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  Should Police Be Allowed To Walk Through YOUR Neighborhood With Drug Sniffing Dogs?
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  Injured Veterans Take Government To Court
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  50% Of Kids Graduating HS Have Smoked Marijuana That's An Issue For Families! NOT Criminal Juatice
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  Third Party Candidates 2012 Presidential Debate
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  Syrian Government Agrees To Ceasefire
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  Anonymous Releases 60 Hours Of Video Hacked From NYPD
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  "To Compare Modern American Battleships & Navy With Bayonets I Don't Understand That Comparison"
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  Canadian Govt Wants To Kill 140000 Grey Seals
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  Marco Rubio "I Do Think The President Tonight Appeared Rather Small... He Appeared Petty At Times"
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  "My Head Is Dizzy Tonight Trying To Follow Mitt Romney" John Kerry
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  CBS Poll: 53% Say Obama Won The Debate! 23% Say Romney Won! 24% Say It Was A Tie!
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  "Are You Willing To Lay Down In Front Of The Bulldozers?" Thousands Protest Tar Sands Pipeline In BC
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  "We're Gonna Have To See If Soulless Shape-Shifting Has A Cost" Maddow Post Presidential Debate
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  WARNING! Hotel Room Electronic Locks HACKED! Millions Of Travelers Could Be At Risk
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  Improvised Explosive Device Found At Wisconsin Shooting Location
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  Flyer Offers Free Medical Marijuana To Those With Proof They've Voted
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  At Least 4 Dead In Wisconsin Shooting
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  CNN: "9/11(2)" Terror Plot Disrupted
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  The Harvard Psilocybin Project
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  Rand Paul "The Best Hope For Our Country Is To Move Forward With Governor Romney"
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  Greg Palast Explains How Mitt Romney Made Millions From The Auto Bailout
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  Presidential Candidates Debate - C-SPAN Video Library
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    President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney met in the last of three debates prior the 2012 presidential election.*The debate focused on foreign policy, including policy toward the Middle East, China, and North .. Read MorePresident Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney met in the last of three debates prior the 2012 presidential election.*The debate focused on foreign policy, including policy toward the Middle East, China, and North Africa, as well as military commitments in Afghanistan and Pakistan.*The candidates were seated in the Wold Performing Arts Center of Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida.'‚CBS's Bob Schieffer moderated the debate which was presented in a split screen.
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  President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address | The White House
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    Yesterday, President Obama delivered his Inaugural Address, calling for a "new era of responsibility." Watch the video here:
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    By President Barack Hussein Obama
    My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you've bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.
    I thank President Bush for his service to our nation -- (applause) -- as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.
    Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often, the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we, the people, have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears and true to our founding documents.
    So it has been; so it must be with this generation of Americans.
    That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost, jobs shed, businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly, our schools fail too many -- and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.
    These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable, but no less profound, is a sapping of confidence across our land; a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, that the next generation must lower its sights.
    Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this America: They will be met. (Applause.)
    On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics. We remain a young nation. But in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness. (Applause.)
    In reaffirming the greatness of our nation we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those that prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.
    For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life. For us, they toiled in sweatshops, and settled the West, endured the lash of the whip, and plowed the hard earth. For us, they fought and died in places like Concord and Gettysburg, Normandy and Khe Sahn.
    Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions, greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.
    This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week, or last month, or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions -- that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America. (Applause.)
    For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action, bold and swift. And we will act, not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We'll restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. All this we will do.
    Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short, for they have forgotten what this country has already done, what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage. What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them, that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply.
    The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works -- whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account, to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day, because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.
    Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched. But this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control. The nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity, on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart -- not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good. (Applause.)
    As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers -- (applause) -- our Founding Fathers, faced with perils that we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man -- a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience sake. (Applause.)
    And so, to all the other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born, know that America is a friend of each nation, and every man, woman and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity. And we are ready to lead once more. (Applause.)
    Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with the sturdy alliances and enduring convictions. They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please. Instead they knew that our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint.
    We are the keepers of this legacy. Guided by these principles once more we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort, even greater cooperation and understanding between nations. We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan. With old friends and former foes, we'll work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming planet.
    We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense. And for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken -- you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you. (Applause.)
    For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.
    To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West, know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. (Applause.)
    To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history, but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist. (Applause.)
    To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders, nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.
    As we consider the role that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who at this very hour patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages.
    We honor them not only because they are the guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service -- a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves.
    And yet at this moment, a moment that will define a generation, it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all. For as much as government can do, and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child that finally decides our fate.
    Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history.
    What is demanded, then, is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility -- a recognition on the part of every American that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world; duties that we do not grudgingly accept, but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character than giving our all to a difficult task.
    This is the price and the promise of citizenship. This is the source of our confidence -- the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny. This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed, why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall; and why a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served in a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath. (Applause.)
    So let us mark this day with remembrance of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At the moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words to be read to the people:
    "Let it be told to the future world...that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive... that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet [it]."
    America: In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.
    Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America. (Applause.)
  Israeli Minister Agrees Ahmadinejad Never Said Israel 'Must Be Wiped Off the Map'
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    Video of an Al Jazeera interview with Dan Meridor, a deputy prime minister of Israel.Updated | Wednesday | 4:43 p.m. In a reminder that Persian rhetoric is not always easy for English-speakers to interpret, a senior Israeli official has acknowledged that Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, never actually said that Israel ''must be wiped off the map.''
    Those words were attributed to Mr. Ahmadinejad in 2005, in English translations of his speech to a ''World Without Zionism'' conference that October. As my colleague Ethan Bronner reported the next year, one problem was translating a metaphorical turn of phrase in Persian that has no exact English equivalent '-- there was, for instance, no mention of a map '-- and there was a heated debate about whether the original statement was a threat or a prediction.
    Last week, Teymoor Nabili of Al Jazeera suggested during an interview with Dan Meridor, Israel's minister of intelligence and atomic energy, that Mr. Ahmadinejad's rhetorical flourish had been misinterpreted. ''This idea that Iran wants to wipe Israel out,'' Mr. Nabili said, ''now that's a common trope that is put about by a lot of people in Israel, a lot of people in the United States, but as we know Ahmadinejad didn't say that he plans to exterminate Israel, nor did he say that Iran's policy is to exterminate Israel.''
    In response, Mr. Meridor said that Mr. Ahmadinejad and Iran's ruling cleric, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had said repeatedly ''that Israel is an unnatural creature, it will not survive. They didn't say, 'We'll wipe it out,' you're right, but, 'It will not survive.' ''
    Mr. Meridor also pointed out that Iran's leaders have continued to deny Israel's right to exist and used highly inflammatory terms to describe the state. After Ayatollah Khamenei compared Israel to a cancerous tumor in February '-- adding, it ''should be cut off'' '-- Mr. Meridor noted those remarks were echoed by the president just last month. ''Israel is unnatural, it will not exist, it's on the verge of collapse,'' Mr. Meridor said. ''When you hear this from these people, you need to take it seriously.''
    As the Guardian columnist Jonathan Steele explained in 2006, a more direct translation of Mr. Ahmadinejad's remarks would be: ''this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time,'' echoing a statement once made by the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
    In an English translation three days after the speech in 2005, the Middle East Media Research Institute, or Memri '-- which was founded by a former Israeli intelligence officer '-- rendered the sentence in a similar way: ''Imam [Khomeini] said: 'This regime that is occupying Qods [Jerusalem] must be eliminated from the pages of history.'''
    In an interview with The Lede on Tuesday, Hooman Majd, an Iranian-American writer whose father was an ambassador under the Shah, pointed out that Mr. Ahmadinejad had slightly misquoted Ayatollah Khomeini, using the Persian word for ''page'' instead of a similar-sounding word for ''scene or stage.''
    Mr. Majd, who once did a cameo as Mr. Ahmadinejad's translator at the United Nations, also noted that in the original speech, the Iranian president had argued that while the end of Israeli rule over Jerusalem, the third holiest city in Islam, might seem impossible to imagine, the end of the Shah's rule and the collapse of the Soviet Union both proved that change on that scale was possible.
    The author, who recently spent time in Tehran, suggested that Mr. Ahmadinejad has perhaps made so little effort to explain that he was misquoted because he relishes his image as a sworn enemy of Israel, and would not want to be seen as stepping back from even threatening remarks he did not make.
    Still, over the years, the original misinterpretation of Mr. Ahmadinejad's remarks has been so often repeated that it has become a kind of shorthand. ''In my conversations with Americans,'' Mr. Majd said, very often they respond to the name Ahmadinejad by saying, ''He wants to eliminate Israel.''
    Mr. Majd added that reformers inside Iran call Mr. Ahmadinejad's posturing ''very damaging,'' and blame his repeated '-- and quite accurately translated '-- statements denying the Holocaust, ''for inflaming this Iranophobia that exists in the West.''
    Although there is general agreement now among translators and scholars that Mr. Ahmadinejad did not commit his country to the project of destroying the state of Israel in that 2005 speech, the phrase that was wrongly attributed to him then remains so firmly rooted in the popular imagination that it is frequently used as evidence of Iran's genocidal intentions.
    During a visit to the White House last month, on the eve of the Jewish festival of Purim, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel presented President Obama with a copy of the Book of Esther, which recounts the tale of a Persian leader who wanted to annihilate the Jews. ''Then, too, they wanted to wipe us out,'' Mr. Netanyahu told the president.
    In January, Ehud Barak, the Israeli defense minister, told a New York Times Magazine writer: ''The Iranians are, after all, a nation whose leaders have set themselves a strategic goal of wiping Israel off the map.''
    Last year, after President Obama told the United Nations General Assembly that Israel, ''looks out at a world where leaders of much larger nations threaten to wipe it off of the map,'' Glenn Kessler, the editor of The Washington Post's Fact-Checker blog, criticized everyone ''who has blithely repeated the phrase,'' including himself.
    In his post, Mr. Kessler reported that the picture gets murkier when those words from 2005 are set against other Iranian propaganda:
    Karim Sadjadpour, an Iranian specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, notes that Iranian government entities began to erect billboards and signs with the ''wipe off'' phrase in English. Joshua Teitelbaum of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs compiled an interesting collection of photographs of these banners, such as one on the building that houses reserve military forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. ''Israel should be wiped out of the face of the world,'' the sign reads in English.
    As Mr. Kessler noted, Mr. Teitelbaum's report, ''written from a pro-Israel perspective,'' includes several images of similar statements on banners in Iran. One of them, described as a screen grab taken from an Iranian satellite channel in 2003, during the rule of Iran's reformist president, Mohammad Khatami, showed a banner on a missile at a military parade in Tehran that seemed to echo Ayatollah Khomeini's words. According to the translation provided by the author, that banner read: ''Israel must be uprooted and wiped off [the pages of] history.''