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Elon Musk’s Twitter faces a 28-day ultimatum from Australia’s internet safety watchdog to take decisive action against what it considers online abuse and “hate speech,” or face daily fines of $475,000. France24 reports that Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s eSafety commissioner, has issued a stern warning to Twitter in a move to muzzle free speech. Twitter has been given 28 days to prove that it is serious about combating what Australia considers online abuse and “hate speech.” There could be daily fines of $700,000 AUD ($475,000 USD) for noncompliance.

The Rauzi realm’s dietary and voting decisions make plain that nuts abound in our nation today — and all of America is descending into anaphylactic shock. It’s funny that liberals try to advance the caricature of the stuffed-shirt conservative. It’s projection, actually, because “killjoy” could be synonymous with “progressive.” From demonizing toy guns to banning dodgeball and sweets to stigmatizing innocent jokes as “racist” to, generally, ensconcing everyone in bubble wrap, never was a rainbow born the libs couldn’t turn gray (except, you know, for the rainbow cause they’re obsessed with). A good example of this is a recent Lost...

Were California's state government a business, it would be a candidate for insolvency with a negative net worth of $127.2 billion, according to an annual financial report issued by State Auditor Elaine Howle and the Bureau of State Audits. The report, which covers the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, says that the state's negative status -- all of its assets minus all of its liabilities -- increased that year, largely because it spent more than it received in revenue. During the 2011-12 fiscal year, the state's general fund spent $1.7 billion more than it received in revenues and wound...

Washington is the city of conventional wisdom. Denizens of the District of Columbia cling to a prevailing notion for dear life even when all evidence begins to point in another direction. Then, quick as a flash, the mood shifts and another idea takes hold. So it has been with President Barack Obama and his 2012 re-election chances. Back in November, when his party was on the receiving end of the worst electoral pummelling since 1948, Obama was a dead cert one-term president, a Jimmy Carter with bells on heading for oblivion. A compromise tax deal, the ratification of an arms...

Feb. 14, 2011—Retired Brig. Gen. Terryl Schwalier has filed suit in US District Court in a bid to reverse a punishment he received after the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing. Named as defendants in their official capacities are Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Air Force Secretary Michael Donley. Schwalier was commander of the 4404th Wing (Provisional) at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, when terrorists attacked base housing at Khobar Towers on June 25, 1996. Nineteen airmen died and 240 more were injured in a massive truck bomb blast. Three Air Force investigations found Schwalier had significantly improved base security during his tenure as...

The anti-tax Americans for Tax Reform is launching a campaign to keep Republican legislators from putting Gov. Jerry Brown‘s proposed tax extensions on the June ballot, according to the Sacramento Bee. All of but two GOP state legislators have a signed a no-tax pledge. ATR says it will consider a vote to put a tax proposal on the ballot a violation of that pledge. Brown is expected to call for voters to consider an extension of temporary income and sales tax hikes, and vehicle license fees increases. While Democrats are in the majority in both chambers, some Republican votes would...

Dating couples whose dreams include marriage would do well to step back and reflect upon the type of support they'll need from their partners when they cross the threshold, a new Northwestern University study suggests. Will the partner who supports your hopes and aspirations while you are dating also help you fulfill important responsibilities and obligations that come with marriage? The answer to that question could make a difference in how satisfied you are after tying the knot. Believing a partner is there to help you grow into the person you aspire to be predicted higher relationship satisfaction for both...

Denis Collins said, "We asked ourselves, what is HE doing here? Where is Rove and all these other guys....He was the fall guy."

HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Senator Conrad Burns and Democrat Jon Tester were locked in a tight contest early Wednesday as the Republican struggled to return to Washington for a fourth term. Tester had a slight lead of less than 1,600 votes in one of two Senate races still undecided in Tuesday's midterm elections. The other was in Virginia. the Democrats must win both if they are to wrest control of the Senate from the Republicans. With 99 per cent of precincts reported early Wednesday, Tester had 190,486 votes, or 48.9 per cent, and Burns had 188,900 votes, or 48.5 per...

There's something about that man in the photo, the Cuban revolutionary with the serious eyes, scruffy beard and dark beret. Ernesto "Che" Guevara is adored. He is loathed. Dead for nearly 40 years, he is everywhere — as much a cultural icon as James Dean or Marilyn Monroe, perhaps even more so among a new generation of admirers who've helped turn a devout Marxist into a capitalist commodity. ADVERTISEMENT Of all the pop culture images that surround us, it is Guevara's face — immortalized in the photograph taken by Alberto "Korda" Diaz Gutierrez — that often stares at us, from...

Liberals like to claim that GW Bush is trapped in a quagmire in Iraq. However, when it comes to being captive to irrational thinking, no one can top liberals. Consider, please, the liberal position on several current issues and the quagmire such thinking produces: *Rising gasoline prices are devastating to working Americans,but protecting obscure organisms at the bottom of the food chain is of greater concern. Which is why drilling for oil & adding refining capacity are unacceptable. * Large profits are obscenely un-American, except when it comes to George Soros, Oprah Winfrey and other liberals. *Illegal aliens deserve driver’s...

Democrats should answer questions before the mid term election. (Please add yours) List of questions yet not answered. You say it is possible to support the troops in Iraq but not their mission? How is that possible? You refuse to identify the estate tax as its rightful name the death tax. Why? You state that there were no connections between Al Qaida and Iraq prewar yet you ignored information from Operation Able Danger, The Harmony Database and Salman Pak. Why? You state there is no left wing mainstream media. Is Bernard Goldberg wrong? You stated Saddam could never be caught...

Ever since 9/11, the media and congressional critics have waged a relentless battle against President Bush for not doing enough to prevent the terrorist attacks. Now these same critics have begun a campaign against the Bush administration for doing too much to prevent the next attack. The latest example is the New York Times revelation that after 9/11, Mr. Bush authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to intercept communications with an overseas nexus to uncover information about possible al Qaeda attacks. The fact that Mr. Bush bypassed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which lays out procedures for intercepting communications...

Perhaps the biggest weapon in the arsenal of America’s critics is carefully selective amnesia. Conveniently forgetting important historical facts enables tactical amnesiacs to make claims about US policy that seem to support their contention that the country’s government is uniquely evil. The latest evidence that George Bush is a war criminal has apparently come this week with the acknowledgment that the US military used white phosphorus (WP) on enemy positions in Fallujah. This is deemed an outrage, something decent countries never do, yet more proof that the Bush-Cheney cabal is sedulously destroying the very foundations of American civilisation. The discovery...

U.S. Supreme Court says cities have broad powers to take property.

Tolerance is an important issue, one that liberals spend hours discussing. However, the lack of tolerance that I see lies not on the conservative side, but within the liberal camp. Although a simple examination of the labels would cause one to think that conservatives are resistant to change and thus display an intolerant attitude, a closer examination of the ebb and flow of modern political debate reveals a much different picture. It is in fact liberals today who attempt to suppress and demean any viewpoint that is different from their own. Case point: George W. Bush - obviously liberals have...

As Street wins this race the city of Philadelphia, my home CITY, is doomed. Well, let me revise the part of my home city: I am one of these Blue Blood Main Line natives (Paoli, PA) who grew up in the burbs, but moved into the city living off a grad student stipend at MCP in Roxborough. After 10 years of studing and risk taking with a biotech company I was able to move out to Montgomery County but not without taking an eyeopening look at how Philly works.Philadelphia is corrupt from top to bottom. Has been for years. And...

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