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Big Labor's Payback in Lame Duck Session
by  Roger Hedgecock
Multi-employer union pension plans need a bailout fast. Too many such plans are insolvent and nothing less than the future of private-sector unions and the Democratic Party is at stake. Democrats plan on asking taxpayers for a $165 billion bailout of these private pension plans during the lame duck session.

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Video Shows Touch-Screen Voting Machine Purportedly Flipping Vote From Republican Perry to Green Party Candidates in Dallas County, TX

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SEIU Offshoot ‘Mi Familia Vota’ Caught With 6,000 Bogus Colorado Voter Registrations

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Tea Party to the Rescue
How the GOP was saved from Bush and the establishment.
By PEGGY NOONAN
Two central facts give shape to the historic 2010 election. The first is not understood by Republicans, and the second not admitted by Democrats.

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WSSU e-mail called illegal
6,400 students, staffers urged to vote early and help Democratic Party
http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2010/oct/20/wssu-e-mail-called-illegal-ar-467783/?referer=None&shorturl=http://journalnow.com/ar/467783/


Climategate

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Global Warming’s Corrupt Science
By Patrick J. Michaels
Climate science has painted itself into a corner, seriously damaging the public’s faith in the field — as precious a commodity as there is in civil society. Like lab rats that will do anything to keep the cocaine flowing, climate scientists, universities, and federal laboratories are addicted to the public’s money.


War & Terror

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National

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Vaccines could help elephantiasis spread
PARASITIC worms can adjust their survival strategy based on their host's immune response. This means potential vaccines against elephantiasis might make the infection spread more easily through communities.

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Dems Playing Soviet-Style Insanity Card
All of these seemingly coordinated efforts by Democrats and their press minions to label Party dissidents as “insane” are not only creepy, they seem like the first step down the path towards Soviet-style tyranny.

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Women's Brains on Steroids
Birth control pills appear to remodel brain structure



Economy & Taxes

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Think this economy is bad? Wait for 2012.
By Greg Ip
We're barely two years past the banking crisis, still weathering the mortgage crisis and nervously watching Europe struggle with its sovereign debt crisis. Yet every economic seer has a favorite prediction about what part of the economy the next crisis will come from: Municipal bonds? Hedge funds? Derivatives? The federal debt?

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China stakes claim to S. Texas oil, gas



International

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Judges told to step down in Wilders trial
Geert Wilders says freedom of speech in the Netherlands is on trial
Judges in the hate speech trial of Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders have been ordered to step down by an independent appeals panel.

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She says politics disgusts her... now Brigitte Bardot wants to challenge Sarkozy as French president



Opinion

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One more reason why we really don’t need the European Union

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Shovel-ready white elephants
Jonah Goldberg
This country just can't build stuff the way it used to; don't blame conservatives for holding up construction of billion-dollar boondoggles.


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