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  • Frederica Wilson D-FL House Floor speech (calls it murder video)

    03/28/2012 5:37:09 AM PDT · by anglian · 17 replies
    abcnews ^ | abc
    Rep. Frederica Wilson delivers speech on the House floor about slain teen. Vid at link.
  • Fox Newswatch Highlights Winner for Worst Bias of 2010 - (video)

    12/19/2010 4:04:09 AM PST · by anglian · 15 replies · 1+ views
    FNC’s Fox Newswatch on Saturday highlighted a winner in the MRC’s online balloting, in which many NewsBusters readers took part (Friday NB post announcing who you picked for Quote of the Year), for the annual awards for the year’s worst reporting. Host Jon Scott announced: The results are in. The Media Research Center conducted an online poll asking the public to vote on the worst biased reporting. First up, the winner of the Poison Teapot Award for Smearing the Anti-Obama Rabble, goes to PBS's Tavis Smiley for this: Viewers then saw the clip from Tavis Smiley’s May 25 program on...
  • Chinese vase sells for world record-breaking £53.1 million at auction

    11/12/2010 11:32:42 AM PST · by anglian · 28 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | Nov 11, 2010 | Murray Wardrop
    The 18th century Qianlong porcelain vase had been estimated to fetch between £800,000 and £1.2 million by Bainbridges, the provincial auction house handling the sale. The 18th century Qianlong-dynasty porcelain vase is believed to have fetched the highest price for any Chinese artwork sold at auction However both the auctioneers and the owners were stunned when it went for the highest price of any Chinese artwork sold at auction. The elaborately decorated piece was put up for sale by a brother and sister who found it while clearing out their parents’ home in Pinner, north-west London after they recently died.
  • Please Freep This Poll

    05/17/2010 4:50:36 PM PDT · by anglian · 44 replies · 1,091+ views
    Who Would You Prefer To Give Your Commencement Address? Beck or Maddow? Maddow is beating Beck 58% to 42%
  • Commission sides with Edison on Chino Hills power line route

    12/18/2009 7:42:03 PM PST · by anglian · 8 replies · 333+ views
    Conrea Costa Times ^ | 12/17/2009 | Neil Nisperos
    CHINO HILLS - City officials on Thursday expressed disappointment after the state Public Utilities Commission sided with a controversial Southern California Edison plan to run a high-voltage power line through neighborhoods.The energy line is part of the Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project, a series of high-voltage electric transmission lines to deliver electricity from wind farms in Tehachapi Pass to the Los Angeles basin.
  • Larry Summers’ Corporate Tax Confusion

    12/04/2009 2:57:01 AM PST · by anglian · 1 replies · 310+ views
    Cato Institute ^ | December 1, 2009 | Chris Edwards
    At a conference yesterday, White House National Economic Council Director Larry Summers repeated a superficial critique of the U.S. corporate income tax that we’ve heard often from the Obama administration. Politico notes that Summers suggested “that U.S. corporate tax rates are relatively low, despite complaints from U.S. corporations.” And they quote him: “If you look at taxes paid by corporations as a fraction of profits, they’re actually very low” because the U.S. tax code is replete with “evasion and avoidance.” The Obama team’s solution to the supposed problem is to pile more complex IRS rules and regulations on U.S. corporations...
  • (HRW) Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast

    10/20/2009 11:48:40 PM PDT · by anglian · 12 replies · 314+ views
    NY TIMES ^ | October 19, 2009 | ROBERT L. BERNSTEIN
    AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman emeritus, I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group’s critics. Human Rights Watch had as its original mission to pry open closed societies, advocate basic freedoms and support dissenters. But recently it has been issuing reports on the Israeli-Arab conflict that are helping those who wish to turn Israel into a pariah state.
  • County to pay $4 million to settle jail-beating lawsuit (Illegal immigrant)

    04/22/2009 11:48:16 AM PDT · by anglian · 11 replies · 394+ views
    Orange County Register ^ | April 20, 2009 | NORBERTO SANTANA JR. and TONY SAAVEDRA
    County officials have agreed to pay more than $4 million to settle a lawsuit brought by an undocumented Mexican immigrant who was beaten by inmates while in custody at the Orange County jail. The settlement appears to be the largest ever paid by Orange County for an in-custody incident involving county sheriffs, according to county officials and the man's lawyer.
  • VIDEO: Neil Cavuto Gets Heated with Alan Grayson (FL.Dem)

    04/01/2009 3:31:05 PM PDT · by anglian · 59 replies · 3,096+ views
    RealClearMedia ^ | April 01, 2009
    This is A MUST SEE VIDEO. Congressman Alan Grayson (Democrat of Florida) makes a fool out of him self and his party on live TV.
  • Scotus Denies Philip Morris’s Appeal of Widow’s Award

    04/01/2009 2:31:20 PM PDT · by anglian · 12 replies · 420+ views
    WSJ Law Blog ^ | March 31, 2009 | Jennifer Forsyth
    This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court left in place an Oregon Supreme Court decision that upheld a $79.5 million award to a smoker’s widow against Altria’s Philip Morris. This case had been closely watched by the business community, which had hoped the Supremes would use it to set firm limits on punitive damages. Instead, the high court took a pass on ruling on the legal issues, after having heard arguments in December. The dismissal came in a short court order that offered no details on why the appeal was dismissed. No justices dissented from the dismissal, reports Dow Jones’s Mark...
  • REICH - Obamanomics Isn't About Big Government

    03/30/2009 10:51:54 AM PDT · by anglian · 20 replies · 807+ views
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | MARCH 29, 2009 | ROBERT REICH
    Twenty-eight years ago, Ronald Reagan used the severe economic downturn of 1980-82 to implement an economic philosophy that not only gave force and meaning to a wide range of initiatives but also offered a way back to sustained economic growth. Is there a similarly powerful animating idea behind Obamanomics? I believe there is -- and it's not a return to big government. The expansive and expensive forays of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board into Wall Street notwithstanding,
  • Some Upcoming Obama Administration Appointments

    03/11/2009 10:41:15 PM PDT · by anglian · 5 replies · 467+ views
    ALG News ^ | 03/10/2009 | Don Todd
    The Obama Administration currently (03/09/09) has 50 executive nominations pending before the Senate for confirmation. This includes the Timothy Geithner nomination to the International Monetary Fund. What follows is a brief look at seven of them. Karen Gordon Mills – Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Gil Kerlikowske - Drug Czar Gary Locke – Secretary of Commerce (Third Choice) Dr. Ashton B. Carter – Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Julius Genachowski – Chairman Federal Communications Commission Roy Kienitz – Undersecretary of Transportation for Policy Ron Sims – Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
  • The Industrial Revolution Past and Future

    10/30/2008 2:20:31 PM PDT · by anglian · 4 replies · 246+ views
    Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis ^ | May 2004 | Robert E. Lucas
    Of the tendencies that are harmful to sound economics, the most seductive, and in my opinion the most poisonous, is to focus on questions of distribution. But of the vast increase in the well-being of hundreds of millions of people that has occurred in the 200-year course of the industrial revolution to date, virtually none of it can be attributed to the direct redistribution of resources from rich to poor. The potential for improving the lives of poor people by finding different ways of distributing current production is nothing compared to the apparently limitless potential of increasing production.
  • Grim proving ground for Obama's housing policy (+video)

    09/23/2008 9:48:28 PM PDT · by anglian · 23 replies · 275+ views
    The Boston Globe ^ | June 27, 2008 | Binyamin Appelbaum
    CHICAGO - The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal government for people who can't afford to live anywhere else. But it's not safe to live here.
  • Barack Obama's Tax Returns: Lingering Questions

    04/01/2008 1:22:39 AM PDT · by anglian · 3 replies · 183+ views
    Wilmette ^ | March 30, 2008 | Publia
    Earth Hour interfered with income tax preparation at our house last night, but we are pleased to report that we won't be attempting to characterize political contributions as charitable contributions on our US-1040. Barack and Michelle Obama did just that a couple of years ago when they deducted a $13, 107 political contribution to the Congressional Black Caucus as charitable contribution on their 2006 tax return. Deducting political contributions is strictly prohibited by the IRS, and I am still scratching my head about this incredible gaffe by two Harvard educated lawyers knowledgeable about both law and politics. Additionally, the return...
  • Obama Talks Economy, But Takes Subprime Companies Money

    03/28/2008 11:24:01 AM PDT · by anglian · 3 replies · 326+ views
    NoQuarter ^ | March 27, 2008 | SusanUnPC
    Here’s the kicker sentence from Clinton policy director Neera Tanden’s press release below, followed by a list of the top 10 issuers of subprime loans Obama has taken money from: - Today, Senator Obama gives an economy speech followed by a fundraiser at - you guessed it - one of the top 10 issuers of subprime loans in America, Credit Suisse. In fact, Senator Obama has taken more money from the top 10 issuers of subprime loans than BOTH Senator Clinton and Senator McCain.. CONTINUED AT LINK
  • San Bernardino teens charged with murder of woman, 87

    03/05/2008 6:47:06 PM PST · by anglian · 16 replies · 225+ views
    LA Times ^ | David Kelly
    The 16-year-olds allegedly hit the victim in the head with hammers and robbed her mobile home. They will be tried as adults. Investigators say Cesar Pulido and Mike Garcia, both 16, crawled through Storma Del' Andrae's window Feb. 11 and used hammers to pummel her in the head.
  • Obama's spark may be embracing his Muslim heritage

    07/10/2007 8:00:51 PM PDT · by anglian · 31 replies · 991+ views
    Lebanon Daily Star ^ | Tuesday, July 10, 2007 | Chibli Mallat
    Any country would be lucky to have as president someone with Obama's sensitivity and his sort of reflective leadership. Here is my unsolicited advice to him for keeping the spark alive: Remember that you're called Barack Obama; that your father was a Muslim. Do not turn your back on this heritage; instead use it as the spark that might push your campaign ahead. In this growing world war between Islam and the West, you should be proud of your Muslim legacy. Make it a central plank of your campaign to become world leader. There is no contradiction between this and...
  • Socialized Medicine Showdown

    06/30/2007 9:58:05 AM PDT · by anglian · 17 replies · 492+ views
    WALL STREET JOURNAL ^ | Friday, June 29, 2007 | KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
    Dems want to ride this one all the way to the White House. *If Republicans don't unify now, they might not get a better chance.* While most of Congress scrapped over immigration this week, a small band of Republicans doggedly toiled behind the scenes on quite a different subject. National Economic Council Director Al Hubbard and health secretary Mike Leavitt shuttled to and from the Hill; Senators hashed out the topic at a steering committee lunch; congressmen canvassed members, wrote and wrote legislation. Even President Bush gave a speech on the subject, exhorting his party to get it together.
  • Corps of Engineers flooded by La. residents seeking compensation

    05/01/2007 6:31:49 AM PDT · by anglian · 17 replies · 528+ views
    AP ^ | 2,28,2007 | CAIN BURDEAU
    NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Thousands of hurricane victims walked or drove to the Army Corps of Engineers office here Wednesday to file damage claims against the agency over the devastating flooding that occurred after Hurricane Katrina's storm surge overpowered levees 18 months ago. Joseph Bruno, a lawyer heading a team of lawyers suing the corps, said the eventual number will be higher than the corps estimates, at least 100,000. Residents have rushed all week to beat a Thursday deadline to sue the corps over allegations that its poor design and workmanship was to blame for the flooding of New Orleans...