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Wonderful Column: A Black History Month story that shouldn't be forgotten: How Eunice Hunton Carter battled Lucky Luciano, and won by John Kass
Excerpt: Even though this is Black History Month, much of America still doesn't know about Eunice Carter and her battle against New York
Occupy London UK
Excerpt: Even though I am an absolutist with it comes to the right to protest, I couldn't help feeling relieved when a court decided this week that the Occupy camp outside St Paul London
I Tried to Open a Lemonade Stand
Excerpt: Eventually, Police Chief Kelly Morningstar explained, "We were not aware of how the lemonade was made, who made the lemonade and of what the lemonade was made with." Give me a break. If she doesn't know, so what? But kids trying their first experiment with entrepreneurship are being shut down all over America Hazelwood , Illinois
Pentagon defended Bible burning in 2009
Excerpt: Experts on radical Islam say the U.S. U.S. military toward a recent report that NATO forces may have unintentionally burned copies of the Muslim holy book stands in stark contrast to its response when U.S.
Flashback: Iran
Excerpt: Iranian authorities began to systematically seize and destroy Bibles after a Shiite cleric issued an urgent warning about the spread of Christianity. Authorities in northwestern Iran seized 6,500 Bibles, according to the Iranian Christian news organization Mohabat News, which quotes an official as saying of the seizure that “all religions are strengthening their power to confront Islam; otherwise, what does this huge number of Bibles mean?”
Nation might reach $16.4 trillion debt limit close to Election Day
Excerpt: The $16.4 trillion debt ceiling could be reached just weeks after Election Day, according to a new report. The analysis raises the possibility that lawmakers might have to raise the nation's borrowing limit before the election, a scenario they took pains to avoid in the debt deal passed in August. (Though I am not the type to ever stop fighting, I am increasingly resigned to the fact that the Republic is headed to disaster. Pray I’m wrong. ~Bob.)
Worth Reading
Excerpt: American public education needs a complete restructuring in order to support the development of critical thinkers ready to assume their positions as productive citizens of a free society. Neglecting to change the system will only contribute to America losing its position as the leader of the free world, says Linus Wright, an undersecretary of education during the Reagan administration and senior fellow with the National Center China , South Korea , Germany and Finland United States United States
The Fiscal Health Of The States
Excerpt: The troubled condition of the federal budget has overshadowed the poor fiscal health of the 50 states. State debts are underreported, and state budgets are on an unsustainable long-term path. If current spending patterns continue, the ratio of state debt to output will increase without bound. (Why I devoted a separate chapter to the fiscal problems of the states and cities in The Coming Collapse of the American Republic. ~Bob.)
Labor’s Under-the-Radar Power Grab
Excerpt: Big Labor has made many ambitious and high-profile efforts to attract national attention, such as the so-called Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA, better known as “card-check”), stacking the National Labor Relations Board with union-friendly hacks, and impeding Boeing’s plans in right-to-work states like South Carolina
Same-sex marriage bill approved by Maryland
Excerpt: Supporters have cast the bill as a major advance in equal rights. Opponents have called it a misguided attempt to redefine the institution of marriage. Despite one of the largest Democratic majorities in any state legislature, backers of gay marriage in Maryland China
A Troubling Trend in the Courts
Excerpt: Should judges act based upon reasoned legal arguments, or based upon their personal feelings and media coverage? A controversial recent "statement" made by Justices Ginsburg and Breyer in a case that was the legal equivalent of a slam dunk raises serious questions about what really guides some judges.
Obama Proposes Tax Revamp
Excerpt: "How can we create more jobs…if we tell the pass-through entities that their taxes are going to go up, if we tell the oil and gas companies that they're not going to be able to drill, and if we tell our corporate folks that we're only going to get to 28 apparently in the president's proposal [as the] corporate tax rate, and not even the average of what the world is at 25?" Rep. Pat Tiberi (R., Ohio) asked Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner at a hearing last week.
The $4 Billion Obamacare Slush Fund for Progressives By Michelle Malkin
Excerpt: If you like how the Obama administration's multibillion-dollar "investments" in bankrupt solar companies have turned out, you'll love the latest federal loan program to nowhere. It's the Obamacare loyalty rewards program for progressives. To appease liberal Democrats pushing for the so-called "public option" (the full frontal government takeover of our health care system), the White House settled for the creation of a $6 billion network of nonprofit "CO-OPs" that will "compete" with private insurers.
Solyndra abandons efforts to go clean and green: Environmental mess left at plant
Excerpt: The company plans on paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to clean up its own property in Fremont , Calif. , but a separate leased property in nearby Milpitas
Obama and Israel
Excerpt: Oscar Wilde noted "true friends stab you in the front." Which explains why President Obama-- the self-proclaimed "best friend Israel Israel
Janet Napolitano Claims Ignorance in Second Gun Link to ICE Agent's Murder
Excerpt: Two days ago CBS's Sharyl Attkisson reported that a second gun related to the Obama administration's gunwalking operation had been positively linked to the murder of ICE agent Jaime Zapata on February 15, 2011. Zapata's and fellow agent, Victor Avila's SUV was ambushed as the two men were driving back to Mexico City from a meeting in San Luis Potosi Texas
Offended Muslim chokes atheist, and then ...
Excerpt: A Muslim judge in Pennsylvania – who scolded a local atheist for offending Islam, called him a doofus and accused him of “using the First Amendment” to madden Muslims – dismissed harassment charges against the Muslim defendant who purportedly choked the atheist during a Halloween parade.
Comedian Bill Maher donates $1 million to Obama super PAC
Excerpt: A surprise donation Thursday from comedian Bill Maher made a Super PAC supporting President Obama $1 million richer. The promise of the big check came during a live performance of Maher's stand-up show, CrazyStupidPolitics. (Wish I watched Maher so I could stop. ~Bob.)
Civil War Photos
Many I’ve never seen. ~Bob.
President Obama Confident He's Got Five More Years in White House by Kimberly Schwandt
Excerpt: President Obama pressed with confidence about his future at the White House saying, "I've got another five years coming up," when asked why he hasn't passed immigration reform in a radio interview Wednesday with Univision. (Lets see. They’ve had a reported 16 vacations so far, so that’s only about 26 more we have to pay for on our Bank of Red China credit card. ~Bob.)
Obama campaign co-chair tied to subprime mortgage crisis
Excerpt: Gov. Deval Patrick, the Democrat who was named a national co-chair of President Obama’s re-election campaign on Wednesday, served on the board of a company that is widely blamed for helping start the subprime mortgage crisis in 2007. Beginning in 2004, Patrick served two years on the five-member board of ACC Capital Holdings, the parent company of Ameriquest Mortgage. He was paid a $360,000 annual salary for his efforts, according to “All The Devils Are Here,” a history of the financial crisis by Bethany McClean and Joe Nocera.
New: the EU budget - it has never been so green
Excerpt from the editor’s accompanying email: Over the last decade a steady stream of directives, guidelines, communications, reports - a mountain of paper - has come out of Brussels
Father whipped family, daughter tells murder trial
Excerpt: A daughter of a man who is on trial for murdering his wife at the Adelaide Convention Centre has told the Supreme Court she saw her father being pulled off her mother with a knife in his hand… The woman told the court her father said he was not a man if he did not teach his family a lesson and he swore on the Koran that he would kill them. (Allah is badly offended if you accidentally burn a Qur’an, but swearing to murder your family on one is pleasing to him. Got it? ~Bob.)
5 Biggest Whoppers In Obama's Energy Speech
Excerpt: The White House billed President Obama's energy policy speech as a response to mounting criticism of record high gas prices. What he delivered was a grab bag of excuses and outright falsehoods. Obama's main message to struggling motorists was: It's not my fault, so stop whining. The speech only got worse from there, recycling excuses and myths that Obama's peddled for years. But there were some standout whoppers that deserve debunking.
Jobless disability claims soar to record $200B as of January
Excerpt: Standing too many months on the unemployment line is driving Americans crazy — literally — and it’s costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. With their unemployment-insurance checks running out, some of the country’s long-term jobless are scrambling to fill the gap by filing claims for mental illness and other disabilities with Social Security — a surge that hobbles taxpayers and making the employment rate look healthier than it should as these people drop out of the job statistics.
Why Muslim Student Group Concerned the NYPD
Excerpt: The Muslim community expressed its outrage this week over a New York Police Department surveillance report from 2006 that the Associated Press reported on Monday. The report disclosed that the NYPD monitored Muslim Students Association (MSA) chapters in the Northeast. The outrage, centered on the perceived violation of privacy, is based on an incorrect presumption that law enforcement had no cause for concern with the MSA. The organization's history with radical dogma, convicted terrorists and radicalized alumni tell a different story.
The conundrum which is playing out in Afghanistan
Excerpt: The conundrum which is playing out in Afghanistan
2 cutters removed from FY13 Coast Guard budget
Excerpt: They’re gone. In a move that could trim about $1.4 billion from its shipbuilding plan, the Coast Guard lost two of its newest, largest, most capable — and most expensive — cutters in the fiscal 2013 budget request sent to Congress on last week. (Great news for drug dealers. ~Bob.)
‘Invisible’ Lung Disease Called A Death Sentence By Doctors
Excerpt: Have you ever heard of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis? Probably not. But every year it kills just as many people as breast cancer. But there are no marches, no ribbons, not even much research for Pulmonary Fibrosis. There is no cure. (Probably more, as a lot of PF patients die of heart failure due to oxygen deprivation, but the cause is listed as HF. ~Bob.)
Abortion investigation: doctor caught falsifying sex selection paperwork
Excerpt: The Calthorpe Clinic has been exposed for illicitly completing abortion forms amid concerns that doctors are not properly consulting patients before agreeing to terminations. A doctor at the clinic in Edgbaston, Birmingham India
Mark Steyn: The all-you-can-eat salad bar of rights
Excerpt: That's the real "hot topic" here – whether a majority of citizens, in America
So much for “quietly.” ~Bob. Excerpt: The State Department has begun coordinating with Syria Syria 's neighbors Iraq , Jordan , Lebanon , and Saudi Arabia , warning them about the possibility of Syria 's WMDs crossing their borders and offering U.S.
Obama Promotes Pond Scum as Renewable Fuel Source
Excerpt: Faced with the highest oil prices in nine months, President Barack Obama is backing pond scum as a path to energy independence, pitting the nascent algae-based biofuels industry against critics of his energy plan. .. Algae, a plant-like organism, can be harvested from ponds near industrial sites, where it can grow from power-plant carbon emissions or wastewater substances, the White House said in a fact sheet. (In response, algae said that, “Obama is a human-like organism.” Doesn’t using “pond scum” threaten the progressive movement? Does algae emit the deadly global warming poison CO2? ~Bob.)
Dear General Dempsey
Excerpt: Are mass murder, mass torture, and mass rape in Iran and Syria Homs , or Damascus , or Tehran or Tabriz
Worth Reading
Excerpt: But such pique is even odder, given that such partisan politics are an Obama forte. He voted against raising the debt ceiling as a senator when the deficits were far less than his own have been. He filibustered the Alito and Bolton nominations, when there were not enough votes to stop their appointments — only to later criticize just that tactic as president. Ditto his recess-appointment turnabout. Short-term political advantage led him to subvert the public financing of presidential campaigns, the first candidate to ignore that liberal-inspired law in a general election.
Obama Threatens To “Hold Accountable” U.S.
Excerpt: Multiple reports now circulating of President Obama quickly taking the side of Muslims against American soldiers who were simply following orders to remove and burn materials taken from terrorist detainment cells in Afghanistan Iraq
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....looks pretty healthy. “. I was fit. I never did smoke. I never did drugs. I had a great healthy life. I did every thing right.”
ReplyDeleteHe sounds like my father who died of this at 53 who also did everything right.