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  • Barack Obama obviously didn't, otherwise he wouldn't have dropped the E-bomb when he told Planned Parenthood in 2007 that he would nominate a Supreme Court justice with "the empathy to recognize what it's like to be a young, teenaged mom; the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old."

    Jonathan Kim: ReThinking 12 Angry Men: On Sotomayor and Empathy in Our Justice System 2009

  • Four head-spinning minutes later, John McCain went to DefCon One and dropped the E-bomb — the dreaded charge of Democratic Elitism:

    Inbox Deathmatch: Obama vs. McCain Delany, Colin 2008

  • Delivered by a cruise missile, the E-bomb is a warhead that explodes to emit a high-energy pulse that, like a bolt of lightning, will fuse any electrical equipment within range.

    Boots, Bytes And Bombs 2007

  • The E-bomb has been more than a little temperamental in testing, and engineers would still like another year to work out the bugs, but on the first night of the war against Iraq, E-bombs will detonate over President Saddam Hussein's key command-and-control bunkers in and around Baghdad.

    Boots, Bytes And Bombs 2007

  • Having used the E-bomb to knock out Saddam's ability to communicate with his troops and the Iraqi people, America will wage a war of psy-ops (psychological operations).

    Boots, Bytes And Bombs 2007

  • We're not being told exactly what it was, but we are told it's not the E-bomb, or electromagnetic bomb, that we've all heard so much about.

    CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2003 2003

  • Where electrical power is normally measured in kilowatt hours on your utility bill, the peak pulse of this E-bomb lasts just 36 billionths of an hour.

    Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine 2009

  • The amount of damage an E-bomb can do depends on its ability to couple the energy into the target.

    Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine 2009

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