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  • Critical Sarah Palin documentary to make September debut

    8/5/2011, 3:35:27 AM · by TomServo · 51 replies · 1+ views
    CBS News ^ | 08/04/11 | Lucy Madison
    Just months after the Iowa premiere of the pro-Sarah Palin documentary "The Undefeated," the world will get a glimpse of the former Alaska Governor from a different - and likely more critical - cinematic perspective: In September, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield, who directed "Kurt & Courtney" and "Biggie & Tupac," will debut "Sarah Palin - You Betcha!" at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which runs from Sept. 8-18. Unlike the flattering portrait of Palin touted in "The Undefeated," which was made with the former vice presidential candidate's cooperation by a conservative filmmaker, Broomfield's goal was "cracking her story,"...
  • Video Shows Dramatic Septa Bus Shooting

    8/5/2011, 3:21:48 AM · by ConservativeStatement · 29 replies
    MyFoxPhilly ^ | August 4, 2011
    First on Fox: Dramatic video shows gunmen shooting right into a Septa bus in Philadelphia and threatening passengers during an incident in July. Slideshow: Dramatic Bus Shooting Images The case is heading to trial later this month but a preliminary hearing was held Thursday. Four people will head to trial after Penny Chapman, allegedly upset that another passenger criticized her for spanking her child, called and asked for acquaintances to shoot at the passenger when the bus got to her stop. Chapman was on the Route 47 Septa bus heading north on 7th Street.
  • The Un-Radical Freshmen: They have consistently demonstrated the ability to weigh their options.

    8/5/2011, 3:19:18 AM · by neverdem · 11 replies
    NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE ^ | August 3, 2011 | Andrew Stiles
    The Un-Radical FreshmenThey have consistently demonstrated the ability to weigh their options. To hear Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) tell it, House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) is a “reasonable man” tragically beholden to the “extreme” proclivities of his freshmen members. From the moment the 112th Congress was sworn in, Schumer and other Democrats have been imploring Boehner to “abandon the Tea Party” and its unruly representatives in Congress, who are standing in the way of sensible, bipartisan solutions. In their view, and in the eyes of much of the mainstream media, the GOP freshman class is little more than...
  • Quinn & Rose - America’s Morning Show - August 5, 2011

    8/5/2011, 3:14:09 AM · by sneakers · 7 replies
    Before yunz head dahntahn to work, or start to red up the house n‘at, join us every morning for coffee (or whatever gets yinz started) and maybe some serious discussion of the issues (or not!) Listen to the Quinn & Rose Morning Show at: www.wpgb.com (104.7 Pittsburgh, Pa) http://wysl1040.com/ (Rochester, NY) http://www.640whlo.com/main.html (Akron, OH) (airs later from 9-12) http://www.wncoam.com/main.html (Ashland, OH) http://www.talkradio560.com/ (Frostburg, MD) http://tunein.com/radio/The-War-Room-with-Quinn--Rose-p34761/ And now on 166 XM
  • Bachmann: Obama is a transnationalist and 'Not a Big Fan of American Sovereignty'

    8/5/2011, 3:06:07 AM · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 30 replies
    Atlas Shrugs | April 1st, 2009 | Michelle Gellar
    Soros funded Think Progress is attempting to do a smear on Michelle Bachmann using an interview she did in 2009 with Pamela Gellar. We need to keep an eye on what these leftists do, which I myself do every now and then. The think progress piece is here. This is one of the best interviews from Bachmann that I've ever heard. Even if you aren't a big Bachmann supporter, just consider listening with an open mind. Here's what she says regarding Obama's transnationalist views:(at 8 minutes 5 seconds) Gellar asks: In money, in hegemony, um, in foreign policy, abdicating our...
  • David Vitter fundraising group targets 14 seats in the Louisiana Legislature

    8/5/2011, 2:59:44 AM · by topher · 2 replies
    Times-Picayune [nola.com] ^ | August 4, 2011 | By The Associated Press
    ... The Senate seats targeted by the Louisiana Committee for a Republican Majority are open because of term limits, including the district currently held by the Senate president. But a list Vitter provided to The Associated Press shows some of the targeted House seats in the Oct. 22 election have first-term Democratic incumbents the group wants to oust. "I don't want to jinx it, but I feel very good we're going to increase our margins," Vitter said in an interview with AP. While the state Republican Party has inserted itself in races where GOP candidates are battling, Vitter said his...
  • Fighting cancer, Chavez seeks aid from deities

    8/5/2011, 2:58:23 AM · by Free ThinkerNY · 44 replies · 1+ views
    Associated Press ^ | August 4, 2011 | CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER
    CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez told a gathering of soldiers Thursday that he's seeking divine support from the indigenous deities and spirits of Venezuela's central plains to help him survive cancer. "Cancer? What is that for me? I have faith in the spirits of the plains that I'll prevail. I will live and we will win the elections next year," Chavez told hundreds of troops massed in formation at Fort Tiuna, Venezuela's largest military installation.
  • New Mexico woman indicted over immigrant driver licenses

    8/5/2011, 2:57:16 AM · by NormsRevenge · 14 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 8/4/11 | Dennis J. Carroll - Reuters
    SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) - An Albuquerque woman was indicted on Thursday on charges of creating fraudulent residency documents to help illegal immigrants get New Mexico driver's licenses. New Mexico is currently one of three states, including Utah and Washington, that allow undocumented immigrants to lawfully obtain driver's licenses if they can show proof of residency and identity. The grand jury indictment accuses Ana Hernandez, 45, of more than 300 felony counts over accusations she used her Albuquerque business address on documents she fraudulently created for Mexican nationals so they could obtain licenses. "This is yet another egregious case...
  • Asian stocks tumble as fears of US recession trigger steepest Dow points decline since 2008

    8/5/2011, 2:53:07 AM · by tcrlaf · 57 replies
    WashPost ^ | 8-4-11
    BANGKOK — Asian stock markets tumbled Friday as investors dumped riskier assets amid fears the U.S. is heading back into recession and Europe’s debt crisis is worsening. The sell-off in Asia followed the biggest one-day points decline on Wall Street since the 2008 financial crisis. Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock average slid 3.4 percent to 9,335.26 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shed 4.1 percent to 20,989.28. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was off 4 percent at 4,107.20, Taiwan’s Taiex sank 4.2 percent to 7,967.38 and Seoul’s Kospi dropped 2.8 percent to 1,961.79. Growing fear about the weakening U.S. economy was joined by concern...
  • Muslim man sues WA employer for firing over beard

    8/5/2011, 2:42:38 AM · by Free ThinkerNY · 27 replies
    Associated Press ^ | August 4, 2011 | MANUEL VALDES
    SEATTLE (AP) -- A Seattle-area Muslim man is suing his former employer, claiming he was fired as a security guard for refusing to shave the beard he wears for religious reasons. Abdulkadir Omar, 22, filed his federal lawsuit July 15 in Seattle against Sacramento-based American Patriot Security, seeking back pay and unspecified damages for emotional pain and loss of enjoyment of life, among other reasons.
  • Caption: President Obama & Speaker Boehner on the patio near the Oval Office, July 3, 2011

    8/5/2011, 2:41:51 AM · by NormsRevenge · 29 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 8/4/11 | Reuters photos
    President Obama meeting with Speaker of the House John Boehner on the patio near the Oval Office, July 3, 2011. REUTERS/Pete Souza/The White House
  • The Extraordinary Collapse of Jatropha as a Global Biofuel

    8/5/2011, 2:27:45 AM · by Vince Ferrer · 18 replies
    Environmental Science and Technology ^ | August 2, 2011 | Promode Kant, Shuirong Wu
    Blending of fossil diesel with biodiesel is an important climate change mitigation strategy across the world. In 2003 the Planning Commission of India decided to introduce mandatory blending over increasingly larger parts of the country and reach countrywide 30% blending status by the year 2020 and opted for nonedible oilseed species of Jatropha curcus raised over lands unsuited to agriculture as it was considered to be high in oil content, early yielding, nonbrowsable and requiring little irrigation and even less management. In a massive planting program of unprecedented scale millions of marginal farmers and landless people were encouraged to plant...
  • Democratic Insiders View Romney as Obama's Main Threat

    8/5/2011, 2:17:07 AM · by CharlyFord · 71 replies
    National Journal ^ | August 4, 2011 | James A. Barnes and Peter Bell
    With the economy sputtering, Democratic political operatives view former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as the main Republican threat to President Obama's reelection, according to this week's National Journal Political Insiders Poll. Democratic Insiders see Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has not yet declared whether or not he will run for president, as the second strongest against Obama. A separate poll of Republican insiders, released Thursday, also showed Perry as Romney's main GOP challenger.
  • 'There ARE too many immigrants in the UK', say seven in 10 Britons

    8/5/2011, 2:14:47 AM · by klpt · 18 replies
    Dailymail ^ | 5th August 2011 | Jack Doyle
    Nearly three quarters of Britons think there are too many immigrants in the country, a survey revealed yesterday. The international poll, by IPSOS Mori, put the UK third highest in a league table of 23 countries according to concerns about migrant numbers. And it showed Britain topped the table of countries according to concerns over the impact of migrants on public services. Some 76 per cent of those questioned said immigration had put too much pressure on hospitals, transport services and schools. The poll exposes the huge on-going scale of public worry over migration levels in recent years. Under Labour’s...
  • This Too Will Pass

    8/5/2011, 2:10:06 AM · by Kaslin · 53 replies
    IBD Editorials ^ | August 4, 2011 | Staff
    Free Fall: The stock market is highly perceptive, and what it's perceiving now is that (1) the mediocre recovery of the last two years is stalling out and (2) our leaders in Washington haven't the vaguest idea of what to do about it. A big part of this pathetic recovery has to be laid at government's doorstep. Our top elected and appointed officials try to blame it on everyone else, but it's their incompetence that has brought us low. The weak 1.2% average GDP growth since the end of 2008 is a direct result of the financial crisis of 2007...
  • The Schmidle Muddle of the Osama Bin Laden Take Down (New Yorker may have printed a faked story?)

    8/5/2011, 2:01:02 AM · by Wayne07 · 10 replies
    Registan.net ^ | 8/4/2011 | C. Christine Fair
    On Monday, August 1, the New Yorker ran a piece by Nicholas Schmidle, a young freelance journalist, which proffered a breathtakingly detailed account of the Bin Laden Take-down in May of 2011. [...] The article was in fact so detailed that it left the unmistakable impression that Mr. Schmidle had interviewed at least a few of the SEALs involved in the raid. During an NPR interview, Steve Inskeep explains that indeed Schmidle had spent time with the SEALs who were on the mission to get Bin Laden. NPR subsequently issued a correction for reasons noted below. All of this makes...
  • Editorial: An Unwelcome Debt Milestone

    8/5/2011, 1:58:48 AM · by Kaslin · 10 replies
    IBD Editorials ^ | August 4, 2011 | Staff
    Debt: Quietly, with the debt-ceiling imbroglio behind us, we've entered a new era. And, no, that's not a good thing. Our debt now exceeds the size of our entire economy. Our economy won't be the same. With this correction, the markets have issued a stinging rebuke to those who believed that with the debt-ceiling impasse resolved we can return to business as usual. We can't. Those who carefully watch what the government does are no doubt alarmed it took just one day to raise the debt an additional $238 billion — or nearly 60% of that authorized by the debt-ceiling...
  • Stayin’ Alive: Dow just misses ’78 losing streak (the rookie Hussein WORSE than Jimmah Carter?)

    8/5/2011, 1:56:58 AM · by Libloather · 13 replies
    News Tribune ^ | 8/04/11 | PAUL WISEMAN
    Stayin’ Alive: Dow just misses ’78 losing streakPAUL WISEMAN, AP Economics Writer Thursday, August 4, 2011 Not since the Bee Gees and their “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack dominated the radio has the Dow Jones industrial average endured a longer losing streak. The Dow blipped up 30 points Wednesday, ending a string of down days at eight. Until the last few minutes of trading, it looked as if stocks might match a nine-day losing streak that ended on Feb. 22, 1978. Weighing on stocks 33 years ago: A stalemate in Congress. A weakening economy. Fears about the global financial system. Sound...
  • Obama’s ‘Job Creation Bus Tour’ on Tax Payers’ Dime: Not Campaign Event According to White House

    8/5/2011, 1:51:40 AM · by Loud Mime · 55 replies
    Breitbart.TV ^ | 08/04/2011 | Andrew Breitbart
    Video at this link
  • Hungary: The Beijing model

    8/5/2011, 1:46:58 AM · by bruinbirdman · 5 replies · 1+ views
    Die Zeit, Hamburg ^ | 8/4/2011 | Alice Bota
    Victor Orban's controversial media law entered fully into force in July. After one month, the upshot is: mass layoffs of critical journalists and the allegation that the head of government is forcing the public media to toe his own line, making his regime ever more authoritarian. Is Prime minister Viktor Orbán going to turn Hungary into a Chinese-style regime? The layoffs – so they’re not really politically motivated, not an attempt to get rid of unwanted editors? So they’re lying, then, the laid-off Hungarian journalists who claim the state fired them because they were too critical? The spokeswoman for the...