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Economic Alert: If You’re Not Worried Yet…You Should Be

TruthNews.US - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:42
Brandon Smith | The calm moments before each passing storm give Americans a false sense of hope that our capsized fiscal vessel will somehow right itself if we just hold on a little longer...

Ban on same-sex marriage appears headed for passage in North Carolina

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:42
A constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in North Carolina, even though state law already forbids such unions, appeared headed for passage following a Tuesday referendum.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Analysis: Lugar's grassroots withered

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:42
Richard Lugar had it all -- a sterling global reputation, bipartisan respect, a fat campaign bank account and 36 years of Senate experience.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

VIDEO: CIA Catches Itself in New Underwear Bomb Plot

TruthNews.US - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:42
Infowars.com | The entire terror plot story has once again collapsed into a farce, with the would-be bomber himself an admitted CIA informant.

Border Patrol adapting to new threats

Just eight months after Defense Department officials complained in a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that there was "no comprehensive Southwest border security strategy" in place, the U.S. Border Patrol unveiled a new strategy Tuesday that relies on helicopters and unmanned aerial drones and targets repeat offenders.

Recognizing that it ...

American Scene: LEDs mean full rainbow for Empire State Building

NEW YORK — The Empire State Building will replace its tower lights with a computer-driven LED system that allows for nearly endless color combinations.

The iconic skyscraper's owner is partnering with Massachusetts-based Philips Color Kinetics to install the new light fixtures.

The top of the building is bathed in an ...

Mother, wife of kidnapping-slaying suspect arrested

GUNTOWN, Miss. — The net widened in the case of a Mississippi man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter and fleeing with her two younger girls.

On Tuesday, authorities charged man's wife and mother in connection with the abduction.

As an intense manhunt for Adam Mayes ...

Georgetown catches flak for Sebelius invite

In what has become an annual tradition, another Catholic university has come under fire for its choice of commencement speaker.

Georgetown University, the oldest Jesuit institution in the nation, is taking heat for inviting Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, a Catholic, to address the school's Public Policy Institute ...

The Cravenness of Higher Education

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:42
The Chronicle fires a writer for doing what she was hired to do.


PCWorld: "DOJ Says Requiring Warrant for Cell Phone Tracking Would 'Cripple' Law Enforcement"

FourthAmendment.com - News - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:42

PCWorld: DOJ Says Requiring Warrant for Cell Phone Tracking Would 'Cripple' Law Enforcement by Darlene Storm:

If your mobile phone is on then it is constantly pinging cell phone network towers, leaving you no choice about revealing your location. The ACLU warned the "threat to personal privacy presented by this technology is breathtaking," especially since the "government is routinely violating American's privacy rights through warrantless cell phone tracking." Apparently any mobile phone privacy is too much privacy in the early stages of an investigation, before law enforcement actually has any proof that a person has done anything illegal. An Obama administration official told a congressional panel that requiring a search warrant to obtain cell phone location tracking information would "cripple" law enforcement and prosecutors.

The Job Training Mess

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:42
The feds have 49 programs. Think there's some overlap?


Intimidation by Proxy

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:42
The campaign against corporate free speech targets WellPoint.


Arthur Brooks: America and the Value of 'Earned Success'

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2024-11-30 10:42
'We found that even when good things occurred that weren't earned, like nickels coming out of slot machines, it did not increase people's well-being.'


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