<\/p>\n
News of the Week for July 21st<\/sup>, 2013<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n New testimony claims Lois Lerner and Obama appointee were behind Tea Party targeting<\/a> IRS lawyer says scandal was overseen by D.C., names names<\/a> IRS lawyer testifies that political appointee’s office involved in Tea Party screening<\/a> <\/p>\n Obama Responds to Zimmerman Verdict: ‘Stem the Tide of Gun Violence’–For Trayvon<\/a> Justice Department places ‘hold’ on Trayvon Martin trial evidence, including George Zimmerman’s gun – which Florida law says must be returned to him<\/a> GOP bill would defund schools with rules against playing with imaginary guns<\/a> Sens. John Morse, Angela Giron recall elections set for Sept. 10<\/a> Under Florida’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law, Black and White Defendants Fare Equally Well<\/a> Remarkable correlation of Arctic sea ice to solar cycle length<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fraud fear raised in California’s health exchange<\/a> ObamaCareNado<\/a> Matt O\u2019Brien, Associate Editor of the Atlantic, Calls Obamacare Implementation \u201cLeninism\u201d<\/a> Fissures in Dems’ Support for Obamacare<\/a> Move over NSA, here comes the Obamacare Big Brother database <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n China naval fleet seen off northern Japan <\/a> TSA searches valet parked car<\/a> Driving somewhere? There’s a gov’t record of that<\/a> Driving somewhere? There’s a gov’t record of that<\/a> Did Egyptian military commit or prevent a coup?<\/a> <\/p>\n FBI records: agents found no evidence that Zimmerman was racist<\/a> The \u201cwhat if Trayvon were white\u201d logical fallacy<\/a> \u201cLesbians in Space\u201d (& other government approved text books) <\/a> Fault Lines in Democratic Party<\/a> New effort by left to tar Marco Rubio as anti-woman<\/a> Celebs react to George Zimmerman verdict<\/a> Senate GOP braces for nuclear option<\/a> Robots to revolutionize farming, ease labor woes <\/a> Younger Hispanics Initially Identify As Independents \u2013 Which Is The GOP\u2019s Window Of Opportunity<\/a> An early look at the 2014 Senate battleground<\/a> Liz Cheney, daughter of Dick Cheney, says she will challenge Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., next year<\/a><\/p>\n JEANTEL WARNED ZIMMERMAN COULD BE GAY RAPIST<\/a> Trayvon Protesters March into Florida Governor\u2019s Office<\/a> Allen West on Trayvon Martin<\/a><\/p>\n Incredible: Democratic Assemblywoman Says SIX Women Approached Her Complaining of Filthy Filner, But She Never Pressed the Matter, and Says Filthy Filner Shouldn’t Resign<\/a> Jesse Jackson: ‘Inclination’ To Treat Florida As ‘Apartheid State’<\/a> Summer Camp for Moonbats<\/a> Martin Family Attorney: \u2018Duty\u2019 To \u2018Be a Social Engineer\u2019 <\/a> Twitter Explodes With Racial Epithets Towards Larry Elder: ‘Coon A– House N–ger’<\/a> Montana State Auditor Monica Lindeen says she will not be running for the US Senate.<\/a> ‘Filthy Filner’ Says He’s Just a ‘Hugger’<\/a> San Diego NOW Calls for ‘Filthy Filner’ to Resign<\/a> Confirmed: DOJ Helped Bogus Student Group Linked to ACORN Target George Zimmerman <\/a> Fired employee to file lawsuit against Zimmerman prosecutors<\/a> McDonnell, wife received $120,000 from political backer<\/a> Democrat scandal brewing in CA52 race<\/a> 3D-printing with liquid metal at room temperature<\/a> Newly Released Documents Detail the Department of Justice\u2019s Role in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests<\/a> Obama\u2019s Justice Department Organized and Funded Protests Against George Zimmerman<\/a> Baby bust? National birthrate hits an all-time low due to weak economic recovery<\/a> Hundreds call to adopt Down syndrome baby, save it from abortion<\/a> In Detroit, 911 Is a Joke<\/a> Sex video clears men accused of rape<\/a> Rust promises hydrogen power boost<\/a> ‘The Great Gypsy,’ Ornell on Hempstead reading list<\/a> Judge Rules That Detroit’s Bankruptcy Is Unconstitutional, Ruling That It “Dishonors” Obama<\/a> Schuette appeals Ingham County judge’s order to withdraw bankruptcy case<\/a> Michigan AG challenges judge’s ruling that Detroit bankruptcy is unconstitutional<\/a> Detroit Runs Out of Other People\u2019s Money<\/a> German Homeschooling Family Takes Fight Against Deportation to Supreme Court<\/a> \u2018Sambo, Uncle Tom n*gger\u2019: Self-appointed race cops unleash hate on Cosby and Barkley for Zimmerman remarks<\/a> Democratic Assemblywoman: The California Democratic Party Told Me I Had to Support Filner, Despite His Molestation Habit, Or Else They’d Blackball Me<\/a> You\u2019re darned right I\u2019m thinking of running for president, says \u2026 Peter King?<\/a> Early Wyoming poll: Mike Enzi leads Liz Cheney among Republicans \u2014 by 34 points<\/a> Jimmy Carter: US \u201chas no functioning democracy\u201d <\/a> David Axelrod: \u2018Hillary Clinton Probably Will Be The Candidate\u2019 <\/a> Report: Senate immigration bill includes nearly $300 million in slush funds for immigrants’ rights groups, in language drafted by the former policy chief for one such organization<\/a> \u201cGeeks Out\u201d seeking to end Ender\u2019s Game<\/a> Harris-Perry: Detroit is \u201cwhat it looks like when government is small enough to drown\u201d<\/a> Vegas Trayvon Rally: ‘Two Americas–What Works for Them, Doesn’t Work for Us’<\/a> Black National Anthem Sung at Las Vegas Trayvon Rally<\/a> American Sovereignty and Its Enemies <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Detroit declares bankruptcy <\/a> 11 Signs That Italy Is Descending Into A Full-Blown Economic Depression<\/a> RS pays 200 employees to work full-time for labor union<\/a> Taxes On Recreational Pot Sales Could Top 35 Percent<\/a> Bust: The numbers behind Detroit\u2019s road to doom<\/a> The Crash Of 1929<\/a> Is This A 2007 Redux?<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 163-year-old telegram service to close forever at 9pm today<\/a> In Solidarity with Egypt\u2019s Christians <\/a> One surveillance camera for every 11 people in Britain, says CCTV survey<\/a> Mexico beats US to be world’s fattest country – but we’re still a close second<\/a> All British schoolchildren required to study Islamic history starting 2014<\/a> Swedish Firm Fires Raped Norwegian in Dubai<\/a> Jordan says Israeli carrots “invading markets” during Ramadan <\/a> 11-year-old Yemeni girl Nada Al-Ahdal flees home to avoid forced marriage: I’d rather kill myself <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Dagger at the Heart of Justice <\/a> Requiring Equal Protection Doesn\u2019t Violate the Equal Protection Clause<\/a> Was the World a Better Place 100 Years Ago? Photographic Evidence<\/a> Feds want Zimmerman, any way they can get him<\/a> Representin\u2019 Ewok and the Signifyin\u2019 Jive<\/a> The Debasing of Marriage<\/a> A Very Important George Zimmerman Tip for the Department of Justice<\/a><\/p>\n The Unpleasant Profession of Nancy Grace<\/a> How Republicans Can Win in 2014<\/a> Who Is Racist?<\/a> PURE DETROIT! (Pure Michigan Parody)<\/a><\/p>\n Detroit files for bankruptcy (with apologies to William Butler Yeats).<\/a> No, We Do Not Live in \u2018the Country of Emmett Till\u2019 <\/a> The Post-Zimmerman Poison Pill <\/a> The Plight of the Alpha Female<\/a> Educators as a co-parent? Nonsense<\/a> Forget George Zimmerman Watch Out For George Brotherman<\/a><\/p>\n\n
<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nNew testimony from IRS officials claims that Lois Lerner, the director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations division, instructed employees to send Tea Party group applications for tax-exempt status through a multi-layered review that included the IRS chief counsel’s office, which is led by Obama appointee William Wilkins.<\/p>\n
\nTop IRS officials in Washington, D.C. planned and oversaw the agency\u2019s improper targeting of conservative groups, according to the 72-year old retiring IRS lawyer who will testify Thursday before the House Oversight Committee.<\/p>\n
\nA veteran IRS lawyer testified on Thursday that officials from a Washington office led by a political appointee intervened in the screening of Tea Party applications, saying publicly for the first time the IRS chief counsel’s office was involved in the controversial program.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nPresident Barack Obama issued a long-awaited response Sunday afternoon to the acquittal of George Zimmerman Saturday evening, reminding Americans to temper “passions,” and that “we are a nation of laws and the jury has spoken.”
\nHe added that Americans should “honor” the life of Trayvon Martin by committing to “stem the tide of gun violence,” and “ask ourselves if we are doing all we can to widen the circle of compassion in our communities.”<\/p>\n
\nThe U.S. Department of Justice, overseen by Attorney General Eric Holder, has ordered the Sanford, Florida police department to keep possession of all the evidence from George Zimmerman’s second-degree murder trial – including the exonerated neighborhood watch volunteer’s gun.<\/p>\n
\nRep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) introduced legislation this week to block federal funding for schools that enforce rules that punish students for playing with imaginary weapons.<\/p>\n
\nA Denver judge Thursday ruled petitions submitted to oust a pair of Democratic senators from office are valid, a pivotal ruling that sets in motion Colorado’s first-ever recall election of state lawmakers.<\/p>\n
\nIn my column last week, I noted two complementary narratives that cloud people’s understanding of the George Zimmerman case: one about race, the other about the alleged defects of Florida’s self-defense law. Last year the Tampa Bay Times tried to get a sense of how these two factors interact by looking at racial patterns in self-defense cases. Its findings belie the idea that the enforcement of Florida’s law is biased against black defendants<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nThis is interesting, especially since Solar Cycle 23 was quite long.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nAs California prepares to launch its health care exchange, consumer groups are worried the uninsured could fall victim to fraud, identity theft or other crimes at the hands of some of the very people who are supposed to help them enroll.<\/p>\n
\nObamacare+Tornado. The perfect storm is coming<\/p>\n
\nMatt O\u2019Brien is the Associate Editor of the Atlantic.
\nThis morning, I made clear I think Obamcare should be implemented exactly as it was designed and written by the Democrats on the timeline it was intended to be implemented. In other words \u2014 let\u2019s proceed as the Democrats demanded when they passed Obamacare.<\/p>\n
\nPresident Obama touted Obamacare\u2019s supposed benefits Thursday in the hope of distracting attention from Wednesday\u2019s bipartisan House vote that for the first time revealed fissures in congressional Democrats\u2019 lockstep support for his health care law. An unprecedented 35 Democrats bucked the president by voting to delay Obamacare\u2019s \u201cemployer mandate,\u201d while 22 Democrats voted to delay its \u201cindividual mandate\u201d for one year. Obamacare opponents now have an opportunity to widen the fissures among its supporters.<\/p>\n
\nWould you trust thousands of low-level Federal bureaucrats and contractors with one-touch access to your private financial and medical information? Under Obamacare you won\u2019t have any choice.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nA Chinese naval fleet was Sunday spotted sailing for the first time through an international strait between northern Japan and Russia’s far east, the Japanese defence ministry said.<\/p>\n
\nShe says she had no warning that someone was going to search her car after she left to catch her flight. So the woman contacted News10NBC.<\/p>\n
\nChances are, your local or state police departments have photographs of your car in their files, noting where you were driving on a particular day, even if you never did anything wrong.<\/p>\n
\nChances are, your local or state police departments have photographs of your car in their files, noting where you were driving on a particular day, even if you never did anything wrong.<\/p>\n
\nWas Muslim Brotherhood rule the end of democracy as Egypt briefly knew it?
\nExperts: Obama\u2019s plan to predict future leakers unproven, unlikely to work<\/a>
\nIn an initiative aimed at rooting out future leakers and other security violators, President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on behavioral profiling techniques that are not scientifically proven to work, according to experts and government documents.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nAfter interviewing nearly three dozen people in the George Zimmerman murder case, the FBI found no evidence that racial bias was a motivating factor in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, records released Thursday show.<\/p>\n
\nOne of the most popular liberal reactions to the finding that George Zimmerman was not guilty is to posit the question of how the case would have been treated differently if Trayvon Martin were white.<\/p>\n
\nAs Janet Nopalitano steps aside to take a new job that will pay her 3 times what she\u2019s been earning as our nation\u2019s protector\u2014 proving that incompetency pays\u2026she leaves behind a legacy of utter failure. She was a politically correct choice who was laughably unqualified, and as a reult of her incompetence, 32 Americans were killed by muslim terrorists on American Spoil\u2014 compare that to ZERO dead Americans under her predecessors \u2014but watch the mainstream media nauseatingly glorify her.<\/p>\n
\nSometimes things fall apart right in plain sight but no one sees it unraveling until too late. That\u2019s especially true in politics.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThis is a senator who was one of only 22 Republican men voting against the Violence Against Women Act,\u201d said Stephanie Schriock, the group\u2019s president, in an interview previewing the effort with TIME. \u201cHe has worked tirelessly to roll back women\u2019s freedom.\u201d Central to the EMILY\u2019s list argument is Rubio\u2019s vocal support for an upcoming Republican Senate bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks of gestation. The bill, which has not yet been brought for a vote, faces certain defeat in the Democrat-controlled Senate. \u201cI\u2019m very supportive of it. I\u2019m already on a bill that does it in the D.C. area,\u201d Rubio told POLITICO this week. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to determine appropriate language that our colleagues can coalesce around, so that\u2019s what we\u2019re working on.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n
\nCelebrities took to social media Saturday, expressing shock, outrage and sadness that neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the death of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI wouldn\u2019t be surprised if they pull the trigger on Tuesday,\u201d says Sen. John Cornyn, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate. \u201cReid has gone so far out on a limb.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nOn a windy morning in California’s Salinas Valley, a tractor pulled a wheeled, metal contraption over rows of budding iceberg lettuce plants. Engineers from Silicon Valley tinkered with the software on a laptop to ensure the machine was eliminating the right leafy buds.<\/p>\n
\nLast month, I posted a story about the voter registration misgivings conservative have with immigration reform. James Pethokoukis at AEI said that if the eleven million illegals here were able to vote in 2012, Obama wouldn\u2019t have won more swing states. Additionally, he would\u2019ve performed a half a percentage point better with Hispanics. On the other hand, Republicans can still make inroads with Hispanics, whose younger voters tend to identify as independents upon reaching voting age.<\/p>\n
\nNate Silver believes that Republicans \u201cwill end up with somewhere between 50 and 51 Senate seats after 2014, putting them right on the threshold of a majority.\u201d He bases his conclusion on a race-by-race analysis of the seats being contested.<\/p>\n
\nLast night Trayvon Martin’s friend Rachel Jeantel gave CNN her first interview since testifying in the George Zimmerman murder trial.<\/p>\n
\nAl Sharpton\u2019s troops are doing their best to turn the entire country into Freddy\u2019s Fashion Mart.<\/p>\n
\nI don’t know why I said “Democratic assemblywoman” in the headline; “Democratic” was obvious from context, wasn’t it? The moment a “feminist” starts defending a serial sexual assailant, you know the parties involved.<\/p>\n
\nAs a response to the Trayvon Martin case and Florida’s stand your ground law Jessie Jackson is calling for a boycott of the state<\/p>\n
\nIn a world run by moonbats, nothing is wholesome \u2014 not even summer camp<\/p>\n
\nFollowing George Zimmerman\u2019s acquittal, an attorney for the family of Trayvon Martin told Fox News\u2019 Greta Van Susteren that she feels \u201ca greater duty beyond being an attorney, and that\u2019s to be a social engineer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nAs NewsBusters reported, conservative talk radio host Larry Elder had a heated exchange Wednesday with CNN’s Piers Morgan concerning the George Zimmerman trial and prosecution witness Rachel Jeantel.<\/p>\n
\nThe announcement comes days after former Governor Brian Schweitzer announced he would also not be running for Montana’s open Senate seat.<\/p>\n
\nSan Diego Mayor Filner, also referred to as ‘Filthy Filner’ by his alleged victims, told KUSI yesterday that he is just a “hugger.” The remarks came following a press conference held by former councilwoman Donna Frye and attorneys Corey Briggs and Marco Gonzalez revealing salacious and disturbing details of alleged sexual harassment of subordinates and constituents.<\/p>\n
\nWe can add the San Diego chapter of NOW to the list of people and groups calling for San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to resign. Last week, former Filner ally and San Diego councilwoman Donna Frye brought to light salacious sexual harassment allegations against the Mayor.<\/p>\n
\nAnd, here we thought the Obama Administration was going to focus on jobs!\u2026 Boy were we wrong.<\/p>\n
\nA former employee of Florida State Attorney Angela Corey’s office plans to file a whistleblower lawsuit against George Zimmerman’s prosecutors, his attorney told Reuters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\nVirginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife reportedly received $120,000 from a political backer, and it may be perfectly legal \u2014 if otherwise highly questionable. McDonnell\u2019s real-estate company received $70,000 from Jonnie R. Williams, and McDonnell\u2019s wife Maureen received $50,000 directly from Williams, neither of which were reported on campaign-finance disclosures.<\/p>\n
\nCalifornia Democrat Rep. Scott Peters (CA52), is one of the GOP\u2019s top targets in the 2014 midterm elections. Peters is a freshman Congressman and won by only a few points in 2012. The Republicans have a credible candidate to oppose Peters in Carl DeMaio, a young and \u201cnew generation\u201d Republican who, so far, is beating Peters by a healthy margin in polling match ups.<\/p>\n
\nA new method for printing 3D structures and wires from liquid metal opens up possibilities for flexible and stretchable electronic connections.<\/p>\n
\nDOJ deployed obscure section to play role in Florida protests.<\/p>\n
\nWe\u2019re officially living in a banana republic. Brian Preston reports the gory details of the final nail in our coffin, whereby the President of the United States uses his Justice Department to agitate against an innocent citizen.<\/p>\n
\nDuring the recession, the birthrate dropped after a high in 2007
\nThe recession has been officially over for four years
\nThe birthrate hit an all-time low in 2011 and stayed there in 2012
\nEconomic uncertainty coupled with a general trend towards fewer births means there may not be a bounce-back in birthrates<\/p>\n
\nWhen the Rev. Thomas Vander Woude learned about a young couple planning to abort their unborn baby that had been diagnosed with Down syndrome, the priest reached out and offered a deal: Deliver the child and he would help find an appropriate adoptive family.<\/p>\n
\nA question unimaginable in most major American cities is utterly commonplace in this one: If you suddenly found yourself gravely ill, injured or even shot, would you call 911?<\/p>\n
\nThe hookup got hot and wild, and one of the two men whipped out his cellphone to shoot a video of the room-to-room romp with the woman they’d just met that night.<\/p>\n
\nRust could help boost the efficiency of hydrogen production from sunlight – a potentially green source of energy.<\/p>\n
\nThe Hempstead Public Schools has some unique items on its summer reading list this year: F. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s \u201cThe Great Gypsy,\u201d and authors George Ornell and Emily Bonte, to name a few.<\/p>\n
\nWhat are you going to say? Nothin’, that’s what. What is there to say?<\/p>\n
\nRuling the governor and Detroit\u2019s emergency manager violated the state constitution, an Ingham County Circuit judge ordered Friday that Detroit\u2019s federal bankruptcy filing be withdrawn.<\/p>\n
\nAn Ingham County judge says Thursday’s historic Detroit bankruptcy filing violates the Michigan Constitution and state law and must be withdrawn.<\/p>\n
\nHiroshima was hit by a nuclear bomb. Detroit was hit by moonbattery. Today, Hiroshima is a wealthy, growing city, like Detroit used to be. Detroit, despite the $zillions that have been poured into it, is bankrupt<\/p>\n
\nThe Romeikes, a German family granted legal asylum in the United States by a U.S. immigration judge in 2010, will petition the Supreme Court to hear its case to be granted permanent legal status in the country.<\/p>\n
\nThink skin color should be the sole deciding factor in how someone thinks, speaks and acts? Then this is the crowd for you.<\/p>\n
\nA state Democratic party is threatening women into supporting a known sexual assaulter.<\/p>\n
\nSeems crazy at first blush, but when you think about it, it seems slightly less crazy. Then, when you think about it some more, it seems full-blown crazy again.<\/p>\n
\nAmazing data via David Freddoso\u2019s Conservative Intelligence Briefing \u2014 and I don\u2019t mean the topline number, either. It\u2019s no trick for a three-term incumbent with stratospheric name recognition to lead big early over a relative unknown.<\/p>\n
\nThe former president weighs in on NSA and the future of Internet platforms like Google and Facebook<\/p>\n
\nHillary Clinton will likely be the Democratic candidate for president in 2016, according to longtime Obama adviser David Axelrod, and only if she passes up a presidential bid will vice president Joe Biden run.<\/p>\n
\nThe National Council of La Raza is likely to benefit from grant money set aside in an immigration bill drafted by its former policy director
\nLegislation passed in the Senate would exclude three-time DUI offenders from a path to citizenship, but two-time drunk drivers would be acceptable
\nPassport forgers would no longer be prosecuted for making a single fake travel document, with the bar being set at three
\nDocument counterfeiters whose materials are used to obtain passports would only be jailed if they contributed to at least 10 phony passports<\/p>\n
\nThis is something I\u2019ve been waiting for since at least the 90’s, and I’m not talking about the media catnip highlighted in the title. This November we\u2019ll finally see the release of the movie version of Orson Scott Card\u2019s sci-fi classic, Ender\u2019s Game. Card has produced a lot of good work, but when I first read Ender\u2019s Game, I was hooked. I did not wind up reading every book in the series, but the first four (also including Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide and Children of the Mind) were excellent. But the technology has only recently arrived to truly do the books credit in movie form, I think.<\/p>\n
\nThis cannot be real life. Tell me this is not real life.<\/p>\n
\nHundreds of people gathered in front of the federal building in Las Vegas for the National Actions Network Rally for Trayvon Martin. KCEP radio was there, playing gospel music before the speakers started, the mood was positive and upbeat. There was free water provided to attendees, as it was terribly hot outside. The organizers were conscientious about trash clean up and letting people know this was a peaceful rally.<\/p>\n
\nAs a large crowd of people gathered in the Vegas heat to support the Justice for Trayvon rally, leaders of the rally sang the Black National Anthem.<\/p>\n
\nA group of powerful legal scholars are trying to make an end run around the Constitution.<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy
\n& Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nA few depressing facts and thoughts about Detroit from the city\u2019s June 2013 proposal for creditors.<\/p>\n
\nWhen you get into too much debt, really bad things start to happen. Sadly, that is exactly what is happening to Italy right now. Harsh austerity measures are causing the Italian economy to slow down even more than it was previously. And yet even with all of the austerity measures, the Italian government just continues to rack up even more debt. This is the exact same path that we watched Greece go down.<\/p>\n
\nMore great news about everyone\u2019s favorite revenue service<\/p>\n
\nThe taxes on recreational marijuana might go a lot higher than first thought. Smokers buying at shops in Denver may pay up to 35 percent in taxes.<\/p>\n
\nDavid Freddoso, proprietor of the great Conservative Intel and columnist for the Washington Examiner, went to town on the nation\u2019s biggest-ever municipal bankruptcy today, laying out on Twitter exactly what got Detroit where it is, what misguided tools city officials used to try fixing it, and the very real damage to a region and its people that a giant, failing city causes.<\/p>\n
\nBased on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there would be no more poverty, no more depressions – a “New Era” when everyone could be rich. Then 1929 began – a time when the stock market epitomized the false promise of permanent prosperity… it’s only when we learn the lessons of the past can we avoid the mistakes of the future – or this time it’s really different.<\/p>\n
\nWhether, or not, the exact date of the market top it does bring attention to the recent correction and subsequent rally to new highs. Was that correction just a pullback in an ongoing upward bullish trend or is the beginning of a more major topping process much as we saw in 2007?<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nThe 163-year old telegram service in the country – the harbinger of good and bad news for generations of Indians – is dead.<\/p>\n
\nRichard John Neuhaus once observed that the \u201clanguage of solidarity in our time is much used and much abused.\u201d For the ancient Christian communities of the Middle East, however, even token expressions of solidarity from America \u2014 especially America\u2019s Christian community \u2014 would be welcomed. In the aftermath of Egypt\u2019s June 30 revolution, in which millions of Egypt\u2019s Christians marched alongside millions of moderate and secular Muslims to demand the removal of an Islamist regime, Christians find themselves once again in the crosshairs of Islamists.<\/p>\n
\nBritain has a CCTV camera for every 11 people, a security industry report disclosed, as privacy campaigners criticised the growth of the \u201csurveillance state\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nThe United States no longer holds the title of the world\u2019s most populous, obese nation; that designation has been passed on to Mexico.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019m sure they are going to learn all about the prophet of Islam and how he slaughtered Christians, took children as his wives and drove all the Jews out Saudi Arabia<\/p>\n
\nWell, if this doesn\u2019t take the cake. Just when you think Sweden couldn\u2019t sink any lower, it comes up with this little gem. Many thanks to Steen for keeping us informed about this one: the Swedish company that employed the young woman who reported being raped in Dubai has fired her for her actions<\/p>\n
\nAl Ghad writes about Jordanian markets selling Israeli carrots, but labeling them as coming from Syria or Turkey.<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nThe Zimmerman case has achieved its sublime reductio ad absurdum.<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s unusual that the Supreme Court would choose to review an affirmative action case even though Fisher v. UT-Austin was still pending. Ordinarily, when faced with a second case on the same legal issue, the justices \u201chold\u201d it until they decide the first, then either send the second one back to the lower court to apply the newly announced rule or, perhaps, schedule it for oral argument on any additional issues that need to be addressed. Yet Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action is no ordinary case.<\/p>\n
\nYesterday Glenn Reynolds linked to this very beautiful set of black and white photographs, most of which are around 100 years old, although some go back to the Civil War. Glenn notes, \u201cIt\u2019s sad to see how much better Detroit looked at the beginning of the last century. . . .\u201d Well, yes: but that is a low bar. My reaction is, it isn\u2019t just Detroit. The whole world looks better to me\u2013less crowded, cleaner, more confident and hopeful. Better dressed, too.<\/p>\n
\nThis no longer is about George Zimmerman, it\u2019s about a Department of Justice serving political interests.<\/p>\n
\nInside jokes about Ace\u2019s resemblance to the cuddly creatures of The Return of the Jedi are a sort of signification \u2014 an advertisement of tribal membership \u2014 in the same way I sometimes get all redneck when I\u2019m angry and start quoting The Outlaw Josey Wales.<\/p>\n
\nUp front I\u2019ll tell you that I am opposed to homosexual marriage. I am opposed for a wide variety of reasons beginning with my belief that Lawrence v. Texas was a travesty. Be that as it may, I have to agree with many homosexual marriage supporters that it is heterosexuals who have succeeded in debasing marriage and we shouldn\u2019t be surprised when the course we\u2019ve charted for marriage over the past seventy or so years arrives at its logical conclusion in which marriage is treated as the punch line in a gay sex joke.<\/p>\n
\nIf you are fond of simple and traditional American political categories, Nancy Grace is a mystery.<\/p>\n
\nAs most know, the world of politics is ever-changing. A new week can mean a substantial shift in polls and public opinion. This was demonstrated throughout the 2012 presidential election. President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney remained close throughout the length of the campaign. After his \u201c47% comment,\u201d Romney fell in the polls, but rebounded after a fantastic opening debate performance. If this volatility says anything, it\u2019s that predicting the political future can be difficult.<\/p>\n
\nBy Thomas Sowell
\nOver the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.<\/p>\n
\nSo. Detroit has filed for bankruptcy.<\/p>\n
\nAbout ten years ago, I went on holiday to the south of France with my family. One evening, we walked over to the neighboring village to try a restaurant that we had been told was good. My mother, who speaks French fluently, walked in first and announced that there were six of us. Waving at the thirty or so empty tables, the owner made a joke, along the lines of, \u201cI\u2019ll see if I can fit you in somewhere.\u201d Then, his face fell and he stopped laughing. \u201cActually,\u201d he announced, \u201cwe\u2019re full.\u201d My mother laughed, awkwardly. \u201cNo, really,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re full.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe most poisonous untruth being peddled in the wake of the George Zimmerman acquittal is the claim that American justice is racist.<\/p>\n
\nWomen remain scarce in the most elite positions. And it\u2019s by choice.<\/p>\n
\nThe story of Ben Levin underscores why we need to keep curriculum as simple as possible.<\/p>\n