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Press TV: Scientists have reported that countries with higher cases of infectious diseases such as malaria have lower intelligence. People who live in countries where disease is rife may have lower IQs because they have to divert energy away from brain development to fight infections, scientists in the US say. They found that the level [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Initial claims for unemployment benefits rose last week for the second time in three weeks, a sign that layoffs are rising. The Labor Department says new claims for jobless benefits jumped by 13,000 to a seasonally adjusted 472,000. Analysts expected a small drop, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters. Greater layoffs [...]

The Telegraph: by Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister of Great Britan During their 13 years in power, the Labour Government developed a dangerous reflex. Faced with whatever problem, legislation increasingly became the standard response. Something needs fixing? Let’s pass a new law. And so, over the last decade, thousands of new rules and regulations have [...]

The Telegraph: Nick Clegg calls on public to help scrap bad laws Members of the public will be given the right to nominate unpopular laws they want scrapped, Nick Clegg has announced the Your Freedom initiative intended to begin a shift of power away from the state to the people. In an article for The [...]

From gizmag.com Gizmag: I came across this device while trolling the floor at Computex and I stopped at a stand in the middle of the vast penny booths section because there was a cute bicycle speaker which clips to the handlebars, charges via USB and has two bags underneath to hold your wallet, keys, phone [...]

Politico: Minority Leader John Boehner is two days into a Democrat beat-down – a small taste of what he can expect should he become Speaker of the House and a test of his resilience as a leader. Democrats hammered the Ohio Republican for his assertion that the Wall Street reform bill is “killing an ant [...]

NY Times: WASHINGTON — As General David H. Petraeus takes command in Afghanistan, the two top American civilian officials in the war face an uncertain and tricky future, working with a newly empowered military leader, under the gaze of an impatient president who has put them on notice that his fractious war council needs to [...]

Washington Post: The Pentagon has recommended that the White House consider awarding the Medal of Honor to a living soldier for the first time since the Vietnam War, according to U.S. officials. The soldier, whose nomination must be reviewed by the White House, ran through a wall of enemy fire in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley in [...]

Non-photoshopped, real Mexican newspaper cover “To work, my nigger” Washington Times: by Dan Stein The Obama administration has announced that it intends to sue Arizona over its new law that will allow the state to assist in the enforcement of federal immigration laws. The stated goal of the lawsuit is to block implementation of the [...]