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Glenn Beck's revealing interview with Newt Gingrich
Post Date: 2011-12-06 13:38:34 by A K A Stone
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Below is a rush transcript of Glenn’s interview with Newt Gingrich this morning. A full article and video of the interview is not available HERE!
GLENN: Lot to do today, a lot to do. And we begin right now with Newt Gingrich. Look, this is ‑‑ so you know, I am… I am increasingly disinterested in Washington because I don’t believe the answers lie in Washington. However, we all have to be responsible and we all have to do, you know, the right thing and pay attention to politics and vote. Now is the time to ask the questions of each of the politicians.
Newt Gingrich is a man that I’ve met several times. I’ve had dinner with him when we were in Washington, D.C. He seems ...
How Mitt Romney Tried to Erase the Evidence of His Governorship
Post Date: 2011-12-06 13:33:30 by A K A Stone
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Shortly before leaving the governor's office in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney's administration spent nearly $100,000 of state money to purge computer and email records in an unprecedented attempt to wipe out the paper trail of his tenure. His staff took home hard drives from state-owned computers and erased emails and other communications from state servers, complicating current efforts to retrieve and review the records of Romney's four-year term that ended in 2007. It is not believed that Romney violated any laws, but according to state officials who spoke to Reuters, the move to scrub the digital archive of his administration was unusually thorough. Several members of his staff ...
Library of Congress to receive entire Twitter archive
Post Date: 2011-12-06 13:23:55 by A K A Stone
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Tweets, emails and other electronic communications can be considered "government documents" and must be preserved. The National Archives handles official government materials, while the Library of Congress' mandate is to deal with anything that may have long-term historical interest. "We're basically in the same situation as the National Archives, only on a much larger scale," said Bill Lefurgy, digital initiatives program manager at the Library of Congress national digital information infrastructure and preservation program. "We tend to have a much larger perspective in terms of what we collect." He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy ...
Insects Find Crack In Biotech Corn's Armor
Post Date: 2011-12-06 09:25:18 by A K A Stone
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Hidden in the soil of Illinois and Iowa, a new generation of insect larvae appears to be munching happily on the roots of genetically engineered corn… It's (also) bad news for the biotech company Monsanto, which inserted the larvae-killing gene in the first place. In fact, the gene's apparent failure, as reported in the journal PLoS One, may be the most serious threat to a genetically modified crop in the U.S. since farmers first started growing them 15 years ago. The economic impact could be "huge," says the University of Arizona's Bruce Tabashnik, one of the country's top experts on the adaptation of insects to genetically engineered crops. Billions of ...
Seeking work? Alligator hunters wanted
Post Date: 2011-12-06 09:11:06 by A K A Stone
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Florida received more than 14,000 nuisance gator complaints in 2010 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - State wildlife officials are looking to hire alligator trappers in Martin and Palm Beach counties to help remove alligators in developed areas. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Statewide Nuisance Alligator Program is accepting applications for contracted trappers. The deadline to apply is Dec. 15. Nuisance alligator trappers are primarily compensated by their marketing and sale of alligator products -- hides and meat. Trappers may also receive a small expense reimbursement from the FWC for each alligator taken. Applicants must have a clean criminal record, no fish or ...
Supreme Court Rejects Bronx Church’s Plea To Allow After-Hours Worship At Public Schools
Post Date: 2011-12-06 09:06:26 by A K A Stone
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an evangelical church’s plea to overturn New York City’s ban on after-hours religious worship services at public schools. The justices on Monday left in place a federal appeals court ruling that upheld the city’s policy. The Bronx Household of Faith is an evangelical Christian church that has held Sunday services at P.S. 15 in the Bronx since 2002. The church services have been allowed to continue pending the outcome of the school’s lawsuit against the city. Co-Pastor Robert Hall told 1010 WINS there are 48 adult full-time members in the church, but often 100 people in the congregation on Sundays – ...
Coates files bill to create Guest Worker Program
Post Date: 2011-12-05 22:21:19 by A K A Stone
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In an effort to stimulate Oklahoma’s economy and allow the state to be more competitive with out-of-state companies, Sen. Harry Coates filed the Oklahoma Guest Worker Program Act Monday. Senate Bill 995, which is similar to Utah efforts, would allow illegal immigrants to legally work in the state providing a boost to sales and tax revenues. The bill will stop workers from continuing to flee to surrounding states such as Texas as well as attract hundreds of workers back to jobs that are chronically unfilled in the state. “Since the passage of House Bill 1804, we’ve seen a mass exodus of undocumented immigrants who have taken up residence in Texas and other surrounding states ...
THE EXECUTION OF THE SEAL TEAM SIX - PARTS 1 and 2 - By Ann Barnhardt
Post Date: 2011-12-05 22:16:14 by A K A Stone
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#0, by macaense, 01 September 2011 08:26 PM THE EXECUTION OF SEAL TEAM SIX (PART 1) POSTED BY ANN BARNHARDT - AUGUST 6, AD 2011 4:08 PM MST You're damn right I said it. On May 5th I had an email conversation with a retired military man with spook contacts. All were in total agreement that the Bin Laden episode was pure theater. The SEALS were sent into a compound as evidenced by the lost chopper on site. But Osama Bin Laden wasn't in that compound. Osama Bin Laden has been dead for years. Bin Laden had a genetic condition that caused renal failure (this genetic condition is common among deeply inbred Saudi arab muslims). Bin Laden had been on dialysis BEFORE 9/11. Dialysis is ...
Paul calls Senate’s bluff, kills terrorist detainee amendment
Post Date: 2011-12-05 18:39:00 by A K A Stone
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday — simply by asking for a recorded vote — managed to kill an amendment that would have clarified that the military can indefinitely detain enemy combatants. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), called the amendment to the floor, explaining it ought to garner the support of all senators because it would simply “clarify” that enemy combatants acquitted of crimes in a court can still be held in military detention until they are no longer deemed a threat. Looking to spare vulnerable Democrats from an awkward vote on the controversial issue of extra-judicial military detention, Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.), with the assent ...
December 5, 2011 Gingrich leads, but Paul most likely to beat Obama in latest Iowa poll
Post Date: 2011-12-05 18:24:36 by A K A Stone
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With less than a month before the Iowa caucus, GOP presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has surged into the lead, but Texas Rep. Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate who could best President Obama, a new Iowa poll says. According to the latest NBC/Marist poll, Gingrich is the first choice among 26 percent of Republican caucus-goers, followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with 18 percent and Paul with 17 percent. The poll represents a dramatic shift in the race. In October, Romney led the field in Iowa with 26 percent, while Gingrich only received a paltry 5 percent of the vote. With Herman Cain’s announcement on Saturday that he would ...
Earth-like planet discovered in 'habitable' zone
Post Date: 2011-12-05 17:24:39 by jwpegler
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Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface temperature perhaps averaging a balmy 72 degrees. The planet, Kepler 22b, about 2.4 times wider than Earth, circles a star about 600 light years away, close by astronomical standards. The Kepler space telescope discovery team announced the find at a briefing at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "It is right smack in the middle of the habitable zone," Kepler scientist Natalie Batalha says. Launched in 2009, the $591 million Kepler space telescope has detected ...
New Ron Paul Ad - BIG DOG
Post Date: 2011-12-05 12:01:11 by A K A Stone
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Herman Cain Forums Switches Support to Ron Paul
Post Date: 2011-12-05 00:03:42 by A K A Stone
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***** Karma: +3041/-0 Posts: 366 Get on the Cain Train! View Profile WWW Now that Herman Cain has dropped out of the race my new candidate is..... « on: December 03, 2011, 11:46:45 AM » Now that Herman Cain has dropped out of the race my new candidate is..... Congressman Ron Paul. Ron Paul was the only candidate that actually had remorse for how the media treated Herman Cain and the alleged affairs, I will always thank him for showing resptect in that nauture, with that said. I had always liked a lot of what Ron Paul advocates, I don't agree with him on everything but probably 90%. I am going to encourage all Ron Paul suppoters to come here and openly support Ron ...
Mystery company buying up U.S. gun manufacturers
Post Date: 2011-12-04 20:53:56 by The Blue Cat
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Lined up in a gun rack beneath mounted deer heads is a Bushmaster Carbon 15, a matte-black semiautomatic rifle that looks as if it belongs to a SWAT team. On another rack rests a Teflon-coated Prairie Panther from DPMS Firearms, a supplier to the U.S. Border Patrol and security agencies in Iraq. On a third is a Remington 750 Woodsmaster, a popular hunting rifle. The variety of rifles and shotguns on sale here at Cabela's, the national sporting goods chain, is a testament to America's enduring gun culture. But, to a surprising degree, it is also a testament to something else: Wall Street deal-making. In recent years, many top-selling brands - including the 195-year-old Remington ...
Hours-long standoff ends in multiple arrests at Occupy DC
Post Date: 2011-12-04 20:44:28 by Excalibur
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WASHINGTON - Police brought in an airbag, an armored truck and a cherry picker to arrest protesters at the McPherson Square Occupy D.C. camp following a nine-hour standoff over a wood structure. Protesters refused to leave -- or dismantle -- a wood structure they built Saturday night. Late Sunday evening, police used the cherry picker to force down the remaining protesters who had taken up positions on the roof. The last man, named David, was taken down after a struggle with police, shortly after 8:30 p.m. Police arrested at least 30 people over the course of the day, after the deadline passed for protesters to take down the barn-like structure. During the hours-long standoff, an ...
Iowa Poll: Gingrich leads GOP pack, then Paul, Romney
Post Date: 2011-12-04 11:44:44 by A K A Stone
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With the dizzying fall of Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich has stepped into the breach and now stands alone as the most popular GOP presidential candidate in The Des Moines Register’s new Iowa Poll. Gingrich, with support of 25 percent of likely Republican caucusgoers, is seven points ahead of the rising Ron Paul, who’s at 18 percent. Mitt Romney drops to third, at 16percent, denting his previously armor-plated Iowa polling average. Romney’s support stood at 22 percent last month. Cain, who suspended his campaign Saturday, had plunged from 23 percent to 8 percent in just over a month, tied with Michele Bachmann. In a race that’s still far from settled, previous candidate ...
Choking on Obamacare
Post Date: 2011-12-04 09:55:33 by CZ82
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Choking on Obamacare By George F. Will, Published: December 2 LOS ANGELES In 1941, Carl Karcher was a 24-year-old truck driver for a bakery. Impressed by the large numbers of buns he was delivering, he scrounged up $326 to buy a hot dog cart across from a Goodyear plant. And the war came. So did millions of defense industry workers and their cars. And, soon, Southern California’s contribution to American cuisine — fast food. Including, eventually, hundreds of Carl’s Jr. restaurants. Karcher died in 2008, but his legacy, CKE Restaurants, survives. It would thrive, says CEO Andy Puzder, but for government’s comprehensive campaign against job creation. CKE, with more ...
Ineptocracy
Post Date: 2011-12-03 21:44:37 by jwpegler
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Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
ESTABLISHMENT: Rand Paul, Libertarian Extremist
Post Date: 2011-12-03 11:58:23 by A K A Stone
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The Tea Party’s limited-government, constitutional heart is in the right place. But it needs much better guidance about how the Constitution works in wartime.
The defense-authorization bill currently under congressional consideration contains some unremarkable, largely redundant provisions about the treatment of enemy combatants. Naturally, the now-familiar alliance of leftists and libertarian extremists — self-proclaimed “constitutionalists” all — attacked with their signature “sky is falling” equanimity. On Wednesday, my column addressed some of the more hysterical arguments posited by Fox News analyst Andrew Napolitano. The real action, however, was taking place on the Senate floor, ...
LIES AND MORE LIES: Justice Dept. details how it got statements wrong
Post Date: 2011-12-03 11:41:18 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department on Friday provided Congress with documents detailing how department officials gave inaccurate information to a U.S. senator in the controversy surrounding Operation Fast and Furious, the flawed law enforcement initiative aimed at dismantling major arms trafficking networks on the Southwest border. In a letter last February to Charles Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Justice Department said that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had not sanctioned the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser and that the agency makes every effort to intercept weapons that have been purchased illegally. In ...
NIH Accused of Dishonesty Over Chimp Research Plans
Post Date: 2011-12-03 11:19:35 by A K A Stone
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After national outcry over its plan to send 209 retired, federally owned chimpanzees back into traumatic medical research, the National Institutes of Health said it would wait. The chimps’ fate would only be decided after independent experts judged whether research was necessary. But animal advocates say the NIH has already planned to pursue the controversial program, though the Institute of Medicine report on chimp research won’t be released until later in December. Documents obtained by animal advocacy groups show that the National Center for Research Resources, the NIH’s chimp-overseeing division, approved in September a $19 million proposal to move the chimpanzees ...
Walker intends to charge citizens fee to protest
Post Date: 2011-12-03 11:07:23 by mininggold
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Walker intends to charge citizens fee to protest Free speech is getting expensive in Wisconsin. Following demonstrations earlier this year which drew up to 100,000 people to the Wisconsin Capitol, Republican Gov. Scott Walker has proposed new policies that would require future protesters to pay in advance to stage an event, at a cost of $50 per hour, per Capitol Police officer. Police may also require a liability insurance or a bond, according to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal. Demonstrators will also be on the hook for any damage and cleanup following protests. Walker’s administration had claimed that the pro-union protests earlier this year had costs as much as $7.5 million, ...
Dog Killers Convicted For Murdering Navy Seal Hero’s Beloved Companion
Post Date: 2011-12-03 09:03:20 by Happy Quanzaa
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Marcus Luttrell, a highly decorated Navy Seal and author of “Lone Survivor,” is still hurting three years after the murder of his beloved Yellow Labrador, DASY, by a group of thugs in Texas. Today, Luttrell has received some measure of closure, as two of the perpetrators who shot and killed his beloved companion have been sentenced to prison time. Luttrell, a true American hero who was the lone survivor from his fire team after an insurgent attack in Afghanistan, took the stand Thursday in the “cruelty to non-livestock animals trial” of Alfonso Hernandez, one of the two accused in the case. Marcus Luttrell Another suspect, Michael Edmonds, pleaded guilty to the ...
State of Michigan May Step in to Run Detroit
Post Date: 2011-12-02 21:36:37 by Ferret Mike
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The governor has taken steps in that direction, proposing an unprecedented move that could give an appointed manager virtually unchecked power to gut union contracts, cut employee health insurance and slash services. But city leaders bristle at the notion. Said the mayor: "This is our city. Detroit needs to be run by Detroiters." If it happens, Detroit would be the largest American city ever taken over by a state. Michigan has seized control of smaller struggling cities, but until now Detroit was always off-limits. That changed this week, when Republican Gov. Rick Snyder's administration said it would begin a review of Detroit's precarious finances. If the governor ...
Republican Jewish Coalition Bars Ron Paul From Debate: ‘He’s misguided and extreme’
Post Date: 2011-12-02 13:53:37 by mininggold
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Republican Jewish Coalition Bars Ron Paul From Debate: ‘He’s misguided and extreme’ Matt Welch Reason December 2, 2011 On Wednesday, Dec. 7, the Republican Jewish Coalition will host a presidential-candidates forum featuring Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, and Rick Santorum. Not invited is the GOP candidate currently polling around third in New Hampshire and second in Iowa: Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). The explanation: Paul was not invited to attend the RJC’s candidates forum because the organization – as it has stated numerous times in the past – “rejects his misguided and extreme views,” said [RJC ...
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