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There's been a bunch of great recipe threads lately and a few FReepers thought it would be great to have a weekly cooking thread....so here it is! For this charter thread it would be great to dish out one of your favorite recipes for fellow FReepers to enjoy. Do you have a great recipe planned for the upcoming week or looking for one? Hopefully this thread will get the cooking juices flowing. Planing on making this a weekly thread with post starts on Sat/Sun

Professors still believe that the woes that afflict higher education can be solved through federal intervention. “Data should be collected on employment rates, salary information, and in acknowledgement that income is not a complete measure of a school’s return, alumni satisfaction rates,” Harvard’s Bridgett Terry Long writes in a December 2010 report published by the Center for American Progress (CAP). Most might agree on all of the above but Long wants the feds to do it. “The role of the federal government would be threefold,” Long writes in the CAP report, which is entitled “Grading Higher Education: Giving Consumers the...

"President Barack Obama passed a tragic milestonetoday as the military announced the death of the 1,000th solider to die since he took over as Commander in Chief. Army Sgt. First Class James E. Thode, 45, of Kirtland, N.M., became the 1,000th soldier to die since Obama took office. He is survived by a wife and two children. SFC Thode died Dec. 2 at Sabari District, Khowst Province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1457th Engineer Battalion, 204th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, Salt Lake City, Utah..." Complete coverage at...

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For Immediate Release - 29 November 2010 2:30 p.m. EST U.S. Supreme Court orders were posted at 10:00 a.m. on 29 Nov 2010. See below. Certiorari for our case was denied. The two justices appointed by Obama who had a direct financial conflict of interest (their very jobs and appointments to the court) in the outcome of this petition and case did not recuse themselves even though they should have! Their recusal was called for in our petition on page 36. The two justices and the court ignored that. There were recusals declared by these two Obama appointees in many...

Rio and the Old West How Rio copes with murderers. How the Old West coped with them. By Julio Severo Nevertheless the title, the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has nothing to do with the American Old West. Not because there was no violence in the Wild West. There was, but not as much as one sees in Rio in the 21st century. Injustice that has been plentiful in Rio was not plentiful in the Wild West. Just like in Rio, all the outlaws in the Old West carried weapons for their crimes. But, very differently from Rio, in...

It seems likely that the more primitive a government is, the more they are ruled by base animal instinct. For example, Americans live in an advanced nation where prosperity is widely spread. Thus, our government wastes time debating sophisticated policies like ethanol subsidies and gay marriage. In a place like North Korea, which is basically a feudal society ruled by one insane family, the debates are over food and power. Thus, American requests for multilateral negotiations over nuclear arms miss the mark. The ONLY thing that the Kim family cares about is staying in power. If that means that half...

President Obama must view the American Jewish community as a glorified ATM machine, completely oblivious as to how the money it dispenses will be spent. For reasons of history, Jewish Americans have become the only white ethnic group that has not permanently left the Democrat Party. It is probably also the only non-dysfunctional voting bloc that votes Democrat by a super-majority. Like most liberal Democrats, Obama can reliably lay claim to his 75% or 80% of Jewish voters every election cycle. This self-defeating support has left Jewish Americans in a conundrum: why do we support a President who is clearly...

The following article outlines case studies why we have no right to expect the police to protect us from crime, the government or the TSA. Who ever would have thought that ATF agents would have competition from another government agency over which was the worst offender of the people’s rights? Thanks to John Ainsworth for this information. Dial 911 and You Could Die! You have no right to expect the police to protect you from crime. The police don’t even have to come when you call. Depending solely on police emergency response means relying on the telephone as the only...

Looking back on what was right, what was wrong, and where we may go from here… Since our first interview titled “The President Is Losing It”, to the last interview, “He Ain’t No Democrat”, the tone of Insider has emerged as seemingly less calculated, more genuine, yet also more frantic to see some semblance of good come from all of this Insider “talk”. Whether or not that good will eventually result, remains to be seen. I make no secret of my considerable dissatisfaction with the Obama White House, and the Democratic Party as a whole. That being said, I have...

Two days ago, An elderly woman was murdered in front of her sister and onlookers on LA's metro gold line station in Little Tokyo. The station, recently opened a year ago under the new gold line extension into east LA now has its first big incident. An insane drug addicted and mentally ill homeless woman is now in custody for committing the murder. The killer, a woman named Jackkqueline Pogue committed the offense has a long history of mental illness not to mention an even longer criminal history. She had been thrown out of just about every shelter and welfare...

Parents and students who breathe a sigh of relief because the college of their choice is “accredited” may want to wait to exhale. “The main reason for this failure is that the system relies too heavily on colleges to self-regulate,” Andrew Gillen, Daniel L. Bennett and Richard Vedder write in a paper for the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP). “For example 83% of the board for Middle States Commission on Higher Education is comprised of people that work for institutions that they then accredit.” “Similar numbers are just as pervasive in the other regional accreditors.” With insiders grading...

"...The estate tax has been hastily dealt with under the 111th Congress creating planning problems for family businesses and farms hoping to pass their business on to the next generation. Because no action has taken place this year, the tax is scheduled to swing from its current and proper rate of 0% to a confiscatory 55% on January 1, 2011. Congress’ inability to establish a sensible estate tax policy has added to the already uncertain and volatile economic environment America’s family businesses and farms now face. With the myriad of estate tax proposals on the table and short amount of...

Failing a cloture vote today in the Senate, the Paycheck Fairness Act (S.3772) was designed to close a purported “pay gap” between male and female workers. The Paycheck Fairness act looked to achieve this goal by facilitating litigation and levying small businesses with new paperwork—two policies which discourage hiring new workers. “The misleadingly named Paycheck Fairness Act was a solution for a non-existent problem,” said Christopher Prandoni, Executive Director of the Alliance for Worker Freedom. “While proponents of this bill claim women make twenty percent less than men, when hours of work, overtime, education, and experience are accounted for, the...

...All discretionary spending (including defense) is rolled back and frozen at 2008 levels. This can be achieved practically by measures such as freezing federal salaries and benefits, bureaucrat attrition, an earmark ban, and continuing the phased withdrawal of troops from Iraq and AfghanistanSocial Security and Medicare are not touched relative to CBO’s baselineMedicaid and other entitlements are rolled back to 2008 funding levels, frozen, and block-granted to the states just like welfare was in the 1990s. Obamacare is not implemented.The lower deficits result in much lower interest on the national debtBy 2015, federal spending will decline from about 24...

...The dedicated website for the event – RNCdebate.org – allowed activists to propose and vote on debate questions. The site drew 60,000 votes on 925 different questions. The event details are as follows: When: Monday, January 3, 2011 from 1:00 pm – 2:30 p.m. ET Where: National Press Club (529 14th St. NW), 13th Floor, Ballroom Read more: http://www.atr.org/atr-host-rnc-chairmanship-debate-january-a5660#ixzz15ZFXqVNg

For many years, I’ve been a fan of Warren Buffett’s long term approach to value investing. Understanding the value of a company, regardless of its momentary stock price, is a great long term investing strategy. But it pains me whenever I read commentary from Buffett that glosses over reality or is somehow self-serving. His OpEd in the NYT today – Pretty Good for Government Work – paints an artificially rosy picture of the Bailout, ignores the negatives, and omits his own financial interest in government actions. What might he have written if Sir Warren was dosed with some sodium pentothal...

...Earmarks are the broken windows of budgets—though they may be considerably small in terms of spending, they pave the way for massive spending that would be unable to gain passage on its own merit. Otherwise conservative members of Congress will vote for politically sensitive spending packages because they contain pork for their districts. To end the deluge of federal spending, members must first end the practice of earmarking. Without the enticement of earmarks, taxpayers could have been saved nearly a trillion dollars in spending and debt on the so-called “stimulus” package, billions in the health care overhaul and the skyrocketing...

...There are eight states projected to gain at least one Congressional seat. Texas will gain four seats and Florida will gain two. Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington are poised to gain one seat each. The biggest losers will be New York and Ohio – both projected to lose two seats – while Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania are on track to lose one seat each. The average top personal income tax rate among gainers is 116 percent lower than among losers. The total state and local tax burden is nearly one-third lower,...

"...The Paycheck Fairness Act would place onerous reporting and compliance requirements on small businesses and open the door for a wave of unwarranted lawsuits. The bill would require all employers with more than two employees and $500,000 of gross revenues to submit data on sex, race, national origin, and earnings of employees to the EEOC. These administrative costs coupled with the threat of litigation will discourage hiring, especially of new female employees. Under this law, small businesses would be able to justify pay differences between male and female employees only on the grounds of education, training and experience. These metrics...