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The AP shows Susan Collins surrendering to foreigners at Davos this weekend

Maine Republican Susan Collins is commonly known as as the slightly more insane of the two Maine Senators who are slightly less insane than the rest of the Republicans.

But apparently she was determined to take an opportunity for ever-reliable GOP stupidity in giving the response to Obama’s weekly address.

“The Obama administration appears to have a blind spot when it comes to the War on Terrorism,” she added. “And, because of that blindness, this administration cannot see a foreign terrorist even when he stands right in front of them…”

And on this point and in the wake of Citizens United vs. FEC, Ms. Collins may be right:

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Socialite and former model Ivana Trump is using her appearance on a popular UK reality show to help launch career in music.

The first wife of billionaire proved a hit with viewers of Celebrity Big Brotherlast month and wants to use her newfound popularity to conquer the pop charts. Trump, 60, has secretly made recordings and regularly asks her entourage and housekeepers to dance to her songs as they work, Britain’s Daily Mail said Monday.

I, for one, can’t wait for Ivana’s album to hit shelves….It’s been ages since I’ve had a good laugh….

Celebrity stylist Stuart Phillips flew out to St Tropez to style Ivana’s hair for an event and dished all to the London papers upon his return.

“Ivana is truly a surprising lady. She’s hiding a stunning singing voice and now, with the publicity of Big Brother, she would love to launch a pop career,” said Phillips. “She might seem aloof but she is incredibly talented and creative. I arrived at her home and was greeted by her 10 staff. Then suddenly, halfway through the styling, Ivana asked all of her staff, myself and my make-up artist, to stop working and dance to her new record,” Stuart laughed.

“I was amazed to hear it was Ivana singing. Her music is fun and positive. When people hear her songs they will be surprised.”

Last month, Ivana was kicked off a flight bound for New York City after the mother of three cursed at a group of rowdy children whose noisemaking was getting on her nerves.

Taking advantage of the Annual Report for the recently concluded 2009, the Disney Studios inserted into the documents some rendering of the artwork currently being developed for the sequel to Cars. Scheduled to be released sometimes in 2011, Cars 2 will take Lightning McQueen and his crew around the world, for the "Race of Champions" taking place in Japan, Germany, Italy, France and England.

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By David Carr, New York Times

Short of landing in a flying saucer and having a tablet teleported into his hands, there was no way that Steve Jobs could have lived up to the hype before last Wednesday’s iPad announcement.

But he came pretty close. By the time the bells, whooshes and clicks died down, I couldn’t say the future had arrived, but I’m pretty sure we can see it from here.

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By Nate Anderson, Senior Editor, Ars Technica

An offhand comment the other day by a friend caught my attention—”Did you know that you can’t watch the Super Bowl on a TV screen larger than 55 inches? Yeah, it’s right there in the law.”

With the Colts and Saints set to do battle in Super Bowl XLIV, this seemed worth looking into as a public service.

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Still on track to launch its LTE network this year, Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has today announced that its first prototype handset designed specifically to handle all that bandwidth will be unveiled at MWC 2010. We already knew a cool $10.4 billion or thereabouts were to be spent on Japanese LTE deployment, and now we can break that figure down a little by noting that NTT will be spending between $3.3b and $4.4b on its infrastructure alone. All we know of the new phone so far is that it’ll be the product of the overall partnership with NEC, Fujitsu and Panasonic, but jidging from NTT DoCoMo’s last prototype to grace these pages, we’re unlikely to be left wanting.

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On March 11th, Microsoft will kick out its 250GB external hard drive to the good people of Japan; notable, as the first time that this 250GB drive has been sold anywhere outside of a new console bundle. The slab of external magnetic storage is set to cost ¥15,540 or about $172 should it ever ship Stateside. Unfortunately, Microsoft isn’t revealing its plans for that at the moment while conceding the need for more local storage for content such as software, TV shows, and movies downloaded from the Xbox Live Marketplace. In other words, you’ll get your storage bump… someday.

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Scuderia Toro Rosso has now become the first team sponsored by Red Bull to reveal its challenger for the 2010 season of Formula One, namely the STR5. The car presentation event took place before STR’s garage on Valencia’s Ricardo Tormo circuit, where it will also debut in the hands of race driver Sebastien Buemi later today.

This is the first car designed, developed and built entirely by the Faenza based team, as the new customer rules imposed by the FIA for the Formula One championship preve… (read more)

Dacia Duster is going to star at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show as Dacia’s first-ever SUV but, up until now, the Romanian brand rolled out only a few pictures and a "static" video with the car. Well, we came across some new photos with the Duster on what seems to be the official Renault account of the popular photo sharing service flickr. However, the French carmaker hasn’t published them its main website or on the media-restricted page.

The Duster is due to go on sale in European marke… (read more)

Given his passion for Ferrari, British singer Eric Clapton recently sat down with Stefano Lai, Communications Director of Ferrari S.p.A. for an interview in which he talks about his love for racing, Ferrari cars, music and technology. When asked about the similarities between writing a song and creating a Ferrari, the musician said they are both drawn from the passion and obsessive care for every single detail.

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Book publishers, it seems, are starting to take lessons from the music industry when it comes to the digital landscape. Judging by how poorly the music labels have handled the situation and the fact that more than a decade after online music became a possibility, we still don’t have a coherent and consumer-friendly solution. This while all maj… (read more)