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I saw the memorial on TV. It may have started out as a circus pre-service but the tone quickly changed from the moment the coffin was brought in and a gospel choir started singing "We Are Gong To See The King." (That was Jesus they were singing about.) Excise the politics from memorial uttered by that goofball Sharpton and that crazy Congresswoman from Texas, and what you were left with was a very serious service about God, family, and the shortness of life. Let me give you some examples. Here's what Bernice King said: "No one and nothing, public or...

Remember last week when the media touted a new cost estimate by the Congressional Budget Office suggesting that Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee had found a magic want enabling them to cover 97 percent of the uninsured for $600 billion? Well, we now know that the cost is more like $1.1 trillion, and likely higher. As I cautioned when the CBO numbers came out last week, the $600 billion estimate did not include the price of massively expanding Medicaid, a costly provision of all of the various Democratic health care proposals. But now the CBO...

The owner of a tiny but famous Sacramento burger joint said a lawsuit about handicapped access could shut him down. The Squeeze Inn, known for huge mounds of melted cheese on its burgers, violates the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the lawsuit alleges. Kimberly Block, who says she has severly limited use of her legs, argues she suffered "embarrassment and humiliation" and that her civil rights were violated because of inadequate access inside the Fruitridge Road restaurant.

American Life League A California mom says her public school administrators violated her daughter's First Amendment rights when they ordered the seventh-grader to take off her pro-life T-shirt. Anna Amador has gone to court on behalf of her daughter, who she says was ordered by her principal to change her shirt on "National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day." The shirt the girl was wearing displays two graphic pictures of a fetus growing in the womb. The incident occurred in April 2008 at McSwain Elementary School, a K-8 school in Merced, Calif. Amador alleges in her legal complaint that school Principal Terrie Rohrer,...

Google's revelation that it will create its own operating system will bring just one reaction from operating system enthusiasts worldwide. "Not another Linux distribution," they'll cry. They'll say this because if there is one problem that the Linux and open-source community has suffered repeatedly over the past two decades, it's been fragmentation. It was bad enough that the Unix operating system fragmented repeatedly through the 1980s and 1990s. Systems administrators (like myself, earlier this decade) were forced to learn several different platforms: Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, FreeBSD...the list was always growing longer. But the hojillion different directions Linux has taken over...

Treasury Works on 'Plan C' To Fend Off Lingering Threats Troubling Issues in Lending Could Still Disrupt Economy By David Cho and Binyamin Appelbaum Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, July 8, 2009 As the financial system tries to right itself after its near-collapse last fall, the Treasury Department has assembled a team to examine what could yet bring it down and has identified several trouble spots that could threaten the still-fragile lending industry. Informally known as Plan C, the internal project is focused on vexing problems such as the distressed commercial real estate markets, the high rate of delinquencies among...

Rove Deposed? READ Federalist 47! The Democrats continue to mutate the design of our Constitution, first by asking for more subpoena powers (S. 836) and now are acting as a law enforcement body. Federalist 47 specifically cites such moves as the “very definition of tyranny.” From Federalist 47:“One of the principal objections inculcated by the more respectable adversaries to the Constitution, is its supposed violation of the political maxim, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments ought to be separate and distinct. In the structure of the federal government, no regard, it is said, seems to have been paid to...

Guidelines for federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research offer incentives for experiments that end human life and have not successfully treated disease. The Obama administration's final guidelines for federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research do more than remove a small protection for living human embryos. They actually encourage scientists to destroy preborn human life, courtesy of $10 billion in federal stimulus money designated for biomedical research, including embryonic stem-cell trials. "The regulations virtually guarantee that many more living human embryos will be destroyed for research," said Carrie Gordon Earll, senior bioethics analyst for Focus on the Family. "This policy also...

It's been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be. Google...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 32% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –5. The number who strongly disapprove inched up another point to the highest level measured to date and the overall Approval Index is at the lowest level yet for Obama  

In a remarkable victory for the University of Colorado (“CU”), former Ethnic Studies professor Ward Churchill’s prior apparent court victory over the University for wrongful termination was vacated by the trial judge. District Court Judge Larry J. Naves, in a detailed order (which you can view in pdf form here), not only refused to reinstate Churchill in his teaching position but also refused to award him any monetary damages. www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32619

Almost every bankruptcy expert The Am Law Daily talks to agrees that the super-fast General Motors and Chrysler bankruptcies diverted from traditional bankruptcy law because of the government's huge role in each case and the danger liquidation might have posed to the broader economy. What they don't agree on is whether the cases set a meaningful precedent for future judges. "What happened in GM and Chrysler is so outrageous and so illegal that until March of this year, nobody even conceptualized it," says Lynn LoPucki, a bankruptcy expert at UCLA Law School. "Wouldn't almost every company like to get out...

I read yesterday, that some people in England, who had access to a murdered baby, cannibalized parts from that baby to use in an experiment. Now, a lot of people would not be bothered by this, because the child was dead anyway, and besides, transplants are done all the time form donors. However there is one thing that makes this story wrong. The baby was killed just for the parts. Society has degenerated so low, as to honesty think that the killing of a child for experimental purposes is ok. What is it they say? If you do or say...

Q. The former Alaskan governor's resignation gave her a boost among GOP respondents in a recent USAToday/Gallup poll. Two-thirds of Republicans want her to be "a major national political figure" in the future. The announcement further "dented" her standing with Democrats: Three-fourths hope she does not return to a position of power. What is your opinion of Sarah Palin?

House Defeats Amendment to Stop Obama's Tax-Funded Abortions Washington, DC -- A House committee on Tuesday night defeated a pro-life amendment designed to stop President Barack Obama's plan to fund abortions in the nation's capital with taxpayer dollars. The House Appropriations Committee voted largely along partisan lines to prevent restoration of the funding ban. Full report and action alerts at: http://www.LifeNews.com/nat5200.html

Republican Charlie Baker, the well-financed CEO of Harvard Pilgrim, has jumped into a quickly swelling 2010 gubernatorial race only two days after Treasurer Tim Cahill said he decided to switch political parties.

The west coast-based Cardboard Tube Fighting League is coming to Brooklyn, offering a safer, legal and less aggressive alternative to the mixed martial arts battles of Ultimate Fighting Championship. Next Sunday, cardboard tube combat takes place in McCarren Park following a Saturday tournament in Philadelphia. Competitors are encouraged to bring cardboard armor and other costumes, but “no outside tubes allowed” lest someone does battle with any weapon sturdy enough to do damage. Also, bring “water, cameras, video cameras, name tags & positive social attitude.” And although it’s a free family event, it’s suggested that only “only children above the age...

I got to work this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see that the stock market was actually in the green. Then... Biden had to open his mouth about Health Care reform and to no surprise at all, the stock market went straight into the red. Every time Obama, Biden, or any democrat speaks, I lose money on my 401k. How many different ways will they think of to take money away from me!

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