News of the Week for Oct. 28th, 2012<\/p>\n
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Mourdock: Pregnancy from rape can be ‘something God intended to happen’<\/a> How Syria is Iran\u2019s route to the sea<\/a> Voter Machine in Las Vegas Auto-Checking Obama<\/a> Absentee ballots may have been destroyed in crash<\/a> Remote US base in Djibouti at core of secret operations<\/a> Is voter fraud being committed in Ohio?<\/a> Obama And The International Vote<\/a> Obama Administration Speaks Out on Marijuana Ballot Measures: Federal Raids Are Here to Stay<\/a> Obama campaign collecting more donations from non-existent ZIP codes as campaign season goes on<\/a> Team Obama Signs Up Foreign Donor for Volunteer Events — Without His Knowledge<\/a> Feds to probe possible voter fraud in Florida<\/a> Of Bayonets and Submarines<\/a> About Those Horses And Ships<\/a> A Unicorn is Just a Horse with a Bayonet<\/a> Horse Platitudes, or Barack On Through To The Other Side<\/a> Obama line about horses, bayonets fails fact-check<\/a> Alabama Speaker of the House moves to blocok United Nation Poll workers from working in Alabama<\/a> Jim Moran\u2019s Son Conspires to Commit Voter Fraud, Forge Docs<\/a><\/p>\n Guilford Co. voters say ballot cast for Romney came up Obama on machine<\/a> Obama Administration prepared to release convicted terrorists\u2013but only after the election<\/a> Student threatened with punishment after filming Democratic congressman\u2019s abortion answer<\/a> Texas sparks international row with election observers<\/a> Obama On Doing Homework With Kids: “The Math Stuff, I Was Fine With Up Until About 7th Grade”<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Earthquake predictions and a triumph of scientific illiteracy in an Italian court<\/a> Michael Mann \u2013 never fully investigated, thus never exonerated<\/a> Radio Crackdown: Australian Radio Jock Forced Into ‘Factual Accuracy Training’ on Global Warming<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Canadian Experience With Government Health Care<\/a> Denmark shocked by story of brain-dead donor\u2019s recovery<\/a> <\/p>\n Emails: White House told of militant claim two hours after Libya attack<\/a> Fallen SEAL\u2019s father: We need to find out who it was that gave the command \u201cDon\u2019t go rescue them\u201d<\/a> Navy Will Get Lasers in 2 Years, Admiral Says<\/a> Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent<\/a> <\/p>\n The 100 Most Wasteful Pieces of Government Pork (Let\u2019s hear it for robotic squirrels!)<\/a> University of North Carolina Bans Term \u2018Freshman\u2019 For Sexism<\/a> Oil Discovered in Nevada<\/a> \u201cIndependent Study\u201d Shows UCLA is Cheating on Admissions<\/a> Cuomo\u2019s welfare stipends<\/a> AP survey finds Americans still a bunch of racists\u2026 even if they don\u2019t realize it<\/a> Will Elizabeth Warren be decisive factor in Fisher v. U. Texas?<\/a> \u201cFarewell to algebra\u201d . . . for minority kids?<\/a> U.N. Human Rights Council Calls for Boycott of U.S. Companies<\/a> <\/p>\n Crying In Argentina Over Seized Gunboat<\/a> Tens of thousands protest against austerity in Rome<\/a> Visualizing China’s Chain Reaction<\/a> <\/p>\n China says no concession on territorial sovereignty<\/a> Pussy Riot band members sent to remote prison camps<\/a> BBC poll: Rest of world favours Obama<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rape, God, and Liberals<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" News of the Week for Oct. 28th, 2012 Election 2012 Hide the Decline Obamacare War & Terror National News Economy & Taxes International News Opinion Election 2012 Mourdock: Pregnancy from rape can be ‘something God intended to happen’ Indiana … Continue reading
\nIndiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said Tuesday night that pregnancy caused by rape can be “something God intended to happen.”<\/p>\n
\nFact-checkers who actually investigate the facts might have started with expert websites such as StrategyPage. A 2006 article titled Syrian Delivery System for Iranian Nukes details the extensive seaborne smuggling operations carried out by Syrian companies operating out of Syrian ports<\/p>\n
\nPolitiChicks.tv has just received confirmation that a voter in Las Vegas tried voting for Governor Mitt Romney but the machine automatically checked \u201cObama\u201d multiple times instead.<\/p>\n
\nFederal officials say that absentee ballots being sent to U.S. military serving in Afghanistan may have been burned in a plane crash.<\/p>\n
\nAround the clock, about 16 times a day, drones take off or land at a U.S. military base here, the combat hub for the Obama administration\u2019s counterterrorism wars in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n
\nTwo volunteer poll workers at an Ohio voting station told Human Events that they observed van loads of Ohio residents born in Somalia \u2014 the state is home to the second-largest Somali population in the United States \u2014 being driven to the voting station and guided by Democratic interpreters on the voting process. No Republican interpreters were present, according to these volunteers.<\/p>\n
\nDuring the 2008 campaign candidate Barack Obama took a trip to Europe, ostensibly to show his foreign policy credentials and test drive his new approach to America\u2019s role in the world. Foreign nationals of course cannot vote in American elections, but the world\u2019s response \u2013 and Europe\u2019s in particular \u2013 would show us whether or not Barack Obama was the man for the job. Or so the reasoning of Obama campaign flacks seemed to.<\/p>\n
\nMarijuana policy reformers have been waiting for the Obama administration to acknowledge and respond to the ballot initiatives in Colorado, Oregon, and Washington that would legalize marijuana for recreational use. This weekend, CBS got them their answer: Nothing is going to change.<\/p>\n
\nA soon to be released report from the conservative Government Accountability Institute shows that President Barack Obama\u2019s re-election campaign has increasingly collected more electronic donations from non-existent ZIP codes throughout the 2012 campaign cycle.<\/p>\n
\nA British national who donated $10 to the Obama campaign, despite laws prohibiting the acceptance of foreign contributions, told Breitbart News he is now receiving e-mails from the Obama campaign thanking him for signing up for “get out the vote” and phone banking events for which he never volunteered.<\/p>\n
\nResidents receiving false letters questioning citizenship, officials say<\/p>\n
\nObama\u2019s line last night will no doubt do the rounds, but perhaps for the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n
\nAt the foreign policy debate, President Obama thought he was putting something over on Mitt Romney when he acted as if the Republican was an imbecile for suggesting that the rapid decline in U.S. Naval strength was anything but a good idea<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019m sure I\u2019m not the first to say this, but Barack Obama just does not appear to be big enough for the moment.<\/p>\n
\nSo, this morning we awaken to find out that Team Barry’s narcissistic obsession with memes that begin with the letter B (Binders, Big Bird) now encompasses “bayonets.”<\/p>\n
\nIn a debate exchange Monday night that set Twitter on fire, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney crossed swords over the kinds of equipment and materials the U.S. military uses for modern warfare.<\/p>\n
\nMontgomery \u2013 In response to news that poll watchers affiliated with the United Nations will be sent across the country to monitor balloting in various states and search for evidence of \u201cvoter suppression\u201d during the upcoming November 6 presidential election, Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard said he will support legislation in the next session requiring all poll watchers in Alabama to hold U.S. citizenship.<\/p>\n
\nThe presidential election is just around the corner and voting issues have already become a problem in Guilford County.<\/p>\n
\nMedia outlets in Latin America are reporting that the United States is likely to release two convicted Colombian terrorists, but only after the November 6th Presidential Election.<\/p>\n
\nCollin Peterson, the U.S. Representative for Minnesota\u2019s 7th District since 1991, no doubt expected softball questions and happy glad-handing when he visited Evangelical Lutheran-affiliated Concordia College last week for an event sponsored by the Campus Democrats.<\/p>\n
\nTexas authorities have threatened to arrest international election observers, prompting a furious response from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nAn Italian court sentenced scientists to jail time for not having a functioning crystal ball ahead of the 2009 earthquake in L’Aquila. The arguments of science and reason fell on deaf ears.<\/p>\n
\nMichael Mann has made what will, I expect, prove to be his greatest misjudgment yet. He has filed suit against the Competitive Enterprise Institute (with which I am affiliated), a CEI adjunct, National Review Online and Mark Steyn for libel.
\nThe gist of his claim that negative characterizations of him and his activities are actionable is that he has been \u201cexonerated\u201d. No, he hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nDuring the first presidential debate President Barack Obama made a claim against Mitt Romney that has been ringing in my ears ever since. Speaking on the topic of health care, Obama said that Romney would leave people \u201cAt the mercy of private insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe world of organ donation in Denmark is in turmoil. A documentary was aired earlier this month which showed family members reacting in anguish to the news that their 19-year-old daughter was brain dead after a car accident, agreeing to donate her organs and allowing doctors to turn off her respirator. About 1.7 million viewers tuned in to the heart-rending drama.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nOfficials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack, official emails show.<\/p>\n
\nThe father of fallen SEAL Tyrone Woods called into the Lars Larson Show and revealed some startling details about the Obama administration\u2019s response to the Benghazi terrorist attack.<\/p>\n
\nLaser weapons capable of burning small boats or sending drones plunging from the sky as flaming wrecks could find a home aboard U.S. Navy ships in the next two years, an admiral says.<\/p>\n
\nComplete with a newly coined, creepy Orwellian euphemism \u2013 ‘disposition matrix’ \u2013 the administration institutionalizes the most extremist powers a government can claim<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nTom Coburn the Senator from Oklahoma releases the Wastebook every year chronicling what he thinks are the 100 most egregious pork barrel abuses of the past 365 days. He never comes up short.<\/p>\n
\nThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has decided http:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/blog\/?ID=4458 that the word \u201cfreshman\u201d is no longer appropriate to describe first-year students. Why? The word includes \u201cman,\u201d and thus is not \u201cgender inclusive.\u201d According to statement administrators, UNC is \u201ccommitted to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our community. Consistent with that commitment, gender inclusive terms (chair; first year student; upper-level student, etc.) should be used on University Documents, websites and policies.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nAn Irish company financed by small investors has accomplished what American oil giants have been unable to do: It struck oil in central Nevada.<\/p>\n
\nAs no one will dispute, the purpose of the system was to increase the admission rate of underrepresented minorities, especially African-Americans. Although it did little to increase the admission rates of Latinos, Chicanos, and American Indians, somehow it was spectacular at increasing the African-American admission rate, which increased to 16.5% during the first year of the holistic system, from 11.5% during the last year of the prior system.<\/p>\n
\nRedistribution and lingering dependency \u2014 it\u2019s not just an Obama thing.
\nCase in point: Gov. Cuomo is launching a program that\u2019ll give $2 million in taxpayer cash to Medicaid recipients who take good care of themselves.<\/p>\n
\nIt must be almost election time and, presumably, the president\u2019s numbers must not be looking all that spectacular. How can you tell? Well, among various factors, the Associated Press has released yet another in their long series of heralded, highly respected studies detailing precisely what a bunch of racists you all are if you\u2019re considering voting for anyone other than Barack Obama. Only this one comes with a twist. The helpful people constructing the poll, worried that you might be living in some sort of state of denial, will help ferret out your racist feelings even if you can\u2019t recognize them yourself.<\/p>\n
\nIn case you haven\u2019t heard, lily white Elizabeth Warren got herself listed as a Minority Law Teacher and Woman of Color by falsely claiming to be Native American, even though she clearly did not meet the definition used by Harvard and the EEOC.<\/p>\n
\nI seem to have touched a raw nerve with my posts about (government-approved) lower educational standards for minority kids. Is it possible that the common core standards will similarly lower the bar, this time for math performance?<\/p>\n
\nU.N.’s war on Israel puts American economy in crosshairs<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy
\n& Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nIn the old days, gunboats used to arrive at debtor countries from creditor countries seeking repayment. These days, the creditors are seizing the gunboats from debtors.<\/p>\n
\nTens of thousands of people marched through Rome in a “No Monti Day” on Saturday, some throwing eggs and spraying graffiti to protest against austerity measures introduced by Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti’s government.<\/p>\n
\nAs the saying goes, when China sneezes, the rest of the world catches the cold. So far, if one were to look at the macro-economic surprise indices for US, Europe, and China, it would appear that China’s weakness was largely ignored by US and Europe which have notably ‘outperformed’ relative to expectations in the last two months.<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nChina on Friday said it will take forceful measures in response to any moves that challenge the country’s bottom line on sovereignty.<\/p>\n
\nMaria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova to serve sentences in Russia’s ‘harshest prisons’ in Perm and Mordovia<\/p>\n
\nA BBC World Service opinion poll has found sharply higher overseas approval ratings for US President Barack Obama than Republican challenger Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nThe press continues to paint pro-life politicians as extremists.<\/p>\n