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Obama on Capitol Hill: Openers
Spin CycleCongress members are assembling and as usual and Eliot Engel (D-Bronx) got his traditional up-front aisle seat, for what serious purpose nobody really knows. There has been chatter about the president's attempts to emulate an FDR 'fireside chat' with........Tags: Heads of State, Government, National Government, Kansas, Bobby Jindal
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Pirates, hijackers and heroes: Mythical
The Swampby Mark Silva Now Americans have another tale of defiance to rally around: The American crew of the Danish-owned container ship Alabama - like the Americans aboard United Airlines Flight 93: "Let's roll'' - who took their fate into their......Tags: Baseball, United States, Sports, Piracy, Transportation
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Bird-strikes, like torture-memos: Public
The Swampby Mark Silva People ought to know about bird-strikes on airplanes. Ray LaHood, secretary of transportation, plans to put it all online this week, on Thursday or Friday, after the Federal Aviation Administration attempted to keep secret all the data......Tags: Air Transportation, Central Intelligence Agency, Transportation, Travel, U.S. Airways
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Pirate-held cap't: Military escorts needed
The Swampby Mark Silva Heroes walk the halls of the Capitol. We're not talking about John Kerry here. We're talking about Capt. "Sully" Sullenberger, who saved dozens of people when he glide-landed his goose-stricken airliner on the Hudson River. He came......Tags: United States, New York, Piracy, Armed Forces, Defense
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Bird-strikes (bats, reptiles, too): 82,000!
The Swampby Mark Silva Talk about transparency. Talk about something else to worry about: More than 82,000 bird-strikes against airplaines -- well make that bird and bat and reptile strikes, actually -- have been reported since 1990 in the United States.......Tags: United States, Air Transportation, Transportation, Travel, U.S. Airways
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N.Y. congressional test: Obama's win
The Swampby Mark Silva, updated with RNC Chairman Michael Steele's statement, and with President Obama's statement at 6:45 pm EDT. In the quiet knolls of the upper Hudson River Valley where a nationally contested election played out, the contest for the......Tags: United States, Lower House, Democratic Party, Government, National Government
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Time 100: World's most influential
The Swampby Mark Silva Sure, President Barack Obama made the list. But so did Michelle Obama. And Bernie Madoff, the billionaire king of Ponzi. Rush Limbaugh, too, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and... "the founders of Twitter.'' Sarah Palin's on the list.......Tags: Angela Merkel, Demonstration, Harvard University, Rush Limbaugh, Social Issues
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'Air Force One' photo: Coming this week
The Swampby Mark Silva The White House says it will indeed release a photograph from the $329,000 "photo shoot'' of one of the Air Force jumbo jets that serve as Air Force One when the president is aboard but mainly served......Tags: Barack Obama, Air and Space Accidents, National Government, Government, White House
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Year of the Heroes: Reality showtime
The Swampby Mark Silva Bon Jovi, Ben Affleck and Demi Moore walk the carpet tonight at the crowded entrance to an annual, black-tie White House Correspondents Association dinner, where President Barack Obama will make his debut on the stand-up comedy circuit......Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, United States, Sports, National Government, Government
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Rep. King said to pass on Ireland ambassadorship
Spin CycleU.S. Rep. Peter King in January turned down an offer from President Barack Obama to be ambassador to Ireland, sources said Tuesday. A source with knowledge of the Seaford Republican???s thinking said Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called......Tags: Sports, Pittsburgh Steelers, Government, National Government, Republican Party
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Air-traffic controller on phone acted, late
The Swampby Mark Silva Here's an update on that suspended air traffic controller at Teterboro who was talking with his girlfriend on the telephone as a small plane was heading for a mid-air collision: "Safety officials say an air traffic controller......Tags: Air and Space Accidents, New Jersey, Air Transportation, Transportation Industry, Transportation
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Air-traffic controller suspended: Chatting
The Swampby Mark Silva Our good friend and good reporter Ken Bazinet at the New York Daily News in Washington has a sobering report on that fatal crash of a sight-seeing helicopter and small airplane over the Hudson River: "The air......Tags: Air and Space Accidents, Air Transportation, New York, Washington (U.S. state), Transportation
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