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Supernova Remnant E0102-72 Credit: X-ray - NASA / CXC / MIT / D.Dewey et al., NASA / CXC / SAO / J.DePasquale; Optical - NASA / STScI Explanation: The expanding debris cloud from the explosion of a massive star is captured in this multiwavelength composite, combining x-ray and optical images from the Chandra and Hubble telescopes. Identified as E0102-72, the supernova remnant lies about 190,000 light-years away in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud. A strong cosmic source of x-rays, E0102 was imaged by the Chandra X-ray Observatory shortly after its launch in 1999. In celebration of Chandra's 10th...

Voluntary judicial tyranny: Congress can over rule the Supreme Court but won’t 09/05/2009 By Bruce Karlson Last week, we looked at the actual language which should curtail the tyrannical power afforded the US Supreme Court. Supreme Court rulings are only binding “…with such exceptions and under such regulation as the Congress shall make.” (Section 111, Article 2). Congress has never availed itself of its duty to restrain an activist Court. Congress failed the first test and has continued ever since: In 1803 under John Marshall, the Court denied relief to William Marbury based on its finding that the Judicial Act...

After months or "reorganizing," the rubber hits the road today at the Palm Beach Post. By the end of working hours, some 20 newsroom staffers will be gone in the latest round of buyouts/layoffs. Some have already packed their bags and taken the reduced severance package. Award-winning feature writer Christine Evans left on her own volition recently and is now teaching at a private school. Photo Editor Pete Cross took the buyout early as well. So did Deputy Metro Editor Maria Garcia. A few copyeditors were given the heave-ho last night. Updated: Resigning and taking the package is Assistant Metro...

Seventy years ago this week Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany, ignited the most cataclysmic war in history. Some six years later, with over 60 million dead, a Holocaust conceived as the Final Solution for European Jewry, killing fields that left most of Europe scarred and, finally, the unleashing of atomic weapons over Japan, the carnage ended. Mighty volumes of the war's history have been written. Memoirs, official records and grisly details of unimaginable sufferings of victims have been published. Documentaries and record numbers of movies have been produced to understand how and why civilization could break down so...

WASHINGTON -- The White House is facing mounting pressure from lawmakers to work harder to rally flagging public support for the war in Afghanistan. With casualties rising, the administration is struggling to persuade voters that the war can be won or is worth the human and financial costs. Afghanistan is President Barack Obama's top foreign-policy priority, but recent polls show that a majority of voters oppose the war for the first time since the conflict began eight years ago.

WASHINGTON -- The fate of efforts to enact sweeping changes to the nation's health-care system may come down to whether two moderate New England Republicans, Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, can be brought on board. Sens. Snowe and Collins played a pivotal role in passing the $787 billion economic-stimulus package, joining Democrats to provide the key votes, along with Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. Now Republican leaders are lining up to oppose health-care legislation. And getting Sens. Snowe and Collins to cross party lines will be crucial, if the White House has any hope of enacting a bill...

Watching With Jesus "Stay here and watch with Me" —Matthew 26:38 Watch with Me." Jesus was saying, in effect, "Watch with no private point of view at all, but watch solely and entirely with Me." In the early stages of our Christian life, we do not watch with Jesus, we watch for Him. We do not watch with Him through the revealed truth of the Bible even in the circumstances of our own lives. Our Lord is trying to introduce us to identification with Himself through a particular "Gethsemane" experience of our own. But we refuse to go, saying,...

- The Art of Manliness - http://artofmanliness.com - How to Unclog a Toilet Like a PlumberPosted By Brett & Kate McKay On September 3, 2009 @ 9:49 pm In Manly Skills | 23 Comments Welcome back! Enjoy your stay, and don't forget to man up [1]! [2]It’s every man’s worst fear. You’re at someone’s house, you finish doing your business and flush the toilet, but instead of going down, the water comes up along with whatever you just deposited in the bowl. Would you be paralyzed with panic in that moment? Or do you know what to do?For some reason,...

Usually you can hold your mouse over the logo and a pop up will inform you what the logo's about. Today, I get nothing, but it looks like they're depicting a UFO...for what purpose? Anybody know?

Woo hoo!! The Freepmobile has been repaired and we drove all night to catch up to the Tea Party Express here in Memphis! We'll be rallying in Louisville, Kentucky at 5:30 pm tonight!! Next stop: Bloomington, Indiana tomorrow!! Woo hoo!! Thirty-five cities, thirty-five tea parties in sixteen days!! Be sure to check the tour schedule and join us when we get to a city near you: TeaPartyExpress.org!! And if you are going to DC for the big March on Washington and National Tea Party on 9/12, you won't want to miss our National Freeper Convention!! Click here to order your...

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It's time to take a bit of a break from coverage of the Atlantic hurricane season of 2009, and report on some important climate news. The past decade was the warmest decade in the Arctic for the past 2,000 years, according to a study called "Recent Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling" published today in the journal Science. Furthermore, four of the five warmest decades in the past 2,000 years occurred between 1950 - 2000, despite the fact that summertime solar radiation in the Arctic has been steadily declining for the past 2,000 years. Previous efforts to reconstruct past climate in...

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In the tradition of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, President Barack Obama on Tuesday will address thenation's schoolchildren, encouraging them to study hard and stay in school, the White House said. His inspirational message, however, will not reach Monroe County students whose parents sign letters the school district sent home this week allowing their children to opt out of watching the presidential address and participating in the Department of Education's follow-up lesson plans available to teachers online. Conservatives have created a national controversy over the address, catching school districts in the middle. Florida Keys schools will air the speech on...

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It seems incredible that Barack Obama would appoint someone to manage $30 billion in government money who actually believes the government of George Bush stood by and allowed 9/11 to happen as a "pretext for war." Incredible - but true. Green Czar Van Jones signed a petition in 2005 demanding another investigation into 9/11 by the New York Attorney General, concentrating on the lunatic notion that President Bush, at the very least, knew about the attacks of September 11 in advance and did nothing to stop them so he could take the country to war. Update from Thomas Lifson: Jones...

An email has been making the rounds for some time regarding the obscene profits enjoyed by drug companies. While it may be old news, innumerable credulous souls, like my sister, keep forwarding it as a revelation of The Truth, so it is useful to go over the economics raised in the email one more time. The email casts the authors as intrepid investigators in the mold of Mike Wallace: Did you ever wonder how much it costs a drug company for the active ingredient in prescription medications? Some people think it must cost a lot, since many drugs sell for...

The announcer introduces me to the audiences of thousands, “Singer/songwriter of the national America Tea Party Anthem, Mr. Lloyd Marcus!” I enthusiastically enter the stage, “Hello my fellow patriots! I am not an African American ... I am Lloyd Marcus ... AMERICAN!” The mostly white crowds go wild with applause and cheers of approval. I feel their relief and gratitude of a black man who loves his country and is not hostile or resentful toward them. I am traveling across America on the Tea Party Express Tour. We began August 28th in Sacramento, CA. Our 34 city tour will end...

An interesting reason for the "natural born" provision of the U.S. Constitution is that the founders thought it might be important for the sitting president to understand and defend the basic principles of American freedom. The universal health care push illustrates the far left's ignorance of our constitutional system better than anything imaginable. The President and every one of the ultra lefties in Congress may as well have been born in the former Soviet Union and dandled on the knee of Joseph Stalin. Their poison Ivy League educations have so indoctrinated their minds that, not only do they sing from...

Rathke lamented the infighting within different unions and the inaction of Democrats in Congress on behalf of low-income Americans. "We're not going to get what many of us thought was possible a year ago," he said. And even if organizers could unionize 100,000 or 150,000 Wal-Mart workers, no plan exists for how the organizations could handle the influx of new members, he said. One bright spot is overseas, Rathke said, where unions are signing thousands of garbage pickers in India and Argentine cartoneros, the ultrapoor in Buenos Aires who recycle cardboard and other trash.