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Election 2012 *************** Former Dem. Congressman Kennedy Alleges 'Quid Pro Quo' for Access to White House *************** Newt: Right to Bear Arms is a Human Right OccupyWallStreet *************** MoveOn Recruits for '99% Spring' Training *************** Protesters use children as human blockade in battle at Olympic site Children were used as a human blockade as protesters tried to prevent police and bailiffs from clearing an Olympics site. Obamacare ************** Trend watch: Segregated hospital emergency rooms. Because there's a class of persons who need different treatment. "Hide The Decline" *************** Chu: We don’t understand the “bumps and wiggles” of climate change, but oh yes, it’s happening *************** Amount of ice in Bering Sea reaches all-time record Hippies get it wrong again The amount of floating ice in the Arctic's Bering Sea - which had long been expected to retreat disastrously by climate-Cassandra organisations such as Greenpeace - reached all-time record high levels last month, according to US researchers monitoring the area using satellites. War & Terror *************** Pakistan and India to go to War over Water? A peaceful and stable Pakistan is integral to western efforts to pacify Afghanistan, but Islamabad’s obsessions with its giant eastern neighbor may render such issues moot. Since partition in 1947, Pakistan and India have fought four armed conflicts, in 1947, 1965, 1971 (which led to the establishment of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan) and the 1999 Kargil clash. National *************** Afrolantica, Part 18: Why Derrick Bell Saw Thurgood Marshall As a Sex Slave Afrolantica, Part 19: The Black Sedition Papers Conspiracy Afrolantica, Part 20: Strange Sex & Human Sacrifice in Bluebeard’s Castle Afrolantica’s Haunting Conclusion: ‘Let’s Get Back to the Struggle’ *************** New Marijuana Strain Eases Pain Without the High As the door swings open on the medical marijuana growing operation, a rush of air holds the sweet smell of green cannabis. But nothing else about the place conforms to the stereotype you probably hold of a pot farm. *************** Janet Napolitano Signed 'Stand Your Ground' Law for Arizona in 2006 *************** CSU may pull cash grants to half its grad students Nanette Asimov California State University is withholding financial aid for about 20,000 needy graduate students - money that pays their tuition - pending a decision that could permanently end the cash grants *************** “Teaching as a Subversive Activity”: The Theory of Political Indoctrination *************** Stop Cyberbullying Your Masters! As further evidence that "cyberbullying" (with cyber-stalking close behind) has become the "disorderly conduct" of the online world—an all-purpose legal bludgeon with which to thump people in the kidneys when the authorities don't like what they're doing but can't find a real crime about which to complain—three San Francisco high school seniors were suspended for saying mean things about their teachers in Tumblr posts. *************** “Digital Future”- Just Another Phrase for Keeping Track of the Serfs *************** George Zimmerman to be charged in Trayvon Martin shooting, official says Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey plans to announce as early as Wednesday afternoon that she is charging neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, according to a law enforcement official close to the investigation. *************** Holder Promises Sharpton 'Thorough' Investigation on Trayvon *************** Student artist decides not to change controversial mural The student who has been the center of a controversy involving a mural at Pilgrim High School in Warwick says she is going to go forward and complete her mural as she originally planned. *************** Rick Santorum to drop out of the presidential race Rick Santorum will announce Tuesday that he is suspending his presidential campaign, all but bringing to a close the 2012 GOP presidential contest and effectively handing the nomination to Mitt Romney, according to an official close to the campaign. Economy
& Taxes *************** You Can’t Drink Yourself To Sobriety *************** Tax refunds being used to pay for bankruptcy filings Some Americans spend their tax refunds on high-tech gadgets and long-awaited vacations. Others use the cash to file for bankruptcy. *************** Diocletian's Lessons In Central Planning *************** What If Housing Is Done for a Generation? What if housing valuations are in a structural, multi-decade decline? A strong case can be made that the fundamental supports of the housing market-- demographics, employment, creditworthiness and income--will not recover for a generation. It can even be argued that housing has lost its status as the foundation of middle class wealth, not for a generation, but for the long term. *************** Primer for Obama On the differences between Social Darwinism and laissez-faire economics. *************** International *************** Sarkozy's comeback hopes crumble, polls show French President Nicolas Sarkozy defended his economic record on Friday as a slew of opinion polls suggested his prospects of re-election were crumbling just over a week from round one of a vote where Socialist Francois Hollande is the clear frontrunner. *************** Opinion *************** Download your “Buffett Rule” 1040 forms here *************** Crisis and Leviathan in Reverse? One of the truly great–and somewhat neglected–classic conservative books of the last generation is Robert Higgs’s 1987 book Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government. *************** Instead of the Buffett Rule, How About the Geithner Rule? President Obama has now admitted that the “Buffett Rule,” formerly the centerpiece of his re-election campaign, is a silly gimmick that will raise hardly any money for the treasury. (Actually, it might cost the federal government money, as increases in the capital gains rate have been known to do.) So how about if, instead, we start talking about the Geithner Rule, which is: everyone pays what he owes under existing laws? *************** ‘Godzilla’ government: the Prez finally gets it President Obama is finally figuring out how to use government — namely, to hurt people we don’t like. *************** The Population Control Holocaust There is a single ideological current running through a seemingly disparate collection of noxious modern political and scientific movements, ranging from militarism, imperialism, racism, xenophobia, and radical environmentalism, to socialism, Nazism, and totalitarian communism. This is the ideology of antihumanism: the belief that the human race is a horde of vermin whose unconstrained aspirations and appetites endanger the natural order, and that tyrannical measures are necessary to constrain humanity. *************** What Is It With Social Scientists and Conservatives? There seems to be flurry of efforts right now in the social science and pseudo-social science community (is that a distinction without a difference?—stay tuned till the end of this post) to provide evidence that conservatives are stupid, mentally ill, genetically disfavored, hopelessly irrational, and overweight. (Okay, I made the last one up, but I’m sure we’ll see a study any day now.) *************** How the U.S. Can Lead the Way to Extraterrestrial Land Deals *************** |
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