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Editor and Publisher Decides to Close Down Site Amid Health Concerns After Months of Overwork, Fatigue and Insufficient Sleep Almost Lead to Potentially Fatal Car Crash END OF THE ROAD -- Newspapers aren't alone in having to cut back or go out of business entirely, as The Washington Star (above) did in 1981. Sometimes online publications must also call it quits. After five years, The 'Skeeter Bites Report is ceasing publication, effective with this issue. Its editor and publisher, Skeeter... Read Full Story

By Acquiring the Wildly Successful Online News Portal for $315 Million, Can the Internet Company Once Known as America Online Overcome Its Reputation for Making Bad Business Decisions -- From Its Failure to Adapt to the Rise of Broadband, to Its Disastrous Merger With Time Warner? HUFFINGTON POST'S REPUTATION (AND PROFITABILITY) IS ON THE LINE -- The blockbuster announcement that the once-dominant Internet company AOL is acquiring The Huffington Post online newspaper for $315 million sent... Read Full Story

82-Year-Old Egyptian President, in TV Speech to Nation, Declares He Won't Run for a Sixth Term After 30 Years in Power, But Protesters Vow They Won't Give Up Until He Resigns -- and Obama Makes Clear That 'Orderly Transition' to New Government 'Must Begin Now' 'I WON'T RUN FOR ANOTHER TERM, BUT I WON'T QUIT, EITHER' -- That was the message that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak issued during a televised address to his nation Tuesday night, an announcement that did not sit well with the tens of... Read Full Story

While it Won't Publicly Call for Mubarak to Step Down After Nearly 30 Years in Power -- Yet -- White House Already is Making Preparations to Deal With a New Post-Mubarak Era in Egypt EGYPT ON THE BRINK? -- Egyptian army soldiers take positions in front of the Giza Pyramids Monday as protesters, continuing to defy a nationwide curfew -- and emboldened by a promise by military leaders not to use force against them -- called for an indefinite strike to add more pressure on President Hosni... Read Full Story

Republicans Not Only Forced Obama and the Democrats to Extend Bush-Era Tax Cuts for the Super-Rich, They Also Blocked an Extension of Obama's Little-Known 2009 'Making Work Pay' Tax Credit for the Middle Class, Resulting in Smaller Paychecks Since the Start of the Year -- and Continuing the Mutation of GOP Into 'Party of, By and For the Rich' Since 2001 "HEY! WHY AM I TAKING HOME LESS MONEY?" -- That's the question that millions of middle-class Americans are asking as they've been confronted... Read Full Story

Republicans Not Only Forced Obama and the Democrats to Extend Bush-Era Tax Cuts for the Super-Rich, They Also Blocked an Extension of Obama's Little-Known 2009 'Making Work Pay' Tax Credit for the Middle Class, Resulting in Smaller Paychecks Since the Start of the Year -- and Continuing the Mutation of GOP Into 'Party of, By and For the Rich' Since 2001 "HEY! WHY AM I TAKING HOME LESS MONEY?" -- That's the question that millions of middle-class Americans are asking as they've been confronted... Read Full Story

Palin Used Highly Inflammatory Rhetoric -- in Defiance of McCain's Directive to Tone it Down -- That Stirred Blatantly Racist Passions Against Obama During '08 Campaign and Has Continued to Employ Incendiary Language in the Two Years Since; Now Former Alaska Governor Deeply Offends Jews by Employing Anti-Semitic Phrase in Defiantly Partisan Speech on Tucson Tragedy PALIN PLAGUED WITH 'POLITICAL TOURETTE'S SYNDROME' -- Former Alaska Governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah... Read Full Story

Palin Used Highly Inflammatory Rhetoric -- in Defiance of McCain's Directive to Tone it Down -- That Stirred Blatantly Racist Passions Against Obama During '08 Campaign and Has Continued to Employ Incendiary Language in the Two Years Since; Now Former Alaska Governor Deeply Offends Jews by Employing Anti-Semitic Phrase in Defiantly Partisan Speech on Tucson Tragedy PALIN PLAGUED WITH 'POLITICAL TOURETTE'S SYNDROME' -- Former Alaska Governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah... Read Full Story

In Video Posted on GodHatesFags.com, Cult Leader Fred Phelps Denounces Giffords as 'Avid Supporter of Sin and Baby-Killing' and Blasts Palin as 'Cowardly Brute' for Taking Down Controversial Crosshairs Map From Her Web Site -- Even Nine-Year-Old Girl Slain By Gunman Draws Westboro's Wrath IS THERE NO LIMIT TO THIS HATEMONGER'S SICKO CONTEMPT FOR GRIEVING FAMILIES? -- In a video message posted Monday on the Web site of the rabidly gay-hating cult Westboro Baptist Church, cult leader Fred... Read Full Story

As Congresswoman Giffords Lies in Medically-Induced Coma, Homeland Security Memo Says Alleged Gunman Who Killed Six and Wounded 14 Outside Tucson Supermarket May Have Been Influenced By Newsletter Published By 'White Nationalist' Think Tank; Federal Judge Killed in Rampage Got Death Threats in 2009 Immigration Lawsuit A KILLER WITH A CAUSE? -- Jared Lee Loughner, shown in this 2006 photo from the yearbook of his high school, faces at least five federal charges of murder and attempted murder... Read Full Story