Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Liberal Jonathan Turley Smells An Imperial President In Obama's 'Recess' Appointments

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Because the Congress wasn't in recess: Yet the latest recess appointments push this controversy to a new extreme. The shortest prior per...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Consumption is in Decline, Frugality is in the Ascendant

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As reported here : Legendary Swiss investor Felix Zulauf believes that the current rally in risk assets is likely to last until at least the...

USPS Needs To Cut $20 Billion, Plans To Close 3,830 Post Offices To Save $0.3 Billion

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"That doesn't make any sense!" As reported here by Reuters: The Postal Service chose post offices for possible closure based ...

Obama Plans To Cut Deployed Nukes To As Few As 300 From 1790 Now

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So reports AP Obama here : The potential cuts would be from a current treaty limit of 1,550 deployed strategic warheads. A level of 300 depl...

The World Currently Owes Japan Approximately $3.23 Trillion

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At an exchange rate of 77.87 yen to the dollar: Japan’s current-account surplus has meant that it hasn’t needed to rely on foreign capital t...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Two Reasons For Legal Offshore Cash

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Political risk, as in: If the country implodes and you've got to renounce citizenship you'll have some resources abroad waiting for ...

Romney Unlikely To Reform Tax Code Fearing Charges Of Personal Gain

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So says Cato Institute Senior Fellow Dan Mitchell, here : Romney will be reluctant - because of his personal wealth - to advance policies th...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Rick Santorum Blames His Wife For Blaming Feminists in "It Takes a Family"

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And you thought Newt Gingrich was the only two-timing traitor in the Republican race for president. From The New York Times, here : Asked on...

There is No Democracy in Greece: 43 Lawmakers EXPELLED for Voting the Wrong Way

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As reported here : Lawmakers voted 199-74 in favor of the cutbacks, despite strong dissent among the two main coalition members. A total 37 ...

Banks Make Out Like Bandits Again, Mortgage Settlement a Drop in the Bucket

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As detailed by Gretchen Morgenson for The New York Times here : There's no doubt that the banks are happy with this deal. You would be, ...

Gov. Romney Repeats the Myth of First Amendment Priority

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Quoted here : "We must have a President who is willing to protect America's first right, our right to worship God," he added. ...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Sarah Palin at CPAC: Still a Vulgarian and a Believer in the Imperial Presidency

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As reported here : Palin zeroed in on President Obama. The current state of the economy "is not a failure of the American people,"...
Friday, February 10, 2012

Ann Coulter Still Thinks Newt Gingrich Is The Main Threat To Mitt Romney

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Quoted here : So I ask you, CPACers, who are you willing to stake the future of this country on winning? Who is going to appeal to the most ...

Mitt Romney (and Rush Limbaugh) Do Not Understand The American Founding

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Here's Rush cheer-leading Gov. Mitt Romney for something Romney said today at CPAC, something which shows neither he nor Limbaugh reall...

Fritz Vahrenholt's Climate Apostasy Partly Due to Solar Research of Henrik Svensmark

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So says journalist and film-maker Michael Miersch for Germany's FOCUS, as translated by Phillip Mueller in "Solar Shift Rocks Germa...

A Little Friday Night Truck Humor

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h/t Scott

Potential Juror Number 382 in Hutaree Trial Sticks Up For 4th Amendment

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The Detroit Free Press has the story here : The last person added to the final jury pool said he is skeptical about police and paid informan...

Mormons Still Practice Polygamy in the Form of "Sealing"

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So says Tresa Edmunds  here : Today polygamy still echoes in our doctrine as men can be "sealed", or united for eternity in a reli...

One's a Creep, the Other a Monster

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Tim Noah of The New Republic ( who admits Edward Kennedy was "criminally irresponsible" in 1969 ) helps you decide which is the cr...

The West's Problem: Ongoing Misdirection of Capital

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So says Nicole Gelinas, here : In the years leading up to 2007, the rules necessary to govern a flourishing market economy broke down, produ...