News of the Week
Election 2012 *************** Let The Vetting Begin: Attention Turning To Romney’s Potential VP Candidate WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — Who will be Mitt Romney’s running mate? OccupyWallStreet *************** Caught on camera: two OWS protesters busted after recording vandalism for local TV *************** Van Jones group plans American’s “Arab Spring” revolt Obamacare ************** What’s Obama Thinking? Wickard, not Marbury When he talks precedence, he means the astounding 1942 case. *************** Appeals court fires back at Obama's comments on health care case In the escalating battle between the administration and the judiciary, a federal appeals court apparently is calling the president's bluff -- ordering the Justice Department to answer by Thursday whether the Obama Administration believes that the courts have the right to strike down a federal law, according to a lawyer who was in the courtroom. "Hide The Decline" *************** Amazing Disconnect From The Scientific Process Recently, I reviewed a paper which had the following quote “A global climate model that does not simulate current climate accurately does not necessarily imply that it cannot produce accurate projections” *************** CHINA TO DROP SOLAR ENERGY TO FOCUS ON NUCLEAR POWER China will accelerate the use of new-energy sources such as nuclear energy and put an end to blind expansion in industries such as solar energy and wind power in 2012, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says in a government report published on March 5. *************** Obama’s signal to Iran President Obama has signaled Iran that the United States would accept an Iranian civilian nuclear program if Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei can back up his recent public claim that his nation “will never pursue nuclear weapons.” War & Terror *************** S Korea hunts for North's missing subs South Korea is reportedly searching for four North Korean submarines that disappeared after leaving their bases on the tense peninsula. *************** US weapons 'full of fake Chinese parts' Thousands of United States' warplanes, ships and missiles contain fake electronic components from China, leaving them open to malfunction, according to a US Senate committee. *************** US draws up plans for nuclear drones Technology is designed to increase flying time 'from days to months', along with power available for weapons systems *************** What America Lost Over Libya Air operations in Libya made it clear that European-made missiles and smart bombs were every bit as good as the American stuff. As a result, the major European arms manufacturers (mainly BAE, EADS, and Finmeccanica) suddenly have billions of dollars in new orders. *************** India to deploy two nuclear submarines: report India will operate two nuclear powered submarines soon as it inducts the Russian Nerpa and launches the indigenous INS Arihant, Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) Chief V K Saraswat said on Saturday. National *************** Afrolantica, Part 14: The Marxist War Within the Multi-Racial Family Afrolantica, Part 15: The White Bourgeoisie Conspiracy to Dupe the Black Proletariat Afrolantica, Part 16: The Progressive Faith Vs The Jewish Faith Afrolantica, Part 17: Doing the State Some Service *************** New Black Panthers: Race War For Trayvon April 9th 'Day of Action' *************** UN rights chief calls for Trayvon Martin probe UN rights chief Navi Pillay on Thursday called for an "immediate investigation" into the circumstances surrounding the February death of an unarmed black US teen, shot by a neighborhood watchman. *************** Time mag to Nikki Haley: So, do you give Sikh taxi drivers bigger tips or what? *************** United States v. $35,131 Reader Rob Carty has directed our attention to this week’s opinion by Judge Lynn N. Hughes of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas in the forfeiture case of The United States of America v. $35,131.00 in United States Currency. *************** DHS: Kinder Surprise Easter eggs 'too dangerous' *************** Marion Barry: 'We’ve got to do something about these Asians coming in' *************** Colleges skimp on science, spend big on diversity *************** Study Finds Hispanics Don’t Want To Be Called Hispanic *************** Our best-funded schools are the worst The Clark County School District's new campus rating system lays bare systemic inequities and provides an indisputable statistical foundation for major education reforms. *************** Newsweek Calls For Impeaching Supreme Court Justices If They Overturn Obamacare… Why stop at impeachment? How about having them hung, drawn and quartered? *************** Appeals court upholds Calif. affirmative action ban A federal appeals court on Monday rejected a bid by minority students to overturn California’s ban on affirmative action in admissions to state colleges and universities, saying the 1996 initiative approved by California voters already had passed the court’s legal muster. *************** Sodexo Slaps SEIU Cockroaches With RICO Suit *************** Proposed Law Would Encourage Off-Planet Development and Settlement *************** Important Report On The Sinkhole That Is Higher Education *************** New Reading Teachers Should Pass a Reading Test Imagine a physics program that won’t teach the theory of relativity. Or an English department that shuns Shakespeare. That would be equivalent to how U.S. schools of education treat the most effective method for teaching beginning reading. *************** Wisconsin Teachers' Unions Trained by Well-Funded Alinsky Group *************** Arizona Passes Sweeping Internet Censorship Bill Legislation to make it illegal to use “offensive” language online *************** Detroit High School Protest: Students Suspended After Demanding 'An Education' About 50 students were suspended Thursday from the all-boys Frederick Douglass Academy in Detroit, Mich. for walking out of classes in protest, demanding "an education." Economy
& Taxes *************** Did JPMorgan Pop The Student Loan Bubble? *************** Greece Launches Rent-A-Cop To Fill Empty Public Servant Coffers *************** Spain: The Ultimate Doomsday Presentation *************** Obama Administration Applauds Tax Cuts—In People’s Republic of China While making positive comments about the most recent five-year-plan developed by the Communist government of the People’s Republic of China, Undersecretary of State Robert Hormats specifically applauded China’s decision to lower taxes because it would spur economic growth. *************** What Is Capitalism? *************** Egan Jones Downgrades USA From AA+ To AA, Outlook Negative *************** Two Scary Graphs The rise and fall of employment in America, 1948-2012. (Source: Bureau of labor Statistics.) The trend line is the civilian employment to population ratio. Our current doldrums appear to be a kind of bouncing around at the bottom after a fairly steady 10-year decline. The drop is precipitous with the onset of our current troubles, but things have looked pretty bleak since the late 90′s, mitigated by a few years of partial recovery. How do we turn this line back the right way? *************** New York yoga studios face sales tax WSJ.COM | NEWSCORE - The New York Department of Taxation and Finance decided that yoga studios fall into a category of businesses -- specifically weight control or health salons -- that must pay the city's levy, officials said. *************** Eurozone unemployment hits record as debt crisis bites Eurozone unemployment jumped to an all-time high in February, hitting southern nations the hardest as the social toll from the debt crisis grips the 17-nation bloc, official figures showed Monday. *************** International *************** Germany set to tax young "The German Chancellor's ruling party is seeking extra sources of revenue to pay for soaring pensions and bills for social care costs as Germany's 'baby boomer' generation ages amid a decline in the birth rate." GERMANY is proposing to levy extra taxes on the young to pay for the costs of the country's growing numbers of old people, under government plans for a ''demographic reserve'' levy. *************** Hugo Chavez en Route to Brazilian Hospital with Complications? *************** U.K.: Surgery bans elderly patient over her carbon footprint An elderly woman was ordered to find a new GP because the “carbon footprint” of her two-mile round trips to the surgery where she had been treated for 30 years was too large. *************** Rocket fired from Egypt hits Israeli city of Eilat A Grad rocket has landed in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, but has caused no damage or injuries, Israeli security officials said. *************** Canada: After Keystone, We'd Rather Sell Oil to China Solyndra is no longer the administration's biggest energy blunder. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper appeared a think tank event held in Washington yesterday. During an interview Harper explained that President Obama's rejection of the Keystone pipeline had forced Canada to change course in ways that will permanently affect Canada's approach to its own energy market *************** Freedom of Speech Wanes in Britain When last month during an FA Cup quarter-final, the 23 year old Zaire-born former under-21 England international footballer, Fabrice Muamba, collapsed after a heart attack, a palpable wave of sympathy broke out for him among supporters of both teams at the north London stadium where the match was being played. *************** Children no longer need facts because they can look them up on smartphone, claim teachers Children should no longer be expected to learn facts in the classroom because they can rely on smartphones as a “substantial” knowledge bank, it was claimed today. *************** China: Africa’s Other Kony Joseph Kony is now notorious for his role in Africa, including in Sudan. But China’s supplying of arms and oil money has also abetted the Sudanese regime’s awful behavior. *************** Ireland Faces Popular Revolt Over New Property Tax Debt-mired Ireland is facing a revolt over its new property tax. The government said less than half of the country's 1.6 million households paid the charge by Saturday's deadline to avoid penalties. And about 5,000 marched in protest against the annual conference of Prime Minister Enda Kenny's Fine Gael party. *************** Opinion *************** America: A Government Out Of Control Something odd and not quite as planned happened as America grew from its "City on a Hill" origins, on its way to becoming the world's superpower: government grew. A lot. *************** Central Planning for Dummies *************** Free Enterprise and Fiscal Sanity Aren’t Social Darwinism *************** Obama's house of Czars *************** The Man Who Knew Too Little President Obama's stunning ignorance of constitutional law. *************** |
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