May 14, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from Chicago Tribune: Dozens of demonstrators dashed into the Loop building housing President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters this morning, slipping past security guards and running up escalators as they kicked off what they called a "Week Without Capitalism." Eight protesters were led out in handcuffs about half an hour later after they refused ...
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May 14, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from University Of Edinburgh: Milk poured down Britain’s kitchen sinks each year creates a carbon footprint equivalent to thousands of car exhaust emissions, research shows. Scientists say the 360,000 tonnes of milk wasted in the UK each year creates greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 100,000 tonnes of CO2. The study by the University of ...
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May 13, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from THE WASHINGTON TIMES: Putting pressure on Congress to approve parts of his latest economic stimulus plan, President Obama urged Americans Saturday to push lawmakers to approve his multibillion-dollar “to-do list” for creating jobs. “Each of the ideas on this list will help create jobs and build a stronger economy right now,” Mr. Obama ...
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May 12, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
According to the Occupy Graduation site, the protesters want: Tuition-Free Public Higher Education The single, largest step we could take to alleviate future student loan debt would be to guarantee tuition-free education for students enrolled at public colleges and universities. In the case of systems in California and New York that were formerly free, this would ...
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May 12, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from BIG GOVERNMENT: Occupy LA turned out to be a lot more costly to the city than originally anticipated. After the park surrounding LA's City Hall was cleared by the LAPD in November, published estimates suggested the total cost of the two month occupation would be about $2.3 million. A new report released ...
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May 12, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from BIG JOURNALISM: In advance of Governor Romney's speech at Liberty University today, McKay Coppins at Buzzfeed Politics wrote an article titled “At Liberty, Mormon Cultist for President” in which he expounds on the general intolerance of Liberty University. His evidence? A single Liberty University course: Theology 678—Western and New Religions. ‘The history, doctrines, and ...
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May 12, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from LA TIMES: A new report says Occupy Los Angeles cost taxpayers at least $4.7 million, two-thirds of which was spent policing the protest. The report by City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana says the Los Angeles Police Department spent $1.3 million monitoring protesters during the course of their two-month demonstration outside City Hall, and ...
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May 10, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from BIG JOURNALISM: Breitbart's own Rebel Pundit captured some video of Van Jones speaking at a Green Festival last weekend. He wrote about Jones' speech here. But after listening to it, I felt one part of the speech needed additional attention. In the clip below, Jones explains how taking over all three branches ...
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May 10, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from SFBG: The brick-throwing man whose projectiles hit two protesters at the Occupy San Francisco takeover of a Turk Street building on May Day has helped spark intense internal debates in the movement about the use of violence. But nobody has heard the alleged hurler's side of the story. Jesse Nesbitt, 34, was arrested on ...
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May 10, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from THE BLAZE: Gender-neutral bathrooms have become a priority at The University of Minnesota-Dulut in Dulut, Minnesota, after student Blair Moses reportedly began a hunger strike. His goal? To convince the school’s administration that they are of paramount necessity. Moses allegedly stated that gender-specific bathrooms are “oppressive” and problematic, thus he took some ...
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May 10, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from CNS NEWS: (CNSNews.com) – A White House chef told health professionals on Monday that obesity endangers national security as well as people’s health – and that’s why he and many other people have embraced First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign. “What motivates us is not just the fact that one in three ...
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May 10, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from WND: Dozens of members of Occupy Cleveland reportedly showed up at a Cleveland courthouse this week to support the five suspects charged in connection with a thwarted plot to blow up a bridge just outside the city. The protesters’ presence seems to further solidify the links between the Occupy movement and the suspects, ...
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May 8, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from FOX NEWS: Deep-pocketed environmental groups are collecting millions of dollars from the federal agencies they regularly sue under a little-known federal law, and the government is not even keeping track of the payouts, according to two new studies. Under the Equal Access to Justice Act, or EAJA — which was signed into law ...
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May 7, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from CNS NEWS: — The National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF), who last month raised over $400,000 for abortions through its Bowl-a-Thon, touted that it provided money for a 14-year-old’s abortion as part of the group’s “real stories of abortion access.” On its website in a post entitled, “Getting an abortion means getting a ...
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May 7, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: In more than 20 years I’ve spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics. That’s because college football has no academic purpose. Which is why it needs to be ...
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May 7, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from Boston Herald: Bake sales, the calorie-laden standby cash-strapped classrooms, PTAs and booster clubs rely on, will be outlawed from public schools as of Aug. 1 as part of new no-nonsense nutrition standards, forcing fundraisers back to the blackboard to cook up alternative ways to raise money for kids. At a minimum, the nosh ...
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May 7, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from BIG GOVERNMENT: Federal program features Talk and Trek Tuesdays, Walking School Busses and Bicycle Rodeos Not so long ago, kids walked and biked to their neighborhood school as a matter of course. Now, there’s a federal government program that spends hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to prod students and parents to do ...
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May 6, 2012 No Comments ›› American Infidel
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: A spokesman for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, a left-wing anti-gun group based in Washington, D.C., told The Daily Caller his organization doesn’t believe firearms trafficked to Mexico in Operation Fast and Furious have killed hundreds of civilians in that country. That those guns have been used often ...
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