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Election 2012 *************** Manchin on the Fence About Obama Vote *************** Top tweets about Obama eating dog meat; Plus: best #obamadogrecipes and Romney/Obama camps spar *************** The official fears US and Britain shared about over President Obama's 'anti-American' and 'anti-white' father *************** To be (a lawyer) or not to be... OccupyWallStreet *************** Residents of State Street Condo Told To Leave Chicago During NATO Summit Chicago - Residents of a Chicago condo whose building will be in the eye of the NATO storm are being warned that they should move out for the weekend ... or risk being trapped inside by rioters. *************** Left-Wing Teachers Plan to ‘Occupy’ Justice Department to Defend Cop-Killer *************** NYC Occupy Smashes Starbucks, Shouts 'All Pigs Must Die' *************** Occupy Protester Arrested For Allegedly Assaulting NYPD Officer With Metal Pipe According to police, the two men who were arrested in front of the Sixth Street Community Center last night allegedly assaulted an NYPD sergeant with a metal pipe in front of the Starbucks on Astor Place. "Hide The Decline" *************** Beavis and Butthead vs. Emotional Dead Tree Hippies *************** Climate Alarmist Calls For Burning Down Skeptics’ Homes “Let’s start keeping track of them…let’s make them pay” *************** The tab for U.N.’s Rio summit: Trillions per year in taxes, transfers and price hikes The upcoming United Nations environmental conference on sustainable development will consider a breathtaking array of carbon taxes, transfers of trillions of dollars from wealthy countries to poor ones, and new spending programs to guarantee that populations around the world are protected from the effects of the very programs the world organization wants to implement, according to stunning U.N. documents *************** Shut Up, Greenpeace Explained From some FAQ on Greenpeace USA’s website Don’t the deniers have a right to free speech? There’s a difference between free speech and a campaign to deny the climate science with the goal of undermining international action on climate change. However, there’s also responsibility that goes with freedom of speech – which is based around honesty and transparency. Freedom of speech does not apply to misinformation and propaganda. *************** Himalayan glaciers actually GAINING ice, space scans show An inconvenient truth A new study of survey data gleaned from space has shown a vast region of Himalayan glaciers is actually gaining ice steadily, mystifying climate scientists who had thought the planet's "third pole" to be melting. War & Terror *************** Afghan Taliban says rehearsed attack for two months The insurgents who mounted weekend attacks in central Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan carefully rehearsed for months, even building small military-style models and pre-positioning weapons, a Taliban spokesman said on Monday. National *************** Marion Barry Doubles Down on "Dirty Asians" *************** Union: Right-to-Work Law Like Slavery An Indiana union has filed a lawsuit against Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels claiming that Indiana’s right-to-work law is akin to slavery, in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. *************** Hatch falls just short at Utah GOP convention, will face primary Sen. Orrin Hatch fell just short of an outright victory at the Utah Republican convention, meaning he will face a primary to secure the GOP nomination for his own Senate seat. *************** Executive Order 13547: “The Sleeping Power Grab” *************** Banking on Success Technical colleges in Texas are poised to up the ante on performance-based state funding, linking 45 percent of their operating budget to the employment rates and salaries of alumni. *************** The NRC's internal problems resurface in revenge I would have to imagine that all of my regular readers will recall the situation that burst into open view at the end of last year regarding the internal situation at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. If you don't, I'll just sum up by saying that a serious struggle within the actual Commission itself got to the point where the four Commissioners who are not the Chairman decided to contact the Congress in order to attempt to resolve the problems they were experiencing with the treatment given them by Chairman Jaczko. *************** Debtor’s Prison for Failure to Pay for Your Own Trial Debtor’s prisons are supposed to be illegal in the United States but today poor people who fail to pay even small criminal justice fees are routinely being imprisoned. *************** Cannabis wine catching on in California A number of California winemakers are secretly producing wines laced with cannabis, with Cabernet Sauvignon the grape variety of choice for the blend. *************** Teacher Upset She Can't Retire at 47 MEA member says reform bill calling for teachers to contribute minimally to retirement is unfair *************** The Department of Labor’s Derrick Bell E. Christi Cunningham belies the president’s post-racial narrative. *************** Another Internet Piracy Bill Introduced And it's already facing significant criticism. *************** Police Handcuff 6-Year-Old Girl for Misbehaving at School *************** The Unchecked Charging Power of the Prosecutor When Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey charged George Zimmerman with second-degree murder this week in the February shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, the charge won praise from Martin's supporters and more skeptical reactions from some legal commentators. *************** Dog Braves Traffic To Stay With Fatally Struck Companion *************** Michigan government unleashes armed raids on small pig farmers, forces farmer to shoot all his own pigs Economy
& Taxes *************** The Risk Of 'Hot' Inflation Ideological deflationists and inflationists alike find themselves both facing the same problem. The former still carry the torch for a vicious deflationary juggernaut sure to overpower the actions of the mightiest central banks on the planet. The latter keep expecting not merely a strong inflation but a breakout of hyperinflation. Neither has occurred, and the question is, why not? *************** Italy Jumps On Nationalization Bandwagon: Tax Police "Seizes" 20% Of Second Largest Domestic Insurer *************** Half-Billion in Hollywood Corporate Welfare Passes In Sacramento *************** Italian Bad Loans Surge To Highest Since 2000, Foreign Deposits Plunge *************** The Pain in Spain is too Big to be Contained *************** International *************** Things That Make You Go Hmmm - Such As A Power Struggle (To The Death) Within China's Power Elite *************** The Sudan Declares Jihad War On South Sudan After ethnically cleansing its over 500,000 Christians, the rogue Arab Islamist regime of the Sudan has declared war on the Christian and black South Sudan, which broke away last year after peace talks under UN auspices supposedly ended the civil war, in which an estimated 2 million, mostly civilians in the south and in Darfur were killed. *************** U.S. struggles to head off wider Sudan conflict The United States is working to push Sudan and South Sudan back from the brink of war as the two sides ratchet up hostilities that threaten to upend the U.S.-backed peace deal that led to South Sudan's independence last year. *************** WWII referred to as the European Civil War: The EU cannot be serious? The great polemicist Richard Littlejohn has a phrase that sits alongside Victor Meldrew's "I don't believe it!" as being increasingly apt. *************** "Anto-Racist" Swedish Minister of Culture celebrating with ”nig*er cake” *************** Afghan schoolgirls poisoned in anti-education attack About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned on Tuesday after drinking contaminated water at a high school in the country's north, officials said, blaming it on conservative radicals opposed to female education. *************** The Nationalizations Begin: Argentina Takes Over Oil And Gas Producer YPF *************** Egypt’s Presidential Election to be Postponed? *************** Another Day, Another British Free-Speech Outrage *************** Europe demands hairdressers gossip The Eurocrats are made with power and now they are taking on hairdressers — telling them what to wear (no high heels or jewelry) and what to say (gossip, gossip, gossip). Now those may be good things to do — I don’t recall hair cutters in heels and half the fun of going to a salon is to hear the chit-chat. But who the hell is the government to tell you all this? And the ban on wedding bands and watches as unhygienic is madness. Hands are unhygienic. Scissors are unhygienic. We live in an unhygienic world. Deal with it. *************** Opinion *************** "If I wanted America to fail" *************** Joel Kotkin: The Great California Exodus A leading U.S. demographer and 'Truman Democrat' talks about what is driving the middle class out of the Golden State. *************** Why Marxism? *************** Crony Capitalism and the Expansive Central State Crony Capitalism flourishes in an economy dominated and controlled by a Central State. *************** Are you a racist? A frank conversation *************** Why the Middle Class Is Doomed The dwindling middle class, squeezed by higher taxes and costs, is losing its political voice. The middle class is doomed by some very basic dynamics. Economic historian David Hackett Fischer laid out the fundamental dynamic in his book The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History. *************** Corzine Steals Billions Sans Charges, Errant Whale Watcher Faces Prison Justice may be blind, but who works overtime to make it deaf, dumb, and stupid? *************** |
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