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Arab Revolts *************** Syrian Protesters Break Into The U.S. Embassy In Damascus ***************Grace Wyler Mobs of protesters loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Damascus today and attacked the residence of the U.S. ambassador, according to Reuters and AP sources in the capital. Obamacare *************** Help me, I'm starving to death. Six stone woman with paralysed stomach is refused life-saving operation ***************By Daily Mail Reporter A young woman who is starving to death after being diagnosed with a paralysed stomach has been told that NHS bosses refuse to fund an operation to save her. "Hide the Decline" *************** Global Warming: A Primer *************** California’s long-term cooling trend cited as evidence FOR global warming Want to know why global warming alarmists and climate scientists in general have lost credibility with the American public? Consider a new study released today — and the unintentionally hilarious weasel words of its author — as Exhibit A. *************** GOP bill weakens light bulb efficiency law By Andrew Restuccia House Republicans plan to bring to the floor next week legislation that would water down a provision in a 2007 energy law that requires light bulbs to be more energy efficient. *************** The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Culture Conflict, Rationality Conflict, and Climate Change On the whole, the most scientifically literate and numerate subjects were slightly less likely, not more, to see climate change as a serious threat than the least scientifically literate and numerate ones War & Terror *************** Arizona Officials Say Hezbollah Operating in Mexico A document drop by LulzSec has revealed an ominous bulletin from police officials in Tucson, Arizona. In short, law enforcement is advised to be on the lookout for Hezbollah terrorists operating in the traditional smuggling corridors on our (wide-open) southern border with Mexico. National *************** It’s been a long year, Neptune Astronomers will celebrate a remarkable event on 11 July. It will be exactly one year since the planet Neptune was discovered. Readers should note a caveat, however. That year is a Neptunian one. *************** Change is harder for some folks Chasm grows between Dwight Jones and the Clark County school board Karen Gray The Clark County School District's new superintendent, Dwight Jones, was hired to be a "game changer." What district trustees increasingly signal from their dais, however, is — at best — ambivalence about actually allowing him to change the game. *************** Justice O'Connor's Lax Scrutiny A new ruling in favor of racial preferences could spell their doom. **************** Woman facing 93 days in jail for planting garden on her own property *************** Former First Lady Betty Ford Dead at 93 *************** CA legislature passes gay-history mandate as the ship sinks by Ed Morrissey Rarely do we get a juxtaposition of stories like we see today about California’s political class. The legislature returned from the Independence Day holiday to address the pressing, acute issue that has the state in crisis mode — the lack of mention in schools of accomplishments by gays and lesbians Economy
& Taxes *************** Mass. city to pay wedded gay workers to offset tax Johanna Kaiser, Associated Press When the city of Cambridge issues paychecks to its public employees, nearly two dozen workers find a federal tax on their income that their colleagues don’t have to pay. *************** Taxes Upon Taxes Upon . . . Obama wants $1 trillion in taxes on top of what he's already signed. *************** President Barack Obama declares: “We will have to make tough decisions about Defense spending, or even on programs that I like.” *************** Do we really have a revenue problem? by Ed Morrissey Over the last couple of days, we’ve had a good debate at Hot Air over the nature of our fiscal crisis between Jazz Shaw, and J. E. Dyer, and me. At least we all recognize that we have a fiscal crisis; some members of Congress and “intellectual authorities” (with interesting if unreported conflicts of interest) still act as though nothing at all is wrong *************** Inside the Disappointing Comeback By JON HILSENRATH And CONOR DOUGHERTY Two years ago, officials said, the worst recession since the Great Depression ended. The stumbling recovery has also proven to be the worst since the economic disaster of the 1930s. *************** The U.S. jobs gap *************** China Wants to Buy Facebook On Thursday, Business Insider reported that China is trying to buy “a huge chunk” of Facebook. *************** Jobs Picture Gets Even Worse as Rate Swells to 9.2% U.S. employment growth ground to a halt in June, with employers hiring the fewest number of workers in nine months, dousing hopes the economy would regain momentum in the second half of the year. *************** Jobs stall, setting back recovery hopes By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. jobs growth ground to a near halt in June, with employers hiring the fewest workers in nine months, frustrating hopes the economy would bounce back quickly from a slowdown in the first half of the year. *************** U.S. debt crisis might be on fast track One of the outside economic-analysis firms that the White House likes to quote is Macroeconomic Advisers. Here’s what the firm said yesterday about where the U.S. economy is heading (bold is mine) *************** International *************** Venezuela Needs De-Cubanization The longer the Cubans stay, the greater the chance of serious friction in the military and other institutions. *************** China's Bumpy Road Ahead Unrest, inflation and an aging populace stand in the way of the Middle Kingdom's touted domination *************** Opinion *************** *************** |
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