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News of the Week for Oct. 21st<\/sup>, 2012<\/p>\n Some States Not Sending Absentee Ballots to Military<\/a> Obama ahead, Romney gains independents in Nevada poll<\/a> Whistle-blower audio: Sen. Claire McCaskill\u2019s husband cut business deals in Senate Dining Room<\/a> Pot Prizes May Have Lured More Eagle Rock Residents To Vote<\/a> Is Obama Buying the Election With His Welfare Explosion?<\/a> International monitors at US polling places draw criticism <\/a> Professors donate to Obama, opine about election in the news<\/a> Barack Obama has pension investments that include Chinese firms, and “investments through a Caymans trust.”<\/a><\/p>\n Horsford struggles vs. Tarkanian in Nev.<\/a> Calif. official whose agency under-reported unemployment stats was Obama campaign donor<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lord Monckton: Sea Ice: An Open Letter to Jeremy Paxman of the BBC A123 Files for Bankruptcy<\/a> Taxpayers To Recover $0 On Solyndra<\/a> <\/p>\n In Britain\u2019s Liverpool Pathway We Get A Preview Of Obmacare And Hell<\/a> Clinton: I’m responsible for diplomats’ security<\/a> The Three Benghazi Timelines We Need Answers About<\/a> Report: Unmanned Drone Observed Benghazi Terror Attack, Did Nothing: \u201cThey stood and they watched and our people died\u201d<\/a> North Korea rebuffs U.S. at secret meeting in China<\/a> Girl Shot By Taliban Interview On CNN, Malala Yousafzai 14 year old girl Pakistan Activist<\/a><\/p>\n The New Blacklist <\/a> The Great Meteor Grab<\/a> Lost boy kept warm by puppies, officials say<\/a> ‘When I saw the handle turn, I shot him’: Home Alone girl, 12, shoots home intruder while hiding in the closet with gun<\/a> The most inappropriate show of support: Madonna, 54, dedicates onstage striptease to Pakistani girl shot by Taliban<\/a> California City Bans Smoking Inside Multi-Family Homes, Condos & Apartments<\/a> How the Russian \u2018Reset\u2019 Explains Obama\u2019s Foreign Policy<\/a> How the Colleges Skew U.S. History <\/a> Second Circuit Strikes Down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gideon Gono Comments on QE3<\/a> What Can We Cut to Balance the Budget<\/a><\/p>\n Coburn report details $18 billion of wasteful gov\u2019t initiatives<\/a><\/p>\n The failure of modern economics<\/a> Welfare spending jumps 32% in four years<\/a> Weekly Jobless Claims Drop Proves to Be Short-Lived<\/a> Welfare government\u2019s single largest budget item in FY 2011 at approx. $1.03 trillion<\/a> Japan and the Exhaustion of Consumerism<\/a> <\/p>\n Ukraine and the Sword of Vladimir<\/a> Will EU Regulations Effectively Ban High-End Video Cards?<\/a><\/p>\n You thought the whole ‘EUSSR’ thing was over the top? Have a look at this poster<\/a> France to Cover 100 Percent of the Cost of Abortions<\/a> European Military Decline Accelerating?<\/a> France to Ban Homework. Really.<\/a> The Coming Collapse: Authoritarians in China and Russia Face an Endgame<\/a> Britain\u2019s High-Tech Thought Police<\/a> Rowan Atkinson: we must be allowed to insult each other <\/a> <\/p>\n Obama\u2019s Progressivism: the Least Good for the Smallest Number<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" News of the Week for Oct. 21st, 2012 Election 2012 Hide the Decline Obamacare War & Terror National News Economy & Taxes International News Opinion Election 2012 Some States Not Sending Absentee Ballots to Military Jurisdictions in Vermont, Michigan, … Continue reading \n
<\/a>Election
\n2012<\/h1>\n
\nJurisdictions in Vermont, Michigan, Mississippi and Wisconsin have failed to mail absentee ballots to military members by the Sept. 22, 2012, deadline established by the MOVE Act. That was 45 days before the November 6 elections, which was what was required.<\/p>\n
\nPresident Barack Obama recovered lost ground among older Nevada voters since his dismal first-debate performance against Mitt Romney, according to a new poll that shows the Democratic incumbent holding a precarious three-point edge over his GOP challenger, 48 percent to 45 percent.<\/p>\n
\nMissouri Sen. Claire McCaskill\u2019s husband used the U.S. Senate Dining Room to cut business deals selling tax credits tied to stimulus money, a whistle-blowing executive inside his company alleged on an audio recording exclusively obtained by The Daily Caller.<\/p>\n
\nFliers offering $40 worth of free medical-grade marijuana were reportedly passed out in Eagle Rock to try and draw residents to vote in the local election.<\/p>\n
\nWith the unprecedented budget explosion of means-tested, welfare-related entitlements, does Team Obama think it can buy the election?<\/p>\n
\nUnited Nations-affiliated election monitors from Europe and central Asia will be at polling places around the U.S. looking for voter suppression activities by conservative groups, a concern raised by civil rights groups during a meeting this week. The intervention has drawn criticism from a prominent conservative-leaning group combating election fraud.<\/p>\n
\nAt least a half-dozen professors who gave political donations to President Obama have been quoted in news articles opining about his administration and the 2012 race for the White House.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWhen Frank Hawkins came the morning after the primary and said he was going to endorse Danny and go door to door with him, that was a shock to a lot of people in the African-American community,\u201d Cunningham said. \u201cA lot of people were puzzled and offended by it, but it was quite the discussion in the community. And it was divisive because of his position.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nMarty Morgenstern, the secretary of the California agency that substantially under-reported unemployment claims last week, contributed to President Barack Obama\u2019s 2008 presidential election campaign, The Daily Caller has learned.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\n<\/a>Your Newsnight segment on Arctic sea ice (BBC2 TV, 8 September 2012) featured a \u201cscientist\u201d who said ice loss since a high point in 1979 would cut the Earth\u2019s albedo and, by this feedback, cause warming equivalent to 20 years\u2019 global CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n
\nYet another failure of central planning
\nElectric car battery-maker A123 Systems has filed for bankruptcy, according to Bloomberg News.<\/p>\n
\nIt will come as no surprise to some but the bankruptcy court hearing for Solyndra just threw up all over any hopes that our taxpayer-funded loans to this solar sinkhole will be recovered:
\nSOLYNDRA HAS ABOUT $71 MILLION IN NET DISTRIBUTABLE ASSETS
\nSOLYNDRA LENDERS AHEAD OF GOVERNMENT OWED ABOUT $77 MILLION<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nIt isn\u2019t often that I open a story with a quote from a liberal but, as a Catholic, I have a great deal of affinity for Hubert Humphrey. As you read this you\u2019ll see just how far the modern left has strayed from the liberalism of FDR, John Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson.<\/p>\n<\/a>War
\n& Terror<\/h1>\n
\nSecretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday tried to douse a political firestorm around the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya, saying she is responsible for the security of American diplomatic outposts.<\/p>\n
\nEvery White House sooner or later succumbs to the temptation to cover up an embarrassment.<\/p>\n
\nAs the details of Obama\u2019s cover-up slowly trickle out, we get the feeling by the time this is all done with we\u2019ll find out Obama himself was personally observing the action in between fundraisers. Now we discover we had drone surveillance of the attack as it happened and did nothing. Maybe we were concerned about innocent civilians protesting a video getting hurt.<\/p>\n
\nTwo North Korean government officials told a top U.S. official dealing with North Korea that the hermitic Stalinist state would not continue on its path to denuclearization, as promised in 2005, until the United States ends what it sees as America’s hostile policy to the DPRK.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nSome proponents of gay marriage would rather intimidate their critics than debate them.<\/p>\n
\n“New regulations by the Federal government define asteroidal material to be an antiquity, like arrowheads and pottery, rather than a mineral \u2014 and, therefore, not subject to U.S. mining law or eligible for mining claims. At the moment, these regulations only apply to asteroidal materials that have fallen to Earth as meteorites. However, they create a precedent that could adversely affect the plans of companies such as Planetary Resources, who intend to mine asteroids in space.”<\/p>\n
\nWarning: The following story is so damn heartwarming it may melt your computer or mobile device.<\/p>\n
\nA 12-year-old girl is being hailed a hero for shooting a home intruder after she hid with a gun in the closet.<\/p>\n
\nSlammed as ‘cheap self-publicity’ as singer strips off to ‘support’ teenager shot for criticising terrorists
\nMadonna writes Malala Yousafzai’s name across her back after education activist was shot on a school bus
\nPakistani people furious at bizarre display during the MDNA tour<\/p>\n
\nNew York City\u2019s sugary drinks ban has created a multitude of controversy, as small government enthusiasts charge that the policy, which places a 16-ounce restriction on cups and bottles of non-diet soda, sweet teas and other related beverages, is an example of nanny-state overreach.<\/p>\n
\nThe president’s naivete about Vladimir Putin is the root cause of his failure.<\/p>\n
\nAmerican history has been radically transformed on our campuses. Traditional topics are now not only marginalized but “re-visioned” to become more compatible with the dominant race\/class\/gender paradigm.<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy
\n& Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nGideon Gono, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe who destroyed the Zim dollar by creating hyperinflation, weighs in on the parallels between QE3 and the policy he followed last decade, in the RBZ\u2019s mid-term 2012 monetary policy statement.<\/p>\n
\nToday’s economists overlook the most basic element of economic science<\/p>\n
\nWelfare spending has grown substantially over the past four years, reaching $746 billion in 2011 \u2014 or more than Social Security, basic defense spending or any other single chunk of the federal government \u2014 according to a new memo by the Congressional Research Service.<\/p>\n
\nWeekly applications for U.S. unemployment benefits jumped 46,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 388,000, the highest in four months. The increase represents a rebound from the previous week’s sharp drop. Both swings were largely due to technical factors.<\/p>\n
\nThe government spent approximately $1.03 trillion on 83 means-tested federal welfare programs in fiscal year 2011 alone \u2014 a price tag that makes welfare that year the government\u2019s largest expenditure, according to new data released by the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee.<\/p>\n
\nJapan’s faddishly fantastic fashions illustrate the exhaustion of consumerism as a driver of wealth creation.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nWatching old-school power politics unfold is a fascinating activity, and no better example can be found than those played by Russia and Vladimir Putin. The current maneuvering with respect to Ukraine harkens back to the Cold War days with a decidedly modern twist \u2013 i.e. energy supplies, and in particular natural gas.<\/p>\n
\nTake a close look at this promotional poster. Notice anything? Alongside the symbols of Christianity, Judaism, Jainism and so on is one of the wickedest emblems humanity has conceived: the hammer and sickle.<\/p>\n
\nThe French national health-care system is called S\u00e9curit\u00e9 Sociale. It is currently running a $13 billion deficit, but President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande has some ideas about a new direction for the program. For starters, in 2013, it will start covering the cost of abortion entirely.<\/p>\n
\nIt could have been a moment of triumph for Europe\u2014a symbol of global relevance and power when it was most needed. Instead, the failed merger between continental European aerospace giant EADS and British BAE Systems, two of Europe\u2019s largest defense companies, is an alarming sign of the increasing irrelevance of Europe.<\/p>\n
\nIn the name of social justice and equality, Fran\u00e7ois Hollande wants all learning done in school.<\/p>\n
\nSince the beginning of the twenty-first century, China and Russia have been constants in the world. They have been autocratic, resistant to the spread of freedom, occasionally belligerent toward their neighbors, and increasingly prosperous. They have consistently joined together in order to block Western initiatives in the UN Security Council and to defend dictatorships like Iran, North Korea, and Syria.<\/p>\n
\nBritish authorities target bloggers, tweeters, and t-shirt wearers for speech crimes.<\/p>\n
\nRowan Atkinson has launched a campaign for a change in the law that bans “insulting words and behaviour”.<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n