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• A NEW DAWN: Combat Troops Leave Iraq
• Posted by • 9/2/10

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A new phase has begun in Iraq with the end of the combat mission and the beginning of the advisory and civil support mission.  The troops have been withdrawing over the last weeks, but 50,000 troops will remain in country.  The President has said that Operation New Dawn will allow a transitional team of U.S. forces to remain in that country to advise and assist Iraqi forces to...

• IT'S AN HONOR:MLK Rallies
• Posted by • 9/2/10

Free speech was alive and well in Washington, D.C. as two different public figures held simultaneous rallies.  Conservative TV host Glen Beck held a “Restoring Honor” rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr’s historic “I Have a Dream “ speech. The rally was attended by tens of thousands and raised more than...

• SITTIN ON MY LAP: Tablet Computers To Replace Laptops
• Posted by • 8/30/10

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The President of AT&T’s emerging devices, Glen Lurie, says that the new tablet computers will take the place of latptops.  Tablet device sales are expected to grouw 23% by 2010, according to analysts.  “Starting in 2012 tablets will outsell notebooks, and by 2014, more consumers will use tablets than will use netbooks,” says Sarah Rotman Epps of Forrester...

• AND THE WINNER IS: Emmy Awards
• Posted by • 8/30/10

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Television’s Emmy awards yielded prizes for Mad Men in the Best Drama category and Modern Family for Best Comedy.   Best Actor in a Drama Series went to Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston and Lead Actress went to Kyra Sedgwick for The Closer.  Reality TV program Top Chef won the category and the Daily Show won for...

• STABBED IN THE BACK: NY Cabbie’s Anti-Muslim Attack
• Posted by • 8/26/10

Photo Pool/Steven Hirsch

New York city cab driver, Ahmed Sharif , was stabbed by a passenger who first asked him if he was a Muslim.  When the driver, who is from Bangladesh, said yes, 21-year old, Michael Enright, attacked him with a knife.  The cabby locked his attacker in the back seat and the man was apprehended and  is now being charged for the crime.  Ironically, Enright works for a...