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Arizona Shooting *************** Signatures Being Collected to Officially Recall Dupnik On January 8, 2011, in Tucson, Arizona, a madman named Jared Loughner murdered 6 people, shot a Congresswoman in the head, and injured another 14. He was tackled and subdued by heroes who had been in the middle of the horror. In the hours after the rampage, little was known about Loughner. It was in this time that America was introduced to Clarence Dupnik, the Pima County Sheriff. *************** Obamacare *************** House passes health law repeal By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN House Republicans passed a bill to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care plan Wednesday, taking their first major step toward rolling back the massive overhaul that has dominated the American political landscape for almost two years. *************** Climategate *************** Chomsky: November’s Republican takeover of Congress ‘a death knell for the species’ By Jeff Poor - The Daily Caller One could understand progressive-minded people calling the 2010 Republican wave the end of the world, but who would take them literally? *************** War
& Terror *************** Will Strategy Guide U.S.-China Diplomacy? William R. HawkinsPrint There cannot be any separation in strategic thinking between international economics and national security. Divergent rates of economic growth will affect the balance of power. So will the transfer of capital and technology between countries. This is why scholars such as Princeton political economist Joanne S. Gowa have found that throughout history trade patterns have been aligned with security alliances. Gowa argues that it would be unwise to abandon the traditional practice of having “trade follows the flag” because interdependence is too risky between rival nation states. *************** The China Syndrome Presidential Policy: Does It Make the Grade? James Carafano, PhD Last week, the White House suffered a full blown case of its own China syndrome—low balling Beijing’s military ambitions. As worrying reports of new initiatives by the regime piled, the administration said and did—virtually nothing. *************** China Scenario Overwhelms US in Taiwan Strait The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) claims the Chinese Air Force Could Overwhelm Opponents – Patriot Update in a battle in the Taiwan Strait. Even with a 6 to 1 kill ratio by American jets, a Rand simulation program in “war gaming” still reveals that the Americans would lose. This was revealed in an interview with Aviation Week (1/9/11). Even with all American missiles spent with a kill, more Chinese jets would presumably be available to wreak mass havoc. *************** The Chinese Dragon and the American Eagle By Daniel Greenfield Countries most often destroy themselves by refusing to gauge the consequences of their actions. That blind spot creates a weakness. The bigger it gets, the more vulnerable the country becomes. America’s blind spot has been an unwillingness to recognize the economic cost of its social programs. *************** National *************** Alleged Patient Of Abortion Doctor Is “Scarred For Life” PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A alleged former patient says she is scarred for life after being forced to have an abortion by Dr. Kermit Gosnell. *************** Tea party candidate Jack Kimball to head N.H. GOP By KASIE HUNT DERRY, N.H. — In a victory for the tea party, New Hampshire Republicans on Saturday elected Jack Kimball as the state party’s chairman. *************** Only U.S. supplier to stop making execution drug By Sam Stanton The only U.S. maker of a key drug used in lethal injection executions said Friday it will stop producing the anesthetic, a move that further complicates American capital punishment policy. *************** Ted Kennedy’s son may be eyeing Lieberman’s seat in Conn. By Dave Wedge The late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s son, Ted Jr., is among the names being floated as potential candidates for Connecticut U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s seat in 2012. *************** Verizon sues FCC over Net neutrality By ELIZA KRIGMAN Verizon is challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s controversial net neutrality order, becoming the first company to try to stop the agency from requiring Internet companies to treat all Web traffic equally. *************** One America, Two Languages: Obama's Backdoor Bilingualism Ira Stoll notices the backdoor bilingualism in the conditions imposed by the FCC on the Comcast-NBC merger *************** Work E-Mail Not Protected by Attorney-Client Privilege, Court Says By David Kravets E-mails between a client and attorney are no longer considered privileged and confidential if the client writes the messages from a work e-mail account, a California court of appeals has ruled. *************** MLK and His Guns One issue on everyone's mind this Martin Luther King Jr. day was gun control. King's calls for resolving our differences through peaceful nonviolence are especially poignant after Jared Loughner gunned down six people and wounded several others in Tucson. Amid the clamor for new gun laws, its appropriate to remember King's complicated history with guns. *************** Newt Gingrich tells Georgia Republicans he’ll be a candidate in ‘12 In the last 24 hours, former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich has touched base with several prominent Republicans in his former home state, telling them that he intends to make a run for president in 2012 using Georgia as his base – and that he already has his eye on office space in Buckhead for a campaign headquarters. *************** Economy
& Taxes *************** Visualizing The GOP's Dramatic Spending Cuts *************** Cost to convert to all nuclear powered economy Brave new climate has a calculation for the cost of all-nuclear powered, fossil-carbon-free future. An average American directly and indirectly uses about 10.8 kW of primary energy of which about 1.3 kW is electricity. *************** Joule Unlimited Claims to have engineered cyanobacterium that will produce biofuel equal to $30 barrel oil Joule Unlimited is a US biotech company that claims to have a genetically engineered cyanobacterium that produces liquid hydrocarbons: diesel fuel, jet fuel and gasoline. This breakthrough technology, the company says, will deliver renewable supplies of liquid fossil fuel almost anywhere on Earth, in essentially unlimited quantity and at an energy-cost equivalent of $30 (U.S.) a barrel of crude oil *************** International *************** Obama Admin Lobbying Honduras To Allow Zelaya Back In? Are You Kidding? What could possibly be the motive behind this lunacy? On the last day of December last year, Manuel “Mel” Zelaya, the deposed Honduran president and self-described victim of high-frequency radiation attacks by Israeli mercenaries, vowed to the press that he would return to Honduras. Few outside of Honduras have paid much attention to Zelaya’s MacArthur-esque prediction, but it has become apparent there is more behind his declaration than his usual hyperbole and bombastic absurdities. *************** PC nonsense: European Union removes Christian holidays from calendar, but maintains Muslim holidays If you think Pope Benedict XVI and other Christian denominations are lying about how Europe is secularizing, shunning specifically Christianity, this should be proof. *************** Opinion *************** Danger: America Is Losing Its Edge In Innovation Posted by Eric Savitz Written By Norm Augustine I’ve visited more than 100 countries in the past several years, meeting people from all walks of life, from impoverished children in India to heads of state. Almost every adult I’ve talked with in these countries shares a belief that the path to success is paved with science and engineering. *************** A 'high-speed' boondoggle By MICHAEL BARONE Where can Congress start cutting spending? One obvious answer: high-speed rail. The Obama administration is spending billions of stimulus dollars for rail projects that make no sense and that, if they're ever built, will be a drag on taxpayers indefinitely. *************** Cultural vandalism State Dept. v. Mom & Pop By MICHAEL A. WALSH Lost in the wake of the horrific shootings in Tuc son was a modest battle in the culture war: The State Department quietly decreed that some passport applications would henceforth be gender neutral. No more "mother" and "father"; such terms were apparently too retro, too judgmental for the Foggy Bottom bonzes. Instead, Parent One and Parent Two would do just fine. *************** What Congress Should Cut Let's scrap the Departments of Commerce and Housing and Urban Development, end farm subsidies, and end urban mass transit grants, for starters. By DICK ARMEY AND MATT KIBBE The primary economic challenge today is that our government spends too much money it doesn't have, and it is involved in too many things it cannot do well and shouldn't do at all. This burden is manifested by a $1.3 trillion annual deficit and a $14 trillion national debt. The more pernicious effects of this fiscal drag are unseen: a debased dollar, massive (and hidden) unfunded liabilities, and a crushing burden on would-be job creators. *************** Can't reduce federal spending? Here's a plan to cut $2.5 trillion by 2021 By: Jim DeMint, Jim Jordan, and Scott Garrett If immediate measures are not taken, the national debt will soon be equal to the entire U.S. economy. At this moment, American opportunity threatens to be overwhelmed by our debt, and that's a race we can't afford to lose. *************** |
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