Roseanne Barr vs. Sarah Palin: Why the TV star could take on the Mama Grizzlies. - By Jessica Grose - Slate Magazine

In October 2009, Roseanne Barr invited readers of her blog to join in a ficticious "ten million bitches march" on Washington, D.C. "[T]hat stripper chick sarah palin thinks she is roguing it up?" Roseanne asked. "Well, wait till all the fat pissed off bitches show up for my speech." Together, she promised, they would tell off the "bankers and insurance ponzi scheming bastards" who are "robbing the women and children of this country blind." Just this past January, Roseanne repeated a more decorous version of her anti-Palin battle cry in an interview with USA Today while she was promoting her new book, Roseannearchy. "I think she's stealing my act, so that pisses me off," Roseanne said of Palin. "And she's not even doing it right. Be for the working people, not against them."

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Worcy Crawford’s Buses Drove Civil Rights Movement

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European governments “completely puzzled” about U.S. position on Libya | The Cable

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's meetings in Paris with the G8 foreign ministers on Monday left her European interlocutors with more questions than answers about the Obama administration's stance on intervention in Libya.

Inside the foreign ministers' meeting, a loud and contentious debate erupted about whether to move forward with stronger action to halt Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi's campaign against the Libyan rebels and the violence being perpetrated against civilians. Britain and France argued for immediate action while Germany and Russia opposed such a move, according to two European diplomats who were briefed on the meeting.

Clinton stayed out of the fray, repeating the administration's position that all options are on the table but not specifically endorsing any particular step. She also did not voice support for stronger action in the near term, such as a no-fly zone or military aid to the rebels, both diplomats said.

"The way the U.S. acted was to let the Germans and the Russians block everything, which announced for us an alignment with the Germans as far as we are concerned," one of the diplomats told The Cable.

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Developments in Japan’s crisis - The Boston Globe

■ Radiation in water, food: Radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near the nuclear complex exceed safety limits. The government says they pose no immediate health risk but if contamination is found in other foods, agricultural shipments from the area will be halted. Radioactive iodine briefly exceeds safety limits in drinking water in Fukushima Prefecture, and tiny amounts are found in tap water in Tokyo and five other prefectures.

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Doug Bandow: War in Libya: Barack Obama Gets in Touch with his Inner Neocon

Candidate Barack Obama ran for president on a platform of change. Many policies deserved reform, none more than President George W. Bush's propensity to initiate unnecessary wars of choice. Iraq was a debacle from the start; the shift from counter-terrorism to counter-insurgency in Afghanistan turned that conflict into a second disaster.

Since taking office President Obama has left U.S. troops in Iraq and expanded the war in Afghanistan. Now he has taken America into its third war in a Muslim nation within a decade--to promote "global peace and security," he claimed, the usual justification used by presidents to enter conflicts which serve neither. President Obama obviously has found his inner Neocon and joined Washington's RepubliCrat Party.

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Navy News Service - Eye on the Fleet

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52) launches a Tomahawk missile in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn on March 19, 2011

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Giuliani: Hillary would've been better than Obama - CBS News

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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani came out swinging in his first public appearance in New Hampshire since the 2008 campaign. At a Republican dinner, he came down hard on President Obama, calling the president a "failure" and offering his opinion that "Hillary Clinton would have been better."

At the Manchester GOP Lincoln Reagan Dinner on Friday, Giuliani had the appearance of a candidate for the 2012 presidential campaign. The former mayor says he hasn't decided whether to run or not, but certainly gave the impression of someone fired up about the campaign in a blistering speech.

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