Top News Stories of the Week
By Drudge Retort
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 08:00 AM
The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the Drudge Retort.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta marked the end of the U.S. war in Iraq at a highly symbolic ceremony Thursday. U.S. soldiers rolled up the flag for American forces in Iraq and slipped it into a camouflage-colored sleeve, formally "casing" it, according to Army tradition. Nearly 4,500 U.S. soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives over the 8 years, 8 months and 25 days of the conflict.
Posted by truthhurts at 10:11 AM on December 15, 2011 | 389 COMMENTS
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Posted by rcade at 12:00 PM on December 13, 2011 | 352 COMMENTS
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Posted by rcade at 12:00 PM on December 14, 2011 | 311 COMMENTS
Where U.S. Ranks in Income Inequality
The U.S. has a higher level of income inequality than Europe, Canada, Australia and South Korea, putting it in the bottom third of 90 countries, according to data gathered by the World Bank. "The top 1 percent in the U.S. really receive much more than in Western European countries," said World Bank economist Branko Milanovic.
Posted by 726 at 10:31 AM on December 13, 2011 | 261 COMMENTS
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Posted by rcade at 12:00 PM on December 15, 2011 | 238 COMMENTS
This is it: One last Republican presidential debate before voters (finally) begin the process of deciding which Republican will face off against President Barack Obama in the general election. Tonight's face-off in Des Moines at 9 p.m. Eastern is the last scheduled debate before both the January 3 Iowa caucuses and the holiday season. Watch online.
Posted by MURPHY at 09:00 PM on December 15, 2011 | 222 COMMENTS
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Posted by rcade at 12:00 PM on December 09, 2011 | 219 COMMENTS
EPA: Fracking Polluted Aquifer
For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency has found chemicals used in fracking contaminating an aquifer. Samples taken from two deep water-monitoring wells near a gas field in Pavillion, Wyoming, showed synthetic chemicals such as glycols and alcohols "consistent with gas production and hydraulic-fracturing fluids," the agency stated. Amy Mall, senior policy analyst with the National Resources Defense Council, said that "it's a game-changer. EPA experts and scientists have recognized that there is real contamination, that there is a real scientific basis for linking it to fracking."
Posted by reitze at 01:30 PM on December 12, 2011 | 209 COMMENTS
Tomasky: The Coming Obama Landslide
Michael Tomasky: How can Barack Obama, as this new NBC/Marist poll has it, be beating Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney in South Carolina, of all places? The leads are narrow -- it's just 45-42 over Romney and 46-42 over Gingrich. ... Is it conceivable that 10 months and three weeks from now, Obama could actually win the state? If it happens, we will know that the Republicans are headed off the cliff. And that is precisely where we should all hope they go.
Posted by moder8 at 08:32 AM on December 14, 2011 | 196 COMMENTS
With the Iowa caucuses looming, six Republican presidential candidates tonight clashed over their conservative credentials and personal histories in a Des Moines debate that saw resurgent frontrunner Newt Gingrich battling attacks by his rivals from all sides. But it was Mitt Romney who stole the spotlight for a $10,000 bet with Texas Gov. Rick Perry over what he wrote about the individual health insurance mandate -- then removed -- in subsequent editions of his book, No Apologies.
Posted by MURPHY at 12:23 AM on December 11, 2011 | 173 COMMENTS
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