Climate Depot: DURBAN, South Africa — “No high hopes for Durban.” “Binding treaty unlikely.” “No deal this year.” Thus ran the headlines. The profiteering UN bureaucrats here think otherwise. Their plans to establish a world government paid for by the West on the pretext of dealing with the non-problem of “global warming” are now well [...]
AP: Newt Gingrich is facing his first debate as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. Standing next to him will be Mitt Romney, whose campaign has launched an all-out offensive against Gingrich’s record and leadership style. With less than a month to go before the Iowa caucuses, the debate at 9 p.m. EST Saturday [...]
WeeklyStandard: The unveiling of pictures of planned luxury residential towers scheduled to be built in Seoul, South Korea, has sparked instant controversy. The reason is obvious. The towers, which include a so-called “cloud” feature connecting them around the 27th floors, clearly resemble the World Trade Towers in the process of collapsing following the 9/11 attacks. [...]
Example 9,999 proving that federal subsidies for “public programming” should be immediately revoked CNS News: (CNSNews.com) – A “food insecure” Muppet is helping to promote a national “Food for Thought” campaign that teaches poor families to seek out nutritious food and to eat on the taxpayers’ tab. At the National Press Club on Thursday, Lily [...]
Detroit News: Washington— Three House Republicans, describing themselves as “deeply troubled,” asked the Obama administration Thursday to explain why it didn’t disclose a fire in a crash-tested extended-range electric Chevrolet Volt for several months — and whether the White House asked a safety agency to delay the release. “We are deeply troubled by the fact [...]
You can’t even make this shit up any more… Kotaku: One of the world’s largest and most respected humanitarian groups in the world is investigating whether the Geneva and Hague conventions should be applied to the fictional recreation of war in video games. If they agree those standards should be applied, the International Committee of [...]
Haaretz: Iraninan state television displayed what it said was a downed U.S. surveillance drone on Thursday, days after U.S. officials expressed concern that Tehran would be able to glean information about a classified military program. According to the semi-official Fars news agency, in the televised segment, commander of the Revolutionary Guard’s Aerospace Forces Amir Ali [...]
Daily Mail: A gang of Muslim women who attacked a passer-by in a city centre walked free from court after a judge heard they were ‘not used to being drunk’ because of their religion. The group – three sisters and a cousin – allegedly screamed ‘kill the white slag’ as they set upon Rhea Page [...]
2 killed in shooting at Virginia Tech, university spokesman says – Reuters Update: @CollegiateTimes now reporting person who surrendered at Performance Arts Building is not under arrest
Reuters: Former MF Global chief Jon Corzine apologized to customers, employees and investors who have suffered because of the brokerage firm’s collapse, but said he does not know where missing customer money is. “Their plight weighs on my mind every day — every hour,” Corzine, a former U.S. senator, said in 21 pages of remarks [...]
CBS: Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation “Fast and Furious” to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales. In Fast and Furious, ATF secretly encouraged gun dealers to sell to suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels to go after [...]
Someone should remind Romney that he is supposed to be running as a Republican candidate… Red State: Let’s step into the Way Back Machine and go all the way back to 1990. That year, George H. W. Bush decided to break his “no new taxes” pledge. You remember, “Read my lips,” don’t you? Well, at [...]
