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Rasmussen Reports: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 33% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-four percent (34%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -1. Today is the second straight day the President’s [...]

RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) – California’s historic budget crisis threatens to devastate a public education system that was once considered a national model but now ranks near the bottom in school funding and academic achievement. Deep budget cuts are forcing California school districts to lay off thousands of teachers, expand class sizes, close schools, eliminate bus [...]

Al Qaeda leader Mustafa Abu al-Yazid: We’d use nuclear weapons against the U.S. if we could Al Qaeda would not hesitate to use Pakistan’s nuclear weapons on the United States – if only it could get its hands on them, the terrorist group’s leader in Afghanistan said in a recent interview. “God willing, the nuclear [...]

Britain’s Foreign Office said Monday it was evacuating the families of staff based in Iran amid continued violence in the wake of the country’s disputed election. The decision came after repeated criticism of Britain by Iranian leaders, and an increasingly tense atmosphere following angry clashes between demonstrators and security officials. Staff will remain in Iran [...]

President Obama took office loudly promising to be the anti-George W. Bush of foreign policy, vowing to “extend a hand” to adversaries “willing to unclench” their fists. What he has received instead is an education in the reality of global rogues, and how he responds has become a major test of his Presidency. Ayatollah Ali [...]

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YouTube EnturbulatedCapitol I spent a great amount of time yesterday gathering videos which made it out of embattled Iran. I don’t need to tell you that it’s a desperate situation for many. This is a compilation of some of the videos I was able to download, and plan to keep in my possession well after [...]

President Obama needs to step off the sidelines and stand up for Iranians who are protesting last week’s election and challenging the authority of the country’s theocratic regime, Republican lawmakers said Sunday. Though the White House released a written statement Saturday in which Obama used his strongest language to date to condemn what he called [...]

Transterrestrial Musings: This is an email that has apparently been making the rounds in the general aviation community: Excerpt: As the days go by I find myself more and more apprehensive about the drift of America toward becoming what, not to mince words, can be described as a “police state.” To the average citizen this [...]

They’re the most feared men on the streets of Iran. The pro-government Basij militia has held back its full fury during this week’s street demonstrations. But witnesses say the force has unleashed its violence in shadowy nighttime raids, attacking suspected opposition sympathizers with axes, daggers, sticks and other crude weapons. At least once, the militiamen [...]

Yeah… This pisses me off too… f*cking low life bastard usurper AmericasRight: JEFF SCHREIBER excerpt I know, I know. I’m not exactly busting apart that “Republicans are a bunch of no-fun white guys” stereotype. Still, there’s something about the White House that made me cringe and shake my head when I first saw the photograph [...]

HAARETZ By Zvi Bar’el, Haaretz Correspondent Suddenly, there appears to be an Iranian people. Not just nuclear technology, extremist ayatollahs, the Holocaust-denying Ahmadinejad, and an axis of evil. All of a sudden, the ears need to be conditioned to hear other names: “‘Mousawi’ or ‘Mousavi,’ how is it pronounced exactly?”; Mehdi Karroubi; Khamenei (“It’s not [...]

YahooNews: H/T NormsRevenge at FR By ANGELA CHARLTON, Associated Press PARIS – Iranian authorities have arrested 23 journalists and bloggers since post-election protests began a week ago, according to a media watchdog that says reporters are a “priority target” for Iran’s leadership. Among those arrested was the head of the Association of Iranian Journalists, Reporters [...]

BozemanDailyChronicle: By AMANDA RICKER Chronicle Staff Writer If you’re planning to apply for a job with the city of Bozeman, prepare to clean up your Facebook page. As part of routine background checks, the city asks job applicants to provide their usernames and passwords for their social-networking sites. And it has been doing it for [...]

Newsweek: By Michael Isikoff As a senator, Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding “secret energy meetings” with oil executives at the White House. But last week public-interest groups were dismayed when his own administration rejected a Freedom of Information Act request for Secret Service logs showing the identities of coal executives who had [...]

Judith Gwynn, the Inspector General for the International Trade Comm ission, has been told that her contract will not be renewed, making her the third IG in the Obama administration to draw controversy, according to a report by ABC News. Gwynn’s release appears to be linked to an incident she recorded in her April 2009 [...]