Netizen News Brief

2010-12-29T03:59:00.000-08:00

Best of 2010: Media Scolded Americans as Anti-Islamic, Anti-Immigrant Bigots

2010-12-29T03:57:00.000-08:00

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Condemning everyday Americans as racist, anti-immigrant Islamophobes was a favorite media theme in 2010...

Polls showed most Americans supported Arizona's effort to curb illegal immigration and opposed building an Islamic center near the site of the destroyed World Trade Center towers — but on both scores the media elite stacked their coverage against the public...

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NYT Paints Fairy Tale Caricature of Obama

2010-12-29T03:55:00.000-08:00

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How on earth do you not challenge a statement like this?

“He doesn’t crave the spotlight the way some of these other presidents have. They needed to be constantly in the eye of the public; it propelled them into politics in the first place. Obama is less that way; he is more of a self-contained person, someone who can genuinely spend time by himself with his family.”

111th Congress Added More Debt Than First 100 Congresses Combined: $10,429 Per Person in U.S.

2010-12-29T03:53:00.000-08:00

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The federal government has accumulated more new debt--$3.22 trillion ($3,220,103,625,307.29)—during the tenure of the 111th Congress than it did during the first 100 Congresses combined, according to official debt figures published by the U.S. Treasury.

The total national debt of $13,858,529,371,601.09 (or $13.859 trillion), as recorded by the U.S. Treasury at the close of business on Dec. 22, now equals $44,886.57 for every man, woman and child in the United States...

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Ryan Debt Plan is Better Choice

2010-12-29T03:52:00.000-08:00

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“As early as 2025, federal revenue will barely be enough to pay for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and interest on our national debt,” ...

“With spending structurally outpacing revenue, something clearly needs to be done to avert national bankruptcy.”

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Re-evaluating Free Trade With China

2010-12-29T03:51:00.000-08:00

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Although China is called a major trading partner, it treats U.S. companies like suckers, cheating them coming and going. China even intimidates U.S. businessmen so they don't dare to criticize China's unfair trade tactics. ...

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Schwarzenegger's legacy: Green laws and red ink

2010-12-29T03:49:00.000-08:00

Rwanda's Economic Miracle

2010-12-29T03:31:00.000-08:00

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It must puzzle Rwandans to watch the loud squabbling between and within America’s political parties over keeping old tax cuts for just two more years. (Snip) During a four-day visit here, I found that the enthusiastic consensus for pursuing the free-market path out of poverty resembled an Amish barn-raising. Rather than practicing the class warfare that cripples America, Rwandans are pulling together to become prosperous.

“What Rwanda has to offer is really a vision for the private sector,”

[A vision the US evidently need now import.]

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Euro-Freedom Watch

2010-12-29T03:29:00.000-08:00

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With little fanfare, the EU adopted new legislation this week that makes “certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia” criminal offenses -- and allows individual EU nations to prosecute the citizens of other nations for those offenses.

And no, it’s not European anti-Americanism that’s being targeted by the xenophobia provisions. Advocates of free speech in Europe are quite clear that what the new law will criminalize is analytical, factual, or hortatory discussion of Islam or Sharia...

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War in Afghanistan: A 'breeze of change' blows in Helmand

2010-12-29T03:27:00.000-08:00

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This is the 10th Christmas that UK forces have spent looking out on to Afghanistan's seemingly untamed landscape. But while no one is clamouring to say it--there have been too many false dawns--there is a feeling in the air that, as yet another year of the campaign comes to a close, a corner has been turned...

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West Bank Shows There Is a Military Solution to Terror

2010-12-29T03:25:00.000-08:00

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The “expert” report Max cited yesterday, which declared Afghanistan unwinnable even while acknowledging progress in the war, reflects a broader problem: the claim that “there is no military solution to terror” has become virtually unchallenged dogma among Western intelligentsia.

Yet Israel’s experience in the West Bank shows terrorist organizations can be defeated -- if their opponents are willing to invest the requisite time and resources...

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Give Petraeus a Chance

2010-12-29T03:23:00.000-08:00

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Afghanistan isn’t Iraq, but the debate over the former sure sounds a lot like the debate over the latter. Once again, David Petraeus is overseeing a surge to rescue a failing war effort, and once again a legion of critics isn't waiting to see if he will succeed. ..

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9-11 Ring A Bell? Donny Doesn't Remember Why We Went Into Afghanistan

2010-12-29T03:21:00.000-08:00

How clueless can a guy who lives in Manhattan possibly be?

Discussing the Afghanistan war on Morning Joe, Donny Deutsch claimed "people weren't clear why we were there in the first place."

Uh, Donny . . .

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Bill Maher Goes Out with Another Conspiracy: ‘We Need a War All the Time So We Can...Buy Oil’

2010-12-29T03:19:00.000-08:00

The end of middle America? Working class white families are unraveling before our eyes

2010-12-29T03:17:00.000-08:00

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Foreclosures, plant closings, offshored jobs, underwater mortgages, miserable rates of unemployment, stagnating incomes: Is there any end to the woes of the struggling American middle? Apparently not, because now comes news of a trend guaranteeing trouble ahead for the more than half of the nation that make up the moderately educated and moderately earning middle — even if the economy improves.

That seismic shift, outlined in a new report from the National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values, is towards more divorce, more out of wedlock births and, ipso facto, fewer kids with a hopeful future...

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Mass. School Requires Permission Slips to Recite Pledge of Allegiance

2010-12-29T03:15:00.000-08:00

“Yeah, it’s sad. That’s the right word for it.”

Only NBC Notes Unveiling of New Reagan Postage Stamp

2010-12-29T03:13:00.000-08:00

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Nancy Reagan on hand today at the unveiling of the stamp that will mark the centennial anniversary of her husband's birth. The Ronald Reagan stamp goes on sale February 10th, just days after what would have been the former President's 100th birthday.

Of the broadcast network evening newscasts, only NBC, which has a deal to host a Republican presidential debate through MSNBC at the library, made note of the occasion.

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Obama's regulators kowtow to Big Green, imperil economy

2010-12-29T03:11:00.000-08:00

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Who's doing the most to hobble the productive power of the U.S. economy, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson or Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar?

President Obama's top two Cabinet appointees on environmental issues are running neck and neck in their race to see who can issue the most job-killing, growth-suffocating bureaucratic edicts.

Regardless of who "wins" their contest, of course, the losers will be the rest of us. We will have to endure long-term double-digit unemployment, skyrocketing energy and utility costs, and the loss of individual freedom that inevitably accompanies the growth of government regulation...

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What the Election Means

2010-12-29T03:09:00.000-08:00

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Under President Obama, federal spending has increased 25 percent, the national debt has swelled to almost $15 trillion and Obamacare will control 17 percent of the U.S. economy...

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Brown to eliminate state Office of Inspector General

2010-12-29T03:08:00.000-08:00

CALIFORNIA

"After announcing that Brown was closing her doors, Chick said the Capitol needs more oversight, not less. She complained that her efforts to shine a light on wasteful spending in Sacramento have been stymied by entrenched bureaucrats more interested in preserving their power than in ensuring public accountability. 'The state is not run by elected officials; it's run by very powerful, very knowledgeable civil servants,' Chick said, adding: 'Things don't change unless they want them to.'"

[The left's definition of transparency - wherever did they get the misguided notion?]

Mythbusting the 'rich don't pay enough taxes' lie

2010-12-29T03:07:00.001-08:00

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Taxing the rich at a high rate doesn't increase government revenue...

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Taxes trigger a Texodus in New York

2010-12-29T03:05:00.000-08:00

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The Lone Star State is scooping up more than just our congressional seats -- some $846 million in personal income shifted from New York to Texas in an eight-year period during the last decade, according to an analysis of IRS tax returns.Texas, which has no state or local income taxes and an enviably low cost of living, has been steadily poaching New Yorkers since the '90s...

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Britain's Left Are Panicking

2010-12-29T03:03:00.000-08:00

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London's descent into anarchy over a rise in university tuition fees shows just how deeply the entire leftist enterprise relies on its takeover of the university system...

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UCLA Professor: DREAM Act immigrants will 'replace old white men'

2010-12-29T03:01:00.000-08:00

TheDC Investigation: Universities encouraging students to receive welfare benefits

2010-12-29T02:59:00.000-08:00

Feds Should Flunk Out of Education

2010-12-29T02:57:00.000-08:00

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There's been essentially no change in high school math achievement for nearly the last four decades...

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2010-12-29T02:55:00.000-08:00

MSNBC Steamed Beck 'Allowed' To Criticize Public Schools

2010-12-29T02:53:00.000-08:00

Book Review: Dupes Reveals Communist Influence on Hollywood

2010-12-29T02:45:00.000-08:00

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Communism is responsible for more deaths in the 20th Century than both world wars, yet liberals have defended it for decades. A new book by Grove City College professor Paul Kengor – Dupes – documents this, showing how Communists used liberals to further their efforts in the U.S. This book masterfully documents dupes in the U.S. from the Hill to Hollywood...

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Despite 'Erin Brockovich' Bluster, Calif. Town Shows Below-average Cancer Rates

2010-12-29T02:43:00.000-08:00

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Julia Roberts may have been crowned best actress in 2000 for her performance in (and as) "Erin Brockovich", but the film did what politically-loaded Hollywood products often do: it distorted the facts, and may have done more harm than good to the town of Hinkley, CA.

The film followed Brockovich as she led a class-action suit against Pacific Gas & Electric for releasing hexavalent chromium, or chromium 6, a cancer-causing toxin, into the water supply in Hinkley. PG&E eventually went to arbitration, and awarded a record-$333 million in damages to residents of the town.

But now, 10 years after Roberts's award-winning performance, and 17 years after the actual suit, cancer rates in Hinkley are unremarkable. In fact, they are lower than would normally be expected...

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2010-12-29T02:39:00.000-08:00

Loser Pays, Everyone Wins
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Texas Governor Rick Perry is proposing a British-style "loser pays" rule, which would require plaintiffs to pick up the legal costs of their targets if they lose their suits...

[Common sense.]

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2010-12-29T02:29:00.000-08:00

Krauthammer on Clinton Quoting Him: 'My Career is Done - Maybe NPR Will Take Me'
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2010-12-29T02:19:00.000-08:00

2010-12-28T03:59:00.000-08:00

Airport body scanners, pat-downs to stay, Napolitano says

2010-12-28T03:57:00.000-08:00

TSA Silences Pilot For Telling The Truth

2010-12-28T03:55:00.000-08:00

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Terrorism: A 50 year old pilot who posted a YouTube video documenting flaws in TSA's airport security had his home raided and federally issued firearm confiscated. Body scanners and junk-touching are just the beginning. Ever watchful all 364 days of the year, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has discovered a new security threat — pilots who fly our planes and have questions about the TSA's security practices and policies...

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Terrorizing Our Own

2010-12-28T03:53:00.000-08:00

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Airline travelers flying the unfriendly skies are presented with two options, that are actually only a single option, to have themselves and their children degraded in public in order to spare Muslim feelings. That we have a ban on profiling travelers, but no ban on molesting or humiliating them, tells us everything we need to know about why we have the current system that we do...

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2010-12-28T03:51:00.000-08:00

NY Russian Immigrants Flock to GOP, Say Today‘s Democratic Party Too ’Socialistic’

2010-12-28T03:49:00.000-08:00

[could be a message there]

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America's Political Class: In Business for Themselves

2010-12-28T03:47:00.000-08:00

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We have a political class populated by those whose livelihoods depend on maintenance of a system they have made incoherent and unsustainable

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Why Constitutional Conservatism Is Ascending

2010-12-28T03:45:00.000-08:00

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If 2009 was the year of birth of the Tea Party movement, 2010 was the year of ascendancy of constitutional conservatism. In many ways, the movements are the same -- except, perhaps, that the Tea Party is a movement of political activism by people who weren't traditionally activists, and constitutional conservatism represents an awakening about the way back to American exceptionalism...

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Media Parrot Obama's Claim of 'Most Productive' Congress in Generations

2010-12-28T03:43:00.000-08:00

Not caring what "productive" means, media across the country dutifully parroted the President as the following video created by the folks at Breitbart TV marvelously demonstrates...

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Census: Fast Growth in States With No Income Tax

2010-12-28T03:39:00.000-08:00

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Texas' diversified economy, business-friendly regulations and low taxes have attracted not only immigrants but substantial inflow from the other 49 states. As a result, the 2010 reapportionment gives Texas four additional House seats. In contrast, California gets no new House seats, for the first time since it was admitted to the Union in 1850...

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California to spend another $1.2 billion to extend first leg of high-speed rail

2010-12-28T03:37:00.000-08:00

."After coming under attack for approving a multibillion-dollar 'train to nowhere,' California will spend an additional $1.2 billion to bring the line closer to 'somewhere' -- that is, from the outskirts of Fresno to an area near Bakersfield."

Japan cuts corporate tax rate to spur economy

2010-12-28T03:35:00.000-08:00

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Liberal Prime Minister cutting taxes on "the rich" to help economy...

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Deceive the Children: NYT 'Learning Network' Frames Federal Income Tax Rate Extension as Benefiting 'Especially the Wealthy'

2010-12-28T03:33:00.000-08:00

US Cable: China Leaders Ordered Hacking on Google

2010-12-28T03:31:00.000-08:00

WikiLeaks: Secret Cables Show Growing U.S. Concern Over China

2010-12-28T03:29:00.000-08:00

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While we publicly continue to insist that we don't see China as a potential enemy, the secret cables reveal a different story; concern over China's growing confidence to assert its power in Africa while readying itself to compete commercially and militarily with the US...

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Can Communist China Be America's Partner?

2010-12-28T03:28:00.000-08:00

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China's policies over the last decade have been vehemently anti-American -- according to Chinese policymakers, whatever is bad for the U.S. is good for the PRC. China has brought down an unarmed American plane in neutral airspace; laser-blinded an American satellite; stalked an American carrier; and embarked on a huge, opaque military buildup against the U.S. (what does China need carrier-killing warships and missiles and satellite-killing ballistic missiles for?).

China's hackers attack American cyber networks daily, while its media, led by the Global Times, continually vilify the U.S., and its customs services block American products from the Chinese market.

China has protected the odious NPT-violating regimes in North Korea and Iran, as well as the Burmese junta, from any serious sanctions.

China's military is planning and preparing for war with the U.S., and its generals have repeatedly threatened America. This February, Colonel Meng Xiangingpromised a "hand-to-hand fight with the U.S." MGEN Yang Yi said to his colleagues of the U.S., "We must make them hurt." RADM Guan Youfei toldAmerican officials this May that everything that's wrong about Sino-American relations is America's fault. Under Hu Jintao, the opinions of hawkish PLA generals have become official Chinese policy, and virulently anti-American generals have been appointed to key posts. Two generals (Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou) are members of the CPC's politburo, although neither is a member of its Standing Committee.

A 'partner' would hardly behave like this...

[Yet we're reducing our defense budget as if it's of equal value to our ever-growing social programs.]

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China deploying carrier-sinking missile

2010-12-28T03:25:00.000-08:00

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China's military is deploying a new anti-ship ballistic missile that can sink U.S. aircraft carriers, a weapon that specialists say gives Beijing new power-projection capabilities that will affect U.S. support for Pacific allies. Adm. Robert Willard, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, disclosed to a Japanese newspaper on Sunday that the new anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) is now in the early stages of deployment after having undergone extensive testing...

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Wind at their backs: Powerful Democrats help Chinese energy firm chase stimulus money

2010-12-28T03:23:00.000-08:00

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Washington - Top Democratic fundraisers and lobbyists with links to the White House are behind a proposed wind farm in Texas that stands to get $450 million in stimulus money, even though a Chinese company would operate the farm and its turbines would be built in China...

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2010-12-28T03:22:00.000-08:00

Multiculturalism Hits The Wall

2010-12-28T03:21:00.001-08:00

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Multiculturalism is the most recent, and perhaps final, expression of the late 20th-century left-wing ascendancy...

If there were a category higher than Must-Read, this would go there.
"The battle against terror is a race between rationality and luck" and our luck will run out."

Obama's Authoritarian Multiculturalism

2010-12-28T03:19:00.000-08:00

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Authoritarian multiculturalism today possesses an advantage it never had before: one of its most enthusiastic adherents currently occupies the White House...

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Obama Sends ‘Warmest Thoughts’ for Kwanzaa

2010-12-28T03:17:00.000-08:00

Maulana Karenga of the US Organization created Kwanzaa in 1966 as the first specifically African American holiday.[2] Karenga said his goal was to "give Blacks an alternative to the existing Christmas holiday...

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Christmas Weekend: Muslim Radicals Kill Dozens of Nigerian Christians

2010-12-28T03:15:00.000-08:00

State Department: 'We Actually Expected' Released Gitmo Detainees to Return to Terror

2010-12-28T03:13:00.000-08:00

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On the recently announced soaring recidivism rate for Gitmo detainees returning to terror, State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley said on Fox News that "we actually expected this to happen."

[yet they do it anyway]

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NYT Legal Reporter Defends Lefty Guantanamo Lawyers as Patriotic 'Civil Libertarians'

2010-12-28T03:11:00.000-08:00

EMAILS REVEAL NYC MAYOR’S OFFICE OFFERED BEHIND-THE-SCENES SUPPORT FOR GROUND ZERO MOSQUE

2010-12-28T03:09:00.000-08:00

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Internal emails obtained by Judicial Watch suggest a number of top deputies in Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office “went to great lengths” to help the developers of the proposed Ground Zero mosque, including drafting a letter addressed to the community board on their behalf...

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Jesus Who? Christian Cross Banned from Bethlehem Souvenir Shops

2010-12-28T03:07:00.000-08:00

Christians "live in constant feeling of fear and uncertainty" in the Holy Land...

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Former CAIR Lobbyist Hired to Report on Muslim Issues for NY Times

2010-12-28T03:05:00.000-08:00

‘We Can’t Just Leave it Up to The Parents,’ Says Michelle Obama on $4.5 Billion Child Nutrition Law

2010-12-28T03:03:00.000-08:00

S.F. bookshop owner to close over ADA lawsuit

2010-12-28T03:01:00.000-08:00

In the latest chapter of a struggle between San Francisco merchants and disabled people suing them for better access, several Richmond District business owners have decided to close or move in the face of lawsuits demanding alterations and monetary damages...

Lea Dimond, who has owned Thidwick Books in the building since 1999, plans to shut down her store today and try to find a new place rather than fight Yates or significantly alter the configuration of her 865-square-foot shop. She believes she would lose too much inventory to be financially viable if she made the changes necessary to create room for a wheelchair to maneuver...

[Now we've tyrannies of minorities - empowered by over regulation.]

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Do Americans Still Believe Freedom Leads to Prosperity?

2010-12-28T02:59:00.000-08:00

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America; still land of the free?

The Wall Street Journal's Index of Economic Freedom shows the United States has fallen from the top-tier in 1999 to being moderately competitive in 2010...

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Anchorage Barber Keeps Cutting Hair After SUV Slams Into Shop

2010-12-28T02:57:00.000-08:00

[Now THAT's work ethic...]

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2010-12-15T03:59:00.000-08:00

ObamaCare mandate and SCOTUS

2010-12-15T03:57:00.000-08:00

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Nearly everyone agrees that Judge Hudson's finding that the ObamaCare health insurance mandate is unconstitutional will be appealed to the Supreme Court.

Here's the kicker;

Justice Elena Kagan, having served in the Obama Justice Department, is surely to recuse herself. With the "liberals" one judge down, even a Kennedy vote to uphold the individual mandate would presumably result in a 4-4 tie. And guess what? If there is a tie, the lower ruling stands...

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53% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law

2010-12-15T03:55:00.000-08:00

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Fifty-three percent (53%) of voters nationwide favor repeal of the recently passed national health care law. The latest weekly Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey on the subject finds that only 42% oppose repeal...

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Gibbs: ‘Unconstitutional’ Ruling Will Have ‘No Practical Impact’ on ObamaCare

2010-12-15T03:53:00.000-08:00

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ABC Poll Finds Health Care Law Is Massively Unpopular, Network Offers Scant Coverage

2010-12-15T03:51:00.000-08:00

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A December 13 ABC News/Washington Post poll found Barack Obama's health law at a new low in popularity, but Monday's World News and Tuesday's Good Morning America offered only meager coverage of the development...

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New study shows zero impact of $800 billion stimulus

2010-12-15T03:49:00.000-08:00

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"Negligible" impact.

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Voters Put Spending Cuts Ahead of Deficit Reduction

2010-12-15T03:47:00.000-08:00

Concern Over Stimulus II Grows

2010-12-15T03:45:00.000-08:00

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As recognition grows that the so-called tax bill has become Stimulus II, some of the bill's supporters are rethinking their earlier positions. Bill Clinton's usurping of the baffled Obama's role on point for the deal may have helped clarify the situation for many as 42 bluntly noted that Democrats have to support the Christmas Tree deal because they cannot possibly do as well in January...

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‘All Hell is Breaking Loose’: $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill Nears 2,000 Pages

2010-12-15T03:43:00.000-08:00

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$575.13 million per page...

[No one learned anything from November, business as usual. Washington won't change until we change everyone we send there.]

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ABC Misleads on Estate Tax Being 'Slashed'; It Will Actually Increase 35 Percent

2010-12-15T03:41:00.000-08:00

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Good Morning America's Jon Karl on Thursday offered misleading, sloppy reporting on a congressional tax deal, bizarrely suggesting that the proposal "slashes" the estate tax. In a follow-up piece, news anchor Juju Chang asserted that many Democrats "are still opposed, especially to the estate tax cut."

In reality, the so-called death tax is currently at zero. Under the deal, it will increase to 35 percent. Karl mangled, "Even Democratic leaders are fuming, especially unhappy with the provision that slashes the tax on inheritances."

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Coming Soon: Russia Will Control Only Access to International Space Station

2010-12-15T03:39:00.000-08:00

"Moscow already uses it for leverage.."

Great news: Chavez got 1,800 ant-aircraft missiles from Russia last year

2010-12-15T03:37:00.000-08:00

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Thanks, Vlad. Your gift will probably end up in the hands of Mexican drug gangs.,,

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Deputy FM: Iran-Venezuela ties threaten U.S., entire world

2010-12-15T03:36:00.000-08:00

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Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon warned Monday that

"Venezuela is Iran’s advance outpost on the Latin American continent. The two countries have joined together to create an axis of conventional and nuclear terror [that threatens] not only the Middle East, but also the continent of America, and the United States in particular,"

Ayalon told a group of some two dozen journalists from Latin American countries...

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Obama Ignores Missile Crisis

2010-12-15T03:35:00.000-08:00

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Going almost totally unnoticed by he MSM is the news that Iran intends to place "medium-range" missiles (read: they can reach the US) in Venezuela. You know, for an Iranian military base manned by Iranian soldiers, see?

It can't be a "missile crisis" if Obama and the 'press' couldn't care less, right?

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Venezuela Has Acquired 1,800 Russian Missiles; AP, NYT Snooze

2010-12-15T03:33:00.000-08:00

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A useful guideline in evaluating the significance of a national security-related news story first revealed by someone in the establishment press is whether other media outlets pick it up. If they don't, it's probably significant.

Such is the case with the Washington Post's Saturday story about Venezuela acquiring 1,800 Russian antiaircraft missiles. That appears to be 1,700 more than originally thought.

The story has gone through two additional overnight news cycles. Yet it appears from relevant site searches that both the Associated Press (searches on Venezuela, Venezuela missiles [not in quotes], and missiles) and the New York Times (Venezuela, "Venezuela missiles," and missiles) have chosen to ignore the story...

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2010-12-15T03:31:00.000-08:00

Incoming Chair of Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wants to Isolate Enemies, Make U.N. Accountable

The incoming Republican chairwoman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday identified U.S. funding of the United Nations as a target. The comments are likely to send a chill through supporters of the Obama administration’s policy of deeper engagement with the U.N.

“I plan on using U.S. contributions to international organizations as leverage to press for real reform of those organizations, such as the United Nations,”

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said after GOP lawmakers confirmed she will chair the committee in the next Congress...

[What kind of radicalextrememenazism thinking is this?!?]

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Jihad against Sweden imported from Britain

2010-12-15T03:29:00.000-08:00

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Radicalized at university?

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Flash Attack

2010-12-15T03:27:00.000-08:00

[And in America...]

At noon on October 30, 2010, a devastating device ripped through a crowded Philadelphia department store. Hundreds of unsuspecting shoppers were suddenly exposed to an infectious agent delivered with explosive power. Those exposed are still dealing with the immediate effects. They could be faced with ongoing effects for the rest of their lives.

Similar attacks at malls and food courts have been reported and posted on YouTube.

Not surprisingly, the media have been silent...

The barbarians we need to fear aren't just bearded monsters from the Middle East. The biggest threat to our civilization comes from our own elite universities that once preserved and extended it. The insane siege engine they've built is a rickety contraption of lies, distortions, and manipulations that tirelessly assaults our foundations with myths and superstitions...

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Islamophobia-obsessed Media Silent on Anti-Semitic 'Hate Crimes' at Indiana U

2010-12-15T03:26:00.000-08:00

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Most Americans are probably unaware that Jews were the victims of more than eight times as many anti-religion hate crimes last year as were Muslims. And the reason is simple: anti-Muslim crimes receive far more media attention.

Case in point: the media has been all but silent on a slew of anti-Semitic acts of vandalism at Indiana University, coinciding with the beginning of the celebration of Hanukkah...

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CAMPUS CHRISTMAS CAROLS SILENCED AFTER NON-CHRISTIAN COMPLAINTS

2010-12-15T03:25:00.001-08:00

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For nearly 15 years, the Pulliam Hall clock tower on the campus of Southern Illinois University has played Christmas carols. But this year, after a few complaints, the bells have been silenced while the school tries to expand its melodic tradition to include a more 'diverse' selection of music.

“We took the music off the clock tower as a result of some complaints we received that religious music was offensive to non-Christians,” SIU Chancellor Rita Cheng told KFVS...

[Note how our otherwise activist academics never consider for a moment defending long established practices as being American societal traditions - those have no intrinsic value, you understand...]

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The Assault on Christmas and Other American Norms

2010-12-15T03:23:00.000-08:00

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Over the last several decades, government's sanctioning of secular fundamentalism has emboldened its proponents, aiding a slow but sure erosion of our societal norms...

[And as our Founding Fathers explicitly warned us, a country without shared values cannot stand.]

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Power Corrupts

2010-12-15T03:21:00.000-08:00

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The Obama administration's actions and policies epitomize the veracity of Lord Acton's famous proposition that "[p]ower tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

From the passage of ObamaCare to the offensive TSA screenings, this country's citizens have seen the Constitution trampled upon with little to no acknowledgment that such actions would have caused our forefathers to board a ship to a far-off land in search of liberty and freedom...

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Silencing voices of Internet dissent

2010-12-15T03:19:00.000-08:00

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) apparently is headed for a 3-2 party-line vote to regulate the Internet on Dec. 21, which Commissioner Robert M. McDowell (a stalwart free-market champion who opposes the regulations) points out is the darkest day of the year.

Regulating the Internet under the banner of so-called network neutrality has been a far-left cause celebre ever since it became clear that unregulated media gravitates toward the conservative majority of the nation...

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2010-12-06T03:59:00.000-08:00

NYT: WikiLeaks Show Obama's Doing a Good Job

2010-12-06T03:58:00.000-08:00

Time Mag Editor on Publishing WikiLeaks: 'Our Job is Not to Protect the U.S.'

2010-12-06T03:57:00.000-08:00

Pious and hypocritical; media malpractice and Wikileaks

2010-12-06T03:52:00.000-08:00

66% of Consumers & Investors Say U.S. Still in Recession

2010-12-06T03:51:00.000-08:00

'Pelosi-nomics' requires willing suspension of reason

2010-12-06T03:49:00.000-08:00

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It's difficult to conceive of a liberal myth more out of touch with economic reality than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's oft-repeated claim that tax cuts must be "paid for." Over and over this week, Pelosi has insisted that any extension of the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts should be restricted to the "middle class." If the cuts are extended to couples making more than $250,000 -- the rich, in Pelosi's view -- then, she claims, Republicans are saying "we should not pay for it, we should add that $700 billion to the deficit"

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2010-12-03T03:59:00.000-08:00

House Votes to Raise Taxes on Small Business

2010-12-03T03:57:00.000-08:00

"It has no chance in the Senate"

A Lame-Duck Congress Stuck on Stupid

2010-12-03T03:55:00.000-08:00

The Democratic Congress is now embarked on a lame-duck session that ought to be history's last.

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2010-12-03T03:53:00.000-08:00

Russian Democracy Has Disappeared

2010-12-03T03:51:00.000-08:00

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"Russian democracy has disappeared and the government was an oligarchy run by the security services,"

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Leaked cable calls Russia virtual mafia state

2010-12-03T03:47:00.000-08:00