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Election 2012 *************** The President Has a List Barack Obama attempts to intimidate contributors to Mitt Romney's campaign. *************** Twitter becomes a key real-time tool for campaigns The bully pulpit has a new kind of altar call: “Tweet them. We’ve got a hashtag. Here’s the hashtag for you to tweet them: #dontdoublemyrate.” *************** Harvey Weinstein's October Surprise: Tea Party-Bashing 'Butter' Coming This Fall *************** What happens when a news anchor holds Obama accountable for his performance? Well, maybe this explains why it doesn’t happen very often. On Sunday evening, CNN’s Don Lemon told viewers that “people like Sarah Palin have a point” when they say that Barack Obama needs to stop blaming everyone else for the shortcomings in his own performance, including the economy. OccupyWallStreet *************** *************** Obamacare *************** Dad rescues ‘brain dead’ son from doctors wishing to harvest his organs – boy recovers completely According to the Daily Mail newspaper, a young British man owes his life to an insistent father who would not allow his son’s organs to be removed from his body, despite assurances from four doctors that his son could not recover from the wounds he had suffered in a recent car accident. "Hide The Decline" *************** Who Is EPA Crucifixion Chief Al Armendariz? ****************************** Federal govt: hey, green jobs didn’t work out, but maybe green education will Yesterday, Obama’s Education Secretary Arne Duncan, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley gathered at a D.C. elementary school to announce the 78 winners of the Department of Education’s first-ever – I know, try to contain your excitement here – “Green Ribbon” Schools contest. Let the state-sponsored brainwashing commence! *************** The Next Big Green Thing With the slow fade of the climate change issue toward political oblivion, the green authoritarians need a new bandwagon to jump on and flog. And so this headline in Scientific American online is manna from heaven: “World Governments Establish Biodiversity Panel.” It’s clearly from the “if-at-first-you-don’t-succeed-at-the-UN-try-try-again” school War & Terror *************** Gun-ho! U.S. ignores warnings from China to stage war games exercise with Philippine forces in disputed waters Thousands of American and Philippine troops waded ashore today in a mock assault to retake a small island in energy-rich waters disputed with China, a drill Beijing had said would raise the risk of armed conflict. National *************** Obama White House Fundraises For Anti-Christian Bully Savage President Obama’s administration has focused heavily on ending childhood bullying. So why would the Obama administration get behind an anti-bullying organization headed by one of America’s most vulgar, extreme bullies? *************** Sharpton Sows Seeds of Next L.A. Riot At the intersection of Rodney King and Trayvon Martin. *************** Anti-Bullying Speaker Curses Christian Teens As many as 100 high school students walked out of a national journalism conference after an anti-bullying speaker began cursing, attacked the Bible and reportedly called those who refused to listen to his rant “pansy asses.” *************** Mother's fury after Facebook bans her because photos of Down's syndrome son are 'inappropriate' Facebook has apologised after the social networking giant ordered a mother to take down pictures of her son, who has Down Syndrome. *************** Chicago School Teaches Students How To Protest *************** The Potential Impact of the People’s Rights Amendment Goes Far Beyond Restricting Freedom of Speech *************** Portland Pounces On Groupon Oregon city stopping citizens from saving money in tough times. *************** Obama Selects Woman Who Wanted to Invade Israel As Chair of Genocide Panel Only Barack Obama! Today the President tried to show he was a friend of the Jews with a beautifully crafted speech Holocaust Museum. *************** A Thought Experiment on You-Know-Who So Obama, no doubt partly to shore up his weakness with Jewish voters, made a perfunctory appearance at the Holocaust Museum yesterday, where from the video and transcript it seemed that he more or less phoned it in. *************** Trumka’s Big Bucks Union boss makes eight times as much as the average American *************** Where Are the Rolling Heads from NOAA? Scandals are shaking the Obama administration. Personnel with the highest of security clearances are being intimate, in the most basic definition of the word, with foreign nationals. Pillow talk, anyone? Other high-ranking officials cavort with clowns and psychics, all paid for on the government dime. Hot tub, anyone? *************** EEOC declares "Title VII should and does protect transgender people when they're discriminated against because they've changed their sex or intend to change their sex or because they're gender nonconforming." *************** Man tries to relinquish US citizenship. Application Denied. I was approached recently by a member of our Sovereign Man community who filed the paperwork to relinquish US citizenship some time ago. Long story short, after an incomprehensibly long wait, the US government finally sent him a reply: Application DENIED. *************** Then and now: L.A. Riots 20 years later *************** Supreme Court casts doubt on Obama’s immigration law claim Supreme Court justices took a dim view of the Obama administration’s claim that it can stop Arizona from enforcing immigration laws, telling government lawyers during oral argument Wednesday that the state appears to want to push federal officials, not conflict with them. *************** Kagan's Handwritten Notes to Bell on Critical Race Theory *************** Indoctrination 101: 'Gender Bender Day' leads to 'Social Justice Week' *************** Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept. rule banning farm chores *************** 'You b******, just go ahead and scream': Two women teachers caught on tape abusing 10year-old autistic boy after his father fitted him with secret recorder One of the two teachers have been fired - the other remains at the school *************** Twitter Buzzes With Talk of Zimmerman Riots *************** Twitter lynch mob: George Zimmerman is out on bail? Let’s kill him! Economy
& Taxes *************** Why in America there is no representation without "Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich" taxation *************** How Retirement Benefits May Sink the States Illinois is a lesson in why companies are starting to pay more attention to the long-term fiscal prospects of governments. *************** Leaving Ponzi In The Dust *************** US Economy Grows at Tepid 2.2% Pace; Misses Estimates *************** Kay Hymowitz: Why Women Make Less Than Men In studies from the U.S. to Sweden, pay discrimination can't explain the disparity. Women earn less because they work fewer hours *************** More grief for Greece as recession seen deeper Greek GDP to slump 5 pct in 2012 Current account gap to shrink to 7.5 pct of GDP Inflation seen at 1.2 pct in 2012 Strict adherence to reforms urged *************** Spain and Italy borrowing rates soar in latest auctions Borrowing costs for both Spain and Italy rose today in their latest auction of government bonds. *************** UK Slides Back Into Recession in First Double Dip Since 1970s Britain's economy slid into its second recession since the financial crisis after official data unexpectedly showed a fall in output in the first three months of 2012, piling pressure on Prime Minister David Cameron's embattled coalition government. *************** 1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work. *************** International *************** Egypt: ‘Jihad to Cleanse the Country’ of Free Speech *************** Europe's Other "Union" Is Ending *************** Notes From A Visit To Revolutionary Venezuela *************** China dissident Chen Guangcheng 'under US protection' Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng is under "US protection" in Beijing following a dramatic escape from house arrest, a US-based rights group says. *************** 27 injured in 4 blasts in eastern Ukraine city of Dnipropetrovsk; opposition cries foul A series of blasts rocked an eastern Ukrainian city on Friday, injuring 27 people, including 9 teenagers, in what authorities believed was a terrorist attack. *************** Swiss woman dies after attempting to live on sunlight; Woman gave up food and water on spiritual journey Documentary film 'In the Beginning, There Was Light' gave her the idea *************** Russia and Mexico Both Buy Nearly $1 Billion Worth of Gold in March *************** In China, relatives of Party officials build lucrative businesses on family contacts *************** Egypt’s women urge MPs not to pass early marriage, sex-after-death laws *************** Russia Will Not Reopen: "The Situation Has Been Recognized As An Emergency" *************** Opinion *************** The Rebirth of Barter *************** The Best Way to Be a Socialist *************** As California Collapses, Obama Follows Its Lead California’s slow-motion tragedy could end up as a national one *************** An Inquiry Concerning "Social Justice" and Its Influence The signature of modern leftist rhetoric is the deployment of terminology that simply cannot fail to command assent. As Orwell himself recognized, even slavery could be sold if labeled "freedom." In this vein, who could ever conscientiously oppose the pursuit of "social justice" -- i.e., a just society? *************** Decline or Decadence? America is suffering from a lack of mastery over its own riches. *************** Thirteen Years Later There have been many grand experiments in social engineering during the past several centuries. We have witnessed the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the American Civil War, Communism and finally 1999 and the founding of the European Union. *************** When Will We Stop Punishing Children for Being Children? I really, really hate being the one to defend stupid teenagers who get expelled from school. The ones who are kicked out for cursing online or for other forms of bullying. *************** Ich Bin Ein Athener The Greek Statistical Office released new data yesterday and the results were anything but positive. The official debt to GDP ratio now stands at 165.3%, a fourteen percent increase from last year’s numbers. *************** Has America Been Crippled By Intellectual Idiots? *************** The Second Coming of American Liberal Fascism? During the Bush years, Bush was often compared to Hitler or Mussolini,. The focus of the attacks had to do with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and angst over the supposed erosion of civil liberties due to warrantless wiretaps, among other things. There was a lot of hyperbole. Bush was a monkey, a Nazi, a Fascist, the devil’s spawn. The hyperbole became so hysterical some conservatives jokingly took to calling President Bush “Chimpy McBushHitler Halliburton.” Many on the right go too far in attacking the motives of President Obama in the same way the left attacked Bush. It is neither rational nor sane. *************** |
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