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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeated his criticism of U.S. President Barack Obama and says the United States is interfering in Iran's affairs. The official IRNA news agency on Saturday quoted the Iranian leader as saying Mr. Obama talks about change, but continues to interfere in Iran's state matters. On Friday, President Obama called post-election violence against protesters in Iran "outrageous." He also said any direct dialogue or diplomacy with Iran will be affected by the recent events. Iran's Foreign Ministry also denounced a statement from the Group of Eight industrialized countries deploring the violence in Iran and urging Iran...

The government checks keeping Candy Czernicki afloat are fast running out. The reason? U.S. states obligated to pay benefits to the swelling ranks of jobless Americans are piling debt onto strained budgets. CNBC.com Fifteen states have depleted their unemployment insurance funds so far, forcing them to borrow from the U.S. Treasury. A record 30 of the country's 50 states are expected to have to borrow up to $17 billion by next year, said Rick McHugh of the National Employment Law Project, a nonpartisan advocacy group. "We are setting the stage for big pressures for states to restrict eligibility and benefit...

If you're craving the flavors of a traditional Greek dish (spinach, feta, yum!), but the family is Jonesing for burgers, here's the perfect solution. Greek turkey (or chicken) burgers are quick, delicious, and ridiculously satisfying. Add further touches for a more elaborate burger if you wish (cucumber, roasted peppers), but for now, we've kept it at seriously simple level--without sacrificing tastiness. So pop in the Mamma Mia DVD, crack open a bottle of red, and enjoy.

In the world of derivatives, profits for the dealers come from complexity and secrecy. As a new regulatory system for derivatives is shaped on Capitol Hill, the banks will try to preserve as much of both as they can. To the extent they succeed, it will be the customers, and the financial system, that are at risk. Already the banks seem to be winning one important battle, that of explaining why derivatives exist. In Congressional testimony this week, Mary Schapiro, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Gary Gensler, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, laid...

Britain’s faith in carbon trading as a way of reducing greenhouse gases could be dangerously misplaced, according to an independent academic working with the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Dr Chris Hope of the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School has been commissioned by the government to calculate how much environmental polluters would have to be charged for emitting CO2 to make it worthwhile for them to cut back. However, his research, due to be delivered to the government later this year, has led him to a far wider conclusion: that the current European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is...

Video/ Iranian protests set to "Beat It"

There have been bad housing markets before, but never in post-World War II history has the market for new homes suffered as badly as it has in this decline. Multimedia Graphic In a Bad Housing Market, New-Home Sales Suffer Most That plunge raises questions about whether some homes built during the boom will ever be sold. It could also suggest that home builders have been slow to cut their prices enough to keep up with falling market prices. For more than three decades, the sales volume of existing single-family homes and newly built houses tended to rise and fall by...

But Islam is. The real root of the conflict stems from Islamic teaching concerning as they put it: The House of Islam/ The House of War: "The Koran sees the world as divided into two - one part which has come under Islamic rule and one part which is supposed to come under Islamic rule in the future. There is a division of the world which is very clear. Every single person who starts studying Islam knows it. The world is described as Dar al-Islam (the house of Islam) - that's the place where Islam rules - and the other...

…”The ACES 8”… Catchy poster, Catchy name, people remember a catchy name and we want these 8 remembered The Cap and Trade act, officially called (ACES) “American Clean Energy Security” Act http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280497/posts) is disaster for our country if it goes in to law. This could have been defeated except for 8 house republicans I came up with a poster that some people seem to really like and I've gotten request from others to use it and a suggestion to put it up it own thread (really that up to the moderations... to leave up or pull down) So print a...

Bucknell University, a well-regarded liberal arts institution set in a picturesque location in the rolling Pennsylvania countryside, looks entirely benign. Its campus is safe, its students intelligent. It counts among its alumni the famed author Philip Roth and Leslie Moonves, the president of CBS. It’s a college to which most parents would be proud to send their kids. But if your son or daughter is the type who might join the Bucknell University Conservatives Club (BUCC), you would be well-advised to send him or her somewhere else. Because Bucknell really, really does not want to hear what the students of...

Students create an Obaminoes mural Mural helped students learn new math skills Sy Becker WESTFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - Students at Westfield's Franklin Avenue Elementary School are in a class all by themselves. Honors were given on Tuesday for these boys and girls who spent two months completing a mural of President Barack Obama. A mural called "Obaminoes" was made from 2,420 dominoes. 22News followed the students progress every step of the way. "We were the only elementary school to do this and to have a piece of artwork of our 44th president, the only African American president. It means a...

The Brazilian Navy and Air Force have announced the termination of the SAR mission for Air France Flight 447. All hope for solving the mystery of Flight 447 now rests on finding the “black boxes”. Very few noticed the Le Figaro article late Thursday night which stated: According to several sources contacted Thursday, French forces have captured a signal, “they revolve around the past few days to locate it,” said a military source. “The question now is rather whether the issuer is still attached to the black box view of the circumstances of the accident,” says a close source. As...

A team of MIT scientists recorded a nearly simultaneous world-wide increase in methane levels -the first increase in ten years. What baffles the team is that this data contradicts theories stating humans are the primary source of increase in greenhouse gas. It takes about one full year for gases generated in the highly industrial northern hemisphere to cycle through and reach the southern hemisphere. Since all worldwide levels rose simultaneously throughout the same year, however, it is probable that this may be part of a natural cycle - and not the direct result of man's contributions. MIT's Matthew Rigby and...

Highlights of this article from the Bulletin: "The recently launched Two Futures Project is a collection of young Evangelicals who are dedicated to working toward a nuclear-weapon-free world. Although Evangelicals traditionally have supported nuclear deterrence the Two Futures Project believes that in a post-Cold War world, this stance must change. Accordingly, its members believe that nuclear weapons are morally bankrupt." Actually, nuclear weapons, like book matches, are morally neutral. It is when these things are in the hands of morally bankrupt people, arsonists, dictators, and tyrannical regimes such as North Korea and Iran, that is where the danger is.

The pro-Islamic speech that President Obama recently gave in Cairo has inspired the terrorist supporting organization, the Council on America Islamic Relations (CAIR) to increase their proselytization efforts. Right in the middle of this movement is CAIR Chairman, State Sen. Larry Shaw (NC).

Tophat says: To any and all “The ACES 8” card is free to spread it as you will http://i39.tinypic.com/ddcorq.jpg It would make an excellant poster for tea parties!

History and rankings of one of the turncoats from yesterday's energy vote.

Twisted Hollywood and its twisted parade of tastemakers known as television critics are forever in search of another "black comedy," and if audiences don't embrace one, then they can always make another one. Showtime didn't succeed with "Secret Diary of a Call Girl," so now they're trying a different brand of prostitute. "Nurse Jackie" is an addict who has daily sex at noon with her hospital pharmacist in exchange for Oxycontin and other drugs. She's married and a mother of two little girls. She is a filthy degenerate. http://magazine.townhall.com/beckhttp://magazine.townhall.com/beck And the critics love it. Matt Roush of TV Guide calls...

On a buzzing boulevard in this busy shopping town, across from a supermarket and not far from a PetSmart, there sits a building that might be mistaken for a place where you can have your teeth cleaned, were it not for the name affixed to the brick: The John Birch Society. For some, that name means nothing. Or it sparks flashbacks to the 1960s, when the John Birch Society was synonymous with seeing red here, there and everywhere. Maybe you displayed a Birch bumper sticker on your car; maybe you enjoyed the Chad Mitchell Trio song mocking the Birch obsession...

(06-27) 04:00 PDT Washington - -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke time and again of preserving "God's beautiful creation" as she mustered all the skills she learned, at her father's knee in Baltimore and in San Francisco's liberal salons, to muscle sweeping climate change legislation to narrow passage Friday. Pushing for the vote while uncertain she would win it was the highest-stakes decision of the San Francisco Democrat's career. President Obama, joined by former Vice President and greenhouse guru Al Gore, worked the phones to woo the backing of reluctant Democrats from coal states, farm states, manufacturing states and poor...