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In pictures: Gaza's tunnel smugglers (BBC News)

Images from smuggling tunnels in Gaza, which have become a home-grown industry.

George W. Bush, Texas' Prodigal Son, Returns (Dallas Observer)

OK, just tell me this. How do we greet him? Say I'm in the plumbing aisle at Home Depot bent forward at the waist searching for a beeswax toilet seal. I look up sideways. Damn it! It's George W. Bush. "Oh, Hi, Mr. Presi...uh...former Mr....the ex...you... you... can you just tell me what ...

Officials giddy over Obama's promise for infrastructure aid | Charleston's New Deal (Charleston City Paper)

In the musical Annie, the precocious, curly-haired redhead single-handedly ushers in the New Deal by reminding President Franklin Roosevelt that "the sun will come out tomorrow." As part of the New Deal, Roosevelt created 8 million government-funded jobs to get people working during the nation's toughest economic drought. More than 70 years later, a new president is poised to make just such a ...

FISCAL FOLLIES (New York Post)

AT least the word "trillion" still has cachet as denoting a lot of money. "Billion" has been surpassed during the past few months, and "million" has long been positively quaint. The Obama team wants to keep its two-year stimulus plan (just)...

Terry Krepel: WorldNetDaily Learns to Love -- And Defend -- the Obama-Nazi Smear (HuffingtonPost)

Back in 2004, WorldNetDaily joined others in the right-wing media in howling about a submission to a MoveOn.org promotion for videos critical of President Bush,...