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Planting a mosque just two blocks from where Muslims murdered Americans on 9/11 in the name of Islam is a huge slap in the face.
They claim a right to be insulted by cartoons mocking their prophet, even to the point of beheading people. During a recent Friday sermon, this writer did due diligence as a mosque monitor and heard Rauf deny that Muslims perpetrated 9/11...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Why the Ground Zero Mosque Must Be Stopped
NATO rewarding ''courageous restraint'' awards
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A new plan to award soldiers who practice restraint that prevents civilian casualties in firefights is under consideration by NATO commanders, according to the Associated Press: NATO commanders are weighing a new way to reduce civilian casualties in Afghanistan: recognizing troops for ''courageous restraint'' if they avoid using force that could endanger innocent lives.
''There should be an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the troops who exhibit extraordinary courage and self-control by not using their weapons, but instead taking personal risk to de-escalate tense and potentially disastrous situations''
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Trillion-dollar euro rescue won't solve low growth
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[The larger story here is how Europe got into this mess - but don't expect to hear a peep of it no the MSM: the answer is liberalism, Europe's welfare states are crumbling under their own weight, while Obama is working overtime to emulate them.]
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HIGH-TAX, HIGH-SPEND MODEL STILL DOES NOT WORK
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If states had just kept their spending growth the same as population growth plus inflation between 2002 and 2007, they could have maintained all their services and still provided a $500 billion tax cut. 
Only 9 percent of state pension plans have enough assets to be considered safe according to government standards.
Many state legislatures, unwilling to take on the well-organized lobbies for government spending, have resorted to raising taxes on the rich. However, that will only exacerbate the boom-and-bust budget cycles, as Maryland's experience demonstrates...
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FANNIE AND FREDDIE FAILURE FOREVER
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Earlier in the week Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) told reporters about his financial regulation bill,
"We've ended the 'too big to fail' debate. So no longer do I expect any argument to be made that this bill exposes the American taxpayer."
Sen. Dodd's statements are inaccurate, says the Heritage Foundation:
- Freddie Mac announced this week that it lost another $6.7 billion in the first quarter of 2010 and therefore needed another $10.6 billion in cash from U.S. taxpayers.
- Since formally nationalizing Freddie in 2008, the federal government has already spent $50.7 billion bringing the Freddie bailout total to $61.3 billion so far.
- Combined with Fannie Mae's raid on the Treasury, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the American people will spend $389 billion bailing out the two government sponsored entities by 2019.
So much for American taxpayers no longer being exposed to "too big to fail," says Heritage.
In fact, nothing in the Dodd bill does anything to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
This despite the fact that Fannie and Freddie were the key components in causing the very financial crises Dodd claims his bill will forever prevent....
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Sharpton’s Race Card Mocks Civil Rights
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The joker in the deck came to Arizona last week to play the race card.
Sharpton continues to deliberately misconstrue the intent of the law...
[And no one in the MSM corrects him.]
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Los Angeles high school teacher calls for Mexican revolution in United States
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Ron Gochez is a high school social studies teacher at the Santee Education Complex in Los Angeles. In his spare time he calls for a Mexican revolution from the steps on the UCLA campus, of which he has determined to be stolen, occupied Mexican land.
La Raza is also mentioned in the video presentation.
By visiting the Santee Education Complex website, I’ve confirmed Ronald Gochez is in the School's department [?] of Public Service and Social Justice...
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Beware the Mothers of Child Actors
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At least Vaughn was honest that they were looking to shock-bomb audiences with the profane little-girl assassin.
Of course, Vaughn had contempt for "some people" who objected...
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What Bias? Re: Angry Journalists Refuse to Review Anti-Obama Book
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One of the worst ways that the lack of ideological diversity in America's newsrooms shows forth is in the media's treatment of sensational accusations against the current president.
Oftentimes, explosive allegations against presidents are either untrue or drastically overstated: George W. Bush deliberately lying to get the U.S. to war so he can cash in or deliberately ignoring Hurricaine Katrina due to his hatred of black people (a la Kanye West), Bill Clinton's supposed involvment in the drug trade, so on and so forth.
World Net Daily-affiliated author Aaron Klein recently discovered this when he sent his new book, "The Manchurian President," to members of the media he hoped would review it. He got some very angry responses.
Here are some of the more colorful ones...
[Note: not reviewing the book negatively, but refusing to review it at all. Evidently our professional book reviewers subscribe to the same high ethical standards as do our TV 'reporters'.]
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The Tea Party menace spreads to Europe
Tea Parties? Not in Europe. Never. The pitchfork-toting crowd is a peculiar byproduct of the misinformed, disturbed politics of the United States, where Lindberghs, Limbaughs, and Levins have always proliferated. Protest movements on the continent, like the May 1st protests in Kungsträdgården, under a sea of Cuban flags and photos of Marx and Mao, are a more civilized celebration of dictatorship and egalitarianism.
Or how about the protests in Greece, where Tea Parti…errr…left-wing protesters took to the streets again today to demand that, as the government and economy collapses, that no austerity measures be taken. The result? Three people dead in the firebombing of a bank in Athens. CNN has the chilling details:
Three people died after a fire bomb hit a bank in central Athens, the Greek fire brigade told CNN. The victims, two women and a man, were bank employees, they said.
Protesters were throwing bottles at police guarding the burned-out bank, shouting “torturers” and “liars” because they don’t believe people were killed inside. Riot police were moving in to push the crowd away, CNN’s Diana Magnay reported from the scene.
Thank god there is no Tea Party movement in Greece, right?
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Subject: txt hcare fnn - Man explains purpose of controversial billboards
An East Texan is getting his point across with billboards. The signs voice simple thoughts on the Obama Administration. The billboards began in Marshall, with the latest in Longview, taking jabs at the Obama Administration, with phrases like, "Embarrassed yet?" and "Wake up."
Both are identified as paid for by E.M. Citizen. Who is E.M.? Ellis Miller of Gilmer.
"I was frustrated by how things were going with the health care bill and other aspects of the administration,"
Miller explained.
Neither Republican or Democrat, at 69 the mild mannered and soft spoken Miller is a retired doctor in Gilmer...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Iran could fire nuclear missile within two years
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Iran will be able to deploy a missile capable of carrying a one-tonne nuclear warhead within two years, according to a report from a leading security think tank. The International Institute for Strategic Studies said Iran's missile development programme was expanding in tandem with its drive to acquire an atomic capability.
''Iran is the only country to have developed a missile of this reach without first having developed nuclear weapons,''
the report said. The missile would be capable of hitting Israel and parts of southern Europe...
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Why MAD will fail with Iran
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They managed to do it.
Two leading U.S. journalists from the two most important U.S. papers, Bret Stephens from The Wall Street Journal and Roger Cohen from The New York Times, succeeded in the impossible. In The Iran Debate on Friday, April 30, they debated for an hour and a half without mentioning the very crux of the problem... [snip]
"In this context, mutually assured destruction, the deterrent that worked so well during the Cold War, would have no meaning. At the end of time, there will be general destruction anyway. What will matter will be the final destination of the dead--hell for the infidels, and heaven for the believers. For people with this mindset, MAD [mutual assured destruction] is not a constraint; it is an inducement."
They managed to debate for 90 minutes without mentioning the word Mahdi to whom Ahmadinejad devoted a considerable part of his address to the UN General Assembly... [snip]
The failure to tackle the essence of the problem, i.e. to put the Iranian threat in the context of jihad, Shi'a eschatology and the ineffectiveness of MAD shows a profound malaise of our civilization. We cannot protect ourselves since we are unable to do so because political correctness prevents us from defining the problem...
["Why can't we just be friends?" A: They've no wish to be our friends, they seek to dominate us through intimidation based on murder and the threat of national martyrdom.]
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Republicans Push Obama to 'Pull the Trigger' on Iran
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McCain opened a Senate hearing by saying that Iran will get the bomb unless the U.S. acts more boldly...
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Sudden new respect
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Has anyone else noticed that during the past 16 months we've seen a major increase in overdue respect, honor and appreciation for our nation's military heroes?
It's absolutely true.
Just turn on your TV, open a paper, or walk around your local downtown, and you'll notice love for the troops we've not seen since at least 1991, if not 1945. Suddenly, aside from the clinically insane, most everyone seems to admire the soldiers who provide us our cherished freedoms; but why, especially when from 2001-2008, that admiration was pitifully lacking?
Oh yes, we have a different president. That's the unspoken reason.
Suddenly John Kerry has stopped bashing them, and Democrat leaders who were calling them murderers and seeking defeat at any cost now find them heroic?
Saturday is Armed Forces Day, a little known holiday outside of military circles; but hey, it's the Obama Era -- we're 'post partisan' or something, despite really the opposite -- therefore we'll surely hear some love.
I'll honor all our service members, of course, but as someone who works to honor military men and women every day of my life, I am offended at the blatant politicization that makes doing so contingent upon which party is in power...
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Hotshot sniper in one-and a-half mile double kill
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A BRITISH Army sniper has set a new sharpshooting distance record by killing two Taliban machinegunners in Afghanistan from more than a mile away.
The shooting — which took place while Harrison’s colleagues came under attack — was at such extreme range that the 8.59mm bullets took almost three seconds to reach their target after leaving the barrel of the rifle at almost three times the speed of sound.In a remarkable tour of duty, Harrison cheated death a few weeks later when a Taliban bullet pierced his helmet but was deflected away from his skull. He later broke both arms when his army vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.
Harrison was sent back to the UK for treatment, but insisted on returning to the front line after making a full recovery.
“I was lucky that my physical fitness levels were very high before my arms were fractured and after six weeks in plaster I was still in pretty good shape,” ... “It hasn’t affected my ability as a sniper.”
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Elena Kagan’s most notable foray into public life was kicking military recruiters off of Harvard’s campus
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President Obama’s latest choice for the Supreme Court has held a number of high-profile jobs over the years, but she has left a relatively thin paper trail, with one major exception.
Even with two wars in progress, she contended, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell should disqualify the US military from having any association with the school...
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Embracing Female Genital Mutilation
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And now, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is embracing this barbaric expression of misogyny in the name of cultural sensitivity and immigrant outreach.
Equality Now is stunned by a new policy statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which essentially promotes female genital mutilation. According to the AAP:
"It might be more effective if federal and state laws enabled pediatricians to reach out to families by offering a ritual nick as a possible compromise..."
Hey, let’s compromise! We can also reach out to the Muslim community and ask men to commit honor “nicking” instead of honor murder. It’s a win-win. They get to continue violently victimizing women under the guise of preserving “honor,” and we get to hold hands and sing “Kumbaya.”
What’s a little broken skin as long it's in support of multiculturalism?
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Mali imam living in fear after backing women's rights
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Its most contentious provisions give more rights to women....
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The Greek Crisis and the Reactionary Left
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Visit Newsreal I put this question to my investor friend, whom I’ll call Angel Ware, about the situation in Europe: Any insights into the ramifications of the Greek crisis?
Here is his answer:
“...the good news is that there is plenty of time between here and there for governments to get their acts together and keep the game alive (the game being that people buy bonds from countries with bad balance sheets due to the implication that they will be bailed out by larger governments with bad, but larger and better balance sheets). However, it could get considerably uglier.
"The other thing to keep in mind is that the last time that large European countries defaulted and couldn’t pay for their social programs, Hitler rose to power and we had WWII.”
Well, there’s a happy thought. It may turn out that the greatest tragedy of the 21st Century is that people failed to learn the lessons of the 20th. But then what else is new?
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The welfare state's death spiral
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What we're seeing in Greece is the death spiral of the welfare state. This isn't Greece's problem alone, and that's why its crisis has rattled global stock markets and threatens economic recovery. Virtually every advanced nation, including the United States, faces the same prospect.
Aging populations have been promised huge health and retirement benefits the countries simply can't afford. The reckoning has arrived in Greece, but it awaits most wealthy societies.
Americans dislike the term "welfare state" and substitute the bland word "entitlements", but it's on the same path to insolvency...
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Obama planning a Dept of Truthiness?
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The President's latest wide-ranging speech at Hampton University made a halt at a very strange outpost, before moving on to education. Obama, it seems, is vexed by the idea of conspiracy theories.
Apparently people aren't thinking the right thoughts.
Obama's internet Yoda, Professor Cass Sunstein*, is also besotted with the idea. Two years ago, Sunstein proposed what you might call an 'active government solution' to conspiracies...
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FLASHBACK >
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2009
Did YOU Know...
The following thumbnails describe a very small sampling of the 'brain trust' President Obama has deliberately chosen to help him guide America's ship of state. ...
10. Cass Sunstein -- ["Regulatory Affairs"] "Animals should be permitted to bring [law] suit, with human beings as their representatives....", "the Internet is anti-democratic because of the way users can filter out information of their own choosing."...
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Why Bother With the Constitution?
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It’s Supreme Court nomination time again, which means that it will soon be nomination hearing time, which means that Elena Kagan will soon be asked how she believes the Constitution should be interpreted.
But just in time comes a new book — “The Living Constitution,” by David A. Strauss — that tells us not to bother about that question because, odd though it might seem, the Constitution does not play a central role in constitutional interpretation.
“the text of the Constitution will play, at most, a ceremonial role.” Even “when a case involves the Constitution, the text routinely gets no attention,” for “on a day-to-day basis, American constitutional law is about precedents, and when precedents leave off, it is about commonsense notions of fairness and good policy.”
The incoherence of what Strauss is urging is spectacularly displayed in a single sentence. Given the importance of common ground, “it makes sense,” he says, “to adhere to the text even while disregarding the framers’ intentions.”
I am at a loss to know what “adhere” is supposed to mean here. According to the dictionaries, “adhere” means “to stick fast to” or “to be devoted to” or “to follow closely.” But you don’t do any of these things by “disregarding” the intentions that inform and give shape to the text you claim to “honor”; you don’t follow closely what you are in the act of abandoning.
Instead, you engage in a fiction of devotion designed to reassure the public that everything is on the (interpretive) up and up:
“The Court could take advantage of the fact that everyone thinks the words of the Constitution should count for something.” Here “something”
means “anything,” as long as it hooks up with what everyone thinks; and the advantage the Court is counseled to seize is an advantage gained by pandering.
If this is what the “living Constitution” is — a Constitution produced and reproduced by serial acts of infidelity — I hereby cast a vote for the real one.
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Why Ultra-Liberal Obama Needs Kagan On the Court
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President Obama needs a Supreme Court that will rule that the Constitution allows the federal government to impose Obamacare’s individual mandate, ordering Americans how they must spend their own money. He needs a Supreme Court that will allow him to impose job-killing cap-and-trade and card-check rules through executive action, instead of legislation. He needs a Supreme Court that says you have a right to same-sex marriage—which the Constitution does not mention—but that you do not have a right to own a gun—which the Constitution explicitly mentions in the Second Amendment.
President Obama firmly believes he has found such a justice in Elena Kagan...
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More ‘Gangster Government’ as Obama appointees rewrite the rules for airline unions
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In last week’s primary election in North Carolina, Democrats failed to select a Senate nominee. Elaine Marshall finished first and Cal Cunningham second, but the failure of either candidate to reach the 40 percent threshold means that the two must face each other once again in a runoff next month.
Imagine what would happen if the governor of North Carolina stepped into this situation and decided, unilaterally, to change the rules so that Marshall can win with her plurality rather than a majority.
This collusion from the Obama administration comes only after repeated, failed attempts by unionists to take over at Delta under the current rules on union elections...
[I know the nets are swarming all over this story - sorry for the redundancy.]
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Video: Calif. Student Told Drawing U.S. Flag 'Offensive' But Obama Drawing Praised
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Just a week after the last time a California school told its students that the American flag was somehow racist, another California school repeated the lesson. This time a middle school student was taught that drawing an American flag was wrong:
However, drawing a picture of President Obama was apparently praise worthy.
Make sure you read this Eyeblast blog post to get all the details.
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New York Times to Greece: End socialized medicine to save money
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Getting the government out of health care saves money? Why didn’t the Times tell us before we adopted socialized medicine! The article also notes that a major reason why Greece is in this predicament:
Among the most significant features of the plan, a Greek government official said, would be a measure making it easier for the government to lay off some of the many thousands of public sector workers, whose low levels of productivity and high wages are a big contributor to Greece’s debt problem. Until now, the government has not been able to lay off civil servants, whose employment rights are in effect constitutionally guaranteed.
I’d say that’s messed up but - as a resident of a country that has $3 trillion in outstanding public pension liabilities, I’m not really in a position to criticize...
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Deficit Strategy Can Begin With Health Care
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Spending Cuts: We see the president's debt commission as little more than a fig leaf for the White House's inevitable tax hikes. But an idea placed on the table by one member could keep the panel from being worthless. President Obama keeps claiming the Democrats' health care overhaul won't increase the deficit one dime. Yet Chief Medicare Actuary Richard S. Foster has released a report finding that "federal expenditures would increase by a net total of $251 billion" through 2019....
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Reminder...
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POLL: Most Rate U.S. Health Care System Good or Excellent
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 55% of Likely Voters rate the current health care system as good or excellent.
The latest finding includes 17% who rate the current system as excellent. Just 13% of voters currently give the health care system a poor rating.
45% who are not insured are included in the majority who rate the system good or execellent.
When it comes to the recently passed health care reform law, most U.S. voters continue to believe it will be bad for the country, and they favor its repeal...
[No matter how you slice it, America did and does not want Obamacare - yet we got it anyway.
Representitive government?
It's time for real change.]
Expect a surprise cap- and-trade vote in the Senate
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This week in the Senate may prove to be a big week for the cap-and-trade issue even though most Hill watchers will see the Senate debating the highly publicized financial reform bill, plans are afoot to introduce the carbon taxation bill 'under the radar' this week...
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Media’s ‘Bird Obsession’ Trumps Loss of Human Life
Subject: txt grn msm bias engry - IBD Editorial:
Here's the newspaper's take:
What does it say when 11 men who perish on an exploding oil platform, or 30 poor souls who die in a 1,000-year Tennessee flood, get less coverage than two oil-soaked birds? It says news is driven from the left.
It is to the credit of the one media outlet that reported the paparazzi-like scrums of reporters trailing rescue workers as they tried to clean off one oil-soaked gannet caught in the oil spill off Louisiana waters after a rig exploded in the Gulf on April 20. Not only did the U.S. and European media obsess breathlessly about the bird, and later about a brown pelican that followed, they seemed to be panting for more.
That's because birds are convenient tools for driving the radical green agenda to halt all oil drilling. TV media and the national papers pounded the bird story because it served a political purpose.
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Inland Empire had nation's largest influx of Latinos in last decade, study finds
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A new study has found that the Inland Empire had the largest increase in Latino population of any metropolitan region in the nation during the last decade.
The Brookings Institute study is the latest to underscore the dramatic demographic trends occurring in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, which saw significant growth in the last decade.
An examination of census data last year found that the construction boom of the early 2000s helped fuel the increase in Latino population. As hundreds of thousands of immigrants chased construction and service jobs...
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California can use $2 billion in local money to balance budget, judge says
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"A Sacramento Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that California can take $2 billion from local redevelopment agencies for state budget relief, avoiding for now a pitfall that had threatened to exacerbate the state deficit."[Our legal system is out of control.]
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Seniors Can Pray Before Meals at Georgia Center
Their prayers have been answered. The Georgia senior center that barred elderly citizens from saying a communal prayer before meals has changed its policy after inquiries from FoxNews.com and other news organizations.
Residents at the Ed Young Senior Citizens Center in Port Wentworth, Ga., were told last week that instead of participating in a prayer, they should observe a moment of silence before their federally-funded meal.
Officials from Senior Citizens Inc., which operates the center, had said the meals they provide to visitors are mostly covered with federal money -- so saying a communal prayer before their consumption violated the government's rules that accompanied its subsidy...
[Two morals:
Speak your mind, don't be cowed by PC.
Government money means government control.]
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What not to wear boarding a flight
... a pair of electronic massage shoes (complete with batteries and an on/off switch)
A passenger was detained by airport authorities in Pakistan after electrical circuits and batteries were found in the soles of his tennis shoes, an airport security official said today. Officials were investigating what the components could be used for and why they were concealed. Similar materials can be used in the construction of bombs.
Mohammad, a building constructor who was heading for Muscat in Oman, told investigators he bought the shoes from a market in Karachi and had no idea there were circuits hidden inside the soles...
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[The poor man's been profiled - how barbaric!]
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