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Election 2012 *************** Dem cracks showing a little early The White House loves her. Cher loves her. But a lot of Democrats aren’t so wild about Elizabeth Warren’s Senate campaign these days. The high-powered, fast-running Warren campaign is starting to show some cracks and dings — fueling fresh scuttlebutt of internal dissent in the party. *************** ‘Vigorous’ Santorum crackdown may catch Internet porn viewers with pants down *************** Obama camp: If election were today, Mitt would win President Obama's campaign staff made the curious decision to build a fundraising message around their candidate's apparent weakness, warning supporters that Mitt Romney would beat Obama if the election were held today. *************** Caucuses Gone Wild: Chaos in Missouri *************** Disruption Closes a Missouri Caucus Before Vote Voters here in St. Charles County did not get a say on Saturday in who will be the next Republican presidential nominee after a disorderly caucus on Saturday caused organizers to adjourn before delegates were selected. Occupy Wall Street *************** Woman Raped at Occupy New Haven: Cops Police charged England Gamble, 53, of New Haven, with sexual assault. *************** Police and Occupy Wall Street protesters clash at New York park where movement began six months ago Protesters gathered at Zuccotti Park on six-month anniversary of movement Dozens of people handcuffed and led out of park Movement looks to mirror 'Arab Spring' movement, though it has been largely dormant in winter months *************** Video: Occupy Protesters Singing Contraception Songs Now Obamacare ************** Administration to move forward with and expand contraception mandate *************** Coffee Is an Essential Benefit Too Here are some other health-care mandates that government should impose on employers. "Hide The Decline" *************** Sinking land shows East Antarctic ice sheet is stable THE East Antarctic ice sheet looks unlikely to release its frozen grip any time soon. A new model suggests that prehistoric sea-level rise long thought to have been caused by the ice sheet melting was actually the result of local subsidence. War & Terror *************** China's J-20 Stealth Fighter Is Already Doing A Whole Lot More Than Anyone Expected New pictures of the China's J-20 Mighty Dragon stealth fighter have surfaced and are making their way across military blogs. *************** The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) Rebutal *************** Pakistan carts its nukes around in delivery vans Pakistan is taking nuclear paranoia to a horrifying new low. And it's making the world a vastly more dangerous place in the process. *************** Al-Qaeda declares parts of Yemen theirs SANA’A, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, (AQAP) declared on Wednesday that Yemen’s southern province of Shabwa had become an Islamic Emirate. With the province of Abyan being under the control of the group, Shabwa is the latest southern province to have fallen to Ansar al Sharia in less than a year. National *************** UN rights council delves into US voter I.D. laws The controversy over requiring voters to provide photo IDs has reached the world stage. *************** The Vetting: Obama Teaches Constitutional Law (Part II) *************** Home schooling: Why more black US families are trying it Until recently, home schooling in the US was mostly practised by white families, but a growing number in the black community are now also turning their back on the public school system and educating their children at home. Why? *************** Researchers send 'wireless' message using neutrinos *************** Florida Veterans Demand Democrat Party Remove American Flag Altered With Obama’s Image After a short stand off between a group of veterans and the head of the Lake County, FL Democrat Party, an American flag that had been altered to depict an image of Barack Obama in the space where the stars are normally located was taken down. *************** President & CEO of Texas Planned Parenthood Arrested for Indecent Exposure *************** Unrepentant terrorist/socialist scum calls #Breitbart "Grinning bomb thrower of radical right" (Video) *************** With Friends Like These … Union Names Chinese Premier 'Best Friend of American Worker' *************** Rage grows over mortgage deal As more details emerge about the massive $26 billion foreclosure settlement between the five biggest mortgage lenders and the states' attorneys general, a growing number of borrowers are realizing that the deal will do little, if anything, to help them out. *************** F. Sherwood Rowland, Cited Aerosols’ Danger, Is Dead at 84 F. Sherwood Rowland, whose discovery in 1974 of the danger that aerosols posed to the ozone layer was initially met with disdain but who was ultimately vindicated with the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, died on Saturday at his home in Corona del Mar, Calif. He was 84. *************** Sandra Fluke, Crusader for the ‘Social Justice-Based Faith’ *************** Poor Sandra Fluke… She Wants You To Pay For Her $9/Month Birth Control As She Frolics in Spain & Pompeii *************** Sandra Fluke can’t afford contraception, but expensive trips to Europe… not a problem! *************** Holder 1995: We Must 'Brainwash' People Against Guns *************** Former Rutgers student convicted in webcam case Did Dharun Ravi Commit a Hateless Hate Crime? How did the jury find Dharun Ravi guilty of "bias intimidation"? *************** Obama's Favorite Congressman Hangs With Commies *************** White-dominated boards face legal threats over racial makeup Compton City Councilwoman Janna Zurita owes her Hispanic last name to a grandmother from Spain, whom she never met. Zurita considers her mother black and said her father “wants to be black” even though he “looks Latino.” *************** White teachers bully 13 year old black girl for quesstioning if school keeping black kids illiterate When 13-year-old Jada Williams was given a copy of Frederick Douglass’ book “The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass,” she was inspired. So inspired that she decided to write an essay that drew a parallel between the abhorrent illiteracy in city schools and slavery. And she took aim at her teachers. *************** Gloria Allred seeks Rush Limbaugh prosecution Rush Limbaugh has drawn the ire of celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, who sent a letter to the Palm Beach County state attorney requesting an investigation into whether the popular radio host should be prosecuted for calling a law student a “slut” and “prostitute” last week. *************** Derrick Bell: "I live to harass white folks" *************** What is Critical Race Theory? *************** Nye County to DOE: We’ll take the nuclear waste dump In a letter this week to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Nye County has asked to voluntarily host the nation's high-level nuclear waste repository. *************** Obama mentor Derrick Bell's really bad racialist sci-fi *************** Obama Assigned Reading: Bell Says Whites Might Enslave Blacks *************** Derrick Bell: Liberal Whites Are Oppressors It's been established that Barack Obama counseled his fellow Harvard law students to open up their hearts and minds to Derrick Bell because he was speaking "truth." A 1990 New York Times book review of Bell's "And We Are Not Saved The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice" sheds light on just how racialist was Bell's alleged truth, which Barack Obama embraced. Bell didn't only de-legitimize white critics based upon race, he de-legitimized his white liberals colleagues, as well, seeing them as incapable of being anything other than oppressors *************** Derrick Bell in 1994: ‘Jewish Neoconservative Racists’ The controversy over the videotape of Harvard Law School student Barack Obama speaking in support of his professor Derrick Bell during Bell’s one-man 1990 uprising against the law school’s failure or refusal to hire a black woman as a professor has caused a predictable back-and-forth about what it might mean for Obama to have a favorable view of Bell. *************** Government-subsidized green light bulb carries costly price tag Now the winning bulb is on the market. The price is $50. *************** Researchers suggest magnetic anomalies on the Moon are the result of asteroid collision In the nearly five decades since the first lunar surveys were conducted as part of NASA's Apollo program, scientists have advanced a number of increasingly complex theories to explain the vast swaths of highly magnetic material that had been found in the some parts of the Moon's crust. *************** Rep. Darrell Issa Confronts Forced Unionism A new report details thuggish tactics. *************** Incoming UC Students May Be Asked To Declare Their Sexual Orientation Economy
& Taxes *************** The Fool's Game: Unravelling Europe's Epic Ponzi Pyramid Of Lies *************** The "Potato Revolution": Greeks start buying potatoes straight from farmers As incomes fall and retail prices rise, Greeks have found an ingenious way to pay three times less than they usually would for potatoes. *************** Money from Nothing - A Primer on Fake Wealth Creation and its Implications (Part 2) *************** Fed To Take Propaganda To The Schoolroom: Will Teach Grade 8-12 Students About Constitutionality Of... The Fed *************** Exodus: California Tax Revenue Plunges by 22% *************** Venezuelan oil a risky investment for China China has poured billions of dollars into Venezuela’s oil sector to expand its claim over the country’s massive oil reserves. *************** Fight against China on rare earths The US, European Union and Japan have joined forces to launch a World Trade Organisation case aiming to break China’s control over the global supply of “rare earth” minerals essential to much high-technology manufacturing. *************** Is The ECB Masking Accelerating Deposit Flight In Italy And Spain? While LTRO may have slowed the need for immediate asset sales and larger deleveraging in European banks, the two most significantly worrying trend concerns remain front-and-center - those of deposit flight and lending cuts. *************** Tea Party senators unveil five-year plan to balance the budget Members of the Senate Tea Party Caucus on Thursday announed a plan to balance the budget in five years, cutting spending by nearly $11 trillion compared to President Obama’s budget. *************** Alarm sounds over Spain’s rising public debt In the years of economic crisis since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, Spanish leaders have always been able to boast to nervous investors that Spain’s public debt burden – however bad its annual budget deficits – is smaller than Germany’s and well below the European Union average. *************** Legal skull-duggery in Greece may doom Portugal Europe has ring-fenced Greece's debt crisis for now but its escalating recourse to legal legerdemain has shattered the trust of global bond markets and may ultimately expose Portugal, Spain, and Italy to greater danger. *************** International *************** Venezuela: opposition gathers strength As Hugo Chávez continues to languish in Cuba, recovering from an operation to remove a cancerous lesion, things are getting increasingly fraught amongst his followers back home. *************** Europe’s Real Crisis The Continent’s problems are as much demographic as financial. They won’t go away soon. *************** UN consultant: Ban Dante's Divine Comedy Dante's Divine Comedy should be banned from schools as a racist and Islamophobic text rather than esteemed as one of the greatest achievements of Western poetry, according to a human rights organization that acts as a consultant for the United Nations. *************** ‘I Will Kill You, You Are Dirt’: Egypt‘s Coptic Christians Live in Fear as Islamist Gov’t Takes Control Burned-out rubble is all that’s left of Christian shopkeeper Abskharon Suleiman’s appliance store in the northern Egyptian village of Sharbat. His home was destroyed as well as shops owned by his adult children – all targeted because they are Christians. *************** Mussolini Praises Putin's Reelection in Russia The Kremlin television network RT praised the supposed fairness of the Russian election after strongman Vladimir Putin won reelection in the rigged contest. RT's claim was that the election was the most transparent in history *************** Egyptian Presidential Candidate: ‘I am the Mahdi’ According to today’s edition of Egypt’s Al-Wafd, a popular political website, the latest candidate for the Egyptian presidency, Muhammad Muhammad Musa, claims he is the hidden Mahdi — a savior figure in Islamic eschatology. *************** The Fertility Implosion When you look at pictures from the Arab spring, you see these gigantic crowds of young men, and it confirms the impression that the Muslim Middle East has a gigantic youth bulge — hundreds of millions of young people with little to do. But that view is becoming obsolete *************** Syria Descending Toward Madness This morning there was a car bomb in Aleppo. Yesterday saw two explosions in Damascus with heavy casualties. Syria is descending into the kind of communal madness that produces bloodbaths and anarchy; it is looking more like Iraq and civil war era Lebanon every day. *************** U.K.: Dubious 'experts' are paid to tear families apart A new report condemns the shoddy standards of psychologists' reports in our family courts. *************** Wen attacks party conservatives Chinese premier Wen Jiabao fired a parting shot at conservative officials in the ruling Communist party, warning them that China could face another Cultural Revolution unless it undertakes urgent political reforms. *************** Iraqi teenagers stoned to death for "emo" haircuts At least 90 Iraqi teenagers with "emo" appearances have been stoned to death by religious extremists in Baghdad in the past month after an inflammatory interior ministry statement dubbed it "devil worshiping", activists said. *************** Germany wants new debate on EU constitution: minister Germany wants to reignite a debate over creating an EU constitution to strengthen the bloc's ability to fight off financial troubles and counter-balance the rising influence of emerging economies, Germany's foreign minister said on Friday. *************** Opinion *************** Politics: A Never-Ending Game of ‘Hot Potato’ We need a Republican president — not to fix the economy, but to get the credit. *************** Joseph Stalin Got It Right As we approach the 2012 presidential election, we should reflect on something that General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin said: “America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.” *************** California: The Sick Man Of America States: "You can check out any time you like," the Eagles said of California, "but you can never leave." Somebody forgot to tell businesses. They keep leaving the Golden State in growing numbers. *************** The Value of a Mom and a Dad Heather Mac Donald, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, is the author of "Are Cops Racist? How the War Against the Police Harms Black Americans." *************** What Ever Happened to "Extremism in Defense of Liberty is No Vice"? It’s more than a little ironic that conservatives think the first order of business when fighting terror is to sacrifice freedom. *************** Welcome to the California Outback The Attractions of the California Outback There are drawbacks of living in the country in general, and never more so now in rural California in particular. You country readers know all the normal trivial concerns. You must pump your own water. That means monitoring the pump and pressure tank. Your sewage, is, well, your sewage. Whether you like it or not, you will eventually master cesspools, septic tanks, leach lines — and gophers, grease, roots (and everything from visitors’ flushed children’s toys to tampons). At fifty, I gave up fixing my own clogged lines and tried calling the septic service. *************** Reflections on Cambodia What the Khmer Rouge killing fields tell us about leftist utopianism. *************** In California, Whom Will They Blame? Here in California, students just marched on Sacramento in outrage that state-subsidized tuition at the UC and CSU campuses keeps climbing. It is true that per-unit tuition costs are rising, despite even greater exploitation of poorly paid part-time teachers and graduate-student TAs. But the protests are sort of surreal. The California legislature is overwhelmingly Democratic. The governor is a Democrat. The faculties and administrative classes are largely Democratic. Who then, in the students’ minds, have established these supposedly unfair budget priorities? *************** |
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