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  • What Happened in Greece?

    NRO Articles
    Napoleon Linardatos
    16 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    In Jonah Goldberg’s The Tyranny of Clichés, liberals in the United States try to conceal their ideological bias by pretending to be objective, pragmatic, and moderate. The Greek Left, on the other hand, operating in a center-left country, has no such preoccupations. In the May 6 parliamentary elections, for the first time in recent history, a party of the far Left came in second. It is composed of various subgroups such as the eco-socialists, the Anti-Capitalist Group, the Communist Organization of Greece, and the Trotskyist Communists of the group known as Red. Just in case you…

  • Support for Gay Marriage Outweighs Opposition in Polls

    FiveThirtyEight
    By NATE SILVER
    9 May 2012 | 3:52 pm
    President Obama's decision to endorse same-sex marriage undoubtedly entails some political risk, but recent polls suggest that public opinion is increasingly on his side.

  • A 30,000-Foot View on the Presidential Race

    FiveThirtyEight
    By NATE SILVER
    15 May 2012 | 7:55 am
    Nothing fundamental has changed in the race in the past month or two, although there are a couple of factors that may be working in Mitt Romney's favor at the margin.

  • Rev. Wright hush money donor named — plus — an Obama Muslim bombshell

    Wizbang
    Michael Laprarie
    15 May 2012 | 9:11 am
    On yesterday’s Sean Hannity broadcast, Sean interviewed author Edward Klein about his three hour face-to-face interview with Rev. Jeremiah Wright.  Over the weekend, Klein had revealed in the New York Post that after ABC News broadcast the infamous “God Damn America!” video from Trinity UCC, Rev. Wright was contacted by a “very close” friend of [...]

  • Soros Monkeys strike again: Prog mob targets Manny Pacquiao over gay marriage, spreads lies about what he said

    Michelle Malkin
    Michelle Malkin
    16 May 2012 | 1:01 pm
    They are ruthless. They are relentless. They have no shame. Read all about it here: Lefties call for Nike to drop Manny Pacquiao for ‘homophobic’ remarks he never made.
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    Michelle Malkin

  • Soros Monkeys strike again: Prog mob targets Manny Pacquiao over gay marriage, spreads lies about what he said

    Michelle Malkin
    16 May 2012 | 1:01 pm
    They are ruthless. They are relentless. They have no shame. Read all about it here: Lefties call for Nike to drop Manny Pacquiao for ‘homophobic’ remarks he never made.

  • Palin-endorsed Deb Fischer wins Nebraska Senate primary; will face Bob Kerrey in November

    Doug Powers
    16 May 2012 | 10:02 am
    **Written by Doug Powers The race to fill the seat of outgoing Dem Ben Nelson was narrowed down to two last night: Nebraska state Senator Deb Fischer pulled off a surprise upset victory against Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning in the state’s Republican Senate primary Tuesday, marking the second contest in two weeks in which an establishment favorite was upended by a dark horse candidate in a Senate primary. Fischer, a rural rancher from the state’s 43rd legislative district, eked out a 5-point victory over Bruning, winning 41 percent to the Attorney General’s 36 percent…

  • Destroying private health insurance was always the goal

    Michelle Malkin
    16 May 2012 | 8:40 am
    Put on your shocked faces: The first Catholic college has announced it is dropping its student health insurance plan in the wake of the White House refusal to repeal the religious liberty-sabotaging Obamacare birth control/abortion mandate. Life News has the scoop: Franciscan University appears to be the first casualty of the new Obama HHS mandate that requires Catholic colleges, groups and businesses to pay for drugs that may cause abortions and birth control for their employees. Although President Barack Obama declared “If you like your health care coverage you can keep it,” when it…

  • Obamacare cronyism: The First Lady’s patient-dumping, privacy-meddling scheme

    Michelle Malkin
    16 May 2012 | 7:56 am
    Obamacare’s Patient-Dumping, Privacy-Meddling Scheme by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 The stench of Chicago cronyism over the White House just got fouler. Inhale this: A shadowy $10 billion Obamacare agency with zero oversight just awarded first lady Michelle Obama’s pet patient-dumping scheme at the University of Chicago Medical Center a $5.9 million taxpayer-funded grant. It will enable Mrs. Obama’s cronies to build a government-sponsored electronic medical record-sharing system. The Chicago program, known as the Urban Health Initiative, is run by one…

  • 1997 Fordham Law Review article: Elizabeth Warren was Harvard’s ‘first woman of color’

    Doug Powers
    15 May 2012 | 10:38 pm
    **Written by Doug Powers It’s been a confusing week. First we found out that Barack Obama is the first gay president. Next came the news that Sarah Palin somehow managed to hijack Chris Matthews’ cerebral cortex in order to make an ass out of him during his appearance on Jeopardy. And next came word that Elizabeth Warren was once described this way: …a 1997 Fordham Law Review piece described her as Harvard Law School’s “first woman of color,” based, according to the notes at the bottom of the story, on a “telephone interview with Michael Chmura, News…
 
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    FiveThirtyEight

  • A 30,000-Foot View on the Presidential Race

    By NATE SILVER
    15 May 2012 | 7:55 am
    Nothing fundamental has changed in the race in the past month or two, although there are a couple of factors that may be working in Mitt Romney's favor at the margin.

  • Gay Marriage and the Democratic Base

    By NATE SILVER
    11 May 2012 | 7:21 am
    One clear rationale for President Obama's new position? It's very unusual for a president to oppose the majority of voters in his party on a major issue, and 60 percent of Democrats support gay marriage.

  • Support for Gay Marriage Outweighs Opposition in Polls

    By NATE SILVER
    9 May 2012 | 3:52 pm
    President Obama's decision to endorse same-sex marriage undoubtedly entails some political risk, but recent polls suggest that public opinion is increasingly on his side.

  • Moderate Republicans Fall Away in the Senate

    By NATE SILVER
    8 May 2012 | 8:57 pm
    Most moderate Republicans who served in the Senate just a few years ago will no longer be in the Congress when it meets again 2013.

  • Is Obama More Popular Than He Should Be, Revisited

    By JOHN SIDES
    8 May 2012 | 4:08 pm
    After discussion from FiveThirtyEight readers, looking back and extending an analysis that noted President Obama's approval rating exceeded a theoretical approval rating predicted by history, the economy and other factors.
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  • Bankers deserting Obama for Romney

    Ed Morrissey
    16 May 2012 | 1:01 pm
    But Obama loves JP Morgan. Why did fundraising for Team Obama drop so precipitously in April?  The Boston Globe provides one possible answer.  In 2008, Barack Obama attracted a lot of support from the banking industry.  This time around, they have deserted Obama in favor of Mitt Romney (via News Alert): When the head of JPMorgan Chase met with shareholders [...] Read this post »

  • The Ed Morrissey Show: Guy Benson, For Greater Glory producer Dennis Rice

    Ed Morrissey
    16 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Guy Benson returns to talk about the latest in politics.  We’ll talk about the interview I conducted with Mitt Romney shortly before the show started as well, so don’t miss the recap of that before the interview itself goes live.  In the second half, we welcome [...] Read this post »

  • Van Jones: Yeah, we enviros took a dive for Obama during the Gulf oil spill

    Ed Morrissey
    16 May 2012 | 12:21 pm
    "I guarantee you, if John McCain had been President ..." Not exactly a stunner, you say?  Well, you’d be right, but it’s probably worse than what Jones admits here, too.  Not only did they pull their punches towards the President in 2010, they tried to shift the blame for the Deepwater Horizon spill to the Bush administration, even though Barack Obama and his Interior Secretary [...] Read this post »

  • Walker points to new survey showing net gain of 33K jobs in first year

    Ed Morrissey
    16 May 2012 | 11:41 am
    Dueling statistics. As people often say, there are lies, damned lies, and … statistics.  We deal with jobs-related data on a regular basis, but the collation and promulgation of the final numbers are sometimes a mystery to people.  The Current Employment Survey, for instance, is basically a poll with a fairly large sample, and from that we [...] Read this post »

  • Video: New SBA spot skewers Obama’s “war on women” meme

    Ed Morrissey
    16 May 2012 | 11:01 am
    Conformity is freedom, Winstonia! The pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List has a new video pushing back against the Democrat’s “war on women” talking point — and it’s pretty effective.  Done in the style of war propaganda, with a dollop of 1984 dropped into the mix, the first full minute of the spot takes the form of a government [...] View the video »
 
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    Patrick Ruffini

  • Want to Win in 2012? Hire Engineers and Data Scientists, Not Social Media Experts

    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Folks are abuzz about how the candidates are rollin’ and Tumbloggin’ around the Internet, trying to become more Pinteresting. Most of the discussion this year seems to center around what folks in the Web world call the front-end — turning GIFs, (now old-fashioned) web videos, and CSS and HTML5 effects into weapons of mass political destruction. Beyond its head-turning message, an underappreciated fact about the Obama campaign’s “Life of Julia” is that it was the first parallax slider-based campaign attack in American history. But while the media and the…

  • Stunning Branding Gives Voice to the Crossroads Generation

    15 May 2012 | 12:15 pm
    At Engage, we pride ourselves on raising the bar. And this is what we mean by that: CrossroadsGeneration.com. Crossroads Generation, a new GOP Super PAC, is a joint venture of the College Republican National Committee, Young Republican National Federation, Republican State Leadership Committee and American Crossroads to win back young voters. Engage’s design studio created the beautiful branding and voice behind this new group. We even developed a custom media upload solution for the site. Check out the new CrossroadsGeneration.com and tell us what you think! And be sure to follow XG…

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    The Gateway Pundit

  • Obama Continues His Assault on Christians: Will Force Military Chaplains to Marry Gays

    Jim Hoft
    16 May 2012 | 12:26 pm
    The first gay president will force military chaplains to perform same sex marriages or face repercussions. This follows the administration’s very public assault on the Catholic Church earlier this year with their mandate that forces religious organizations to pay for employees’ birth control. Barack Obama will force military chaplains to marry gays. CNS News reported: The Obama administration “strongly objects” to provisions in a House defense authorization bill that would prohibit the use of military property for same-sex “marriage or marriage-like” ceremonies, and…

  • David Letterman to Tom Brokaw: “What More Do We Want Obama to Do? Honest to God!” (Barf Alert)

    Jim Hoft
    16 May 2012 | 11:13 am
    Oh, good grief! David Letterman and crank Brian Williams held their own whine-fest last night on late night television. Letterman asked Williams, “What more do we want Obama to do for us? Honest to God!” Poor guys. Expect to see a lot more of this in the coming months as failed President Obama continues to sink in the polls. Watch, listen, and prepare to barf.  Skip more than four minutes of nauseating, mutual gushing over Obama, and at 7:10 hear the late night Obama sycophant’s outburst. Via Mediaite and Lucianne: NBC News anchor Brian Williams appeared on CBS’ The Late…

  • Bobby Jindal on Obama’s Experience: “He Never Ran a Lemonade Stand” (Video)

    Jim Hoft
    16 May 2012 | 5:25 am
    Governor Bobby Jindal (R-LA) blasted President Obama yesterday in an interview. The popular Louisiana conservative told reporters, “He never ran a lemonade stand.” But if he did… Ragbrai Real Clear Politics has video. ABC reported, via Free Republic: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal criticized President Obama‘s experience before he became president in an interview Tuesday, and defended Mitt Romney, who has recently come under attack by Obama’s campaign for his record at Bain Capital. “President Obama hasn’t run anything before he was elected President of the United…

  • Catholic University Drops Student Insurance – Says Costs Will Double Under Obamacare

    Jim Hoft
    16 May 2012 | 4:48 am
    Back in 2009 and 2010 Barack Obama repeatedly promised Americans, “If you like your plan, you will be able to keep your plan.” But after the bill was rammed through Congress and signed into law Barack Obama immediately started to backtrack. Yesterday, Franciscan University of Steubenville announced it would discontinue its student plan. The university said Obamacare would double the costs for students. Todd Starnes reported: The Franciscan University of Steubenville has announced it will drop health insurance coverage for students because the cost of the plan is expected to double…

  • Grassroots Candidate Deb Fischer Wins Nebraska GOP Primary for Senator – After Palin Endorsement

    Jim Hoft
    16 May 2012 | 4:37 am
    Score another win for Sarah Palin. Grassroot’s candidate Deb Fischer won the GOP primary for senator last night in Nebraska. AG Bruning, the establishment pick, was expected to walk away with this race as little as two weeks ago. KETV reported: The Associated Press has projected Deb Fischer as the winner of the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate. Most of the evening, Jon Bruning maintained a lead over Fischer; however, during the 9 p.m. hour, the lead switched in favor of Fischer. Just under 6,000 votes separated the top two candidates when the Associated Press called the race. “We…
 
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    RedState

  • Daily Links – May 16, 2012

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    16 May 2012 | 1:15 pm
    Today is May 16th. On this date in 1920, Joan of Arc was beatified and canonized by the Vatican. Man, first burned at the stake, then fired from a canon? That chick just could not catch a break!! On this date in 1965, SpaghettiOs went on sale in American supermarkets for the first time. You had to go to Morganville to buy them, which is what they called Shelbyville at the time. The cans were five for a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. “Give me five Os for a bee” you’d say. Also on this date, in 1868, President Andrew Johnson was…

  • Candidate Interview: Pete Hegseth (R CAND, MN-SEN PRI)

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    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    From the diaries. Pete Hegseth – Decorated Combat Veteran, Executive Director of Vets for Freedom, U.S. Senate Candidate, Patriot Pete Hegseth, who is running for the GOP endorsement for U.S. Senate in MN, was kind enough to sit down and provide his valuable time for an interview. In the interest of time, I edited the interview down, but was careful to keep the core of his answers. Some of what Pete has to say: His insight into current GOP legislators, with good words for Marco Rubio, Jim DeMint and Paul Ryan. :22 How he wants to be a Senator that doesn’t go there to be popular or…

  • The call for Mickey Mouse as a write-in in the CA-DEM Primary!

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    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Slightly contra Instapundit, this call for Mickey Mouse as a write-in on the California ballot is a blogger’s joke rather than an actual movement [UPDATE: I am informed in comments here that this is meant absolutely seriously; please be assured that I had no intention of mocking either the sentiment or the activity], but if it’s kidding then it’s kidding on the square. And it’s illustrating something that is perhaps being under-reported: the way that Obama’s not been doing all that well in the primaries for an incumbent. I mean, yes: we’ve had it noted that…

  • Keep Term Limits on Committee Chairmen

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    16 May 2012 | 9:40 am
    People often ask me what can be done to move the elected officials within the Republican Party rightward.  Well, for one thing, we need to elect more conservatives.  But more importantly, we need those conservatives to obtain positions of power, such as chairmanships of the committees that set our domestic policy agenda. Not surprisingly, all the relevant committee chairmen are either conduits for leadership or are even more liberal than leadership.  Here is a list of the chairmen along with their respective 2011 scores from Heritage Action: Committee Chairman HAFA Score Agriculture Frank…

  • Our Tech Obsessed Culture

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    16 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Download audio here Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by Dr. Larry Rosen to discuss his book on tech addictions, how to recognize them, and how to lessen any unhealthy dependency that we may have on technology. We’re brought to you as always byStephen 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: Buy iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming Its Hold…
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  • Pres. Rutherford B. Hayes weighs in on Obama’s name dropping

    Bonfire of the Absurdities
    16 May 2012 | 12:51 pm
    Pres. Rutherford B. Hayes weighs in on Obama’s name dropping. We could sure use a man like Rutherford B. Hayes right now. Even Woody Hayes.

  • Obama fundraising declines

    Bonfire of the Absurdities
    16 May 2012 | 12:42 pm
    Obama fundraising declines. “…the numbers also point to what some have described as a problem for the campaign – the unwillingness of big donors whose income and industries have been vilified by Obama to give him money this time around.” Biting the hand that bleeds you.

  • Obama in history

    Bonfire of the Absurdities
    16 May 2012 | 12:35 pm
    Obama’s role in history revealed. Yep, he was there on the moon with Armstrong, suggesting where to plant the flag no doubt. The guy is apparently no Barack-come-lately, he appears to have been the guiding force behind the great events in history.

  • Obama worth as much as $10 million

    Bonfire of the Absurdities
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Obama worth as much as $10 million. Has a big account at JP Morgan Chase, one of those Wall Street banks he hates. How’s he make his money? Book royalties – he’s the world’s best selling unread author, and part of the “one percent.” BTW, interesting how that narrative has vanished from the MSM’s songbook, ain’t it?

  • Muslims finally win a battle in the culture wars

    J.P. Travis
    15 May 2012 | 10:13 pm
    Muslims finally win a battle in the culture wars. The largest Muslim nation in the world, Indonesia, has denied Lady Gaga a permit for her sold-out June 3 concert in Gelora Bung Karno stadium. Islamic leaders said the suggestive nature of her show would undermine the moral fiber of the nation. Yes, believe it or not, the Muslims might be right for once. Hey, even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while.
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    ChurchCrunch

  • Funny & Scary: The Impossible Texting & Driving Test [Video]

    Jeremy Smith
    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Serving in a youth ministry, I have the responsibility to respond to several different kinds of crisis moments. From things as small as a girl getting dumped by a boy to the much larger issues like parents getting a divorce, I have seen it all. My heart breaks for them when tragedy strikes. So hot topic issues like texting while driving bring my blood to a boil. Teens think they are invincible and it is okay to try to do both, but that is just not the case. More and more traffic accidents are due to texting. If we want to reduce the 1.2 million traffic victims worldwide each year, we have to…

  • Disqus Gets Some New Goodies!

    Jeremy Smith
    16 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    I am a big fan of the Disqus commenting system and have completely bought into it for my own personal blog. While the free package is everything that I could need, they do have a paid version that has a lot of fun additions to it that I would love to have a hold of and have been jealous that I could not get to use yet. To my joy, Disqus is now rolling out a 2012 package for free that includes several new goodies! The focus is to offer a commenting system that promotes community, discussion, and furthering of the content written. Disqus 2012 Commenting System Here is a quick overview from…

  • FREE eBook – Podcasting Church – Today Only!

    Paul Clifford
    16 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    I love Churchm.ag. It’s part of my daily “beat check” of technology blogs. The varied content here is a lot like Lifehacker, but the stories have a decidedly Christian spin. That’s why I was happy when Eric allowed me to write for it. A couple of weeks ago, with Eric’s permission, I posted a link to my newsletter in the weekly Saturday/Sunday share post. I was honored when he subscribed. This week I mentioned to my subscribers that I’d be giving away my first book Podcasting Church for free on Kindle today, Wednesday, May 16, 2012 between 3:00 am eastern…

  • Easily Add Beautiful Timelines to Your Website

    Eric Dye
    16 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    This is the most beautiful timeline I’ve seen in a very long time. It not only boasts some ridiculously awesome features, but’s it’s easy to use, too! Have a WordPress site? They’ve got a plugin, too! Timeline This takes timelines to a whole new level as the added elements are completely interactive: Twitter YouTube Flickr Vimeo Google Maps SoundCloud More to come! So, if you add a Google Map, the user can zoom-in and out. Adding a YouTube video or SoundCloud file? The scrub will respond just the same. And when you’re filling in you timeline, you can do it one…

  • N.T. Wright Sings the Beatles

    Eric Dye
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Can't see the video in your RSS reader or email? Click Here! But wait, there’s more! Here are some more videos of N.T. Wright preforming: Dylan’s “When the Ship Comes In” and Sydney Carter’s “Friday Morning.” [via The Rabbit Room] You just finished reading "N.T. Wright Sings the Beatles" on ChurchMag! Feel free to comment on it! We use the Standard Theme for our blog platform!
 
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    Outside the Beltway

  • Braves, Barves, And Intellectual Property Law

    Doug Mataconis
    16 May 2012 | 12:35 pm
    Matthew Yglesias passes along this story about a baseball fan who tried to turn an online joke meme into a business idea, only to run up against the ever-protective Intellectual Property lawyers that work for Major League Baseball: Everett Steele is an Atlanta Braves fan. He goes to games, he wears Braves apparel, he tweets about the team to his 16,000-plus Twitter followers. He’s a big enough fan that when he started noticing people misspelling the team’s name as “Barves” online, he spent time and money making it a meme. Steele started making Barves jokes on Twitter,…

  • James Lipton’s Advice for Mitt Romney

    James Joyner
    16 May 2012 | 12:24 pm
    “Inside the Actors Studio” host James Lipton tells Mitt Romney to stop trying so hard to act like a regular guy. New York Magazine (“How to Act Human: Advice for Mitt Romney From Inside the Actors Studio“) A few months ago, Brian McFadden’s weekly comic strip in the Sunday Timesoffered ways for Mitt Romney to improve his image. One panel showed him with me on the set of Inside the Actors Studio, under the heading “Take Acting Lessons to Appear More Relatable.” Initially amused by this unsolicited enlistment, I’ve found myself…

  • Common Cause Files Ridiculous Lawsuit Against The Filibuster

    Doug Mataconis
    16 May 2012 | 11:59 am
    Common Cause, along with a group of Democratic Members of Congress, has filed a lawsuit in Federal Court in Washington, D.C. seeking to have the Senate filibuster declared unconstitutional: For years, critics of the filibuster have failed to convince senators to change the procedural delaying tactic. Now they’re taking their case to the courts. The nonpartisan nonprofit Common Cause sued the U.S. Senate on Monday, challenging the constitutionality of the filibuster rules that require routine 60-vote thresholds for bills and nominations that often have majority support. Several House…

  • Final Volume Of William Manchester’s Churchill Biography Coming In November

    Doug Mataconis
    16 May 2012 | 10:37 am
    It’s been nearly twenty years now since I read The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 and The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940, the first two volumes of what was supposed to have been historian William Manchester’s planned three-volume biography of England’s iconic war time Prime Minister. They remain among the best historical biographies I’ve ever read, but they also left me wanting more. Volume Two ends in 1940, at the height of the Blitz and at England’s greatest hour of need when Churchill was finally…

  • George Zimmerman Medical Records Reveal Broken Nose, Lacerations

    Doug Mataconis
    16 May 2012 | 10:13 am
    James Joyner has made note of the fact that the records of the autopsy of Trayvon Martin have been made public, so it seems relevant to note the other story in the news today, which is the release of the medical records of George Zimmerman: A medical report compiled by the family physician of Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman and obtained exclusively by ABC News found that Zimmerman was diagnosed with a “closed fracture” of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury the day after he fatally shot Martin during an alleged…
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    Right Rainbow

  • Who Should You Vote for? Candidate Calculator Saves Voters? Time

    admin
    15 May 2012 | 3:43 pm
    Who Should You Vote for? Candidate Calculator Saves Voters’ Time VoteHelp saves voters’ time. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 06, 2012 Introducing VoteHelp (http://www.votehelp.org/) – a nonpartisan candidate calculator that helps voters choose which presidential candidate to support based on the issues. The VoteHelp quiz, which takes an average of 5 minutes to complete, was taken over 500,000 times during 2008 election, and has recently been updated for 2012 to include issue positions for the…

  • European Social Security Law Reviews

    admin
    13 May 2012 | 11:38 pm
    European Social Security Law Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book describes the social security regime in Europe. It conveys a clear working knowledge of the legal mechanics affecting health care, employment injuries and occupational diseases, incapacity to work, pensions, survivors’ benefits, unemployment benefits and services, and family benefits. The analysis covers the field of application, conditions for entitlement, calculation of benefits, financing, the institutional framework, and relevant law enforcement and controls. Allowances…

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    admin
    12 May 2012 | 7:31 am
    Goodwill® Joins Got Your 6 Campaign Rockville, MD (PRWEB) May 11, 2012 Every day, 500 military veterans change out of their uniforms into civilian lives. Americans are grateful for their service, but gratitude only goes so far; veterans need employment and support services to ensure they can provide for their families and live lives of dignity in the country whose freedom they helped secure. By working together, our country can connect veterans and their families with work, homes and the supports they need. That is…

  • The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security

    admin
    10 May 2012 | 3:24 pm
    The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security The flourishing role of the private sector in security management over the last twenty years has challenged state control of the legitimate use of force. Deborah Avant examines the privatization of security and its impact on the control of force. She describes the growth of private security companies, explains how the industry works, and describes its range of customers–including states, non-government organizations and commercial transnational corporations. Avant also charts the inevitable trade-offs that the market for…

  • Bournville College teams up with University of London

    admin
    7 May 2012 | 7:09 am
    Bournville College teams up with University of London (PRWEB UK) 4 May 2012 Representatives from Bournville College and the University of London were joined by Gisela Stuart MP in an official ceremony to mark the beginning of a relationship between the two organisations. From September, Bournville College’s higher education provision will be extended by three of the University of London’s degree programmes – BSc Computing and Information Systems, BSc Creative Computing and BSc Business. Norman…
 
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    Drudge Retort

  • Zimmerman Medical Report Leaked

    ExpsRedemption
    16 May 2012 | 11:32 am
    A medical report compiled by the family physician of George Zimmerman, the man on trial for murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, has been leaked to ABC News. In the report, Zimmerman was diagnosed with a "closed fracture" of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury the day after he fatally shot Martin. The report also shows that prior to the shooting, Zimmerman had been prescribed Adderall and Temazepam, medications that can cause side effects such as agitation and mood swings.

  • What Did Ron Paul Accomplish?

    Doc_Sarvis
    16 May 2012 | 10:30 am
    Not much, according to Jonathan Tobin, editor of the conservative magazine Commentary. "Though many on the left wrongly assume his extremist approach resonated with the party's base, the truth was, he had little to offer average Republican voters," Tobin writes. "Nor can it be credibly asserted that he moved the conservative discussion in his direction on any issue where it had not already moved. Every time he opened his mouth, he demonstrated the strong distinction between his own extremist approach and that of even most Tea Party hardliners."

  • Hawaii's Beaches Are in Retreat

    zatoichi
    16 May 2012 | 8:50 am
    Most beaches on Hawaii's three largest islands are eroding, and the erosion is likely to accelerate as sea levels rise, the United States Geological Survey warns. Over the last century, about 9 percent of the sandy coast on Hawaii, Oahu and Maui has vanished. Building seawalls just worsens the problem. "If we want beaches we have to retreat from the ocean," said USGS researcher Charles H. Fletcher. "It's easy to say retreat; it's much harder to implement it."

  • Pelosi Raises $43 Million for Dems

    BruceBanner
    16 May 2012 | 8:32 am
    Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), became the most powerful woman in American history when she was sworn in as Speaker of the House in 2007. She lost that power four years later and is now hell-bent on winning it back. "They have endless money, secret, undisclosed, special interest money that they pour into elections," Pelosi said of Republicans. "But I think we can offset it. We have out-raised them, out-redistricted them, out-recruited them." Pelosi has raised more than $43 million for Democrats in this election cycle and attended nearly 500 fundraisers. The Democratic leader said she is…

  • Feds Deny Elderly Pain Meds

    adammm
    16 May 2012 | 7:30 am
    Reason.Com reports that under Administrator Michele Leonhart, the Drug Enforcement Administration has been engaged in a three-year battle against longterm care facilities that allow nursing staff to submit pain prescriptions for patients. The reasoning for this practice that a doctor isn't always around when a patient needs more painkiller medicine. So, historically, when a doctor hasn't been able to call in a prescription personally, nursing home staff have done so on the doctor's behalf. On the grounds that prescriptions may be called in, collected, and resold by nurses, the DEA has been…
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  • Deutschland Über Alles: Should We Fear Germany's New Role in Europe?

    14 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    When Francois Hollande, the newly elected president of France, arrives today in Berlin for his first meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, it will kindle memories of the long history of Franco-German partnership in leading the European Union. In France, it may even trigger the traditional condescension Parisian politicians feel towards their neighbors: the lumbering German economic giant that relies on French diplomatic, military, and nuclear savoir faire to achieve political clout. Increasingly, however, such sentiments are mere nostalgia. Yes, when the financial crisis…

  • David Thomson on Films: How Johnny Depp and Tim Burton Became Shadows of Their Former Selves

    14 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    The only reason to see Dark Shadows is to discover how dire and pointless—how flat-out dreadful—a movie can be even when it has Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Helena Bonham Carter attached to its flimsy pretext. This is one more vampiric concoction, the total budget for which (apparently $105 million) might have sustained 100 worthwhile, independent projects by new directors. Its reason for being is that Burton once made some sprightly, unexpected excursions into the Gothic grotesque, and often he made them with Johnny Depp, who for years now has traded on the…

  • All Opposed Say "Neigh": A Flawed Bill to Ban Horse Slaughter

    14 May 2012 | 12:00 am
    “We’re Americans,” Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu told me two weeks ago in the Russell Senate building in Washington, D.C. “We don’t eat our dogs, and we don’t eat our horses.” She had just finished delivering a speech to a rapt audience of two-dozen bright-eyed teenage girls, a handful of congressmen, top members of the ASPCA and Humane Society, and Lorenzo Borghese, star of the ninth season of the reality television show The Bachelor. They had gathered for “Horses on the Hill,” an event organized by a coalition of animal rights groups…

  • It’s Official, Obama’s Trying to Win the West—Not Ohio

    10 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    When Lyndon Johnson endorsed path-breaking civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s, he knew that he was irrevocably changing the Democratic Party. As he was affixing his signature to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he reportedly remarked to an aide that he was “signing away the South for 50 years.” President Obama’s decision to endorse gay marriage may yield a similar outcome by weakening beyond repair his party’s links with less educated, socially conservative white voters. (For the record: what follows is a purely political analysis, not a critique of Obama’s…

  • Stop Worrying: There’s No Political Downside to Backing Gay Marriage

    10 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Will Obama’s Wednesday embrace of same-sex marriage equality hurt him in November? The short answer is: possible, but not likely. First, as a general proposition, it seems unlikely that there are large numbers of socially conservative voters who lean Obama today but will be transformed into opponents simply by his declared support for marriage equality. Obama’s backing for equality for gays has, after all, been apparent throughout his administration, most famously in ending the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy in the military. A voter who’s stuck with Obama through…
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  • Uncovering Early Islam

    Richard Pipes
    16 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    The year 1880 saw the publication of a book that ranks as the single most important study of Islam ever. Written in German by a young Jewish Hungarian scholar, Ignaz Goldziher, and bearing the nondescript title Muslim Studies (Muhammedanische Studien), it argued that the hadith, the vast body of sayings and actions attributed to the Islamic prophet Mohammed, lacked historical validity. Rather than provide reliable details about Mohammed’s life, the hadith, Goldziher established, emerged from debates two or three centuries later about the nature of Islam. (This is like today’s…

  • Playing Politics with Protectionism

    Patrick Brennan
    16 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    As part of his recent “to-do list” presented to Congress, President Obama suggested that one useful form of economic stimulus would be to “stop rewarding companies who ship jobs overseas, and use that money to cover moving expenses for companies that are moving jobs back here to America.” It’s hard to disagree that this proposal sounds like good politics, but it’s also very bad policy. As he is wont to do, the president is offering a piece of legislation that he and his party have proposed multiple times before. Democrats in the House and Senate have…

  • What Happened in Greece?

    Napoleon Linardatos
    16 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    In Jonah Goldberg’s The Tyranny of Clichés, liberals in the United States try to conceal their ideological bias by pretending to be objective, pragmatic, and moderate. The Greek Left, on the other hand, operating in a center-left country, has no such preoccupations. In the May 6 parliamentary elections, for the first time in recent history, a party of the far Left came in second. It is composed of various subgroups such as the eco-socialists, the Anti-Capitalist Group, the Communist Organization of Greece, and the Trotskyist Communists of the group known as Red. Just in case you…

  • Obama’s Appalachian Problem

    Brian Bolduc
    16 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    In West Virginia, federal inmate Keith Judd recently swiped 42 percent of Democratic votes from the president, indicating the level of dissatisfaction among the rank and file. And according to a Talk Business–Hendrix College poll conducted on May 10, Obama leads John Wolfe, a virtually unknown candidate, in Arkansas’s 4th congressional district by only 7 points, 45–38. Three weeks earlier, the Talk Business–Hendrix College poll showed the president leading by 65–24 in the slightly less conservative 1st district, but that was before Obama declared his support for…

  • Romney’s Russian Reset

    Arthur Herman
    16 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    It was a bad week for Russian president Vladimir Putin. First, there was the crash of the Russian-made airliner in Indonesia that killed 45 people and wrecked whatever’s left of the reputation of Russia’s struggling aerospace industry. Second, there was the news about terrorists planning to bomb the 2014 Winter Olympics, which are supposed to be held in the Russian city of Sochi.Keep reading this post . . .
 
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    Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

  • Mladic Bent on Genocide in Bosnia, Court Told

    editor@truthdig.com
    16 May 2012 | 11:26 am
    At the start of his war crimes trial Wednesday, former Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic was accused of setting out to “ethnically cleanse” Bosnia during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war and of presiding over the deaths of tens of thousands of people.  —ARK BBC: Gen Mladic faces 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including genocide, in connection with the brutal 1992-95 Bosnian war. Prosecutors in The Hague said they would show his hand in the crimes. He has called the accusations “monstrous” and the court has entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. Read…

  • California’s Day of Reckoning

    editor@truthdig.com
    16 May 2012 | 10:22 am
    California Gov. Jerry Brown has embraced austerity as the solution to the state’s economic problems, and his updated budget plan contains plenty of pain for most everyone as it cuts deeply into social programs. —ARK The Independent: Welfare payments, healthcare for the poor, and benefits for elderly and disabled Californians will be immediately slashed by around $8.3bn (£5.2bn), which equates to roughly 17 per cent of Mr Brown’s entire discretionary budget. And state offices, which employ roughly 200,000 people, will switch to a four-day, 38-hour work week. The radical…

  • Needy States Use Housing Aid to Prop Up Budgets

    editor@truthdig.com
    16 May 2012 | 9:34 am
    More than a dozen states are plugging gaps in their budgets with hundreds of millions of dollars won from banks in mortgage and foreclosure settlements and intended to provide help to struggling homeowners.  —ARK The New York Times: The money was part of a national settlement valued at $25 billion and negotiated with five big banks over abuses in their mortgage and foreclosure processes. The settlement, reached in February after a year of talks and intervention by the Obama administration, was the second-largest in history involving the states, trailing the tobacco industry…

  • Blue Man Coup: How Gadhafi’s Mercenaries Broke Mali

    editor@truthdig.com
    16 May 2012 | 5:19 am
    By Susan Zakin Everything that rises must converge, and in 2012, an uprising at the ancient crossroads of Timbuktu kicked up a decades-in-the-making sandstorm of global capitalism, U.S. counterterrorism, cocaine smuggling and the long-denied rights of the most romantic nomads on earth.

  • Paul Volcker and His Rule

    editor@truthdig.com
    16 May 2012 | 4:24 am
    JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon may be less concerned with the actual $2 billion his bank lost than the credence it lends to calls for tougher regulation.
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  • 2012

    PunditGuy
    21 Apr 2012 | 2:41 pm

  • Good Morning America Beats TODAY Show, and…

    PunditGuy
    19 Apr 2012 | 10:41 pm
    They had to take a picture. Why didn’t they put Stephanopoulos on a box or something? I mean really. Look at him next to Robin Roberts for goodness sake! She’s like a foot and a half taller than him. Where’s a phone book when you need it? Awkward.

  • My REAL iPad 3 WiFi Problem

    PunditGuy
    19 Apr 2012 | 9:40 pm
    First of all, it’s legit. Whenever new gadgets come out, there is always a group of people who are first to complain about some software bug, some hardware foul up, some blemish that results in the purchase being the biggest waste of time in their life (up to that moment). I usually look at these things as the normal 2% allocation of complainers. And low and behold, the manufacturer usually comes out with a “it’s not our problem, you’re doing it wrong” answer. I’m not doing my iPad 3 wrong. It first started when I was in my living room. I’ve had an iPad 1, iPad2, and now I have…

  • A Chart Paints a Thousand Words

    PunditGuy
    18 Apr 2012 | 9:20 pm
    Stunning. Just look at this for awhile, then go to ReadWriteWeb for the story.

  • Dick Clark is Dead

    PunditGuy
    18 Apr 2012 | 3:11 pm
    He’s a teenager no more. Dick Clark, the creator of "American Bandstand" and "Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve," died Wednesday morning, his rep tells FoxNews.com. He was 82. Clark suffered a massive heart attack after entering  St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica Tuesday night for an outpatient procedure, according to his family. Attempts to resuscitate were unsuccessful. I guess I’ve expected this for some time. The guy really seemed to have a tough time coming back from that terrible stroke he had in 2004. At the time it was reported as…
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  • Boehner seeks action on debt reduction

    Paul Mirengoff
    16 May 2012 | 11:49 am
    (Paul Mirengoff) Speaker John Boehner is calling on Congress to deal with the issues of budget reductions and the Bush tax cuts before the election. And he is threatening to block an increase in the federal debt ceiling unless significant new cuts occur.The case for tackling these issues now is straightforward. If they are put off until the lame duck session, there will be little time to avoid the train wreck scheduled for January, when the first round of harsh, across-the-board spending cuts are to kick in, absent agreed upon cuts.As Joe Lieberman put it, “this whole idea of waiting until…

  • An upset in Nebraska

    Paul Mirengoff
    16 May 2012 | 11:14 am
    (Paul Mirengoff) In Nebraska, State Senator Deb Fischer has upset Jon Bruning, the state’s attorney general, to win the Republican nomination for the Senate seat held by Democrat Ben Nelson, who is retiring. Late returns had Fischer leading Bruning by 40-36. She will face former Senator Bob Kerrey.Until recently, Bruning had been leading in the polls. Fischer had been running third, behind Don Stenberg, the state’s treasurer, who was endorsed by Sen. Jim DeMint and the Club for Growth. However, Fishcer, who has never run for statewide office before, received a late endorsement from Sarah…

  • George Zimmerman’s Defense

    John Hinderaker
    16 May 2012 | 10:30 am
    (John Hinderaker) ABC News has obtained a copy of a doctor’s report on a visit by George Zimmerman the day after the Trayvon Martin shooting. The report discloses that Zimmerman had a broken nose, two black eyes, two cuts on the back of his head, bruising on the upper lip and cheek and lower back pain. This revelation obviously bolsters Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense and sheds light on why local authorities initially declined to charge him. The injuries described in the doctor’s report appear to corroborate strongly the version of events that Zimmerman gave to police…

  • The Last Lion at Long Last

    Steven Hayward
    16 May 2012 | 9:08 am
    (Steven Hayward) Lots of good books out right now deserving comment and reflection, including Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind (spent the day with him last Friday), Jonah Goldberg’s The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas, and Jim Manzi’s Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial and Error for Business, Politics, and Society (Jim is another pal, and maybe one of the two or three most incandescently brilliant people I’ve ever met).  In due course I’ll try to post some comments on all three of these fine books.But right now I want to be the first to…

  • In Larson’s Garden: Ten notes

    Scott Johnson
    16 May 2012 | 7:45 am
    (Scott Johnson) Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, just out in paperback, is the best book I’ve read since Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption. In truth, I’m afraid it may be the first book I’ve read front to back since Unbroken, but still…When I finished Unbroken I offered 10 notes on Unbroken in “The improbable lives of Louis Zamperini.” I want to do the same for Larson’s Garden. More than anything I want to urge you…
 
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  • The Great Amazon

    Lew Rockwell
    16 May 2012 | 10:54 am
    Where else could one locate all these hard-to-find, neat items except Amazon? LRCers have done exactly that: Dr. Pye's - 7 Million Live Beneficial Nematodes - Kills Over 230 Bugs; ESEE Knives Gear: Wallet Survival Kit; Zombie Ammo Can - Limited Edition; Zimbabwe 100 Trillion Dollar Bank Note 2008 Uncirculated; Kayak, Canoe, Ladder Lift Hoist for Garage; Big Daddy Flying Model Rocket Kit. Best-Selling Books: Classified Woman - The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir, by Sibel D. Edmonds; Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision of World Peace,…

  • A Proud Marxist vs. a Welfare/Warfare Statist

    Thomas DiLorenzo
    16 May 2012 | 10:25 am
    That's America's choice if "Willard" Romney is the Republican nominee. My old friend Yuri Maltsev, who was an economic advisor to Gorbachev and defected from the Soviet Union in the 1980s, calls Obama "the proud Marxist in the White House." Yuri knows a proud Marxist when he sees one. As for Willard, he has said that he wants to explode the growth of the warfare state even more than it has already been exploding under the past several regimes. On the subject of the welfare state, he has said that it is just fine and dandy except for the need for some "improvement." In D.C. speak, this means…

  • Americanisation of International Law

    Michael S. Rozeff
    16 May 2012 | 7:04 am
    Apoorva Anubhuti has a paper on the "Americanisation of International Law." Her thesis is that "International law has become the principal language in which domination is being expressed in the era of globalisation." She examines three different ways in which this is accomplished by the American empire: militarily (think Iraq and Afghanistan); bargaining/blackmail (think World Bank, EU, IMF, WTO, and bilateral investment treaties using the Hull doctrine); and consensually/hegemonically (think adopting American legal conventions as in Article 51 in the Law of Sea Convention).

  • Bottom-Up International Law

    Michael S. Rozeff
    16 May 2012 | 6:53 am
    Janet Levit has a paper on three examples of international law that grew up privately and/or in the free market way and not top-down, in the state way (like World Bank, IMF, WTO, EU, NAFTA). I can't vouch for their total purity, however. But they are examples of the spontaneous order that flowers in this world when given the opportunity. You've never heard of them because the press is directly linked to states and constantly publishes anything that state actors do, but doesn't cover in the same way the myriad free market developments. She discusses the Uniform Customs and Practice for…

  • Panarchy and the Free Lakota Bank

    Michael S. Rozeff
    16 May 2012 | 5:53 am
    Yesterday I posted on separation of banks (and their reform) from non-banking, leaving unsaid whether this would be done by the state or free markets, and I made a point of saying that the ideas were one of many possibilities and not the most far-reaching. Today I have an example of a bank that shows what is possible to evolve in a more free market and also in a panarchic direction (competing non-territorial governments and states). It is the Free Lakota Bank. For the record, I'm not recommending investment in anything. I don't make investment recommendations. I haven't examined the pros and…
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  • twenty with a race thrown in there

    Stephanie
    14 May 2012 | 3:30 pm
    Saturday:My alarm clock went off at 5:30 am and I sat up wondering why I was getting up that early?  It took me 3-4 seconds to remember it was Saturday and I had my final long run to do.  I felt deflated for a second because I wanted to crawl back under the covers and ignore the 3+ hour endurance feat I was supposed to start in mere minutes.I threw on my robe and scurried downstairs to have a cup of hot chocolate and two pieces of toast with peanut butter.  After everything was prepared I took it up to the bathroom with me so I could eat while I changed into my running…

  • Lets talk swimwear

    Stephanie
    10 May 2012 | 12:21 am
    I've talked about it before, and I'm sure I'll talk about it again, but I just gotta lay it out there this time of year because we Oregonians are heading into the warmest weekend of the year (so far) and I know many women have swimsuit shopping on the mind.  So, lets review what looks good and appropriate and what doesn't.  Okay, here we go...If you are over 35 yrs. of age do not wear a bikini.  Harsh?  Maybe, but the truth is, seeing someone in a bikini when they shouldn't be is painful for the rest of us.  We don't enjoy seeing what should not be seen.Let me tell…

  • you win some, you lose some

    Stephanie
    8 May 2012 | 1:22 pm
    But, what matters most is that you tried.Wes and I work very hard to drill this concept into our kids heads.  In the past couple of weeks Emma and Alice have put themselves out there, doing things that are hard (and scary, IMO) and I’m so proud of them.They both tried out for things (plays/teams).  Performing in front of judges to be evaluated is such a gut-wrenching experience, and no matter the outcome I am super impressed with their willingness to try.We are all born with different talents. That is just reality.  Some of those talents are easier to categorize than…

  • Tired

    Stephanie
    5 May 2012 | 11:45 pm
    {image courtesy of Pinterest}I'm fatigued.  The marathon training is finally catching up with me physically, and I'm pooped.  I found myself asleep with my mouth open the other afternoon, curled up on a chair listening to the sounds of my kids swirling around me, and Say Yes to the Dress coming from the t.v..Today was a down day (my Saturday long runs alternate with shorter runs at this point).  It was "just" a 12 miler.  And, it was hard.  I didn't feel well.  How can I have an awesome 19 miler just a week ago, and struggle putting one foot in front of the other…

  • feed me

    Stephanie
    2 May 2012 | 11:29 pm
     Halfway through my freshman year in college I made a call to my mother to thank her.  I was sitting in the student lounge with the over sized receiver in my hand when I told her how much I appreciated all the meals she made for me during my whole life.  I'm fairly certain she didn't see this call coming.  I mean, who randomly gets a call thanking them for making dinner for them day in and day out for almost 18 years?  But, on my side of the line I was really feeling deep gratitude for her and her gift of feeding me.When I had kids, I was quite aware of the demands…
 
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  • Obama's contempt for voters

    Betsy Newmark
    16 May 2012 | 9:03 am
    Not only does Obama think voters are so stupid and uninformed that they'll swallow his garbage about how the government and the internet are responsible for the success of Microsoft or how Mitt Romney is responsible for the failure of a company that closed in the midst of a national decline in steel production two years after Romney left the company, now Obama is back to calling Americans bigots. He went on The View and said that his reelection will be tough this year because his name is Barack Hussein Obama. Hello?! Did he happen to forget that Americans were able to get over his name four…

  • Cruising the Web

    Betsy Newmark
    16 May 2012 | 6:20 am
    George Lucas gets some Jedi revenge on Marin County.Mickey Kaus and Ted Frank wonder how an Obama pal offering Jeremiah Wright $150,000 to stay quiet during the 2008 campaign is all that different from John Edwards' moneybag friends offering Rielle Hunter money to stay out of sight during his presidential run.The Taxman Cometh for children's books.Gosh, there are a lot of lies in Obama's claims about the bailout of GM. And the Obama administration knows that these are lies, but they keep repeating them.Having just $34 billion to show after a $100 billion-plus investment would get a chief…

  • The insufferable egotism of The One

    Betsy Newmark
    15 May 2012 | 9:30 am
    Seth Mandel uncovers a perfect example of the hubris of Obama and his acolytes in his administration. They have rewritten the official biographies of past presidents back to Calvin Coolidge, excluding Gerald Ford, to insert references to The One. Here are some examples from whitehouse.gov * On Feb. 22, 1924 Calvin Coolidge became the first president to make a public radio address to the American people. President Coolidge later helped create the Federal Radio Commission, which has now evolved to become the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). President Obama became the first president to…

  • Cruising the web

    Betsy Newmark
    15 May 2012 | 6:57 am
    Hmmm, could it be true that the leak about that underwear bomber revealed last week was really a British-Saudi operation that the CIA hadn't even known about until recently? And what about those allegations that the leak came frohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifmhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif the Obama administration and that the Brits are furious about how the leak endangered the asset and the investigation? http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifHere is more evidence of how worthless the United Nations is. Instead of investigating truly devastating conditions of hunger around the…

  • Cruising the Web

    Betsy Newmark
    14 May 2012 | 5:43 am
    Why should barbers have to be licensed? So many occupational license regulations are just methods for those who are in the profession to keep newcomers out. And those who are already employed have their pet politicians to keep their protection. Their defense is ludicrous.Take the response of the director of a barbering school in Michigan to a different proposal by a state legislator (not included in Mr. Snyder's proposal) to repeal barber licenses: "I'm not saying we are as important as doctors, but we are the closest you can get. We are turning this into the Wild, Wild West. . . . I'd like…
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  • Scott Walker leads in new Wisconsin recall poll

    Rachel Weiner
    16 May 2012 | 1:08 pm
    Gov. Scott Walker (R) is up six points over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) in a new Wisconsin gubernatorial recall poll from Marquette Law School. Walker leads Barrett 50 to 44 among 600 likely voters in the school’s first survey since the May 8 Democratic primary. Their last poll, released May 2, showed a dead heat. Read full article >>

  • How Deb Fischer pulled an upset in Nebraska

    Rachel Weiner
    16 May 2012 | 12:16 pm
    Attorney General Jon Bruning was supposed to win the Nebraska Republican Senate primary — unless he was upset by state Treasurer Don Stenberg, who had the support of national conservatives. Neither man won. Instead, Nebraska’s GOP nominee this fall will be state Rep. Deb Fischer, who surged in the past few weeks with little money or help. She’ll be the one to take on former senator Bob Kerrey (D). Read full article >>

  • Why we’re headed for more debt limit brinksmanship

    Aaron Blake
    16 May 2012 | 11:07 am
    House Speaker John Boehner gave the political world a dose of deja vu on Tuesday when he said Republicans would again hold their ground when the debt limit again comes to a vote in 2013. “We shouldn’t dread the debt limit,” Boehner said at the Peter G. Peterson Fiscal Summit. “We should welcome it. It’s an action-forcing event in a town that has become infamous for inaction.” Read full article >>

  • Crossroads launches $25 million, monthlong ad campaign hitting Obama

    Aaron Blake
    16 May 2012 | 8:29 am
    Republican-aligned Crossroads GPS is going up with a $25 million TV ad buy over the next month seeking to set the table for November’s general election and define President Obama. The massive TV buy from the policy arm of the American Crossroads super PAC will focus on jobs, the economy, Obamacare and government debt. Read full article >>

  • Obama’s April fundraising haul: $43.6 million

    Rachel Weiner
    16 May 2012 | 8:03 am
    President Obama and the Democrats raised $43.6 million in April as the campaign against former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney ramps up. That’s a drop from March when Obama and various Democratic committees together raised $53 million, even though the campaign had 169,500 new donors last month. Obama dwarfed Romney in fundraising in March, when the Republican candidate took in only $12.6 million. Romney has yet to release his April numbers. Read full article >>
 
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  • Three Reasons to Reject Federal Hate Crime Charges Against George Zimmerman

    Jacob Sullum
    16 May 2012 | 1:19 pm
    WFTV, the ABC affiliate in Orlando, reports that the FBI is looking for evidence to support federal hate crime charges against George Zimmerman for shooting Trayvon Martin on February 26. Three reasons it should stop: 1. There is very little evidence that Zimmerman hates black people, let alone that he shot Martin because he hates black people. 2. In the absence of a legal justification (such as self-defense), killing people should be a crime, but hating them because of their skin color should not be. By treating crimes more severely when they are motivated by bigotry, hate crime laws…

  • Sheldon Richman Asks if Obama Is "Evolving" His Position on the War on Drugs

    Reason.com
    16 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Much is made of how President Obama’s position on same-sex marriage has “evolved” to an endorsement of legalization. One hopes his position on the atrocity called the “war on drugs” is evolving as well, writes Sheldon Richman.  View this article.

  • When Will Obama Evolve on the Drug War?

    Sheldon Richman
    16 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Much is made of how President Obama’s position on same-sex marriage has “evolved” to an endorsement of legalization. One hopes his position on the atrocity called the “war on drugs” is evolving. It’s not really a war on drugs. It’s a war on people, most of whom have committed no violence or other aggression against person or property. Those who do commit violence are encouraged to do so by the very “war on drugs” that Obama and other enlightened leaders so enthusiastically support. Black markets often feature violence — precisely because they are illegal. Decriminalize the…

  • Another Exhibit Against Florida's Self-Defense Law Disintegrates

    Jacob Sullum
    16 May 2012 | 12:05 pm
    Two years ago, the Tampa Bay Times ran a story that has been widely cited since George Zimmerman's February 26 shooting of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. "Five years since Florida enacted 'stand-your-ground' law," the headline announced, "justifiable homicides are up." That trend in itself, of course, does not tell us whether the 2005 changes to Florida's self-defense law, which included eliminating the "duty to retreat" for people attacked in public places and beefing up the "castle doctine" for people facing intruders in their homes, were wise or misguided. In fact, if justifiable…

  • No Joke: Stimulus Money Went to Study Erectile Dysfunction In Obese Men

    Nick Gillespie
    16 May 2012 | 12:03 pm
    Via Drudge comes news that we here at Reason saw coming years ago. Really. Just look below. NBC's Bay Area affiliate reports that $250,000 in stimulus funds sent to University of California-San Francisco ended up lining the pockets of researchers looking into links between obesity and erectile dysfunction: The University declined to provide an expert to talk with the NBC Investigative Unit about the erectile dysfunction grant. In a written statement provided they said in part, "Obesity related health issues currently cost $147 Billion per year in direct medical costs in the United States.....
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    Lehigh Valley Conservative

  • Disappointment and Sadness

    Randy Toman
    1 May 2012 | 10:55 am
    I was at the Bethlehem (PA) Area School District (BASD) finance meeting last night (4/30/2012). The school board voted on the preliminary budget and to approve the 4.84% increase in school property tax to cover the budget short fall and lack of revenue. Their budget for the 2012-13 year is $212,158,344.00 an approximate $6+million dollar increase in spending over last year. According to the slide presentation the average property tax increase would be a $162.93 yearly increase. I got up at the close (courtesy of the floor) of the meeting and attempted to defend the BASD citizen from the…

  • To be or Not to be—-Right

    Randy Toman
    24 Apr 2012 | 12:56 pm
    This article is not written to show a right or wrong of issues. But instead show how there is an ever increasing danger of not being able to formulate a positive direction and/or worse, the fact that the determining of that path does not hinge on either party making the right decision, for there may not be an option available to be taken. We can quickly get into a situation were no one wants to compromise and take the citizens on to a positive path of correction. In the example below all negotiation break down and leave the leaders without recourse, stalling of all operations. I call your…

  • Hey Kids, “Don’t do drugs, and here’s how to lie about it.”

    Randy Toman
    28 Mar 2012 | 12:38 pm
    Defined as “the courses offered by an educational institution”, curriculum seems to be the last priority of the current EASD school board and the current administration under Mrs. McGinley.  At the March 27th regular school board meeting some concerned citizens staged a public reading from one of the most vulgar, politically biased, non-fiction books approved for our children by the McGinley administration. Excerpts form the book were identified by page number, prefaced for context, and then simply read word for word as printed. Audible sneers and whisperings against our public reading…

  • Finding of the Ways

    Randy Toman
    25 Mar 2012 | 7:46 am
    “NCC (Northampton Community College) Trustee Nomination Stalls” Doug Graves 3/21/2012 Bethlehem Press article tells us much as to how things are being run. According to the article it appears the nomination of Ms. Leeson and Mr. Faccinetto, to the NCC board of trustees, ran into some rough waters with qualifications being reduced and no longer a critical factor in the appointment. Vidanage, Ortiz and Bonilla all stated there should be a minority on the NCC board of trustee’s. According to the article; “Bonilla forcefully explained the rationale for his seeking the job. He said, as a…

  • Sandra Fluke—is it Right

    Randy Toman
    4 Mar 2012 | 7:47 am
    Sandra Fluke third year law student at Georgetown University defended her wanting contraception paid for by government because it was costing 3 thousand dollars for a student to buy the protection they thought they were entitled to. Sandra Fluke has unleashed a fire storm of controversy as the talk show people tried to bring it to light or maybe better way of putting it—-they tried to frame the wrong in what she said or is attempting to do. You can view one clip here: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/not-going-to-be-silenced-by-this-sex-plea-co-ed-responds-to-limbaugh-on-ed-show/ In…
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  • Romney Camp: Press Wasn't Supposed to Be Blocked From Rope Line

    Katrina Trinko
    16 May 2012 | 1:26 pm
    The Romney campaign has consistently avoided giving the press much access to Mitt Romney himself. Romney rarely answers questions shouted at him, and he recently went over a month without doing a press conference. Today, Romney staffers and volunteers tried to prevent reporters from even getting access to the rope line. But the Romney campaign is saying that resulted from a mistake. “This was an error on the part of the campaign staff and volunteers. We have reminded them that press is allowed on the rope line to record the governor’s interactions with voters,” Romney…

  • Biden Attacks Romney on Tire Tariffs

    Katrina Trinko
    16 May 2012 | 1:06 pm
    As Dan noted, Joe Biden is set to double down on the GST Steel attack in a speech in Ohio today. (Never mind that Mitt Romney was no longer working at Bain on a day-to-day basis when the company went bankrupt, or that union influence may have played a role in the company’s financial woes.) But Biden is also trotting out another attack today: What does Governor Romney believe?Keep reading this post . . .

  • Black Pastor Now Supports Obama

    Noah Glyn
    16 May 2012 | 12:55 pm
    Reverend Emmett Burns, a prominent black pastor in Maryland, made quite the sensation when he was interviewed by CNN in the wake of President Obama’s announcement that he supports same-sex marriage. He promised to neither vote for President Obama nor for Mitt Romney. “I don’t plan on voting for Romney, for sure,” he said on CNN. “Right now, I plan to stay home.” But in an interview with National Review Online, Reverend Burns says that he changed his mind. “I’m from Mississippi where blacks fought long and hard” for voting rights.

  • An Agenda for Resurgence

    Yuval Levin
    16 May 2012 | 12:54 pm
    National Affairs, the quarterly magazine I edit, publishes essays on a range of issues in domestic policy, politics, culture, and political thought. But some of our most widely read and cited pieces have been very specific “how to” essays for addressing some concrete policy problems—reforming Medicare or Medicaid, replacing Obamacare or Dodd-Frank, fixing state finances or local education.  Keep reading this post . . .

  • 'CHART: Spending, Taxes, and Deficits Are All Lower Today Than When Obama Took Office'

    Rich Lowry
    16 May 2012 | 12:52 pm
    ThinkProgress has a post purporting to prove President Obama’s unappreciated fiscal conservatism. I asked a friend who follows these matters for his take. E-mail: Spending: The choice of measurement — % of GDP – is highly instructive. Between 2008 and 2009, according to OMB, spending as a percentage of GDP shot from 20.8 to 25.2. That was all recession and cyclical spending. That was pre-2009 stimulus, pre-2009 appropriations – in other words, pre-all of the big spending increases that the President presided over during his first two years. We know those spending…
 
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  • Third Poll in a Week Shows Scott Walker at 50% in Wisconsin Recall Race

    John McCormack
    16 May 2012 | 1:28 pm
    In the past week, three different pollsters have polled the Wisconsin recall race, and all three came up with virtually identical results. Last week, a Rasmussen poll showed Governor Scott Walker leading Democrat Tom Barrett 50% to 45%. Yesterday, the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling showed Walker leading Barrett 50% to 45%. And today, a new Marquette Law School poll shows Walker leading Barrett 50% to 44%. If these polls are accurate, that's obviously good news for the governor. With Walker sitting at 50%, Barrett not only needs to win over virtually all of the…

  • MAD-Men Lawmakers Want to Kill East Coast Missile Defenses Against Iran

    Robert Zarate
    16 May 2012 | 1:12 pm
    House of Representatives lawmakers are set to debate an annual bill that authorizes military programs later this week, and a handful of Democrats have set their sights on killing provisions that would support efforts to build missile defenses by 2015 to protect America’s East Coast from future missile threats from countries like Iran. It’s no accident that the House Armed Service Committee wants to robustly defend the East Coast from missiles by 2015. For over a decade, the intelligence community has consistently estimated that Iran, with foreign assistance, could develop by that year an…

  • 'Spoiled Rotten'

    Daniel Halper
    16 May 2012 | 12:01 pm
    Jay Cost talks about his new book, Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic, with Fox News: Buy Jay's book, which was just released yesterday, here.

  • Company Receiving Taxpayer Money Has More Jobs Overseas than in America

    Daniel Halper
    16 May 2012 | 11:12 am
    The chairman of First Solar, a company that's been in the recipient of the Department of Energy money, admitted this morning at a House hearing that his company has more jobs overseas than in America: In terms of "sheer numbers," the chairman of First Solar said to House Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa, the jobs are overseas. (He did, however, maintain that the "hub" of First Solar is "here," in America.)

  • Why Merkel Shouldn't Be Worried

    Victorino Matus
    16 May 2012 | 11:05 am
    The Drudge headline from Sunday night was "Crushing Defeat," which it certainly was for the Christian Democrats in North Rhine-Westphalia's state election. In the span of two years, the CDU plummeted from 34.6 percent of the vote to 26.3 percent within the state. The CDU's gubernatorial candidate and environmental minister Norbert Röttgen resigned from office just today. The Social Democrats, meanwhile, increased support from 34.5 percent to 39.1 percent. Combined with the Green party's 11.3 percent, the SPD-Green coalition will be running Germany's most…
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  • Why Would Anyone Want to Be the Candidate for the Bad Joke That Is Americans Elect?

    Daniel Larison
    16 May 2012 | 11:22 am
    Dana Millbank laments the lack of interest in Americans Elect from potential candidates: Yet even Paul, who ran as a third-party candidate in 1988, isn’t interested in the Americans Elect nomination. Perhaps the only thing more implausible than the scenario of a successful Americans Elect candidate in the general election was the idea that Ron Paul would be the Americans Elect candidate. Of course he isn’t interested. If he had wanted to switch parties and eliminate any gains he has made during the last two presidential campaigns, he could have done that by going back to the…

  • The U.S. Hasn’t Abandoned or Betrayed Allies in Europe As Part of the “Reset”

    Daniel Larison
    16 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    It isn’t an exaggeration to say that almost everything in Arthur Herman’s review of U.S. Russia policy is factually wrong: It meant cravenly abandoning our allies Poland and the Czech Republic on missile defense for Eastern Europe, in order to get a nuclear-arms-reduction treaty that reduced our nuclear arsenal while leaving lots of loopholes for Russia. It meant handing over nuclear secrets belonging to our ally Great Britain and offering Moscow top-secret information about our own missile-defense technologies. The last point is correct in that there is the possibility of sharing…

  • Romney Is Not “Well-Positioned” to Win in November

    Daniel Larison
    16 May 2012 | 5:10 am
    Pete Wehner imagines that Romney has the advantage in the election: This election, like most elections, will be decided on substance, not style; on objective circumstances, not ginned-up attacks. Which is why Mitt Romney is extremely well-positioned to become the next president of the United States. Doug Bandow’s article on Romney and foreign policy is another reminder that substance is something that Romney does not have on his side. Fortunately for him, elections aren’t decided by a candidate’s grasp of policy, foreign or domestic. Elections are typically decided by…

  • Ceaser’s Misrepresentation of Realism

    Daniel Larison
    16 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    James Ceaser mars an otherwise mostly interesting review of the literature on American exceptionalism with this bizarre and inaccurate digression on realism (via Postmodern Conservative): Where antiexceptionalists are not partisans of the ideology of global citizenship and postnationalism, they stand ready to plant their flag inside the school of thought in international relations known as “realism.” Realism does not mean looking at the phenomena as they actually present themselves—for otherwise belief in a mission, which realists acknowledge to exist and so often decry, would be a part…

  • The Failure of the Bad Joke That Is Americans Elect

    Daniel Larison
    15 May 2012 | 2:55 pm
    Jonathan Bernstein flags some silliness from John Avlon about Americans Elect: Perhaps the biggest obstacle was the basic fact of this particular election cycle—when a president is running for reelection, it tends to be a referendum. Third-party candidacies do best when there is not an incumbent on the ballot or after an extended period of one-party rule with weak opposition [bold mine-DL]. As Bernstein notes, that’s just false. 1912, 1948, 1992, and 1996 were elections in which an incumbent was on the ballot, and in all of those elections third party candidates did remarkably well.
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    The Spectacle Blog

  • Don't Blame Wrigley Field

    Aaron Goldstein
    16 May 2012 | 11:33 am
    In an op-ed in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, Rich Cohen argues that Wrigley Field should be torn down in order to put a merciful end to the Chicago Cubs' 104-year (and counting) World Series drought: I'm a Roman, and to me, the expanse between Waveland and Addison on Chicago's North Side is Carthage. The struts and concessions, the catwalk where the late broadcaster Harry Caray once greeted me with all the fluid liquidity of an animatronic Disneyland pirate - Hello, Cubs fan! - the ramps that ascend like a ziggurat to heaven - it's a false heaven - the bases, trestles, ivy, wooden seats…

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    16 May 2012 | 11:24 am

  • Senate to Hold Budget Votes Today

    W. James Antle, III
    16 May 2012 | 11:10 am
    The Democratic-controlled Senate hasn't passed a budget in 1,113 days and that is unlikely to change today. But senators are scheduled to vote on five different budget proposals, four of them proposed by Republicans.Senate Democrats did not agree to a budget of their own. There are a few interesting questions: How many Senate Republicans, if any, oppose the Paul Ryan budget from the left? There will be a few GOP senators who vote against it because it doesn't balance the budget fast enough. Will any say it goes too far? Does anyone vote for Barack Obama's budget? The president's budget failed…

  • Four Words

    Ross Kaminsky
    16 May 2012 | 8:04 am
    Yesterday, I posted to these pages a blog note of 619 words on the subject of the politics of Obama's flip-flop-flip on gay marriage. Of these, four words were "as we should be" which I used in reference to the nation's getting more comfortable with homosexual relationships. To be perfectly clear, I am neither gay nor willing to learn. But not being gay doesn't cause me to automatically dislike gays anymore than not being black causes me to automatically dislike blacks. Of course, I'm perfectly willing to dislike any individual based on his or her own merits. When I wrote those four words, I…

  • Beckett Turns Jeers Into Cheers

    Aaron Goldstein
    15 May 2012 | 9:11 pm
    Five days ago, Boston Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett was booed off the mound after a dismal performance against the Cleveland Indians in which he gave up seven runs over two and a third innings en route to an 8-3 loss. Red Sox Nation not only was miffed with Beckett's performance but teed off after it was revealed Beckett played a round of golf despite missing his previously scheduled start against the Baltimore Orioles. But today all is forgiven - for now. On his 32nd birthday, Beckett pitched seven shutout innings against the Seattle Mariners striking out nine batters. The Red Sox 5-0 victory…
 
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  • National Library of Medicine

    16 May 2012 | 3:58 am
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  • Mitt Romney ‘Competent Turk’ of 2012

    BobMcCarty
    12 May 2012 | 9:47 am
    Today at 10 a.m. Eastern, a crowd estimated at more than 34,000 gathered for commencement activities at Liberty University, the world’s largest Christian university, in Lynchburg, Va.  Regardless of what he told those in attendance, Mitt Romney stood out as the “odd duck” for one reason. Not because he’s the presumptive Republican nominee for president. [...]

  • It Was A Bad Week in ‘Clintonville’

    BobMcCarty
    11 May 2012 | 12:58 am
    By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Bill Clinton is the stereotypical southern Democrat politician: smooth, personable, sly as a fox, everyman’s friend on the outside, but tough, manipulative, hard as nails, and totally corrupt on the inside.  He and his wife have been through many adventures and misadventures together, and when their final story is [...]

  • Request for Copy of ‘Green-On-Blue’ Handbook Results in 30 Days of Stonewalling by Army

    BobMcCarty
    10 May 2012 | 3:49 pm
    After waiting 30 days — so far — for the U.S. Army to fulfill my request via the Freedom of Information Act, I’ve concluded that Army officials would rather keep certain unclassified information about the so-called “green-on-blue” attacks in Afghanistan out of the public eye.  Below is an update to my May 1 post on [...]

  • Labor Department to Smother Press Freedom

    BobMcCarty
    9 May 2012 | 3:24 pm
    This afternoon, I received an email from my friends at the Online News Association about a letter sent by the head of the Sunshine In Government Initiative to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis.  In short, the letter implores Solis to reconsider the implications of her agency’s new “Press Lock-Ups Policy, which could inhibit the quality, [...]

  • Oklahoma Soldier to Spend Fourth Birthday Behind Bars for Killing Known Al-Qaeda Operative in Iraq

    BobMcCarty
    8 May 2012 | 8:31 am
    Following the story of Army Ranger 1LT Michael Behenna has been a long and winding process that, to date, has required more than 50 posts to explain.  Today’s installment comes in the form of an update from his parents, Scott and Vicki Behenna: To the thousands of Michael Behenna supporters, Many of you have been [...]
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    Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post

  • Mark Zuckerberg: A man of his time

    Bonnie Goldstein
    16 May 2012 | 1:24 pm
    Millennial young adults are the first generation to come of age when their personal self-portraits in some digital form were a matter of semi-public record.  Particularly public – even when he wished it weren’t – has been the life story (so far) of Facebook's high profile founder, Mark Zuckerberg. Through aptitude, chutzpah and, some allege, misappropriation in 2004, the clever child --born in 1986 — created a forum where potentially, every single person on the planet will have the ability to look at the baby pictures of someone they just met.  Read full article >>

  • Herman Cain formally endorses Mitt Romney

    Felicia Sonmez
    16 May 2012 | 1:19 pm
    Businessman Herman Cain formally endorsed Mitt Romney’s presidential bid in an event on Capitol Hill on Wednesday afternoon. The move marks Cain’s third endorsement since suspending his own White House run last December amid multiple allegations of sexual harassment and a 13-year affair. Read full article >>

  • Oliver North, video-game pitchman

    Emily Heil
    16 May 2012 | 1:12 pm
    One might presume that Oliver North, a former Marine who helped broker the sale of weapons to Iran (as in Iran-Contra), might know something about “black ops.” Which explains why he’s now a spokesman for Call of Duty: Black Ops II, the military-themed blow-em-up video game. Much like Wilfred Brimley doing oatmeal commercials, or O.J. Simpson touting rental cars, North has a certain amount of... cachet, and certainly some credibility with the product he’s selling. Read full article >>

  • Scott Walker leads in new Wisconsin recall poll

    Rachel Weiner
    16 May 2012 | 1:08 pm
    Gov. Scott Walker (R) is up six points over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) in a new Wisconsin gubernatorial recall poll from Marquette Law School. Walker leads Barrett 50 to 44 among 600 likely voters in the school’s first survey since the May 8 Democratic primary. Their last poll, released May 2, showed a dead heat. Read full article >>

  • How Deb Fischer pulled an upset in Nebraska

    Rachel Weiner
    16 May 2012 | 12:16 pm
    Attorney General Jon Bruning was supposed to win the Nebraska Republican Senate primary — unless he was upset by state Treasurer Don Stenberg, who had the support of national conservatives. Neither man won. Instead, Nebraska’s GOP nominee this fall will be state Rep. Deb Fischer, who surged in the past few weeks with little money or help. She’ll be the one to take on former senator Bob Kerrey (D). Read full article >>
 
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  • U.S. Border Patrol Changes Tactics To Deal With Illegal Immigration

    9 May 2012 | 7:50 pm
    The U.S. Border Patrol is rolling out a new strategy for dealing with illegal immigration and trafficking. With the number of people entering the United States illegally from Mexico falling to a 40-year low, the agency is changing tactics to a more targeted and calculated approach. Instead of dispatching legions of Border Patrol agents to guard the traditional corridors for illegal entry, the new strategy is to rely more on intelligence and "risk-based" assessments....Read Full Post

  • Still Waiting on Mitt Romney's Immigration Policy Positions

    9 May 2012 | 7:45 pm
    It's hard to imagine that someone who's been coveting the presidency for the last decade doesn't have a position on an issue as basic as immigration, but apparently that's where we find Mitt Romney....Read Full Post

  • Arrests of Teen Migrants Soaring Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

    9 May 2012 | 6:56 pm
    While illegal migration across the U.S.-Mexico border has fallen dramatically in recent years, government officials say there has also been an alarming increase in the number of unaccompanied minors trying to cross into the United States....Read Full Post

  • Obama Tells Hispanics He Wants DREAM Act and Reform Laws

    7 May 2012 | 2:13 am
    President Obama celebrated Cinco de Mayo early last week when he entertained supporters of the DREAM Act at the White House. He told them he is committed to passing legislation that will give the children of undocumented immigrants the chance to get on with their lives here. Obama also reiterated that comprehensive immigration reform would be a priority in a second term....Read Full Post

  • Entrants Can Check Results of Diversity Visa Green Card Lottery

    2 May 2012 | 8:45 am
    The U.S. State Department is allowing entrants to the 2013 Diversity Visa green card lottery to begin checking their status online. The entrant status check is open from May 1, 2012 until Sept. 30, 2013. Those who have entered the lottery are reminded to keep their confirmation numbers, since the government might select more DV 2013 applicants beginning on Oct. 1....Read Full Post
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  • Romney camp responds to attack ads on Bain record

    Chris Jones
    15 May 2012 | 5:30 am
    Source: CBS Senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom responded to attack campaign ads launched by the Obama campaign against Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital on Monday, touting Romney’s record creating jobs against Obama’s as president.

  • Obama takes swipe at Romney’s jobs record – US politics live

    Chris Jones
    15 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    This article titled “Obama takes swipe at Romney’s jobs record – US politics live” was written by Richard Adams and Tom McCarthy, for guardian.co.uk on Monday 14th May 2012 21.32 UTC5.30pm: At least one Mitt Romney supporter has changed sides in the wake of Obama’s support for same-sex marriage. Bill White, an openly gay man who had donated to Romney’s camapign, has written the Republican candidate a letter that CNN also received:I feel that I no longer wish to support your presidential campaign and ask that you please return the maximum contribution that I…

  • Ron Paul suspends presidential campaign – but supporters stay loyal

    Chris Jones
    15 May 2012 | 4:30 am
    This article titled “Ron Paul suspends presidential campaign – but supporters stay loyal” was written by Tom McCarthy in New York, for guardian.co.uk on Monday 14th May 2012 21.10 UTCAfter building a political campaign that was long on passion and grassroots support, if ultimately short of votes, Texas congressman Paul announced today that he is suspending his hunt for the presidency.The candidate urged supporters to continue their efforts to amass delegates at state conventions, however, as part of a strategy to gain a voice at the Republican National Convention – and…

  • Obama Crony Who Tried To Bribe Rev. Wright Identified As Dr. Eric Whitaker

    Chris Jones
    15 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    From Gateway Pundit:Edward Klein, author of the just released book, “The Amateur”, names Obama’s close ally and friend as the one who bribed Rev. Jeremiah Wright with $150,000.  On today’s Sean Hannity show, Klein identified Obama’s crony as Dr. Eric Whitaker, the VP of the University of Chicago Medical Center.  The same hospital that employed Michelle Obama.The level of corruption in the Obama administration simply knows no bounds.

  • Video: Glenn Beck Looks At Lies Obama Has Told About His Past

    Chris Jones
    11 May 2012 | 4:30 am
    Take a look at this clip from GBTV. Glenn Beck lays out the various lies Barack Obama has told over the years about his past.
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  • Commie “Intellectual” Admits Palin Was Right About Obama

    whoopie
    16 May 2012 | 10:48 am
    Probably the last person you’d expect to cite Sarah Palin favorably is Noam Chomsky. Yet in an interview with the Leftist news organization Democracy Now, Chomsky did precisely that, saying Palin was right to mock Obama for his lack of substance. “I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin,” Chomsky said, “but when she was making fun of this ‘hopey changey stuff,’ [...]

  • Vegans Discover That Meat Is Pretty Good

    whoopie
    16 May 2012 | 10:16 am
    I live in Berkeley, California, where even the greasiest of spoons offers a tofu scramble. But lately, something strange has happened: Despite local food god Michael Pollan’s edict to eat “mostly plants,” my friends seem to be consuming more meat, not less. Parties are no longer just parties—they’re pig roasts, or chili cook-offs, or crab feeds. At the farmer’s market, [...]

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    15 May 2012 | 9:02 pm
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    15 May 2012 | 7:57 pm
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  • Medical Records Support Zimmerman Claim He Was Beaten By Trayvon

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    15 May 2012 | 7:03 pm
    A medical report compiled by the family physician of accused Trayvon Martin murderer George Zimmerman and obtained exclusively by ABC News found that Zimmerman was diagnosed with a “closed fracture” of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury the day after he fatally shot Martin during an [...]
 
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  • Limit Access to Deposit Insurance Fund

    Mark A. Calabria
    16 May 2012 | 11:03 am
    By Mark A. CalabriaThe recent losses at JP Morgan have renewed calls to break up the banks and/or increase regulation of the banks.  I’ve written elsewhere why I believe these losses do not justify more regulation, particularly of the Volcker rule variety.  While I have some sympathy with the break them up view, and a number of people for whom I have great respect have argued for that position, I think that position is ultimately flawed beyond repair. First any size limit would be arbitrary.  I don’t know anyone who thought that Bear Stearns was too big to fail ex ante.  I…

  • Selling Work Visas

    Alex Nowrasteh
    15 May 2012 | 4:38 pm
    By Alex NowrastehProfessor Giovanni Peri today made an interesting proposal to auction work visas to the highest bidding employer. His reform is similar to an auction proposal made by Gary Becker, but more specific. His idea is innovative and deals with transitioning from the current maze of quotas, visa categories, and other barriers to a more open system that better allocates visas to the highest bidders. The one  problem with Peri’s proposal is that it does not meaningfully increase the number of work visas. The limited number of work visas, not the distribution, is the main problem…

  • The States Are Already Getting Bailed Out

    Tad DeHaven
    15 May 2012 | 4:07 pm
    By Tad DeHavenIn today’s Wall Street Journal, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) advise the states to get their fiscal houses in order instead of holding out hope for a bailout from federal taxpayers. That’s sound advice. However, the states already effectively get bailed out by federal taxpayers each and every year. The first chart shows that the federal government has accounted for over a third of total state spending in recent years. The increase can be attributed to federal “stimulus” spending. The federal government’s share will retreat as the economy…

  • Another Fairly Insane Cross-National Health Care Comparison

    Michael F. Cannon
    15 May 2012 | 3:49 pm
    By Michael F. CannonYesterday, countless newspapers published a really disappointing story by Noam Levey that the Los Angeles Times ran under this title: Global push to guarantee health coverage leaves U.S. behind; China, Mexico and other countries far less affluent are working to provide medical insurance for all citizens. It’s viewed as an economic investment. The article is little more than a puff piece for the hotly contested idea of universal coverage. It gives zero space to the competing strain of thought that the less the government does for the poor, the sick, and the…

  • Caribbean Trade Dispute Gives the U.S. a Rum for Its Money

    K. William Watson
    15 May 2012 | 3:25 pm
    By K. William WatsonRum subsidies in U.S. Caribbean islands have sparked an internal trade war and are inviting a World Trade Organization (WTO) challenge from ill-affected countries in the region. According to an envoy representing a number of Caribbean countries that recently came to Washington, the U.S. government is unwittingly funding industrial policy in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico by tying aid dollars to rum production in a way that is inconsistent with our trade obligations and may cause the destruction of the entire foreign Caribbean rum industry. Under current law, U.S.
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  • Obama Reelection In Trouble?

    David
    16 May 2012 | 6:36 am
    It appears that President Obama may not have as easy a road to reelection as many had thought.  The thinking was that Republican Mitt Romney would be the candidate the Obama campaign did not... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Obama Gay Marriage Position

    David
    12 May 2012 | 6:48 am
    Well, it appears the "decisive" and "bold" President has changed his "evolving" position on gay marriage.  President Obama came out on Wednesday to give his personal support for gay... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Jon Stewart: A Cowardly Liberal

    David
    9 May 2012 | 6:42 am
    Back in April, Jon Stewart of the Daily Show, did a skit of a picture of a Christian manger scene placed between a nude woman’s spread legs.  Stewart and the liberals in the audience got a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Spiking the Football

    David
    5 May 2012 | 6:56 am
    A year ago, President Barack Hussein Obama stated categorically he would not "spike the football" in regard to the killing of Osama bin Laden.  Again, that was a year ago.  The reality... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Obama: Taking Credit for Killing Osama Bin Laden

    David
    2 May 2012 | 6:40 am
    I have often said that nothing President Obama does surprises me any longer.  His usurpation of the U.S. Constitution bypassing Congress with executive orders is one example.  He no longer... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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