Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Headlines - Thursday August 25

 
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In America's deeply dysfunctional economy, unemployment is stuck at a 'new normal' of 9%, while corporate profits race ahead
 
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Changes in the global climate that cut food production triggered one-fifth of civil conflicts between 1950 and 2004
 
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A former Clinton speechwriter urges President Obama to drop the post-partisan crap.
 
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The last few years have been replete with stories of incredible fraudulent and possibly criminal acts for banks in the mortgage crisis. Thousands have lost their homes and faced financial ruin. The Administration is yielding to demands from lobbyists for the banks and particularly targeting Eric T. Schneiderman, the attorney general of New York, in demanding support for a deal that would offer just civil fines rather than criminal penalties.Continue reading 'Obama Administration Pressures Prosecutors To Drop Criminal Investigations Of Banks Over Mortgage Fraud'
 
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WorldNutDaily's Joseph Farah: Hurricanes & Earthquakes Are Punishments For Homosexuality
 
Oh really?
 
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Heritage Foundation: Poor People Aren't Really Poor, Poverty Is A Leftist Scam

"The typical poor child, in fact, lives in a house that has air conditioning, cable TV, a computer, three color televisions, an Xbox, a DVD [player], one or two cars [for] the household, [and] there's not any sign of food scarcity. Everything I just said comes from government reports, but the government doesn't publicize that information. The welfare state has a vested interest in exaggerating poverty in order to build bigger government bureaucracies to serve the poor, and the news media are even worse than the government." - Robert Rector, "senior research fellow" with the Heritage Foundation.

 
 
 
 
 

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