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Election 2012 *************** iPads, Laptops Stolen From Romney Aides' SUV Stolen Items May Have Valuable Information For Opponents Of GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney *************** Wild Coincidence: Obama Website Now Pimping Obama 2012 Hoodies Certainly this is just by happenstance and has nothing to do with the Trayvon Martin case. Obamacare ************** Massive $17 Trillion Hole Found In Obamacare Two years ago, when introducing then promptly enacting Obamacare, the president stated that healthcare law reform would not cost a penny over $1 trillion ($900 billion to be precise), and that it would not add ‘one dime’ to the debt. It appears that this estimate may have been slightly optimistic… by a factor of 1700%. *************** Elderly dying due to 'despicable age discrimination in NHS' Thousands of elderly people are dying unnecessarily early because ‘despicable’ age discrimination in the NHS is denying them treatment for cancer, a charity has warned. *************** High court’s open-minded GOP appointees may give health care a chance Democratic appointees on board with Obama *************** Obama Lawyer Gets Laughed At In Supreme Court *************** Scalia Likens Reading Obamacare to Cruel and Unusual Punishment "Hide The Decline" *************** EPA to impose first greenhouse gas limits on power plants *************** Is this finally proof we're NOT causing global warming? The whole of the Earth heated up in medieval times without human CO2 emissions, says new study Evidence was found in a rare mineral that records global temperatures Warming was global and NOT limited to Europe Throws doubt on orthodoxies around 'global warming' *************** Federal judge: EPA overstepped authority revoking permits for Arch Coal surface mine in W.Va. War & Terror *************** Israel's Secret Staging Ground U.S. officials believe that the Israelis have gained access to airbases in Azerbaijan. Does this bring them one step closer to a war with Iran? *************** Obama to Russia: ‘After My Election I Have More Flexibility’ President Obama got caught in private conversation with a hot mic today in Seoul, South Korea, telling outgoing Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that Vladimir Putin should give him more "space" and that "[a]fter my election I have more flexibility." *************** Hot mic: Obama begs Russians for ‘space’ on missile defense talks President blames election woes in private entreaty caught on tape National *************** Derrick Bell’s Afrolantica, Part 9: The Birth of ‘Blackness’ Derrick Bell’s Afrolantica, Part 10: Apocalyptic Prophet of Racial War? Derrick Bell’s Afrolantica, Part 11: The Brown-Skinned Joan of Arc Afrolantica, Part 12: Critical Race Theory’s Distortion of Trayvon Martin Afrolantica, Part 13: The Roots of the War on Meritocracy *************** In cancer science, many 'discoveries' don't hold up A former researcher at Amgen Inc has found that many basic studies on cancer -- a high proportion of them from university labs -- are unreliable, with grim consequences for producing new medicines in the future. *************** California State Colleges and Universities May Screen for Sexual Orientation in Admissions Applications *************** Texas lawyers offer $10,000 for George Zimmerman's legal defense The National Association for Legal Gun Defense wants to contribute $10,000 toward George Zimmerman's legal expenses, a member said today. *************** Trayvon Martin Rashomon *************** The Trayvon Timeline: How Local Crime Story Became National Racial Outrage An analysis of media reports on the Trayvon Martin shooting reveals how a local crime story became a national racial outrage. *************** Ten Things That We’ve Learned from the Trayvon Martin Tragedy *************** Mich. 'Hutaree' Militia Members Acquitted A federal judge on Tuesday gutted the government's case against seven members of a Michigan militia, dismissing the most serious charges in an extraordinary defeat for federal authorities who insisted they had captured homegrown rural extremists poised for war. *************** Parents of murdered British students criticise Barack Obama The parents of two British students murdered in Florida have criticised President Barack Obama for his lack of compassion over their son's deaths. *************** Welcome to the United States of Orwell, Part 2: Law-Abiding Taxpayers Treated As Criminals *************** Grad student workers at University of Minnesota reject union again The fourth effort since 1990 failed. University of Minnesota officials were "pleased." *************** Trayvon Martin’s tweets *************** How Many Crimes Did the New Black Panthers Commit in Florida? When New Black Panther Mikhail Muhammad called for the mobilization of a 10,000-strong black male mob to capture George Zimmerman, we glimpsed into the depths of racial depravity of the organization. “An eye for an eye,” Muhammad threatened. A cash bounty for Zimmerman, “dead or alive,” provided a nasty incentive for thugs across the land. *************** George Zimmerman withdrawn from Seminole State College SSC officials say decision was based on student safety *************** Anti-Obama protest in SF far outdraws any Occupy event this year; still ignored by MSM There was a large political protest in San Francisco a couple days ago. In fact, it was one of the largest ones this year and far out-drew any OccupySF protests since the earliest days of that movement. And yet, the protest was almost completely ignored by the mainstream media. *************** An Unfortunate T-Shirt Hits Florida Streets In Wake Of Trayvon Martin Killing *************** Trayvon Martin: Couple who fled home after Spike Lee tweet hires Morgan firm A couple who say they were forced to leave their home after director Spike Lee re-tweeted their address to his Twitter followers has hired the Morgan & Morgan law firm to represent them. *************** TSA Manager Arrested for Running Prostitution Ring SILVER SPRING, Md. - A manager at the Transportation Security Administration has lost his job after being arrested on prostitution-related charges. According to court documents, the agency had received a complaint of "very similar" activities back in 2009. *************** Manufacturing the Martin narrative Someday, a book will be written on the way our major media organizations have deliberately slanted coverage of the Treyvon Martin shooting in Sanford, Florida. Hopefully the final chapter is not a second tragedy. *************** North America has the potential to be energy world's next Middle East, report argues North America's energy sector has the potential to drive a "remarkable resurgence" that could see the Continent become the new Middle East in shaping the global supply of gas and oil, a new report has claimed. Economy
& Taxes *************** Is The Chinese Stock Market About To Crash? *************** Obama: "You're On Your Own" Economics Doesn't Work *************** Biden: "We Want To Create A Global Minimum Tax" *************** Welcome to the United States of Orwell, Part 4: "Consumer Protection" Just Another Federal Reserve Power Grab *************** It's Official - The Fed Is Now Buying European Government Bonds As if the 'risk-less' dollar-swaps the Fed has extended to any and every major central bank were not enough, William Dudley just unashamedly admitted that the Fed now holds 'a very small amount of European Sovereign Debt'. *************** Conservative Caucus: We Can Balance Budget in Five Years Republican Study Committee to unveil budget proposal today that kills the National Labor Relations Board and National Endowment for the Arts. *************** Use real money, go to federal prison Most Americans have never heard of former Las Vegas businessman Robert Kahre. The fact that he is locked away in a federal prison has a lot to do with that. But those who understand Kahre’s story tend to view money as well as our justice system in a different light. *************** Small business...under the current tax code *************** US Debt Ceiling D-Day: September 14, 2012 *************** Brazil to rally BRICS against rich countries Brazil will push for its large emerging-market peers including China to denounce what it sees as unfair monetary policies by Europe and the United States, raising the stakes in a global confrontation over economic imbalances. *************** International *************** The Plight Of Egypt’s Coptic Christians *************** Argentina Bans Book Imports due to ‘Human Health Concerns’ *************** Canada ups retirement age in bid to balance budget Canada's center-right government called for the retirement age to be raised and for major public service cuts Thursday, in an austerity budget that aims to balance the books by 2016. *************** Losing its magic Politics is preventing India from fulfilling its vast economic potential *************** North Korea’s dehumanizing treatment of its citizens is hiding in plain sight With President Obama in Korea this week, we will hear a lot about the dangers of North Korea’s nuclear aspirations. *************** Opinion *************** Nice Court You Have There, It Would Be A Shame If Something Happened To It The Talking Points Memo headline reads: “Dems Warn Of ‘Grave Damage’ To SCOTUS If ‘Obamacare’ Is Struck Down.” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D), a former attorney general of Connecticut, pointed out that the U.S. Supreme Court would damage itself if it did something so ridiculous as find Obamacare unconstitutional *************** Not-So-Smooth Operator Obama increasingly comes across as devious and dishonest. *************** The Entitled States of America: We Want More! Milton Friedman may have argued that there is no such thing as a free lunch, but you’d have a hard time convincing millions of Americans of that today. They know better – or at least they think they do. *************** |
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