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  • In Florida Debate, Gingrich Ignores Lessons of Recent History

    FiveThirtyEight
    By NATE SILVER
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:36 pm
    Newt Gingrich's passive debate strategy Thursday night in Florida, which was much like Mitt Romney's tack in South Carolina, may hurt his standing with voters.

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    Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm

  • Brewer defends heated tarmac exchange with Obama

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    Chris Jones
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    Source: CBS Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer defended herself after a contentious exchange with President Obama Wednesday about her book “Scorpions for Breakfast.” Brewer was photographed pointing her finger towards the president.

  • Biden Prediction: Dems Will Retake House

    Michelle Malkin
    Doug Powers
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:31 pm
    **Written by Doug Powers Sheriff Joe Biden may only half-heartedly believe what he’s saying here. It’s just that word around Capitol Hill is that if you help convince Nancy that her reunion with the Speaker’s gavel is imminent, there’s a good chance she’ll throw a pretty good stock tip your way, so what the heck. From The Hill: House Democrats will win the House in November, swinging the gavel back into the hands of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Vice President Joe Biden predicted Friday. “Nancy, I think, is not going to be remembered just for being the…

  • Another Check on the Campaign's Truthiness

    FiveThirtyEight
    By MICAH COHEN
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:47 pm
    An updated look at PolitiFact's report cards of the Republican presidential candidates.
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    Michelle Malkin

  • Biden Prediction: Dems Will Retake House

    Doug Powers
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:31 pm
    **Written by Doug Powers Sheriff Joe Biden may only half-heartedly believe what he’s saying here. It’s just that word around Capitol Hill is that if you help convince Nancy that her reunion with the Speaker’s gavel is imminent, there’s a good chance she’ll throw a pretty good stock tip your way, so what the heck. From The Hill: House Democrats will win the House in November, swinging the gavel back into the hands of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Vice President Joe Biden predicted Friday. “Nancy, I think, is not going to be remembered just for being the…

  • The SIGA scandal: Calls for investigation mount

    Michelle Malkin
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:13 pm
    Back in November, I spotlighted Obama’s half-billion-dollar crony drug deal involving a no-bid contract with politically-connected SIGA. Refresher course here. In November, Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill — chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Contracting and Oversight and up for re-election in less than a year — asked HHS to review the contract. Last week, the NYPost reported that SIGA execs dumped stock when they learned the contract would be far less than they anticipated last spring. Today, GOP Rep. Renee Ellmers of North Carolina asked the HHS Inspector General to…

  • Mr. and Mrs. Cranky Pants

    Michelle Malkin
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:35 am
    Mr. and Mrs. Cranky Pants by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 So, it turns out that the cool cat billed as “No Drama Obama” by his sycophants is actually quite the drama queen. While the White House publicly pretends to ignore conservative detractors of his administration, Chief Touchy-Touchy seems to be personally consumed by our critiques. Yes, mine included. On Wednesday, the president had himself a mini-”Toddlers and Tiaras”-style meltdown with Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer after landing in Phoenix for a post-State of the Union dog-and-pony show. As…

  • Fly Them To the Moon. Please.

    Michelle Malkin
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:32 pm
    Photoshop source: SaveJersey.com You can peruse my Twitter page for highlights and lowlights of the CNN GOP debate in Florida, but this basically sums it up: Wolf Blitzer went all Oprah/TMZ with his fishing into the candidates’ wives’ lives. Newt doubled down on open-borders stupid and gave an indignant defense of illegal alien grandmothers that the SEIU and La Raza would love. To which Romney aptly replied: “The problem isn’t 11 million illegal alien grandmothers.” Rick Santorum and Ron Paul sparred over Latin American dictators and freedom-fighters. Paul…

  • Stimulus-Backed ‘Green’ Bankruptcy of the Week: Ener1

    Doug Powers
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:06 pm
    **Written by Doug Powers When the story of the Department of Energy’s green loan program is written someday, the entire book will be contained in chapter 11: After months of financial turmoil, an Energy Department-backed lithium ion battery company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company, Ener1, received a $118 million grant from DOE in 2010 as part of the president’s stimulus package. The money, which went to Ener1 subsidiary EnerDel, aimed to promote renewable energy storage battery technology for electrical grid use. But despite generous federal support for the…
 
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  • The Newt you know

    Jazz Shaw
    28 Jan 2012 | 7:35 am
    Naughty or nice? There are a couple of different looks this weekend at Newt Gingrich, who is turning out to be a mystery wrapped in a riddle as far as his popularity – or lack thereof – goes. One contradiction is the fact that Newt seems to be solidifying, or at least hanging on to, a lead in [...] Read this post »

  • Quotes of the day

    Allahpundit
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:43 pm
    Martial. “The president began with a moving tribute to the armed forces and their accomplishments. But as he has done many times now, he celebrated martial virtues not to rally support for the military, but to cover himself in glory — he killed Osama bin Laden! — and to convince the American people that they should [...] Read this post »

  • Good news: Obama’s dumb “Buffett Rule” budget gimmick would reduce the deficit by around … four percent

    Allahpundit
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:57 pm
    Give or take. What’s the saddest part of this? That The One is so desperate to demagogue Romney and the GOP as the party of the rich that he’d make a chump-change gambit like this the centerpiece of his budget agenda? Or that liberals are pretending to be impressed? Good lord, I hope they’re pretending. The liberal outfit [...] Read this post »

  • Multimillionaire Elizabeth Warren: I’m not wealthy

    Allahpundit
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:10 pm
    The one percent. Actually, I don’t think that’s what she’s saying here but that headline is simply too sweet to resist. (That was HuffPo’s original headline too before they changed it.) The quote from BuzzFeed: “I realize there are some wealthy individuals – I’m not one of them, but some wealthy individuals who have a lot of stock [...] Read this post »

  • Palin: These cannibals in the GOP establishment are employing leftist tactics

    Allahpundit
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:25 pm
    "It was Alinsky tactics at their worst." This should have been Gingrich’s message at the debate last night. Like I said in the preview thread, I thought it would be. He got a second look in South Carolina by venting resentment at Elites on the left (in the persons of Juan Williams and John King), so why not try for a third [...] Read this post »
 
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    27 Jan 2012 | 6:23 pm
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    25 Jan 2012 | 8:41 pm
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  • Engage Show 52: Jacob Soboroff

    25 Jan 2012 | 9:26 am
    This week, we had such a great guest on the podcast, we couldn’t wait to get it up. So here’s an early version of this week’s podcast. Remember to subscribe on iTunes so you’ll never miss an episode. Our special guest this week is Jacob Soboroff, who is a correspondent for AMC News and is the Executive Director of Why Tuesday? Keep up with Jacob on Twitter. Engage Show 52: Jacob Soboroff // Listen Now

  • This reads like a press release. http://instagr.am/p/kgmUZ/

    25 Jan 2012 | 8:42 am
    This reads like a press release. http://instagr.am/p/kgmUZ/

  • Revenge of the Nerds: How Online Activism is Changing the Way DC’s Biggest Policy Battles are Fought and Won

    23 Jan 2012 | 12:47 pm
    POLITICO is out with a piece this morning that has Washington buzzing. The piece titled “K Street’s boom goes bust” focuses primarily on declining revenues at some of Washington’s most prestigious lobbying firms. But the storyline that caught our attention was the fact that the way public policy fights are being won and lost in D.C. are fundamentally changing. As POLITICO puts it: Fights are no longer just about which side has the most — or best — lobbyists. The new world of Washington influence is more diverse: Traditional access lobbying is waged alongside…
 
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  • Saturday Morning Open Thread

    28 Jan 2012 | 8:09 am
    Truman linked this campaign to stop the Navy from naming a ship after miserable cretin John Murtha in the sidebar. If you're looking for something to do today, this would be a good use of a few minutes of your...

  • Overnight Open Thread

    27 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pm
    PUT TEXT YOU WISH TO USE AS VISIBLE LINKING-LANGUAGE HERE

  • Shipdriving, It's Hard or Something

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:51 pm
    After the Costa Concordia accident I joked (badly, I know), "did Joseph Hazelwood get another job with a cruise line?" I'm still wondering now. State officials were scrambling Friday to determine when — or if — they would repair an...

  • Jay Cost: Obama Is a Rolodex Socialist

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:55 pm
    Those are my words. Cost says Obama isn't a socialist, according to the usual meaning. He doesn't believe in revolution. What he believes in are clients, bagmen, payoffs, and ward-heeling. It’s not just that Obama is a big government guy...

  • No Bounce in Polls For Obama's Address

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:33 pm
    People don't like reruns. People also tend to change the channel on a show when they realize it's a rerun. Especially if they didn't like it the first time....
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    The Gateway Pundit

  • Whoa!… Must See – Tennessee College Republicans Release “The Debt Generation” (Video)

    Jim Hoft
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:41 pm
    THE BEST 1 Minute 19 Seconds YOU WILL SPEND TODAY- This video was made by Tennessee College Students. You won’t regret it. “The Debt Generation” Hat Tip Maria

  • Over 1,000 Veterans Expected to March in St. Louis Parade For Iraq War Vets Saturday

    Jim Hoft
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:26 pm
    Tonight at the St. Louis Soldier’s Memorial volunteers read the names of US heroes who made ultimate sacrifice in Iraq. Despite the cold and rain a couple of hundred people turned out for the service that started at 9:11 PM CST. Saturday: Welcome Home the Heroes Parade Starts at NOON January 28th, 2012 For parade route please click here Veterans Resource Village will be open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. inside Union Station Live entertainment at Veterans Resource Village from 3 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Organizer Craig Schneider says this is for the whole country. Over 1,000 veterans and their…

  • Good Grief… Obama: People Don’t Get Rich Without Government Investment (Video)

    Jim Hoft
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:41 pm
    Yup. He’s a socialist alright… A hardcore committed socialist. Barack Obama, the worst jobs president since the Great Depression, told an audience today that people don’t get rich without government investment. And, you wonder why his economic policies are a complete disaster? Via Breitbart TV: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com From the video: “We’re successful because somebody started the University of Michigan. We’re successful because somebody made an investment in all the federal research labs that created the internet…. We’re…

  • Breaking: SARAH PALIN UNLOADS ON ROMNEY and “Cannibals of GOP Establishment”

    Jim Hoft
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:53 pm
    Sarah Palin unloaded tonight on Mitt Romney Campaign and the “cannibals of the GOP establishment.” From her Facebook page: We have witnessed something very disturbing this week. The Republican establishment which fought Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and which continues to fight the grassroots Tea Party movement today has adopted the tactics of the left in using the media and the politics of personal destruction to attack an opponent. We will look back on this week and realize that something changed. I have given numerous interviews wherein I espoused the benefits of thorough vetting…

  • Santorum Takes Break From Campaign Trail and Returns to Pennsylvania

    Jim Hoft
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:08 pm
    Rick Santorum is taking a break from the campaign trail this weekend and will return to Pennsylvania for the weekend. The AP reported: Rick Santorum is tired, almost broke — and going home. The former Pennsylvania senator is taking a pause from Florida campaigning just days before the Tuesday primary that even he expects to deal him a third consecutive loss. Santorum says he would rather spend his Saturday sitting at his kitchen table doing his taxes than campaigning in a state where the race for the Republican presidential nomination has become a two-man fight between Newt Gingrich and…
 
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    RedState

  • Tech at Night: Google causes a privacy stir, Twitter causes a censorship stir, Grassley continues to fight

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    28 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    So, Google is integrating its websites more. As a result, some privacy settings will apply network-wide, and one site will be able to use data from another site. People are flipping out, naturally. People have been giving Google this data for ages. People have known that Google was watching them, and yet they chose to keep using Google and in fact use one account for many Google services. Note that the new policy changes nothing about what Google already knew about you. It just changes what certain Google sites will use about you. As Marsha Blackburn and other members of Congress begin to…

  • Daily Links – January 27, 2012

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    27 Jan 2012 | 12:45 pm
    Today is January 27th. On this date in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, thereby laying the ground work for Falco to top the charts 230 years later. (Which I’m sure was his reasoning in being born.) Today is also the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet forces. I would also like to note that this week was National School Choice Week. I attended a school choice event here in Charlotte last night and will have a post up later today on that. As always, consider this an Open Thread. Elliott Abrams Caught Misleading on Newt | American Spectator…

  • Nothing’s Shocking

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    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    It is a sad commentary on the state of our world that stories like this one (warning, .pdf) (via the Population Research Institute) barely shock us anymore. The gist of the story is as follows: a Massachusetts woman, identified in court pleadings only as Mary Moe, is pregnant with her third child. She aborted her first child. Sometime between this abortion and the birth of her second child, she suffered a “psychotic break” and was diagnosed with shizophrenia and bipolar mood disorder, for which she takes medication. Reading inbetween the lines, it is reasonable to assume that the…

  • $16.4 Trillion in Debt By End of Year

    ()
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:02 am
    So this is what the “age of budget austerity” looks like? Yesterday, the Senate voted against a measure to disapprove of Obama’s request for an additional $1.2 trillion of debt.  Every Democrat (except for Ben Nelson and Joe Manchin) voted against the resolution.  Consequently, pursuant to the Budget Control Act (the “debt ceiling deal”), Obama will automatically get his new credit card.  Our debt will increase by another $1.2 trillion, topping $16.4 trillion by the end of the year. Here are the relevant numbers that should define Obama’s presidency, yet…

  • Is There No Longer a Shared “American Way of Life”?

    ()
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:10 am
    Download audio here Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the Fed’s interest rate announcement, the divided cultural experiences of America’s upper and lower class, and whether or not “the American way of life” still exists. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d like to email us, you can do so at coffee[at]newledger.com. We hope you enjoy the show. Related Links: U.S.
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  • Surprise! Democrats Take Secret Cash After Bashing GOP For Same

    William Teach
    28 Jan 2012 | 7:21 am
    The Politico’s Kenneth P. Vogel and Alexander Burns are surely going to earn an expletive laden call from the White House for publishing this story (Politico) Democrats have seized on Republicans as the party of unlimited secret money. The only problem: so are Democrats. In recent days, Obama released an ad blasting “secretive oil billionaires” for attacks on him, Nancy Pelosi unveiled a campaign slogan calling for “a new politics free of special interest influence,” and the Democratic National Committee released a web ad accusing Mitt Romney of lying about his ties to ...

  • “Listen To 10 Seconds Of Every Hit Song Of The ’70s”

    Craig Newmark
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:39 am
    If you lived through the 70s, this is pretty cool.

  • Most popular dog names

    Craig Newmark
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:07 am
    The Twihards are everywhere: Bella is #2 for females.

  • GOP Makes Obama Look Good

    Roger Simon
    28 Jan 2012 | 12:32 am
    The Republican field debated for the 19th time Thursday night, and once again, the media promised us it was going to be a “make or break” event. Don’t believe the media. The media say the debates have been the most critical factor in the nominating race so far because the media have been forced to watch them all. And take notes. And write stories. And we want someone to share our pain: Someone like you. Having done my duty and paid attention to all of the debates, and since we do not have another ...

  • On The Economy, Obama Doesn’t Know His “Stuff”

    Alexa Shrugged
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:09 pm
    Cross-posted from AlexaShrugged.com: The man with the plan!  Real Clear Politics has this clip of Obama demonstrating his economic genius: Obama: I Want An Economy “Where We’re Making Stuff And Selling Stuff And Moving It Around” “On Tuesday at the State of the Union, I laid out my vision for how we move forward,” President Obama said at a campaign event in Las Vegas, Nevada. “I laid out a blueprint for an economy that’s built to last, that has a firm foundation. Where we’re making stuff and selling stuff and moving it around ...
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  • Obama fanatic threatens to kill AZ sheriff Arpaio

    Bonfire of the Absurdities
    28 Jan 2012 | 12:27 am
    A “fanatical supporter” of President Obama is the prime suspect in an investigation into an Internet death threat against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Obama did urge his supporters to get in people’s faces and talked of bringing guns to knife fights, but this incident was undoubtedly provoked by Tea Partiers opposing Obamacare and Sarah Palin saying “target.”

  • Germany wants Greece to give up budget control

    Bonfire of the Absurdities
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:53 pm
    Germany wants Greece to give up budget control. Yeah, that’ll work. Germany wants Greece to yield control of its budget “for a certain period of time” in return for a second 130 billion-euro bail-out package. Greece needs to strike a deal with creditors in the next few days or risk chaotic default. The can has just about run out of road to be kicked down.

  • No need to panic about global warming

    Bonfire of the Absurdities
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:21 pm
    “A large and growing number of distinguished scientists and engineers do not agree that drastic actions on global warming are needed.” Heretics have laid siege to Father Al’s Church of the Perpetual Climate Change Disaster. Sixteen scientists signed this letter to the WSJ. God bless ‘em all, every one.

  • Uniter president achieves historic divisiveness

    Bonfire of the Absurdities
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:49 pm
    Divider, not uniter: Obama’s 3rd year is the most polarized presidential 3rd year by a wide margin. Must be all that reach-across-the-aisle sweet talk of his. Stay tuned – a president’s 4th year is generally his worst in this regard.

  • Five-Year Treasury yield hits record low

    Bonfire of the Absurdities
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:26 pm
    Five-Year Treasury yield hits record low. The MSM will be spinning today’s 2.8% 4Q GDP into a “things are gettin’ better, REELECT OBAMA!” baloney sandwich like they were overpriced windmills. The bond market says something different. Investors pouring into 5 yr bonds at a .76% yield says we’re turning Japanese, they think we’re turning Japanese, they really think so.
 
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    ChurchCrunch

  • Saturday Sunday Share #32

    Eric Dye
    28 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am
    The new year has begun and we’ve already made it to the last Saturday Sunday Share in January! In risk of sounding cliche, time flies! The last few weeks of shares have been dynamite, take a look at last week’s: Joanna - wrote a great post about what she learned on her missions trip! Frank Gantz - would love some feedback on his blog post! Jonny Solari - setup his first non-personal blog — WOOT! Jon Cook - put together some great videos! Jason Bradley - dropped some rockin’ Standard Theme on a new project! James Cooper - also, worked some some websites using…

  • The Problem with Patents [Infographic]

    Eric Dye
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm
    In today’s tech battles, one of the prime weapons used between competing companies is patents. Patents were originally created to promote technology, whereas now, it used for high priced lawsuits and “tech-industry shakedowns” that can kill an upstart before it can even gain any footing. Here’s a sharp look at the problem with today’s patent system: [Click for Larger View] Thoughts? [via FrugalDad] You just finished reading "The Problem with Patents [Infographic]" on ChurchMag! Feel free to comment on it! We use the Standard Theme for our blog platform!

  • Stay Consistent from Beginning to End

    Eric Dye
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:00 pm
    Inspiring words creatively penned. Take a closer look: A great piece by the PupilPeople. I like it! You just finished reading "Stay Consistent from Beginning to End" on ChurchMag! Feel free to comment on it! We use the Standard Theme for our blog platform!

  • #SOTU On Twitter [Infographic]

    Jeremy Smith
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:00 pm
    The State of the Union address was given Tuesday night by President Obama. Twitter did a very clever marketing and research tactic. They issued five specific hashtags to track during the speech to see the reaction of tweets. The five hashtags were: #Education #Energy #Fairness #Jobs #Manufacturing Of these five, #Education was the most tweeted and #Manufacturing was the least. Here is an infographic about the tweets in regards to the President’s speech. [Click for Larger] Did you tweet during the speech? If so, what did you think? [via Mashable | Image via jmtimages] You just finished…

  • How to REALLY Stop Online Piracy & Make a Crap Load of Money Doing It

    Eric Dye
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:00 pm
    If you’ve never heard of Steam, it’s a PC/Mac gaming portal (like an iTunes App Store) that gives its users instant access to over 1,100 games that can be purchased, downloaded and played from any computer. There is also a community you can engage in, chat with friends while gaming, get automatic game updates and best of all, enjoy Steam-only special offers that included low prices and free-play weekends. With a soon to be released mobile app, users will be able to purchase new game releases and special offers straight from their iPhone or Android, something that previously…
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  • Senate To Force Vote On Buffett Rule? But, Wouldn’t That Be Unconstitutional?

    Doug Mataconis
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:39 pm
    Greg Sargent reports that some Senate Democrats are considering trying to force their Republican colleagues to take a vote on President Obama’s so-called “Buffett Rule,” which he described in his State Of The Union Address as a guarantee that no person earning more than a million dollars a year would pay taxes at a rate less than 30 percent: Picture this scenario. The Senate holds a high-profile vote on a proposal focused directly on implementing the Buffett Rule, one that would bring the current tax rate for millionaires paying lower rates on investments up to 30 percent.

  • National Park Service Tells OccupyDC It’s Time To Go

    Doug Mataconis
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:34 pm
    After months of complaints from city residents, business owners, and Members of Congress, the National Park Service is finally going to enforce the rules against overnight camping in McPherson Park: After four months in McPherson Park, the National Park Service says the camp-out is over. On Friday, the Park Service began distributing flyers to demonstrators in Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square advising them to pack up their sleeping bags and remove their camping gear from the park by Monday at noon or face arrest. The flyer reads: “This communication serves as notice that, on or about…

  • Former Aides Say Ron Paul Signed Off On Racist Newsletters

    Doug Mataconis
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:24 pm
    The basic defense that we’ve gotten from Ron Paul to the charges that the newsletters that were published under his name while he was out of Congress in the 1990s is that he was not directly involved in the publication and was unaware of what was being published under his name. Of course, there’s also been some evidence that he was more aware of the content of those newsletters than he now seems willing to admit, but there’s been no direct testimony from others regarding Paul’s involvement in the project. Until now that is. Today, The Washington Post is out with a…

  • GDP Growth 2.8% In 4th Quarter: Not Great, Not Good, Barely Okay

    Doug Mataconis
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:14 am
    The Commerce Department released its first estimate of economic growth in the final quarter of 2011 and, while the economic continued to expand, the pace at which it did so wasn’t very impressive: The American economy picked up a little steam last quarter, with output growing at an annualized rate of 2.8 percent, the Commerce Department reported Friday. The pace of growth was faster than in the third quarter, when gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of 1.8 percent. Even so, both  figures were below the average speed of economic expansion in the United States since…

  • Jurassic Newt

    Doug Mataconis
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:28 am
    If you thought that Newt Gingrich’s idea for a Moon Base that eventually becomes an American state was a bit wacky, back in the 90s the former Speaker was talking about resurrecting the dinosaurs: The former House speaker has long been known for his boyish enthusiasm for subjects like dinosaurs, zoos and outer space. And in his 1996 book “To Renew America” he even devoted a short chapter to proposals that are, in some cases, directly inspired by popular science fiction. “Why not aspire to build a real Jurassic Park?” Gingrich asked on page 190 of the book, adding…
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    Wizbang

  • “…there is reason to believe that strict right-wing ideology might appeal to those who have trouble grasping the complexity of the world”

    Michael Laprarie
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:23 pm
    Ugh.  Here we go again – “Low IQ and Conservative Beliefs Linked To Prejudice.”  I kid you not: Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, [researcher Gordon Hodson] wrote in an email to LiveScience. [...]

  • Call Gingrich a Waah-mbulance

    David Robertson
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:49 pm
    Is Newt Gingrich using Barack Obama’s playbook? That seems to be the case, because Gingrich is blaming someone else for his failure to win the GOP debate of 26 January 2012. NationalJournal.com is running a story titled Gingrich Campaign: Debate Audience Stacked For Romney . Here is the story’s beginning: Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich rode [...]

  • Government Spending Erodes Weak GDP

    Steve Schippert
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:07 pm
    A funny thing happened on the way to Utopia today. There I was, just galloping along, humming my happy tune and dreaming of unicorns and rainbows with my fellow travelers. Suddenly, there descended an abrupt assault on paradisaical bliss, halting and horrifying. It’s fins screaming that distinct aero-whine that flash-freezes the spine in the realization that there’s not [...]

  • Wisconsin School Punishes Christian Kid for Being a… Christian Kid

    Warner Todd Huston
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:49 am
    Superintendent Todd Carlson of Shawano High School in Shawano, Wisconsin is sorry a student observed his First Amendment rights and had his article published in the school newspaper that denounces homosexuals adopting children. And so Superintendent Carlson is making amends by punishing this Christian kid for being so darn Christian. Superintendent Carlson has also decided [...]

  • The Case for Un-Electing Obama in One Chart

    Rodney Graves
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:34 am
    Obama has said that if he didn't have things turned around in three years, he'd be a one term President. Let's help him keep that promise.
 
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    Right Rainbow

  • Confessions Of A Gay Anchorman

    admin
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:16 pm
    Confessions Of A Gay Anchorman Charles Perez has been in the television business for nearly 20 years. Those years have taken him from the most entry level job to a spot front and center at the anchor desk. According to Perez, “Like anyone who’s risen up through their industry, when you go from the bottom up it gives you a very thorough perspective on the industry you work in.” For him, as a gay man, he says the ride from bottom to top also became a journey in compromise as he moved further up the ladder of public exposure and professional success. Eventually, that compromise…

  • Oram Plus as opposed to Oramd

    admin
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:06 pm
    If the theme of gum ailment arrives up, so does a dental professional. Nevertheless, not all of us has the luxurious of investing countless numbers on well-being treatment. Fortunately, two alternate options have arrive up, they can be: Oram Plus and OraMD. They handle gum condition and terrible breath by nutritional vitamins and extracts. Each merchandise are available in a oil in a very bottle format. End users simply just ought to dab their product or service on their tooth brush and scrub day by day, at the least two times on a daily basis. What can make this exceptionally greater then…

  • Prop 209 Marijuana in AZ

    admin
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:05 pm
    The proposition of 203 in AZ could be the new Arizona Health care Marijuana Act. Arizona is subsequent appropriate behind California using the initiative of extreme and persistent discomfort, extra towards the checklist of cancer, glaucoma, HIV, and AIDS, for qualifying the persistent discomfort for use of professional medical marijuana. The opponents of this proposition think the use of healthcare marijuana won’t be utilized by or to deal with the sick, but as a substitute might be taken through through the youthful individuals that use marijuana as being a recreational drug. They…

  • San Diego Company Makes Health Breakthrough

    admin
    26 Jan 2012 | 7:09 am
    San Diego Company Makes Health Breakthrough Vitamints La Jolla, CA (PRWEB) January 26, 2012 VimVida Corporation, a La Jolla, CA based company, has come up with a unique and novel way to make vitamins in the form of sugar-free low calorie breath mints. Their initial product, Vitamints®, are a tasty, nutritious and portable way of staying healthy. Based on extensive research and development, the company invented a way to incorporate new technology into a familiar delivery form – the mint. …

  • Google Launches Chrome Web Store

    admin
    25 Jan 2012 | 11:04 pm
    Google Launches Chrome Internet Shop With all the achievements with the Chrome net browser, Google has introduced the Chrome Website Keep, an internet market place presenting programs, browser extensions and Chrome Themes . Builders can develop and supply Chrome add-ons both no cost of cost or to get a one particular time cost. Every single merchandise has its personal web page that features display screen shots or demo movies, ratings from other end users who may have set up it, as well as a description with the product or service. Chrome Themes are skins with the Google Chrome internet…
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  • Atheist Wants to Build Temples

    diablo
    28 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    The author Alain de Botton has announced a plan to build a series of temples for atheists in the United Kingdom. In his new book Religion for Atheists, he argues that atheists should copy major religions by erecting a network of new architectural masterpieces in the form of temples. "You can build a temple to anything that's positive and good," he said.

  • Study: Racists are Dumb

    monstman
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:32 pm
    People who exhibit racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study published in the Journal of Psychological Science. Children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson of Brock University. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, which stress hierarchy and resistance to change, the study found, and those attitudes can contribute to prejudice. "This finding is consistent with recent research demonstrating that intergroup contact is mentally challenging and…

  • Egypt Bars 6 Americans from Leaving

    ExpsRedemption
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:33 pm
    Six Americans working for pro-democracy U.S.-funded organizations in Egypt have been barred from leaving the country -- including the son of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. "I call on the Egyptian government and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to cease the harassment and unwarranted investigations of American NGOs operating in Egypt," said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who chairs one of the groups.

  • Retort: Inside a Debate Spin Room

    rcade
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:38 pm
    Rogers Cadenhead: I was granted media credentials by CNN to report on the GOP presidential debate last night in Jacksonville for the Drudge Retort, the first time I've had the opportunity to cover a debate. My debate experience included asking Tim Pawlenty a question, chasing off Fred Thompson and spending quality time with Bay Buchanan. Who is way hotter than her brother Pat.

  • Unknown Object Found in Baltic Sea

    boaz
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:33 pm
    A team of salvage divers has discovered a large unexplained object resting at the bottom of the Baltic Sea near Sweden. "My first reaction was to tell the guys that we have a UFO here on the bottom," said diver Peter Lindberg. Sonar readings show that the object is about 60 meters across -- the size of a jumbo jet.
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  • Why Newt Supporters Think He's Electable

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Just when hardcore conservatives had seemed prepared to settle for Mitt Romney to avoid further exposure of intraparty divisions, Newt Gingrich’s unlikely recovery  has brought those divisions sharply and publicly into view. As Politico reported yesterday, conservative elites ranging from Tom Delay to Bob Dole have gone to the media en masseto warn voters of the perils of Newt. The Republican Party has rarely seemed more divided, and at the heart of those divisions is a disconnect between Republican elites and the voting base over the crucial issue of electability. Ironically, it…

  • Would Newt Out-Debate Obama? It Wouldn't Matter Anyway

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:19 pm
    Back in October, I went up to Cambridge, Massachusetts to watch the eighth Republican primary debate of the season with Mark McKinnon, the Republican media strategist who had served as debate coach for George W. Bush, John McCain, and Sarah Palin. I was interested in McKinnon’s professional assessment of a Republican field whose succession of frontrunners, from Tim Pawlenty to Herman Cain, had nearly all been made or unmade by debate performances. At the time, Rick Perry was hurtling toward the abyss, Cain was bafflingly ascendant, and Mitt Romney was performing as advertised. But…

  • The Inheritance

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:24 pm
    It’s not quite right to say that the hundreds of millions of dollars Mitt Romney amassed as a private equity baron were the cause of his South Carolina drubbing. But they didn’t exactly help, either. Newt Gingrich trounced the former Massachusetts governor among just about every demographic group that might nurse a grudge against a slick quarter-billionaire. Romney only carried the most affluent and highly educated South Carolinians. And, yet, there was Romney on primary night practically wallowing in his capitalistic exploits, as though his chief failing had been to…

  • Saul Alinsky Wasn’t Who Newt Gingrich Thinks He Was

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:52 am
    On the night of his triumph in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich boldly announced: “The centerpiece of this campaign, I believe, is American exceptionalism versus the radicalism of Saul Alinsky.” Barack Obama did once work in a Chicago project inspired by Alinsky, the legendary community organizer who died in 1972. But, in its essence, this was classic demagoguery: connect a name that, at least to a crowd of Southern Republicans, sounds rather alien—and certainly not Christian—with a president whom many conservatives already suspect of being an un-American, anti-religious…

  • Happy Birthday to Egypt’s Doomed Revolution

    24 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Exactly one year ago today, I stood in front of the Lawyers Syndicate in downtown Cairo and watched as a few thousand protesters suddenly streamed into the area from the north, overwhelmed Egypt’s notoriously violent riot police, and pushed onward towards Tahrir Square. That mile-long march, which culminated with the protesters bursting through a human chain of officers and seizing the Square, was the most inspiring thing that I’ve ever witnessed, and it remains so. Long presumed to be politically passive, ordinary Egyptians bravely amassed with one simple demand: That decades of…
 
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  • The Myth of GOP Stinginess

    Andrew C. McCarthy
    28 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am
    Mitch McConnell wanted you to know he was livid on Thursday. The Senate was about to Greece the wheels for adding yet another trillion and change to President Obama’s yet-again tapped-out credit card. “More spending, more debt,” brayed the minority leader. “That’s what we’ve gotten from this administration.” Well, no, Senator, that’s what we’ve gotten from you. Yes, I know, Obama is the one driving us off the cliff. But as McConnell and his fellow Republicans are well aware, he couldn’t have filled his tank without them — and…

  • The State of Our Union Is Broke

    Mark Steyn
    28 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am
    Had I been asked to deliver the State of the Union address, it would not have delayed your dinner plans: “The State of our Union is broke, heading for bankrupt, and total collapse shortly thereafter. Thank you and goodnight! You’ve been a terrific crowd!”Keep reading this post . . .

  • Obama’s Low-Ball Vision

    Larry Kudlow
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:00 pm
    You would think that with one of the weakest economic recoveries on record, President Obama would be desperately searching for ways to promote economic growth. It is, after all, an election year. Most pundit and pollsters agree that it’s the economy stupid. But instead, Obama used his State of the Union speech to rail on about fairness, inequality, and redistribution. The Obama strategy is simple: Tax the rich because they don’t pay enough.Keep reading this post . . .

  • Mitt and Newt in Florida

    Neal B. Freeman
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am
    Jacksonville, Fla. – If you want to know who’s going to win the Florida primary, give me a call Saturday afternoon. I’ll be glad to tell you then. I could tell you now, of course, but then I’d just be blowing smoke along with the rest of the media. This race will break late and break hard — later and harder, possibly, than even the South Carolina primary did. What I can tell you today is what this election is going to be about. The 2012 Florida primary will be an old-fashioned family feud pitting conservatives against Republicans. It’s a feud with…

  • The Vision of a Pro-Life Generation

    Interview
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am
    Kristan Hawkins is the dynamic, under-30 mom of two at the helm of Students for Life of America (SFLA), which gathered over 2,000 high-school and college students last weekend for their annual meeting in the Washington, D.C., area, coinciding with the 39th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in America. Hawkins talks about the students, the children, and envisioning a world without abortion in an interview with National Review Online’s Kathryn Jean Lopez. KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: So how does one “Envision a World without…
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  • U.N. Considers Syria Intervention

    editor@truthdig.com
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:30 pm
    As the crisis in Syria reached new levels of urgency Friday, the United Nations Security Council met to work up a resolution pressuring Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down. The U.N. group faced a formidable challenge, however, from a prominent and permanent member, according to the BBC. BBC: Activists and the Arab League urged the UN to take stronger action after a surge in violence this week in which dozens of people have died. The UK, France and Germany drafted a resolution with Arab states, supporting the League’s call for President Bashar al-Assad to hand power to a…

  • ‘Left, Right & Center’: Campaigning vs. Governing

    editor@truthdig.com
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:46 pm
    Up for consideration on this week’s “Left, Right & Center” are such considerable topics as President Obama’s State of the Union address and the state of play in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. On board for the discussion are regulars Matt Miller and Robert Scheer, as well as guest panelists David Frum and Chrystia Freeland. You know you want to listen. Related Entries January 27, 2012 Winning Our Future, Gambling With Democracy January 27, 2012 The Numbers Show

  • Winning Our Future, Gambling With Democracy

    editor@truthdig.com
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:50 pm
    By Bill Boyarsky With financial and political interests ranging from Las Vegas to Israel to China, Sheldon Adelson, who is bankrolling the super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich, is a powerful illustration of the dangers of unlimited campaign contributions. Related Entries January 27, 2012 Winning Our Future, Gambling With Democracy January 27, 2012 The Numbers Show

  • Truthdigger of the Week: Stephen Colbert

    editor@truthdig.com
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:16 pm
    Yes, he’s a funny guy, and granted, he’s a celebrity and thus already commands an absurd amount of attention and bandwidth, but we’re quite serious about our pick of Stephen Colbert as this week’s Truthdigger. Related Entries January 27, 2012 Winning Our Future, Gambling With Democracy January 27, 2012 The Numbers Show

  • Newt Gingrich, Shameless Demagogue

    editor@truthdig.com
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:49 pm
    As Newt Gingrich chugs along on his improbable political comeback track, many have tried to slow his roll, but here comes The New York Times’ Timothy Egan with a scathing Op-Ed, calling the relentless GOP contender a demagogue par excellence while allowing that Gingrich has practiced his uniquely unctuous brand of politics to greasy perfection. Can Newt come back from this? Probably.  —KA Timothy Egan in The New York Times: Gingrich, as he showed in a gasping effort in Thursday night’s debate in Florida, is a demagogue distilled, like a French sauce, to the purest essence…
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  • Maybe This Explains It?

    Steven Hayward
    28 Jan 2012 | 7:04 am
    (Steven Hayward) Some time back in the 1990s, with middle age on the horizon and retirement planning suddenly on my mind, I began like most people to study the stock market, screening for mutual funds for IRAs, etc.  Somewhere along the way I stumbled across the Steadman Funds, hands down the worst mutual funds in the history of the universe.  The record of the Steadman Funds was so bad that it had to be a joke, or some screwy scheme deliberately to lose money to create tax loses for people in very strange circumstances.  Even the proverbial monkey throwing darts at the stock page would…

  • How Do You Relax After A Hard Week Of Work?

    John Hinderaker
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:42 pm
    (John Hinderaker) Well, scotch is an option, sure. But lately I’ve taken to shooting. The local Gander Mountain has an excellent firing range, and there are other good ranges nearby, too. Tonight I went shooting with my pal Mitch Berg; my wife and oldest daughter swung by and fired off some rounds, too. Here you see my daughter and me; she is shooting and I am supervising: Oddly, the guy in the back looks like he is balding a bit. Must be the lighting. We put 250 rounds through my trusty Sig Sauer Mosquito. The guys to our left and right were firing heavier caliber weapons. I’ve…

  • Whom Do You Trust?

    John Hinderaker
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:18 pm
    (John Hinderaker) Not too many months ago, likely voters trusted Republicans over Democrats on all ten top issues. It was probably too much to expect those heady days to continue, and I suspect that the GOP presidential primary season has damaged the party’s standing. That is unfortunate: if the Republican candidates had devoted their energies to non-stop attacks on President Obama, the result would have been positive. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen, and the bashing of fellow Republicans that we have seen over the last couple of months has no doubt damaged the party’s…

  • Newt Vs. Reagan, The Sequel

    Steven Hayward
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:40 am
    (Steven Hayward) Both Elliott Abrams, at National Review Online, and, as John Hinderaker noted yesterday, Pete Wehner (quoting from my book) have brought up Newt Gingrich’s pungent criticisms of Reagan back in the 1980s, supposedly giving the lie to Newt’s claim to have been solidly aligned with Reagan in those glory days of conservative nostalgia.  It is perfectly fair of Elliott and Pete to call Newt on his revisionist history, but what kind of historian would Newt be if he wasn’t a revisionist historian?  More seriously, Newt deserves a partial defense about all of this, or at…

  • The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress

    Scott Johnson
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:40 am
    (Scott Johnson) I watched the GOP presidential candidates’ debate in Jacksonville. The debate was broadcast on CNN — CNN has posted the full transcript of the debate — and moderated by Wolf Blitzer, who proved to be a formidable antagonist for Newt. When Newt came at Blitzer on a question that put Newt on the defensive, Blitzer held his ground and shot back. It may have been the defining moment of the debate. I thought Newt lost last night from the git-go, but finished himself on that exchange. Jonathan Tobin summarized it this way in his live blog of the debate: Gingrich…
 
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  • A Book About Flinching and Fear

    Karen De Coster
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:58 am
    I recently came across a one-of-a-kind book that skillfully challenges the standard conventions. It is called The Flinch, and it is written by Julian Smith. It is free on Amazon and you can download it here. If you don't have an eReader, you can register, for free, to have an Amazon cloud. You can download the eBook and read it online. It is around 100 pages - a very quick read. In short, the book is about transformative impact and making yourself physically and psychologically more resistant. People stop doing anything difficult because they fear pain and physical stress, and especially,…

  • NDAA Begins Its Evil Reign

    Becky Akers
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:05 pm
    To my knowledge, here's the first citing of the odious NDAA: The government lists it as a reason to continue imprisoning a guy whom they have never charged, indicted, or tried at Gitmo. But this certainly won’t be the last time the Feds rely on their shiny new all-purpose tyranny.

  • Even the UN Is Slamming Obummer!

    Becky Akers
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:41 pm
    You know you’ve sunk lower than a rat’s belly when the UN, that bastion of utter corruption, gross incompetence, and wicked windbags, damns you. But that is precisely what it’s so-called “High Commissioner for Human Rights” did to Obummer — twice. First for Gitmo: “It is 10 years since the US Government opened the prison at Guantanamo, and now three years since 22 January 2009, when the President ordered its closure within 12 months,” Her Highness scolded. “Yet the facility continues to exist and individuals remain arbitrarily detained — indefinitely — in clear breach of…

  • The Jesus of the Warvangelicals

    Laurence Vance
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:28 pm

  • We Can Only Hope That Gingrich Takes McCain With Him

    Laurence Vance
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:17 pm
    So, Newt Gingrich wants the US to have a permanent base on the moon. Makes sense since, after all, the US already occupies most of the planet. John McCain, who is campaigning for Mitt Romney, wants Gingrich to go to the moon. We can only hope that Gingrich takes McCain with him, and perhaps Romney and Santorum too. Hey, why not send all the Republicans who want to start more wars on the earth. Send them to the moon where they can't hurt anybody.
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  • hot chocolate

    Stephanie
    26 Jan 2012 | 4:17 pm
    A mug of hot cocoa is my guilty pleasure.I drink a mugfull when I wake up each morning, and another mugfull right before I go to sleep.I’ve become a bit of a hot chocolate connoisseur over the years.  I love Stephens, but with the consumption levels in our home (we drink it year-round) I’ve found the price of Stephens to be a bit too steep for my budget.  A fantastic alternative is the hot chocolate sold at the LDS Cannery in Milwaukee.  I no longer buy it by the can, but simply by the 25 pound bag.  **funny side note**  Wes likes to drink hot chocolate out of a…

  • Silly me, I tried to read a book

    Stephanie
    25 Jan 2012 | 8:28 pm
    As you know, Alice is no shrinking violet.  The spotlight is her happy place.  She will preform anytime, anywhere and for anyone.Particularly, she loves to perform for me.Yesterday I foolishly thought I would sit down and read a book after dinner.  I pointedly told Miss A. that I was sitting down to read and would love to have a bit of peace and quiet while doing so.She struggled.First, her shark was chewing on her chin.Once she removed the shark from her face, he quickly became her microphone.Then she felt the need to give him CPR and rescue breathing.Then she pretended he was…

  • Laundry and deliciousness

    Stephanie
    23 Jan 2012 | 8:02 pm
    I’ve been air drying 90% of my laundered items for years.I just have a thing about air drying.This afternoon I mistakenly dried a work out shirt in the tumble dryer and I cursed myself for a moment.  I guess I hadn’t seen it before it went in to the hot spinning oven.I feel that air drying my clothing helps it last longer, saves on electricity (dryers are not ever energy efficient) and helps with clothing shrinkage problems.Last year I invested in a larger, more sturdy drying rack that often takes up residence in our bedroom.  I even have a line on my back patio that I string…

  • There's nothing good on t.v. right now

    Stephanie
    19 Jan 2012 | 2:01 pm
    Yes, we have Netflix and I do often watch it, especially when they add new episodes of Hoarders or Toddlers and Tiaras.  But, sometimes I want to watch network t.v. just because it is so traditional, almost retro, you know, to flip on the tube and see what shows are on.  And, lately, there is nothing!  I have no pull, no anticipation of watching anything.  It is a barren wasteland of yuck out there.I've even stopped watching The Biggest Looser.  It doesn't inspire me.  Watching obese people workout does not pump me up for some reason.  Usually, I get a…

  • Blurred reality

    Stephanie
    17 Jan 2012 | 3:11 pm
    I've been working out consistently at our local YMCA for more than four years now.  And, as expected, I see a lot of the same people working out along side me almost every single day.  Most of them I don't know.  Some I do.  And some I sort of know, like in the hi/bye, or head nod way.And this is the thing.  Most of these people at the gym only see me and my sweaty self without makeup and my hair pulled back into a pony tail and have never seen me anyway else.  So, I can run into them at Target or the library and they don't even know who I am, or maybe have a…
 
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  • Live by the debate, die by the debate

    Betsy Newmark
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:43 am
    If the main argument for Newt Gingrich to win the GOP nomination so that he could paste Obama in the Fall debates, last night's debate in Florida blew a big hole in that argument. Newt was whiny, poorly informed about his own finances, angry, and overall just off his game. Mitt Romney scored several body blows when he was able to retaliate against Gingrich when Newt charged him with investing in Fannie and Freddie and Romney was able to take advantage of his oppo research and tell Gingrich that he had also invested the same way. Better than that, Romney was able to make a forceful defense of…

  • Cruising the Web

    Betsy Newmark
    26 Jan 2012 | 6:27 am
    Thomas Sowell laments the "presumptuous ignorance" of those in government who think they know how to run a business.John Taylor explains how important it is for us to have a stable long-term economic policy that would let business people know what to expect and to make plans within rules that follow principles of economic freedom.Yuval Levin points out how the self-contradictions within Obama's State of the Union reveal how Obama doesn't really believe the moderate, even conservative platitudes, he uttered. Once again, he is putting on a mask to hide what he really believes. Instead of…

  • Gingrich blasting Ronald Reagan

    Betsy Newmark
    25 Jan 2012 | 2:27 pm
    Newt Gingrich likes to tote his Reagan street cred by talking about how he and Reagan and Jack Kemp instituted lower tax rates and helped build the economy in the 1980s. I guess this couldn't have been done with the support of a back-bencher in the House.Eliot Abrams, who worked in the Reagan administration as an assistant secretary of state, has an eye-opening column about Gingrich's rhetoric at the time when speaking about Reagan's foreign policy. Gingrich didn't think that Reagan had been doing enough to fight communism and the Soviet Union and took to the floor of the Senate to blast the…

  • Facts and the President

    Betsy Newmark
    25 Jan 2012 | 2:24 pm
    President Obama is not getting much fact-checker love from such right-wingers as the Washington Post or the Associated Press. In fact this AP headline can't make the White House happy.FACT CHECK: Obama pushes plans that flopped beforeBut hey, what do facts matter when there's an election to win and demagoguing to be done?

  • It's all very discouraging

    Betsy Newmark
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:31 am
    Conservatives may delight in pointing out that President Obama's speech last year was full of small-bore policy proposals and ignored the signature achievement of his presidency - health care reform. They can point out that his pleas for increasing taxes on the rich wouldn't do much at all to address our looming debt problems and that the only solution will be to deeply increase taxes on those middle class Americans Obama pretends to want to do so much to protect. Conservatives can point out how he painted a rosy picture of the state of the economy today and took undeserved credit for any…
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  • Mike Huckabee: Newt Gingrich ad ‘not authorized’

    Rachel Weiner
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:11 pm
    Mike Huckabee doesn’t want to be in ads, the DCCC outraised the NRCC, Gingrich is still up in national Gallup polling and Rick Santorum’s biggest backer has an open checkbook. Make sure to sign up to get “Afternoon Fix” in your e-mail inbox every day by 5 (ish) p.m! Read full article >>

  • It’s Mitt Romney’s race to lose ... again

    Aaron Blake
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:42 pm
    A lot can happen in four days, but as of today, the Florida primary and the GOP presidential race are again Mitt Romney’s to lose. After a brief diversion in the South Carolina primary, Romney is once again the clear favorite in Florida, having taken a 9-point lead in the latest Florida poll. And if he wins there, it’s hard to see where he might slip up again. Read full article >>

  • Newt Gingrich plans brutal Mitt Romney attack

    Rachel Weiner
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:51 am
    UPDATE: This ad is now up, at least in web version: Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee said in a statement that “any use of an out of context quote from the Republican Presidential primary 4 years ago in a political ad to advocate for the election or defeat of another candidate not authorized, approved, or known in advance by me.” He does not plan to endorse a candidate. Read full article >>

  • Florida primary playlist: A Fix List!

    Rachel Weiner
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:12 am
    If you ever read this blog, you know that we love lists. And primaries, and music. We’re trying to bring that all together by making playlists for every primary state. But we need your help. Suggest your Florida-related songs using the hashtag #fixplaylist, and we’ll come up with a playlist to listen to while we wait for the returns on Tuesday night. Read full article >>

  • Newt Gingrich still badly outspent in Florida ads

    Rachel Weiner
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:57 am
    Despite new infusions of cash, former House speaker Newt Gingrich is still being crushed in Florida television ad spending by former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. With the primary coming up on Jan. 31, Gingrich and his supporters are being outspent 5-to-1 by Romney and his supporters as total spending in the state approached $20 million. Read full article >>
 
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  • Florida Republicans Hit the Polls Early

    Garrett Quinn
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:34 pm
    Jacksonville, Fla.—Why does Florida, the fourth largest state in the union, have only 50 delegates up for grabs in Tuesday's Republican primary? Quite simply, the state crossed the powers that be. Florida violated the rules passed by the Republican National Committee that require Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada to be the first four states to vote in the nominating contest and was therefore stripped of half of its delegates. If Florida had followed the rules the state would be sending 100 delegates to the Republican convention in Tampa this August.  The official GOP critiera…

  • Tim Cavanaugh Talks Golden State Stagnation on Good Day L.A.

    Reason Magazine
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:12 pm
    Reason.com managing editor Tim Cavanaugh appeared this morning on FOX 11 Los Angeles. Topic: California Gov. Jerry Brown's is pushing for steep tax hikes even though the state's economy has shown no signs of recovery and its unemployment rate is still the second-highest in the nation.  More than two-thirds of Californians support tax increases, according to a Public Policy Institute of California pollster who uses the phrase "Therein lies" so it's clear he knows what he's talking about.  The Tax Foundation reports that California's tax climate is the nation's third-worst for business. …

  • Newt Gingrich's Florida Poll Numbers Sagging, Five More Eurozone Countries Downgraded, Facebook to Go Public, Iran Threatens its Own Oil Embargo: P.M. Links

    Lucy Steigerwald
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:45 pm
    Newt Gingrich's soft(er) stance on immigration is not helping his poll numbers in Florida. The demise of the Eurozone continues; Fitch Ratings downgrades the debt of Spain, Slovenia, Italy, Cyprus, and Belgium. Ron Paul challenged Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, and Gingrich to "a 25-mile bike ride...in the heat of Texas" during last night's debate. Facebook is preparing to go public, perhaps by next Wednesday. Iran has economic weapons, too. They've threatened to stop exporting oil to Europe, though they're letting U.N. weapons inspectors into the country on Sunday. The 10th Circuit Court of…

  • Ron Paul Roundup: Campaign in Maine, Praise By Palin; Winning the Younger (Jack) Welchs and Blackedout Again

    Brian Doherty
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:42 pm
    *The Bangor, Maine Daily News on Paul dealing with his bad polls in Florida by campaigning in Maine: Declaring the “freedom movement alive and well,” Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul kicked off a two-day statewide tour in Bangor on Friday with the hope of convincing enough delegates to support him at Maine’s caucuses, which begin next weekend. Paul, the 76-year-old Congressman from Texas, is the only current GOP candidate who has yet to win a state’s primary or caucus, but he has been racking up delegates in many states and hopes to continue that trend in Maine. “We came…

  • Free Markets Save the Planet

    Nick Sibilla
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    A startling new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) reveals a free-market way to thwart climate change: Create a free market in energy. Fatih Birol, chief economist at the IEA, estimates that 37 nations spent $409 billion on fossil fuel subsidies in 2010. (By comparison, renewables received $66 billion in that same year.) Impressively, if fossil fuel subsidies were eliminated, this would avoid 750 million tons of CO2 by 2015, and could potentially save over 2.5 gigatons of carbon by 2035. The latter is 70 percent of what the European Union currently emits. In total, by ending…
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  • Does anyone know evil from good?

    Randy Toman
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:11 pm
    Does anyone know what is going on—not after reading this article? (see link) From the article;  “Ben Bernanke presided over his first meeting as Federal Reserve chairman in March 2006 believing the nation’s economy could pull off a “soft landing” from falling home prices. Three months later, Bernanke had begun to grasp that he and others had underestimated the risk housing posed to the economy.” You have to wonder how stupid or naïve, Mr. Bernanke and his people are. Can we allow these people to stay in these two categories of innocent and not so smart? When will…

  • Guess Who Said This?

    Randy Toman
    24 Jan 2012 | 3:50 pm
    “Has the great short seller gone soft? Well, yes. Sitting in his 33rd-floor corner office high above Seventh Avenue in New York, preparing for his trip to Davos, he is more concerned with surviving than staying rich. “At times like these, survival is the most important thing,” he says, peering through his owlish glasses and brushing wisps of gray hair off his forehead. He doesn’t just mean it’s time to protect your assets. He means it’s time to stave off disaster. As he sees it, the world faces one of the most dangerous periods of modern history—a period of “evil.” Europe is…

  • No Money—To Hold It Together

    Randy Toman
    22 Jan 2012 | 6:25 am
    Supreme court chief justice John Marshall (1819) wrote: “The power to tax is the power to destroy; in that the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create;…”. The tax-limiting effects of Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution seemingly were nullified with passage of the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913. It must be understood that authority is never neutral and magistrates will base their power on something. When you have the government and the Department of Justice drop its investigation of AIG on May 22, 2010, you know the fix is in and they are not out to protect…

  • Debt and More Debt

    Randy Toman
    19 Jan 2012 | 9:10 am
    Watch the link/video—- http://www.realecontv.com/videos/europe/what-it-means-when-your-country-goes-broke.html If this has any truth to it——and I say “IF”—-we have a much bigger problem then anyone thinks and/or realizes. The video is 10:35 minutes—–listen carefully to the last minute or so—-these guys are desperate and will not take it year after year as do the American citizen—–even the American citizens will reach some point of breaking. And to be perfectly candid—–my sarcastic—–WE SHALL SEE is not…

  • Dear Folks

    Randy Toman
    18 Jan 2012 | 4:58 pm
    Below is an e-mail I sent to a dear friend who had ask we a number of questions. I pulled these two questions out of the e-mail to answer. There is one facet of the answers that I think I should have include——which I did not. You will find the missing segment after—-Yes indeed these times will be interesting (below) The initial e-mail You said—What makes this time so different? Three things: 1/ The magnitude of the evil—it’s Global. 2/ The velocity information travels at—almost instantaneous. 3/ The corruption within the US government being almost…
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  • Kissing Mitt

    John J. Miller
    28 Jan 2012 | 6:29 am
    This should settle it: Gene Simmons of KISS is for Romney. Hat tip: Big Hollywood. Also, the video is rated PG-13.

  • A Curious Statement in The Spectator

    Jay Nordlinger
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:44 pm
    Sir Harold Evans is a veteran and acclaimed journalist. His official bio says, “In 2001 British journalists voted him the all-time greatest British newspaper editor.” It should be safe to assume he doesn’t write things that are blatantly untrue. In The Spectator, he says that Mitt Romney “assailed Ambassador Jon Huntsman, the sanest in the Republican asylum, for being able to speak Mandarin. This is double treason by the lights of Romney and his xenophobic Tea Party chorus in their tricky tricorne hats. Citing the toxic atmosphere, Huntsman has now dropped…

  • Jeffrey Lord's Distortion

    Rich Lowry
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:38 pm
    Jeffrey Lord manages a two-fer in this piece: he slyly smears Elliott Abrams for allegedly prostituting himself for a job in a Romney administration on the basis of no evidence whatsoever. And he misrepresents the Newt speech he defends. Read Lord and you might think Newt cited some other conservative critiques of Reagan in an otherwise positive speech. Lord quotes Newt using the word “failure” only once and suggests it was wrenched out of context. Of course, Gingrich praises Reagan at times (no one is accusing him of being Jim Wright) and does it fulsomely (this is Newt after…

  • Congress Had Plenty of Say in Reagan Foreign Policy

    Andrew C. McCarthy
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:18 pm
    I’ve got no quarrel with Charles Krauthammer’s argument that then-backbencher Newt Gingrich is dramatically overstating his role in President Reagan’s foreign policy — just as I think (along with John Hood and Steve Hayward) that Newt detractors are dramatically overstating Gingrich’s negative criticisms of Reagan. But it is strange — particularly in light of Reagan administration history — to hear Dr. K conclusorily claim that “foreign policy is presidential. The Congress has almost no say. If it has any, it’s the Senate. It’s…

  • Can't We All Get Along? Never!

    Victor Davis Hanson
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:44 pm
      I am amazed at the furor out there this year; write that Newt’s shameful infidelity nevertheless probably does not ipso facto disqualify him, given what we’ve known in the past about some other presidents, and you get a flurry of pro-Romney invective; write that Newt blew the debate with his nonchalant arrogance, and you get a flurry of pro-Gingrich invective. Keep reading this post . . .
 
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  • Economic Certainty—and Uncertainty

    Irwin M. Stelzer
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    If you are one of the many who believes that uncertainty is stalling our recovery, you should be smiling. Much uncertainty has been replaced by a surer knowledge of what policy makers have in mind for the economy, and of the direction of some of the key economic indicators. If you are sure you love certainty, you might want to think again. Start with the state of political play. President Obama used his rousing State of the Union speech to make four things clear. First, he knows that Obamacare is an albatross he will have to wear in his reelection swings through the country: It is so wildly…

  • Happy Hour: Spartan America

    Mark Hemingway
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm
    Jonah Goldberg: "Obama’s Vision for a Spartan America" Charlie Spiering: "Newt goes negative using Huckabee" Sena Higgins: "Top Dem Miller Wants DOJ Probe Of GOP NLRB Member" Ron Wyden: "Ron Wyden gives GOP cover on Medicare reform" Conn Carroll: "Buffett and Bosanek need to disclose or shut up" Charlotte News & Observer: "It will probably always be unclear who, exactly, Jonathan Keith Idema really was."

  • Romney: America Must 'Define a Mission' for Space Program

    Michael Warren
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:05 pm
    Cape Canaveral, Fla.At a rally in the warehouse of Astrotech Space Operations, Mitt Romney told an energized audience about the need to “define a mission” for the American space program. The Obama administration, he said, has failed to define such a mission. “People are suffering because of that. We’ve lost technology because of that. People have lost jobs because of that. It’s time to have a mission for the space program for the United States of America,” Romney said, speaking just minutes away from the Kennedy Space Center.  But Romney's definition of his own plans for the…

  • Why it Will be Difficult to Revitalize American Manufacturing

    Mark Hemingway
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:12 pm
    Bloomberg recently ran a great series on the challenges to expanding America's manufacturing sector that's worth reading in light of the president's State of the Union rhetoric on jobs. It opens with this distressing anecdote: “I’d love to make this product in America. But I’m afraid I won’t be able to.”My host, a NASA engineer turned Silicon Valley entrepreneur, has just conducted a fascinating tour of his new clean-energy bench-scale test facility. It’s one of the Valley’s hottest clean-technology startups. And he’s already thinking of going…

  • Reuters Acknowledges Rubio Hit Piece is a 'Fiasco' and a 'Disgrace'

    Mark Hemingway
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:07 pm
    After Daily Caller blogger Matt Lewis eviscerated a harsh Reuters story on Florida senator Marco Rubio, the wire service was forced to make five corrections. Now Reuters is attempting damage control and conceding the story is regrettable: One senior staffer at Reuters described the episode to me as a "fiasco," another as a "disgrace."  It was so bad, in fact, that the editors and writer involved have been asked not to talk about it. (I reached out to editors David Lindsey and Eric Walsh, but have not heard back.)The article, by David Adams, had intended to detail why…
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    Eunomia

  • Why Does Romney Lie? (II)

    Daniel Larison
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:43 pm
    Last night at the debate, Romney recycled his lame explanation for why he supported Paul Tsongas in the ’92 Democratic presidential primary in Massachusetts (he said he wanted to be able to vote against Bill Clinton). Steve Kornacki reviews the real reasons Romney voted for him and why his ’94 Senate campaign used it as a talking point in his defense: In other words, it was perfectly natural for someone like Romney, a venture capitalist who back then described himself as passionately pro-choice and pro-gay rights and stressed his distance from Reagan-style conservatism, to vote…

  • Iran and Nonproliferation

    Daniel Larison
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:01 pm
    Nikolas Gvosdev draws attention to weaknesses in U.S. nonproliferation efforts: This helps to explain why so many countries of the rising South and East have been reluctant to join the United States and Europe in applying punitive sanctions against the Iranian government: They are reluctant to take steps against Iran that would subsequently sign away their own potential rights under the current nonproliferation system to acquire the full panoply of nuclear technology. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that the U.S. approach to Iran’s nuclear program is not providing much long-term…

  • “Not an Inch of Difference”: Romney’s Ludicrous Plan for Managing Relations with Allies and Clients

    Daniel Larison
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:32 pm
    Romney repeated the idea that there shouldn’t be an “inch of difference” between Israel and the United States at the debate last night. This is consistent with what he has been saying throughout the campaign, and the only difference this time was that he said “inch of difference” rather than “inch of space.” It’s also indistinguishable from statements that Huntsman and Perry made in the weeks and days before they dropped out. Consider the absurdity that the presidential nominating contest of the more American nationalist of the two major parties…

  • Iranians Aren’t Going to Help the U.S. Overthrow Their Government

    Daniel Larison
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:18 pm
    Jennifer Rubin makes several unwise proposals for Iran policy, but this one jumps out for being the laziest and most underdeveloped: Fifth, regime change in Iran must be the official policy of the United States. We need to provide ample rhetorical and logistical support to the opposition. The notion that this will “discredit” these groups seems increasingly untenable given the regime’s brutal crackdown on its people. I call this the laziest proposal because it has become a default hawkish recommendation that the U.S. support such-and-such an adversarial authoritarian state’s…

  • Will Conservatives Rally Behind Paul in Virginia? Not Very Likely

    Daniel Larison
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:34 am
    Brent Budowsky is extremely optimistic about Paul’s chances in Virginia: If this does not change, the Virginia vote will be a pure play of Romney versus Paul, and also a contest purely of Romney versus the conservative movement, which I would expect to unify behind Paul for the Virginia vote. I would be very pleased with this outcome, but why would Budowsky expect this? This is the sort of prediction one makes because it is so far-fetched and unlikely that no one would expect it. Because the other candidates failed to qualify for the ballot, it’s quite plausible that Paul will…
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    The Spectacle Blog

  • Kevin White, R.I.P.

    Aaron Goldstein
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:43 pm
    Former Boston Mayor Kevin White passed away tonight at the age of 82. He had been afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease for more than a decade. White had Boston's top job for sixteen years. First elected in 1967, White won wide praise the following year when he convinced James Brown to broadcast his concert at Boston Garden on WGBH following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Indeed, White actually introduced Brown onto the stage. As a result, Boston was largely spared of the riots which befell other American cities. In 1970, White unsuccessfully ran for Governor against liberal…

  • Tune In

    Ross Kaminsky
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:38 pm
    I'm very pleased to announce that I'll be hosting The Ross Kaminsky Show on Denver's NewsRadio 850 KOA, the premier talk station in Colorado, and one of the iconic radio stations in the western United States, having been around since the 1920s. The show will air on Sundays from 11 AM to 2 PM Mountain Time, though it will be frequently pre-empted in whole or in part for Denver Broncos and Colorado Rockies games. For anyone who's interested, there's a "Listen Live" link at the top of the web page, and for those who listen to podcasts, they'll be available here (regular web…

  • Americans for Tax Reform Responds to Coburn

    Jeffrey Lord
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:53 pm
    As readers will recall, we had an exchange earlier in the week revolving around Senator Tom Coburn's views of Newt Gingrich. In the doing we heard from Dr. Coburn's office and published their view, with a mention of Grover Norquist's American's for Tax Reform. Grover's ATR has now responded, and in the spirit of equal time, here is the response from John Kartch of ATR: Dear Jeffrey: Dr. Tom Coburn is a hero when he fights duplicative, wasteful government spending but his fight for a massive tax increase as part of a grand bargain with President Obama and congressional…

  • Musharraf Postpones Return to Pakistan

    Aaron Goldstein
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:58 pm
    Pervez Musharraf has postponed plans to return to Pakistan to re-launch his political career. Earlier this month, the former Pakistani military ruler had announced he would end more than three years of self-imposed exile in London and Dubai. However, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has warned that Musharraf will be arrested upon arrival to face charges related to the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. But perhaps the biggest reason Musharraf isn't returning is because hardly anybody in Pakistan would shed a tear if he were arrested and tried given his heavy…

  • Reaganite Foreign Policy

    W. James Antle, III
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:46 pm
    The Elliot Abrams business Jeff uncovers does raise some interesting historical points: 1. Some who bill their foreign policy preferences as "neo-Reaganite" today were fairly critical of Reagan's actual foreign policy in the 1980s, even as they remained part of the Reagan coalition. 2. The neoconservatives were an important part of that coalition, but Reagan didn't always do everything they advised. 3. This should remind us that Reagan really deserves a lot of the credit he gets for his handling of the Cold War. He threaded the needle on confrontation vs. accomodation with the Soviets almost…
 
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  • Come clonare hard disk semplicemente

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:17 am
    In rete troviamo vari strumenti attraverso cui è semplice clonare hard disk gratuitamente. Tra i programmi migliori troviamo Easeus Disk Copy che risulta essere veloce da utilizzare. Come prima cosa bisogna creare un cd tramite il quale avviare il computer utilizzando l'applicazione. Una volta completata l'operazione risulta essere possibile avviare il cd con il cd e viene avviata la procedura per fare la clonazione del disco. La copia può essere poi trasferita su un altro computer in modo decisamente rapido usando il cd salvato. Clonare l'hard disk costituisce anche un mezzo…

  • Charm is in the eye of the beholder

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:04 pm
    This is the cause that Manchester model escorts are able to be discovered on a fantastic gallery online. This consists of the name of each design, as well as a sensual picture showing off her body. There are all types of ladies to select from. Some are blondes, while others are brunettes. Their body types are also various short of for one thing; they are hot. A ton of individuals could not believe that a girl like this is available to them in a process that can take a matter of just seconds. An internet booking can be organized for you to satisfy at a location chosen by you, or nicely put…

  • Scams aimed at taxpayers during tax season

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:19 pm
    Any time of the year presents opportunities for scam artists. They do not choose one particular time of the year to do their dirty work.  During the tax filing season, their activity usually increases as taxpayers become more vunerable. However by using a little common sense, most Americans can thwart them. One of the thieves’ favorite targets is stealing identification. Early in the year, they will be seeking the forms that are needed for income tax filings, such as 1099’s, W-2s, income statements, and any other paperwork that includes Society Security numbers. Learn how to…

  • Voter identification laws may effect 2012 election

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:27 pm
    Because of changes to state laws that require voter ID, voting could be more difficult for some Americans http://www.examiner.com/social-evolution-in-national/voter-identification-laws-may-effect-2012-election

  • Campaign: Gingrich inaccurate during debate clash over ex-wife

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:08 am
    Gingrich campaign admits to CNN it did not provide "several" friends to rebut Marianne's claims about "open marriage" request from http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsHorserace/~3/xv08QzA6Qqk/
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  • Armed Forces Day Book-Signing Event Set

    BobMcCarty
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:42 pm
    I received word this morning that I’m back on schedule to hold an author event (a.k.a., “book-signing event”) on Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May 19, 1 to 3 p.m., at Barnes & Noble Booksellers Mid Rivers in St. Peters, Mo. Click here for news about other book-signing events related to my book, Three Days In [...]

  • Talk Radio Alert: ‘The Dana Show’ Friday Afternoon

    BobMcCarty
    25 Jan 2012 | 2:12 pm
    I’ll be making a guest appearance Friday afternoon on The Dana Show on FM NewsTalk 97.1. During the show’s last half hour, starting around 3:30 p.m. Central, host Dana Loesch and I will discuss an exclusive article I published Monday about a new Weldon Spring Cancer Report I obtained from the Missouri Department of Health [...]

  • American Legion Publishes Positive Review of Book

    BobMcCarty
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:41 am
    Good news! Today, the American Legion’s Burnpit published a 1,700-word article about the book, Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice, which chronicles the life story and wrongful conviction of former Army Green Beret Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart. The article, written by Army war veteran and [...]

  • P.C. Prosecution of ‘Haditha Marines’ Nears End

    BobMcCarty
    23 Jan 2012 | 4:18 pm
    Enough political correctness!  The trial of Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, one of the so-called “Haditha Marines” mentioned in the foreword of my book, Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice, ended today when he agreed to plead guilty to one count of negligent dereliction of duty, according [...]

  • Missouri Health Agency Officials Refuse to Answer Questions About New Weldon Spring Cancer Report

    BobMcCarty
    23 Jan 2012 | 1:23 pm
    On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a tsunami that, in addition to killing more than 15,000 people, contributed to the disaster at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant — the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.  After watching the Fukushima disaster unfold for three weeks, I began [...]
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    Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post

  • Gingrich professes shock at Romney’s ‘dishonest’ debate performance

    Amy Gardner, Philip Rucker
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:30 pm
    MIAMI — Former House speaker Newt Gingrich spent Friday struggling to fend off the perception that his presidential campaign has stalled after a flat debate performance on Thursday and fresh polling data showing his support slipping in Florida. Read full article >>

  • Romney says Gingrich is ‘like Goldilocks’

    Philip Rucker
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:47 pm
    ORLANDO – After getting the better of Newt Gingrich in Thursday night’s debate, Mitt Romney is trying to rub it in.  The increasingly confident, and increasingly punchy, former Massachusetts governor took a fresh swipe at the former House speaker at a campaign rally here Friday night, likening him to the fairy tale character “Goldilocks.” Read full article >>

  • Obama ally suggests administration is undermining Endangered Species Act

    Juliet Eilperin
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:52 pm
    The Obama administration is setting too high a threshold for listing an imperiled plant or animal under the Endangered Species Act, according to Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass). Markey, one of the White House’s closest congressional allies, late Thursday sent a letter to Dan Ashe, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, questioning a draft policy the agency issued last month with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Read full article >>

  • Rick Perry’s back in Texas, and some wonder if he’s lost political power there

    Melinda Henneberger
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:44 pm
    Yes, to the non-Texan eye, it looks like Republican Gov. Rick Perry has slunk home from his last rodeo, having humiliated himself and his home state with a presidential run that will go down in history as one big “Oops.” Read full article >>

  • Obama, Biden rally Democrats at annual retreat

    Felicia Sonmez
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:23 pm
    CAMBRIDGE, Md. — President Obama and Vice President Biden on Friday worked to rally congressional Democrats preparing to do battle with Republicans leading into the 2012 election. In remarks at the annual House Democratic retreat near the shore of the Chesapeake Bay, Obama rallied the House Democrats with a campaign-style speech in which he defended Democrats’ legislative accomplishments over the past three years, acknowledged that lawmakers have had to make some “tough decisions” and reprised many of the arguments he made in Tuesday’s State of the Union address. Read full article…
 
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    About.com Immigration Issues

  • Obama Wants to Boost Tourism, Overhaul Travel Visa Process

    21 Jan 2012 | 5:12 am
    The Obama administration believes it can create 1 million new jobs by promoting international tourism, boosting nonimmigrant visa processing capacity and expanding the Visa Waiver Program. The White House initiative is aimed at drawing more tourists from China and Brazil. The government plans to increase visa processing capacity in those fast-growing countries by 40% this year....Read Full Post

  • Did Romney Endorsement Hand Election to President Obama?

    18 Jan 2012 | 10:43 am
    Mitt Romney, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, welcomed an endorsement this week from immigration activist Kris Kobach. Is this the best thing that could have happened to President Obama? Kobach is a lawyer and radio talk show host who is affiliated with the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a group favored by the Tea Party and the ultra-conservative wing of the party....Read Full Post

  • Romney Reaffirms Hardline Immigration Stand During Debate

    17 Jan 2012 | 1:56 am
    Mitt Romney dug his hardline positions in deeper on immigration during Monday's Republican presidential debate in South Carolina. The GOP frontrunner rejected any solution for the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the country that allows them to remain here. Romney said they must return to their homelands....Read Full Post

  • President Obama Chooses Hispanic To Lead Domestic Policy Council

    13 Jan 2012 | 10:20 am
    President Obama this week promoted Cecilia Munoz, currently the director of intergovernmental affairs, to director of the Domestic Policy Council. Munoz, 49, has been the White House's leader in reaching out to Hispanic groups. Before joining the administration, she was a senior vice president of the National Council of La Raza, the country's largest Hispanic civil rights group....Read Full Post

  • Romney Is Facing Immigration Issues in South Carolina, Florida

    11 Jan 2012 | 2:07 am
    Mitt Romney has won the Republican presidential primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire, but immigration issues could be formidable obstacles to his progress as his campaign moves on to South Carolina and Florida....Read Full Post
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    THE HOT JOINTS

  • Weekend Doc Block: “PressPausePlay”

    Chris Jones
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    “PressPausePlay” is a fascinating look at the digital revolution and its effects on art, film, music, and literature. Is it a good or bad thing that anyone can record music, make films, or write books?The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture?Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity? This is the question…

  • Brewer defends heated tarmac exchange with Obama

    Chris Jones
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    Source: CBS Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer defended herself after a contentious exchange with President Obama Wednesday about her book “Scorpions for Breakfast.” Brewer was photographed pointing her finger towards the president.

  • Romney: Gingrich Attacks on Him Are ‘Repulsive’

    Chris Jones
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    Source: Associated Press Republican Newt Gingrich and his rival Mitt Romney clashed in the opening moments of Thursday’s debate in Florida. Gingrich said Romney is the “most anti-immigrant” candidate and Romney called such rhetoric “inexcusable” and “repulsive.”

  • Video: CNN Republican Debate In Jacksonville

    Chris Jones
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am
    I’ve watched every single debate so far this season and I really think this was the dumbest. CNN hosted a GOP debate in Jacksonville, Florida. It was moderated by Wolf Blitzer. The only interesting aspect of this debate was Mitt Romney. Whatever funk he was in at the last debate is clearly over. He came out swinging last night and really landed some blows against Newt Gingrich.The worst part of the debate was when Romney and Gingrich sparred for what seemed like 10 or 15 minutes about each other’s tax returns. Gingrich attacking Romney for being a corporate raider and Romney…

  • US commando team that killed Bin Laden swoop on Somali pirates

    Chris Jones
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:30 am
    This article titled “US commando team that killed Bin Laden swoop on Somali pirates” was written by Karen McVeigh in New York, for The Guardian on Wednesday 25th January 2012 19.39 UTCThe special forces commandos who swept into Somalia under cover of darkness to rescue two hostages, an American woman and a Danish man, were part of Seal team six, the same navy unit that killed Osama bin Laden, it has emerged.The Seals killed nine pirates on Tuesday night before rescuing Jessica Buchanan, 32, and Poul Hagen Thisted, 60. They had been held hostage for three months after their kidnap…
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    Cato @ Liberty

  • Civilian Personnel: The Missing Piece in the Pentagon’s Budget Puzzle

    Christopher Preble
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:50 pm
    By Christopher PrebleWhile most news stories have accurately characterized the Obama administration’s proposed military spending cuts as “modest,” the Pentagon is planning significant reductions in the number of active-duty troops in the Army and Marine Corps. Both forces will be larger than they were in 2001, but the active-duty Army will fall from a post-9/11 high of 570,000 in 2010 to 490,000. The Marine Corps will go from 202,000 to 182,000. The DoD should likewise reduce civilian personnel. The reason the Pentagon’s plan places so much emphasis on personnel is stated clearly in…

  • EU Credit Rating Agency Hoax

    Marian L. Tupy
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:09 pm
    By Marian L. TupyDaniel Hannan’s post on the establishment of the European Credit Rating Agency makes some good points. The recent downgrade of a number of European countries is a consequence of low growth and massive debts and deficits. Instead of implementing far-reaching structural reforms, however, an increasing number of European politicians talk about an Anglo-American conspiracy to sink Europe’s single currency, the euro. According to one of the most prominent EU parliamentarians, Elmar Brok of the German Christian Democratic Party, credit-rating agencies Standard &…

  • The New Pentagon Budget: Better, but Not Great

    Benjamin H. Friedman
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:52 pm
    By Benjamin H. FriedmanThe changes announced in the Pentagon’s new budget guidance are, from my perspective, mostly good news, but woefully insufficient. They show how even limited austerity encourages prioritization among weapons systems that suddenly have to compete. A few more budgets like this and we’ll be getting somewhere. The White House has not yet released the actual budget, but the Pentagon yesterday released a new document that explains the minor cuts in line for its slice. The document, unlike all the other defense strategy and guidance documents that have come out in recent…

  • ‘Virginia Shouldn’t Enable Federal Takeover of Health Care’

    Michael F. Cannon
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:41 pm
    By Michael F. CannonBart Hinkle has an excellent column in the Richmond Times-Dispatch about why Virginia—and all states—should refuse to create one of Obamacare’s health insurance “exchanges”: Any state exchange will have to abide by the Obama administration’s directives… If Washington is going to dictate the terms, why should Virginia foot the bill? ‘Virginia Shouldn’t Enable Federal Takeover of Health Care’ is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog

  • The Laffer Curve Works, Even in France

    Daniel J. Mitchell
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:45 am
    By Daniel J. MitchellOne year ago, I wrote about how the French government was getting unexpected additional revenues following the implementation of lower tax rates. This is the Laffer Curve in action, and it’s happening again in France, only this time because the government reduced the wealth tax. Here’s part of the story at Tax-news.com. France’s solidarity tax on wealth (l’impôt de solidarité sur la fortune – ISF), which was radically reformed by the government in June last year, has served to yield much greater fiscal revenues for the state than initially predicted.
 
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