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Election 2012 *************** Romney begins vetting veep picks Mitt Romney’s campaign has begun vetting running mates, a process that will narrow his list of possible veep picks. *************** Counterfeit Kenyan True fiction turns out to be stranger than fake fiction. *************** Obama Made Mexican Maids Cry in College *************** 53,000 Dead Voters Found in Florida I have learned that Florida election officials are set to announce that the secretary of state has discovered and purged up to 53,000 dead voters from the voter rolls in Florida. *************** Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: 'Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii' *************** ‘Pow Wow’ factor: Elizabeth Warren touted native roots in ’84 cookbook Elizabeth Warren was touting her claim of Cherokee heritage as early as 1984, according to a cookbook titled “Pow Wow Chow” edited by her cousin that includes Warren’s recipes for a savory crab omelet and spicy barbecued beans. *************** Broadwater County Absentee Voters Recieve Invalid Ballots, Aspenlieder Calls for McCulloch to Audit All Ballots With Montana voters now receiving mail-in ballots, Media Trackers is receiving reports of significant mail ballot errors across the state. Unconfirmed reports placed possible statewide errors in the thousands, with a possible 600 erroneous ballots being reported in Broadwater County alone. *************** House Burglaries Baffle Staff, Police Puzzling break-ins over the last month at the offices of at least three House members and several committees have U.S. Capitol Police gumshoes working to find a pattern and the culprits, with missing items ranging from cash and expensive computer equipment to autographed baseballs and alcohol. *************** County GOP rebukes head of national party over Romney support Supporters of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul led a successful effort at a Clark County Republican Party meeting to rebuke the head of the national party and called on him to resign for helping presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney. *************** Clark County GOP Condemns RNC, Calls for Chairman Reince Preibus to Resign The Clark County Republican Party (CCRP), which now consists of a majority of Ron Paul supporters, last night voted to condemn the Republican National Committee. They are also calling for Chairman Reince Preibus to resign. *************** With Ron Paul’s infiltrators, clout of state GOP party further erodes Right about the time Ron Paul’s passionate supporters took over the Nevada Republican Party at a raucous state convention 10 days ago, the phone at the Las Vegas office of Americans for Prosperity began to ring. *************** "Womanhood" *************** Cherokee genealogist to Elizabeth Warren — Tell the truth A reader alerted me to Thoughts from Polly’s Granddaughter, a blog run by Twila Barnes, devoted to documenting Cherokee genealogy and countering fraudulent claims of Cherokee heritage *************** New book claims Michelle Obama prepared divorce papers to separate from Barack - leaving him so depressed friends feared he'd kill himself Michelle Obama prepared divorce papers to separate from Barack Obama in 2000 following his disastrous attempt to win a House seat in Chicago, according to a new book. *************** Fischer Wins Republican Senate Primary in Nebraska State Sen. Deb Fischer won the Nebraska GOP Senate primary Tuesday in a stunning come-from-behind victory that seemed inconceivable just a few weeks ago. With 79 percent of precincts reporting, the Associated Press called the race, with Fischer leading Attorney General Jon Bruning 40 percent to 36 percent. Treasurer Don Stenberg was third with 19 percent. *************** How Many Non-Citizens Will Vote In Florida? *************** North Carolina Non-Citizens Voting, Dead Offered Ballots, UNC Officials Embrace Voter Fraud *************** Ron Paul’s message to the GOP Ron Paul sent a message to the GOP establishment Monday that he’s not looking to cause mayhem at this summer’s Republican National Convention. *************** Newsweek’s Michelle Goldberg: Ann Romney is kind of like Hitler and Stalin; Update: Faux apology issued *************** Will VAWA sponsor Joe Biden campaign with wife-beater Charlie Wilson in OH-06? *************** Trolling for Dirt on the President's List First a Romney supporter was named on an Obama campaign website. That was followed by the slimy trolling into a citizen's private life. *************** Beach Boys Singer: 'Obama's a Socialist A-Hole' *************** Young Obama Bullied….A Girl *************** Rape of the Lock: Mitt Romney's Vicious High School Prank Against A Likely-Gay Classmate Led Inexorably To The Victim's Death By Natural Circumstances 46 Years Later That's how I read the Washington Post's article about Romney. The article attempts a Life of Two Men structure, documenting Romney's rise and his victim's fall. Most egregiously, it contrasts the very-much-later-in-life award of a Distinguished Alumni honor for Romney with this guy's death, both in 2005, as if these things are related. *************** Cracks in the Washington Post story on Romney’s ‘pranks’ emerge *************** Sister of Alleged Romney Target Has ‘No Knowledge’ of Any Bullying Incident The older sister of Mitt Romney’s former high school classmate said she has no knowledge of any bullying incident involving her brother and the GOP presidential candidate. *************** Washington Post Romney 'Bullying' Profile Contradicted By... Automobile Magazine *************** North Carolina voters approve gay marriage ban; liberals say: ‘go kill yourselves, you redneck fucktards’ *************** Marriage and the Presidency *************** Obama’s Sordid High School Past While the Washington Post has been diligently digging into relatively innocent high school pranks by Mitt Romney, they’ve spent the last few years diligently ignoring President Obama’s far more controversial high school days. *************** NC Teacher Screams at Student: It’s Criminal to Criticize Obama A YouTube video uploaded on Monday afternoon apparently shows a schoolteacher from the Rowan-Salisbury school district in North Carolina informing a student that failing to be respectful of President Obama is a criminal offense. Breitbart News has uncovered that the student is a high school junior, and that the teacher is apparently one Tanya Dixon-Neely. *************** Tea Party Patriots: A $12.2 Million Haul *************** Bill Ayers to students: join me and help drive NATO out of Chicago on May 20 *************** Three-Way Race: Romney 44%, Obama 39%, Ron Paul 13% Texas Congressman Ron Paul appears more interested in influencing the direction of the Republican Party than in running as an independent presidential candidate. But perhaps Democrats should be careful what they wish for: Even if Mitt Romney’s remaining GOP challenger should run as a third party candidate, new Rasmussen Reports surveying finds Romney the winner of a three-way race *************** Obama backs gay marriage, answering speculation on 'evolving' position *************** North Carolina Rejects Gay Marriage, 60-40 *************** Mourdock defeats Sen. Lugar in Indiana Republican primary Indiana state Treasurer Richard Mourdock defeated Sen. Dick Lugar in Tuesday’s Republican primary in Indiana, ending the career of the longest-serving Republican senator and putting the seat in play for Democrats in the fall. OccupyWallStreet *************** Police raid Occupy camp on UC Berkeley land after protesters fail to meet deadlines to leave University of California police raided a four-week Occupy encampment at a college-owned farm used for agriculture research early Monday, arresting nine people after protesters ignored yet another weekend deadline to leave. *************** Accused bridge bomb plot suspect caught on camera talking violence in 'Occupy' documentary Obamacare *************** America's Hidden 8% VAT: Sickcare The bloated, inefficient sickcare ("healthcare") system in the U.S. is in effect an unofficial tax on the entire economy. "Hide The Decline" *************** The Face of Genocidal Eco-Fascism *************** House GOP's Energy Dept. loan probe could ensnare two Cabinet secretaries House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wants to hear from two Cabinet officials — Commerce Secretary John Bryson and Energy Secretary Steven Chu — as part of an investigation into the Energy Department’s loan program. *************** Only global poverty can save the planet, insists WWF - and the ESA! Analysis Extremist green campaigning group WWF - endorsed by no less a body than the European Space Agency - has stated that economic growth should be abandoned, that citizens of the world's wealthy nations should prepare for poverty and that all the human race's energy should be produced as renewable electricity within 38 years from now. *************** NOAA : “When We Cheat Hard Enough, We Win” NOAA tells us every month ad nauseum, that temperatures have been above normal every month since 1985. Given that they now add more than half a degree on to all recent measured temperatures – this isn’t particularly surprising. *************** The Death of the Hockey Stick? The iconic symbol of the global warming panic may have taken a hit from which it will never recover. *************** GOP Kills International Climate,IPCC Funding For Second Year This leaves the crazy Warmists at Joe Romm’s Soros funded Climate Progress apoplectic, calling the GOP “shortsighted” *************** Germany Faces Energy Disaster Next Winter Last winter, on several occasions, Germany escaped only just large-scale power outages. Next winter the risk of large blackouts is even greater. The culprit for the looming crisis is the single most important instrument of German energy policy: the "Renewable Energy Law." *************** GAO: Recoverable Oil in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming 'About Equal to Entire World’s Proven Oil Reserves' The Green River Formation, a largely vacant area of mostly federal land that covers the territory where Colorado, Utah and Wyoming come together, contains about as much recoverable oil as all the rest the world’s proven reserves combined, an auditor from the Government Accountability Office told Congress on Thursday. *************** New EPA project: Cap-and-trade simulator *************** EPA rule could force fourth of plants to close *************** Canadian firm will receive up to 50 million stimulus dollars for Nevada solar plant that employs two people Energy generated will cost ratepayers almost three times as much as energy from natural gas War & Terror *************** BOMBSHELL: Al-Qaeda Infiltrator was Working for Brits not CIA, Cover Blown for Election Year Politics Just a week ago the establishment media was aflutter with news that a CIA double-agent had thwarted a new type of underwear bomb attack targeting U.S. flights in a plot devised by al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula. *************** House votes to replace Pentagon cuts mandated by debt deal The House voted Thursday to override steep cuts to the Pentagon’s budget mandated by last summer's debt deal and replace them with spending reductions to food stamps and other mandatory social programs. *************** Former Commander of U.S. Nuclear Forces Calls for Large Cut in Warheads Gen. James E. Cartwright, the retired vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a former commander of the United States’ nuclear forces, is adding his voice to those who are calling for a drastic reduction in the number of nuclear warheads below the levels set by agreements with Russia. National *************** Union Bullying in Las Vegas Culinary Workers Local is going after nonprofit groups doing business with non-union Station Casinos. *************** Senators to Unveil the ‘Ex-Patriot Act’ to Respond to Facebook’s Saverin’s Tax ‘Scheme’ Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again. *************** How California Unions Hijacked the Golden State President Obama raked in a hefty $15 million from Hollywood’s elite at George Clooney’s home last week. The $40,000 per plate star-studded crowd cheered the president’s just-in-time conversion to same-sex marriage; are they equally enthused about Mr. Obama’s economic prescriptions? *************** MSNBC's Chris Matthews to Black Pastor: 'I Hope You Evolve' Hardball anchor Chris Matthews, who routinely smears his political opponents as racist, on Monday lectured an African American minister who opposes gay marriage, "I hope you evolve." *************** District Court Strikes Down National Labor Relations Board's New 'Quickie' Election Rule *************** A Censored Race War The media ignore racially motivated black-on-white crime. *************** Injured vet’s guns stolen by D.C. After being injured on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, Lt. Augustine Kim spent the night in a D.C. jail for possessing unregistered guns. *************** Dream Act students sue to stop Senate filibuster Illegal immigrant students and members of the House sued the Senate this week to try to overturn the upper chamber’s filibuster rule, arguing that the 60-vote supermajority requirement violates the Constitution and is blocking important legislation such as legalization for illegal immigrants. *************** Fla. mom gets 20 years for firing warning shots A Florida woman who fired warning shots against her allegedly abusive husband has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. *************** Carroll Shelby, Race Driver And Designer Of The Shelby Cobra, Dies Carroll Shelby was a race car driver; he was a racing team owner, a chili entrepreneur. He survived a liver transplant and a heart transplant. But perhaps the thing that most people will remember him for is his automotive creations, especially the Shelby Cobra. *************** New Black Panthers Giggle Planning Newspaper Cover With Zimmerman In A Noose *************** Reid: Democratic platform will include pro-gay marriage plank The Democrats’ top leader in Congress said Thursday that the party’s platform will soon include a plank calling for the legalization of gay marriage. *************** Meet the Radical DOJ Lawyers Suing Sheriff Joe *************** Zimmerman Medical Evidence Two new stories on medical evidence in the Zimmerman case Zimmerman Medical Report Shows Broken Nose, Lacerations After Trayvon Martin Shooting Autopsy results show Trayvon Martin had injuries to his knuckles *************** Sen. Rand Paul: Didn't think Obama's view 'could get any gayer' *************** Rare-Earth Mining Rises Again in United States The fight over the minerals that run the electronic world entered a new phase in March when the United States, the European Union and Japan collectively filed a case against China, accusing the rare-earth powerhouse of violating world trade rules to manipulate mineral prices. *************** Google's self-driving car snags first-ever license in Nevada Gambling state lets Google spin its wheels *************** House to vote on Trayvon amendment House Democrats said Tuesday they will offer an amendment to push to overturn stand-your-ground self-defense laws in states like Florida. *************** No Birth Certificate Required The White House Visitors Office requires that an unborn child—still residing in utero—must be counted as a full human being when its parents register for a White House tour, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. *************** Justice Dept. Plans to Sue Ariz. Sheriff Arpaio Federal authorities said Wednesday that they plan to sue Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office over allegations of civil rights violations, including the racial profiling of Latinos. *************** House Republicans Play Hardball – Cut Justice Department Salaries Until They Answer Some Questions Economy
& Taxes *************** Spain into recession amid fears of eurozone bank run Spain tumbled into recession and European stock markets and the euro fell Thursday as Greece installed a crisis government to tackle its crippling debt, EU leaders prepared for talks and analysts raised the spectre of a run on eurozone banks. *************** Consumer Blinks as "Consumer Comfort" Collapses Most In 4 Years *************** Greek exit could cost eurozone 100s of billions of euros A Greek exit from the euro zone could expose the European Central Bank and the currency bloc it seeks to protect to hundreds of billions of euros in losses, landing Germany and its partners with a crippling bill. *************** Canary In The Gold Mine: In Historic Move, Japanese Pension Fund Switches To Gold For First Time Ever *************** As Bank Withdrawals Surge, Athens Relies More on ECB Greek depositors withdrew €700 million ($898 million) from the country's banks on Monday, fueling fears of a bank run amid the growing political disarray. *************** Acknowledging the Arrival of Peak Government Most informed people are familiar with the concept of Peak Oil, but fewer are aware that we’re also entering the era of Peak Government. The central misconception of Peak Oil -- that it’s not about “running out of oil,” it’s about running out of cheap, easy-to-access oil -- can also be applied to Peak Government: It’s not about government disappearing, it’s about government shrinking. *************** That Which is Unsustainable Will Go Away: Pensions Publicly funded pensions and Medicare are two examples of unsustainable systems that will go away in the decade ahead. *************** Can California Be Fixed? *************** Ten Thousand Commandments 2012 An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State *************** Germany Begins Quantifying The Cost Of A Greek Exit (And Discovers Contingent Liabilities Are All Too Real) *************** Why France Has So Many 49-Employee Companies Here’s a curious fact about the French economy: The country has 2.4 times as many companies with 49 employees as with 50. What difference does one employee make? Plenty, according to the French labor code. Once a company has at least 50 employees inside France, management must create three worker councils, introduce profit sharing, and submit restructuring plans to the councils if the company decides to fire workers for economic reasons. *************** When the U.S. really did try austerity, it worked! *************** When Cutting Government Spending and Taxes Produced Economic Growth and a Budget Surplus 9 Years in row *************** The Kobayashi Maru Test and the Job Market The conventional pathways in the job market aren’t working any longer; the alternative is to exit the no-win scenario. *************** Obama: "Sometimes I Forget" About The Recession *************** Dismal China, India data signal slowing growth Dismal data from China and India on Friday may signal a further weakening of the global recovery, undermining hopes the dynamic emerging economies of Asia can help prop up growth. *************** The Mortgage Crisis Hits France Front And Center: Are French Bank Nationalizations Imminent? *************** Why the Job Market Will Continue Shrinking The paradox of an advanced post-industrial economy is that the number of jobs needed declines even as the cost of living rises. *************** California: “the ninth circle of business hell.” *************** Spain nationalizes fourth-largest bank as crisis deepens Spain's government will effectively nationalize the nation's fourth largest bank to shore up the hurting banking sector and try to convince investors the country doesn't need a bailout like those taken by Greece, Ireland and Portugal, the Economy Ministry said Wednesday. *************** International *************** No 10 guide to changing nappies and baby talk New parents will be given government advice on changing nappies, breastfeeding and “baby talk” under a multi-million pound initiative to support family life. *************** Claiming Rochdale grooming not about race is 'fatuous' - Trevor Phillips Attempts to claim that race was not a factor in the Rochdale sexual grooming case are "fatuous", the head of the equalities watchdog has insisted. *************** UN Observers Appear to Drive Over Syrian Shooting Victims *************** Greece to hold fresh elections as unity talks fail Greeks to vote again in what many see as referendum on the euro and some blame Alexis Tsipras for causing *************** Majority Of Neo-Normal Greek Cops Vote Neo-Nazi In a somewhat stunning revelation, especially after our earlier note on the Golden Dawn leader's 'position' on the issues of the day, GreekReporter notes via the news paper To Vima, that more than half of all police officers in Greece voted for pro-Nazi party Golden Dawn in the elections of May 6th. *************** Libya's Rebels Without a Cause Like a cad on a one-night stand, NATO and its associates bombed Muammar Gaddafi's regime away, and with a wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am gave scarcely a thought to the aftermath and the prospect of an aborted state. *************** Around world, Obama's presidency a disappointment In Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Barack Obama speak, there's disappointment that he hasn't kept his promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, and perceptions that he's shunting blame for the financial crisis across the Atlantic. *************** New French president Francois Hollande, who claims to ‘dislike the rich’, has THREE homes on French Riviera *************** Is Hugo Chávez Preparing Venezuela for His Departure? “Get your personal affairs in order.” It’s the hardest thing doctors have to tell cancer patients who are as ill as media reports suggest Hugo Chávez is. With an election looming in less than five months, the 57-year-old Venezuelan President would also need to get his political affairs in order — and many believe the socialist leader took the first step last week when, before going to Cuba for more treatment, he named a “council of state” as a presidential consulting body *************** Mass Protests at Putin Inauguration *************** The Trouble In Timbuktu Life in Timbuktu is changing quickly. Five weeks ago, this ancient city in northern Mali fell to Taureg rebels who sought an independent homeland. They were helped by at least one al Qaeda-linked Islamist group. Today, the Islamists rule the city alone. *************** Italian university switches to English for success Italians do it better. At least that's what the T-shirts say. The problem is in what language? Politecnico di Milano, one of Italy's leading universities, thinks it should be English. The 149-year-old university, located in Italy's business capital Milan, is set to become the first Italian place of higher learning to teach all its graduate courses in English when it kicks off its academic year in 2014. *************** Red Tape Hobbles a Harvest of Life-Saving Rice This week saw the announcement of the latest conclusions of the Copenhagen Consensus, a project founded by Bjřrn Lomborg in which expert economists write detailed papers every four years and then gather to vote on the answer to a simple question: Imagine you had $75 billion to donate to worthwhile causes. What would you do, and where should we start? *************** Merkel's party routed in big German state Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives suffered a crushing defeat on Sunday in an election in Germany's most populous state, a result which could embolden the left opposition to step up its criticism of her European austerity policies. *************** Warnings of civil unrest in Venezuela Politicians across the spectrum in Venezuela are trading dire predictions of impending violence in the vacuum left by uncertainty about the health of President Hugo Chávez. *************** Rochdale grooming trial: Police accused of failing to investigate paedophile gang for fear of appearing racist Police and social workers were last night accused of failing to investigate an Asian paedophile gang for fear of being perceived as racist, allowing them to prey on up to 50 young white girls. *************** Farage: We face the prospect of mass civil unrest, even revolution *************** Chilean Study Proves that Outlawing Abortion Does Not Lead to “Coat-hanger Deaths” *************** South Korea cracks down on human flesh capsules from China South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease, officials said Monday. *************** Opinion *************** Diversity Training Inneffective? Our friend Suzanne Lucas, the Evil HR Lady, has kicked up quite a storm with her recent piece citing research that questions the effectiveness of diversity training. Maybe it’s the provocative title: Why you should stop attending diversity training. *************** Jonah Goldberg on Unicorn Poop *************** Why Conservatives Must Join the Battle for America On Twitter In 2004, The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth scared the hell out of the corrupt media. The MSM was sure incumbent President George W. Bush would finally get the humiliation he deserved after the close election in 2000 because, in a time of war, Democrats had nominated Senator John F. Kerry, a "war hero." *************** The New Phrenology How liberal psychopundits understand the conservative brain. *************** Should You Need the Government's Permission to Work? *************** Shades of Privilege *************** Weimar? Because We Reich You *************** The Most Persuasive Case for Eliminating Black Studies? Just Read the Dissertations. *************** |
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