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Ukraine president secures ruling coalition (AFP)
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AFP - Ukraine's new President Viktor Yanukovych on Thursday tightened his grip on power as one of his closest allies became the new prime minister and his party succeeded in forming a ruling coalition.
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Mexico's Slim becomes 'world's richest' person (AP)
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AP - Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the first man from a developing nation to become the world's richest person — a shift that underlines the loosening of America and Europe's stranglehold on the top spots in the billionaires' club.
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Biden: Talks can meet Israeli, Palestinian goals (AP)
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AP - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says "good faith negotiations" can recognize Israeli security needs and the Palestinian goal for a viable state.
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Ukraine PM nominee wants "realistic" budget - Reuters
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MiamiHerald.comUkraine PM nominee wants "realistic" budget
Reuters
KIEV, March 11 (Reuters) - Ukraine's Mykola Azarov, appointed prime minister on Thursday, warned that state coffers were "empty" and that a "realistic" budget would have to be redrafted for 2010. Speaking before parliament voted to appoint him, Azarov, ...
Ukraine creates new ruling coalitionThe Associated Press
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Biden appeals for no delay in Mideast peace talks (Reuters)
→ Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 11 Mar 2010 | 4:23 am MST
Reuters - Vice President Joe Biden called on Thursday for no delay in resuming Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, after Palestinians said Israel must cancel a settlement project before negotiations can begin.
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Hamas frees British journalist in Gaza - Washington Post
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The GuardianHamas frees British journalist in Gaza
Washington Post
GAZA (Reuters) - A British journalist was freed by the Hamas Islamist rulers of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, nearly four weeks after his arrest on suspicion of spying for Israel, Palestinian and British officials said. ...
Hamas release British reporter Paul MartinBBC News
Hamas to release British journalist held in GazaThe Guardian
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Biden: Israel is our best friend - Jerusalem Post
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ReutersBiden: Israel is our best friend
Jerusalem Post
By JPOST.COM STAFF US Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday delivered a warm speech at Tel Aviv University on Thursday afternoon, stressing the importance of US-Israel friendship and Washington's commitment to the security of the Jewish state. ...
Netanyahu Expresses 'Regret' About Timing of Housing PlanVoice of America
Peace talks 'difficult' for Abbas amid settlement rowBBC News
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'Big Mike' draws tears, cheers on 'American Idol' (AP)
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AP - Michael "Big Mike" Lynche made Kara DioGuardi cry and turned the rest of the "American Idol" judges giddy with a moving performance of "This Woman's Work."
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Democrats, White House close in on health bill (AP)
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AP - A final agreement nearly in hand, President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders are about to embark on one last sales job that will determine the outcome of the president's signature health care overhaul.
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Success of lone gunmen may shift al-Qaida strategy (AP)
→ Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 11 Mar 2010 | 4:11 am MST
AP - On Christmas Day, a passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit tried to blow up the plane with plastic explosives in his underwear. He failed, yet the very attempt shook the U.S. government, set federal agencies against each other and triggered months of political second-guessing.
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Safety agency under spotlight in House hearing (AP)
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AP - Toyota's massive recalls are bringing new scrutiny to the government's auto safety agency, prompting Congress to look at how federal safety officials have lived up to their mission of protecting motorists.
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NJ man accused of raping, beating 5 daughters (AP)
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AP - A New Jersey man with apocalyptic visions is accused of years of terrorizing his family, raping his five daughters and impregnating three, beating his children with wooden boards and even moving at one point to avoid child welfare investigators.
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Complaints persist as US frees Afghan detainees (AP)
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AP - The Pashtun tribal leaders picked at the chocolate cake and fruit laid out for them at the conference table. Politely, they listened to speeches touting a new program to release detainees from Afghanistan's largest U.S.-run military prison if community leaders vouch for them.
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Critics of Justice Dept. lawyers under fire (AP)
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AP - A conservative group's bashing of several Obama administration lawyers as the "al-Qaida Seven" has struck a nerve in the U.S. legal community, prompting even some fellow Republicans to denounce the group's attack.
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A-Rod: Lawyers are setting up interview with feds (AP)
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AP - Alex Rodriguez may soon be talking to federal authorities, and he hopes it will happen close to spring training.
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House Bans For-Profit Company Earmarks - Reuters
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Washington TimesHouse Bans For-Profit Company Earmarks
Reuters
House Democrats banned earmarks for private companies in a move that Republicans felt didn't go far enough, reports The Washington Post. The ban would prevent no-bid grants going to “private firms that can afford to hire well-connected lobbyists to ...
House Democrats act to ban corporate earmarksBaltimore Sun
House ends its corporate earmarksBoston Globe
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Greek workers strike as anger at austerity grows (Reuters)
→ Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 11 Mar 2010 | 4:04 am MST
Reuters - Greek public and private sector workers went on strike on Thursday, grounding flights, shutting schools and halting public transport in the second nationwide walkout in a fortnight in protest against austerity plans.
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Obama taps Boeing, Xerox chiefs to lead export body - Reuters
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Obama taps Boeing, Xerox chiefs to lead export body
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, anxious to spur growth and tackle unemployment, will name two top executives from Boeing and Xerox on Thursday to spearhead his drive to boost US exports, the White House said. Obama, who pledged in his ...
Obama set to unveil details of trade agendaCNN
Obama To Create New Export Promotion Cabinet; Boeing, Xerox CEOs To Lead PanelNASDAQ
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How the Texas Textbook Wars Could Affect You - FOXNews
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MiamiHerald.comHow the Texas Textbook Wars Could Affect You
FOXNews
This is a rush transcript from "On the Record," March 10, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Well, there's a new war. It's over textbooks and it is raging in Texas. ...
State Board of Education continues debate over standards for social studiesDallas Morning News
Texas Conservatives Seek Deeper Stamp on TextsNew York Times
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'Jihad Jane' Had Troubled Past - Wall Street Journal
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The Guardian (blog)'Jihad Jane' Had Troubled Past
Wall Street Journal
By VANESSA O'CONNELL, AMIR EFRATI AND EVAN PEREZ PENNSBURG, Pa.—An American woman accused of plotting to kill a Swedish cartoonist whose work enraged Muslims has led a checkered and sometimes troubled life, including at least two run-ins with the law ...
'Jihad Jane' shows terrorism-case trendUSA Today
Â'JihadJane' suspect dropped out before high school, married at 16Washington Post
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Kansas City board OKs plan to close nearly half of schools - CNN
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Grand Forks HeraldKansas City board OKs plan to close nearly half of schools
CNN
The Kansas City, Missouri, school board approved a plan that calls for the closure of 28 public schools. (CNN) -- The superintendent calls it the "Right-Size" plan," but many Kansas City, Missouri, residents say it's plain wrong. ...
School Crisis Rattles MissouriWall Street Journal
KC board approves plan to close 26 schoolsKansas City Star
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Obama in the Wilsonian Tradition
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 11 Mar 2010 | 3:41 am MST
WASHINGTON -- There are legislative miles to go before the government will be emancipated from its health care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing up. Whether all or nothing of the legislation becomes law, Barack Obama has refuted critics who call him a radical. He has shown himself to be a timid progressive. His timidity was displayed when he flinched from fighting for the boldness the nation needs -- a transition from the irrationality of employer-provided health insurance. His progressivism is an attitude of genteel regret about the persistence of politics. Employer-paid insurance...
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Good Debt, Bad Debt
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 11 Mar 2010 | 3:38 am MST
WASHINGTON -- There is a pathetic quality to our discussion of deficits and fiscal responsibility because we never face up to how much we need government to do. Our debates are also characterized by a politically convenient amnesia. Just a decade ago, we were running surpluses so big that Alan Greenspan, then chairman of the Federal Reserve, worried about what would happen once our national debt was liquidated. We had this problem well in hand until we started waging wars and cutting taxes at the same time. What would a rational approach to the budget look like? It would begin by accepting...
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We don't want proxy wars in Afghanistan, Karzai says - Reuters
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Financial TimesWe don't want proxy wars in Afghanistan, Karzai says
Reuters
Afghan President Hamid Karzai (L) welcomes his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad upon his arrival in Kabul March 10, 2010. Ahmadinejad arrived on Wednesday for a visit to Afghanistan, after US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he was wary of ...
Afghanistan welcomes Pak role in peace talksThe Hindu
Iran's 'double game' in AfghanistanThe Guardian
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Dems Are Stuck With a Mess of Their Own Making
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 11 Mar 2010 | 3:36 am MST
There's a lively debate going on in the blogosphere and the press about whether Democrats would be better off passing or not passing a health care bill. Some liberals claim that Democrats would be better off passing a bill, any bill, even if it's unpopular with the general electorate. The idea is to energize the Democratic base, currently demoralized by the prospects of failure. Current polls show Democrats far less enthusiastic and far less likely to vote -- passing a law might change that. Others, mostly conservatives but also some liberals speaking privately, figure that...
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We don't want proxy wars in Afghanistan, Karzai says (Reuters)
→ Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 11 Mar 2010 | 3:34 am MST
Reuters - Afghanistan does not want a proxy war between Pakistan and India or anybody else fought on its soil, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday during a visit to Pakistan.
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Meg Whitman Can Run a Company, But Can She Govern?
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 11 Mar 2010 | 3:34 am MST
It took me five months to get my first interview with former eBay CEO and California GOP gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman, and when I did, it was after a press event where the news reporters were not allowed to ask questions. Swell. Her supersize campaign has been rolling her out like an Easter egg. She has been in a shell -- for which she has paid handsomely. She has contributed nearly $40 million to her campaign, yet she told me she and her husband, Griff Harsh IV, fly coach, "because it's cheaper." The big question is: Can she govern? She has a background that might help....
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China's Bubble Trouble
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 11 Mar 2010 | 3:30 am MST
WASHINGTON -- The bubbly enthusiasm that many analysts express about the Chinese economy reminds me of the old-time variety show host Lawrence Welk, who banished worries each week with soothing sounds from his "Champagne Music Makers." China watchers should turn off the music and listen to Premier Wen Jiabao, who has been surprisingly frank in warning that overinvestment and lack of domestic demand are producing an economic bubble in his country. "The biggest problem with China's economy is that the growth is unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable," Wen...
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Real World vs. Fantasyland
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 11 Mar 2010 | 3:28 am MST
WASHINGTON -- There is a great divide in American politics. It's not between Democrats and Republicans. It's between the president and Congress in Washington, on one side, and governors and legislators around the country on the other. The record of the Washington politicians is summarized in the report that came out of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) last week. That nonpartisan scorekeeper announced that it projects the cumulative national debt to increase in the next decade by $9.8 trillion. That unimaginable (and indigestible) sum is more than a trillion dollars higher than...
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The New McCarthyism
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 11 Mar 2010 | 3:27 am MST
The national madness known as "McCarthyism" began 60 years ago in Wheeling, W.V., when Joseph R. McCarthy held up a scrap of paper that supposedly listed the names of 57 State Department officials he said were actually Communists and traitors. Eventually, America learned that the Wisconsin Republican's famous list was a fabrication, that he was a liar and a demagogue as well as an alcoholic -- and that his authoritarian appeals to fear were worse than useless in defending our security. But by then, McCarthyism's self-serving and fundamentally unpatriotic promoters had...
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Republican Collectivism
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 11 Mar 2010 | 3:25 am MST
The most disturbing part of the ObamaCare debate is not about where Republicans and Democrats disagree, but where they agree. Take this issue of those with pre-existing illnesses. Many Republicans actually support government action to prevent insurance companies from refusing to insure them. Ignoring the benefits of cost-lowering free market competition and the role of charity, many Republicans believe it acceptable to force an insurance company -- in business to insure against unknown risks -- to "insure" someone currently experiencing a known risk. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.,...
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Enhancing Democracy by Banning Speech
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 11 Mar 2010 | 3:24 am MST
Imagine how life will be now that giant corporations may spend as much as they want on political campaigns, as the Supreme Court recently decreed. All they will have to do to get their way is ask members of Congress: Do you want our money helping you -- or your opponent? Given the sums available to Big Business, most politicians will be desperate to please. So you might think. But consider a state where corporations are already allowed to spend as much as they want on elections: Illinois. Here, companies have established beyond doubt that this prerogative, when combined with $2, will get them...
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Coming Between You and Your Doctor
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 11 Mar 2010 | 3:20 am MST
The lights must dim around Google's data-storage centers every time someone does a search for "government bureaucrat coming between you and your doctor." Foes of the Democrats' health-reform proposals have been chanting this on the hour for a year -- with a surge after Democrats put money for "comparative effectiveness research" in the stimulus bill. This involves comparing treatments for the same condition to find which works best. The reform-killers insist that "government-run" health care would use these findings to tell doctors what to do, largely...
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Volcker rule gets lift in Senate amid reform talks (Reuters)
→ Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 11 Mar 2010 | 3:17 am MST
Reuters - The controversial "Volcker rule" to curb risky trading by banks got a boost in the Senate on Wednesday, as two Democrats introduced a bill that would enact and expand the rule.
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Obama Gets Tough on Health Care Fraud - New York Times
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Boston GlobeObama Gets Tough on Health Care Fraud
New York Times
ST. CHARLES, Mo. — President Obama continued his drive for a health care overhaul on Wednesday, ordering a crackdown on Medicare and Medicaid waste and fraud, while in Washington, House leaders said they hoped to have a ...
On health, Obama has roadblocks in own partyBoston Globe
Obama: Nothing needs reform more than health careUSA Today
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Pawlenty's Populist Tea Party
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 10 Mar 2010 | 4:18 pm MST
"America is in trouble," Tim Pawlenty warned Saturday. "Tyranny" is possible. In fact, it's "creeping." And, in case you thought otherwise, the nation is "worth fighting for." The (once) mild-mannered Minnesota governor was speaking before about 600 Republicans in Dallas. It was Pawlenty's latest audition for the part of presidential candidate. The "Sam's Club Republican" has long been the GOP's sedate populist. But what Pawlenty lacks in charisma he increasingly compensates for with rhetoric. Last month in Washington,...
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Eric Massa on "Larry King Live"
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 10 Mar 2010 | 2:41 pm MST
LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight, Eric Massa is here -- his first prime time interview since suddenly resigning from Congress, admitting that he groped a staffer. He's called the leader in his own party a liar and the White House chief of staff, "the son of the devil's spawn." But Massa says he didn't jump, he was pushed out of office over his opposition to the health care bill. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ERIC MASSA (D), FORMER U.S. REPRESENTATIVE: And I was set up for this from the very, very beginning. (END VIDEO CLIP) KING: Plus, actress Jessica Biel and Neal Hirsch confront the...
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Interview with Rep. Paul Ryan
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 10 Mar 2010 | 2:36 pm MST
VAN SUSTEREN: Congressman, nice to see you, sir. REP. PAUL RYAN, R - WIS.: Good to be with you. Thanks for coming over. VAN SUSTEREN: I can't help but notice over your right shoulder a Green Bay Packer helmet. RYAN: I wanted to make you feel comfortable and make you feel at home. VAN SUSTEREN: Well, indeed, it does. All right, health care -- are we any closer? Have you heard anything in the last 24 hours to indicate that it's any closer to being resolved? RYAN: They are still anywhere from 5 to 15 votes down. So let's say it's around 10 votes down. Lots of horse trading...
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Obama's Remarks with President Preval
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 10 Mar 2010 | 2:34 pm MST
12:01 P.M. EST PRESIDENT OBAMA: Please be seated. Good afternoon, everybody. And on behalf of the American people, I want to welcome President Préval, the First Lady, and their delegation to the United States. The President and I have just concluded a very productive meeting in the Oval Office on the urgent and overriding challenges before us -- helping the people of Haiti as they recover and rebuild after one of the most devastating natural disasters ever to strike our hemisphere. Mr. President, as I did when I spoke to you in those first days after the earthquake, I again want...
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Roundtable on Health Care Compromises
→ RealClearPolitics - Articles | 10 Mar 2010 | 2:34 pm MST
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SENATOR LAMAR ALEXANDER: What the president is doing is asking House Democrats to hold hands, jump off a cliff, and hope Harry Reid catches them. And Senator Reid won't have any incentive to catch them because by the time the reconciliation bill gets to the Senate, the president will have signed the healthcare bill into law and he'll be on his way to Indonesia. PRESS SECRETARY ROBERT GIBBS: The information I passed on last week about March 18, the day the president leaves for Indonesia and ultimately Australia, was something that we gleaned from conversations had...
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Headline News
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International Issues
UN Security Council Report: Somali Aid Goes to UN Staff
Source: The New York Times
As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local United Nations staff members, according to a new Security Council report. The report, which has not yet been made public but was shown to The New York Times by diplomats, outlines a host of problems so grave that it recommends that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon open an independent investigation into the World Food Program's Somalia operations. It suggests that the program rebuild the food distribution system -- which serves at least 2.5 million people and whose aid was worth about $485 million in 2009 -- from scratch to break what it describes as a corrupt cartel of Somali distributors. In addition to the diversion of food aid, regional Somali authorities are collaborating with pirates who hijack ships along the lawless coast, the report says, and Somali government ministers have auctioned off diplomatic visas for trips to Europe to the highest bidders, some of whom may have been pirates or insurgents. Somali officials denied that the visa problem was widespread, and officials for the World Food Program said they had not yet seen the report but would investigate its conclusions once it was presented to the Security Council next Tuesday. The report comes as Somalia's transitional government is preparing for a major military offensive to retake the capital, Mogadishu, and combat an Islamist insurgency with connections to Al Qaeda. The United States is providing military aid, as the United Nations tries to roll back two decades of anarchy in the country. But it may be an uphill battle. According to the report, Somalia's security forces "remain ineffective, disorganized and corrupt -- a composite of independent militias loyal to senior government officials and military officers who profit from the business of war." One American official recently conceded that Somalia's "best hope" was the government's new military chief, a 60-year-old former artillery officer who, until a few months ago, was assistant manager at a McDonald's in Germany. Editor's Note: Just one more reason amongst hundreds that the UN should not only be disbanded or severely limited in scope, but disavowed as a voice of moral authority.
Islamist Terrorism
Jihad Jane: American Woman Accused of Terror Plot
Source: The Times of London
A blonde American woman who went under the online alias "Jihad Jane" has been accused of plotting to murder a Swedish cartoonist for drawing a picture of the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog, it emerged today. Colleen LaRose, a 46-year-old Muslim convert from Pennsylvania, was said by prosecutors to have used the internet to make contact with jihadists overseas and was persuaded to use the fact that she was a white American to get through security surrounding the artist, Lars Vilks. A US Justice Department official said last night that the case "shatters any lingering thought that we can spot a terrorist based on appearance." Ms. LaRose was arrested in Philadelphia in October last year, but her indictment remained sealed until after the arrest in Ireland yesterday of seven people - three women and four men - involved in a suspected plot to murder Mr. Vilks...A federal indictment charges that Ms. LaRose, who also called herself Fatima Rose, agreed to kill Mr. Vilks on orders from the unnamed terror contacts and went to Europe to carry out the killing. It also alleged that Ms. LaRose, who has blond hair and blue-green eyes, indicated in her online conversations that she thought her appearance would help her move freely in Sweden to carry out the attack. The indictment says that Ms. LaRose posted a YouTube video as JihadJane in June 2008 saying she was "desperate to do something somehow to help" Muslims.
Government & Politics
Obama Pushes Senators for Climate Bill
Source: AP/Yahoo! News
President Barack Obama made a renewed push for a long-stalled climate and energy bill Tuesday, urging lawmakers at a White House meeting to pass a comprehensive bill this year. Fourteen senators from both parties -- including several who remain undecided on the climate bill -- met for more than an hour with Obama, four Cabinet members and White House energy adviser Carol Browner. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama wants a comprehensive bill that includes a cap on emissions of pollution blamed for global warming...A bill sponsored by Sens. John Kerry D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT), aims to cut emissions of pollution-causing greenhouse gases by 17 percent by 2020. The bill would abandon a broad "cap-and-trade" approach to reducing carbon pollution. Instead it would apply different carbon controls to different sectors of the economy. Kerry called the meeting "terrific" and said Obama "made it very, very clear that he believes it is critical to have a price on carbon," a move that some Republicans and business groups oppose because it would raise the price of oil and coal. Kerry said lawmakers were "moving very rapidly" to draft a bill that could be on the Senate floor this spring...The legislation would also expand domestic oil and gas drilling offshore and provide federal assistance for constructing nuclear power plants and carbon sequestration and storage projects at coal-fired utilities. Lieberman called the meeting very important...Graham said he believes a comprehensive bill is the only one that can pass the Senate.
Government & Politics
Pressure, Protests Grow Over Healthcare Bill
Source: McClatchy Newspapers/The Denver Post
Thousands of liberal public-option backers and conservative Tea Partyers launched last- chance campaigns Tuesday in the nation's capital to persuade Congress to pass -- or reject -- sweeping health care legislation. Democratic congressional leaders conceded they may not have the votes for final passage of the overhaul by March 26, when Congress is to break for spring recess. They're trying to get party moderates and abortion foes to go along. President Barack Obama wants final votes even earlier, before his March 18 departure on an overseas trip. That appears unlikely. Republicans launched an all-out effort to derail the bill, urging congressional candidates to hold town-hall meetings, organize voters over the Internet and denounce any special deals that may be cut to grease Democrats' votes. "A vote for this bill opens an entirely new line of attack on House Democrats," wrote Johnny DeStefano, deputy director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, in a memo to candidates. The US Chamber of Commerce said it will spend as much as $10 million on a television ad claiming that Obama's plan will only worsen the bad economy and job market. And Obama senior adviser David Axelrod, on a conference call Tuesday, told advocates of the legislation, "What happens in the next 10 days will be critical." Despite their divergent goals, what these camps share is an acute understanding of what happened last year after Democrats failed to pass the health care overhaul before the month-long congressional August recess. In the boisterous town-hall meetings and small-government Tea Party protests that followed, all sides learned that delaying a big vote until after a recess buys the opposition time and that public demonstrations can have an impact on the political process.
Government & Politics
Bailed-Out Firms Start Rebuilding on K Street
Source: The Hill
Big banks and automakers bailed out by the government are now on a K Street shopping spree. Over the past few months, the biggest beneficiaries of the $700 billion financial bailout have hired a slew of blue-chip lobbyists to boost their presence in Washington. Congressional lawmakers and consumer advocacy organizations pressured companies to stop lobbying when they took bailout money. But as the companies regain their health, with some banks soaring in the process, they are heavily lobbying the administration and Capitol Hill. General Motors, which went to Washington in late 2008 in need of emergency aid and then passed through bankruptcy in 2009, has hired three outside lobbying firms already in 2010. GM hired Public Strategies, Navigators and Dutko Worldwide to lobby on tax, trade, auto safety and other issues, according to congressional records...Chrysler Group LLC, which also received a major taxpayer bailout and entered bankruptcy last year, is currently in the hunt for a new head of its Washington office, said spokeswoman Linda Becker. The office now has three registered lobbyists...Banks that received tens of billions of dollars from the bailout program have also been hiring a wide range of lobbyists in the last few months. Their efforts come as House and Senate lawmakers consider sweeping new regulations intended to prevent the need for future taxpayer-funded bailouts. Senators now are working through the thorniest aspects of the bill after the House passed its overhaul legislation in December on a party-line vote.
American Fifth Column
College Degrees Earned by Decoys in Visa Fraud
Source: TheLastCrusade.org
Muslim students from the Middle East paid a California man millions dollars to attend college for them, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials maintain. Eamonn Daniel Higgins, 46, a resident of the upscale city of Laguna Niguel, received stashes of cash to study sociology, marketing, English, business and mathematics at 10 colleges in southern California beginning in 2002, authorities allege. The colleges include Cal State Los Angeles, Irvine Valley College, and Santa Monica College. In federal court yesterday, Mr. Higgins, a US citizen, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit visa fraud. He faces five years in prison if convicted. Mr. Higgins, according to the immigration officials, attended class, wrote papers and took exams for about 120 students from Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Kuwait, Turkey and Qatar. The demand for the services of Mr. Higgins became so high he allegedly hired staff, including a blond woman who posed as a Middle Eastern man, the agents allege. Foreigners who want to study in the United States must attend school full-time to keep their visas valid. "We have seen visa fraud schemes before, but we have never seen anything quite like this," said Debra Parker, Los Angeles acting special agent in charge of investigations for the immigration agency. "This is something really sophisticated." Although immigration agents don't believe that any of the students had links to terrorism, Parker said Monday the agency was still investigating.
National & Local
New National Math, English Standards Drafted
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Math and English instruction moved a step closer to uniform and more rigorous standards Wednesday as draft new national guidelines were released. Supporters of the project led by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers hope the lists of things kids should learn at each grade level will replace a patchwork of systems across the country. The effort is expected to lead to standardization of textbooks and testing and make learning easier for students who move from state to state. The federal government recently opened bidding for $350 million to work on new national tests that would be given to students in states that adopt the national standards. People involved in the effort endorsed by 48 states, two territories and the District of Columbia said the new standards will raise expectations of student achievement in some states and be in line with the educational expectations of top-performing states and countries. Unlike most efforts to revise standards at a state level, this document was not built on consensus, said Chris Minnich, director of standards and assessment for the Council of Chief State School Officers. In contrast, states that have engaged in consensus-building have not made the tough decisions about what should be contained in the standards and what shouldn't, Minnich said. Some have criticized the process, saying adoption of the new standards will not be voluntary. "First they tried to tie it to Race to the Top money...now they're trying to tie it to Title I funds," said Robert Scott, Texas' commissioner of education. President Barack Obama told the nation's governors last month that he wants to make Title I dollars for public schools contingent on adoption of college- and career-ready reading and math standards, but the president said the states would not be required to adopt the coalition's standards. Texas and Alaska are the only states not participating in the national standards effort and Texas also opted out of the federal Race to the Top competition for $4.35 billion for education reform.
National & Local
Poll: Textbooks Place Political Correctness Above Accuracy
Source: Rasmussen Reports
Sixty percent (60%) of Americans with children in elementary or secondary school say most school textbooks are more concerned with presenting information in a politically correct manner than in accuracy...Among all Americans, regardless of whether they have children in the schools or not, 27% say accuracy is paramount, while 55% disagree and believe most textbooks are more concerned about political correctness. Eighteen percent(18%) are undecided. Thirty-one percent (31%) of adults say most school history textbooks portray American history accurately. But 43% say most US history textbooks are not accurate, and another 26% are not sure. Again, those with children currently in elementary or secondary school are even more skeptical. Just 28% think most school textbooks portray US history accurately, while nearly half (49%) say they do not. Twenty-three percent (23%) aren't sure. In July 2008, 75% of Americans said they were proud of their country's history. In late November of that year, 72% said Americans were too concerned about being politically correct. When asked who should have the final say on what textbooks are used in the classroom, 34% of Americans say teachers, but 24% say parents should have the final say. Fifteen percent (15%) prefer giving the final say on textbooks to local government. Nine percent (9%) each designate federal and state governments as the final word. Among those with children in the schools, 28% say teachers should have the final decision on textbooks, but just 21% say that decision should be made by parents.
Islamist Terrorism
Intense Gunbattles Erupt in Mogadishu
Source: AFP/Yahoo! News
Heavy fighting broke out between Somali government forces and Islamist insurgents in Mogadishu early Wednesday, officials and witnesses said. The government side, which has been planning a large offensive against its foes, said the radical Shabaab fighters attacked their position in the north of the capital at dawn, sparking the fierce gunbattles. No casualties were reported in the clashes, which witnesses reported involved the use of heavy machine-guns, anti-aircraft weapons and artillery fire..."The fighting is still going on and we have no information about the casualty so far," Somali government security official Abdi Mohamed said. "The fighting started sporadically with artillery early morning but later intensified with both sides reinforcing their positions," said Maryan Ali, a resident in north Mogadishu...It is very heavy fighting and I have seen many Shabaab fighters taking positions. There are very few families left around Abdulaziz neighborhood now and it looks they will start fleeing once they get chance to leave..." Belligerent factions in Mogadishu have been locked in a tense stand-off for weeks, amid expectations of an imminent offensive by the government and its African Union backers to wrest the country back from the insurgency.
International Issues
Aung San Suu Kyi Barred from Polls, Party
Source: AFP/Yahoo! News
Myanmar opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi has been barred from standing in polls this yearand may be excluded from her own party under the military junta's new election laws unveiled on Wednesday. In a move branded "disappointing and regrettable" by the United States, the regime said in a law printed for the first time in state newspapers that anyone serving a prison term cannot be a member of a political party. Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy -- which won Myanmar's last elections in 1990 but was stopped from taking power by the junta -- would in turn be abolished if it failed to obey the rules. The Nobel Peace laureate was sentenced to three years' jail in August over an incident in which a US man swam to her lakeside home. Suu Kyi's sentence was commuted by junta supremo Than Shwe to 18 months under house arrest...The Political Parties Registration Act also gives the NLD just 60 days from Monday, when the law was enacted, to register as a party if it wants to take part in the elections, or else face dissolution. The NLD has yet to announce whether it will take part in the polls promised by the junta, which are expected in October or November although the government has still not set a date...Critics have dismissed the polls as a sham aimed at legitimizing the military's nearly five-decade grip on power and giving the appearance of democratic reform in the face of international sanctions. The 64-year-old Suu Kyi has been in detention for 14 of the last 20 years since the previous elections.
Islamist Terrorism
Islamists Kill Five Christian Charity Workers in Pakistan
Source: DAWN/Adnkronos International
Militants armed with guns and grenades killed at least five people when they stormed the offices of a US-based Christian charity in Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said. The gunmen attacked the offices of World Vision near Oghi, in the district of Mansehra in the troubled North West Frontier Province, where Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants have carried out multiple attacks. Police said five people were killed, including two women, and a spokesman for World Vision confirmed that four of its Pakistani staff died in the attack that took place 60 kilometers north of Islamabad. Six others were injured. World Vision administration officer Mohammad Sajid told the media that he was in the building when "more than 15 armed men" arrived in trucks and entered the offices. "They gathered all of us in one room. The gunmen, some of whom had their faces covered, also snatched our mobile phones. "They dragged people one by one and shifted to an adjacent room, and shot and killed them. We could see them firing," he said. The Christian charity has been operating in the area since October 2005, when a massive 7.6-magnitude earthquake killed more than 70,000 people and left about 3.5 million homeless in Pakistan's northwest.
International Issues
Russian Prison Officials 'Ordered Rapes'
Source: AFP/News.com.au
Russian prosecutors have charged seven top prison officials in Saint Petersburg with carrying out a string of abuses on prisoners, including using rape as a punishment for escaping. The seven charged include the head of operations at the Saint Petersburg branch of the federal prison service Yevgeny Petrov and his deputy Rostislav Balobolko, the prosecutors said. The shocking case is the latest scandal to hit the prison service after the death in pre-trial detention in Moscow last year of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, whose supporters say was killed by poor prison conditions and neglect. The seven prison officials are charged with carrying out violent attacks on two male prisoners, both of whom attempted to escape from a prison in the Saint Petersburg region. If convicted, they could serve up to 10 years in jail. Mr. Balobolko is accused of illegally sending a prisoner to a Saint Petersburg psychiatric hospital "with the aim of carrying out physical and psychological violence as a punishment." He ordered two convicts who were patients at the hospital to carry out "violent acts of a sexual nature" on the prisoner, prosecutors said. In the second case, Mr. Petrov personally raped a prisoner in the psychiatric hospital, while filming the attack, the prosecutors said. "He made a video recording (of the rape) and also compelled three other inmates to carry out a sexual assault on the prisoner and took photographs of this," the statement said.
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Editorials
→ The New Media Journal RSS Headline News | 10 Mar 2010 | 10:35 am MST
How Quick the Message Fades
by Frank Salvato, Managing Editor
It is stunning to find out that there are still some elected officials in Washington DC - especially on the Right side of the aisle - who don't fully understand the message being sent by the American citizenry regarding their grotesque spending addiction. No, I'm not talking about earmarks or pork barrel spending, which in and of themselves should be egregious enough to warrant defeat in the next election. I am referring to how US Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) was thrown under the bus when he demanded that his fellow Senators actually allocate existing funds for a program they wanted to implement.
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Counting the Votes Before They Are In
by Nancy Salvato, Senior Editor
Everyone can identify with foreshadowing, you know what I'm talking about, the part in a book or a movie or a play when you have that sense of foreboding that something isn't quite right, that the characters are celebrating too early. Maybe the real killer is still lurking out there, somewhere, waiting for the right moment to pounce. You're sitting on the edge of your seat, wanting to shout, wait, no, be careful! But to no avail. Sometimes, like in 24, the hero, Jack Bauer, comes in to save the day, just in a nick of time. Sometimes, as in Silence of the Lambs, the killer escapes the odds and disappears, no one knowing just when he will resurface. How many reincarnations of Jaws movies are there? Events don't always come to what feels like proper closure, for example, in Gone Baby Gone, folks may question their values of right and wrong and wonder about whether the ends or the means is more justifiable. The point I'm making, if I haven't made myself abundantly clear, is that I'm feeling a bit unsettled whenever I read or hear about how optimistic Republicans are about the 2012 elections. As if status quo Republicans coming into more power will settle our problems.
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Analysis
→ The New Media Journal RSS Headline News | 10 Mar 2010 | 10:35 am MST
Confessions of an Axe Murderer
by Paul R. Hollrah
A recent case adjudicated in a Cleveland County, Oklahoma courtroom is evidence of the corrupt cesspool that now passes as a criminal justice system in our country. Our "victim" in this case is a 50-year-old amateur writer named Chris, who has published his fiction on his own Internet website. Over a period of a year or two, Chris developed a sizable following among those who enjoyed his episodic horror tales...several of whom contacted him periodically. One of those was a young woman (first initial "C") who said she was a devoted fan.
Muslims' Sheep Mentality
by Amil Imani
Humans are living information machines, receiving input from both external sources as well as the body, processing it in some fashion, and producing output: our thoughts and behavior. From the moment of birth, parents, siblings, and others play pivotal parts in supplying the input and influencing how it is processed. Diffusing the present dangerous confrontation between Islam and the West demands rational, impartial and cool heads to untangle facts from myth, understand the Muslims' mindset, and redress any grievances on either side.
Serfs They Want Us to Be and Serfs We Will Become
by Ron Ewart
That's right. It's over. Their guns are bigger. They control all the money. They control the energy. They control the land. They control the food and they control the water. Soon they will control our healthcare, down to the last detail on our electronic healthcare records being stored in a giant computer in Washington DC, from which they can determine if we are worthy of receiving healthcare. The older we get, the less worthy we become.
The Debate Is Over...Let the Debate Begin
by Peter Lemiska
On March 3, Barack Obama announced, with obvious frustration, that the healthcare debate was over. Everything to say has been said, and every argument has been made. No doubt the public agrees with those comments. After a year and a half, they've heard and seen it all. And though they are sympathetic to the plight of those who have fallen through the cracks in our healthcare system, they've had enough of the countless heart-breaking anecdotes suggesting mass victimization by ruthless health insurance companies. While the theatrics worked fairly well during his campaign, most Americans have since caught on to Barack Obarnum, the showman.
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NMJ Radio
→ The New Media Journal RSS Headline News | 10 Mar 2010 | 10:34 am MST
The Debate Is Over...Let the Debate Begin
by Peter Lemiska
On March 3, Barack Obama announced, with obvious frustration, that the healthcare debate was over. Everything to say has been said, and every argument has been made. No doubt the public agrees with those comments. After a year and a half, they've heard and seen it all. They're growing weary of the orchestrated photo ops that exploit doctors, technicians, researchers, and sundry white-suited medical professionals in a clumsy effort to sway the American people. They're tired of watching the impassioned speeches before hand-picked audiences, reinforced by the obligatory nodding of on-stage supporters. And though they are sympathetic to the plight of those who have fallen through the cracks in our healthcare system, they've had enough of the countless heart-breaking anecdotes suggesting mass victimization by ruthless health insurance companies.
There Is Method in Obama's Healthcare Madness
by AJ DiCintio
President Obama and other liberal elites can lie until the limousines come home that the near landslide majority of Americans who reject Obamacare have been duped by fear mongering geniuses of a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. But that won't change the truth: This majority have simply combined their knowledge of the bill's various incarnations with their experience, common sense, and understanding of arguments made by experts and thoughtful commentators to arrive at the conclusion that Obamacare is a treacherous scheme concocted by liberals to federalize 16% of the nation's economy.
Musings on Mores-Manners
by Ercille I. Christmas
For the past two weeks, the Winter Olympics and "reform" of health care dominated the news cycle. The bobsledding, curling, snowboarding, and other forms of physical activities have ended with the closing of the Winter Games. But, the other "games" of health care reform go on, and on. "Reform" has become like twin 800-lb gorillas, at almost 5000 pages for the two bills proposed by the legislative branches, squatting in our living rooms, waiting for a medal, if only for survival! "They" are sitting on me and I cannot get out or up! In order to salvage the two reform bills that the majority of Americans do not want, the health care summit was tried, modeled after that Beer summit, but minus the beer, I think. To put it bluntly, the summit lacked dignity.
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Polls
→ The New Media Journal RSS Headline News | 10 Mar 2010 | 10:34 am MST
Pres. Obama
Positive: 48.9% (+0.6)
Negative: 45.9% (+0.1)Congress
Positive: 19.3% (+0.3)
Negative: 75.7% (+0.1)Sen. Reid
Positive: 31% (+6.0)
Negative: 51% (+4.0)US Rep. Pelosi
Positive: 33% (-0.0)
Negative: 57% (-0.0)
US Debt as of Feb. 2010
US National Debt: $12.434 Trillion
US Unfunded Liabilities: $107.643 Trillion
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International Issues
→ The New Media Journal RSS Headline News | 10 Mar 2010 | 10:33 am MST
Globalization: Curse or Cure?
by Jagadeesh Gokhale, CATO Institute
Globalization holds tremendous promise to improve human welfare but can also cause conflicts and crises as witnessed during 2007-09. How will competition for resources, employment, and growth shape economic policies among developed nations as they attempt to maintain productivity growth, social protections, and extensive political and cultural freedoms? Regardless of how globalization progresses, policymakers in developed nations remain concerned about whether domestic output and employment growth can recover as rapidly as after recessions past. Those concerns are magnified by prospective population aging in developed countries. This paper offers policy recommendations for developed nations to reduce globalization's negative effects and, indeed, harness it for solving aging-related economic challenges...
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Islamist Terrorism
→ The New Media Journal RSS Headline News | 10 Mar 2010 | 10:33 am MST
Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project: Material Support at SCOTUS
by Stephen I. Landman, InvestigativeProject.org
Since September 11, 2001, the majority of "national security" cases to make it to the Supreme Court have dealt with America's military strategy in the War on Terrorism -- namely our policies at Guantanamo Bay. Although these cases have focused on detention authority and due process rights in a time of war, they represent only one facet of what is at least a two-front war. Alongside our military efforts, the United States has been engaged in domestic law enforcement to target international terrorist groups long before September 11th. At the forefront of that battle is the "material support" statute -- 18 U.S.C. § 2339B. Although both maligned and lauded, subject to numerous amendments and frequent litigation, the constitutional challenges have never made their way to our nation's highest court -- until now...
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Government & Politics
→ The New Media Journal RSS Headline News | 10 Mar 2010 | 10:33 am MST
The Health Insurance Reform Debate
by Scott E. Harrington, American Enterprise Institute
At least three broad problems characterize US health care and insurance: 1) high and rapidly growing costs, 2) large numbers of non-elderly people without insurance, and 3) enormous projected Medicare deficits and continued Medicaid cost growth. The health care reform debate and reform proposals have focused largely on expanding the number of people with health insurance. On November 7, 2009, the US House of Representatives narrowly approved legislation to mandate that all individuals be covered by health insurance coupled with Medicaid expansion, premium subsidies for low income persons, creation of a health insurance exchange (or exchanges) with strong restrictions on health insurance underwriting and pricing, and creation of a government-run health insurer to compete with private health plans. While the details differ, on November 21 the US Senate voted 60-39 along straight party lines to approve for floor debate a bill with the same broad outlines...
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National & Local
→ The New Media Journal RSS Headline News | 10 Mar 2010 | 10:33 am MST
The 2009 Index of Dependence on Government
by William W. Beach, The Heritage Foundation
Despite the famed 1996 Welfare Reform Act and the more recent welfare adjustments in 2006, 60.8 million Americans remain dependent on the government for their daily housing, food, and health care. The number of taxpayers is shrinking--and the country may be rapidly approaching the point where more than one-third of Americans do not pay taxes for benefits they receive. In February 2009, the Democrat-controlled Congress and the new Obama Administration may have driven the final stake into the heart of any semblance of fiscal responsibility when they enacted the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act--essentially overturning the fiscal foundation of welfare reform. Starting in 2016, Social Security will not collect enough in taxes to pay all of the promised benefits-- which is a problem for all workers, but especially for the roughly half of the American workforce that has no other retirement program. Add in spiraling academic grants, flat-out farm socialism, and the swelling ranks of Americans who believe themselves entitled to public-sector benefits for which they pay few or no taxes--and Americans must ask themselves whether they are near a tipping point in the nature of their government...
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American Fifth Column
→ The New Media Journal RSS Headline News | 10 Mar 2010 | 10:33 am MST
Perfect Storm Is Brewing for the IPCC
by Christopher Booker, The London Telegraph
The news from sunny Bali that there is to be an international investigation into the conduct of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its chairman Dr Rajendra Pachauri would have made front-page headlines a few weeks back. But while Scotland and North America are still swept by blizzards, in their worst winter for decades, there has been something of a lull in the global warming storm - after three months when the IPCC and Dr Pachauri were themselves battered by almost daily blizzards of new scandals and revelations. And one reason for this lull is that the real message of all the scandals has been lost. The chief defense offered by the warmists to all those revelations centered on the IPCC's last 2007 report is that they were only a few marginal mistakes scattered through a vast, 3,000-page document. But this completely misses the point. Put the errors together and it can be seen that one after another they tick off all the central, iconic issues of the entire global warming saga. Apart from those non-vanishing polar bears, no fears of climate change have been played on more insistently than these: the destruction of Himalayan glaciers and Amazonian rainforest; famine in Africa; fast-rising sea levels; the threat of hurricanes, droughts, floods and heat waves all becoming more frequent...
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Culture Wars
→ The New Media Journal RSS Headline News | 10 Mar 2010 | 10:33 am MST
Immigration, Political Realignment & the Demise of GOP
by James G. Gimpel, Center for Immigration Studies
How has the growth of the immigrant population changed the political partisan leanings of the places where immigrants have settled? The answer to this question is of considerable interest to academic specialists, journalists, interest groups, and political parties engaged in the immigration policy debate. If the impact of mass immigration is politically neutral, there is no reason to be concerned that constituencies will change appreciably by the settlement and naturalization of new arrivals. In that case, immigration might have economic and cultural impacts that should be anticipated, but no one need be concerned about political shifts. On the other hand, if immigration does change the politics of locales, districts, and even entire states, then what might those changes entail? Certainly one important implication will be a resultant public shift toward favoring governmental activism -- a belief that government should do more, rather than less. Latino voters, for instance, are presently among the demographic groups that are most strongly behind an activist government. This is undoubtedly because they have, on balance, lower incomes, and concentrate in areas monopolized by Democratic Party politics into which they are easily socialized...
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Quote of the Day & This Day in US History
→ The New Media Journal RSS Headline News | 10 Mar 2010 | 10:33 am MST
Quote of the Day
"But if we are to be told by a foreign Power... what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little."
-- George Washington
Contra-Quote of the Day
"It's time that we raise up above immature name-calling and start talking to the teabaggers"
-- Mike Elk, Campaign for America's Future
This Day in US History
March 10, 1876: The first discernible speech is transmitted over a telephone system when inventor Alexander Graham Bell summons his assistant in another room by saying, "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you." Bell had received a comprehensive telephone patent just three days before.
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Al Qaeda, Gitmo & National Security
→ Accuracy In Media | 9 Mar 2010 | 1:08 pm MST
Are the Obama Administration’s actions putting Americans at increased risk of a terrorist attack? Keep America Safe and its board members argue that it is.
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Title IX & Sexual Harassment
→ Accuracy In Media | 8 Mar 2010 | 5:44 am MST
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Was the Pentagon Shooter an Obama-approved Pothead?
→ Accuracy In Media | 7 Mar 2010 | 3:34 pm MST
What is abundantly clear, from reading his Internet commentaries, is that Pentagon shooter John Patrick Bedell was a psychotic pothead.
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Health Care Battle Near an End?
→ Accuracy In Media | 5 Mar 2010 | 11:09 am MST
If the Democrats had the votes to pass it, it would be passed immediately. But they don’t, and instead will try to make whatever deals it takes.
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Who’s Behind the Financial Crisis?
→ Accuracy In Media | 4 Mar 2010 | 5:33 pm MST
The New York Times is quoting a spokesman for George Soros as saying that the well-known hedge fund operator is guilty of no wrong-doing in connection with the financial upheaval currently affecting Greece and Europe as a whole.
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Pro-Muslim Influence on Fox News Channel
→ Accuracy In Media | 3 Mar 2010 | 1:08 pm MST
Should Fox News register with the State Department as a foreign agent—an agent of Saudi Arabia?
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Opinionated & Illiterate?
→ Accuracy In Media | 2 Mar 2010 | 11:18 am MST
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The Media, Extremists and Conspiracies, Part Two
→ Accuracy In Media | 2 Mar 2010 | 9:42 am MST
Like its Soviet-era predecessors, Russia Today television tends to emphasize stories and interviews that make the United States look bad internationally.
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One-Twoing Working Poor
→ Accuracy In Media | 1 Mar 2010 | 12:21 pm MST
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The Media, Extremists and Conspiracies, Part One
→ Accuracy In Media | 1 Mar 2010 | 12:00 pm MST
So-called “conservatives” in the media, such as those mentioned in the Politico story who refuse to tolerate even the asking of serious questions about Obama’s background, have either been intimidated by the liberal/left or are afraid of doing the hard work required to get answers.
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