Herman Cain was unaware that China is a nuclear power. And I said to myself, "Hey, Herman, how about making an unwanted advance on a history book – David Letterman
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Credit Suisse will hand over details of wealthy Americans with hidden Swiss accounts to the Swiss government, bringing U.S. authorities one step closer to obtaining names of alleged tax cheats.
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Why the GOP Should Panic
One GOP frontrunner is accused of several instances of sexual harassment; the other has managed to make his candidacy as exciting as coffin shopping. A third leading candidate spent this week trying to convince people he wasn't drunk during a speech in New Hampshire.
Keep reading: http://news.yahoo.com/case-republican-panic-094500662.html
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George Monbiot: The 1% Are the Very Best Destroyers of Wealth the World Has Ever Seen
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Obama's Offshore Oil Plan a Disaster for Wildlife, Climate
Too bad he doesn't read Krugman: Here Comes the Sun
More on the link between fracking and earthquakes. This is worrisome, worrisome stuff, folks.
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Douchebag James Dobson: If Obama Wins, God Will Curse Us
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Only ugly feminists get harassed
The below column was just tweeted out by Eagle Forum founder Phylis Schlafly. It was authored by Shirley Spellerberg of TexasGOPVote, who is backing Herman Cain.
If a man even looked at a feminist in an admiring manner, or called her 'sweetheart, baby or honey', the gals would cry 'Sexual Harassment' (although I did not see many man-hating feminists that most men would find attractive enough to speak endearing words to). If women do not wish to be admired by others, both men and other women, then why do so many women dress attractively and/or provocatively? Any grown woman worth her salt should know how to gently rebuff unwanted comments or advances without filing 'sexual harassment' charges when remarks or suggestions she considers 'inappropriate' are forthcoming.
In other words: "You really want it, don't you?"
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A Record Year for Billion-Dollar Disasters
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Good news for the future status of the Affordable Care Act. According to a new poll from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health, Americans want more government involvement in healthcare. Not less.
It makes sense that Americans generally prefer small government, but want more government involvement in individual areas of policy such as healthcare. Because asking people if they are for Big Government or Small Government is not unlike asking them if they are Liberal or Conservative.
The phrase "Big Government" is repeated ad nauseam in the same derogatory manner the term "Liberal" is, but as every poll shows us when asked about individual issues, the majority of Americans hold liberal policy positions.
via Ezra Klein
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Pew Research Centert: The News IQ Quiz
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Charles Pierce: Warning: The War with (Nuclear) Iran Is Back on the Table
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The Every Sperm is Sacred Act and the Fuck the Public Unions Act were both rejected at the polls last night in Mississippi and Ohio. Ohio is at 61-39, and even more surprising, Mississippi wasn't close at all, currently holding at 59-41.
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Police are putting GPS systems on suspects cars (without a warrant) and then using the resultant info to convict the suspects. And the Justices of the Supreme Court suddenly realized it could apply to them:
The justices were taken aback when the lawyer representing the government said police officers could install GPS devices on the justices' cars and track their movements without a warrant. To get a warrant, investigators need to convince a judge that there is reason to believe a suspect is involved in criminal activity.
"So your answer is yes, you could tomorrow decide that you put a GPS device on every one of our cars, follow us for a month; no problem under the Constitution?" Chief Justice John Roberts said.
Not only that, government lawyer Michael Dreeben replied, but FBI agents wouldn't need a warrant either if they wanted to rummage through the justices' trash, use a low-tech beeper to track them or tail them around-the-clock with a team of agents. Dreeben said the court has previously ruled that people have no reasonable expectation of privacy in those circumstances.
(AP)
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